Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 15, 1958, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Texta ftUtr, Aoeuir 15, 1938 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. "Everyone in Southern 'Brecon Published Daily except Saturday bj MZDFORD PRINTING CO S3 North Fir St Ph. SP-2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Mansvsi GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC ALLEN. JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JTWETT. Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3, 1891 SUBSCRIPTION RATES B7 Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday I year $15 00 Daily and Sunday 6 mot. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Mediord Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of City of Mediord 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 NEWSPAPER X PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL asTocPatiQn Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. '30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 15, 1948 (Sunday) A children's" hobby parade will be included in Jackson ville's Gold Rush Jubilee. The Montgomery Ward warehouse on South River side ave. is expected to be completed soon. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. IS, 1938 (Monday) Stone fruit growers are in vited to a demonstration of the control of peach and prune root borers. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Provi dence intervened and balked a tragedy in this office last week. A list of marriage li censes, under ' the WRES TLING RESULTS head was caught in time." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. IS, 1928 (Wednesday) The farm bureau reports vacancies still exist in a pool carload of hogs due to depart Friday. From the "Central Point" column: "Pear picking is on in full blast this week." 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 15, 1918 (Thursday) All young men under 21 in the county must register this month. The new dance hall at Pros pect will open Saturday eve ning with a Medford band furnishing the music. Yhal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. With which Presidents do you associate these sayings and slogans: "The Full Din ner Pail," "The Big Stick," and "Back to Normalcy." 2. The United States was the first country to grant nation-wide suffrage to women; true or false? 3. Asuncion is the capital of which Latin American country? 4. A million is how many thousand? 5. What shoulder insignia does a major in the U. S. Army wear? 6. What is a corsair? 7. During the administration of F. D.'Roosevelt a marriage was celebrated in the White House in which Mrs. Louise , Macy was wedded to a prom inent New Leader; who was he? 8. The movement that led to the organization of the Con federate States of America was begun in which Southern State? 9. The epithet, "the nine old men," was once applied to which group of government officials? 10. What is the capital of South Dakota? Answers: 1. M c K i n 1 y, Theodore Roosevelt, Harding. 2. False. (New Zealand). 3. Paraguay. 4. 1000. 5. Gold oak lata. 6. Pirate. 7. Harry Hop kins. 8. South Carolina. 9. The. Supreme Court. 10. Pier- The Nose Knows A nose has many uses. There is a "nose for news," mighty handy to a newspaper reporter. , One can use a nose to stick into other people's business. Sometimes one gets bashed in the nose. The "nose knows" when a skunk is around, or when one is passing a paper mill, or when a par ticularly tasty dinner is in the oven. The nose.is the seat of the sneeze, the patron of perfume, the detector of the decayed. It is sentry, monitor, aesthete. C0R the nose or rather, one nose with which we are intimately concerned ; attached to, one might say the high point of the year comes along about the middle of August, and in the early mornings. For it is then, despite heat in the afternoon, despite what the calendar says, that one detects the first hint of fall. l't is subtle, this faint suggestion of- autumn. And it comes through the nose delicately, shyly, hesitantly. The leaves are still green, the crabgrass still flourishes, the locusts still emit their harsh but gentle rustle in the' heat of the day. But the nose isn't fooled. ' Fall is on the.wy. Fj.A. Fiction and the Future- Two years ago Phil Hitchcock, then running for the GOP nomination for United States Sena tor, came to town, accompanied by a young man named Frank Herbertj who was his press assist ant. Herbert, at other times, is a free lance writer, the kind of guy who goes where he wants to go, does what he wTants to do, as long as his fertile imagination feeds him ideas, and his skill trans lates them into salable novels and short stories. ; He and his wife own a mountain retreat in the back country of Mexico, where they spend half of each year, mostly isolated from the world, putting their accumulated ideas down on paper. A MONG other things, Frank writes science fic tion a form of creative activity which has both its adherents, a relatively small but dedi cated lot, and its detractors, who feel that it "is all a fantastic waste of time. We have found science