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4 Monday, August 4, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Medford,Teibune "Everyone in Southern vregoa Beads The Ma: I Tribune Published Daily except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP 5-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Businexa Mgr. IRIC 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 Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1391 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Fr Mail In Advance: Cony 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year S15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only, One year S4.2Q By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er laient. and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.30 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official paper of Jaclcson County United 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 Francisvo. Los Angeles. teatue. Portland, st Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. 3 C. NEWSPAPEt . PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL c5T8N ASSO Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 4, 1948 (Wednesday) Work on Medford's city park swimming pool is pro gressing rapidly, with 32 per cent of the concrete in place. A new resident reports see ing a large white ball of fire yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO August 4, 1938 (Thursday) Wild blackberries are start ing to ripen in the Applegate district. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The present shortage of money is outmoded," declared J. Cur tis Barnes Wednesday. "It's worse than that. It's antiquat ed and hellishly tiresome." 30 YEARS AGO August 4, 1928 (Saturday) The state American Legion convention, which closes here tonight, is declared one of the best sessions, in numbers, en thusiasm and orderliness, ever held. A couple of Legion men dressed up as traff io cops and proceeded to dam up traffic in every direction. 40 YEARS AGO August 5, 1918 (Sunday) The Marine corps has again established a recruiting office in Medford. The fire department, after setting its own quarters in immaculate order, proceeded to clean out the city jail too. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Batik is a rare mineral, wood carving, or a method of executing colored designs on fabrics? ' 2. Which tropical fruit is nickn amed "Midshipman's Butter"? 3. What are the national flowers of Scotland and Ire land? 4. Marco Polo is the name of an old city in India, an active volcano in Italy, or an early traveler in the Orient? 5. Eamon de Valera was born in Barcelona, Spain; Dublin. Ireland or Brooklyn, New York? 6. What by-product result ing from soap manufacture is of great importance in making explosives? 7. Does the male mosquito bite? 8. Did Charles A. Lind bergh serve as an officer in the Air Force on active duty during World War II? 9. Of what island is Taipeh the capital? 10. Do stones grow? Answers 1. Designs of fab rics. 2. Avocado. 3. Scotland thistle; Ireland shamrock. 4. Early traveler. 5. Brooklyn, N.Y. 8. Glycerine. 7. No. 8. No. 9. Formosa. 10. No. Dulles En Route To Rio de Janeiro Rio De Janeiro (UPD Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles was en route to Rio de Janeiro today for two days of conferences with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubits chek designed to firm up inter-American relations in ad vance of any "summit-meeting. Hoffa's Big Plans The McClellan committee is hauling Jimmy Hoffa back although the timing may be purely coincidental at another moment when his for tune appears at flood-tide. Hoffa has called a "peace meeting" for dock unions on the East and West coasts for Aug. 14, with the aim of formu lating a "common policy on new techniques in the shipping industry" with Jim Hoffa as "in formal mediator." The dock union conference fits in with Hof fa's over-all strategy, announced July 3, of f orm ing a national conference of transportation trade unions. The conference would be headed "temp orarily' by guess who? A LL sea, land, and air transportation unions were invited to join Hoffa's conference. Sit ting with him as he made the announcement were Capt. William V. Bradley, president of the In ternational Longshoremen's association, and Jo seph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union. The I.L.A. in 1953 was expelled by the American Federation of Labor for corruption, as the Teamster union was by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. last year. But Curran is a vice president of the A.F.L. C.I.O. and a member of the Ethical Practices com mittee. For the record, Hoffa denied that he was try ing to lead a new labor federation to rival the A.F.L.-C.I.O., or even aiming 'at becoming a transportation union czar. In testimony before the Senate "labor rackets" committee last Aug. 20, Hoffa had similarly denied planning a mer ger of all transport unions. What he said he want ed was a "loose-knit" council of such unions. Nevertheless, Hoffa's Teamsters have tied up with at least nine A.F.L.-C.I.0. unions in mutual assistance agreements. And the Teamsters' 16 trade divisions embrace every worker who uses wheels and many who don't. "We're in every thing," Dave Beck, Hoffa's erstwhile boss, used to say. But the Railroad Brotherhoods and Air lines Pilots already have rejected the overtures. "THE A.F.L.