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Newspaper Page TextO o o 0 O Rea Th Mail Tribune Publisftd DaUy except Saturday W MiDFORD PRINTING CO -33 jahrth Fir St. Ph. SP 3-8141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manaan GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. KMC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETf. Sorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second class matter a MM ford Oregon under Act ox March 3. 189'i SUBSCRIPTION RATES 97 Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. I Daily and Sunday 1 year f 13.00 Duty and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 ODany and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 unday Only One year $430 Carrier In Advance Med ford Jh!nd. Central Point. Eagle aroint. Jacksonville. Gold Hill, ilkoil Sjjady Cove, Rogue Riv ar Talent and on motor routes: Tpil'45 and Sunday 1 year f 18.00 vcaiiiy sjna Sunday l mo 1 50 Trier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance U ap of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire tBKR OF AUDIT BUREAU TEST-HOLrDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago. De tt, San Francisto. Los Angeles, Rattle. Portland. St Louia. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. 'AOClATIO NATIONAL (DITOglAL SB FHghf ro Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 23. 1948 (Friday) Eight travel editors from eastern newspapers, touring Oregon' scenic spots, arrive here tomorrow. Despite a reported rush elsewhere, army enliAments here are norftal. 20 YEARS AGO July 23. 1938 (Saturday) Standard Oil of California is distributing color pictures of Crater Lake, providing publicity for the lake. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The millhands battled at softball Thurs. eve. There was a large and enthusiastic crowd of peo ple and mosquitoes present 30 YEARS AGO July 23, 1928 (Monday) A French "75" cannon des tined as a war trophy for Medford is expected to arrive this weeR. "Medford Ice ad Storage company plans new cold stor age plant. 40 YEARS AGO JMy 23, 1918 (Tuesday) Motorcycle Speed Cop Mc Donald plans to crack down on motorists driving without tail lights. Tickets for a $100 Liberty bond have netted the Sacred Heart hospital $461.50. What't Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; teven e) eight is excellent; five er six tsQood. 1. Who was the last baabe lor King of Great Britain? 2. Is the gross income of business greater or less than the net income? 3. Senator John Kennedy represeiOs which State in the U.S. Senate? 4. Tho was the primary author of the Declaration of (. What was the shortest vfjr in which the U.S. active ly jfi?ticipated? $. Kame th two branches ctfie British Parliament. Oft Cribbage is a framework ? logs, a game, or stored farm produce? q &. 1here was the first cap ital of the Confederate States of sVmerica? . Of what Kingdom is Sbflul Azziz Ibn Saud the 10. Istanbul was formerly rned what nsiers: 1. Edward VIII. Qfrg Duke of Windsor. 2. Greajer. 3. Massachusetts. 4. 9timis Jefferson. 5. Spanish Cipajrican War. 6. House of Lords $nd House of Com mons. 7. Game. 8. Montgom ery, fci. 9. Saudi Arabia. 10. Cogtjtttinople. Applications Being Taken for Positions Applications for clerical positions in Federal agencies in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana are now being accepted, according to John M. Young, regional director of the Civil Service commission. Additional information may ' be oHHained from the Civil Service commission office in the Medford -post office. The "Taste" Is the "taste" of today the preferences of Americans in art, literature, furnishings, recrea tion and what have you "appalling," as is al leged by a writer in (of all places!) the current Saturday Evening Post? Speaking on an over-all average basis, and considering all 174,000,000 of us, probably he's right, that the general level of taste IS appalling. Any society which will permit movies such as "I Was a Teen Age Werewolf" to be a success; which will endure and even encourage the gen eral run of soap operas on both radio and TV; which will make a millionaire out of a third-rate hillbilly music-gargler; which will make "Confi dential" and "Whisper" and such tripe the best selling magazines of the day any such society must, indeed, have appalling taste. HTHE author of the article, a writer, poet and educator named Randall Jarrell, is appalled by other things, too. Among these is the fact that most eighth graders cannot identify Charle magne, that Shakespeare has been "rewritten" to be more readily understandable by youngsters, and that a great body of knowledge and experi ence and background, which once held our cul ture together and formed the basis for mutual understanding, has been frittered away in the wake of Life Adjustment Courses, the .Reader's Digest, John's Other Wife, and Kiddie Kartoon Karnivals on television. All right, is Mr. Jarrell a snob? Probably. And he's tnrougnout nistory, has tive and sensitive thought, who serves "to make people more conscious of the difference between what is good, bad or mediocre, who do their bit to banish slovenly, lazy to attune his listeners and right and aware concept right. AND yet, despite these Tr- t ii cans, ivir. jarren mat an is not lost; not there are signs of awareness and appreciation of .J 11 . !! 