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Newspaper Page Text4 WtJipJay, July 30, 1958 MAILIIBUWE, MEDFORD, ORE. ME10JJ&TRIBUNE "Everyone in Southern vneeon Reads The MaU Tribune' Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Mann 17 ei GERALD LATHAM. Business Mer XRIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ( Entered as second class matter at s- Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year f 15 00 Daily and Sunday 9 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 yiar S18 00 Daily and Sunday I mo 1 50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson county JUnited Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St Louis, av Ian taO Vancouver. 3. C. 01 NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCllTlgjN - r f pug.Httn.'.nii Flighfo Time Medford aijd Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 9 10 YEARS AGO July 30. 1948 (Friday) Pete and Priscilla, two small robins, have deserted their uman foster parents, the W. L. Tuckers of 2233 Aloha st. Ranjit Sirlgh, a young na tive from India studying hor ticulture, visited the valley this week. ' 28 YEARS AGO July 30, 1938 (Saturday) Ten Medford boys sched ule to leave tomorrow to par ticipate in annual "Beaver Boys' State"? From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The heat, and the cussing thereof, has moderated." 30 YEARS AGO July 30. 1928 (Monday) & Plagued by busy photog raphers, Herbert Hoover was unable to catch a fish in the- p.o Rogue river early today. Medford is bracing for the state American Legion con vention later this week. 40 YEARS AGO July 30. 1918 (Tuesday) A trio of healthy girl hikers en route from Seattle to Los Angeles arrived here last night, commenting that in their travejs they had met no tramps and "only one man that swore." Oregon girls are being urfgd join the Student q Nurses' Reserve. Whal's Tur I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The Philippines were 1 named after which king? u 2. Ermine, the fur of royal ! ty, comes from which animal? ) 3. Were tomatoes, turnips, or truffles once called "love apples"? 4. Which of these is a kind of bread: cheddar, pumper nickel, hbhenzollern, vodka? 5. During W.W; II which army used "Tiger Tanks"? 6. The percentage of silver In the U.S. silver dollar is 40, 50, 70, or 90? 7. Is the alcoholic content of beverages greater when ex pressed by weight or by vol ume? 8. The Linioln Memorial building in Washington, D.C., contains the tomb of Abraham Lincoln; true or false? 9. In which city is the Army's Walter Reed General hospital? 10. Do diesel engines have spark plugs? Answers: 1. King Philip II, of Spain. 2. Stoat. 3. Toma toes. 4. Pumpernickel. 5. Ger man 'Army. 6. 90 per cent. 7. Volume. 8. False (Buried in Springfield. 111.) 9. Wash ington, D.C. 10. No. Assistant Engineer Starts Work With City Raymond F. Vaughan, 36, began work at city hall this week as an assistant city en gineer. Vaughan worked 11 years with the city of Portland, do ing both design and construc tion . work, before coming hefle. He will be joined soon by his wife, Virginia L. Vaughan, and twin sons, Pat rick and Michael. "A Policeman's Lot... "A policman's lot is not a happy one." So said Gilbert and Sullivan in "The Pirates of Penzance," and in some cases, the saying is true. We have a hunch, though, that Captain Paul Parson, veteran state police officer who retires soon as head of the Medford police district,would not agree. He must have a lot of solid satisfaction in looking back over his 34 years in police work 14 of it in command here. IT IS men of Paul Parson's caliber who have made the Oregon State Police a respected force. It takes men of high ideals, toughness of body and spirit, an unlimited capacity for work and abuse, to create a top-flight police agency. These men work long hours, seldom get more than a comfortable living wage, and not infrequently are exposed to the danger of death or injury. So, in addition to other qualities, it takes a sense of dedication to make a police officer choose his career, and then stick to it as Paul Parson has done. "fXTTIAT are the rewards and satisfactions of having been a top-flight police officer for three decades? . . ' Well Captain Parson would be reticent about it if you asked him. He's that sort of guy, not giving to talking too much about himself. But it occurs to us that the greatest of these must be the knowledge community, his state, a place to live for his generation and for those to come. That, truly, is a great reward. Some day, maybe, in the far and unforesee able future, we will achieve a society in which po lice officers are not needed. It will be a long time coming, unfortunately, if it ever arrives. In the meantime, we are going to need high minded men to carry on the sometimes-unpleasant tasks of policing our fellow beings, and serv ing as the guardians of our peace and well being. We will do well if we can always attract men like Paul Parson to do these jobs. E. A. Cultural