-C.I.O. naturally is not taking Hof- fa's threat lying down. No. 1 subject on the agenda for the federation's Executive Council meeting Aug. 18 will be Hoffa's plans. A.F.L. C.I.O. President George Meany is reported pres suring Curran to back out of Hoffa's conference. Meany would particularly oppose even in formal affiliation of A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions with the International Longshoremen's and Ware housemen's Union, which Hoffa has invited to the conference. The West .Coast union headed by Harry R. Bridges was fired by the C.I.O. in 1948 because of Communist taints. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. "Ethical Practices Code" directs removal with out waiting for conviction of any union leader known to be "a crook, a racketeer, a Communist, or a Fascist." CECRETARY of Labor Mitchell on July 30 raised the theat that all labor unions might be put under antitrust legislation in the past vigor ously opposed by the Eisenhower administration if Hoffa's confederation went through. Furth er publicity could resuscitate the now seemingly moribund Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill. Also, many state legislatures are noticeably more favorable to strict labor regulation than is Congress. If. Jim Hoffa's big plans materialize, they could bring on a rash of tough state labor Jaws, with the emphasis on transportation. E.R.R. Summit Conference At least we're being consistent. In telling premier Khrushchev that the sum mit conference on the Middle East must wait un til several weeks of spadework have been done on it, we're taking the stand we've taken ever since the Geneva conference of heads of state in the summer of 1955 proved a flop. Almost immediately after Stalin died in March 1953, the Russians began to propose East West summit conferences. They redoubled their proposals in the summer of 1954 as the Euro pean security and German rearmament agree ments were on the point of being ratified. TTHE WEST, deeming the Russian proposals along with more friendly Russian attitudes in UN and in Western capitals merely moves to prevent the security and German agreements, said in effect, "Not just yet." When those agreements were finally out of the way, the West said, "All right: now." At Geneva in 1955 the favorable climate did seem to engender understandings on German re unification, disarmament and atomic testing, se curity from and for Russia, a neutral zone in Europe. But when the Big Four foreign ministers convened on the following Oct. 27 to implement these purported understandings, they found them only the old impasses. CO SECRETARY Dulles took the position that any summit conference should be held, not before, but after painstaking negotiations, as when the Austrian peace treaty was finally sign ed in 1955. And this year the Kremlin, after re peatedly proposing a top conference, did agree to preliminary discussions on its substance. - These discussions opened in Moscow on April 17 with the U.S. and British ambassadors, but have so far made little or no headway. It was this position that the Mid-East crisis over the Lebanon and Jordan upset resulting in proposals for a summit conference disguised as a UN security council meeting. E.R.R. . Dennis the Menace 'Sure is a scorcher, isn't it? Matter of Fact "OVERKILL" Washington It is now the Eisenhower administration's policy to permit the Kremlin to gain an ov- e r w h elming i superiority of nuclear strik ing power in the next five years. This is the true, though unad- mitted re sponse to the warn i.n.g of jospb Alsop the Sputniks. The terrible-facts that sup port the foregoing terrible charge have already been printed in this space. These facts in turn quite obviously pose a further question. How can the Administration possi bly be pursuing such a pol icy, eight months . after the Sputnik's clear warning? All sorts of extraneous-factors enter into the answer. The most important, certainly, is the capture of the Presi dent's mind by former Secre tary of the Treasury George Magoffin Humphrey. Hum phrey taught Eisenhower to fear loose or burdensome fis cal measures more than he fears the armed might of the Kremlin. , , OUT no President could t cling to this system of pri ority not even a President so protected from the terrible facts as Dwight D. Eisenhower if he did not have some veil of military argument to cast over the hideous reality 1 The veil currently being used is the theory of "overkill." This theory has been put forward by the Army apd Navy, in or der to protect their own ap propriations from the compe tition of the needed vast ex penditures to strengthen our nuclear deterrent. What then is this theory of "overkill?" In essence it is the' argument that you do not need the power to "overkill," if you already have H-bombs and the means to deliver them in quantities sufficient to destroy the Soviet Union. Being childishly simple, it sounds convincing. This is nonsense, all the same, be cause it slurs over the oper ational realities and altogeth er ignores the political - psy chological realities. The op erational realities may be summarized as follows: THIRST, the Kremlin is not deterred from attacking the United States by any sim ple