fiction a pleasurable means of. relaxation for a long period of years. More, it has helped to keep the imagination from atrophying, the mind limber and receptive, and has protected the psyche from shock as one de velopment after another, foreseen years ago by science f ictioneers, has come to pass. One addict we know, for instance, among a group of college students on the fateful day in 1945 when the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was announced, was the only one present who had the faintest idea what it wras all about, and what the significance might be. i DUT back to Frank Herebert. Shortly after his visit here, a serial of his appeared in one of the-leading science fiction magazines. It dealt with a hypothetical World War III, and described life in the submarine service. The submarines were atomic - powered, of course, and their task was to ferry oil to the United States, through enemy waters, from the submarine oil wells many of which were located off the arctic slopes of the Asian continent, from Russia, in other words. The . oil was pumped from the underwater wells into huge, collapsible containers, which were then towed in the manner of barges by the submarines, under water, to the underground docks in this countiy. THE theme of the stoiy was less the scientific developments in warfare than it was the effects of pressure, both physical and emotional, on the subs' crews. But the "fantastic" aspects of the stoiy the subs and the underwater barges are no longer fantastic. The voyage of the Nautilus, followed in rapid succession by the Skate, under the polar ice cap, have gone far toward making Frank Herbert a prophet, rather than a fantasy-dreamer. And the idea of submersible barges, towed by subs, has already been seriously broached. TPHERE may be some developments in the future which have not been forecast by the science fictioneers, but if there are, they haven't shown up, or even been hinted at, as yet. Rockets, satellites, voyages to the moon, sub marine barges all these are "old stuff" to the SFfan. ' . And there is plenty of dream-stuff left to be developed. Hydrogen power (already underde velopment), magnetic power, inter-planetary or interstellar voyages you name it and science fiction probably has "created" it in the past. And when, or if, they come to pass, the science fiction fan may be excited but he won't be surprised. E.A. . . Dennis the Menace ' ANYBODY couLV flush mis socks down the toilbti , NOBODY'S PKeCT; THAT'S wwr I shouioa saidi-- Washington Report By William S. White C.I.A. Conflict Washington The world's unrest, and especially the churning Middle East, is " "'1 Virirnrinff iin. welcomed at tention to the most secret of ficial organi zation in our history. The Central Intel ligence Agency oper ates in shad- WillaniS White OWS SO deep as to make it a sort of un known Bureau X even to the vast majority of the member ship of its creator Congress itself. CIA spends many millions a year $100 million to $300 million, it is said. Nobody really knows how many mil lions are involved except a handful of senior members of the Senate and House in the Armed Services, and Appro priations subcommittees. This handful tells nobody else not even those Con gressional colleagues who must- vote the money. So far as Congress generally is con cerned, appropriations for un known purposes are made in unknown amounts. These au thorizations are hidden away under other classifications in other appropriations bills. TNDEED, in comparison with the . Central Intelligence Agency, such a fairly hush hush organization as the Atomic Energy Commission functions practically in a show window. CIA operates abroad in a strictly cloak -and- dagger, black chamber way. Expressed in television-drama terms, its main mission is to run spy and counter-spy work at both high and low levels. It has once or twice been whispered that CIA agents have had a hand is fomenting national uprisings in foreign countries specifically in helping to overturn Communist regimes hostile to the free world. If such stories are not true in every detail, there is no reason to suppose they are false in principle. ' Though some of its staff members here would leave no such impres sion, this is, abroad, a hard handed and tough outfit. If it "failed" .to scent out the recent anti-Western coup in Iraq and a complicated tale is involved here so did the British, the Israelis and even the Iraq security forces themselves. CIA AGENTS conceivably could take actions involv ing the United States in ser ious clashes with any foreign government more particular ly, a small one. The only as Try and -By BENNETT CERF- A CHARACTER in a midtown bar attracted considerable at tention the other evening by ordering 22 martinis, and extracting from each the olive, which he carefully deposited in an empty Dotue. men ne drank the 22 martinis and staggered out, clutching the bottle desperately. "What are you guys star ing at?" demanded the bar tender. "He's just following his wife's orders. She told him to go out and get a bottle of martini olives." A lady named Wottle hired a maid who loathed answering' the