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4 Monday, August 11, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTRIBUNE "X very one in Southern Vfregoo Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 North Fir St Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manaret GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 139 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 9 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 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 year S18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of Ctty of Medford Official Paper of Jackson 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 Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. 3 C. NEWS PA PE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocTatiQn r7 kj 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 Aug. 11. 1948 (Wednesday) "Othello" opens the Ash land Shakespeare Festival to night. A hospital board has been created by the Ashland city council to draw up plans for a new city hospital. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1938 (Thursday) A gold nugget nearly as large as a hen's egg has been taken from a Squaw creek placer mine in the Upper Ap plegate district. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The season for getting lost in the timber is at hand. A little, later, when storms are brew ing, is the most advantageous time to climb a mountain that don't need climbing, and onto the front page." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 11. 1928 (Saturday) - The United Artisans drill team contest this morning in trigued several hundred peo ple at the armory. Jerry Bird, an airedale, wears green goggles to keep wind and dust from his eyes when he goes riding with Mrs. Lyda King, county health nurse. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1918 (Sunday) Mayor Gates' goat, auction ed at the Page theater last night, brought S49.50 for the benefit of the local Red Cross. A war of extermination against coyotes and other predators in Jackson county will be waged this fall and winter if a government appro priation is approved. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What abbreviation for Oregon is approved by the U. S. Post Office? 2. There are 63,360 inches in a quarter mile, half mile, or mile? 3. What vegetable is used to make sauerkraut? 4. Ladybugs are, or are not, beneficial in gardens? 5. Opiates are prescribed to induce sleep, or sleeplessness? 6. Correct the following sentence: "The patient seems insensible of pain." 7. Sophomore is a name for a student in the first, second, or third year of a four-year college course? 8. The female human skele ton has fewer, or an equal number, of ribs as compared to the male human skeleton? 9. Name the head of the American Federation of Mu sicians who recently retired from that post. 10. For what product was the advertising slogan. "Even tually, Why Not Now?" cre ated? Answers: 1. Oreg. 2. Mile. 3. Cabbage. 4. Are beneficial. 5. To induce sleep. 6. "The patient seems insensible to pain." 7. Second year. 8. Equal " number of ribs. 9. James C Petrillo. 10. Gold Medal flour. Middle East Development The conviction appears to be growing that any viable political settlement in the Middle East must be tied in -with or even rest upon a broad regional development program there. U. S. dip lomats, casting about for a positive approach in the forthcoming show-down with Soviet Russia, are said to be studying such a plan, though Sec retary of State Dulles has shown no great en thusiasm for the idea in the past. For the basic idea is not new. It keeps reap pearing from year to year in a variety of guises. Former President Tinman has long championed the idea of area development for the Middle East. In a syndicated article of Feb. 14, 1957, for ex ample, he wrote: We must realize we cannot achieve a durable peage in the Middle East until we can bring together into close economic cooperation all the nations of that area. We cannot be too soon in tackling this problem. All the na tions of the Middle East have common water resources in the Euphrates, the Jordan, and the Nile. If these wat- er resources are fully developed, a flourishing civiliza tion such as existed in ancient days will rise again. AS LONG ago as December 1950 the United Nations General Assembly voted $30 million to finance a reintegration program, for Palestin ian Arab refugees to be administered by the UN Relief and Works Agency. The two most ambi tious projects called for irrigating the northwest ern part of the Sinai Peninsula with Nile river water piped from the Suez Canal and developing the wrhole Jordan river system. ' The Sinai plan was shelved in 1956 when President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt decided that Nile waters could not be spared until the Aswan High Dam had been built. To promote the Jordan project, Eric A. Johnston, acting as a special presidential envoy, made several trips to the Middle East in the years 1953-1955. It foundered over the impossibility of bringing Jor dan, Israel, and Syria together to agree on ripar ian rights. Then there is the "Italian Middle-Eastern doc trine" proposed by' former Foreign Minster Giu seppe Pella wThen he visited Washington last De cember. The Italians envisage a new Middle East ern development fund established by the United States and Western European countries, with the United States contributing the repayments on its Marshall