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4 McJiy, Je J, 1MI MAIL T&IBUBfr lEKMI, ML - "Everyone S eetbern wregoa Reads Tb Mail Tritrune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD ? JIN TING CO S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP .2-4141 -.ROBERT WRUHL. Editor HdB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Mgr RIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCiH. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of -March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES V? Mall in Advance: Copy lOe. Daily end Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.2ft Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashfewnd. Central Point. Eagle Poiftf. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. flhdy Cove, Rogue Riv er Tjpeni. and on motor routes: gaily avid Sunday 1 year $18.00 Dailjl jjnd Sajnday 1 mo. 130 . Carrier And Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of CiCy of Medford Official Paper of Jacksan Caunty 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. . C fV NEWSPAMt v PUBLISHEK "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL i5c3TN AS rriJtgrii.faTTTrn 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 23. 1948 (Wednesday) The proposed increase in rates of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company to talling approximately $5,496, 000 annually for Oregon tele phone users will be aired Monday before the Public Utilities commissioner. The Rev. Meredith Groves was reassigned pastor of the First Methodist church here during the annual conference of Met&odist churches. 20 YEARS AGO June 23, 1938 (Thursday) The Medford water com mission on July 1 will retire the final block of bonds of the old Fish Lake water system. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "As a folution of European prob lems, an upstate editor sug gests the kidnapping of Mus solini." 30 YEARS AGO June 23, 1928 (Saturday) ' Marvey S. Firestone, multi millionaire, pioneers of t h e auto-tire industry, passed through Medford Friday in his private railroad car. From lSfl and personal column tk. fine bunch of mules weif loaded from the Gold (Sill Stockyards today, destined t play part in the harvest fi$lfs$ of Northern Oregon. 40 YtAlS &SO June, &, lilt (Monday) A box of Rogue River ap ples, sett bf Ralph Bardwell to C. M? Inglish of Medford at Witjart, N. D., was auc $ontd of for the Red Cross at 8300. : Frofti local and personal column: "k. San Francisco auto touring party which spent Sunday at the Hotel Holland left this morning for a visit at Crater Lake." Otct'fl IMP J.Q.1 Niae ay wrreet pari a evca V it eelka; fcve ar six is goe. 1. Whr i f envay Perk? 2. When angry, porcupine has the fbility to throw his quills; tru or false? 3. Ocean passengers are called "polliwogs" if they have not crossed the equator; what are they called when they have crossed it? 4. Against whom did Charles Evans Hughes run for President in 1916? After his defeat at Water loo, to what island was Na poleon Bonaparte exiiear 6. Osteology is the science which treats of what? 7. West Point's mascot is a goat or a mule? 8. Sound travels faster at freezing temperatures or at room temperature? 9. A stereosqppe is some thing through which to hear, see, or speak? 10. Name the large island of the West Indies which has been called "Pearl of the An tilles." Answers: ' 1 Boston. 2 False. 3. "Shellbacks." 4 Woodrow Wilson. 5 St. Hel ena. 6 Bones. 7 Mule. 8 Room temperature.' 9 See. 10 Cuba. Summertime Reminders T 1 Rain, then a series of a few blistering days, then rain again, then heat again, than a violent thunderstorm. It is "unusual." But, nonetheless, summertime is here, and so is vacation time, the time of travelling and idle days, and casual entertainments for all ages. Pleasant times, surely, but sometimes haz ardous. FOR instance, drownings always increase in the summertime, as the cool water beckons, and adventurousness prevails over caution. Remembering a few simple, common - sense rules will prevent such tragedies such things as never swimming alone, never diving into un familiar pools, never swimming after eating, or when heated or over-tired, and never gambling that one can swim a long distance. There is a "point of no return" in swimming as well as flying oceans. Boating, which is fast becoming America's No. 1 outdoor participant sport, also has hazards which too many people ignore. Proper life pre servers and adequate fire extinguishers are re quired by law a law which is too-much ignored. Speeding boats can, and sometimes do, come too close for comfort to other boats, and swimmers. And death, by drowning or by collision, is so permanent. . IN SUMMERTIME, youngsters are freer to roam our attractive countryside than when school is in session. And there is one hazard which goes with the considerable construction which is under way in southern Oregon, and which is a worry to re sponsible builders, and to law enforcement offi cers and parents. That is the innocuous-looking blasting cap the tiny capsule which is used to set off a charge of dynamite. Sometimes they are dropped at the site of a blasting job, or en route to it. And they look "interesting" to children, and relatively harmless. ' But if they are set off by childish experiments, they can blind, maim or kill. Their explosion packs a terrific wallop. ' The Institute of Makers of Explosives warns: "The caps are small copper or aluminum tubes about as big around as a lead pencil. Generally they're bright, but dampness may dull and corrode