telephone. Tve told you for the last time that you are to answer the phone when it rings," stormed Mrs. Wottle upon learning she had missed three invitations to important dinner parties. "Yes," said the maid, unconvinced, "but I don't eee no good in it Nine times out of ten it's for you or Mr. Wottle." C 1958, by Bennett Cert Distributed tgr Kiss Features Syadictt surance against this sort of thing lies in the discipline of the corps and its strict obed ience to orders stemming from Allen W. Dulles, the CIA di rector. All these circumstances are again disturbing many in Con gress, notably the assistant Senate Democratic leader, Mike Mansfield of Montana. Mansfield has long sought the creation of a joint Congres sional committee to oversee CIA in at least some degree, much as the Joint Congres sional Committee on Atomic Energy oversees the atomic program. He has such a bill in now. Almost certainly it will get nowhere in this dying session of Congress. But he will try again in the new Cdngress next year. He is neither bitter nor hostile toward CIA. Like others, he is simply concerned that any government agency should be so far removed from the control of the peo ple's elected representatives. Allen Dulles brother of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles officially has no views on this or any other public matter. Officially, the CIA does not exist to the press, nor does its director. . TT IS possible to say with confidence, however, that Allen Dulles understands and respects Mansfield's motives and fears. Nevertheless, he will never agree to the estab lishment of any Congressional overseeing body. Such a group undoubtedly would create the possibility of dangerous leaks, if not through its members, then through its staff employes. Leaks might fatally hamper American designs abroad and result in death for our agents. And they might compromise the secret operations of allied intelligence services, with which CIA works hand-in-glove particularly the Brit ish. Mansfield, on his side, re jects the theory that a respon sible Congressional committee would be any more prone to leaks than the many people in the Executive Department who handle CIA information. But more importantly, he speaks for the traditional rights of Congress in a free government. Dulles is in the position of conceding the validity of these rights in theory but of denying them because of the kind of world in which we live. He is com pelled to take a line that Papa knows best. And the truth seems to be that, in pres ent circumstances, Papa prob ably does. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me Writer Told Allied H-Bombers Alerted To Hit 20 Russian Cities If War Came By KINGSBURY SMITH UPI Correspondent London (UPD Reliable sources disclosed today that if Russia had precipitated a ma jor war with the West over the recent Middle East crisis, the American and British strategic air forces would have attempted to wipe out 20 Russian cities with one mas sive retaliation nuclear at tack. Those 20 Russian cities, in cluding Moscow and Lenin grad, are the primary targets for the U.S. and British H- Communications Mutt and Jeff Card . To the Editor: That old say ing, better late than never, applied to a happy surprise when a return birthday card from the Mutt and Jeff car toonist, Al Smith, of Dem orest, N. J., was recieved Wednesday. Although three months late it arrived on the exact lucky number 13, of August. Though Mutt and Jeff comic strip has appeared now over 50 years, our first rem embrance is some four years later. At any rate we wish them 50 more birthdays. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman, st. Medford. Medford Firms Defended To the Editor: In the Sun day, Aug. 10 issue of the Port land Oregonian, on Page 5 of of Section 1, in the upper righthand corner of the page, we find the Oregonian's usual "scare-head" which reads "Overcharges Laid to Auto Collision Firms". The article as published is entirely mis leading, and to a certain ex tent extremely embarrassing to locar agents and automo bile dealers of Medford. We know that there has been a great deal of over charge made for collision in surance and on coverages written by certain automobile dealers in various parts of the country where the insurance is provided by them and in cluded in the contract costs. "However, this is far from un iformly true. To the best of my know ledge and belief, there has never been an intentional overcharge made by any ag ent operating in the city of Medford, nor by any of the outstanding and reliable auto mobile dealers or finance com panies in Medford. I would appreciate it if you would publish this for the benefit of the agents, dealers and finance companies in Medford. Cole Holmes 116 South Central ave. Medford Children's Home ' To the Editor: From time to time over the last few months various Medford individuals who made an inspection trip recently to view UMC-spon-sored agencies in action have written to you expressing their views and reactions to certain of the agencies. I was one of those who made the trip and would like to express my reactions to the