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) MAIL TRIBUNE, MSDFCRD, ORI. 4A Monday. Jun 30, 1958 MEDFORDKTKIIUlfi "Iveryone in Southern reio D mm Am Th HT-Il - Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St Ph. SP .2-6141 ROBERT W RITWT. Tjifnr HERB GREY Advertising Manage GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr RIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. .... .. .v.. . . . .1Cna)jaci Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of An Ttutmi4M rOT . marcn a. ihsi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail la Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday not 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.23 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford nsmus tenirai rami, eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HID Phoenix, Shady Cove. 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Time Medford and Jackson County History from the , files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 45) years ago. . 10 YEARS AGO June 30, 1948 (Wednesday) Medford's 70-man National Guard contingent returns by train from summer training at Camp Clatsop and marched through town from the SP depot to the armory. , Yesterday's thunder showers brought hailstones as big as "pullet eggs," puncturing the tops of convertibles and knocking off branches and limbs of trees. 20 YEAR AGO June 30, 1938 (Thursday) To something new Med ford's new electric traffic con trol system was added some thing old, the familiar whistle which sounded with the yel low caution light in the old system. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "A num ber of citizen are batching, while their better Ms are va: cationing, and between mow ing the lawn and keeping the kitchen sink clear $f dirty dishes, they have no time for golf." e 30 YEARS AGO June 30, 1928 (Saturday) John Moffet thought his garter was slipping while on an outing this week, but when he hiked his trousers to in vestigate he discovered not only his garter, but a garter snake to boot. Arthur Perry says in his column: "The local drift is eow toward setter dogs, that fe5vill not remain seated." 40 YEARS AGO June 30. 1918 (Sundiy) This has been the hottest day of the year so far, with the mercury retching 102V2 degrees abfeut 5 p.m. Cowboys in silk shirts, bright collars and spurred boots are arriving for the big roundup this week in Ash What's Yw I.Q.1 Nine or ten correct is seeerier; even or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Is the term "Plimsoll line" a osurveying, mining, nautical, or medical term? 2. Is Percheron the name of a breed of swine, horses, or cattle? 30 Which is the earth's most abundant metallic element? 4. Does a biennial plant last one, two, or three years? 5. Samuel L. Clemens used what pen name? , 6. Was butter, sugar, or meat the first to be rationed during W.W. II? 7. Name the singer who was called the "Swedish Nightin gale." 8. Who was the first Presi dent to occupy the executive mansion? e 9. The male, female or both sexes of crickets, produce ethe chirping sound? 10. An absolute vacuum has never been produced; true or fake? Answers: 1 Nautical term. 2 Horses. 3 Aluminum. 4 Two years. 5 Mark Twain. 6 Sugar. 7 Jenny Lind. 8 John Adams. 9 Only ihe malt. 10 True. ft 5 Up to Nasser What happens next in Lebanon rests in large part with Gamal Abdel Nassar. The head of the United Arab -Remiblic Eervpt and Syria, with Yemen affiliated will naturally do what ever he thinks will bring closer the union of all Arab states under his Hegemony. No matter how often he denies instigating the Lebanese disorders, the whole world from Wash ington to Moscow to Peking suspects that they'd begin to subside once he gave the world to "lay off." Whether his price for a lay-off order is one that the West can't or actually know just now except UN becretary General Dag Hammarskjold. I F NASSER absorbs Lebanon, it will be hard to keep Iraq, Jordan from slipping down the voracious Nasser gullet. The pro-West Chamoun regime in Beirut could of course be bolstered for. the time being by a UN armed intervention. At the same time, the foreign troops on Arab soil could rally almost all Arabs around the Egyptian colonel as when Israeli, British and French troops moved to over throw him in the autumn of 1956. Yet the Nasser dream could degenerate' into a nightmare if Russian troops ("volunteers"?) landed in force under the pretext of. counter balancing a UN intervention. What Nasser likes is to play Russia and the West off against each other without real risk of being dominated by either. He did make an arms deal with Czechoslo vakia and later an aid agreement with the Krem lin, but then complained quality of Russian aid actually received. When he took over-Syria in February 1958 he removed or downgraded Communist or pro-Russian offic ials and Army officers the fable of what happens when a camel gets his nose under the tent is what s true of a camel . .. Radiation Peril in Peace It isn't only fallout from bomb testing that can expose us to dangerous radiation. There's a radioactive danger in all omic developments, those preparation. The U.S. Public Health Service initiates on Tuesday, July 1, a new cans to the perils in peaceful radiation use. For one thing, doctors and dentists as well as then patients are to be warned against indiscriminate resort to X-rays m diagnoses. THE danger today, say so much from a single X-rays, or bombing