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o . , MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. 4 Friday, July 4, 1953 MZDFORDtSWTRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern wregtm Read The Mail Trtbone Publshed Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 83 North Fir St Ph. SP.3-6141 ROBERT W RtTHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Minaret GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. IRIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor . RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newsnaner Zntered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 189" SUBSCRIPTION RATES Py Mail In Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 5 mot. 8.00 Dally and Sunday 3 mos. 4.13 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: Dally and Sunday I year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of CICy of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty 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 iipgeles. Seattle, Portland. St. LoSis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. tiEWSPAPEt . PUBLISHEIS - o 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdhATCdN U J 'UJIirilS.'U.'.l H S Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson Comity History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 -YEARS AGO July 4, 1948 (Sunday) The Jackson county chapter of the American Red Cross will hold its annualQneeting Friday, July 16, officials an- - nounced. Construction of a new building for the Central Point branch of the First National Bank of Portland will begin on or about July 15, accord ing to Frank N. Belgrano, its president. 20 YEARS AGO July 4. 1938 (Monday) The Southern Pacific rail road is offering a special rate for an excursion car to San Francisco next week. Fbm Arthur Perry's" "Ye Smujge Pot" column: "The gatest throng since primary election day flocked to the hills and streams over afhe week end. Many bivouacked at the links." q . 30 YEARS AGO July 4, 1928 (Wedneiday) ; When Stanley Ogden went to get his (Jish basket from Its corner in the woodshed this morning he found oc cupied by a sparrow who had converted it to a nest and laid four eggs in it. Several firms in Medford will "blossom out" in the near future with neon signs, mak ing the town "much brigmer and busier appearing when night falls." 40 YEARS AGO July 4. 1918 (Thursday) Scores of floats, including an Elks warship with smoke billowing from its funnels, marched in Ashland's celebra tion parade today. Wig's Your I.Q.? 3 Nine ete correct b superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Today commemorates what event? - - q - 2. Who signed the Declara tion of Independence as Pres ident of the Continental Con gress? 3. Who said, ""Give me erty or give me death"? 4. On what date during the year may a new star, signify ing a nw state, be added to the fla? 5. In what year was "The Star Spangled Banner" adopt ed as the national anthem of the United States? 6. The first plan for govern ing the United States was em bodied in what document written in 1777? 7. What two signers of the Declaration of Independence became. Presidents of the U.S.? 8. Who warned Middlesex of the approach of British troops? 9. Independence Hall is lo cated in which city? 10. Who prepared the first draft of the Declaration of In dependence? Answers: 1 Adoption of Declaration of Independence. 2 John Hancock. 3 Patrick Henry. 4 July 4. 5 1931. 6 Articles of Confederation. 7 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. 8 Paul Revere. 9 Philadelphia. Pa. 10 ThoxnaJLJelfersoa. ... Soviet Qntrages The U.S. Cangress, by unanimous votes of both Houses, asks President Eisenhower to voice through the United Nations and "all other appro priate channels" this country's indignation . over the Soviet "barbarism and perfidy" in executing Irnre Nagy and other Hungarian revolutionary leaders. The Special Committee on Hungary of the-U.N.General Assembly, dormant since its special r&port of a year ago, is consulting again. This latest inthe long series of Soviet out rages was disclosed by Izyestia last month, attributing the announcement to the Hungarian Ministry of Justice. The usual pattern of secret trials was repeated, though notably neither Nagy nor Gen. Pal Male&r "confessed." . DEFORE the Communist revolution began eat ing its young for Nagy, too, had been a Communist it shocked the world, back in the late 1920's, with the systematic liquidation of the Russian kulaks, or well-to-do farmers. Then came the waves of purges within the Communist movement, stepped up after "the assassination in 4 1934 o? Serge Kirov, Stain. Successive "show trials" resulted in the execu tion of Zinofiev, Kamenev, Piatakov, Radek, and almost countless others of the Bolshevik "Old Guard." Marshal0 Tukhachevski, the world's youngest marshal, was executed after .a secret court-martial. The climax came in the third show trial of, Mfc?ch, 1938, with AndreL.Vishinsky as the prosecutor and Bukharin the principal victim. The pattern of abject "confession" and prompt execution was uniform. 