Childrens Farm Home. The Home is located on a 285 acre farm on State High way 31 about midway be tween Corvallis and Albany. It consists of around 10 two story colonial type houses each housing a "family" of either girls or boys with a house mother in charge of each house. In addition, there is a chapel. and the usual type of farm buildings. Surround ing this group of buildings is an orchard, cultivated fields and pasture, comprising the 285 acres. . The Home is sponsored by the Oregon WCTU. Its pur pose is to provide for, pro tect and educate children of normal mentality between the ages of 5 and 17 years of age. Children are accepted upon application from their par ents, or guardians when they can no longer properly sup port them, from social agenc ies or commitment from a juvenile court. Fourteen such children from Jackson county were supported during 1956. Parents or guardians pay as much of the child's support as they can. The rest comes from various agencies such as the UMC, Oregon Chest, etc. The Farm Home raises a good share of its own food with the children participating in planting and harvesting crops. Education through grade school is provided by ac credited teachers from the public school system. High School students are transport ed to Corvallis, where they attend Corvallis High school and participate in all high school activities. The child ren are proud of their athletic teams and we were told pro vide loud and enthusiatic support at the games. . My impression of the Home bombers in the event the So viets should resort to war against the Western Allied powers. Now that the United States and Great Britain have re laxed their war-possible alerts and Moscow has announced the end of the Russian army maneuvers on the Turkish frontier, the danger of a world war developing over the Middle East situation is considered in diplomatic and military circles to have passed. A Calculated Risk However, it is now appar- was that the children were happy, well clothed and fed, and to all outward appear ances, well adjusted. The buildings were in need of re pair, and it was evident that the Home was being run on a very limited budget. I am sure that if any of your readers could visit these children who through no fault of their own have been forced to make -terrific emo tional adjustments not normal to a child they would not hesitate to help them by donating a fair share of their income to the fourth-coming UMC fund drive. Thomas H. Ness 1521 Terrace dr. Medford. Dump Controversy Again To the Editor: We, too, have followed with interest the controversy between the City Sanitary Service and the residents in and around Jack sonville. The Jacksonville "junk dump" is just that, because everyone in the county dumps old car bodies, refrigerators, tin cans, etc., there. The dump is not visible from the road or to any residents in that area. Jackson county deeded 40 acres to Jackson ville about six years ago in an effort to prevent people from dumping along Sterling rd., which is a county road. We wonder if this isn't what people have a reference to when they talk about Jack sonville's dump? The City Sanitary Service bought 360 acres of land next to Jacksonville, city limits in November, 1956. At that time there were rumors that the land was to be used for a dump. When Jacksonville's city attorney contacted City Sanitary Service about it he was told that the company did not plan a dump "at this time," but did plan a housing project; if they did plan on using it for any such purpose in the future that they would be notified, in ample time. The first Jacksonville was notified was the first part of June this year. Some Jackson County Planning commission mem bers were unwilling to vote for an interim zoning ordi nance because they "hadn't had time enough to . study such a zoning ordinance." If the planning commission would look up the minutes of their meetings they would find that members of the Jacksonville city council met with them in 1956 concerning this matter. Eighteen months should be enough time to study an interim zoning ordinance. True, other large cities built over garbage dumps, but those dumps weren't originally established on the city limits. Those cities grew out to them. Growing out to a dump is not as bad as establishing a new one in your back yard. Mrs. M. James -Jacksonville. Your favorite store has plenty of fresh Nalley Potato Chips 'available in spite of the fire which destroyed our plant in Springfield. -While our new Springfield plant is being re built, we are making daily shipments from our plants in Tacoma and Spokane. When you buy Na I ley's, you buy the best! NALLEYS, INC. ent that one of the greatest calculated risks of the cold war was involved in the American and British mili tary intervention in the Leb anon.. That risk was based on the assumption of Anglo-American diplomacy that Russia would not precipitate a nu clear war with the West over the Middle East. Nevertheless, those respon sible for the defense of the United States and Great Bri tain could not be sure how Russia would react. They had to be prepared for any event uality in those