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MAIL TRIBUNI, MEDFORO, OKI.
4 Thursday, July 17, 1958
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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and
40 years ago.
! g YEARS AGO
i July 17. 1948 (SaiurdayJ
Southern Oregon Kennel
q . club wlil hold a meeting- and
picnic next week in , Lithia
park, AShland.
The bSnd issues for two
. new trunk sewes approved
by an "overwhelming vote."
20 YEARS AGO "
July 17. 1938 (Sunday)
A' black bear en route to
i berry patches was seen cross1
i ing the road, near the South
Fork CCC camp.
From Arthur Perry's "Ye
Smudge Pot" column: "Light
' ning played in the hills Wed.
and Thurs. eves, and was
' rough about it, the forest
service reports."
: 30 YEARS AGO
J19 17. 1928 (Tuesday)
Hulce, the Hindoo crystal
gazei opened an engage
ment at the Ritito theater last
night with anact described
as'one of the finest and clean
est crystal gazing acts in a
long timS."
Southern Orego needs to
advertise itself, a speaker
from the r&tional chamber of
commerce advised here today.
-40 YEARS Ad?
July 17. 198 (Wednesday)
City council grants salary
raises to city employees, then
to increa$3 revenue passed an
ordinance ob --hich anyone
found fth liquor in his pes
session couldobe fintfl f 180.
OTwoo troop t r I i n s -pass
through tgwn today.
What's Your I.Q.I
m ten correct is jueerior:
seven or eight iS (Kcallertt; five or
six is good.
1. If someone threatened to
"pin back your auricular ap
pendages," to what would he
be referring? o
2. The opening gords of
which American classic are:
"Four score and seven years
ago"? o
3. The s - - - h is an aisimal
that sleeps upside down.
-4. All states have the same
voting requirements true or
false? o
5. During which season do
we experience "Squa yin
ter"? o o.
- 6. The U. S.ost Office De
partment does, or does not,
employ women mail carriers?
7. Formerly, "plus fours"
were widely Meprny players
engaged in which spcrt?
8. Kaiser Wilhelm II fled
to which . country, where he
' -was interned for the remain
der ofhis life?
9. Name the n?anager who
piloted the New York Yankees
to the 1947 world champion
ship. v 10. Who was U. S. President
when the W. W. I armistice
was signed?
Answers: 1. Ears. 2. Lin
coln's Gettysburg Address.
3. Sloth. 4. False. 5. Autumn.
6. Does. 7. Golf. 8. The Neth
erlands. 9. Bucky, Harris. 10.
Woodrow Wilson. .
POLICE SEEK WALLET
Alhambra, Calif. (UPI)
, Police today sought two men
who stole a wallet of a fatally
injured woman in a car.fol-
lowing a traffic accident. Wit
nesses said the pair looted the
car of Mrs. Clifford Reece
j-- Peterson, 38, after she had
slammed into a parked car.
" She died Wednesday in Gen
eral hospital.
Data on Sputnik
A lot of valley folk saw the rocket of Sputnik
III whirling overhead Monday night.1 ,
TVe 'missed it, darn it. It must have been quite
a sight spectacular, and a bit eerie, knowing
that something made in Soviet Russia was scoot
ing through the sky. ' ' .
On Tuesday and Wednesday the sky was too
overcast to permit a view of the rocket.
.
CPUTIK III, if memory serves, is the only one
of the three Russian celestial satellites still in
orbit. Two others, the American Vanguard and
Explorer, still are up.
Sputnik III is by far the largest of the satel
lites launched since the first one last October. It
weighs 2,925.53 pounds, and is more than double
the size of Sp.utnik II, which carried the live dog.
It carries a considerable amount of scientific
equipment, 2,134 pounds of it, designed to give
data on a wide range of subjects, including at
mospheric pressure, the earth's magnetic field,
the electric charges on the satellite itself, the in
tensity of radiation from the sun, and the temp
eratures inside and outside the vehicle.
. Other instruments measure the impacts of
micrometorites, weigh the particles in the iono
sphere to determine its chemical composition, and
detect various aspects of radiation at differing
heights above earth.