Fame With the Oregon Shakespearean Festival starting its 18th season this week in Ashland, the 1958 opening marks the completion of the Shakespearean canon 37 of the comedies, trag edies and fantasies penned by the great British board. This is an accomplishment of note for a little Oregon community in the foothills of the Siski yous, one of Oregon's major gateways to Calif ornia. Few if any modem theaters in the world today have completed such a cultural project. THAT Ashland has become the oldest perma- no accident. It is a tribute to the foresight and scholarly endeavor of Angus L. Bowmer, now professor of drama at Southern Oregon college. More than 23 years ago Bowmer envisioned mak ing this pear and pine city, entrance to Southern Oregon s scenic Rogue River valley, as lamous a cultural area as Stratford-on-Avon, Salzburg or Oberammergau. The Shakespearean the events in a three-day community celebration back in 1935. Since then, with the exception of the war years, Shakespeare in Ashland has be come a major annual event. THROUGH Sept. 4, four productions ("Much An AVrmr Mntrn'no-" "Tfirirr T.oar" "Trio 11UU ilkyUUU iWUUUlgj JL.AAJ. J-IVUil. t J-" Merchant of Venice" and "Troilus and Cres- sida") will be rotated Before the 39 consecutive performances are completed this year, it is estimated that more than 25,000 visitors will have viewed Shakespeare as it .wag written and staged in the authentic repro duction of an Elizabethan theater under the stars in picturesque Lithia Park. . In addition, more than 100 roles will be por trayed in detailed, Ashland-produced costumes, by student and semi-professional actors from leading universities and colleges throughout the country. VES, most patrons of the arts would consider founding such a theater in Boston, New York, or perhaps even California or Florida, but it is a unique and remarkable accomplishment for a town that should be more noted fora Western rodeo to become known internationally as a per manent home of summer Shakespeare in Ameri ca. Oregon Journal, Portland. Practical Post-Script As a post-script to the Journal's comments above, it could be noted that the festival probab ly generates somewhere around $100,000 in local income each year as a bare minimum. Attendance this year is expected to total about 25,000 persons. Last year, 73 per cent of all those attending came from a distance far enough so they had to stay over night. A survey by the state highway commission indicates the average tourist spends $5.20 per day, and the average expenditure. per car is $16.13. So, at the smallest possible figure, there is nearly $100,000, and at a more realistic estimate, probably several times that amount, attributable directly to the festival, this year and in years to come. E.A. 99 that he has made his cleaner, better and safer Festival was but one of nightly. , Dennis the Menace OH I-OUNNO.-lVrlEN WAS THE LAST TIME ue mu A niBATC cuio cmco mi nti r riorum anir. DeGaulle Proposed By CHARLES M. McCANN UPI Foreign News Analyst Premier Charles de Gaulle has completed the draft of a new constitution under which he plans to re v o 1 u t i onize France's gov ernmental system. The consti tution is to be submitted t o the people in a national ref erendum o n Sept. 28 or Oct. 5. Political experts predict it will be approved by a com fortable majority and pos sibly by a landslide. If so, France will get, on a permanent basis, an "authori tarian" government like that which de Gaulle is adminis tering under "his temporary powers. There are indications de Gaulle may dissolve the pres ent Parliament before it can start its next scheduled ses sion on Oct. 7. If he does, he will call for an immediate election so there will be a new Parliament as well as a new constitution. So far, only the Commu nists have announced last ditch opposition to de Gaulle's nroposed new deal. ' Strongest Party The Communists are the strongest political party in France, with 148 seats in the 596-member National Assem bly, the controlling house of Parliament. Communist Leader Maurice Thorez has ordered his party workers to organize opposi tion throughout the country. The Socialist Party, which ranks second to the Commu nists, with 101 seats in the assembly, is somewhat luke warm on the constitution is sue, though it is represented in De Gaulle's cabinet. But there is no sign it will come out in firm opposition. Under De Gaulle's constitu tion the powers of the presi dent would be increased at the expense of the National Assembly. Instead of being largely a figurehead as at present, the president would get strong ex ecutive powers like those ex ercised by the president of the United States. The president would get the power to dissolve the Nation al Assembly and call for a new election. He would ap point a premier by his own authority, instead of merely proposing him to Parliament for approval as at present. In times of national emer gency, the president would be able to direct the government. Powers Restricted The cabinet would still be Try and Charles M. MeCann -By BENNETT CERF- JEAN KERR, author of 'Please Don't Eat the "Daisies, isn't fooled by the charms of her 17-month-old son Gilbert, sincehis three older brothers have taught her what to expect. "It's too early to tell yet about Gilbert," she notes. "As a matter of fact, we can tell, all right, but we're not ready to face it. Once upon a time we might have been taken in by smiles and gurgles and round blue eyes, but no more. We know he is just biding his time. To day he can't do much more than eat his shoelaces and suck off an occasional but ton. Tomorrow the world.