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o G o ' O o A Sgttffa?,4, 1958 f e- T'jarye im Southern 'rcra aadi The Maa Tribune' gxccpt Saturday hy MDFORD .TING CO North Fir St. Ph. SP.2-S141 tOBEtT fllUHL. Editor B CIKV ArivertUinff Uanivl GEAALD LATHAM. Business Mct. XRfC AI:C JR. Managing Editor lARL H ADAMS. Cicy Editor HARRf CHIPMA! Tele Editor RirA!i JEETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES, Society Editor DAE atlCKSON, Circulation Mgr. IJependent Newspaper Entered s second class matter at Qbedf4r Oregon under Act of m , . i ion. nCRIPTION RATES Pr ail-5rba advance: Copy lOe. aily nr Sunday 1 year $15 00 ra!y n Sunday 8 mos. 8.00 Daily nj Sunday 3 mos 4.25 (Sunday Only One year $450 fjSr Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eale Poi Jkjnlle. Gold HiU. Phoenl&hady Cove. 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The eight touring travel edi tors from eastern papers say they are impressed with the greenness of the valley and the clean, well-kept appear ance of homes and farms here. 20 YEARS AGO July 24, 1938 (Sunday) Southern Pacific company adds latest-model air-conditioned sleeper to the train from Portland to Ashland. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudee Pot" column: "The valley was as full of smoke Fri. as a room with 16 worn en playing bridge" nS0 YEARS AGO uJuly 24. 1928 (Tuesday) The mercurv climbed to 113V4 degrees in Grants Pass yesterday. Notes containing malicious gossip have Been showing up on local front lawns, causing residents to pick up "with great expedition" any pieces of Daper which might appear thoueh most ar "innocent" scraps. 40 YEARS AGO July 1 1310 V TT cuucauaj From Reese Creek Riplets "The farmers in this vicinity whn Picnect to, thresh are waitine on the machine." O Miss Dorothy Conner writes of a thrilling escape from the Hun's clutches when the can ten she was operating on the French front was captured. o Uhri't Tur I.Q.? ki: 1 Maeriar: aigQ av r" - seveg sr eitfnt if axaellent; fi ar it ood. 1. What Is meant by the expression, "the quick and the dead"? & Approximately 81 years aap, Thomas Edison announc ed the invention of the tele graph key, the phonograph, or the, raqjo? i. Nam the man. who came to the U.S. from Scotland and carter funded the vast system tchich is nov the U.S. Steel (CorgoVation. 1. Che tlfree wise monkeys of Nikko are sid to represent Vhat sang- 5. The human race is often divided into five colors; name them. ' 0 6. A ehiie globfl map on a lighPblue field is the flag of which international organiza tion? 7. Which two sas are join- ed by the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus? 8. Lemons pnd bananas are picked when green, or when ripe? 9. What is the significance of "VIP" as it refers to a per n? 10. What "VIP" from the White House is currently in the limelight because of a connection &vth Mr. Goldfine? Answers: I. Tfce living and the dead. 2. Phonograph. 3. Andre- Carnegie. 4. "Hear bo evil, speak no evil, see no vil." 5. White, . black, red, brown and yellow. 8. United Nat$ns. 7. Black Sea and the Mediterranian. 8. when green. 9. Very Important Person. 10. Presidential Assistant Sher man Sdams Kuwait Middle East tensions could explode next in the waterless desert sheikdom of Kuwait, the British protectorate on the northwest shore of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Abdullah as-Salim as-Sabah, the benev olent but virtually absolute ruler of Kuwait, met President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic twice in Damascus, Syria, on July 20, conferring at the same time with high Syrian officials. British and United States naval and air forces in the Persian Gulf area are being bolstered. Kuwait's importance to Britain and to the United States is told in one word : Oil. Half of the 207 million barrels of crude oil that Britain imported in 1957 came from Kuwait. The Kuwait Oil Company, the principal shipper, exported 405 million barrels during the year. - Kuwait Oil is half British, half American. Under an agreement of December 1951, Abdullah receives 50 per cent of oil profits before U.S. and British taxes. His take last year is reported at $305 million. The British and American (Gulf) companies split a similar melon. pREAT Britain since'1899 has had a treaty re lationship with the Kuwait dynasty, guaran teeing control of foreign relations and defense. A British political agent is stationed in the country for these purposes, though Britain since 1914 has recognized Kuwait as an "independent" govern ment. The special relationship binds the Sheik not to "cede or lease any portion of his territory to any foreign government or national except with the express authorization of the British gov erment." Another American company in 1953 discover ed oil in the Neutral Zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. And both states have granted Japan offshore oil concessions on a 57 per cent 43 per cent profit basis favoring the Arabs. In part because of a dispute