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Newspaper Page Text; i i f : 4 ' 1 I 1 i ! f I 1! ! 31 i 4 4 : : 5 ji i! 4 r. i Q ' 5I J J j: : " 4 n v. it i 1 1 -' a: 4 ' 1 ; 4 4 Monday, July 7, H3I " MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medfo: rare "Zveryone in Southern wregon Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 HOBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manages GERALD LATHAM. Business Mkr ERIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Edito RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pr Mail In - Advance: Copy lOe. Daily and -Sunday 1 year (15 00 Daily and, Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sundav Onlv One vear S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hin. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of J season county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative : WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC- Of fices in New York. Chicago, De troit, san Francisco. Los Angelas, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. 5 NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHERS -"ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfATfgl Flight ro Tinie Medford and Jackson Countyo History from the files of Tb Mail Tribune 10. SO. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO w July 7, 1948 (Wednesday) Two brothers. 11 and 11 years respectively, who cUmt to town yesterday to sell rtf ligious publications on ftreftt corners, were "tempted By the devil himself to shoplift a bag of fcokies, ncf when arrested, thanked the polite .. - aO profusely for their denver- ance" from the eil ee' "grasp. rt An advance party for tha RFD America radio program has arrived to intajrviSV pective contestants on ii quiz show. 0 20 YEARS AGO July 7, 1933 (Thursday) Executiv from h Peart- land head office of the Unit ed States Nional kuwa here as hosts for Sv?&y' "open house" in Hit loeel branch's n e w 1 $ jnoftsnijsad quarters. From Arthur PeJVy'w "Tt Smudge Pot" cojujf: "AfW 'Bull Moose' moTtrfl ia e ported brewing 9n Middle West. It is udtetMi tfcere is nhin new ft fct the moose." 30 "YEARS AGO July 7. 1928 (Saturday') Every cattle owner 8i Jacfc son county will receive vijh in a vsk a bound coc pf all the brands ud ky other ranchers. From "Local and Personal" column: "The first peaches ofl the season were on sale today at the public market from the Phoenix district and were quickly sold out to a heavy patronage." 40 'YEAR? AGO July 7. 1918 (Sunday) Three pounds of sugar per person each month has been set as the ration by the fed eral food administration. From "Local and Personal" column: "The Crater Lke stage had seven train passen gers to the scenic resort on its dffiy trip out this morning." What's Your LQ.f Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excajlent; tive or six is good. 1. Are strikes by workers permitted in Soviet Russia? 2. Did General Douglas MacArthur ever serve as Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army? The U. S. Secret Service is a division of th Department of Justice, Treasury Depart ment or Department of Com merce? 4. Correct the iollowing sentencg Neither3 the Ambas sador nor his wife ; are '.in vited. 5. A bot je and. cork cost $1.10; the bottle cost $k09 more than the gork. How much did the cork cosi? 6. All foreign born person's are aliens; true or fake? 7. Which of these amphibi ous aninals has the mst -valuable pelt; sea lion or sea otter? v ." ' 8. Is the principal food used in Ceylon corn, wheat or rice? 9. Do shamrocks have three, four or five leaflets? 10. In the Sible, who was Jeremiah's secretary? Answers: 1. Ro. 2. Tes. S. Treasury. 4. Neither the Am bassador nor his wife is in- ; viled.- 5. Fiyccg.tSt-; : Raised 7. Sea OUer. 8. Rice. 9. Three. 10. Baruch. Cleaning Up Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary committee, promises subcom mittee hearings and a staff analysis aimed at pro ducing "a truly comprehensive legislative . pro gram for improving and maintaining the quality of the federal service." The group will study some 35 bills now before Congress dealing with conflicts between public and private interests of government officials and employees. ... - THE "imprudence" of Presidential 'Assistant Sherman Adams, like the scandals of the Tru man administration, is turning the attention of Congress again to the grave problem of morality in government. The record of the past would hardly encourage expectation of any new legis lation. ' Nevertheless, the fact that Congress is exam ining anew the level of morality in the federal establishment and expressing concern over ethical standards of its own members is un doubtedly healthy. Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), chairman of a Labor, and Public Welfare subcom mittee which recommended a code of ethics for Cengress and government employees in 1951 said on June 14 that the subcommittee report had had a "permeative influence" even though no new laws were enacted. - PIECEMEAL legislation adopted over the years covers dishonesty, partiality, and other uneth ical practices by federal officials and private per sons who may tempt them. Chapter II of the U. S. Criminal Code, for example, provides that any person who offers anything of value to an officer or employee pf the United States "with intent to influence him" in any official act or decision or duty or in the commission "of fraud is subject to a maximum of three years in prison andor a fine of three times the value of the bribe. Further, the taker of have his