THHE satellite circles the earth with a perigee
(low point in its orbit) of 150 miles and an
apogee (high point) of 1,168 miles.
However, what has been visible to the naked
eye is not the satellite itself, despite its 11 feet 9
inches .in length and base diameter of 5 feet 8
inches. What is visible is the larger fourth-stage
rocket which went into orbit with the satellite,
and which over the past two months (it was
launched May 15) has gradually separated from
the Sputnik itself..
The burned-out rocket, last of the four which
boosted the satellite into near-space, is about 79
feet long, and circles the earth each 103 minutes.
It is not visible m the daytime, and can be
seen at night only as it reflects sunlight shining
on it in the same manner the moon is visible.
For this reason conditions must be just right for
it to be seen. It must be dark, but not so late that
the object is obscured by the earth's shadow,
i
AND what keeps the satellite and its rocket
" circling in orbit around the earth?
The same combination of forces which hold
the moon in orbit gravity, on one hand, pre
venting it from flying off
gal force, on the other, which prevents iz irom
plunging toward the earth. (Centrifugal force is
what holds the water in a bucket when you swing
it around and around). . .....
The speed with which the satellite and its
rocket swing around the earth varies, depending
on whether it is outward bound to its perigee
(sort of "uphill"), when it slows down, or inward
bound (or "downhill") toward its apogee, when
it speeds up. The average is about 18,000 mph. .
THE orbit of Sputnik
l&li Yc!a o-nfl i-f nloA tvi
below it. That is why it can sometimes be seen in
Oregon skies, but most times cannot be.
. Some day, as the sky travellers gradually slow
down, they will meet increased resistance from
thickening air at lower altitudes, and eventually
will plunge toward the earth. Several of the
satellites have already done so.
As they, do, the friction with the air causes
them to heat and burn, and the last plunge is a
fiery one. E.A.
; Murder Will Out
' Southwest Oregon's congressman, Charles O.
Porter, is up against the full resources of Latin
America's nastiest dictatorship and one of Ameri
ca's top lawyers. But Porter's leading.
We're referring to one of the trickiest, most
involved international crimes in recent times.
It started in early 1956 when a man named
Galindez, outspoken and influential foe of Do
minica's dictator Trujillo, disappeared from his
exile home in New York. (
CHORTLY thereafter, a free-lance pilot named
Murphy, known to haul cargoes into the Car
ibbean area, also vanished and is assumed mur
dered in Dominica. Before he left on his last
flight, New York to Dominica, he mentioned
something about Galindez to his parents.
Porter became involved because the pilot is a
Eugene boy and his parents asked for help in
finding him
And Porter, following up the matter; has
become known as, the Congressman fromLatin
America while bird-dogging evidence in person.
THE story he pieces together is that the pilot
was hired by Trujillo to spirit Galindez to
Dominica and death, and that Murphy later was
rubbed out gangland style because he talked too
much.
Trujillo, a foxy one, hired Morris Ernst, big
shot New York lawyer, to debunk Porter, which
Ernst has been doing vociferously.
But Porter's also a lawyer, and he has the
advantage of not being retained to prove a point.
His "client" is a constituent, and Porter's findings
so far have been pretty hard for the parents to
take. Our credence goes with Porter and we wish
people would stop trying to louse him up. The
Trujillos, ruthless father and playboy son, need
all the exposing possible.
; Salem Capital Journal.
into space, and centrifu
is not a circle, but an
rwrac n o flirt norf Ti fmna
Dennis the Menace
'This is Charlie. His Mother says swimmin' trunks
run si to wuk a& 15 SuLY'.
Today 6" Tomorrow
By Walter Lippmann
OUR NEIGHBOR CANADA
Not long ago a. highly qual
ified, spokesman on Canadian
and American affairs, Mr.
Jacob Viner, wrote in the
quarterly magazine published
by Queens University that
"Americans are capable of
forgetting their common con
cerns with Canada while
Canadians cannot forget their
involvements with their giant
neighbor." This is the essen
tial point in the general sense
of grievance
which has
I been mount
ing in Cana
da. It led to
the Presi
dent's visit of
and of
friendship.
