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
(