first few days after the American Marines landed in the Lebanon and British paratroopers were flown to Jordan. That was the reason why the American and British air and naval forces were placed on a war-possible alert basis. It was why the Anglo-American H-bombers were poised to put into instant effect the Strategic Air Command plan that calls for nuclear destruc tion of Russia's main cities if the rulers of the Kremlin should order any "Pearl Har-bor"-type sneak attack on the West. This plan to wipe out with one simultaneous nuclear at tack 20 Russian cities is known Anglo-American mili tary circles as the "great de terrent." Peace Chances Good It is on Soviet knowledge of the existence of this plan that American and British military men base their hopes that Russia will not risk war with the West. The more aware the Soviet leaders are of what would happen if they did precipitate war with the West, the better some of the In the Day's News By FRANK In New York Wednesday morning, President Eisenhow er took the Middle East bull by the horns and proopsed that UN Secretary General Hammarskjold start consulta tions immediately with Arab nations to see if they can agree on establishing an ARAB REGIONAL DEVEL OPMENT INSTITUTION de signed to "speed up progress in such fields as industry, ag riculture, water supply, health and education." He said the U.S. would sup port such an enterprise if the Arab states were prepared to support it WITH THEIR OWN RESOURCES. But, he added, the leadership in such an en terprise must BELONG TO THE ARAB STATES them selves. THAT is to say: If the Arabs will tackle the job of rehabilitating the Middle East and managing its resources intelligently for the benefit of the people of the Middle East, the United States will help. But we won't initiate the job and we won't attempt to BOSS IT. Recognizing what he termed "the great upsurge of Arab nationalism," he said he didn't consider the status quo (meaning the situation as of now) in the Middle East "sacrosanct." That is quite a concession to Arab aspirations. HE reiterated his promise that ALL U.S. trqops will be withdrawn whenever their withdrawal is requested by a "duly constituted" govern ment of Lebanon or when UN or other action eliminated the original danger that caused them to be sent. It was a statesmanlike pre sentation of the aims of the United States, and it drew Allied military men think will be the chances for peace. Moscow's announcement that the Soviet army maneu ers on the Turkish frontier had ended was interpreted in Britain as the Kremlin's wav of saying that it considered tne Middle East crisis ended. The Manchester Guardian's Russian expert, Victor Zorza. wrote that the announcement must be intended to convey that the Kremlin is no longer anxious if it ever was about the immediate danger to general peace and its own security." Never Were Worried Allied military intelligence sources were inclined to agree that Russia never was wor ried about its own security in " the recent Middle East crisis, and never did have any inten tion of intervening. Moscow's original announcement about the Soviet army maneuvers on the Turkish frontier was regarded as a propaganda move to frighten the United States and Britain away from allowing King Hussein of Jor dan to move into Iraq to re store a pro-Western regime there. There is now some doubt as to whether there were any unusual Soviet mili tary maneuvers. Of considerable interest to diplomatic observers in Lon don today was the theory ad vanced in one British paper that Communist China may try to plunge Russia into war with the United States in the hope both countries- would destroy one another and leave China the dominant power of the world. That was what Stalin suspected the British of wanting to do with respect to Germany and Russia before the outbreak of World War II. JENKINS prolonged applause from the -delegates to the UN General Assembly, before which Ike spoke. WHAT of Russia? " Her foreign minister Gromyko listened to the speech. When it ended, he and his aides stood silently as President Eisenhower left the Assembly chamber. Then he got up and blasted U.S. intervention in Lebanon. He charged that the United States is the main threat to peace in the Middle East. He said the policies of the United States and Britain "threaten to hurl mankind into the abyss of .a new war, with all its con sequences." He accused the United States of "trampling the UN charter under its feet by sending military forces into Lebanon." He shouted that before any thing constructive can be done U.S. troops must be withdrawn from Lebanon and British troops must be with drawn from Jordan. And so on. TTMMMMM. " With even better grace, we could say that before any thing constructive can be done -in the world of today Russia must get her troops out of Hungary. She must get them out of Poland. She must get them out of Czechoslovakia. She must get them out of East Germay. RUSSIA is the great im perialist. Gromyko's job was to CON CEAL that basic fact. BUT He didn't threaten to start shooting. The correspondents com ment that he was somewhat milder than exepected.