1 - many oi tne tnings wnicn oi mere creatures ' creatures whose only motiva tion is excitement, or comfort, or oblivion. And he acknowledges that his complaint is a timeless one, that each age has complained of the "appalling taste" of said "What kind of a time is this when one must envy the dead and buried !", and that it is entirely possible that the people look upon the mid-20th we never had it so good. He cites the steadily growing acceptance of the "good" paper-back book, the increasing pop ularity ot quality music, the lerment and excite ment in the experimental worlds of painting and sculpture, the growth and improvement of much of today's architecture. IT'S A 'funny world. And perhaps we should 1 permit ourselves to be bitter, to be appalled, to be outraged, about those people find atrocious and We could get stomach ulcers that wav. And our ulcers would not improve, by a iot or tittle, the condition of mankind. Nor will the condition of mankind be im proved by waving a wand, nor by exhortations. It will be improved the home, and continuing in the schools and col leges; it will be improved only when people are ready for it. And, m part, it will Randall Jarrell, who, while captious, still serves to point the way. Even the Saturday Evening Post can help, by printing such articles, which, if nothing else, serve to make one ponder on man kind's taste and condition. E.A. Political Flip-Flop. Bill Henley Jr., in his column in the Ashland Tidings, describes his irritation at one of the political flip-flops of the year, an irritation we share with him. He points out that Robert G. Danielson, who filed his candidacy for district judge this spring, then moved from the county before the election, came back after the election, in which he received the most votes. At that time he told the Tidings (in words al most identical to those he told the Mail Tribune) : ". . . All votes cast for me in the primary will not count, in my opinion, and Roy Bashaw won the nomi nation and his name should be placed on the ballot . for the November election." (Before the election, he wrote the secretary of state asking that his statement in the voters pamphlet be withdrawn as he was no longer a candidate.) JATER, he wrote the county clerk as follows : "You know there has never been a withdrawal filed by me in your office and you should not believe the, newspapers which had taken upon themselves the de termination of my intention. I have at all times known the law regarding withdrawals and had I intended to avail myself of rich provisions of the law, the same would have been effected." And Henley comments, "That was the way the printer's ink flowed. Now it remains to be seen what happens when the bailiff's gavel raps." Maybe as the attorney general opined, Danielson is in fact a proper and legal candidate. Only court proceedings can determine it finally. But it is not the kind of perf ormance which gives one confidence in a man seeking a judicial office. E.A. 4. of Today the kind of snob who, nad an influence on crea patterns of thought, and readers to a more forth of their cultural birth indictments of Ameri i t concedes, and we agree, everyone is a stumd oaf: maKe men men instead the time, that Goethe of the age to come will Century and moan that things which sensitive demeaning. only slowlv. starting m be improved by men like I Dennis the Menace WtUZOHS GOT A BRAND FEATHER DUSTER f Compromise Soughtin Lebanon Political Turmoil by By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst The Lebanese situation is entering a new phase. The 66 member single-chamber Leb anese Parliament was due to meet Thurs day to elect a new president for a six-year term. The big ques tion had been whether, if the meeting had been held Tuesday, op position mem Charles M. McCann bers would boycott it. There was almost no chance they would attend. It is now announced that the meeting has been post poned, probably until next week. There are indications that the postponement may have been