-" Daniel George has written, this "Epitaph of a Dead Author": "I suffered so much from printers' errors ' That death for me can hold no terrors No doubt this stone has been misdated Oh, how I wish Td been cremated!" C 1358, by Bennett Cert Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Completes Draft of French Constitution responsible to Parliament. But the powers of Parliament to overthrow a premier would be sharply restricted. There are reports that if the constitution is approved, De Gaulle may resign as pre mier and assume the presi dency. This appears to be increas ingly likely because of the approval De Gaulle's policies have won since he took office June 2 after a 13-year succes sion of cabinet overthrows. De Gaulle wants to solve the Algerian problem, strengthen the country's fi Wilson Sees Debt Hike Request New Bid for Inflation By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower's request for a 10 billion dollar hike in the permanent na tional debt limit means the dollar bill or sawbuck in your bank or in your pocket is going to shrink some more. The weight and dimen Lyle C. Wilson sions of your dimes and fold ing money will not shrink. But their purchasing power will in terms of beans or biscuits or butter, or in terms of anything you may buy. Sad Story In terms of what this shrinkage does to the individ ual and collective funds of the people of the United States, this is larceny on a scale greater than grand. All the footpads and burglars of all time surely could not have made away with as much of the citizens' money as the process of .currency inflation has accomplished in a single year the year 1942,- for ex ample. That was a big year in the cycle of currency inflation. The Finance committee of the U.S.- Senate calculates that the dollar shrank in purchas ing power in 1942 by 9.1 cents. The year 1947 showed a nine-cent shrinkage. Only 4.4 cents were melted away from the value of the U.S. dollar in 1948 and only half a cent in each of the fol lowing years, according to the committee's calculations. In very recent years the infla tion trend has been substan tially checked but not Stop Me In the Day's News By FRANK Foreign affairs: Secretary of State Dulles is in London, where he is con ferring with members of the Baghdad Pact specifically Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. The purpose of the Baghdad Pact " is to provide a roadblock to keep Russia from getting into the Middle East. Consult your map for details. Dulles is reported to have told" these nations the U.S. would be willing to join Rus sia in putting an embargo on arms to the Middle East ex cepting, of course, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan whose job is to provide the roadblock to stop Russia. TS DULLES wasting words? I suppose so. But at a conference, espe cially a diplomatic confer ence, one has to talk. One purpose of diplomacy is to keep everybody talking until the immediate danger of SHOOTING passes. nances and increase its pres tige as a world power. He could best deal with Al geria and finance if he kept the leadership himself. As for prestige, De Gaulle already has made a pretty good start toward giving France a stronger internation al standing. He is having a full say in Allied discussions on a pos sible "summit" conference with Russia, instead of per mitting France to be over shadowed by the United States and Great Britain. And he is being listened to by the Amer ican and British governments. stopped. The Vanishing Buck During the first four months of this year the de preciation of the dollar aver aged only 0.2 cents per month. The big, bad fact, however, is that the Senate committee figures show that from an ar bitrary valuation of 100 cents in the year 1939, the dollar had shrunk in purchasing power by the end of April, 1958, to 48.L cents. In just under 20 years, therefore, the value of the proud product of the U. S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing has gone off by near ly 52 cents, a bit more than half. A $10 bill now in circu lation is worth slightly less than $5 in terms of 1939. Where all of this will end, none can say; especially none of the politicians in Washing ton who borrow and spend the money which puts the government in more debt and requires raising the debt limit in bites of 10 billion dollars a whack. Truman To Speak