the metal when they are exposed outdoors. , "There are two basic kinds, varying in length from 1 to 5V4 inches. The 'ordinary cap' is exploded by . sparks from a fuse which is inserted in one end and then lit. The other kind is an electric blasting cap. The electric cap has two long wires coming out of one end. "Boys and girls should be able to recognize a blast ing cap and realize the damage it can do. If they find ' . one, they should warn other children, and ask an adult to call a policeman, sheriff, fireman, or other law enforcement officer. He will know how to dispose of it safely. ". . . When a cap explodes, hundreds of small pieces of metal fly out in all directions, sometimes as far as 200 feet. Even at that distance, fragments from the cap's disintegrating metal casing are hurled with enough force to cause serious injuries." ND then there's the possibility of getting lost. Highways are so "civilization" (in the form of gasoline stations, restaurants and homes) is so widespread, that it is easy to forget, or never realize at all, the possi bility of getting lost in wilderness which, in southern Oregon, frequently begins just out of sight of a main-travelled highway. But it happens every summer. If one realizes he is, indeed, lost, the most important piece of advice is this: DON'T panic, and DO use your head. Most "lost" casualties result from people get ting scared, and doing silly things without think ing. Many times probably most times a calm appraisal of the situation will provide a way out. DUT, if a person is lost beyond any immediate chance of finding his way out, there are a few rules to follow: ' 1. If someone knows you should be returning, and will miss you, stay where, you are and, if possible, build a small but smoky fire. Sooner or later someone will come after you. Even if you suspect no one will miss you, the smoke will be reported and someone sent to check on the fire. 2. If this plan is not feasible for some reason or other, the old rule of walking downhill, and downstream, is generally a good one. Eventually it will bring you to civilization. But here again, use your head. There are some darn long walks downstream in the coast range. 3. Prevention is a lot better than having to be rescued. When out-of-doors, carry a compass, and be familiar with the surrounding terrain. And if you are lost, matches and a knife are mightly handy things to have along. pLEANLINESS, it is said, is next to Godliness. And those who strew trash and debris around the landscape, particularly in public camps, picnic areas and highway shoulders are by the same token workers for the devil. Much of the beauty and attractiveness of the outdoors is lost if unthinking people use it as a garbage dump or wastebasket. FINALLY, and far from least important, in the woods be careful with fire. Too many forest fires (although a declining proportion, happily) are caused by human be ings. A-carelesslytossed match or cigarette, a fire left untended these can set off a raging forest fire, endangering lives and destroying property. No one should permit himself to be respon sible for such a disastrous result. It can all be summed up thus: Use common sense, be careful, have fun, and take care not to spoil other people's fun. E.A. good these days, and Dennis the Menace ... -. l . ' ' . , - , British-Greek-Turkish Accord Seen Needed for Calmer Cyprus By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst A British - Greek - Turkish conference seems to offer tne sole hope of settling the in- c r e a s i n gly dangerous dis pute over Cy prus. Great Britain has an nounced a long consid ered plan for the adminis tration of the eastern Medi t e r ranean is E JSL Charles M. MeCann land for the next seven years. What would happen after that is left for the future. Under the plan, the Greek and Turkish islanders would be given a great measure of home rule as separate commu nities. The Greek and Turkish gov ernments would be taken into full partnership in carrying out the plan. The plan as it stands now seemed doomed even before British Prime Minister Har old Macmillan announced it. Both Greece and Turkey, which had been informed of its provisions, had said it was unsatisfactory. Plan Rejected Now Greece has formally rejected it. Turkey, too, has rejected the plan as it stands. But its rejection was qualified. I! Numbers, Weight Of Argument Point To Adams By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPI) There are numbers and a heavy weight of argument in sup port of the belief that Presi dential Assistant Sherman Adams must go. The editorial consensus seems to be 0mrmmn I against him. I Congressional R e p u blicans who must con front the vot ers this year are urging in growing num bers that Ad ams quit. The - 1 - i c Lyle C. Wilson compiaxni oi Republican candidates that Adams would be a defeating handicap in this year's gen eral election must lay a heavy burden on a New England politician's conscience. Whether Adams goes or stays, however, will be by de cision of President Eisenhow er and, on the record of prec edent, it is fairly obvious that at least one more strike must be called on Adams before his boss waives on him. Benson More Popular Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson has been under hotter fire and longer than any to which Adams has been subjected. The circumstances have been wholly different, but the demand for Benson's ouster was louder, came from more Republicans and, more over, was angrier than the present demand that Adams go. Times change, as, for