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B C tO SfctfSPAPEt k rUBLlSSEKS 2 NATIONAL ItlTOglAl t m t ""V t ASSOCfl-ATljajN Hj I.UU Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from th files of The Mail Tribune 10, 29. 39 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEAgtS A (JO July 10. 1948 (Saturday) Screen Guild, productions, a full-fledged motion picture industry, plans to set up shop in the Rogue River valley filming outdoor sequences. - The Rogue Valley ' Radio club has -awarded prizes to local amateursr including three to Bud Lasson: the grand prize, one for working the-greatest distance and one for making the most contacts on code. 20 YEARS AGO July 10. 1938 (Sunday) ,Miss Helen Norris, Medford writer, is author of a play to be broadcast on the First Nighter hour next Friday. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot column: "Roast ing ears will soon be ready to eat. They are as awkward to eat as a bowl of Chinese noodles, but worth it." 30 YEARS AGO July 10. 1928 (Tuesday) L. Walter Dick, in charge of the Medford weather bur eau, announces he will fur nish information on ocean tides for Medford residents planning to dig clams at Crescent Ci?y or Bando. , From "Local and Personal" column: "Federal Prohibition Agent Terry Talent, who re turned Sunday evening from Portland driving "a new eight cylinder Auburn sports road ; ster which he will use" while on duty in this section, will "be stationed here indefinite ly, according to present plans." ; 40 YEARS AGO t July 10. 1918 (Wednesday) i Two coachloads of'Marines In drill uniforms staged an t impromptu concert while their train stopped at the SP depot this morning. 1 What's Your I.Q.? - Nina or ten . correct is . superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. . 1. The Statute of Liberty in New York harbor isapproxi mately 50, 100, or 150 feet high? 2. At what point do Centi grade and Fahrenheit ther mometers register identical ly? ; ; - . 3f Are Indians naturally beardless? : " . 4; Halley's Comet reappears about every 55, 65 or 75 years? 5. Besides "Nutmeg State," "the Land of Steady Habits" Is also applied to what New England state? 6. Brown shell eggs are more nutritious than white sell eggs; true or false? 7. Japan did, or did not de clare war againsto Germany during World War I? 8. Common - law marriages may be' contracted in all states; true or false? s SL What portion of an ex tremity of the human body is popularly called the funny bone or crazybjne? , , 10. What was the first name of the movie "shiek" whose last name was Valentino? Answers: 1150. 2 40 de grees' below xero. 3 No. 4. 75. 5 Connecticut. 6 "False. 7 Did. 8 False. 9 Elbova 10 Rudolph. , ' U.S. -Soviet Exchanges Forty U. S. students are expected to arrive in Moscow on Sunday, July 13, to make a tour of the Soviet Union. Meantime, 19 Russian students and a youth leader arrived in New York July 7 to be gin a four-week visit to this countiy. For all the coldness at the top level, cultural exchange between U. S. and U.S.S.R. citizens is being accelerated in a variety of activities. The basic arrangement under which most-but not all of these East-West wisits were arranged in a document signed in Washington last Jan. 27. It was negotiated by Ambassador William S. B. Lacey, special assistant to Secretary of State Dulles on East-West matters, and Georgi N. Zar oubin, then Soviet Ambassador to', the United States. Covering educational, technical, sports and cultural activities, it was expected to lead to exchange visits this year by 500 U. S. and 500 U.S.S.R. citizens.- CEN. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), on June 9 in- serted in the Congressional Record a progress report on the exchanges, adding that in addition to these semi-official visits, "between 4,000 and 5,000 Americans will go to Russia" this year. Among the more notable Russian groups to come here this summer was the Moiseyev Folk Dance Ensemble. The Philadelphia Symphony Orches tra, which returned from a tour of Russia July 6, was reported received as enthusiastically behind the Iron Curtain as were the Russian dancers in this countiy. In addition to the exchange of young people on vacation tours this summer, a swap has been arranged for September in which 20 university students from each nation will be formally en rolled in regular courses in the respective host countries. More than two score top U. S. track and field stars are to engage the Soviet Union in a dual meet in Moscow on July 26 and 27. COVIET Russia has begun to show a new in- terest in tennis, having sent two junior stars to the Wimbledon championships this year. So Jack Kramer announced June 24 that he would take three of his pro tennists on a three-week tour of Russia, probably in September. A group of U. S. "educators is to inspect the Soviet school system this summer in a visit arranged outside the cultural exchange agreement but with the cordial blessing of the U. S. State Department. ' A group of U. S. women doctors toured Rus sia in May and June. Further exchanges of medi cal arid "scientific experts are in progress or in the making. However, a U.S.