tests, emanations, or radioisotopes in medical treat ment. Each of these is mal effect by itself. The an accumulation; many gether can produce more than a modicum. And even while the present generation may not be harmed, the next one may be getting en dangered. That's because radiation can mutate the human genes, and genetic mutation can pol lute the characteristics passed on by parents to children. This consideration lies behind the argu ments on whether there really ,can be any such animal as a "clean" atomic bomb. E.R.R. De Gaulle, 1958 and 1945 -When Gen. de Gaulle lands again in Algeria on Wednesday, July 2, he wTill have been head of the French government for a month plus two days. During that time he has played his. cards differently from the way he played them after becoming civilian head of France in 1945. Well, he lias different cards to play. On Nov. 13, 1945 he was chosen interim president of the Provisional government by unanimous vote of the Constituent Assembly elected in Octo ber (also with provisional tenure). On June 1, 1958, he was chosen premier, with special pow ers, by a 329-224 vote of the National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. Only three days after de Gaulle was in office in 1945, he .threatened to resign. The issue was Communist insistence on getting the war, inter ior (police power) or foreign af faii-s post in the new government. OOWEVER, on Nov. 21 he put together a Cab- inet in which each of the three leading parties in the Assembly Communist (152 members), Socialist (142), his own Popular. Republican, or MRP (138) had five seats. The Boss himself headed the new Defense ministry, which replaced the former ministries of War,. Marine and Air. On Dec. 12, the government granted government employees a wage increase, after they had pulled a brief nation-wide strike for one. The Assembly, in "framing, a new constitu tion, was showing itself hostile to de Gaulle's de mand1 for a more powerful executive. When the delegates seemed receptive to a Communist-Socialist move for a 20 per cent cut in military ex penditures, de Gaulle on Jan. 1, 1946, threaten ed to resign on that issue. On Jan. 20, he carried out the threat. These days he has shown himself, publicly at least, far less recalcitrant. E.R.R. j won't .pay, nobody may and Saudi Arabia also about the quantity and in Damascus. After all, from the Arabian, and would be true of a bear. -E.R.R. manner of peaceful at divorced from military program to alert Ameri the experts, comes not source or radiation like or atomic power plant apt to have an infinitesi danger is, rather, from infinitesimals added to Dennis the Menace W dO 1 W TO DRESS UPTDCCm HERE? WW AM I TRYIN'T&AZP? Government Racks Up 25th Deficit Year in Past 29 By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington (UPI) The U.S. Government this mid night will rack up its 25th Treasury defi cit in 29 years, which means the purchas ing power of the dollar in your pocket may shrink some more. The process is known as Lyie c. wusoa creeping infla tion. Twenty-nine years ago on this very day the people of the United States were about to learn that their Federal government had been frugally administered througtt another year. The people were neither impressed nor much interest ed in those upcoming statistics of the fiscal year 1929. Low taxes, treasury sur pluses and substantial reduc tions of the national debt were what the voters long had de manded and received from their public servants. The thought that the government could and would thereafter over the years spend itself to ward economic trouble in a scarcely interrupted series of treasury deficits this thought would have been incredible in 1929., Danger to America? The 25 deficit years of the past 29 would have been as unthinkable back there in the '20s as is incredible now the thought that enough more of the same may be in the works to do serious harm to the American way of life. Maybe it can't happen here. But, it might! More precisely, it is beginning to happen now. Creeping! There will not, however, be much public in terest in the splatter of 1958 fiscal year-end figures from the Treasury. Fiscal '58 ends at midnight tonight. The citi zens will be playing a cruel practical joke on themselves, however, if they continue to refuse to be interested in what takes place as this fiscal year ends and in the fiscal years to come. There has been, of course, another round of inflationary deficit spending, the Treasury going about 3 billion dollars in the red. The national debt has swollen about 260 billion dollars in 29 years. Perhaps another little 3 billion won't do us any harm. A deficit of 8 to 10 billion dollars is like ly in the fiscal year which be gins tomorrow. That will be fiscal '59. The Government has had to borrow despite collection of taxes in the multi-billions of dollars. For the total sum of those taxes there is no numer ical comparison in this world, only in the astronomical sta tistics of outer space. The 50-Cent Dollar This is dull stuff. Not so dull is the explosive fact that such deficit spending could and may rattle the U. S. econ omy unless it is checked. Health of the U.S. economy is judged considerably in terms of the dollar which, as of now, is worth about 50 cents com pared to 1939 .purchasing power. The US. Government is a going coaeern right enough, but going where? On the rec ord of the past 29 years it is going toward trouble if it con tinues to live beyond its in come. The citizen's trouble will be with his pocket money and his cash in the bank. Consider a citizen who put dollar in the bank back there in 1939 and withdrew it today. This citizen lives, for example, in Washington, D. C., and needs the dollar for trolley fare. The 1939 buck he banked would buy then 10 rides to and from work. It would buy him only five rides today. The same goes for baby shoes, rent or whatever. Per haps the citizen now is earn ing twice his 1939 salary, Lucky guy! Maybe it can't happen here, It has been happening, how ever for nearly 30 years. In flation is a slow though dead ly poison. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under .cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial'for publica tion is 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 ;olumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary Is often the case. Weather Cycles To the Editor: That the weather in southern Oregon does undergo various cycles and changes was related to this writer around 1912 by the older residents of Wood ville and Gold Hill. The old-timers did remem ber when the surrounding hills were placer mined by meriting winter snows, also how thunder showers fell in the summer time. Then too, there was the Rogue river Canal company that started construction of a high line irrigation system and in an un usual wet year in June the general superintendent was admitted as saying that "if the weather rains like this in southern Oregon the people need no irrigation." For other reasons (unknown to us) the canal system was never completed. As a general rule we have noticed that a winter season of deep snow fall there is much ' less fog, although there are no two sea sons that are exactly alike. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, . . Medford Idleness Problem To the Editor: As a person who is vitally interested in the welfare of young people, I too am concerned about the "juvenile" problem. Like the weather, we are so inclined, to "talk" about it and do nothing. It's my personal observa tion that idleness is 40 per cent, the real reason. Until we give employment to these young fellows,. we can expect no improvement. ' . , , I happen to have "person ally" a group of 16-year-olds, who would willingly ' work and earn their way, if given a chance. Their parents have "put them on their own," be cause they are "big enough" to be self-sustaining. r After pleading attempts to obtain employment, these kids are about ready to give up and join the ranks of the "least resistance" to earn a little cash for necessities. It's a very tragic and sad state to see otherwise fine and wholesome young boys deteriorate in morals and courage because of the indif ference of us adults. I would suggest that more of you people give these boys encouragement and back it up with something more con crete than talk. 1 know for a fact some of these kids will work, and work hard, if giv en a chance. And if you are really concerned in helping, I can furnish you with the names of boys asJio will justi fy your confidence, by drop ping a card tormy address. Mary . Williams, 913 North Central ave. Medford, Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE GOVERNMENT'S DISARRAY Washington In close to a quarter - century of government-watching, this reporter has never seen the govern ment of the United States in such disar ray as it is to day. There is the thought that crowds out every other, after Joseph Alsop the first alarming look at what may be called post-Goldfine Wash ington. The worst moments of Franklin Roosevelt's and Har ry Truman's administrations were not like this, possibly be cause neither Roosevelt nor Truman ever enjoyed the pro longed, almost universal adu lation that President Eisen hower enjoyed, in his first term. Very soon after the famous hundred days, the opposition to Roosevelt became vocal and sometimes even vicious. Tru man too, had only a short hon eymoon period, after which he had to fight strong and deter mined enemies on every side. Maybe a determined opposi tion is a good thing for an ad ministration, as exercise is good for the body. In any case, the Roosevelt and Truman administrations got over their rough patches without any of the symptoms of near-demoralization that meet the eye in Washington today. There was never any sense of the whole show being out of control. There was never any feeling that the man in the White House would not or could not rally his troops and fight back, giv ing his enemies as good as he got. IN WASHINGTON today, however, you get just that sense and just that feeling. They have grown up by stages, and now they have be gun to be pretty over-powering. First there were the Sputniks, which destroyed confidence in the President's defense program. Then there was the recession, and the long uncertainty of the Ad ministration's post - recession economic policy. Now there is the" curious case . of Sherman Adams, which has somehow been much the worst of all. This case is the sort of thing that is bound to happen from time to time in modern govern ment, . which has such enor mous favors to dispense to private interests. The mistake that was made is a mistake that officials can easily and often innocently wander into, if they are excessively easy going, like Harry Truman's Harry Vaughan, or passionate ly parsimonious, like Dwight Eisenhower's Sherman Adams. Yet Adams' vicuna coat has been a much more deadly