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4 Monday, August 18, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. ! MEMrORDTRIBUNE "Iveryone to Southern 'aregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 33 Korth Fir St. Ph. SP.2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mer. XRIC ALLEN. JR. Managing Editor WAD II .c " . HARRY CHIPMAN, Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of . March 3. 189? SUBSCRIPTION RATES F7 Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $13 00 uauy ana Sunday 6 mos. boo Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Riv- ' er Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail Terms Cash m Advance Official Paper of City 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, foruand. at. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B. C. EWSPAPEI PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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. 18. 1948 (Wednesday) The local liberation of over 50,000 ringneck pheasants nears completion. A "super" hen's egg 8Va Inches in diameter was on dis play here yesterday. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1938 (Thursday) Mike, one of Paul Bulkin's huge St. Bernard dogs, has been stolen, but police believe the culprit was simply unable to resist the canine's affec tions. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Sixth st. paving is about com pleted. Once .again citizens will be able to park, in the 'courtesy space, enter the post office to buy a stamp, and return 40 minutes later with an armload of groceries." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1928 (Saturday) Christy Brothers five-ring wild animal circus arrives to day. A heavy patronage showed up at the public market this morning, and quickly bought up the peaches. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 18, 1918 (Sunday) Motorcycle Cop McDonald has resigned to enlist in the aviation service. L. T. Cooper, noted philan thropist and developer of Tan las, a digestive medicine and "reconstructive tonic," is ex pected to visit here. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five 01 six is good. 1. NaDoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo; was it in France, Belgium, or J. he Netherlands? 2. Is an amphibious plane designed to take off from land or from water? 3. He was the thirteenth President of the United States and his initials were M.F.; name him. 4. Is chemically pure sac charin 5, 50 or 550 times sweeter than sugar? 5. If a heavy explosion oc curs outside a building, will the windows be blown out ward or inward? 6. From what is casein de- 7. In the Roman numeral system, MCMXXX indicates what number? 8. Albert Einstein is famous for his formulation of the Thonrv of R ? 9. In what major British sport are the terms bowler, "wicket," and "over" used? 10. Is "barnyard golf" play ed with golf balls? Answers 1. Belgium. 2. Both. 3. Millard Fillmore. ccn imM sweeter. 5. Out ward. 6. Skimmed milk. 7. 1330. 8. Relativity. 9. Cncitei 10. No (horseshoes). ELVIS LEAVE EXTENDED 'Memphis, Tenn. UPD The 4m-r has granted a live-aay extension of singer Elvis Pres ley's emergency leave. After attending funeral services for his mother, who died last week, Elvis was conimea to bed with a virus uiiecuon ana slight ver. Cleaning Up The Unions Ironic as it may seem, it would hardly be an over-simplification to say that if Congress gets around to passing the Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill, the death of Krank Kierdorf, an ex-convict agent for the International Brotherhood of Team sters, will be responsible. A general measure aimed at ensuring democratic practices in trade unions, the bill, among other provisions, requires unions to file with the Secretary of Labor, and to furnish each union member, a detailed report on their organization, membership rules, and busi ness procedures. Kierdorf was only one of many ex-convicts associated with the Teamsters. His death on Aug. 7, after apparently having set fire to himself white putting the torch to a dry-cleaning plant, served to resuscitate the Kennedy-Ives bill, which up until then had appeared moribund. A SIDE FROM the general public concern over "the disclosures by the Senate Select (McClel lan) Committee on Improper Activities in the La bor or Management Field, there apparently is in the ranks of labor a very real feeling that some thing must be done to curb the Teamsters' presi dent, Jimmy Hoffa. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany de clared on Aug. 1 his "firm belief" that any agree ment between the Teamsters and A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions would be "an alliance detrimental to the long-term welfare and interests of all workers and all unions affiliated to our movement." More over, said Meany, labor "can expect" the enact ment of "drastic restrictive legislation adversely affecting clean unions as well as corruptly domi nated ones." . Labor, which at first had appeared unhappy with the Kennedy-Ives bill, now seems to back it as less restrictive than it might have been. Simi larly, the House leadershiD. reacting tn o-nads from the administration, tu uu us very Desi to was approved Dy me Senate, 88-1, on June 17. The Senate version bears a SDecific annlipa- tion to the Teamsters. voted 83-2, an amendment by Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo.), making clear that conferences and as sociations of labor representatives, such as the Western Conference of Teamsters, are subiect to its provisions. THE TEAMSTERS, according to John Herling, ,- H-- JJ i.J 11 ?J. . . a na.Litjiia.iiy sviiuicciieu laDor wnier, are "crawling- with criminality." Herlino- ones nn tn charge that Hoffa's "best friends are hoods." The complaint is not new. Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel for the McClellan committee and a brother of Sen. John told a Notre Dame alumni and student group on j?eo. zz: "Gerald Connelly, a dynamiter and extortionist, was named a Teamster business agent in Minneapolis after being linked to a murder in Miami, Fla.; Her man and Frank Kierdorf landed comfortable jobs with Hoffa-controlled locals in Michigan after emerging from the penitentiary in Ohio for armed robbery; Bar ney Baker, a former New York waterfront thug, is a personal organizing representative of Hoffa in the Midwest; Joseph Glimco, twice arrested for murder and the crony of Capone gang mobsters, is a trustee of a Chicago local; Harry Friedman was appointed head of an Ohio local after emerging from a penitentiary; and I might hasten to point out that this is a very in complete list." E.R.R. Watch Yugoslavia Now you see him, now you don't. Now he's on our side, now he rakes us over the coals. Now he bawls out the Russians, now plays footie with them, now bawls them out again and is again bawled out by them. That's what Tito of Yugoslavia calls being neutralist. While the Hashemite regime of Iraq was being overthrown in the twinkling of an eye on July 14, Tito had just finished playing host to Nassar of Egypt on the island of Brioni. Tito at once bitterly denounced the United States for landing troops in Lebanon. His erstwhile guest paid a hasty visit to Moscow. Then Tito sent a series of messages to so called uncommitted states, including India, pro posing joint action by the neutrals on the Middle East crisis. Thus the Yugoslav dictator was ob viously trying to create a neutralist bloc of which he'd be leader. 'T'lTO cannot hope to achieve overnight the high international stature of Nehru, but the Indian neutralist is, after all, almost 70. Nasser also may profess neutralism, but the uncommitted states know that the Cairo radio spews out intemperate anti-American and anti-British propaganda inces santly, anti-Soviet propaganda seldom if ever. Tito's Communism is intensely nationalistic (as against the international brand out of Mos cow and Peking). So he could tap the national istic fervor of peoples just emerged from colonial ism even if they don't subscribe to the gospel ac cording to Marx and Lenin. And with Nehru an nouncing he doesn't plan to attend the current U.N. General Assembly sessions on the Middle East crisis, the way Is clear for Yugoslavia to try for neutralist leadership there. E.R.R. - now is reported readv ootam passage. Tne bill The Senate on June 12 F. Kennedv (D-Mass.l. Dennis the Menace 'ffey.tflSTEffWLSOKi IVH4T ARE Washington Report By William S. White Washington The least par tisan peacetime Congress in memory and the most quiet ly productive in legislative '1 a c h i evement is drawing to a close. This, the 85th Congress, has been un dramatic, un bitter and in strictly head line terms, rather unin- wiiiiam s.'white - e r esting. It has made no great national issue. But at no time has it divided the nation. It has op erated with almost none of the violent debates that used to be commonplace. Compromise, a c c ommoda- tion and private negotiations among the leading figures in both parties have largely re placed the old-time collisions on the floors of both Houses. It is in this way that most of the long and solid legislative record has been made. This is the extraordinary fact of this second and final session of "the 85th": On pre cisely two of 20 major issues have there been strictly par tisan fights. These two issues have been farm and labor legislation. SUCH great matters as the reciprocal - trade, foreign - aid and- space-age planning programs have been handled cooperatively between the leaders and the rank and file of both parties. Thus, though this Congress has been under Democratic control, its work has not been Democratic as such. Rather, it has been simply Congres sional the product of a uni fied institution rather than of competing parties. And this institution has usu ally led President Eisenhower rather than being led by him. Traditionally, it is the White House that demands a well-defined legislative program and the Congress that replies yes, no, or perhaps. But the 85th Congress has, on the whole, laid out the pro gram itself. It has, of course, sometimes accepted Presiden tial recommendations. But mainly it has been the initi ating force, in. legislative pol icy. More than any other term, the word "professionalism" best describes these opera tions. The Senate has had two oddly-matched party lead ers in Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas for the Democrats and Senator Wil liam F. Knowland of Califor nia for the Republicans. IN MANY ways, they could not be more different. John Try and -By BENNETT CERF- THE SALES MANAGER of a mighty business machine or ganization told a group on an inspection tour, "Gentlemen, this is our crowning glory a machine that can duplicate the exact workings of a man's brain." "Now you're exag gerating," scoffed one visi tor. Just then, however, a curvaceous