-Russian deal on the ex change of motion pictures, which was to be a salient feature of tne new arrangement, remains in limbo. The Soviet government so far has been insisting on a picture-f or-picture barter. This has little attraction for U. S. producers, who would much prefer out-right sales or rentals. Communist Poland and Hungary have bought U. S. films, and with East Germany and Czechoslovakia individu al deals have been arranged. . ? 7 . , . pONGRESS of late has been hospitable to U.S. V . Soviet cultural exchange. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.), on May 21 asked Secretary Dulles in an appropriations hearing, "Why are you content with the same (funds) as last year" for student exchanges? " The House had voted the $20.8 million to which Dulles at Budget Bureau insistence had limited his request. The Senate, June 11, added another $10 million for educational exchange. But over Fulbright's complaint at such "non sense" House-Senate conferees cut the final amount to $22.8 million. Probes, Proper and Improper How the House Legislative Oversight commit tee is digging up data on Sherman Adams is stir ring up almost as much interest, and controversy, as what it is digging up. What, is proper and im proper in Congressional committee investigations is again being discussed as heatedly as when Mar tin Dies (D-Tex.), was chairman of the House Un-American Activities committee (1938 - 45) and the late Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisc), headed the Senate subcommittee on government operations (1953-55). There is, however, one great contrast. Today the Harris subcommittee is criticized for the kind of testimony it has let witnesses give in answer to questions. In the Dies and McCarthy heydays the chief criticism was of the kind of questions put to witnesses. A "CODE of fair practice" for its investigating " committees was adopted "by the House on Mar. 23, 1955. This, among other things, let wit nesses be accompanied by counsel, and gave ac cused persons the right to reply to accusations and to ask that rebutting testimony be received.- Also, if a committee decides that testimony "may tend to defame, degrade or incriminate," it is to be re ceived only , in secret session and made public only by decision of the-full committee. The Code failed to include the often demand ed right of. accused to cross-examine witnesses. However, a ban was placed on one-man hearings, which had often lent themselves to abuses. - . . t-E.R.R. rE.R.R. Dennis the Menace 'KTTeH$lMClC,y$'. HWAUNycwtt letaie have?' Matter of Fact THE SKIING ADENAUER New York If'Averell Har riman is comfortably reelect ed to the New York Gover norship as the signs now suggest he will promptly become a can didate for the D e m o c ratic P r e s idential nomination in 1960. The news is jospb Aisop not olli c l a i. No other politician in the United States has anything like Harriman's knack for total absorption in the task of the moment. His , present task is being Governor of New York state, and to get himself reelected as Governor of New York .state by the most im pressive majority possible. He is thinking and talking about nothing else but this immedi date task. 1 But though the news is not official, it can still be stated with high certainty that Har riman's reelection as Gover nor will have the national po litical sequel above-indicated. A good many people have doubted whether Harriman would again seek the Presi dency, even if he wins again in New York by a big ma jority, for the quite obvious reason that he is now sixty- six years old. He will, therefore, be sixty- eight by the time the Demo crats gather to choose their next Presidential nominee. In theory, this is surely too great an age for a man seeking to assume the terrible burdens of the White House. TUT in practice, Averell Harriman at sixty-six looks not more than fifty, and he lives at a pace that most men of forty would be hard put to match., As he is fond of pointing out, Harriman is also fourteen years younger than Konrad Adenauer, who is still, at eighty-two, the strongest leader of the western nations. And instead of the golf in a golf-cart practiced by his contemporary, President Eis enhower, Harriman's favorite sport is skiing. Almost every winter week end, he skis with conspicuous energy and vio lence. A much more youthful Ade nauer, still wholly capable of swooping down the steep est snow slope that, one can predict, will be the picture of Harriman presented to the public when and if his Presi dential candidacy is declared. Furthermore, anyone who is disinclined to take this condi tional Harriman candidacy with x complete seriousness, had better remember the spe cial Harriman rule of political analysis. - ' Possibly the trouble is that Harriman's own determina tion to succeed in all his projects is so concentrated and, in an odd way, ungainly. At any rate, myriads of peo ple have repeatedly yielded to the temptation not to take Averell Harriman seriously, whenever he was beginning a new chapter in his formida ble career. On the experience of these myriads is founded the Harriman rule, which reads: "Always take him seri ously, or you'll get your fin gers burned." - rpo'BE