blow than Harry Vaughan's deep freezes. The reason was summed up in this poignant sentence of the President's, "I need him." No President has ever depended upon a subor dinate as the President de pends upon, Adams. Some of those who should know even argue that the President's health will not stand the add ed strain, if the still-developing story of Bernard Goldfine and his friends finally forces Adams out of the White House. . RIGHT there, of course, is the central human tragedy of this whole sorry business. President Eisenhower did not wish to seek a second term after the sharp warning of his heart attack. He was per suaded to seek a second term, by those around him with Sherman Adams in the lead, by those in his party who had not rallied to his side, and by his. adulators in the press who are now bitterly attacking him. If the President had fol lowed his own inclinations, laying down his heavy burden in 1956 he might have gone off to his farm in Gettysburg in a golden blaze of glory. But he yielded to the persuasions that came from so many sides. He carried the burden into an other term. His luck ran out. And for reasons that one can easily deduce from those three Doisnant words "I need him" the President seems to be un able to respond to 'the harsh challenge of his new situa tion. ' . The old, Hagerty-planned gestures are made. Some of them are pretty appalling ges tures, like the contrived visit to George Washington's sword of honor, which was also a "gift." In any case, whether good or bad, the Hagerty-ges-tures no longer have the old effect. And yet there is no substitute for them. Nor is this, alas, the end of the story. Anyone who has seen the Lebanese crisis at first hand can predict with certainty that the challenges that confront the President l 3 Relations Between Russia, UAR Entering Cooling-Off Period By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst Relations between Soviet Russian leaders and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic seem to be entering a cooling-off period. Nasser Sat u r d a y sailed for a visit to President Tito of Yugoslavia. Russia has made Nasser Charles M. McCann its chief instrument in its cam paign of penetration into the Middle East. Russia's relations with Tito, at the same time, are near the breaking point. Dispatches from Cairo say Washington Report By William 1600 PENNSYLVANIA Washington Sixteen hun dred Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington has long since re placed No. 10 D o w n i n g Street in Lon don as the world's most s i g n i f i cant street address. The White House, at the Wash ington address, is ex- wuiant s. white ecutive Head quarters of the United States of America and actually of all the free world. Downing Street, as the Prime Minister's place, is the center of the parliamentary and adminis trative life of Great Britain and, indirectly, of the sprawl ing British Commonwealth. But the White House is in fact the center and the symbol of the vast influence in this world of the whole British American race. It, too, is the symbol of our national adapta tion of that Tace in the large, tough, melting-pot society that has so enriched this erstwhile outpost of the now dead Brit ish Empire. NOWHERE on earth is so much power exercised in so small a place as in the White House. And nowhere on earth not even in the smoky-looking, Charles Dick ens sort of place that is No. 10 Downing Street is so much power held with so little pomp. For the White House,, apart from the ugly, functional an nexes that are felled the West and the East Wings, is in ap pearance just that. It is simply a large house, white in color and Colonial in design, with big. still grounds. This correspondent does not mean to try to pass it off sentimentally as just a vine bowered cottage. The point is that it; looks like some body's house if a well heeled somebody's and not the least like the keystone of a massive officialdom and the place where - modern history is largely made. The buildings on either side look far more likely suited for such roles. One, the squat, heavy Treasury Building looks about like what it is, a kind of super-national bank. THE other is a fantastically elegant, ginger-bready sort of structure topped with cornices and curlicues and filled with great, ornate stair ways, gilt and marble : and festoons of every kind: This is the old State De partment building, and it is very much in character. One look at it and you can imagine tall silk hats, diplomats, sec ret treaties. But this build ing is now used for the over flow of the second-string of fices attached to the White House proper. In this estab lishment, the bigger you are the less impressive is your office. It is not physical descrip- today are far milder than the challenges that will confront him tomorrow or the day after. With our defense ex posed as terrifyingly inade quate, with our economy still in mid-slump, with Sherman Adams still in the .White House, the whole long-established system of American foreign relations also looks like coming apart at the seams. So still worse disarray must be expected in the future. 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. ' bm'i Ntgltcf Slipping FALSE TEETH Do falsa teeth drop, slip or wobble when you talk, eat, laugh or sneeze? .Don't be annoyed and embarrassed 3T such handicaps. FASTEETH, aa 'alkaline (non-arid) powder to sprin kle on your plates, keeps false teeth more firmly set. Gives confident feel ing of security and added comfort. Kn cntmmv vrwiv t tru ,.