0 . Meantime, Russia was preparing a political mofe that not only shocksd the world but disil lusioned thousands of strong.stomached non Russian Communists who had been able to swal low the blood purges as necessary to defend the revolution. Those implacable foe&, the Nazi and Communist regimes, joined hands in the non aggression pact of Aug. 23, 1939 oV In the following month.. Hitler and Stalin carved up Poland. Russia invaded Finland in November, 1939. In 1940, Russia abrogated non aggression pacts with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithu ania and gobbled up these Baltic states. , , . ... - - O OUSSIAN troops were stationed in East Ger "many, Czechoslovakia, "Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania at the end of World War II. But the Red Amy actually retired from Czechoslo vakia, and by early 1947 the tide of Communism seemed to be on the ebb. oThe Communists had infiltrated the police, however, and in February, 1948, the Red work ers' militia and "action committees" took over in a 24-hour putsch. "TJie destruction of (Presi dent) Benes proved to the world," Edward Taborsky, World War II secretary to Benes, wrote in Foreign Affairs in 1949, "that no pledges by. the Soviet Union, written or oral, however fine ihey may sound, are a basis for coopera tion. Benes elected for life in 1946 stayed on as President until June, 1948, resigned with out having signed the nejv People's. Democracy constitution. " The pattern was the same in all the satellites, differing only in details, just as the pattern has been the same in dealing with unrest. Demonstra tions behind the Iron Curtain primarily in Czechoslovakia in the early summer of 1953 were followed by the East Berlin uprising of five years ago. " ; Red trdops did not hesitate to man tanks and machine guns in Berlin and in other East Ger man cities. Tanks and army units were, used to put down the rioting in Poznan, Poland, in June, 1956. And theRed Army's blood bath in Hun gaiyb in October and November, 1956- was sol emnly condemned by thf U.N. General Assembly last Sept. 14 by a vote of 60 to 10. E.R.R. Fwty-Niner o First in mor than 45 years will be the admis sion of Alaska as a state -of the 'Union, for which the Senate and House have voted, with certain condition to be accepted by a referendum-in November. So it will be 1959, probably, before Alaska actually comers in." V This would be 47 years since New Mexico and Arizona became the 47th and 48th states,respec tively, away back in 1912. It would be by far the longest time between admissions. The long est previous interval was 15 years, between Mis souri (24th state) irf 1821 and Arkansas (25th) in 1836. - This would not be the first time a state was admitted "without being contiguous to another state. When California got statehood in 1850, for instance, it lay 650 miles from the nearest other state, Texas. But the area that stretched in between belonged to the U.S. this would be the first time a state was admitted without touching on other U.S. territory. The estimated (1957) civilian population of Alaska is 165,000. Seven of the 17 states admitted in the last 100 years had fewer than 165,000 inhabitants at the time. Of course the total popu lation was much lower then than now, but even on a proportionate basis the population of Alaska today is about the same as that of Wvomins- when admitted in 1890 and much hisrher than that of Nevada when admitted a close collaborator of in 1864. E.R.R.- Dennis the Menace N5VE mzo Of Mv so6H. kid, rvytee Hoover Serves as Special Envoy From President to Brussels Fair By LYLE C. WILSOH United Prees Inisrnalioawal Washington This, the old man very likely will say",, is my last public serviee. But he may not mean that, really. Public serv ice is a way of life to Her bert Hoover, although he is at the thresh hold of his 85th year. rm x trie C. WHsso ini" wy life likely will continue so long as he lives. For him today, public serv ice was to speak at the Brus sels Exposition as the special envoy of the President of the United States. And, Saturday, he will talk to "my friends in Belgium." That should be an occasion for tearful senti ment when Hoover addresses his Belgium friends. It will be no cozy -chat at some intimate fireside. Ths population of Belgium is up ward of eight million and that should be about the measure of Hoover's Belgian friends. If -there could be a love af fair between a nation of peo In the Day's News By PIANK President Eisenhower, tells his news conference he is standing pat on his decision to keep Sherman Adams." cBut the President conceded again that his assistant had been IMPRUDENT in his re lations with Bernard Gold fine. ". AT THIS point I'd like to quote a paragraph or so from a letter from a friend in Washington. He saysi "The Adams story is still rough. I'm sure there's noth ing you haven't read or heard. The poor guy. got caught on what he assumed to be be nign generosity which was no such' d d