lass undulated across the floor. The machine gave a long," low whistle. The skeptic bowed low. "My apologies," he, said. "You were absolutely right." An overzealous efficiency expert in the civic administra tion of an Illinois city has just gotten the heave-ho. Seems he installed unbreakable glass in all fire alarm boxes. " v. The eagle-eyed Miguel Connolly has spotted this classified ad in a Los Angeles daily: "For sale cheap: swimming- pool swum in only once by an old lady from Pasadena." , 1958, by Bennett Cerf, retributed by King Feature! Syndicate. THE LrVTLB fOSZ?' son is a subtle, imaginative and temperamental floor mar shal. He is the ablest "pro" and considered so even by those who disapprove of him that the Senate has known in generations. Knowland is stolid, immovable and heavy. ' He is, however, a granite monument of a man in per sonal and legislative integ rity a man with whom agree ments can be made without the slightest doubt that they will be kept at any cost. The fact that his Senate ca reer is ending he is now running uphill for governor of California is regretted by practically everybody in the Senate. This includes John son himself, .for professional ism, at least, the two have in common. In the House, two leaders with 80 years of Congression al service between them have been drawn together more than ever before. They are Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas for the Democrats and Representative Joseph W. Martin Jr. of Massachusetts for the Republicans. It has been the Senate, how ever, which has most typified this new kind of Congress. And the Senate has reflected Johnson's policies of modera tion and what he calls "re sponsibility." By responsibil ity he means a refusal ever to commit his party to opposi tion merely for opposition's sake. fPHE air of the Senate char- - acterized by more action and less talk than . that body is accustomed to has become also the air of the House. Whether all this has been good depends largely on the question: Good for whom? It seems hardly debatable that the immediate interests of the country have been promoted by a calm and constructive Congress. It sems hardly more debat able that the personal inter ests of Democratic Congress men have been served. For in two previous Congressional elections, during the height of power of a Republican Presi dent in 1954 and in 1956 the same Johnson policies re turned Democratic majorities to both Houses. ,What'is entirely debatable, however, is the effect of the Johnson approach on the Presidential election in 1960. Will the accumulating years of this approach which mutes controversy and issue making and always demands more action will serve or iU serve the Democratic Presi dential nominee? (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Stop Me i Matter of Fact THE AUTHENTIC VOICE Washington The Senate put- on a pretty remarkable show the other day a show that was at once flesh crawling, won derfully e n couraging and deeply mov ing. The show began on what must surely be the most eerie measure Jospb Alsop ever considered by the Amer ican Congress an amendment to the Military Appropriations Bill by Sen. Richard . Russell of Georgia, forbidding the De fense Department to spend any of its appropriated funds on plans for the surrender of the United States. The occasion of the amend ment was a story- published in the "St. Louis Post Dispatch" by Brig. Gen. Thomas Phil lips. Gen. Phillips revealed that the Air Force subsidiary, the RAND Corp., had been peering ahead into the years when the Soviet Union is due to acquire overwhelming su periority in nuclear striking power. Contemplation of this period, wrote Gen. Phillips with complete accuracy, had led the - RAND scientists to make a study of the circum stances in which the United States ought to surrender. THE Republicans, led by Sen. William R. Knowland of California, were indignant at the mere suggestion that the Eisenhower administra tion could be studying sur render, as the Russell amend ment seemed to imply. But what made the debate so eerie was the simple fact that no one, on either side of the aisle, really tried to defy the grim facts that "had im pelled the RAND scientists to make their grim study. Sen. Symington of Missouri vouch ed for the accuracy of the facts. Sen. Saltonstall of Massachusetts; the Senate's leading hoper-against-hope, re plied that no doubt the Soviets might get ahead of us in some important ways, but we were still ahead in others. That was the most that anyone attempt ed in the way of optimism. Then, much later in the crowded day, Saltonstall's young Massachusetts col league, Jack Kennedy, rose to make one of the most re markable speeches on Ameri can defense and national strat egy that this country has heard since the end of the last war. It was a speech about those same facts that drove the RAND scientists to make their hideous calculations. It was a speech that . every thoughtful American ought to read and ponder. It's theme was simple. "We must realize," said Ken nedy bleakly, . "that the nu clear ' deterrent ratio during 1960-'64 will in all likelihood be weighted very heavily against us." 17'ENNEDY dealt in facts A- much more detailed and hard facts than Senators like Symington and Jackson .of Washington have been able to deal in, because they are im neded by their access to classi fied information, and Ken nedy is not thus impeded. He showed the gradual