computation of American nuclear striking power. What deters the Kremlin is a com putation of the balance be tween their power and our power. In particular, the Kremlin is continuously com puting how much American nuclear striking power will probably survive a first blow by Soviet nuclear striking power. This part of our strik ing power that will survive the first blow is the true and only deterrent. As the balance tilts towards unchallengeable Soviet su periority during the next five years, the part of our striking power that will survive a first blow must also diminish. This rate by which our true and only deterrent will weaken is affected by many special factors. Ever since the Sput niks, for example, the Stra tegic Air Command has kept one-third of its aircraft either in the air or on 15-minute alerts, in order to make sure that at least a third of its strength will survive a first blow by the Soviets. But' this survival-force can not strike back without the complexly coordinated sup port of the air-tanker fleet. It will surely be disorganized by the effect of the first blow on SAC's nerve centers. As time goes on it will surely be too weak to saturate the in creasingly powerful Soviet air defenses. In the worst stage of the period ahead, in liumMjumimmimmm By Joseph Alsop short, the Soviets may still have to expect some damage fromour counter-strikes, but not enough damage to deter their first blow. AS the Defense Depart ment's 'own brilliant ex pert on Soviet strategic think ing, Dr. Raymond Garthoff, has pointed out, the Kremlin's standard of damage that can be expected in order to win the war was set in the last war. The Soviet Union then survived a holocaust of tens of millions of its people, and tfte destruction or semi-destruction of most of the cities of European Russia. Remember this Kremlin standard of acceptable dam age. Picture the Kremlin with 1,000 to 2,000 intercontinen tal ballistic missiles; with 1, 000 to 2,000 shorter range missiles neutralizing our over seas air bases; with a vast net work of air defense to with stand our manned bombers that survive the first blow; and with a substantial man ned bomber force of their own for the precision jobs. What will the Kremlin then do? Any man who is not intoxi cated by official self-delusion must at least expect the Krem lin to threaten to strike the first blow. And how shall we respond to the Kremlin's threats, when we have a proud total of 130 intercontinental ballistic mis siles, against 2,000 Soviet ICBM's? That will be one item in the. dreadful balance sheet of 1962-63; so how will it af fect our actions? This Admin istration ought to know the probable answers to these psychological . political ques tions, after the great Middle Eastern catastrophes. (C) 1958 New York Hearald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK Last Thursday it cost only three cents to send an ordin ary letter through the mails. Today it cost four. Then it cost only six cents to send an air mail letter. Today it costs seven. So Post office officials re port There was a rush Thursday to write letters. Over the na tion, mail volume was up 20 per cent over normal as thrifty Citizens took their pens in hand to get their cor respondence out of the way before the price went up. Postal employees worked overtime to handle the rush of business. rjHAT'S inflation for you. .BUY BEFORE THE PRICE GOES UP and beat the in crease. Everybody does it. M ORE about the mail: Postal authorities estimate that the extra penny for .let ters, cards and airmail stamps will cost the average family about two dolalrs a year or considerably less than a penny a day. - That's peanuts. But, the postal people con fide, it's a whopping increase for big businesses like the utility companies. The New York Telephone Company estimates that the extra post age (on its mailed bills to its customers, and so on) will cost it the tidy sum of eight hundred thousand dollars. That isn't peanuts. THOUGHT at this point: The New York Telephone company will probably ask for an increase in its rates to offset the increase in its post age bill. Again That's inflation for you. Political Grapevine: Labor Bill; By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD The political grapevine: Arkansas' Gov. Orval E. Faubus did more than break tradi tion last week when he won r e nomination to a third term by a lop sided vote. The central figure in the Little R o ck Lyle C. Wilson High School episode proved, also, that racial segregation is a rich lode for vote-hungry politicos. This would not have been significant in the deep South. Arkansas, how ever, is no deep South. Ar kansas has been rated a mod erate among the Southern states. It has had distinctive New Deal tendencies. The political wars between the segregationists and in tegrationists will rolkright up to President Eisenhower's back porch in September. Op posing sides are maneuvering toward a showdown in Arl ington County, Virginia, di rectly across the Potomac river from Washington. If the sparks fly, Eisenhower and Mamie will be able to see 'em from that back porch which Harry S. Truman add ed to the White House when he lived there. Another big integration blaze is coming in Thomas . Jefferson's home town Charlottesville, Va. There is a big argument whether Speaker Sam Ray- burn or