sure, Harriman's Pres- idential bid is still wnouy conditional. If he is not re elected to the New York Gov ernorship, Harriman will have to retreat into 'the already over-populated ranks of the Democratic party s elder statesmen. But if Harriman will not think or talk about anything but the Governor shiD. he is at least ready to talk about that, and talk at great length and with much astuteness. . . Harriman not only thinks Joseph Aljop he i going to win the Gov ernorship again. -He is also all-out to win the Governor ship by the kind of majority that will impress Democratic leaders in other states,?, Certainly he has lot of assets. To begin with, all but the more frenzied Republican partisans admit that Harri man has made a good gover nor. To help out, he has made himself some nice, cosy, useful state issues, by solid, common sense improvements in New York state's important struc ture of social and welfare leg islation and administration. ".' THEN too, Harriman has measurably strength e n e d the Democratic organization uptate. In the main Republi can stronghold in New York, in ; fact, Democratic Mayors and City Councilmen and County Supervisors have ceas ed to be exotic blooms. The crop is not exactly big or flourishing yet, but there are enough of them nowadays to be decidedly impressive. And finally, Harriman himself has shaken more upstate hands than any Governor, Demo cratic, or , Republican, in all of New York history. With all these local factors to fight against, the probable nominee, Nelson Rockefeller; is also going to have to fight against the nation-wide drop in the prestige "of "the Eisen hower administration, plus the strong Democratic tide that seems to be running all over the country. In short, Rocke feller (if he is the man the Republicans tap) is plainly going to have a rough time preventing Averell Harriman from reaching his next ob-. jective. If Harriman attains that ob jective, winning the Gover ship by a good majority, the rest will follow rather promptly and pretty inevita bly. It is highly possible that Harriman will not be able to overcome the really big ob stacles that will stand between him and the . Presidential nomination, even after his re election here. But he is sure, at least, to speak with a very loud voice when the Demo crats make their final choice. That, perhaps, is what he really wants. i Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. . POLAND OUSTS ISRAELITE Warsaw, Poland (UPI) The Polish government has ordered the first secretary of the Israeli legation out of the. country for alleged "activity contrary "to the interests of P o 1 a n d." The government charged Wednesday that Ja cob Barmore tried to enlist Polish citizens in anti-Polish "activity." Try and -By BENNETT CERF- KENNETH WEESNER of Marion, Ind., solemnly swears his automobile was stalled on a lonely country road when he distinctly heard a horse remark, "It's probably the carburetor." Understandably dumb founded, Weesner demand ed of the horse, "Was it you who just spoke to me?" "Who else?" said the horse. "What's more, his diagnosis was absolutely correct. .Weesner's car again in apple-pie shape, he tootled up to the farmer's cottage and said, "That horse of 3'ours just told me how to fix my car!" "That's funny," admitted the farmer. "Usually we pay no attention to him vhatever. He doesn't know a darn thing about automobiles." A 12-year-old girl was taken to her first symphony concert, and was bowled over by it "Father," she reported excitedly to her father that evening, "they played Beethoven's Fifth. It was marvel ous! I wouldn't have changed a note of it!" j-f) 1958. bJ Bennt Cert, putribyted by gjjij; future Syndicate. Communications Letten 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 (act the contrary is often the case. The "Timid" AMA To the Editor: One infal lible sign of a decadent soc iety is unwillingness to as sume responsibility for its own acts. It is this irresponsi bility nlus a callous disregard for human life that seems to have prompted the . Lane county AMA to recommend restrictions on the Holt fam ily program for bringing Kor ean orphans into the U. S. for adoption. It is quite true, as the learn ed gentlemen of the healing art allege, that many of these babies are the offspring of American Service men sta tioned in Korea. As such, they are very definitely American responsibilities. To attempt to solve the problem by sweep ing it under the rug in the hope it will lie there and be forgotten would simply mean in this case, condemning hun dreds of innocent infants to die of malnutrition and ex posure, and of diseases born of these factors. I leave it to the aforesaid learned gentlemen to explain how this adds up with the solemn pledges embodied in the Hippocratic oath to which every reputable physician is supposed to subscribe. It is true that' the Holts have brought in, by special arrangement,' some suspected tubercular cases for treatment at a Denver hospital. A Jew ish hospital if you please, be cause the Jews know what it means to be unwanted and despised and persecuted, and out of the bitter depths of their experience has come a compassion for all who