weaken ing of the American nuclear deterrent, the rapid gain in Soviet nuclear striking power during the so-called years of the "gap." He described the "missile lag" in the period when present American de fense policies wil concede an immense superiority in missile-power to the enemy. "The Soviets," he remarked with bitterness, "will be as aware of their advantage dur ing the years of the gap as we are . . . and nuclear destruc tion is not the only way in which the Soviets will be able to use their advantage . . . Their missile power will be the shield from behind which they will slowly but surely advance through 'Sputnik diplomacy limited both by wars, indirect aggression, in timidation and subversion . . . and the vicious blackmail of our allies . . . The balance of power will gradually shift against us. Each Soviet move will weaken the . West, but none will seem to justify our initiating the nuclear war that might destroy us." BUT enough has been said already to suggest why this strange day in the Senate was flesh-crawling. What made it encouraging was hear ing the hard facts being laid on the line at last, in this era of officially propagated com placency. What made it even more encouraging was hear ing Kennedy's calm but bold call for a vastly greater Amer ican effort to overcome the danger of the years of the "gap." And what made the day downright stirring was hearing this young Senator, himself no stranger to war or danger, confidently forecast ing that there was no future Knowland ServiceColleagues Regretful By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent Washington (UPD Bill Knowland, Republican leader of the Senate, is quitting soon to face a clouded political fu In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS There is good news as this is written. The Klamath Indian reser vation purchase bill has passed both houses of the con gress. It is now at the White House. President Eisenhower's sig nature is regarded as certain. rTHATis splendid news for all o"f Oregon. It is splen did news because it insures that this great resource will be administered in such a way that it will be kept producing trees and FIBER perpetually. It insures watershed protec tion. The future of Southern Oregon and Far Northern California is all bound up in adequate and PERPETUAL supplies of fiber and water. Fiber and water are our GREAT NATURAL RE SOURCES. Upon them depends our fu ture. rFHIS is a good time to give some credit for this really important achievement where the credit is due. Chief credit should go to the Management Specialists, for they were the first to real ize the defects of the original termination act. They were the first to propose some form of government purchase of the reservation lands. Their study of the problem of liqui dation convinced them that if this great body of timber was thrown on the market at auction to the highest bidder the inevitable result would be that the Indian owners would fail to receive a fair price for their property. At the same time, they real ized that disposal of the Klam ath reservation timber under the original law "would be likely to result in ultimate great damage to this' tre mendously important asset. So they suggested purchase of the lands by the federal government. SENATOR NEUBERGER of Oregon agreed with them. So he introduced a bill pro viding for federal purchase of the timber, which would be added to the national for ests. ' Later on, Secretary of In terior Seaton offered an al ternate proposal that private enterprise be given an op portunity to purchase all or a part of these timber lands at the appraised price. Under his proposal, the government would buy the lands not pur chased by private operators. This appealed to Senator Neuberger as a reasonable so lution of the problem, and he withdrew his own bill and in troduced the department of the interior bill. In consider ably amended form, this is the bill that has just been approved by the congress. GREAT credit is due to Sen ator Neuberger. He has worked unceasingly to bring about the enactment of the bill that has just been ap proved. He has made its final enactment his MAJOR inter est. He FORGOT POLITICS and devoted his efforts to the welfare of his state and its people. That is STATESMANSHIP. In this session of congress, Senator Neuberger has joined danger which an aroused and mobilized American people would not and could not over come. Kennedy borrowed his clos ing words from Churchill: "Come then, let us to the task, to the battle and the toil each to our part, each to our station let us go forward to gether in all parts of tlje land. There is not a week, nor a day, nor an hour to be lost." This was the language, charged with remembered glory, of the greatest English man of the century. But the voice the voice that passed facts, that rejected every com placency, that called for ef forts worthy of this country and its role was the authen tic voice of America. . (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. FALSE TEETH That Loosen Need Not Embarrass Many wearers of false teeth havr suffered real embarrassment becaus their plate dropped, flipped or wob bled at just the wrong time. Do not live In fear of this happening to you. Just sprinkle a little FAS TEETH, the alkaline (non-acid) powder, on your plates. Hold false teeth more firmly, so they feel more comfortable. Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (den ture breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug counter. Hears End ture in California, and most of the Senate will be sorry to see him go. Many senators found it easy to disagree wih Knowland but few of them ever had the GREATS of Oregon. He has done a splendid job. TTE HAS had effective help "from all the members of Oregon's delegation in con gress. He-has had help from Congressman Clair Engle of California. He has had help from a wide range of influ ential people in Oregon and elsewhere. As a result, an excellent piece of legislation has been enacted. Editorial Comment ALL-OREGON SHOW The suggestion by the Ore gonian that Ashland's Shake speare festival be transplanted to Portland in the centennial year of 1959 didn't go over very well in southern Oregon. It was termed a "high hand ed suggestion." Definitely, it was. and it pinpoints something Portland- ers apparently are not taking mio consideration: Tne cen tennial is supposed to be an all-Oregon celebration, not a Portland show. Bend Bulle tin. . N RESTORATION Residents of Southern Ore gon are talking about restor ing the town of Jacksonville in time for the Oregon Cen tennial. They feel this old town, which boomed in the 1850s upon the discovery of gold in the area, would toe a prime tourist attraction, as well as a sort of shrine dedi cated to the picturesque his tory of Oregon. We hope they do restore it if they can finance the proj ect and if they can get the job done in time for next year's tourists who wiU be, in a manner of speaking, centen nail tourists. But we hope they don't go too far in re storation" and too far in turn ing what can be a charming old town into . just another tourist trap. Nevada has had some suc cess with Virginia City which was the real thing in the Com- stock lode days after 1859. Virginia City is "restored." And how! It is restored so far that tourists come away with the impression they've seen a Hollywood performance and with the suspicion they've been taken un a tourist trap At the other end of the scale are some of the towns in the gold rush country of Cal ifornia; From Nevada City and Grass Valley on the north to the Sonora area on the south, towns like Placerville, Angel's Camp, Amador City, Jackson, Mokelumne Hill and Dry are charming museums of gold rush days. The build ings, one feels, have changed almost not at all since the big strikes were made a cen tury and more ago. Yet here there is no commercialization Tourists are few and so are ac commodations for them. The great charm is the non-commercialization, the unspoiled naturalness of these commu- Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) 'tub. ' & ' ' At- FRIENDLY, of Senate much doubt about where he stood. They developed a lik- ing for him even though they found it hard to get to know him. Like most effective con gressional floor leaders, Knowland has had a foot in each of the two camps of his party. His biggest headlines came, however, when he spoke as a -conservative critic of the Eisenhower administra tion. Labor Law Views More recently he has squared off against labor lead ers and pressed for a federal law to guarantee democracy in unions and a state right to work law in California. Whether this tack was poUti- cally wise will not be known until November when Know land will win or lose the race for the governorship of Cali fornia. He is now the under dog. Regardless of the political consequences, it could be taken for granted that once Knowland had chosen- his road he would stick to it whether it led to Sacramento or political oblivion. It has been five years since the late Sen. Robert A. Taft handpicked Knowland, then 45, as his successor to lead the Republican side of the Senate. Knowland also in herited Taft's role as chief spokesman for the conserva tive wing of the GOP, al though ' he had been some thing of a Young Turk in his earlier years. Similar Qualities Both Taft and Knowland were less conservative than some of their warmest admir ers. They had other qualities in common, too. Both were tireless workers and strong partisans, willing to do their homework and unwilling to disguise their no-nonsense feelings with diplomatic nice ties. Knowland at first lacked the sensitivity needed to cal culate what the Senate could or could not be persuaded to do. But he learned fast, even if he never acquired the fi nesse of his Democratic coun terpart, Sen. Lyndon B. John son. Still only 50, Knowland could be a commanding fig ure as governor of California in later election years. If de-, feated, he would be virtually dead as a national political force. - ' Christmas Island Site Of Nuclear Jests London (UPD The Defense Ministry announced today its nuclear tests at Christmas Is land in the Central Pacific "will shortly be resumed." The next test, for which no specific date was set, will be the sixth in a series begun in May, 1957. The last pre vious test in the series was held April 29. nities where the clocks seem to have stopped. The ideal would be some where between enough res toration and enough accom modations and enough pub licity to draw tourists; yet no heavy promoting hand, no art ful cuteness. It's a delicate line but an important one. We hope the people of Southern Oregon can walk that line in the restoration of Jackson- ville. It could be a prime as set to the state's tourist in dustry. E u g e n Register Guard. PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE J