Plan loans. The new Premier, Amintore Fanfani, is reported to have brought up the Pella plan again on his recent visit to this country. THE Middle East of course is divided between "have" and "have-not" nations,' and what the "haves" have is oil. Emile M. Bustani, a member of the Lebanese Parliament, and an oil pipeline" builder, last Oct. 22 proposed the easing of ten sions by making funds from oil profits available to countries that do not produce oil. A close friend of Nasser, Bustani reported that Egypt was will ing to have an oil pipeline built from one end of the Suez Canal to the other. Dr. Ali Amini, Iranian Ambassador to the United States, made a similar proposal last Jan. 31. Iran, unlike Lebanon, is an oil-haye nation. Over-all Middle Eastern oil income flows in at the rate of about $1 billion a year. Now Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R-N.Y.), is pro posing that the United States push a "suitably adapted and adequately financed regional de velopment plan" along Marshall Plan lines for the Middle Uast. And on tne otner side oi uie aisle, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, (D-Minn.) asks that we "take the initiative in the UN in proposing a Middle East Development Agency as an admin istering body for the mutual pooling of capital and technical aid in the region." E.R.R. Pension For Ex-Presidents Now it's the President himself who'll face what is in a way a conflict of interests. He soon gets for his approval a bill, now in conference be tween House and Senate, to give former Presi dents $25,000 a year for life (and $10,000 to their widows), perhaps (Senate version) with some free office space, secretarial staff and postage. The Eisenhowers after Jan. 20, 1961, won't need such aid, it was pointed out in the House de bate. Nor are former Presidents Hoover and Tru man actually "barefoot" or "in danger of missing a meal." DUT other chief executives were less fortunate, Jefferson, practically bankrupt, had to mort gage Monticello and sell his cherished books and other property. Madison raised a little money by laboriously writing up his notes on the Constitu tional Convention. Even so, he didn't leave Dolly enough to live comfortably on. Monroe lost his Virginia estate to creditors, and had to go to New York to live off relatives. Mrs. Lincoln felt impelled to ask Congress for a pension. Grant, penniless from an unfortunate venture in Wall Street, had to pen his memoirs while dying from cancer of the throat. Mrs. Ben jamin Harrison lived in poverty that wasn't al ways genteel. flTLSON, half paralyzed, needed his second wife's income (she now receives a $5000 government pension), even after a group of friends donated to him the mortgage on his S Street house in Washington. Coolidge wrote a newspaper column and became a trustee of a life insurance company. The present bill aims to relieve former chief executives from making connections of this sort. Even so, the present federal tax reduces a hus-band-and-wife gross income of $25,000, with standard deductions, to around $18,000. E.R.R. Dennis the Menace 'I'LL JUST PUT THESE- OH M CASE MY MOM LOOKS FOR FINGERPRINTS U.N. Committee Unanimous In Noting Nuclear Fallout Hazards By JOHN McNUTT ' UPI Correspondent United Nations, N. Y. (UPD A 15-nation U. N. commit tee has agreed unanimously that mankind faces "new and largely unknown hazards" as a result of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. The committee, which has been studying the problem for more than 2Vz years, found that "even the smallest amounts of radiation are lia ble to cause deleterious gen etic and perhaps also somatic effects." Somatic effects include can cer and leukemia. The report added, "The irradiation of any groups of people, before and during the reproductive age, will contribute genetic effects to whole populations in so far as the gonads (repro duction glands) are exposed." Praises Study In Washington, the Atomic Once-Powerful Farm Block Shattered, Observers Believe By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington A good many observers here are saying the once-powerful farm bloc in Congress has been shattered. For years many Southern Democrats and Midwestern Republicans .teamed up to scratch regional backs by supporting omnibus farm legislation that was good for both these major agricultural areas which grow major price-supported crops cot ton, tobacco, rice, corn and wheat. " But last week for the sec ond ,time, the House defeat ed a farm bill. And earlier this - session President Eisen hower vetoed a resolution calling for a freeze in the level of farm price supports and acreage allotments. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is credited with helping to split the farm bloc in his persistent fight against high rigid price sup ports. Two-Price Plan Dead Northwest wheat growers, who have long advocated a two-price plan for wheat, won the backing of the House Ag riculture Committee earlier this year but the resulting omnibus farm bill was re fused even the privilege of a floor debate by the House. So the two-price plan was virt ually killed off. The split in the farm bloc began in 1954. The Eisen hower administration helped bring out this division with the aid of the cotton industry, particularly textile interests who were concerned about high cotton prices compared with the many new synthetic fabrics coming out of non price supported chemical plants. Benson promised South erners what amounted to a freeze on acreage allotments, which were due to be cut sharply because of a heavy surplus, in return for voting his flexible price support pro gram into law. This horse-trade between the administration and South ern Democrats helped Ben son achieve his flexible sup port victory. It led . to a scramble among farm com modity producing groups to outdo one another for bene fits equal to those being granted cotton. Benson all the while was preaching the doctrine that government con trols were hurting the farmer. Greater Flexibility In January Benson sought Energy Commission lauded the "thorough-going study" made by the U. N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation but said "man must learn to live" with radiation. The AEC added, "It is im portant to note that in so far as leukemia and bone cancer are concerned, the committee has pointed out there is no certainty that fallout will produce any additional cases of either .disease " Moreover, said the AEC, the committee "has taken pains to estimate the greatest number of cases which might result from fall out under the most pessimis tic conditions." The committee's report, which will be submtted to the next regular session of the U. N. General Assembly, stopped short of calling for cessation of nuclear tests. It said that problem was one for to gain greater flexibility by asking for a law to allow him to set price supports any where between 60 and 90 per cent of parity, instead of Be tween 75 and 90 per cent as the present law provides on the basic crops. At the same time there was pressure from producers -to prevent acreage allotments being cut. The Farm Bureau then moved into position its power ful lobby group, which haj generally been on Benson's side and opposed, with Ben son, the Northwest wheat growers plan. The Farm Bureau pushed its plan for letting the open market take over setting support levels. The level would be 90 per cent of the average price of the three previous years. This would lower supports con siderably. Again, concessions were made to Southerners. Cotton and rice acreage increases would be allowed. And no acreage allotments would be observed for corn at all. No change was made in the wool act, which picked up western votes. A price support floor of 60 per cent was inserted, which was what Benson want ed in the first place. This plan got through the Senate in July, 67-11, with Sens. Wayne Morse and Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.), opposing it. Stuck With Parity The -House Agriculture Committee, under the pres sure of the Senate retreat from high supports, stuck with the parity system but installed a stepdown arrange ment that would lower sup ports on cotton and rice to 65 per cent by 1962. Corn growers were to be allowed to vote later this year whether they want the present pro gram with acreage controls or the "market price for mula" with acreage increases. Speaker Sam Rayburn called this bill up under sus pension of House rules last week, which mean it needed a two-thirds vote to pass but was not open for amendment. The reason for this procedure was to avoid its being loaded down with other provisions. It failed to get the necessary votes. Reps. Al Ullman and Charles O. Porter supported it. Reps. Edith Green and Walter Norblad opposed it. The end of farm legislating for this year was one of con fusion, but the farm bloc clearly no longer in control of its own destiny. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the Subversive Bears To the Editor: Page Mr. Khrushchev! Dear Mr. Eisen hower: I think that you should be informed that Oregon has gone Communist. Did you know that this wicked state has traded Oregon beavers for Russian bears and that at the World's Fair in Brus sels, Belgium, for all the world to see? Aren't good, old native American bears good enough for gold old Am ericans and pioneer Oregon ians? And to think that some of these Oregonians have lab elled poor Mr. Porter, our honest, hard-working Repre sentative in Congress, Com munist? The fact that the South Americans like Mr. Porter and don't like Mr. Nix on proves something or does it? Why, I like Mr. Porter my- thj political men, not the sci entists, to solve, and called merely for "cessation of con tamination" caused by nu clear testing. The 15-nation group said, "Radioactive contamination of the environment resulting from explosions of nuclear weapons constitutes a grow ing increment to world-wide radiation levels. "This involves new and largely unknown hazards to present and future popula tions; these hazards, by their very nature, are beyond the control of the exposed person." Matter of Fact hv THE ROT GOES ON Washington in its incor rigible way, the Administra tion has been trying to tell the country that everything will turn out for the best in the Middle East. Mean while the Ad- m i n istration is really sweating with fear that ev erything will shortly turn Joseph Alsop worse. The out for the signs of more trouble ahead may be item lzed as follows: ITEM: Apparently at the haughty request of Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Saud of Saudi Arabia and his brother- Prime Minister, Crown Prince Faisal, have just re ceived the Chief of Staff of the Egyptian army, Gen. Hakim Amer, at the royal summer palace in the hills, at Taif. It is known that the main subject of discussion was the return of an Egyptian mili tary mission to Saudi Arabia, for the ostensible purpose of training the Saudi army. The former mission was