suf fer, which one might wish was shared by these timid ones in Lane county who have "grave concern" lest a few sick babies constitute a men ace to public welfare. After all, if we, the richest nation on earth with the most advanced means for" combat ting disease, are to be panick ed into running from such a small problem, we certainly have no place m this atomic- space age but are already on our way to join the dinosaurs and the dodos. Oregon and the nation, it seems to me, have every rea son to be enduringly proud of the Holts and their high vision and selfless dedication to human welfare, and to be equally ashamed of the tim orous, bigoted attitude of the Lane county AMA in this sit uation. Grace N. Pearson, Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore. Deferred Vacation To the Editor: Anyone late for their deferred vacation? There is, or rather there was, a place in the "mother lode" country, the only hotel in the world located in Plumas coun ty, California, where the man agement invited their guests to pay for their meals and rooms with "free" gold they pan out. from the hotel's own rich gravel bar on the prop erty called the Rainbow'te End hotel. To all outdoorsmen it should be a pleasure to work as well as to combine work with pleasure most anytime of year from January . to Christmas. At the rate of the present price of gold, seems that the effort would be much easier to pay for a meal than at the old price of 16 to 19 dollars a troy ounce back in horse and wagon d?ys and bicycles built for two. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford' Stop Me Important- Won by Chancellor By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst Chancellor Konrad Aden auer has just won one of his most important political vic tories. For the first time, his Chris tian Demo cratic Party has won a '$A clear majori ty in the leg islature of North Rhine Westphalia, West Germa ny's largest state. Adenauer's victorv means that about 25 per cent of the electorate of West Germany has approved his decision to equip the cpimtry's armed forces with tactical atomic weapons. ( For months, the Socialists had campaigned not only in North Rhine-Westphalia but throughout the countrv. against "the atomic death." Not Intimidated : Soviet Russia had helned or thought it did by making dire threats of the catastrophe that would overwhelm West German in a nuclear weapons war if Adenauer carried out his decision. ; i It was intimated that if West Germany's armed forces were equipped with tactical atomic weapons, Russia would arm East Germany , similarly: The voters evidently were not intimidated by either, the Socialist admonition or the Russian threats. ' By his victory, Adenauer has 104 seats in the North Rhine-Westphalian legislature against 81 for the Socialists and 15 for their Free Demo cratic Party allies. Adenauer also will have, as the result "of his victory, 31 of the 41 seats in the' Bundesrat, the upper house of the West German Parliament. That is because the state legislatures elect Bundesrat members. Majority Assured Thus Adenauer will have a nearly three-to-one majority in the upper house, in which any changes in the federal constitution must be approved by a two-thirds majority. Adenauer took the decision to equip the armed forces with Editorial Comment MEDFORD LOOKS BETTER As we flew into Medford the other day, we found a new reason why Eugene and Lane County should take ad vantage of every opportunity to work together for an im proved passenger depot at Mahlon Street field. An air port is an approach to a city, just as -a highway is. And in that department, Medford has Eugene beaten, and badly beaten. . . The tourist who flies into Medford walks.into a modern building where he finds a res taurant, smart shops and a cosmopolitan air that says, "This is a busy place, this Medford." Quite a contrast it is from the one-horse appear ance of nothing more than a couple of buildings on the edge of a cow pasture. Eu gene Register-Guard. INTEREST RATE CUT Washington (UPI) Senate-House conferees agreed Wednesday on a compromise bill to cut the interest rate on government " loans to small businesses from 6 to 5V2 per cent. Under the compromise, the, new interest rate would apply only to the federal por tion of the money made avail able by the Small Business Administration and private lenders. i XV- LJU Charles M. MeCmn "A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the' whole world and puts every thing out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw ' it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity' Celia Luce - Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT - " PHONE SP 2-8030 Political Victory atomic weapons reluctantly. He decided, however, that West Germany's armed forces must have the best possible equipment and that no mod ern army can be ; properly equipped without atomic arms. As for the Russian threats Adenauer and the voters were not impressed. They realize the terrible im plications of an atomic war. But they realize also that if there is an atomic war, West Germany will be in the first line of Allied defense. They realize that despite any prom ises