thing. "You know how it works. A man says: 'Why, Sherm, I keep that apartment there the year around. It's just there, with the money for it going to waste. Why don't you and Rachel use it when you come up this way?' "It all sounds perfectly fine and reasonable. But from what I get of the picture, this Goldfine was something of an operator. If it turns but that he DEDUCTED THE ROOM EXPENSE AS A BUSINESS COST ON HIS INCOME TAX RETURNS I reckon that might be called prima facie evidence or something." Try and Stop Mo By BINNITT CII TODAY WE OFFER you a few words of wisdom from Ameri cans whe have made their mark. "Consider the postage stamp," saggested Josh Billings. "Its usefulness consists in the ' ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." "It you want to kill any . idea in the world today," grambled C. F. Kettering, "get a committee working on it." "An expert," opined B. Stollberg, "is a man who avoids errors as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy." "Universities are full of ' knowledge," opined A. L. Lowell. "The freshmen bring m a little and tne seniors take none away, so it accumulates." - - "Acquaintance," decided Ambrose Bierce, "is 'a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or. obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous." C 1958. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kins Features Syndicate A $At&CAt tfxj BffM7.' ple and a. man, then it could be between the Belgians and Herbert Hoover. The old Bel gian gaffers, in their -50s or beyond, will have first-hand knowledge -of what Herbert Hoover means in terms of the history, health and happiness of their country. Started With Wilson It is just weeks now short of '44 yaars since Herbert Hoover undertook at the di rection of President Woodrow Wilson to administer the re lief of stricken Belgium, a na tion which was beginning to die of famine and disease. Oc cupied by the German army in the early days of World War I, blockaded by the Brit ish fleet, Belgium could have died. Before that " war and the post-war readjustments were completed, Hoover's relief ef forts ranged widely among friends and former foe, es pecially in the Soviet Union and in the poor countries of Southeastern Europe. He also directed the World War I food administration of the U. S. Two more presidents called on him thereafter before lie became President, himself, Hoover was secretary of com- JENKINS llfELL " A close friend of Gold fine says in Washington IT'S A FACT the free-handed mil lionaire listed his gifts to Adams as . business expenses on his income tax returns. Internal revenue officials say a TRUE GIFT can not be deducted as a business ex pense. They say a GIFT would have to involve some expect ed return in the way of money or "service in order to be considered a legitimate business expense. DERSONALLY, I can't bring myself to believe Sherman Adams would deliberately swap improper political influ ence on the part of the White House staff for such things as occasional free-for-nothing stays at a luxurious hotel suite or . a vicuna coat or any similar personal favor of the sort. But- ' I'm. quite sure anyone in his position who would ac cept such favors from an op erator of the kind that Gold- fine seems to be is too NAIVE to hold the job of first assist ant to the President of the United States. He might give away the U.S, Treasury building and its contents some time when he wasn't looking. Washington Report By William . White Washington A great, fresh wind of history is blowing in from the Pacific North west. Alaska's admission to the Union has brought a clean sense of drama to this tired and jaded capital. Before the eyes of 8 new jMSpJajf 'M g e n e r aUon till, .JULLltl J AO again march- Willam g. White lag westward. Moreover, by act of Con gress, the boastfulness attrib uted to Texas and California can never be quite what it was. Texas is no longer the biggest. Alaska's area is twice as great. California's Mt. Whitney is dwarfed by Alas ka's Mt. McKinley.. In the longer and deeper i sense, Alaska's entry as a merce in the Harding cabinet and stayed on under Calvin Coolidge. On leaving the White House in 1933, Herbert Hoover . retired to the shad ows. His long time friend and aide, Lawrence Richey, re calls that it was some years after they left the White House together that showing of popular esteem again warmed Hoover. This began with such as the friendly hails of cab drivers when the for mer appeared on the streets of New York or San Francisco, warm words from passers-by as they were encountered casually. Haled By FDR There was, however, no public -service for Herbert Hoover so long as Franklin D. Roosevelt was in power. FDR, among other distinctions, was a solid hater. For Herbert Hoover he had no warmth, Not even the emergency of World War n, with its near exhaustion of top administra tive U.S. talent, could per suade ' President Hoosevelt to put Hoover to work. FDR equally ignored James A. Farley in the crisis of war although Farley also was an administrative operator