over territory and oil rights, Saudi Arabia has on occasion menaced Kuwait, as it has other Arab sheikdoms protected by Britain. The London "Economist" noted more than two years ago : "The Ruler of Kuwait is no toriously nervous of pressure from his big neigh bors Saudi Arabia and Iraq." Moreover, about half of Kuwait's '250,000 population is not native. Much of it comes from Iraq. Abdullah paid a state visit to Iraq in May, as the federation of Iraq ratified. "THERE is supposed to be a strong pro-Nasser feeling within Kuwait made manifest during the Suez crisis of 1956 by demonstrators seeking the removal of all British subjects. According to "U.S. News & World Report," Abdullah was "so short of teachers that he allowed Egyptians and pro-Nasser Palestinians virtually to take over the school system. Despite outside influences, the U.S. Com merce Department reports: "Relations between the state of Kuwait and pany were maintained throughout (1957) ... on a generally cordial basis, and the company began systematic construction of large new facilities to enable it to expand production." Abdullan is re Dorted to turn over two-thirds of his vast oil reve nues to welfare and the which" is about the size of A recently completed five-year plan cost $267 million. It encompassed new schools, public hous ing, hospitals and a 2-million-gallon-a-day plant i i i-n T7 T3 T5 to aisuii sea water lur umirung. u.i.iv. Lebanese Election Violence m To choose a president to succeed President Camille Chamoun will be Lebanon Parliament on July 31. Its 66 seats are . Aia.a the religious atimations oi me people, witn 6o of the 66 held by Christians. When elected in 1957, more than three- fourths of the deputies were classified as Cham oun supporters. However, some of these are now listed as strongly opposed to the U.S. armed in tervention. ' Although Chamoun step down when his 23, his opponents demand that he quit as soon as his successor is named. It was primarily to enforce that demand, they say, that they continued the armed revolt against him. ND it is noteworthy shop-closings forced Beshara el-Khoury, to from office in September ernment was then the that led to the election of Chamoun, considered anti-Government. Chamoun in turn charged cor ruption bribes taken bv deputies of the new Op position to vote against parliament and ordering in July 1953. These 1953 elections violence. Four years later, the Opposition again called strikes and otherwise demonstrated against alleged Government interference in the election process. Thus violence before elections has been the usual Lebanon story, those who ascribed the Syrian-Egyptian machinations than to internal combustion E.R.R. Next? and Jordan was being the Kuwait Oil Com running of the sheikdom, Connecticut. the ticklish task of the reconvening Thursday, allocated according to Ail 1 "ilA had to agree, finally, to six-year term ends on Sept. that riots, strikes and Chamoun's predecessor, speed up. his departure 1952. Corruption in gov chief Opposition charge him in dissolving the elections lor a new one also produced much always pointed to by present disorders less to Dennis the Menace 'Dobs hbw wallpapsr cost Britain, France Take Roles in Summit Negotiations By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst Great Britain and France seem to be taking the ball away from the United States in negotiations for a "sum mit" confer ence. If such a conference is held on the the Middle East crisis, it is pretty sure that British Prime Minis ter Harold Charles M. McCann Ma c m il lan and French Premier Charles de Gaulle will have a full say in preparations for it. The Allied replies to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush chev's demand for a confer ence disclose a radical depart ure from customary proced ure. In the correspondence with the Soviet government during the last seven months on a summit conference, British, French and American notes to Russia were practically iden tical up to this week. These notes also have fol lowed pretty closely the view point of President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This is not true of the re plies to Khrushchev's belli cose demand for an immediate conference on the United States and British troop land ings in Lebanon and Jordan, Macmillan Takes Lead Acceptance of Khrushchev's demand would have meant the three Allies would have ap peared before him and .Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to defend themselves against his charges they were aggressors. iNaruraiiy xnere was no chance the Allies would agree to that. But in their notes to Khrush chev Tuesday, the Allied gov ernments did agree to a sum mit conference on their own terms. It is indicated strongly that Macmillan took the lead in insisting the replies meet Khrushchev's demand at least in part. During the long negotia tions for a summit conference on general cold war issues, Macmillan had been under severe pressure not only by the Labor Party but by the British public to -work for a summit conference on almost any terms. The French government, up to the time De Gaulle took over, had been favorable to the conference idea. Dulles had held back. He had insisted there must be proper preparation for a con ference, to insure that Russia could not make use of it as a pure propaganda sounding board. Opposes Immediate Meeting Macmillan, in, his note to Khrushchev, said he agreed a conference on the Middle East would be "useful." He said it should be held under the United Nations Securi ty Council. De Gaulle did not favor an immediate conference. H e said the U.N. should continue its meetings on the Middle East. If the U.N. failed to settle the crisis, he said, a summit conference could be held. Eisenhower's note showed clearly his reluctance to agree to a special summit confer ence on the Middle East.But he said he was ready to hold one under Security Council procedure. Washington dispatches say Eisenhower agreed to an early conference only under British pressure. Whatever happens with re gard to the negotiations now being conducted, it is indi cated both Macmillan and De Gaulle will have much vert much ? more to say than in the past about Allied tactics. It is also most likely that German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will be getting into the act. Through his ambassa dors in Allied capitals, Ade nauer has been following the Middle Eastern negotiations closely. Washington Report By William BIPARTISAN OPPORTUNITY Washington The Eisenhow er Administration has an op portunity to broaden its do mestic base of support, to share the grievous bur- den of the Middle East and possibly even to obtain some fresh and useful ideaa. This would seem the time WUlam to grasp the chance for genu ine bipartisanship. The Demo crats, it may be stated au thoritatively, would welcome it. The two past Democratic Presidents, Franklin D. Roose velt and Harry S. Truman, brought the Republican oppo sition into the inner councils at every foreign peril. Mr. Roosevelt after 1940 created a coalition war cabinet. The post of Secretary of War went to a Republican, Henry L. Stimson. Another, Frank Knox, became Secretary of the Navy. "DOTH the Roosevelt and Truman Administrat ions made the present Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, an intimate adviser with high privileges. Except for a short break while he was a member of the Senate, Dulles kept, a foot in the door on Demo cratic foreign policy from 1940 to the last days of the Truman era 12 years later. The Eisenhower Adminis tration has stayed coldly clear of both Mr. Truman and his Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. This circumstance has always been surprising. In the present crisis it ap pears" on any detached ob servation to- be very poor business. x Every member of the na tional Democratic leadership Mr. Truman, Adlai Steven son, Senator Lyndon Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn is backing the President loyal ly in his movement of troops into Lebanon. This support will go on, in any case, so long as the crisis endures. There are few lead ing Democrats who do not wish "things had been done quite differently in the long past. All the same, the Demo cratic hierarchy is determined not to see the party making mere irresponsible, harassing attacks on the Eisenhower Administration. Careful intraparty liaison accordingly is being main tained. Mr. Truman, for illus tration, has known in advance what Senator Johnson, the Senate Democratic leader, would say in public. THUS, there will be no Dem ocratic "demand" on the point. But very powerful Democrats think all concern ed including Mr. Eisenhower would be better off if Mr. Acheson were invited - in to advise the Administration. One Democrat so believing is the one who must keep a powerful and restive Senate in line, Mr. Johnson. Such an action to welcome visiting Acheson back to S. White Ike's Message on Changes in Veterans Laws Long Washington (CQ) Prest dent Eisenhower evidently has had some second thoughts about asking Congress to over haul veterans laws this elec tion year. Mr. Eisenhower has been promising since 1956 to send a message to Congress spell ing out recommendations for improving the patch-quilt of laws covering such veterans benefits as pensions and civil service preference status. But with adjournment less than two months away, no such message is in sight. Associate Press Secretary Anne W. Wheaton said there has been discussion at the White House about revising veterans benefits but that it has not crystallized into the form of a message. This is good news to Re publicans in Congress who Leading He is sure to let the Amer ican, British and French gov ernments know that West Germany has a vital interest in the crisis. He realizes quite clearly that if a big war broke out over the Middle East or any other issue, West Ger many would be a battle ground. S. White the State Department would Signal the world that the really controlling people in both parties