The Canad-
Walter Lippmann. lans nave a
fair number of specific griev
ances about wheat, oil, lead
and zinc, about the control of
Canadian subsidiaries of Am
erican companies. They are
themselves 'negotiable and ad
justable provided that we in
this country pay enough at
tention to them. But the gen
eral grievance is more impor
tant than the sum of the spe
cific grievances of which the
President discussed several in
his Ottawa address. The crux
of the problem is that the
Canadian economy is highly
vulnerable to what is done
in the United States while the
American government and
American public opinion are
inattentive and absent-minded
about what happens in Can
ada. .
..
AS a measure of our inat
tention, we can take a
fact which was reported re
cently to the House Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs by
Reps. Brooks, Hays and Frank,
M. Coffin. There is only one
American newspaper, "The
New York Times," which has
a news bureau in Canada;
"The Chicago Tribune," and
we might add "The New York
Herald Tribune," have re
porters; for the rest there are
the Associated Press and the
United Press International
which take their Canadian
news from the Canadian Press
Association and the British
United Press. There is, that
is to say, little popular inter
est in Canadian affairs.
In part, no doubt, this lack
of interest is due to the fact
that Canadian-American rela
tions have for so long a time
been so very good. Nations
tend to think about what
troubles them rather than
about what goes well. But
there is more to it than that.
Canadian concern and Ameri
can inattention reflects the
enormous disparity in the eco
nomic size of the two coun
tries. The Canadian population is
less than 10 per cent of the
American. Their gross nation
al product is about 6 per cent
of ours. Yet, as Prime Minis
ter Diefenbaker said recenUy,
the Canadian "trading world
has become increasingly con
fined to the United States,
which takes 60 per cent of
our exports and provides 73
per cent of our imports." -
Moreover, in a ".variety of
key industries, an impressive
percentage of the capital em
ployed is controlled in the Un
ited States. In oil it is 68 per
cent, in mining 54 per cent,
in pulp and paper 45 per cent,
in agricultural machinery 56
per cent, in automobiles 95
per cent, in rubber 84 per
cent. Thus while the Canadian
economy is much smaUer than
the American, it is at the same
time vitally related to the
American.
AMERICAN inattention
crossed with Canadian
vulnerability pose a problem
which in any long view is of
very great importance. It is
Li I
that Canadian-American rela
tions, which have been the
pride of North America and
an example to the world, can
no longer be taken for grant
ed as predestined to be good
because the two peoples have
so much in common. Our re
lations will have to be cared
for and nurtured, will have
to be guided and promoted,
by the conscious action of the
two nations.
The President's speech to
the Canadian Parliament,
though it was ably written,
failed, it seemed to me, to
recognize that the times have
changed and that the old re
lationship which has worked
well for so long will not be
good enough for the future.
Indeed, much of the emphasis
of the President's speech was
on the ideological notion,
which does not happen to be
true in this case, that as lov
ers of a free economy there
is nothing. much for statesmen
to do. What, for example, was
the point of his saying what
"the United States and Can
ada are not state traders"
when one of the specific Cana
dian grievances is over the
United States' state trading
operations for the disposal of
our surplus ;wheat?
THE real.. long .term..prob
. lorn nf Hicnaritv in S17P
. , r- -j
combined with American in
attention, is not going to be
solved by occasionaf-meetings
at or near the summit, and
for the rest by conventional
diplomatic intercourse. We
have to open our minds, I am
inclined to think, to the task
of creating some kind of new
organ, a joint political insti
tution which has enough au
thority to make both govern
ments listen.
The, chief reason for think
ing that the existing diplomat
ic machinery is not adequate
lies in the radical difference
between the Canadian and the
American form of representa
tive government. At last
week's meeting in Ottawa, for
example, Mr. Eisenhower had
nothing like the power to ne
gotiate which Mr. Diefenbak
er possesses. The Prime Min
ister could commit his govern
ment. The President, who out
ranks him, does not control
Congress and could not com
mit -the American govern
ment. . For in most of the economic
issues which affect Canadian
and American relations, the
real power in the American
government is not the Presi
dent but the Congress.