decision or action . . . influenced there by" is subject to the same penalties as well as to discharge and disqualification to hold any federal office of honor, trust, or profit. Further provisions cover outright bribery of members of Congress and improper And a number of federal agencies have establish ed their own regulations covering the acceptance of gifts. , Nevertheless, the Douglas subcommittee in 1951 found many loopholes in the codes of con duct prescribed for officeholders.. Moreover, "fa vors" or mere good-fellowship, stopping for short of bribery, remain untouched. Chairman Wayne Coy of the Federal Communications commission told the Douglas group : Perhaps there is a serious problem in the over friendly character that we develop here, secure in our ' own belief that we are not influenced by it, and yet In every case where there has been influence exposed those same things have been happening, lunch and 4inner, and a free drink, "pHE objection to laws governing public moral- ity is always, "you can't legislate the Ten Commandments." But the plethora, of bills, now before Congress indicates a very general feeling that something can and should be done if noth ing more than general acceptance of some "rules of the road." One of the latest proposals is designed to es tablish just such a code nacted in New York State in 1954. A co-sponsor, ben. Jacob K. Javits, (K Attorney General, calls No public officer or interest,' financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or, engage in any business, transaction, or pro fessional activity or incur any obligation of any nature, whether financial or moral, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest, nor should any public officer or employee give substantial and reasonable cause to the acting m breach, of his Malta, Cyprus isn't the only. .British island in the Mediterranean giving the London government a splitting headache. There's Malta.. Same cause: nationalism. "British naval base in the middle Mediterran ean, Malta took -a devastating beating from the air during World War II, and in 19.42 was award ed the George Cross. After the war, London of fered the island some three members in the House of Commons. But the Maltese demanded a wider, degree of self-government than London was prepared to grant. "THE natives are of Phoenician origin (probab- ly), with a . language much. Arabic and a little Italian admixture. The Maltese are Roman Catholics and their archbish op, like Makarios on Greek Catholic Cyprus, has mucn poiiucal lniiuence.-Areierenaum m eD ruary 1956 voted to accept the British offer but meant little or nothing because 40 per cent of the voters boycotted it. ' At the end of 1957 the island Parliament vot ed for independence unless Britain did more to improve economic conditions on the island: For one thing, the Maltese ' demand a much higher cash subsidy than they get at present, while Brit ain demands that -they 'take more steps them selves to raise revenue. In the spring of 1958 prime minister Dominic Mintoff resigned, British -.Army headquarters were stoned, a general strike was accompanied by rioting, the Governor took over the administra tion, proclaimed what is in effect martial law. And Malta has been the key NATO naval base in the Mediterranean. E.R.R. Government any gift "with intent to political contributions. of ethics, based on one - N.Y.), former New York this the key provision: employee should have any public to assume he is public trust. E.R.K. Also political integration, with of their own that has Dennis fa TWENTY-ONE, TrVENT.TrKee More 'When' Than 'Whether' of Retirement of Sherman Adams By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington (UPI) There seems to more when" than "whether" to the ques tion of Sherman Adams re tirement from his White House place of power. That is the private judg ment of re sponsible Re publican par ty men wh o jhave kept out of the public talk about the chief assistant and deputy to the Presi Lyle C. WUsob dent. This conclusion that Adams cannot survive the ac cumulating pressures to de part was not much disturbed by President Eisenhower's sturdy . insistence again last week that he needed Adams. None expects Eisenhower to fire his trusted servant. Few, if any, expect Adams' depar ture to be a mere matter lof days. "The President and Adams need time in which to man euver, to think it all over," a Republican leader told Un ited Press International. "Es pecially does Governor Adams need some time to think. He can't resign today, of course. "It is necessary that the noise abate somewhat, that the Republicans who have been demanding Adams' res ignation, pipe down. They have had their say and are on record with their constituents.- In -such comparative calm, Adams would have time to consider the situation and to come to the conclusion that it would be a disservice to the President and to the party for him to remain in office." Worried About Health Adams has looked and act ed somewhat more chipper in the past few days that dur ing the early explosions about his association with Bernard Goldfine. The governor's as sociates had ' been worried, however, about his health. He had been working too hard for too long, as one put it. . The Goldfine episode set up further tensions. Perhaps when the uproar subsides, Adams will have a check up at the Army's Walter Reed hospital and, perhaps, again, he would depart public life thereafter. That is one line of thinking here. Tensions? That's the stuff of which heart disease and stomach ulcers are made. How about this ior a tense situa tion? The Republican leaders of Congress usually confer at the White House once a week with the President, Ad ams and some others of the staff. They meet in the Cab inet Room around the oval cabinet table. House Republi Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF AN OLD Kaintucky cunnel made his way with some diffi culty to the breakfast table. As he lowered himself into his chair, his wife noticed that his hand was in a sling. "Just a matter of minor consequence at the club last night," he -told her. "Couple of our ' younger members who have difficulty holding their liq- . uor got a bit under the weather. One of them in advertently stepped on my hand." - ' ... Jack Paar told a girl inter viewer he " was "different" irom other TV M.Cs. 