At Portland Dinner Portland (UPD Former President Harry S. Truman will speak at a Democratic party dinner here Saturday is was announced by C. Gir ard Davidson Tuesday. Democratic state Chairman Dave Epps said the Truman dinner will be "our biggest event of the campaign." A site for the $25-a-plate fund-raising dinner has not been selected. Truman will appear in Se attle. Friday at a Young Dem ocrats convention. Explorer IV Covers 390,000 Miles Daily Huntsville, Ala. (UPD - -Ex- plored IV, the newest and largest of U.S. earth satellites, is speeding through outer space at 16,250 miles per hour and covering 390,000 miles every .24 hours, the Army re vealed Tuesday night. Scientists at Redstone Ar senal, the Army's missile cen ter, said instruments in the 38.43 pound bullet-shaped satellite launched Saturday are working "perfectly." East Main St. DAIRY - Sorry we carj't be with you today . . . This is our day to rest, worship and get acquainted with our families. JENKINS MORE foreign affairs stuff: Diplomats in Washington say this morning that the lat est Soviet blasts against the U.S. do not necessarily mean a rejection of Preident Eisen hower's newest conditions for a summit talk. (Soviet news papers, which say only what they are TOLD to say, have been shouting that the U.S. is "procrastinating" in an f fort to head off the summit meeting.) What the diplomats mean is that Russia's job is to blast us verbally at every turn of the road. A long as she blasts us with words, instead of with bombs, there isn't too much to worry about. Her VERBAL blasts are apt to mean that everything is normal. HERE'S something more in interesting: These Washington diplo mats also EXPRESS HOPES THAT U.S. TROOPS MAY BE WITHDRAWN BEFORE OR DURING THE PRO POSED MID-EAST TALKS. I'M SURE we private citizens can all join in that hope. Maybe we had to send the troops in the first place. May be the situation was so menac ing that we had to send the troops to keep shooting from starting RIGHT THEN. Things like that fall into the category of restricted infor mation. Intelligence services can't always tell everything they know. But private, unof ficial, everyday Americans are pretty certain in their own minds that the quicker we can get our troops out of the Middle East the better it will be. IlfHY? Let's put it this way: Suppose Egypt or Turkey, or Iran, or Britain, or France, ANY foreign country had sent troops to LITTLE ROCK We'd have been MAD. We'd have been mad all the way through. We'd have had rea son to be mad. Sending troops into a foreign country is ticklish business. 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. Thanks for Help To the Editor: In the past when our home burned and more recently when our ga- rage was struck by lightning, both times while we '' were away, we have had reason to be thankful for the vigilance and help of the people in our neighborhood. Since we do not know from whom this help came, we would appre- ciate you publishing this brief note in your Communications section as a means of thank ing our neighbors for their kindness and consideration. Mr. and Mrs L. B. Nelson 1750 Prune st. Medford. Not Anti-American To the Editor: I am writing you in my capacity as a citi zen of Iraq with an American educational background. It is unfortunate that many in the west have interpreted the recent coup in Iraq as anti- west. The university educated Iraqis are unanimous that the movement was the necessary outcome of internal conditions in Iraq. The late dictator of Iraq, Nuri Es Said, and his king, had no regard for freedom of speech, press, assembly, habeas corpus, nor any re- spect for the human indi vidual and his civil and poli tical rights. If they were pro-American, in my opinion as an American educated Arab , with high hopes for the gradual devel opment of democratic insti tutions in the Arab World, they should have provided for some of the freedom en joyed in the free societies of the West. Their downfall was inevita ble because they had put un limited pressure on the people of Iraq, resulting in the ex plosive July 14. It is unfortunate, of course, that the king, his uncle and Nuri were killed, but I am JL SMITH at Genessee Cloak - dnd CIA Earns Among Congress Washington Impatieno understandable, almost in evitable impatience explains the almost continuous at tempts by congressional bodies to examine the activi ties of the Central Intelligence Agency. The C.I.A. was ac cused of being asleep at the switch on the Korean invasion of 1950; there are both charges and denials that it left the administration flat-footed on the Iraq coup. "We are maturing," ex plains C.I.A. Director Allen Welsh Dulles, brother of the Secretary of State. "We're not as good as we want to be, but we're a great deal better than many people realize." Right lo Investigate Nobody denies that Con gress has a perfect right to in vestigate the daylights out of C.I.A. It was Congress which established the Agency in 1947 and it is Congress obviously