decided upon in hopes that agreement could be reached on a candidate to suc ceed President Camille Cha moun. ' The election of a president is the issue that lies behind the entire Lebanese crisis. Under the Lebanese consti tution, a president is ineligible for re-election. . Chamoun, however, decid ed in mid-April to ask Parlia ment to amend the constitu tion so that he could run again. He did so because he be lieved his re-election was necessary to keep his little country out of the clutches of President Gamal Abdel Nas ser of the United Arab Repub lic and to continue its present pro-Allied policy. Opposition Protests Chamoun's decision caused an explosion of protests by op position elements. From it stemmed the Leb anese rebellion that started on May 10 and now, with the pro-Nasser rebellion in Iraq and the landing of American and British troops in Lebanon and Jordan, has caused a grave international crisis. Lebanon's political situation is singular. It's population consists of about 675,000 Christians and 557,000 Moslems. Because of this, religious balance, it was decided when Lebanon attained its inde pendence from France in 1944 that the country should have, traditionally, a Chris tian president and a Moslem prime minister. The rebels are Moslems. They are disorganized. They have four principal leaders, who are united on only one thing: They want to throw Chamoun out now. Chamoun and his Moslem premier, saim es-boin, are firmly pro-Western and firm ly against Nasser's attempt to make himself master of the Arab world When the rebellion started, Chamoun appealed to the United States for support. He did so because the rebels were getting aid in weapons and men from Syria, now merged with Egypt in Nasser's U.A.R. At first, Chamoun and Solh wanted support through the United Nations, to seal the frontier. But when the situation got critical, they asked for direct American help. Shocked by the sudden, murderous revolt in Iraq, the United States started landing Marines in Lebanon July 15. Before that, Chamoun had decided he could not be re elected. Premier Solh had an nounced the government would not change the consti tution for him. On July 9, Chamoun announced definite ly he would not run. But he said he was determined to serve out his term. NEW GADGET 1D CLEAN HOtgej The Marine landings had the effect both of strengthen ing Chamoun against the rebels and of alienating some of his own supporters. In hope that some compro mise could be reached to end the rebellion and insure the peaceful election of a succes sor to Chamoun, the United States sent Deputy Undersec retary Robert Murphy, ,a noted diplomatic trouble shooter, to Lebanon. Matter of Fact jpi. KUWAIT. BAHREIN AND AL-HASA Washington The best measure of the Western de feat in the Middle East is the character of the remedies that were dis discussed by Secretary of State Dulles and Foreign Secretary Sel wyn Lloyd. 'In brief, the American gov ernment has Jos-pb Alsop now three-quarters bought an idea that has always been pop ular in the British government the idea of using the un peopled oil-rich area at the head of the Persian Gulf as a kind of desperate hole-card in the desperate Middle Eastern game. Superficially, the hole card looks attractive. Even with no oil flowing from either Iraq or Iran, the entire British and Western European oil requirements can quite easily be met by the wells in the three little gulf coast sheikhdoms, Kuwait, Bahrein and Qatar. All three are British protectorates. Ku wait in turn " adjoins Saudi Arabia's eastern province of Al-Hasa, while the island of Bahrein lies just off shore. And the vast majority of the oil wells of Saudi Arabia is concentrated in this one prov ince, which also contains the Dahran headquarters and re finery of the Arabian-American Oil Co. TN OTHER words, the West ern oil-jugular cannot be cut, so long as the oil flow from this single area at the head of the Persian Gulf is not interrupted. Britain fur thermore maintains a consid erable garrison on Bahrein, and Bahrein is also the base for British naval units operat ing in Persian Gulf waters. The United States also has some military forces in the area, at the Dahran air base close to ARAMCO's headquar ters and refinery. To complete the temptation, Bahrein is the only part of the area that is inconveniently over-populated. Al-Hasa prov ince is all but empty, except for the workers ARAMCO has brought in from all over the Arab world. The native popu lation of Kuwait is only 35,000 although more than 150,000 non-Kuwaitis also live and work there now. Qatar was a mere village sheikhdom be fore the big oil strike. Even Bahrein has only a million people. And although Bahrein