to the contrary, Russia would use nuclear weapons against West Germany wheth er it had nuclear weapons or not. Troop Detest Russia As for the threats to arm East Germany with atomic weapons, Adenauer undoubt Today & Tomorrowi By Walter lippmann THE DEFENSE OF ADAMS Washington .Thus far, the defense of Sherman Adams, as managed from the . White House, has si lenced the President on a moral issue about which it is his special and peculiar duty to speak out and " give the country a lead. The cru- waiter Lippmann cial question about Gov. Adams is notin the field of statutory law. It does not turn on whether there was a corrupt relation ship between Adams .and Goldfine which could be dealt with in a court. The question posed by the hotel bills is in the field of manners that is to say, what conduct is be coming to a gentleman who sits at the right hand of the President of the United States, It is the special duty of any President to answer such a question. And in view of all that he has had to say about leading a crusade' to clean up Washington, it is the peculiar duty of this President to an swer the question. 1 But Mr, Eisenhower has evaded it. As matters stand after his public statements, his moral judgment is that it was imprudent of Adams to accept Goldfine's contributions to his living expenses, but since there is no evidence that any law has been violated, the in cident ought to be considered as closed. In accepting Gold fine's money no serious of fense has been committed, so we are asked to believe, as long as there is no legal proof that Adams repaid Goldfine by obtaining special favors from a government agency. - IT IS NOT possible to close the incident pn this point and at this level. For that would mean that on the au thority of , the President and with the consent of the coun try, the standard of official conduct in the White House had been' greatly lowered and loosened. The rule would be that money can be accepted from interested parties pro vided nothing is done to re pay them. This is not good enough for the President in the White House, and it im pairs the dignity of his office to have to discuss it at all. . . , THE MOST compelling rea son for refusing to let the incident be closed is the moral damage which is being done by the defense and the apol ogies that are being inspired from the White House. - p Si Adenauer edly , shares the r widely-held opinion that Russia would be asking for trouble if it did. ? The Communist satellite armies are potential liabil ities rather than : assets to Russia. Most of the men in the satellite armies, like the people of their countries, de test Russia. The troops could not be depended upon in, a war against the free West, s Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev showed his dis pleasure at Adenauer's elec tion victory in a speech he made Tuesday night in East Berlin, where he is attending a Communist Party congress. Khrushchev said , that Ad enauer is basing his policy bn a position of strength which exists only in his imagina tion. But fear of German strength lies behind Russia's refusal to permit German re unification. The argument that -money may be accepted provide nothing is given in .ret;unr is an attempt to befuddle the real issue. It conceals the main point which is that what: is customary and perhaps toler able elsewhere may be intol erable in the close official family of the President. Of those who are at the top, the country has a right to de mand a self-imposed standard of conduct which is much higher than the laws against bribery and graft. That was in essence the principle on which Gen. Eisenhower ran 4 for President in 1952. , The ultimate power of the state cannot be entrusted to men whose conception of nub- lic virtue is that their integ rity is adequate if they cannot be convicted of. crime.1 It is not asking too much that, in the highest places men must be an example of what ought to be the general practice. They cannot excuse them selves by saying that, in fact they have done only as many others have done. f , ; ... . ' TT IS A very demoralizing argument, which has been urged since the disclosures, that everybody is doing it, and so why set tip a hypocriti cal outcry because one', more official is found to be doing it. This cynical apology is not i: fact true. Everybody in the government is not doing it; In politics and in business there is, as we all know, a big trade in influence, and a great deal of loose conduct. But once we adopt the view that loose con duct can be tolerated by he President in the White House, we have surrendered and we have quit in the " unending struggle for good government. The line taken by the de fense is a greater injury to the country than the original of fense itself than the hotel bills and the telephone calls. Gov. Adams, having confessed to imprudence, to what is un deniably loose conduet, can only be retained in the White House by tearing down the higher standards of conduct. Such a defense, if it Drevailed. would be a moral disaster.; (c) 1958 New York Herald V v Tribune Inc. HELP US! We Need Clothing, Shoes, Dishes, Furniture. We Pick Up. HELP OTHERS! Salvation Army SPring 3-7335