which votes its funds, though most members of Congres are unaware of exactly when and where these funds are hidden in money bills. The C.I.A. Act of 1949 greatly extended the authority of the so-called "cloak-and dagger' outfit. The Director is empowered to hire and fire personnel without regard to other laws regarding govern ment employment. The Act specifically exempts CIA. from the provisions . of any law requiring publication or disclosure of the "organiza tion, functions, names, official titles, salaries, or numbers of personnel employed." C.I.A.'s secret budget is "currently estimated at any thing from $100 million to $1 billion annually"; its . man power at "anywhere irom 3000 to 30,000." The Budg et Director Is instructed to "make no report to the Con gress" touching these matters. Aside from a kind of Pan dora's box capacity for arous ing curiosity, C.I.A. would ap pear to have only itself to blame for the many attempts of Congress to lift its cloak of secrecy. Only a Hoover Com mission task force in 1954 headed by Gen. Mark Clark warded off a second attempt to probe the C.I.A. by tlje Sen ate Investigations Subcommit tee of the late Joseph R. Mc Carthy (R-Wis.). On occasion special arrange ments have been made to avert political exploitation of the CIA:, a lineal descend ant of the World War II Office of Strategic Services, as in the presidential campaign of 1952. Aside from the alleged CIA. goofs on Korea and Iraq, over- zealous agents have been un willing to limit their activities to foreign . intellgence, al though the enablng act speci fically forbids clandestine operations within this coun try CIA. agents were widely sure that in 1776, many a colonist would have been very pleased to see the assassina tion of King George III. The coup in Iraq must not be considered as pro-Soviet or anti-America. It was but the result of the desire of the Arab people to be free from foreign and domestic ex ploiters and be united. As a member of the Arab intelligentsia, I admit that oth er Arab governments in other parts of the Arab land are not democratic by Western standards. But there is no doubt in my mind that Arab rulers everywhere will have to submit to the will of the Arab people if they desire to remain in power. These popular revolutions against corrupt and tyranni cal governments are not anti America. On the contrary, they are in the best tradition of the American Revolution. America must support these liberal and popular move ments; otherwise the Soviets would once more and by de fault, become the spokesmen of Arab Nationalism: Arab desire to be free and united. Mohammad T. Mehdi, Arab Information Center, Ferry Bldg., San Francisco The Better Service Beautiful Mt. View Chapel C. M. Litwiller Off street parking No Quiet Location At Cemetery Entrance LITWILLER Funeral Home r Mountain View Chapel Hwy, 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close - Dagger Critics reported to have had a rol in an international incident in 1951 involving the movement of Nationalist Chinese troops in Burma. And one CIA. alumnus is petitioning Con gress for a "letter of marnno and reprisal" to facilitate his desire to liberate U.S. citizens kidnaped by foreign powers. It or all the criticism CIA. and its agents have engen dered, it should perhaps be pointed out that the organiza tion is only 11 years old. Building a mature foreign in telligence organization prob ably takes more time than CIA. has been given. And, like its British and 1 French counterparts, CIA. has oper ated necessarily under re traints not suffered by the So viet Union's spy network. A British expert puts the num ber of foreign aeents emnlnv. ed by the USSR at at "least ten times the number used bv all the Western Powers bined. Elizabeth Receives New Czech Ambassador London (UPD Queen Eliza beth II has received her first foreign visitor since she be came ill three weeks ago. The queen has been under treatment for catarrhal sinusi tis. New Czech Ambassador Miroslav Galuska drove to Buckingham Palace in a horse-drawn carriage Tuesday to present his credentials to the Queen. , Good Reading for the Whole Family News Facts i Family Features! The Christian Science Monitor One Norway St., Boston 15, Mast. -Send your newspaper for the time checked. Enclosed find my check or money order. I year $18 Q 6 months $9 0 3 months $4.50 Q Name Address City Zone State PB-16-A O DOC QU1GG He has ranged a lot of terri tory covering his United Press International news beat: from New Guinea to New York, and reported every kind of story, from a South Pole expedition to a kissing contest, from wars to murder trials to nudist conventions. Always with distinction, too, as youll see in this versatile United Press International veteran's dispatches in . MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE processions through streets Better service lower costs 1 00 Locally Owned Is mm ?X ANNIVERSARY 0 I Mrs. Litwiller 'It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."