'Til prove it," offered Paar. "Many i of the others can't sleep when they drink coffee; I can't drink coffee when I sleep." Returned traveler from Havana reports the American-Spanish dictionaries in rooms of the new, ultra-swank, ultra-expensive inter national hotels conspicuously underline such phases as "Is this de ductable?" and "Is it OK to charge this to my expense account?" 1958, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate. the Menace .TWENTY-ONE. WlWTAfJE VDU?4 can Leader Joseph, E. Martin Jr. (Mass.), sits on the Presi dent's left, Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.), to the left of Martin. Difficult Situation To Knowland's left sits Ad ams, the man of whom the senator said June 20, he "has so hurt his usefullness in his position that it will be harm ful to the broad policies" of the President. In a more re cent Chicago comment, Know land said bluntly that Adams should resign. Those weekly meetings will be difficult for Adams under such circum stances not much fun for anyone. Nekher Adams nor Knowland is capable of the kind of small, casual talk un which would ease such a sit Washington Report By William S. White ' Washington The Capitol is the home of endless speech and bounless talk. It is the most resonant whispering (or shouting) gal 1 e r y in the world. It is also the base for the end less compro mises, the po litical collec tive . bargain- 5. xi a. : Willam S. White mg, mat . iu the end govern the United States. It is a place where nothing decisive seems to happen very often but where a great deal really and continuously does happen. It is the least modern-looking and when ,it chooses, the most influential of all the official faces of Washington. For . when the Capitol really means business no White House can stand long against it. It is also the most compli cated of these Washington faces, because it is a panoram ic photograph of the whole country. The talk is led always by 531 professional talkers the 96 Senators and the 435 mem bers of the House of Represen tatives. , Enthusiastically join ing in, however, are thousands -of' semi-professional talkers' who are always in good voice. These are the Congressional staff members, the lobbyists, the earnest (and sometimes earnestly crackpot) witnesses who speak for or against or in the cascades of bills and resolutions and investiga tions that eddy around . the Capitol. VtTHERE so much is being " said there is necessarily Russia Trying to Lay New Basis for 'Summit7 Conference By CHARLES M. McCANN TJPI Foreign News Analyst Soviet Russia may be trying to lay down a new basis for a "summit" conference on r? I world issues. S i$u. I Premier Ni- kita S. Krush- c h e v's letter to P r e s ident Xisenhower on providing safe guards against a surprise nu attack s e t ms MeCftBs to be one move in that direction. . Russia's participation in the current talks in Geneva, Swit zerland, on means of enforc ing a ban on the testing of nu clear weapons may -constitute another move. It is possible that Russia's attitude on the detention of nine American Army men whose helicopter landed by mistake in, East. Germany is still another. uation. '" Washington notes that the Cabinet is strangely silent in the White ' House ' crisis. Ad ams okayed most of them for high offic. Secretary of La bor James P. MitcheU ' has spoken up in defense of Ad ams and of the President. Sec retary of Interior Fred . A, Seaton is doing his solid pol itical best to help. The others have done nothing, and some of them have resisted sugges tions, that they come to Ad ams' defense, claiming theirs are not political jobs. The fire on Adams is large ly from Republicans. The Democrats mostly prefer to leave it to Adams' political associates to cut him down, and they are busy at it. an unending air of unending confusion. This appears true of the thirty-odd legislative committees that, in a busy session, are filled with a more or less unbroken clacking And it appears even more true of the House and Senate floors. . In the House the micro phones ring so loudly in tire less, metallic bellows that a visitor often has no clue as to who is saying what to whom In the Senate, the last home of tradition, there are no sound boxes. The installation there of any such amplifying system would be regarded as embracing an evil innovation, It would be scarcely less un thinkable, say, than a propos al that Senators should pay some attention to the House of Representatives. - rriHE Senate speaks both for -- and to the country. Thus, the fashion of debate except in extraordinary periods when some violent figure like the late Senator Joseph R. Mc Carthy is running strongly is rather like a conversation in somebody's sitting room. The Senators rarely make the eagle scream though they will do so on the stump. In the