o f proven talent. Harry S. Truman had been in office less than a year, how ever, befdre be called Hoover to become honorary chairman of a' food conservation pro gram. Some months . later, January 1847, Hoover headed a presidential missfon to study German food conditions. Oth er jobs followed. The 80th Congress got around to restoring Hoover's name to Boulder Darn. FDR's interior secretary, Harold L. Ickes, a solid hater like FDR, had scratched the Hoover name years before. Longshoremen Get 10 Cent Pay Boost San Francisco (UPI) West Coast longshoremen to day had a new one-year con tract, with a 10-cent an hour pay Boost and an eight-hour day. - Agreement on ' the pact, retroactive to June 15, was announced Thursday by the International Longshoremens and Warehousemens union and the Pacific Maritime as sociation. It is subject to rati fication by 18,080 waterfront workers in California, Ore gon and Washington. The new straight time rate for longshoremen is $2.62 an hour, a 10 cent boost, and that for clerks is $2.78, an 11 cent increase.. The work shift was reduced from nine to eight hours and improved va cation provisions were also included in the pact. Pacific Shipping Warned of Tests Honolulu (UPI) The commander of Joint Task Force Seven at Eniwetok nu clear proving grounds has warned all Pacific shipping and aircraft to stay away from the defined danger zone in the Marshalls at least until noon (G.M.T.) July 7. The Atomic Energy Com mission announced in Wash ington Thursday the 11th detonation in the current series of the 1958 tests. The JTF-7 warning indicated still more explosions are to cpme. The series now has been ex tended at least until Aug. 22 when a public demonstration of safe fallout is scheduled. . Portland (UPI) Traffic through locks at Bonneville and The Dalles dams is up in 1958 over the first six months of 1957. state will have profound ef fects upon the public life of this country. It will mean a fundamental alteration of the balance of political power on legislative matters. A LASKA'S success signals, immediately or distantly, these things 1. Two additional Demo cratic Senate segts after fce November election. (The as sumption is general here that Alaska will go Democratic at the start, if not necessarily re maining Democratic there after). 2. A great rise in the influ ence of the West, particularly in the Senate. There, an un advertised coalition between Western and the more mod ern Southern Democrats has already bees functioning quietly for more than a year. 3. An accelerating decline in the national veto power of the Old South, which has 'largely dominated ' Congress for 20 years. 4. A swiftened parting in the South between the moder ate new politicians and the Southern Old Guard. That Old Guard, which is as touch ingly gallant 3 it is out of touch with current rlality, is going down fighting. But go ing down it is. 1 LL this will mean, too, a progressively lesser plac in Congress for the urban Eastern liberals o both par ties. For they are not too much at home with the West ern liberals except on such issues as civil rights. The Westerners are con cerned most of all and Alas ka's new Congressional dele gation will be, too with the issues of construction as dis tinguished from the issues of reform. Their first interest is in such bread-and-butter mat ters as public power and rec lamation. They have a world to win, and so do the new Southern ers, wheres the Easterners have only a world to hold. Thus the Westerners are mak ing common cause with the new Southerners upon many matters of which Alaska is only latest and most dramatic. Indeed, Alaskan statehood itself was a Western-Southern triumph. The West was out in front. . But ' the Southern moderates called the signals. THE1' modern Southerners could not come too far for ward for two -reasons. They did not wish to stir up their still glumly-resisting Old Southern colleagues any more than need be. - And they felt it only right that the Western ers should be out in frent, since the state or Alaska wiU be a member here M the Far Western block . Thus the 'running of the show was passed from the Senate Democratic leader, Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, to his assistant. Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana. Mans field turned over tactical, op erations to Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington. Sen-a ator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon was asked to preside over the Senate when the vote for statehood was taken. Mansfield, Jackson, Neu berger and such Western Re publican aUies as SenStor Thomas H. Kuchel of Cali fornia performed with the light touch they had learned from the moderate Southern parliamentary virtuosos. THEY were so mannerly with the opposition of the Old Southerners as all but to disarm them. This will Te the way of the coalition of the West and the New South it will have the vigor of the one and the skill of the other. And this is perhaps the most significant circumstance of alL for the future. For the