ex ample, at last week's Repub lican school of politics con vened by the National Com mittee for the instruction of party chairmen from all the states. Benson was present at the cocktail party at .which the chairmen were to meet the cabinet and members of the White House staff. Chairmen crow'ded around to meet him. When a local politico suggest ed to one of the visitors the Republican chairman of a dairy state that he be photo lwraa - i Jsphere. It is a place where the Greece is holding out for the island's "self-determination," knowing that the 400, 000 Greek Cypriote islanders would vote for union with Greece. Turkey, which for a long time was contented with Brit ish rule over Cyprus, jiow says it must be partitioned between the Greeks and the 100,000 Turkish Cypriotes. Britain has long been try ing to arrange a formal con ference with Greece and Tur key over the island's future. Turkey,- too, would like such a conference. Greece, however, has rejected the idea that Turkey should have any voice in the dispute. Feeling in Greece and Tur key, and between the Greek and Turkish islanders, has been getting more and more angry.5 About 15 Greek islanders have been killed in Turkish Cypriote riots. Renewed Violence The-Greek underground or ganization, EOKA, has resum ed violence, after a long truce, against Greek islanders who are not sufficiently coopera tive in the union-with-Greece campaign. Greece has withdrawn its military mission from the southeastern headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization at Ismir, Turkey. There has even been talk of war between Greece and Departure graphed with Benson, the pair moved into the crowd around Benson, accompanied by one of the photographers there for such purposes. As the three approached the group around Benson, an other of the chairmen stopped them with this remark: "If you want your picture with the secretary you will have to get in line." As recently as a year ago it probably would have been difficult to persuade most of those chairmen even to be seen talking with Benson, and impossible to obtain a posed picture. A Republican veteran of the campaign wars witnessed the picture incident and re marked: "That Benson will wind up being the best politician of the bunch." Only Two Showed This friendly judgment was based very largely on the fact that Benson was one of only two cabinet members who showed up for the party at which the cabinet was to meet the chairmen. The other was Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton, a pretty good politi cian himself. Most of the cab inet attended the much swankier reception for Phil ippines President Garcia. Benson frankly informed the Philippines Embassy that it was most important for him to be with state chairmen. He could greet President Garcia only briefly. That anecdote will circulate widely at the grass roots and it will boost Benson's stock. Adams' problem is quite different. An unexplored area of the Adams case is how des perately Eisenhower actually needs him. The President's own expla nation was that Adams had a part, large or small, in every official presidential act and function. That almost makes the two men interdependent. This interdependence could be so great, of course, that if Adams were forced out, Ei senhower's will to remain in office would be broken. And Ike, too, might step down. Washington Report By William S. Whit SIX WASHINGTONS Washington Washington is a city with a clear identity and no single identity at all. There is a first Wash ington and a second Wash ington and the sec ond is a world away from the first. Though two million people live in its wiium s. wait m iropoman area, the first Washington is basically a Southern town full of quiet, tree-lined, streets and shouting children. The native accent is a rolling mixture of Virginia and Maryland, with Virginia considerably the stronger. i This Washington is auto matically, placidly and inde- Turkey, for there is every rea son to believe that Turkey would go to war rather than let Greece get the island Britain has announced it will try to carry out its plan alone if Greece and Turkey refuse to cooperate. How that would be possible, it is hard to figure. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Teletype chatter: A figure in the million-dol lar Brink's robbery has been shot to death in Boston. John Bucelli was found- in his car on a Boston street with a bullet hole in his head. TtfORE teletype chatter: A friend of executed killer Elmer "Trigger" Burke was shot three times at point blank range in a crowded New York cafeteria today. His name is Johnny Earle. He is in a critical condition. The gunman made his escape by walking casually from the restaurant and get ting lost on the crowded side walk. CYNICAL comment: We. don't seem to have too much luck disposing legal ly of these shady character who haunt the tenderloins of our big and crowded cities. But, in the long run, a lot of them seem to be finished off by their own disgruntled pals, Thus justice, in a back alley sort of way, is done. CJTILL more teletype chatter: J The flag business isn't actively lobbying for the Alaska statehood bill, but an official of one' of the oldest flag making concerns in the country says that if the bill does pass at this session of congress and Alaska becomes a state the nation's flag in dustry will leap from a de pression into a BOOM. TTOW come? n It's simple. On the day when either Alaska or Hawaii becomes a state EVERY AMERICAN FLAG IN EXISTANCE WILL BECOME OBSOLETE. On that day, the OFFICIAL