House, the trick is to make somebody listen, if only Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, the presiding officer. Most members thus expand their lungs on the individual ly rare occasions when they get" a chance to let go. Ray burn the master of the House as any strong Speaker can be rarely obliges by any show of passionate interest. Usually, he only looks down from his dais in gloomy de tachment, his bald pate glis tening in the half-light while the wheels for the ultimate control of House affairs turn over silently in that same old head. In the Senate, a great deal of legitimate business some times of world significance is transacted in what seems to be an absent-minded, politely repressed hum. The sound is sometimes a good deal like a high-toned theatre lobby at in termission, y- . ''. THUS, perhaps the outstand ing impression of a strang er to the Capitol would be that this is a most odd place in which never were so many speaking to so many others who paid so little heed. This; however, is not really the case. Listening, in the Capitol; is a necessarily selective proc ess and selectivity in listen ing is an occupational neces sity. The members know to whom they should reaUy lis ten, and when and why. For the truth is that here, in the Capitol, is the strong, beating heart of the American process, and here is the com posite face of the United A- Pattern In what seems to be a pat tern, the aim of the Soviet government apparently is first to get negotiations for a sum mit conference really started again and secondly to insure that if there is a conference, it will be held on Russia's terms. Khrushchev's letter on sur prise attack was based, though Khrushchev did not say so, on a proposal made by Eisen hower last Jan. 12 in a letter to former. Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. : . . Eisenhower suggesteda study by experts on this prob lem. Khrushchev's letter of last Wednesday suggested that ex perts representing the United States, Russia and possibly other countries "study jointly the practical aspects of this problem" and within a defi nite time limit recommend measures to prevent surprise' attack. "The resuits of these discus sions could be considered at a meeting of heads of govern ment," Khrushchev said. That is, they eeuld fee considered. at a summit meetiag. Teo Smart Before the Geneva talks en means of enforcing a ban on nuclear weapons tests started last Tuesday, ' Russia tried hard to get the United States to pledge itself in advance to agree to suspend tests. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was too smart Matter of Foe TUSSOCK DULLES Washington-rThe critically dangerous Lebanese situation has produced at least one good result. It has given the best insight on rec ord into the strengths and weaknesses at the character and situation of John Foster Dulles, who now makes josmi ajsdb American ior- eign policy almost alone and single-handed. From the foreign angle of vision, as this reporter has al ready recorded, Foster Dulles looks like a most regrettable Secretary of State. Seen from Washington, however.- he looks quite different. Here in Washington, you might say John Foster Dulles looks like the only tussock in the swamp. Dulles played his tussock role, when the trouble in Leb anon began, at once showing the firmness and decisiveness that sets him apart from the rest of our present govern ment. Quite promptly, with out any timid hesitations, Dulles joined the British For eign Secretary, Selwy Lleyd, in making a mortally grave commitment to the Lebanese government. IF THE need arose, we told the Lebanese, and if the Lebanese government asked for help from its friends in the West, an Anglo-American mil itary expedition would be sent to protect the independence of Lebanon. This was about as serious a promise as the Eisenhower administration has ever made to any government abroad. Before making this prom ise, Dulles of course, informed Secretary of Defense Neil Mc Elroy but it would be exag gerating to say that he con sulted McElroy. Equally, of course, Dulles obtained ' "the consent of the White House but the President nowadays almost automatically consents to anything Dulles proposes. At bottom; in- fact," the whole responsibility for Jhe promise to the Lebanese", rested on John, Foster Dulles alone, Dulles made his promise with his eyes .open too. - He knew quite well i that1 Anglo American military interven tion in Lebanon would be a most unpleasant and risky business. But he quite correct ly argued that, if worst came States of America. Presidents will come and go, strong or weak or middling. But this parliamentary for um, under the bulbous and ugly dome, goes on forever, as a single, unified institution bigger than any number of "its members s and unchanged as they rdeparf and others- come in. There is,' after all, a reason for all this talk. And the sum of it makes much sense.. For it is, at last, "the consensus of the country.' (CbpyrightlSSS. by United Featurer Syndicate,. Inc.) BUIIACHBesf For Insect Pests Ajks, ' coaches, Bedbags or Mosquitoes around the house Fleas oa cat or dog Lice on plana or birds. BUIIACU Sf Isy T Use) fsanosnlcal - to make - any such xommi.t ment. The Soviet government then, in a note of June "28, tried to get the United States to agree that the Geneva talks would be made "subordinate" to the task of "immediate ces sation" of tests. . : "Naturally the decision on the suspension of tests should be taken by the governments themselves and not by experts whose. tasks include the prep aration of control