are not going to let the President down right or wrong beyond our shore line. And, indeed, they are not. Satisfy a strong private Democratic Congressional de mand for representation in affairs at the planning stage. As things stand, the Demo crats are brought in only after decision have been reached and the balloon is already going up. Provide such representation in the person of a man Ache son who is already in a posi tion of peculiar trust and con fidence with both' Senator Johnson and Speaker Ray- burn not to mention Mr Truman and Mr. Stevenson. Make available to the Ad ministration a man whose credit with Europe and the neutrals has remained very high. Indeed, it is higher than that of Mr. Dulles, a fact known to every impartial per son in Washington who main tains some contact with for eign officials here. ' A CHESON himself is seeking no appointment. As a pri vate citizen, however, he has some notions as to where we might go from here in the Middle East. He would like tn see a fundamental Allied to make Nasser of Esrvot behave by marshalling the vast latent economic pow er of the Allies. Specifically, he would: 1. Arrange with our friends in Ethiopia for large water conservation projects along one of the two headwaters of the Nile lying in that coun try. This would make it pos sible to interrupt Nasser's water supply. 2. Be ready. If necessary, to drive Nasser's cotton from ho world's markets by loos ing a flood of American cot ton for dumping. a RtockDile in Western Eu rope including its abandoned mmesguch massive quanti ties of oil as largely to lift from the Allies, the present blackmail threat of a disrup tion of their essential sup plies from the Middle East. There would De no inten tion to destroy passer even his presumed dream oi some sort of a poky little burnoose empire so long this did not become part oi any Soviet power complex. (Copyright, 1958, ny, unuw Feature Syndicates, Inc.) 60,661 Signatures Obtained in State Portland A total of 60,661 certified signatures are on initiative petitions placing on November's state ballot a con stitutional amendment cover ing the eligibility of persons to serve in the legislature, according to the Oregon Edu cation association. Cecil W. Posey, executive secretary, said the signatures are 12,519 more than the 48,- 142 necessary to qualify the measure for the ballot. Of the total, 2,356 signa tures were obtained from resi dents in Jackson "county. Delayed would be obligated to support the President's recommenda tions. Said one Republican Representative up for reelec tion this fall, "I've got enough troubles already without tak ing on the veterans." Bradley Report The President's long-promised message was expected to follow recommendations of his special commission, head ed by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, which studied veteran laws. Its recommendations, submit ted to the President April 23, 1956, drew fire from the big veterans' organizations. They called them a brush-off of the veterans. The Bradley Commission said that veterans who came home from the war un scathed should not expect spe cial treatment from the Fed eral Government. It recom mended repealing pensions for non-disabled veterans and letting them rely on social security. It also recommend ed restricting the preference for civil service jobs now en joyed by veterans. It said this preference should be limited to veterans disabled while in service. These and other recom mendations in ihe Bradley Commission's 415-page report were opposed by the Ameri can Legion, American Veter ans of World War II and Korea (AMVETS) and Veter ans of Foreign Wars. Together they claim a membership of over four million veterans. The relatively small (25, 000 members) American Vet erans Committee was the only national veterans' organiza tion to support the Bradley Commission r e c o m menda tions. Irving Lechliter, AVC executive director, charged the veterans organizations have exerted pressure to keep the President's veterans mes sage inside the White House, Called Too Drastic Another factor in keeping the message from reaching Capitol Hill is the attitude of the man who would receive it for the House of Represen tatives Chairman Olin E Teague (D-Texas) of the House Veterans Affairs Committee. He believes the Bradley Com mission recommendations are too drastic to get anywhere in Congress, even if the Presi dent went all out to push them through. He said a step- by-step approach by Congress not a ' sweeping directive from the White House was the way to overhaul veterans laws, Teague compared trying to get the Bradley Commission recommendations through Congress to "trying to knock over a tree by driving your car into it. You would kill yourself trying. But if you took an ax, and chopped away a little at a time, you might get some place.". President Eisenhower May 30, 1956, first promised to send "specific recommenda tions" to the Congress about veterans benefits. He made the promise again on Aug. 27, 1957, and again in