organized business men will be responsible if the House at this session fails to pass the Senate-approved labor reform bill. Rayburii held the bill on his desk for 41 days before referring it to committee for action. Or ganized businessmen . have campaigned by mail against the bill, contending that it was inadequate and no real reform. This is one of those "who struck John?" disputes. For sure, however, the Demo crats who control the House of Representatives will hand the Republicans a solid cam paign issue if the House fails to act at this session against the abuses in organized labor revealed by Senate rackets investigators. Sure sign that there has been a recession and that there still may be one: The Treasury is collecting more taxes on packaged cigarette papers and somewhat less on machine-m a d e smokes. A bulge in roll-your-own smok ing is an infallible indication of a shortage of loose change in the public pocket. Ditto when . the consumption of tailor-mades falls off. To bacco men say the reaction of millions of women smokers JENKINS That's the way works. inflation A T THIS point, let's bounce from higher postage costs to the much-discussed "sum mit" meeting. What do you think of it? If it is held, will the free world be saved? If it isn't held, will the free world be sunk? I WONDER. As France's De Gaulle sug gests, a "summit" conference (no matter where it is held) will provide Khrushchev with a wonderful propaganda opportunity. At a "summit" meeting, he can yell bloody murder at the top of his voice about the wicked war mongering United States and his every word will be carried all over the world. About all we can do is to say IT AIN'T SO. That is a rather weak re joinder. SOMETHING else to remem ber: At a summit conference, Khrushchev will be the only real SUMMIT. As long as he can manage to stay on top, he is IT so far as Russia is concerned. He can say what he pleases and do what he pleases. If he chooses, he can lie like a trooper and there will be nobody at home to call him down. It is different with the President of the United States and the Premier of Britain. The President of the U.S. has a congress to consider. The Premier of Britain has a par liament to consider. Khrush chev as long, that is, as he can stay on top is as free as a bird. Ethan Allen, hero of the capture of Ticonderoga, spent his last few years in Burling ton, Vt., where he is buried. Recession to recession, unemployment and the like is to stop smok ing altogether. Father and son are more likely to switch to the makin's. In the depths of the 1930s depression, tobacco men ap pealed to the Treasury for a reduction in the tax on a package of cigarettes. The manufacturers presented esti mates designed to show that the tax on tobacco had passed the point of diminishing re Washington Report By William S. White OLD WARRIORS Washington Two elderly gentlemen who have held jobs with the government seem about to become eli gible for pen sions of a kind long since pro vided for near ly everybody else. Congress ap p a r e n tly is going to allow Willam S White Ja.UUU djc" to ex-Presidents of the United States. Mr. Herbert Hoover will be 84 on August 10; Mr. Harry S. Truman was 74 last May. These are the only two imme diately prospective beneficiar ies of a new kind of social security. Their public images are so widely known as "to have be come part of our national folklore. But what are they like simply as private men, as retired men? In some ways they could not, of course, be more different. But as the only living members of the most exclusive club in the world a two-man club that might be called the Associa tion of Former Presidents of the United States they have points of striking similarity. Each has a startling sim plicity and directness in face-to-iace conversation. Each has had all there is in success and Dower and the quiet suffer ing that goes with both. Each has been so big as never again to fear to seem Little. 17ACH has long since risen above petty partisan or personal malice. Neither has foreotten the abuse he took in the White House. But neither clutches these sour memories to his heart. Each, instead, is full of a brisk, and occasionally un printable, humor. For each the past is mellowed, much as it is mellowed for other combat veterans men, say, at a First . Division reunion who will speak little of the unending casualties in "The Bie Red 1" but much of the vital, the irreplaceable, the comic absurdities that made life possible along the edge rows in Normandy. Each speaks with a plain ness whatever the topic that any child of 8 could un derstand. Many lesser public men feel obliged to put their thoughts with a certain pre tentiousness, as though dictat ing to the moving finger that records history. But in neither Mr. Hoover nor Mr. Truman is there any such solemn nonsense. When Mr. Hoover talks about gov ernmental r e o rganization his great interest of recent years he talks with 'a fresh bluntness that cuts through the bureaucratic jargon like a hoe going through the un dergrowth around Iowa corn. THOSE who recall his pain ful shyness and stiffness as a - public speaker would meet, astonishingly, quite an other man in private. The Herbert Hoover who so long in public typified the high, choking collar is an open shirt man in private. He is, in point of