is riddled with pro-Nasser sen timent, the place has been calm since the Sheikh of Bah rein locked up the committee of Nasser sympathizers who used to lead the agitation there. fTHE British idea is simply -- to hang on to the Gulf coast sheikhdoms by military force if need be. There would be no great difficulty in doing this, if the most important oil- producer happened to be Bah rein, where British troops are already stationed. But thel Bahrein wells are of minor im portance, and Kuwait and Qatar are the real prizes, with Today fir Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann TIME FOR DIPLOMACY For the moment, there ap pears to be a pause with something of the nature of a military standstill in the Mid dle East. It is precarious, and most cer tainly it is temporary. But it rests, so it would seem, on a recognition in both camps that the status Walter Lippmann quo c a n n 0 t now be altered by military means without inordinate and incalculable risk. The three Western powers have agreed that they will not invade Iraq in order to make a counter revolution, and that they will not permit Turkey or Jordan to march against Baghdad. On the oth er hand, it is reasonably clear that Nasser and Khrushchev will not now move their mil- Leaders Murphy was called out of a Senate committee hearing the day after the Marine landings and told to leave at once. He did not even have time to pack his bags. His wife packed them and sent . them to the State Department, where he was being briefed. Murphy has been consult ing Lebanese leaders of all political leanings. If a compromise is found, it will be a victory for him Kuwait by far the biggest prize of the two. What Selwyn Lloyd asked for in Washington, therefore, was the promise of American support for military occupa tion of Kuwait and Qatar, if Nasserite agitation in the sheikhdoms' make this step necessary. According to reli able sources, John Foster Dul les at least three-quarters committed himself to give the British moral support, provid ing the legitimate govern ments of the sheikhdoms ask the British to aid them with troops. This in turn gives special interest to the sudden appear ance in Damascus of the pres ent ruler of Kuwait, Sheikh Abdullah As-Sabah. The Sheikh of Kuwait was appar ently vacationing in the Syr ian capital when Gamal Abdel Nasser flew in from Moscow. Hence the recent meeting be tween the Sheikh and Nasser may perhaps have been acci dental. But taken in conjunc tion with the Sheikh of Ku wait's earlier visit to Cairo, it was "the sort of accident that makes you think," as one American policy-maker re marked. AT PRESENT, however, most of the real power in Kuwait is in the hands of Sheikh AbduUah Mubarrak. This uncle of Sheikh Abdullah As-Sabah is now Kuwait's act ing ruler. It is thought that if the ruler himself strays to wards a deal with Nasser, the acting ruler can be relied on to do whatever may be need ful. Besides the danger in Ku wait, the danger in Saudi Arabia cannot be overlooked. King Saud's virtual abdica tion in favor of Crown Prince Faisal has by no means stabil ized the situation there. A Nasserite conspiracy to seize control of the Arabian govern ment is just as likely, in fact, as a Nasserite grab for Ku wait. If this danger material izes, the British will surely press the American govern ment to try to detach and hold Al-Hasa province. And this project looks fairly feasible, if it wins the support of the virtually independent Gover nor of Al-Hasa, Sheikh Saud din Jaloui. There is, indeed, only one difficulty about the Persian Gulf hole-card. In the present state of the Middle East, the mere dispatch of British troops to Kuwait would have the approximate effect of a big bomb in a crowded movie house. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Tfu&VUfcuje DAIRY-SMITH East Main St. Nowhere in this wide wonderful world will you find a more satisfying Ice Cream, not even in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. . itary forces against the Amer ican Marines and the British paratroopers. During this momentary bal ance of power, it is the turn of the statesmen and the dip lomats to take over. A COOL assessment of our position is the essential basis of a constructive diplo matic policy. What happened in Iraq, the keystone of the Baghdad Pact and supposedly the one firm and reliable pro Western Arab country? Was King Faisal's government the victim of external aggression as were Czechoslovakia and Poland and Hungary? It was not. King Faisal's government was overthrown swiftly and totally by a con spiracy of Iraqi officers. What is most significant is that the Iraqi army supported the rev olution immediately and "that