--. n- fL u that Nasser hopes to make his visit to Tito without antagon izing Russia. ' How that can happen, it is difficult to see. It is more like ly that the Russians will re gard Nasser's visit as a diplo matic slap which it seems to be. A brief Belgrade dispatch June 13 quoted an official spokesman is saying that Nas ser would make the visit. At that time, the Russian ana ninese communist re gimes were bitterly attacking Tito as a renegade, and the an nouncement caused some sur prise. Relations Become Worse Russian-Yugoslav relations became even worse when it was announced xon June 17 that Hungarian revolt leaders S. Whit tions, however, that are pri marily intended here. What is sought more is to suggest the human atmosphere and the smell of the White House. This atmosphere is dry and under-played and even a bit homey. This smell is rather like that of a home where the floors are always well waxed. Nowhere are there obtru sive guards. There is none of that marching and stamp ing importantly about, none of the feeling of concealed Tommy guns and so on, that might be expected in such a place at such a time in his tory. INDEED, there are Mayors' offices in this country, and any number of Governors' of fices, where everybody takes it bigger, so to speak, and where there is a far greater aura of brass and braid. Out on the street is a some what shabby business district that could be lifted up and put down in nearly any city in the United States - without seeming out of place. This street, but for literal geog raphy, is as far away from the White House as Oklahoma City or Omaha. For the White House is the only one of the six faces of official Washington that, in a benign sense, is a false face. It looks absolutely noth ing at all like what it really is this gardened, quiet house where Lincoln emancipated the slaves, where Wilson pro claimed a world parliament, where Franklin Roosevelt pre pared the destruction of Hit ler and Tojo, where Harry S. Truman ushered in the atomic age. (Copyrighi, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) - Prudential Invests $2 Million in Qregon Portland Investment of $2,404,271 . in Oregon real estate loans . by the western home office of the Prudential Insurance company of Amer ica during the first five months of. 1958, has been an nounced by Ed Day, vice pres ident in charge of western operations. Of the total $1,811,819 was for' residential purposes, $412,652 for commercial and industrial properties, and $179,800 for farm loans. Reasonable Funeral (PRICED FOR EVERYONE) ' i r g v LADY ATTENDANT - FRIENDLY, Imre Nagy and Pal Maleter had been executed. Nagy had been arrested after the Rus sians induced him to leave the Yugoslav Embassy in Buda pest, promising him safe con duct. Later Tito had been promised that Nagy would not be tried. The Russian treach ery naturally outraged him.' Because of the increased bitterness between Tito and the Kremlin, it seemed pos sible that Nasser's visit might be called off. But it was officially dis closed in Cairo on June 23 that Nasser would go through! with his plan. . . Cairo dispatches say that Nasser will try to draw Tito toward the "neutralist" bloc This, Cairo argues, would tr preferable froni the Sovit viewpoint than a move Tito toward closer relttioi with the allies. Any such hope seems ov optimistic. Since Tito brok with the late Josef Stalin i 1948, he has shown a dete mination to follow his oti course and not to tie hime.li to any bloc. If any "selling" is done a the result of Nasser's visit, Tito is likely to do it. Is Getting Anxious It is pretty certain that Nas ser is, as reported, getting somewhat anxious over the extent to which he has tied Egypt's economy to Russia. It is pretty certain also that his visit to Russia in May was a most limited success. Nasser did not seem to be much im pressed by what he saw and heard. Tito is sure to point out to Nasser emphatically, that Sov iet Russia is a dangerous and treacherous friend. He is sure to remind Nasser that Russia cancelled a 275 million dollars credit to Yugoslavia when his current dispute with the Kremlin started. o One angle of the situation is that Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru of India, Nas ser's fellow "neutralist," has condemned the Russian attack on Tito as an interference in Yugoslavia's internal affairs. He also has criticized the exe cution of Nagy. In all, it is likely that Sov iet leaders will be watching developments anxiously for the 10 days to two weeks, starting Wednesday, . during which Nasser will be Tito'i guest. Veteran Pendleton Councilman Dies Pendleton (UPI) Longtime Pendleton City Councilman Jack Kennedy, 70, died in a hospital Sunday after a heart attack. Kennedy had worked for 1 the State Highway Depart ment in past years and was active in civic affairs here. Kennedy had recently filed for re-election to the city council. During the past few years he had conducted . wrestling matches in Eastern Oregon with his son who survives him. A RARE PROFIT Miami Beach (UPI) A Roman com about 1,500 years old was found in a Miami Beach parking meter and it netted the city 20 cents profit. A rare ,coin dealer declared the indent two-cent piece vir ully worthless but he fvf titf) officials a quarter fa- ife gift to be generous." perl; Funeral Home - - - i ! , "Phone SP 2-6675 HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