fact, a first-rate cusser when "he pleases and a man of distinct ly relaxed charm. Though of independent means, he retains an his old zest for that free enterprise of which he used to speak so sincerely and, let's face it, in a way so un deniably dull. He is proud that his new book, "The Ordeal of Wood row Wilson," has been a best seller. This is not simply be cause Mr. Hoover himself is something of an authority on ordeals; it is also because it proves that his work and his power to compete are not done. Mr. Truman, for his part, has his troubles with 1 the More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here Is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. FASTEETH. an Improved powder, sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they (eel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non acid). Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FAS TEETH today at any drug counter. IP Faubus, Sign turns. That is, taxes were pricing cigarettes out of the market. They argued that a penny off the cigarette tax would so stimulate buying that the treasury's tax take would be greater at the re duced rate. The treasury would not budge, and nothing much since has been heard from the tobacco men al though most other industries burdened by heavy excise taxes have been clamoring for relief. household budget like most other people. Unlike Mr. Hoover, who never "blew up" in public in his life and prob ably could not if his life de pended on it, Mr. Truman could and still can in pri vate. He is, however, not a bit more salty than is Mr. Hoover. Like his predecessor, Mr. Truman enjoys the small, good things in life, including a drink along about sundown. He is not and never was, how eves, " the rather heedless friend of bourbon and branch water that some legends have supposed. WHEN on a social occasion he has had two high balls, he turns his thumbs down on further offers and says with perhaps a trace of regret: "I've had my quota." If his eyes on these occasions have sometimes seemed to this correspondent to have been turned rather wistfully and inquiringly upon Mrs. Truman, this is no doubt merely the fancy of another married man. The most interesting topic in all the world to Mr. Tru man Is history any history The next is not the Presidency Mm ... -". if f i if t' i A 4 I til ft ft fort Clatsop NORTHWEST TERRITORY Lewb and Clark winter quarter near Astoria. Oregon August marts the birth month, of two men whose exploits ranlc as the great expedition ' of exploration in American history'. We know relatively more perhaps about the moon today than Captain Meriwether Lewis and Lt. William Clark knew of the mountains and plains west and northwest of the Mississippi-Missouri system in 1804. What was this northwest land, what did it contain, were questions for which these men were to supply answers by direction of President Thomas Jefferson. A singular combination of talents com bined in Capt. Lewis and Lt. Clark diplomacy and tact in dealing with the In dians and the men in their company; their own physical as well as mental and moral strength, spelled success for the expedition. The winter months of 1805-06. spent at Fort Clatsop behind the dunes on the Pa cific shore were perhaps the most trying--when it seemed they might perish after hav ing reached their goal. But the strength and courage of these two men held the tiny party together and inspired the wills of the men. enabling them to complete the return to St. Louis, thereby firmly establishing the foundation of the United States' claim to what became the Oregon Territory. I . n mi ii in in f-w Home FRIENDLY, Fuchs' Antarctica Trip in Magazine Twelve colored photographs of Sir Vivian Fuchs expedi tion across the Antarctica showing the work of the Tuck er Sno-Cat appear in this week's issue of Life magazine. Accompanying the pictures is an interview with Dr. Fuchs by Life Writer Robert Manning. Dr. Fuchs used four Sno Cats in his voyage across the frozen continent by land by the Commonwealth Transant arctic Expedition. One of the Sno-Cats which made the trip recently was on display in Medford, repurchased by the firm which made it. Another over-snow vehicle is on tour in Europe, and the other two are awaiting further assign ment. Washington (UPD The Senate has passed and sent to the White House a bill requir ing approval of the Secretary of Interior as well as Federal Power Commission for river construction projects. but rather the Senate, where, of course, he served. "If I could, have lived my life out as a Senator," Mr. Truman once told me, "that is what most of all I would have pre ferred to do." So, to sum it up: Herbert Hoover is an ancient Republi can; Harry Truman a slightly less ancient Democrat. But the real identity between them goes infinitely beyond so trifling a divergence. Each loves the United . States of America. V - And these old warriors have spiritual wound-stripes running from shoulder to tip of sleeve that are their an swers to the rookie pseudo sophisticate who is ashamed openly to indicate such a fact of love. Hail the Association of Former Presidents of the United States. Long may it dssocicitc (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Oi i PERL Funeral Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE i Finer - -Slf .Xllt III- r--