ejected from Saudi Arabia after the Egyptian military attache was caught, red-handed, or ganizing terrorist groups for the overthrow of King Saud's government. It is further known that Gen. Hakim Amer paid hardly more than a courtesy call on the king. Almost all his time was spent with the crown prince, who has been the real ruler of Saudi Arabia ever since the king's virtual abdication was forced by Nasser's customary propaganda - and - conspiracy pressures. TT SEEMS highly likely, therefore, that the Egyp tian military mission will soon rejoin the Saudi army. In this event, Saudi Arabia's days of comparative inde pendence are almost certain ly numbered, and the trans formation of the Saudi realm into another Nasser province must eventually be expected. This reading of the Saudi signs is made more likely by the further fact that King Saud's most anti-Western for eign affairs adviser, Sheikh Yussuf Yassin, is on his way to Cairo. i ITEM: Egypt's vulnerable neighbors to the south and west, the Sudan and Libya, have been subjected to the most extreme and flagrant propaganda - and - conspiracy pressures in the last two days. In both countries, the situa tion is rated as precarious at best. A Nasser thiumph in the Sudan will open interior Af rica to Nasser and the Krem lin. A Nasser triumph in Libya will effectively rule out any peaceable settlement between France, Tunisia, Mo rocco and the Moslem popu lation of Algeria. The Amer ican Strategic Air Com mand's most important single overseas base, Wheelus Field, will also be lost ' if Nasser wins Libya. The same theat, self. Do you think that, not having rich friends to give him a vicuna coat and Orien tal rug, that Mr. Porter will appear in the best that he is able to afford a bear-skin coat or use a bear-skin rug? Do you think that those Rus sian bears were indoctrinated before they were traded im agine, traded to Oregon for our honest, dam-building and often damned Oregon beav ers? Do you realize that those Russian bear cubs are making themselves right at home " in an Oregon zoo and indoctri nating the other animals? Don't you think those Russian bears' should be sent right back to Siberia or at least to Alaska Remember Rudyard Kipling's warning about the bear that walks like a man? Don't you think an FBI man should be sent, out here im mediately to watch these Rus sian bears and see if any of them start walking or acting like men? Anyway, they couldn't act any worse than men. That's one comfort. I'm afraid Mr. Khrushchev has won another diplomatic victory and that outside the UN. Please, please, Mr. Eis enhower send an Un-American Committee out here right away to interrogate these Rus sian bears. Between Russian, (not good, old native Ameri can) bears and space flying dogs, I can hardly bear it, doggone it. Edith Y. Ingle, 338 Bessie St. Medford P. S. The FBI man could be disguised as a California grizzly. Joseph Alsop of course, hangs over the Dahran air base in Saudi Arabia, which is not used by SAC but is invaluable for our world air transport plan. ITEM: The position in Jor dan is so critical that it may perhaps erupt in trouble, or even end in a surrender, be fore these words are printed. Not so very long ago, Presi dent Eisenhower was declar ing that the "security of Jor dan" was essential to the United States. Now the Brit ish and American govern ments are anxiously talking about the need for King Hus sein to abandon his little country, which his naked courage saved from Nasser and the local Communists only 15 months ago. The idea is for vKing Hus sein to announce that he is leaving the country (presum ably in the same aircraft with the British paratroopers who are there now), so that his people can hold a "free plebi scite." The Jordanians will be ironically offered the chance to invite their king back if they choose. So the surrender of Jordan will be gracefully covered up if this scheme is adopted. rpHE reasons for discussing this extraordinary scheme are highly practical. All Jor dan's borders are now closed, and there is no access to the country except through the mud-hut port of Aqaba and by American transport air craft over-flying Israel. The overflights of Israel are the only real means of supplying the 2,000 British paratroopers sent to guard Hussein against the conspiracy. After receiv ing a grossly threatening So viet note, the Israelis recent ly withdrew permission for the overflights. In answer to strong U.S. protests, they have now allowed the over flights to continue, but "only for a few days." Hence the Jordanian posi tion is literally untenable for the long pull, unless meas ures are taken to break the military blockade of Jordan that has been imposed by Egypt's Syrian province, the new Iraqi government and Saudi Arabia. A partial with drawal of U.S. Marines from Lebanon has not started as yet, solely because of the des perate need to provide a kind of cover for the British troops in Jordan. In short, the rot in the Mid dle East is proceeding more rapidly than ever. This was, of course, certain to happen when the British and Ameri can governments took only the phoniest half Measures to stop the rot that began in Baghdad, (c) 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Helps You Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel 111-at-ea.se because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. an Improved alka line (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates Get FASTEETH today at any drug counter. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This weird world note: In Oakland, a 17-year-old youth was visiting a friend. In the course of the visit he plucked a revolver from a holster hanging on a wall, flipped out the cylinder and spun it. It was empty. He put a cartridge in one of the chambers, snapped the cylinder into place, put the muzzle to his right temple and remarked casually: "I think I'll play Russian roulette." He pulled the trigger once, and nothing happened. He pulled it AGAIN. That time was IT. He died instantly. WHY did he do it? ' I wish we knew. . If we knew about things like that, we might be able to make this a better world for people to live in. TTERE'S a happier tale: In Reno a would-be rob ber was literally laughed out of the bandit business at the Riverside hotel casino. Officers say Mrs. Grant Ed wards was on shift as cashier when a masked bandit walked up and demanded all the S100 bills in her till. She thought it was a joke and LAUGHED. Editorial Comment NEW A.M.A. PAPER 1 Undaunted by the difficul ties which have confronted publications, both magazines and newspapers, the Ameri can Medical association is starting a new publishing ven ture. For years it has publish ed its Journal, a weekly de voted to news of medical sci ence and of the medical pro fession. Now it is launching "The AMA News" a semi weekly addressed to its ."cap tive audience" of over 200,000 physicians plus many in relat ed health activities. Its advance advertising, ad dressed primarily to the ad vertising agencies, emphasizes two things: the audience "that represents a combined annual income of over three and a third billion dollars" and that .the News will accept "no ad vertisements that include claims pertaining to the health of people." In justifying the publication the ad describes the physician as a "man in motion" "with professional duties that keep him on the go most of the day and night, the doctor has little time for TV, radio, or reading outside of his own profession." So this publication, which is designed "to fill his need for news per tinent to the medical commu nity" will undertake to "pre sent the news as the doctors want to read it concise, load ed with facts, giving the med ical angles." In view of its sponsorship by the AMA thepaper should be a success financially. The association can finance it over the initial period, and pick up the tabs if income falls short of expenses in the future. But the story in the prospectus is rather damaging to the medi cal profession: no time to get information from the estab lished channels of communi cation TV, radio or outside reading. This, helps explain why the doctors have such dif ficulty with their "public re lations." They live an isolat ed life: home, office, hospitals, some house calls; but except at home, dealing always with the ill or those aiding in car ing for the ill. It is a hard life, energy-consuming, calling for Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) !ViJA ''Jr4 IA f M'- FRIENDLY, Police say the robber turned white and fled with a bouncer in hot pursuit. I HOPE he got away. I hope even more fer vently that the experience SCARED HIM SO NEARLY OUT OF HIS BOOTS THAT NEVER AGAIN WILL HE CONTEMPLATE ROBBERY AS A WAY OF LIFE. It just DOESN'T pay. 4 LONG with nine others, this commandment was written , on the tablets of stone: THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. If we paid more attention to the Ten Commandments, this would be a better world for all of us to live in. TN the Sermon on the Mount Jesus of Nazareth said (as quoted by Matthew): "Therefore all things what soever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." 4 That simple rule, if univer sally followed, would cure nearly all the evils from which this world suffers so grievously. many sacrifices, but insulated from other currents of ac tivity. The last thing that doctors need is another house organ in. which news is filtered through the AMA, where the selection is of "news pertinent to the medical community" and where the "facts" give "the medical angles." They need a better balanced read ing ration, even if it includes a helping of Whiz Bang! In stead of including the harden ing of intellectual arteries by reading more doctor-prescribed news they should do more outside reading of papers, magazines, books. Usually persons of superior intelli gence, they let the range of their interests become atro phied, by too great concentra tion in their profession; and sometimes it seems to outsid ers that those with the least mental resilience call the turns for the whole profes sion. So it may easily be that the new AMA News, due to print its first issue in September, will be a financial success and a professional disaster. Ore gon Statesman, Salem. Ban on Freight Shipments Lifted Washington UPD The ban on rail freight shipments from the United States and Canada to Mexico was lifted today after termination of the Mexi can railroad strike. Arthur H. Gass. chairman of the Car Service Division, of the Association of Ameri can Railroads, said regular operations will be resumed immediately. The susriension of ship ments to destinations on the National Railways of Mexico had been ordered last Wed nesday. Employees ended their strike and returned to work Thursday. An arpumulation of cars nt nrincinal border crossings which developed during the five-day strike has been clear ed, Gass announced. Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE ' PERL