flag will contain 49 stars. Present flags have only 48. That will mean a big new market for flags. OCREWBALL thought: Suppose something should happen that would cause every dwelling in the United States to become as obsolete as a 48-star flag will be when the 49th state is added to the Union. What a boom there would be out here in the lumber country! T'HAT suggests a startling thought: OBSOLESCENCE IS THE BIGGEST FACTOR IN MOD ERN BUSINESS. For example: Suppose same bright young inventor should come up to morrow with a feasible and practical jet engine that would revolutionize the automobile as completely as the first avia tion jet revolutionized the air plane. In that event, every auto mobile in the country would be obsolete and every owner would want a new one. The now depressed automobile in dustry would then boom like a gold rash town. ROADS PIERCED Carshalton, Eng. (UPI) City councilors complained today that women's high-heeled shoes are piercing road surfaces, making it easier for the sun to mell the. tar layer underneath. , t 1 n crocer knows precisely tne standing, social and financial, of Mrs. Jones as against Mrs. Smith and intuitively treats each good lady with the exact degree of deference to which she is entitled. IT IS A place where third generation housewives use third-generation laundries and bakeries and would find any change unthinkable. It is a place where high school com mencements remain truly im portant. It is a place where the home-owners will look upon the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, say, not as one of the earth's most powerful military figures but as a nice man who does his share toward keeping the neighbor hood mowed and weeded. It is one of the worst places J in the world to try to set up a- night club or a top-flight restaurant. ' . t People here all but the thin official and diplomatic crust and the large transient briefcase and hotel population eat at home. They entertain at home. And often they know by first name the mailman and the trashman. In this human, day by day sense, wasmngton could not possibly be more different from London, Paris, Berlin, Mexico City or Rio de Janeiro. Too,- those are great cities in which the business of national government, for all its im mensity, is still only one small pebble in a very large lake. TN WASHINGTON the bus- a. iness of government is like a vast rock over-filling a very small pond. This is a one-in dustry town or. as its de tractors sometimes say, a com pany town. But though gov ernment is uniquely the busi ness of this town, the people go on about their own affairs actuaUy much as they did in the Texas village where this correspondent was born. The sum of the parts of Washington amounts to what inescapably is grand bureau cracy. It is nevertheless true that the parts themselves are not bureaucratic at all. The simplest way, perhaps, to sum up .this first Washing ton, if a personal reference may be forgiven in a man who has worked, fairly long or briefly, on five continents, is this: It is a good place to come home to even when summer is shimmering around the Washington Monument. To this writer's knowledge, sophisticated diplomats some times leave here, after a three- or four-year stay, with the throat-catching nostalgia of a boy going off to college for the first time. So much now for the testi monials none of them solicited, as it happens, by the Board, of ' Trade, which is our equivalent to the Chamber of Commerce. THE SECOND Washington rpouirps total v different understanding. This is Wash ington, the power center for half the peoples of the uni verse, the erstwhUe steamy town on the Potomac that has become hundreds of acres of massive stone and steel. From these packed acres to those tree-lined streets of the first Washington is perhaps 15 minutes by automobile. But across this small space there is an infinity of change in mood and tone. The 'second Washington, superimposed as it is on the first Washington, is then itself six times subdivided, in mean ing if not in literal fact. For the second Washington has six faces, six centers of the pomp and the power and occa sionally the glory, too. Each has its special scent and atmosphere; each endless ly sends through this calm community an often unheard and unsensed thrust of the urgency of history. This column intends here after to describe these six faces of official Washington, one at a time and once a WC6k (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Boting Mechanics Accept Contract Seattle -(UPI) Aero Mechanics Union workers of the Boeing Airplane Com pany accepted a new two year contract Sunday which had been approved by repre sentatives of both manage ment and labor on Friday. The new agreement will provide an average hourly wage boost of 16 V cents for the 38,000 Boeing workers affected by the contract. Worry ef FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? DaB't b embamastd by loo (alaa taeth supping, dropping er wepbllng when sou eat, tallc or laugh. Just Srlnkle a Uttla FASTEETH on your ites. Thla pleasant powder gives a remarkable sens of added comfort and security by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline non-acld). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. Matter of Fact by joPh By ROWLAND EVANS JR. While Joseph Alsop re ports from Lebanon, Row land Evans Jr.. corers the Washington base. THE ODDS ON ADAMS ' Washington Sherman Adams still insists that those telephone calls for Mr. Gold- fine were "stricUy routine." He is now learning that there is nothing at all routine about the chasm he has opened in the Republican party. A serious effort is now un der discussion in high Repub lican congressional circles to convince Adamst hat he must resign his job in the White House to prevent the split from widening. The tentative shape of the effort is to bring about a face- to-face talk with the Presi dent's assistant. The purpose of the interview, as now be ing planned, is to confront Adams with damaging evi dence of what his continu ance in trie White House may mean for his party. . Back .of this planning lie two significant events, just beneath the surface of the frantic public actions on the Adams-Goldfine case. FIRST, it is a fact that an effort by the White House to organize a Congressional drumfire of pro-Adams state ments fell flat. This strategy was to have produced a series of expressions from impor tant Republicans on Tuesday applauding Adams voluntary testimony before the Harris subcommittee. Despite the fact that Adams' peformance before the Harris subcommittee was little short of heroic, given the circumstances, his testi mony left virtually all the Republicans who have to face the voters four months from now as cold as a beached mackerel. And so the two persuasive White House agents who were turned loose in Congress . Tuesday after noon to solicit pro-Adams comment came back all but empty-handed. ' Secondly, the theme of in dispensability sounded by the President on Wednesday has angered some and offended a good many other thought ful Republicans in the- Capi tol. They resent any inference that a non-elected official is the indispensable man. THE President's poignant cry on Wednesday ' "I need him" carried a ring of truth. It hearkened back ; to Woodrow Wilson, who once said of Col. House: "Mr. House is my second personal ity. He is my independent self. His thoughts and mine are one . . ." " But the Republicans in Congress are far too worried about the weighty campaign burdens with which they are already saddled to worry about a White House without Mr. Adams in it: If Adams is retained by the President, the Republicans fear their burden will become almost unbearable. The . Democrats will not only gloat over the Waldorf-Astoria and the vi cuna coat. They will also claim that Mr. Eisenhower has made a virtual acknowl edgement that he cannot run the government without Adams. They will shout that despite Adams' "pious preach ing" about personal ethics in government, the President has set up a double-standard of morality to keep him in the White House. With all this, it is no won der that the Republicans are Reasonable Funerals (PRICED FOR FRIENDLY, y (2J Home split the President on on side, apparently having de cided to retain his second personality, and all the Re- j publican candidates for elec tion this fall and their sup porters on the other. THERE is, finally, one other abrasive element of fric tion. During the last four and a half years, Adams has made enemies, perhaps unavoid ably. There is, for example. one Republican member of Congress who has not spoken to Adams for three years be cause of a slight, real or fancied, involving a member of the Congressman's family. There is another Republican whose failure to win re-election to the Senate in 1954 is laid to Adams' refusal to make any concessions on the, public power issue. These examples can be multiplied almost without end. It is also true, para doxically, that the Eisen hower Republicans don't like Adams because he has tend- -ed to exclude them from the White House, working scrupulously with the con servative leadership of Con gress. The old guard conser vatives, on the other hand. don't, like him because he is an Eisenhower Republican. It is no wonder, then, that it would take a foolish gamb ler to give odds today that Adams will retain his job. The far safer odds are that his continuance in office will hurt the party and leave lasting scars. f (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications "Nation of Killers?" To the Editor: The following letter has been mailed to all members of the Congress: My Dear Mr. Congressman: Is our nation becoming a na tion of "killers?" A former President has shown no sign of remorse for having given the word that re leased the only atomic bombs ever dropped on helpless hu man beings, killing over 200, 000. ,-- - - Our present President gives no evidence of remorse as ht continues to order the testing of H-bombs. According to the estimates of some of our best scientists, the testing of on super bomb would probably doom 1,300 people to die of leukemia, tens of thousands more to die of hone cancer and other diseases, and 100, 000 seriously defective chil dren to be born in future gen erations. All this horror and death from peace time testing of one super bomb! Is it really worth while that the United States or any na tion should continue to exist at the price of this madness? No nation can continue free and maintain its moral integ rity at the cost of this contin uous murdering of the inno cent. - We respectfully pray you will consider all the implica tions for our nation and the world as set forth in a recent issue of our official publica tion, the "Social Questions Bulletin." r Mark A. Chamberlin, Membership Secretary Oregon Chapter Methodist Federation for Social Action, P. O. Box 327, Gresham, Ore. Q About 108 miles of, cable must be laid for every 100 miles of actual distance from under-the-ocean distance to provide unnecessary slack. ', EVERYONE) PERL Funeral Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE o i