this revolution is manifestly popular in the country. So, we would be deluding our selves if we believed that the friendly government of Iraq was subverted by foreign agents acting contrary to the national sentiment of the country. There is, therefore, no rea son to hope that there will be a counter-revolution which re stores the old Iraqi regime. It is plain that no kind of mil itary intervention for exam ple, by King Hussein of Jor dan backed by the British and the Americans would have any chance of success. It has been said that what restrains us is the fear of Russian inter vention in Iraq. That is not a bad reason for restraint. But it is not the only, or even the final reason. For even if Russian neutrality were guar anteed, which it is not, no Western military intervention in Iraq could succeed in es tablishing an independent Arab government in Baghdad. There could be only a puppet government, dependent on the British and American forces, an H rlnnmpd to destruction if they were ever withdrawn This is another way of saying that the popular revolutionary movement of the Arabs can not be overcome by Western arms. THE same fundamental truth A applies to our present po sition in the Lebanon. We cannot successfully entrench ourselves there in hostile op position to the Arab move ment. In fact, we cannot as sure the independence ol tne Lebanon with the forces that are now at Beirut and on tne beaches nearby. The mae pendence of the Lebanon can be assured only if the civil war is ended and the new Lebanese state is then guar anteed protection. Now, it is almost certainly true that while the Marines can protect President Cha moun against a palace revolu tion like that in Bagnaaa, tne Marines are a liability wnen it comes to making a lasting settlement of the civil war, For any Lebanese government which owes its existence to the Marines is doomed to de struction when the Marines leave. Moreover, the longer the Marines stay on, the great er will be the popular oppo sition to them in the Lebanon rpHIS leads me to think that -- our Lebanese policy, as we have presented it to the U. N., is too thin, is lacking in dip lomatic vitality, and may be quite sterile. We have said that the Marines will go out when a U.N. force replaces them. As the chances are not good that the U.N. will set up a force to replace the Marines, we are in danger of having to leave the Marines in the Leb anon for the indefinite future, to leave them there not only without the hope of with drawal but without the hope of accomplishing anything while they remain. It seems to me that we should, therefore, come for ward soon with a large pro posal for the political future of the Lebanon. It would nave to begin with the settlement of the civil war, perhaps by the good offices of Mr. Ham marskiold. The settlement would be followed by the neutralization of the Lebanon under the guarantee of the U.N., which would include the interested powers. We must seek, I think, to eive Russia and Nasser a po litical interest and a juridical reason for allowing the Leb- at Genessea GOP Seeking Hexr Issues, as Old Ones Dead, Dying By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (DPD Peace, prosperity, government econ omy and the mess in Washing ton are four well-tested issues which seem not to be a v a i lable in this election year to Re publican can didates. Events whol ly or largely beyond ad m i n i stration Lyie c. wusoa control have foreclosed all four. The issues of peace and government economy were victims of the cold war in general and, more specifically, the peace issue faded with the landing of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. Substantially increased un employment and false alarms of depression did in the pros perity issue. The mess in Washington folded as an issue under weight of the Adams Goldf ine serial story. A congressional election of fers no routine opportunity to formulate a statement of party policy such as the plat forms which are drafted in presidential years. Some Re publican conservatives, there fore, have talked of drafting a statement of party prin ciples. Trial Balloon on Labor Such a statement would not be binding It could and might, however, point up some sub stitute issues and inspire some Republican candidates to make a hard fight on them. The Republican Senate Policy committee staff sent up a trial balloon issue last week an analysis of organized labor in politics entitled: "The Labor Bosses Ameri ca's Third Party." Some old pros among Re publican strategists believe that the moneji power and the political ambitions of some leaders of organized labor of fer a rewarding issue which would have natoinal applica tion