coalition is aware of the force of what Churchill said when he was criticized for speak ing softly to the Japanese am bassador in London upon Britain's declaration of war after Pearl Harbor: "When you are about to kill a man, it does no harm to be polite." (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ; Lockheed Machinist' Strike Called Off Alamagordo, N.M. UPI) The International Associa tion of Machinists called off its four-week strike at Lock heed Aircraft Co.'s facilities at the Air Force missile de velopment center Thursday night. There was no immediate word as to whether the union was forced to back down on its demand that current $8 dally location allowance be left intact. Marshall, Author of 'Vrking is Former Medford Resident Author of "The Viking," novel from which the United Artists picture of the same name was made,was written by Edison Marshall, who lived for many years in Medford. The picture, now playing at The Craterian, is a techni color extravaganza on which millions was spent, some of this money going for three authentic viking ships which were constructed in Norway where much of the movie was filmed. The ships were completely seawortfiy, and one was sailed acress the Atlantic to New Y&k harbor where it was used during the premiere of the movie. The ftlm stars Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, ftrnest Borgnine and JanetJeigh. Several Novels Marshall, who left here about 30 years ago, is the author of several successful novels, sotie of which have been translated into as many as six languages. The family now lives in Augusta, Ga. In his early writing day Marshall received the O. Henry prize for his hovel "Heart of Little Shikara" the locale of w,hich was India. critics praised Marshall lor the authentic mood and cor, me more remarKaDie oecause the author had never been in India. Since then he has traveled extensively all over the world. Friends of the author still living in Medford recall that when he first sold the movie rights to one of his books, the film was given a premier in Medford with considerable fanfare. The author took a large group of friends to the event as his guests but as the film progressed, became in furiated over the treatment which the film makers had given his story and left the f vW lit '"MVfe , Independence Hall PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Scene of the slgnlnf of the Declaration of Independence, July i, 1776 .-.. Perhaps no other building in America is i more inextricably bound with the memory . ' of those momentous events which led to the establishment of this republic, than is In dependence Hall. Originally the State house of the crown colony of Pennsylvania, it was the scene of the meetings of the Continental Congress; here Washington was proclaimed commander-in-chief of the United colonial forces; here the Declara tion of Independence was adopted and the . convention of 1 787 was held when our con stitution was framed. , From Colonial government to rebel gov ernment, back to British occupation; the return to the rebels, now provisionally the , United States of America to the final ; establishment of the independent republic. this building witnessed the singleminded i ' -devotion of a small group of men who would not admit defeat who managed through the example of their own integrity and idealism to hold together the ragged '. . army and the bankrupt government until - " " victory which was almost anticlrmactie " " , by comparison came at last. Independence Hall is a monument to these men; their vision, faith, courage, and integrity. , O ti0h PERL fBzs-cszt - - Funeral tiSLf ' ' Home ; ' . s- y: '. ' . ""t Phone SP 2-6675 , 4 LADY ATTENDANT ; FRIENDLY, theater in disgust, , one re called. " . . Marshall attended the Uni versity of Oregon before be ginning his writing career, and holds an honorary (degree from the institution. Some of his latest works are "Castle in the Swamp," "Gypsy Six.- pense," "The Infinite Wom an," "Caravan to Xanadu,? and "The Heart of the Hunter? and "The Inevitable Hour." The "Viking" will continue at the Craterian through the first part of next week. Pan American Cuts Hawaii Plane Fare San Francisco (UPI). - Pan American Airways will begin a new low cpst excur sion service to Hawaii. next week, with a round-trip fare of $232. The airline announced the new fare, which cuts $34 from present tourist-class flights, Thursday after the Civil Aero nautics Board gave approval. Pan American said the fare would cover round-trip flights completed within 15 days from San Francisco, Los An geles, Seattle and Portland, with take-offs Monday through Thursday. : BANK'S MISTAKE . ' ! Vienna (UPI) Ignai Lichtenstrasser, 58, pleaded with the bank clerk to take back the money he had given him in exchange for a check. "The bank never makes a mis take," the clerk said. Lichten strasser, with the help of a bank director, finally .con-, vinced the clerk that ' .the check he had cashed wg for $6 and not $6,000.' HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE (
