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4 Thursday, September II, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE MEDFORDtSWTRIBlWE Tvervone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEUr OKO riU.N II.VU CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. iKic w. ALLEN js. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily ana Sunday 6 mos. a.uq Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. 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 $18.00 DSily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms tasn in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International 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. B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL astQn Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 4G years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 11, 1948 (Saturday) The Jackson County 4-H fair opens next Tuesday for a 3-day session at the county fairgrounds. More than 20 Medford bus iness firms haye contributed $556 to an 'appreciation fund" for the Medford Dodg ers. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1938 (Sunday) A group of pastels by Dane Sherry, 707 Oak st., is cur rently on exhibit at the Med ford Stationery store, 210 East Main st. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column:. "The plunk of a human hoof pro pelling a football is again heard in the valley." ' 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1928 (Tuesday) The Jackson County fair opens tomorrow with excep tionally fine exhibits expected in the enlarged facilities. With a grand total of 656 voters casting ballots, Med ford's proposed street-repair bond issue was defeated by a margin of 70. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 11. 1918 (Wednesday) Proceeds from the forth coming Chautauqua are ear marked for the Red Cross. Jackson county livestock men are meeting to discuss a proposal to withdraw 100,000 acres of former railroad land from public use. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. Is the sun a star, a planet, a meteor, or a con stellation? 2. In what country is the famous summer resort named Banff? 3. Is the ohm an electrical unit of current, pressure, pow er, or resistance? 4. In lieu of counties, what subdivisions exist in the State of Louisiana? 5. On which continent is the Belgian Congo? 6. Is rigor mortis, autopsy, or habeus corpus another name for post-mortem? 7. In the U.S., who is some times designated "Second Lady of the land"? ' 8. Members of a national sunbathers association are commonly called n s? 9. Which of these French ports is nearest the English coast Cherburg, Brest, Ca lais? 10. The receptacle that con tains a ship's compass is a b e? Answers: 1. Star. 2. Canada. 3. Resistance. 4. Parishes. 5. Africa. 6. Autopsy. 7. Wife of Vice President. 8. Nudists. 9. Calais. 10. Binaccle. THAT'S FAR ENOUGH London-dTJ-A judge has ruled a woman won't travel a mile to get her hair done. Bernard Kaye went to court to try to prevent Richard H. Howe, a former employee, from opening his own beauty parlor three miles away. Kaye said Howe should be at least four miles away. Justice Ed mund Davies set a one-mile limit, r Long The Medford city council's unanimous ap proval last week of Mayor John Snider's plan for a recreation and parks commission is a first small step on a long road wrhich ultimately can do much for Jackson county. The city has had a small recreation program, but it has been administered on a catch-as-catch-can basis, and largely through the extra work of already overburdened city off icials. The work done up to this point has been well performed and meritorious but it hasn't been enough. THE commission can go further and we hope it will : much further. It can make a realistic assessment of recrea tional facilities and needs; it can lay out a pro gram, and, eventually, it can assist the citycouncil in supervising and administering a full-fledged recreational program. And such is needed. While recreational facili ties do not constitute the whole answer to any thing, they do constitute an important part of a well-rounded life, and a well-rounded community. THHE city now has one swimming pool, and soon will have another. It has one excellent and well-patronized community park, and several oth ers which are pleasant to see and to visit. It has Prescott Park on Roxy Ann Butte unmatched in potential almost anywhere in the United States, but still the unwanted step-child of the city, coun ty and state park systems. There is a tremendous field here for a recrea tion commission, and we sincerely hope it will lav out a rji-opram which will make Medford a leader (instead of a far-behind follower, as at present) in serving its people its youth, its elderly, and the rest m ties, the leadership and to a well-rounded and gram. It will pay dividends in the long run. We wonder when the county will take a simi lar forward step. E.A. Medieval Art The "Star Gazer" the astrological feature earned for some years by the Mail Tribune is one of the most popular in the affections of many of our readers. N Just why this is so we have never been able to figure out, exactly. Surely not too many people take its forecasts seriously. But there appears to be a certain fascination in taking one's own zodiacal sign, spotting the numbers arbitrarily assigned to it, and then pick ing these numbers from a list and working out a "message" for the following day. AS INDICATED, we don't put any stock in the "messages." But they are shrewdly drawn to cover a wide range of circumstances, and almost always something happens which can be related to the forecast. For instance, a few forecast for the day we took a trip to Portland in dicated we. would need the a plumber or a handyman. That was the trip where the water pump on obscene noises, and had to be replaced in Kose burg resulting in a lengthy delay and a sub stantial check. . . 1 And for yesterday, the advice was to "Hang onto your money for dear life." That is sage enough advice for any day 01 tne week. f)UT of idle curiosity, we worked out the "mes- sages" for yesterday under all 12 signs of the Zodiac. Here are the Aries Act in haste (Good advice for anyone, Taurus Charm the netic personality. (Also good advice for those who have magnetic personalities.) Gemini Tempers may flare, a calm demean or will help. (Good anytime.) Cancer You 11 have day. (Isn't that nearly always the case?) Leo Put your ingenious mind to work to day. (Hmmmm.) Libra Certain important people want to co operate with you. (Election time is coming.) Scorpio Guidance from your associates shouldn't be ignored. (Should it ever?) Sagittarius A clever move should bring worthwhile benefits. (True. Also' true 364 other days of the year.) Capricorn Affairs seem to be somewhat in the air. (We don't know about YOUR house, but at OUR house, that's always the case.) Aquarius Don't let worry or gossip lead you astray. (Sound veiy sound. But not limited to Aquarians, or to Sept. 10.) Pisces Your personality shines today. You'll impress people favorably. (See Taurus.) THERE'S something for eveiyone here cheer, 1 caution, old maxims, confidence-builders. And, as mentioned, they are so constructed that they can be interpreted to apply to a hun dred different circumstances. But they are amusing, and do no harm, prob ably, as long as one takes them with a grain of salt, realizing that the stars are a long, long way away; and that the influences of the immediate environment are far more important in shaping a man's destiny than the medieval and discredited art of horoscopy. E.A. Road Detween - r - witn tne iacm the guidance necessary emciem recreational pro weeks ago our (Virgo) services of a carpenter, the car started making other 11 : and repent at leisure. at any time.) world with your mag to ride out the storm to Dennis the Menace TbO RADIUS NAME ISTe. Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann OUR ENTANGLING ALLIANCE 1 At the week end it became clear that the military actions of Red China around Quemoy have limited object i v e s, that they are strictly . con trolled and carefully cal culated. After a two - week bomb a r d ment, the Red Chinese had proved that they could blockade Quemoy. They had forced Chiang's gov ernment to admit that with o u t American intervention Quemoy with its large garri son was surrounded and lost. As a result, the President had been faced with a decision he himself had hoped not to have to make, and all the world, our own people included, have been made to see that we might have to go to war for a fiction, for the pretense that the island of Quemoy is neces sary to the defense of For mosa. Having scored these points - which illustrated Chiang's weakness and the American entanglement -f Chou En-lai turned off the military pres sure for some two days while he proposed negotiating with the United States. The Presi dent jumped at this chance to put off the horrid possibility of having to fight for Que moy. "M"0 DOUBT it will be ar- gued that what caused Chou En-lai to propose nego tiation was the decision tak en at Newport by Mr. Dulles to fight for Quemoy. But to argue this way is, I believe, to misunderstand the funda mental character of the Red Chinese policy in respect to Chiang and in respect to the United States as an ally of Chiang. When Red China says, as it does on every occasion, that it will "liberate" Formosa, it does not mean that it can and that it will invade and con quer Formosa. It means that there will be a revolution in Formosa against Chiang or against his successor, and that Formosa will be taken out of the American sphere of in fluence in much the same way as Iraq was recently taken out of the British sphere of influence in the Middle East. VVE, ON the other hand, hav " ing no answer to this kind of development, have concentrated all our atten tion on defending Formosa against what cannot and what will not happen namely, the invasion and conquest of the island. This is a military m possibility. The Formosa Strait is a hundred miles wide and the. water is rough, , Red China has no navy, the Unit ed States has a great navy, and the Chinese and Russian Communist leaders are not fools. Why do we concentrate our attention on the fictitious problem of the defense of Formosa? Because the Presi dent has legal authority from Congress to defend Formosa, and everything Mr. Dulles wishes to do in the area -which is chiefly to keep up the morale of the Chiang re gime - has to be justified as somehow related to the mili tary defense of Formosa. Thus, in TJuemoy the real issue is not. whether the Com munists are to have the is land as a stepping stone to the invasion of Formosa. Que moy has nothing to do with the invasion ' of Formosa or with the defense of Formosa - except that Chiang has reck Walter Lippmann 'Look, Alow 'rrs 47 I DENNIS'! - lessly locked up a third of his army in Quemoy. If he lost that army, the rest of his army, which is in Formosa it self, might overthrow him, and so Chiang has Mr. Dulles entangled in Quemoy. For if Quemoy is lost, the army is lost. If the army is lost, For mosa is lost, if Formosa is lost, southeast Asia is lost, etc.,' etc. All this comes of founding a policy on untruths: on the untruth that the Red Chinese are planning the military con quest of Formosa, on the un truth that the offshore islands are related to Formosa, not to speak of the still bigger .un truth that the real govern ment of China is in Formosa, and that it will some day move back to the mainland. AMERICAN policy in east- - em Asia nas oecome a holding operation, a rear guard action, centered upon Chiang's government in For mosa. According to the offi cial apologists, we have got ten ourselves into a fix where our influence and prestige in eastern Asia depend upon an old man who presides over a feeble government which has been driven off the mainland. So entangled are we that we are not allowed to consider among ourselves, much less to explore it publicly, what is to become of Formosa when Chiang departs. The open dis cussion of such realistic pos sibilities, it is said, would de moralize Chiang's govern ment. Thus our diplomacy in eastern Asia is paralyzed. In the diplomatic contest with the Communist world Red China is able to act on the conviction that eventually Formosa will come to terms with the mainland. But we have no conviction about the future on which we can act. We are defending Chiang and we are depending on Chiang. But Chiang is not immortal. And Chiang will not let us talk about what might come after he goes. Thus we are un able to propose anything in the nature of a constructive policy. All we can do is to stand by Chiang until the day comes when there is no Chiang to stand by. 0 UR relations with Chiang are a classic example the most far reaching in our history - of an entangling al liance. Far from its being, as the official apologists say, in dispensable to our prestige and influence, this entangling alliance is an enormous lia bility which, if it does not en tangle us in war, is surely and steadily losing us the respect and confidence of our friends, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment REMINDER The yellow school bus, which all summer carried chil dren to summer camps and the bean fields, is back at its primary job - transporting Young America to school. And lest drivers forget the dic tates of safety and the Oregon law, we remind them of their obligation on the highways. Stripped of its legal lan guage, the law provides that you can't pass a school bus that is stopped to discharge passengers. You must stop, too. You may proceed only after the bus ; proceeds and after children who intend to cross the highway have crossed it. . The same rule applies if you meet a school bus that is stopped to discharge passeng ers on a two-lane highway.! Conservationists Pleased at All But One Of Achievements of Congressional Session BY A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Conserva tionists are sore because the 85th Congress finally author ized preliminary planning of Bruces Eddy dam on Ida ho's Clearwa ter River, but otherwise they believe "great gains were made in at taining goals for the pro tection and a. Robt smith wise manage ment of the nation's soil, for est, water and wildlife re sources" during the past two years. This is the opinion of the Wildlife Management Insti tute, headed by Dr. Ira Gabri elson, an Oregonian who for merly was chief of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The achievements the con servation organization is hap py about are: Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this :olumn do not necessarily repre- sent the views of the paper, in fact the contrary is often the case. Registration Needle To the Editor: The follow ing letter has been sent to Mr. Don Stathos, chairman of the Jackson County Republi an Central Committee: You may recall a letter from the Democratic Central Committee of some time ago challenging . the Republican Central Committee to a non partisan registration and get out the vote race. Under the proposed plan, registrars ap pointed upon the request of both committees were to make registration facilities available to as many of the estimated thousands of unregistered vot ers as possible. The registra tion booths and mobile units were to go "unlabeled" to in sure a non-partisan effort.- We heard nothing from you but did read with interest a large front page article in which you announced plans for a massive drive for reg istrations. To date, nothing has been heard about any ac tual effort on your behalf, al though our sponsored but unlabeled units have served the public in Prospect, Cen tral Point, Medford and Ash land. We have registered an estimated 500 or more citi zens, and we have just begun. Due to your slow start you undoubtedly will not accept our challenge, but we write to you to ask you and your committee to commence your drive, reminding you that we have less than a month to go! We cannot possibly reach every un-registered voter in the county, although we will try. With some help and sup port from you and your com mittee, more voters will go to the polls in November. By the way, I read some leaflets printed for the op ponent of Governor Holmes the other day and could not find anywhere in it what his political party was, yet it claimed that everyone "knows where he stands." Is he "partyless" or is he ashamed of his party? Jim Redden, Chairman Democratic Party of Jackson County - Planned Development To the Editor: A special commendation to Mayor Sni der, and Medford City Coun- cilmen Hansen, Baccus, HaU and Robinson for the time and effort they expended in making a field trip into this residential area to check the site of the auto wrecking yard on Hilton rd.; for their thoughtful deliberation in the matter; and, for their forth right decision. Our thanks, also, to the Medford Mail Tribune for its outstanding editorial support for planned urban develop ment, and for the courtesies and thorough coverage ex tended in this matter. Mr., and Mrs. John Brown Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Martin On a four-lane highway, as we read the law, the driver need not stop if he is meet ing the bus. But he must not overtake a stopped school bus, no matter how many lanes the highway has. The driver must stop be hind the bus, if traveling the same direction. If meeting the bus, he must stop before the front bumper of his car is in line with the front bumper of the bus. Penalty for forgetting all this is a fine of not more than $100. And it could be an even greater penalty-the lifelong memory of a small body on the highway -Eugene Register- Guard. I Six Achievements 1. Klamath bill the marsh on the Klamath Indian reser vation will be made into a national wildlife refuge for the ducks and geese on the Pacific flyway. It is an import ant feeding ground for these migratory birds, many of which go to Alaska for sum mer nesting. 2. Pesticides research the widespread use of chemicals for insect and plant pest con trol has taken an alarming toll of birds, mammals and aquatic life. So Congress en Matter of Fact USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS Washington As these woras are written, tnis re porter is about to leave for Form osa, in the manner of an aging but not quite fa tally spavined firehorse. Be fore these words can be printed, how ever, the fire in t h -e For- los-pb Alsop -mosa oiran may have sputtered out in re newed Sino-Amercian negotia tions. One must pray for that re sult more earnestly, since this trouble in the Formosa Strait is a much more dangerous business than most Americans imagine. The very greatness of the danger perhaps has per suaded the Chinese Com munist leaders to start talk ing about negotiations, as soon the the President and Secretary Dulles had commit ted themselves to using Amer ican troops, if need be, to de fend Quemoy and the Matsus The great danger is not that the United States will be drawn into the fighting in the Formosa Strait. The great danger is, rather, that the United States will first be drawn into the fighting, and win then be drawn into using nuclear weapons at least what are called "tactical" nu clear weapons in this local fight. rpHE highest Pentagon auth orities in fact maintain taat the U. S. Armed Services will be almost compelled to use tactical nuclear weapons. It is said that simple air and sea operations to break the blockade of Quemoy , would hot create this terrible alleged necessity. But- the prevailing view is that nuclear weapons would have to be used and ought to be used for all other missions, even including mere interdiction of the Chinese Communist air bases on the mainland. Thus tactical A-bombs are to be used without hesitation in any fighting beyond the scale of a mild spat. That is the best way to sum up of ficial Pentagon doctrine. The doctrine is the natural outcome of the present situa tion, plus the Eisenhower de fense policies of the past. In Communist China, the Amer ican armed services confront a formidable enemy, with 1,800 Soviet jet fighters and bombers, much other modern Soviet equipment, and a vast ground army. jyTEANWHILE, because oi the sacred budget, the U. S. ground and air forces of the Pacific are very much weaker, except in nuclear weapons, than they were when the Korean War began. Until the recent reinforce ment of the Pacific fleet, our naval forces in the area were also weaker, again except for nuclear weapons, than they were at the tragic moment when American weakness in ,4J. 1 -"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. The man strongly possessed of an idea is the master . . . Clear, deep, living convictions rule the world." James Freeman Clarke Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT PHONE SP 2-8030 acted a pesticides research law and appropriated $125,000 which will permit the Fish and Wildlife Service to re search means of combatting this menace. 3. Outdoor recreation facil ities a commission was au thorized to make a two-year survey of America's outdoor recreation resources now and what will be required by the country's rapidly expanding' population, sen. Kicnara l.. Neuberger and Rep. Al Ull man (D-Ore.) were both ap pointed as members. v By Joseph Alsop vited the Soviet aggression of 1950. These comparatively small American forces furthermore show the clear imprint of "bigger bang for. a buck" defense-planning. Among the Air Force planes in the Pa cific, for instance, only the absolete F-86D fighters were designed to us entirely con ventional armament. The much better F-100 fighters are conventionally armed for the air combat, but they are primarily adapted to Use tactical nuclear weapons when they are employed as fighter bombers. The light B-57 and B-66 bombers were designed with nuclear weap ons almost evclusively in mind. The B-47 m'edium bomb ers of the Strategic Air Com mand are literally unable to deliver any bombs at all ex cept A-bombs and H-bombs. Nor does the story end there, by any means. When President Eisenhower took his budget-minded "new look, at our defense planning, he is sued a formal directive to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That directive, subsquehtly con firmed and elaborated on oth er occasions, authorized the Joint Chiefs to plan to fight only nuclear wars. By order of the Commander-in-Chief himself, any fighting more serious than a police action was to be nuclear. rflHUS the generals, the ad- mirals, and the Pentagon's civilian high command cannot be blamed for the, danger of a nuclear war for Quemoy Furthermore, the phrase, "a nuclear war for Quemoy;" c o n s i derable misrepresents the issue. The ' policy-makers have painted the United States into a fantastic corner,- in which we have to choose between joining in the defense of these wretcnea mue onshore is lands, or suffering incalcul able further losses all over the world. If the Chinese Com munists can drive the United States to fight for Quemoy in these circumstances, then two very great powers will be at war with one another. We may attempt, and we should attempt, to treat such a war with Communist China as a limited war. But the success of this attempt will inevitably depend on the Chinese Com munist leaders and not on the Pentagon. Enough has been said at any rate, to suggest why it is well to pray for a renewal of the meaningless round of peaceable negotiations, (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. IKE TO MEET DIPLOMATS Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Eisenhower is reported planning to welcome person ally the foreign ministers of 20 Latin American countries when they arrive here Sept. 32 for a review of Western Hemisphere relations. SOCCER GREAT DIES London-flJPD-David Jack, 60, one of the all-time greats of English soccer, died here Wednesday. 4. Military reservations Congress enacted a prohibi tion against the Defense De partment withdrawing from other public use huge tracts out West of greater than 5,000 acres, unless Congress ap proves it. This is to prevent the military from making vast military reservations without justifying them to Congress, especially allowing for local residents, including sports men to have their say Pro vision was made to require the military to observe state hunting and fishing and trap ping laws to prevent these res ervations from becoming priv ileged hunting preserves for military officers. 5. Duck stamp starting July 1, 1960, virtually all re ceipts from the new $3 duck stamp will be channeled into an accelerated program for the purchase and lease of wetlands needed to maintain desirable duck and geese pop ulations. The duck stamp bill closed loopholes in the old law, preventing duck receipts from being used for other pro grams, and assuring that ref uge acreage goals can be at tained in about 25 years. 6. Pollution control more funds were appropriated for grants to cities for building sewage treament plants under this program which is less than two years old. But a move to double the program, making $100 million available annually, was pigeonholed. Long Around The Bruces Eddy authoriza tion came in the rivers and harbors bill. The project had been kicked around for years, mostly with Sen. Neuberger leading the fight against it on grounds it would flood out some elk feeding grounds in the Bitterroot Mts. and cause damage to migratory salmon and trout in the Clearwater, a main tributary of the Snake River; Two decisions by the ad ministration also received plaudits from the conserva tionists. One was Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton's order making , the primary function of federal wildlife lands that of preserving wild life, banning further oil leas ing on refuges except in ex ceptional cases. The other was the Internal Revenue Service failure to implement regula tions opposed by sportsmen re quiring sporting goods dealers to keep permanent records of firearms and ammunition sales. On these fabulous Iteaimliixi Exterior HOUSE and . 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