his 1957 and 1958 budget messages. In his 1958 budget message, Mr. Eisenhower said: "Funda mental changes have taken place in our society in the last several decades which re quire us to reconsider the laws providing veterans bene fits and services which now overlap other growing pub lic benefit and welfare pro grams. As I indicated last summer, a message on veter ans affairs will be sent to the Congress at an early date. In that message there will be set forth for the considera- "No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has' Henry Ward Beecher o Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030. In the Day's News By FRANK The latest on the Middle East: The West moves toward a summit conference with Rus sia WITHIN THE UNITED NATIONS. Britain accepts Soviet Pre- Communications Letters 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 fact the contrary is often the case. Cruel and Wicked To the Editor: Why do we hate the negroes and other colored people? We can find lots of excuses but what are the reasons? Suppose a nice young negro boy, delivering papers, rode past your house on his bicycle and all of a sudden five white boys jumped on him beat him with clubs, left him on the sidewalk, bleeding and half conscious. What would you do? Would you go out to the boy, pick him up in your arms, even take him into your house and nurse his wounds? Call his parents and medical aid? Suppose his parents should come over for the boy would you even allow them into your house? Yes, what would you do? Maybe you'd just leave him lying there, hoping someone else would see and care or maybe you'd just call the po lice and feel you'd done your duty? What would you do? and what would you want done if it were your boy? Who teaches a child to hate anyone? We all know that a very young child will play with a negro boy and love him like a brother he will see no offense in him but his parents will. They will say "You can't play with him anymore, he's a negro." The boy doesn't understand he says "Why can't I play with him I love him he's never hurt me!" Yes who teaches a child to hate? The Bible says that "Un less we become like a little child (humble and full of love) we cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." It also 'says "Love thy neighbor as thyself." This commandment, and the Love of God being first, are the most important commandments. The Bible says "Whosoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger of judgement." Who is our brother and who Is our neighbor? Jesus was without sin, yet he was crucified you say wnai a cruei ana wicked people. Yet, what a cruel and wicked people are we. (Name on File) Medford CONTRACT TALKS START Detroit (UPD The United Auto Workers and Bendix Corp. started negotiations here today for a contract cov ering about 12,000 workers in seven Bendix plants in Michi gan, New Jersey, New York, Indiana and California. tion of the Congress recom mendations for specific ad justments and improvements in the compensation, pension and related programs which will enable us to discharge our national responsibilities to veterans with the greatest possible equity to all con cerned." (Copyright 1958. Congressional Quarterly Inc.) JENKINS mier Krushchev's proposal for a summit conference on the Middle East crisis, provided the conference is held within the U.N. Security Council. The White House calls this" "an orderly procedure," and (-says the U.S. will go along if it is generally desired. WHY is this interesting? "Well, what we want ii a solution that will allow British and American troops to withdraw from the Middle East without loss of face. That would calm the ten sion. It would get the fuse farther away from the powder keg. rpHAT prompts this question: - Why did we send troops into Lebanon in the first place? rpHAT question makes thia A dispatch, which came over the wires several days ago, rather interesting: "West German intelligence officials say the landing of Americans in Beirut (Leban on's capital) MAY HAVE DIS RUPTED SOVIET PLANS TO SEND VOLUNTEERS to bol ster rebel forces in Lebanon. "Officials said Russia be gan organizing the volunteers late last month. The Czech army (Czechoslovakia is a Russian satellite) reportedly was told by Russia that satel lite army volunteers were wanted to accompany Soviet volunteers possibly to Leb anon." THAT is to say: We BEAT RUSSIA TO THE PUNCH. And No shooting followed. MONEY At Crater Finance you may borrow for any worth while purpose on your FURNITURE - AUTO SALARY and repay in monthly In stallments. You may choose the terms most suit able to you up to 24 months. Loins may be paid in ad vance or in full at any time. Crater Finance CORPORATION t 135 Pine Street Central Point Phone NO 4-1273 c Frank Wilkinson, Mgr. Convenient Parking Do you know what Frankenstein said to his teenage son, "Frankie" (he always calls him Frankie)? No you can't go to The Craterian to see "THE FLY"! Ifs too scarey even for you it might scare the bolt out of your headl 1