and significance. Some other Republicans would deem such an issue outright political suicide. All hands would agree that it could lead to dangerous ground. The staff of the Senate Re publican Policy committee was aware of these conflict ing points of view among Re publican senators. The com mittee report contained an escape hatch for any Repub- anon to exist as an independ ent state. There Is no other way, short of unconditional and unlimited war, to prevent indirect aggression while pop ular feeling is what it is in the Middle East. A NEUTRALIZED Lebanon would not be the end of the Middle Eastern problem. But it might be an auspicious beginning of a settlement. For it would establish the principle, which is essential to any settlement, that the Soviet Union and the Nasser confederation have interests in the Middle East and that we are prepared to work out an accommodation. There will be some, perhaps many, who believe that an ac commodation of interests is in the bad sense of the word, the Munich sense, appeasement. For myself, I do not think that it is appeasement, that Nasser's part in the Iraqi rev olution is at all like the dis mantlement of Czechoslova kia by Hitler. Nasser is Nasser, not Hitler, and while he is difficult and unfriendly to the West, he is not the master of a great mil itary machine, and while we deal with him, we can keep our composure. We must not become the victim of our old stereotypes, seeing all big in ternational events in terms of "Munich," or "Yalta" or "Pearl Harbor," and there fore never seeing clearly and freshly the events themselves as in fact they are. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. THE HAND OF HELP in the hour of need . . . is extended here to all who grieve, regardless of race, social position or fi nancial standing. C. M. Lirwiller For over 23 years, Mr. and Mrs. Litwiller have sought to make the final tribute one of beauty and dignity, as well as one of real solace and comfort .to those left behind. "Night or day" dial MU 5-4541 Ashland. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close i ... lican who desired it; page on of the report rad this note: Can Be Repudiated "Neither the memben of the Republican Policy com mittee nor other Republican senators are responsible for the statements herein con tained, except such as they are willing to endorse and make their own." Such statements as, for ex-, ample, this one: "The hold of the labor bosses on the Democratic Party has, for all practical purposes, rendered respond sible Democratic leadership impotent . . . The ultimate goal of the labor bosses is not merely to take over the Demo cratic Party, but to eliminate it along with the Republi can Party as a decisive force in American politics." Such statements are a mat ter of political opinion or, even, of prejudice. Of more substance as a political issue might be a question of law which the staff committee re port raised in detail. The ques tion of law was simply this: Whether the spending of hundreds of thousands of dol lars by labor unions to educate union members politically during campaigns for federal office is, in fact, a violation of the Corrupt Practices Act. A federal court in Michigan recently held that such ex penditures were not in viola tion although the act relates to labor unions equally as it relates to banks and other corporations. The implications of the report are thathe Jus tice Department, now in Re publican hands, could bring that issue alive by lert and vigorous action to challenge union campaign spending. The department, however, did jiot even appeal the Michigan case. Communications Sand-Bum To the Editor: An ob noxious North American an nual herb, franseria acanthi carpa, the name of the com mon sand-burr, according to Webster's New International dictionary, seems to be thriv ing in North Medford, espe cially west of Riverside ave nue, to as far south as Bartlett and Fifth streets. It is most noticeable on vacant lots and sidewalks that have a park row. The city power mower is quite effective where the sand-burrs are in reach of the sickle on level ground, and is a temporary relief to a few plants. Name on File, Medford. Pierre Renoir, the French impressionist who died in 1919, produced more than 6,000 paintings. OSCAR FRALEY An All -American writer on all sports is Oscar Fraley, of United Press International. His column, "Today's Sport Parade" and his reports from ringside and press-box and sideline win favor with fans the country over. To get the most from the sports you like best, read Fraley daily in Medford Mail q Tribune" Mrs. Lirwiller TT - A ft 5 a 9't vv1-" nv-.: 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."