'
OBVIOUSLY, neither coun
try is going to change its
form of government. Obvious
ly also, it is not possible for
the Congress of the United
States to negotiate with the
Canadian government. This
leads me to think that it
might prove to be relevant
and useful to establish a per
menent joint institution, in
the, nature of two delegations
from the two governments,,
and with a joint secretariat.
I do not think of the insti
tution as having supra-national
powers, like the European
Coal and Steel community,
but as having the right by
treaty anbT by law to report
on the complaints, to give ad
vice and to make proposals
which, it would be agreed,
were to be taken seriously by
both governments.
(C) 1958 New York
Herald Tribune Inc.
STAMP DEALER DIES
New York (UPI) George
B. Sloane, 60, one of the" na
tion's top stamp dealers and
appraisers, died her Tuesday.
Sloane' appraised many fa
mous stamp collections, in
cluding those of Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the late Wall
Street financier, Alfred H.
Caspary.
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Strange People
To the Editor: We Ameri
cans are a strange people. We
contradict ourselves time and
time again. We love a man
one day and hate him the
next.
For example the Korean
War. We sent our men into
one of the bloodiest battles
ever fought 'and for what
purpose? To save the Koreans
from Communist slavery.
Yes, we loved the Koreans
enough then to let our sons
die by the thousands to save
them yet now when a few
Christian people would desire
to love those same Koreans
(the Korean orphans fathered
by the Americans), we argue
and quarrel about the need
of it. We think not so much of
what's the right thing to do
but rather what's the popular
thing to do?
We hear such things as
"they're part Korean they'll
be persecuted" or "we "have
orphans of our own" or
"they're diseased," etc., etc.
Suppose a rich man's . son
should take advantage of a
poor uneducated girl and she
should give birth to his son.
suppose she had no way to
care for this child but the
rich man's son had every
means by which to provide
for that child. Whose respon
sibility should it be to care
for that child? And if the
child is sick how much more
he needs the proper care that
the rich father could provide.
Yes what a strange people
we are. We profess to be
Christians, yet we deny the
Christian, faith, again and
again by the hardness of our
hearts.
Barbara Miller
728 Newtown st.
Medford. . .
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
U. S. Marines have landed
in tiny Lebanon.
The U. S. Sixth fleet the
most powerful single unit of
military force in the world
today is assembling in the
Eastern Mediterranean, di
rectly off the shores of the
explosive Middle East.
The landing of the Marines
and the assembling of the
fleet was ordered by Presi
dent Eisenhower, who under
our constitution is the com
mander-in-chief of the armed
forces of the United States.
ITHAT does it mean?
'T Here is the official ex
planation:
President Eisenhower says
the action is in response to
an urgent appeal from Presi
dent Camille Chamoun of
Lebanon. He says the step
was taken to "protect Amer
ican lives and . . .. to en
courage the Lebanese gov
ernment in defense of Leb
anese sovereignty." He adds:
"These forces have not been
sent as any act of war."
In a special statement,
President Eisenhower pledges
that the United States will
support the United Nations in
taking measures adequate to
meet the Middle East situation
measures WHICH WILL
ENABLE THE U. S. FORCES
PROMPTLY TO BE WITH
DRAWN. SO MUCH for the OFFICIAL
explanation..
Let's now probe beneath
the surface.
What does it REALLY
mean?
rpHIS, I think, is the best
guess:
We're handing RUSSIA a
challenge.
We're presenting her with
what the diplomats call a
"fait accompli" (an ac
complished fact) and are say
ing to her: WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
WHY do we go that far?
Here's another guess:
We need to know what
Russia has in mind. Is she
READY for war now? The
chances are somewhat against
it at least enough against
it to justify us in calling for
what amounts to a show
down. Competent authorities tell
us we are NOW superior to
Russia in military might
that our capacity for instant
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U.S. Intervention May Provide
Favorable Results in Mid-East
By CHARLES M. McCANN
UPI Foreign News Analyst
United States intervention
in Lebanon may show some
favorable results soon un
less Soviet
Russia is
ready to back
up angry
words with
warlike deeds.
With its
-threat to
"take the nec
essary meas
ures" unless
the United
Charles M.
McCann
States gets out of Lebanon at
once, the Soviet government
has grabbed the ball away
from President Gamal Abdel
Nasser of the United Arab
Republic in leading opposition
to President Eisenhower's ac
tion. The implication which the
Kremlin obviously intended
to convey is that Russia will
take direct action of some
sort unless the United States
withdraws voluntarily or the
United Nations gets it to do
so.
That is Russia's way of con
ducting its diplomatic af
fairs. President Eisenhower said
in announcing the explaining
his action that he knew it
might involve serious, conse
quences, and he mentioned
the risks involved. He could
have been thinking only of
Russia. Plainly, he was pre
pared for Russia's threat.
Jordan Helped
But if all goes well, it may
prove President Eisenhower's
forceful action came just in
time.
There are strong indications
the intervention in Lebanon
may have saved Jordan from
a revolt like those in Lebanon
and Iraq.
There are indications also
there may be a move soon in
Lebanon itself to end the re
volt there by a compromise
between the government and
the rebels.
It seems possible the United
States action may save the
Baghdad Pact the Middle
Eastern treaty organization
alliance against Communist
aggression from the sud
den death that threatened it
because of the revolt , in Iraq,
one of its five members.
What Nasser can do in ad
dition to stirring up Arab re
sentment against the United
States, it is hard to figure out.
. - The - military record of
Egypt under Nasser is a sorry
one.
During the Suez Canal
crisis in 1956, Israel adminiS'
tered a humiliating defeat to
Nasser. Its advance was stop
ped only by the attack of
Great Britain and France on
the canal zone and by the
consequent action of the
United Nations in forcing a
cease-fire. . ,
Nasser's weapons, like those
of Russia in the cold war,
are propaganda and subver
sion. It is true these weapons
have been potent ones both
for Nasser ' and for Soviet
Russia.
" But in Nasser's case, the
United States' has moved, di-
and massive retaliation if she
starts anything is unques
tioned. Maybe it will be different
LATER. Russia's modern
(meaning nuclear) might is
rising rapidly, the experts
say.
A ND
We know from past ex
perience that the Russians re
spect NOTHING BUT FORCE.
So-- , ,
In menacing situations in
volving them, it's better to
be firm than fuzzy.
"All the powerful things in the world are invisible
honor, character, love, your-power to visualize and make
dreams come true. They are lights within, casting their
rays around you so that you can find your way. Open
your eyes with faith so that you can see them."
Celia Caroline Cole'
Chapel Mortuary
Across from the Courthouse
Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS
DAY OR NIGHT
rectly in Lebanon and indi
rectly in Jordan, to invoke
an even more effective weap
on. Nasser is sure to fill the
Middle Eastern air waves
with . aUegations that the
United States, in the interest
of "imperialism" and "colon
ialism," is trying to stop the
surge of Arab nationalism. ;
May See Nasser Threat
This propaganda is pretty
sure to have some effect.
But it is possible also some
Arab governments, in addi
tion to that of Labanon, may
Matter of Fact
THEY LOOK LIKE
VULTURES
Washington The chickens
are coming home to roost at
last; and as might have been
!??! foreseen, thev
look like
blood - stained
vultures.
That is the
obvious thing
to say about
the events in
Iraq. This
tragedy is a
quite direct
jnspn "aisop result of the
Eisenhower administration's
policy or lack of policy in
the Middle East. It is the grim
proof of the rule that governs
aU Middle Eastern politics: "If
you won't stand by . your
friends, you must expect to
lose them."
The foundations were laid
by the Administration's dis
astrous handling of the Suez
crisis. . The superstructure was
built by the havering and
wavering, the faking and fid
dling of the period after Suez.
The roof was put on the catas
trophe by the slow motion
Munich in Lebanon, where
we have been parodying Ne
ville Chamberlain, but of
course with "due deliberate
speed," for the last two
months.
NO DOUBT the Administra
waning band of propagan
dists will say ' the British
were also fooled in their man
agement of the Suez crisis.
They were. Of course, the
State Department's fuglemen
will talk at great length about
powerful tides at work among
the Arab masses. They will
be right. .
The point is, however, that
the American government
might have nullified the fol
lies of others; it might, even
have controlled or channeled
the tides running in the Mid
dle East, by wise, foresighted
and courageous action. It was
at least the Ainerican govern
ment s duty to try to solve
the situation. Instead, the
American government added
its own follies the moral
prating and hectoring, foe in
stance, that played such a part
m transforming the badlj
prepared Suez operation 4nto
a terrible defeat that might
still have been avoided.
No doubt the State Depart
ment s fuglemen will also
plaintively inquire, "But
what could we have done to
stop ' a plot in the Iraqi
Army?" The answer is quite
simple, and it comes out of
their own mouths. Middle
Eastern army plots , are no
doubt inevitable, but success
ful Middle Eastern plots are
most emphatically not in
evitable. The State Depart
ment has quite openly taken
credit for its share in frustrat
ing the military Nasserite
conspiracies- to destroy King
Hussein of Jordan in March
a year ago. This was not
empty boasting, either.
AT THE time, the absence of
real content in the Eisen
hower Doctrine had not yet
been widely perceived. Every
one in the Middle East
watches to see which way the
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realize that to Nasser nation
alism means his own acceptr
ance as the dictator of th
Arab world.
These governments may
realize Nasserism threatens
them with subjection.
There could be revolts like
those in Lebanon and Iraq in
other Arab countries, includ
ing Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the
Sudan and Libya, Egypt's
Western neighbor. (
Some of these governments,
even while they criticize Ei
senhower's action, may real
ize it could benefit them. :
By Joseph Alsop
bandwagc:i is traveling. The
Eisenhower Doctrine was
briefly thought to mean that
the bandwagon might still be
travelling in the direction of
the friends of the West. Hence
just enough people stood by
King Hussein to enable him,
with great personal courage,
to frustrate the plot that Ga
mal Abdel Nasser has organ
ized in the Arab Legion.
After that, however, the
doctrine's fraudulence was
openly displayed by the Syr
ian crisis. Worse still, in the
Lebanese crisis, we first made
a solemn commitment to
come to the rescue of the
West's friends in Lebanon
to intervene militarily if we
were asked to do so, in order
to protect Lebanon's inde
pendence from Nasser's only
half-concealed attack. AncJ)
then we did not honor, the
commitment.
Nearly two months have
passed since we made our
Lebanese commitment. We
have used those two months
to press our Lebanese friends
not to make us keep our
promise, to organize U.N. imi
tation of the Runciman mis
sion to Czechoslovakia, and
generally to prove the worth
lessness of American, friend
ship. With the weakness of
the greatest Wetern power so
openly proven, any fool in
Baghdad could perceive
which way the bandwagon
must eventuaUy travel. So a
lot of people jumped aboard
the bandwagon with the re
sults that are now apparent.
GOD knows, the American
government had ample
warning that these results
must be expected. Tough old
Nuri Pasha himself, the Shah
of Iran, the Turkish leaders,
the leaders in Lebanon, the
ftnore courageous experts in
both the British Foreign Of
fice and in our own Intelli
genceall these persons in
geminated warning after
warning of trouble in Iraq if
we did not respond boldly to
the challenge in Lebanon. To
descend to a much, much
lower level, this reported did
the same thing.
If the Iraqi tragedy pro
duces the really catastrophic
sequels that now seem likely,
it will be no consolation to
say, "I told you so." But do
you remembe those richly
ringing promises of Cfe dy
namic new foreign policy
wkiA would "recapture the
initiative," based on Ameri
can military power capable
of "m a s s i v e retaliation?"
Those phrases had better not
be used again either. !
(c) 1958 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
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