over com pliance with the agreement on the discontinuance of nu clear tests," the Soviet note said. v . This might be interpreted to mean that Russia would set tle, if necessary, for a decision on suspension at an early summit meeting. In its insistence hat the United States deal with the East German regime on the release of the helicopter crew, the Soviet government made no attempt to conceal the fact that it is using meat-axe dip lomacy. It is simply trying to force the United States to rec ognize the East German pup pet government. Sucn recognition would be a surrender to Russia's insis tence that the puppet regime is a sovereign government arid that in any summit or other talks on German unifi cation, it must be left to the East German and West Ger man governments to negotiate that issue. to worst, intervention would be less risky and unpleasant than the total destruction of all the vital Western interests throughout the Middle East. And this kind of general Mid dle Eastern catastrophe was, and is, the virtually sure price jf allowing Egypt s Nasser an other victory in Beirut. . THUS Dulles started with a decision that was very bold but also wholly logical. But it is unwise, indeed it is almost criminal, to make the sort of promise that Dulles made to the Lebanese, unless you are also ready to be bold in drawing the logical conse quences from your own ac tions. Having made such a prom ise, a great power must show it means every word of it, A great power may wait a while to see whether such a promise really has to be kept. A great power may first experiment with purely political instru ments. But if these instru ments do not work, a great, power that has promised to send troops does so without delay, before ' the situation detonates and gets out of hand. The British government tried to draw just the conse quences listed above from the promise that had been made. The American government in stead insisted upon delay after vain delay. The main trouble was that just about everyone in the American government except John Fos ter Dulles heartily - disliked the promise that Dulles had made. THE most important opposi tion came from our U.N. delegation and the Pentagon. The Chiefs of the Armed Serv ices indicated their position at the outset, by doing the exact opposite of showing we meant every word of our promise. For some time after the prom- fi JffPtorJi ,An old young man will te a young old man. As a Public Service, we will be Happy to make announcements for any group concerning their coming activities or events over our program on KBES-TV-Saturday nights at 11:30, or over Radio Station KMED. Drop a card or phone Perl Funeral Home with your request. PERL Funeral Home LADY ATTENDANT Phone SP 2-6675 Communications Letters to th Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use ef a pea 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 solumn do not necessarily repre sent the views of the paper, in fact tha contrary is often the ease. 'Greax Summertime' To the Editor: -Many years ago we distinctly remember reading from the observations of rational scientists of how some astronomers concluded our universe, including the sun and . its planets, were headed toward a season called "the great summertime" of existence. Now there are many explicit reasons given by modern scientists in con-' cord with past theories, that the visible universe is headed towards "a million years of summertime" as very reason able. - - - Many books by reputable authors have been, written on the present trend of physics . that verifies the truth of the prediction. Probably this phe nomenal change will alter all., the ways of our present day existence to a degree of "a new earth" and a new fifth root race of humanity. All logic is in accord that change is inexorable. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford Cooler Weather Due West Oregon Portland (UPI) Cooler temperatures were reported in western Oregon today aft er a hot Fourth of July week end which ' saw a heavy drowning toll in Oregon. Forest fire danger eased in the Coast range and in north- ' west Oregon, but remained high elsewhere. . Widespread , thunderstorms were forecast ; for. eastern Oregon and the Cascades this afternoon and evening. f The weather man forecast temperatures of 72 to 90 for western Oregon today. Many : point had readings over the 90-degree mark Sunday.- High for eastern Oregon today will run to 90 degrees, the weather man said. ise was given, the Marines on duty in the Mediterranean were actualy left to vacation on Spanish beaches, several days sailing from Lebanon. At the U.N., too, our secon- dary foreign policy-maker, Ambassador Henry Cabot ' Lodge, had committed himself to a soft, parliament-of-man line when the American gov- ernment was making its disas trous decisions about the Suez crisis. He now took the same line about the Lebanese crisis. Lodge should apparently get most of' the credit for the UJf. mission to Lebanon, which has turned out to ' resemble the shameful Runciman mis sion to Czechoslovakia that prepared the road to Munich. A Middle Eastern Munich is now quite likely. Foster Dul les still insists that the United States and Britain will send troops to Lebanon rather than permit a Munich there. But if -we intervene now, we shall be doing so after the price of in- . tervention has doubled and quadrupled and decupled. One ; must conclude, therefore, that the only tussock in a swamp cannot suDDort the weignt oi . such a policy-decision as Dul les made. 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.