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4 KWsy, September jj, 1959, mail TRIBUNE, MEDFORO, ORE ; MEDFORDt&WTBIBUNE "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribane" Published Daily except Saturday by -ir.ur unu frti.N ii.nvj- lu. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager UtKALU LA1MAM. BUSineSS Mgr. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Soorta Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Women'i Editor HALE ER1CKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newstater Entered as second class matter at Med ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Coov 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 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, laient, ana on motor routes: Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c Ail lerms casn 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. NEWSPAPEt . PUBLISHEIS 'ASSOCIATION 2 NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight '0 Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 22. 1948 (Wednesday) The Veterans administra tion prepares to take over Camp White next Monday. Bob Gray and Tom Frey, Medford High seniors, have spent the summer planning and building a modern house on a challenge by profession al contractor Frank "Scotty" Fairweather. 20 YEARS AGO . Sept. 22. 1938 (Thursday) The annual harvest festival week end coming up will be observed by the Salvation Army with a special program. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A Massachusetts candidate -campaigned against himself and was nominated. Right now, in Oregon, a candidate is cam paigning against himself, but doesn't know it." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 22 (1928) Saturday Seven candidates for U. S. citizenship here in Jackson county will present them selves in Circuit court Sept. 26 for examination. Ashland voters decide this fall whether to elect their councilmen for four years. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 22, 1918 (Sunday) The Mothers' day proces sion was held last night with mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of servicemen marching. Another drive for old cloth ing for Belgians by the Red Cross is expected soon. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five 01 six is good. 1. The green coloring mat ter in plant cells is known as ch-o 1. 2. If an actor's performance was mephitic, would it have been outstanding, nauseous, or mediocre? 3. In what popular card game is there "melding"? 4. Name the revengeful, merciless Jewish money lend er in Shakespeare's "Mer chant of Venice," who at tempts to exact the forfeit of a pound of flesh. 5. Hanson's disease is an other name for , tuberculosis, leprosy or scurvy? 6. "Half nelson" and "full nelson," are terms used in which sport? 7. Bogota is the capital" of which South American coun try?" 8. Name the author of the poem, "Hiawatha.", 9. In bowling, how many strikes are necessary to roll a perfect score of 300? 10. Including four wisdom teeth, how many teeth .com prise a full set in the adult? Answers: 1. Chlorophyll. 2. Nauseous. 3. Pinochle. 4. Shy lock. 5. Leprosy. 6. Wrestling. 7. Colombia 8. Henry Wards worth Longfellow. 9. 12 Strikes. 10. 32. Taipei, Formosa - (DPD -Pacific Commander, Adm. Harry D. Felt said yesterday, that the reinforced atomic- capable U.S. forces in the Formosa area are strong enough to cope with anything the Com rxiunists might throw at them, TV Outlook As the new TV season opens, we are promised pretty much the same mixture as before, with heavy emphasis on Westerns mostly on film violence, and gimmick shows and further inroads into "live" drama. Plans for an increase in quiz shows have been jeopardized by the recurring charges and counter charges of collusion. Already four of the giveaway shows have been dropped One estimate puts at 40 the number of West erns to be telecast over the networks and inde pendent stations. But Louis G. Cowan, new CBS president, has defended the chains against charges of " overloading their programming with quizzes and "oaters." CBS, he said, would carry on the average week only "two half -hour quiz shows and seven half-hour Westerns out of 54 half -hours of network programming." The only live drama shows returning are the Wednesday evening "Steel Hour" and Thurs day's "Playhouse 90." Above all, this will be the year of "spectacu lars" or "specials" as Madison Avenue is now be ginning to call them. More than 90 of these star studded shows, running anywhere from one hour to two, are penciled in for the season. And the comedians are coming back to the networks, not ably Milton Berle, Jackie Gleason and Ed Wynn. A SPECIAL Manhattan in Sept. 17 to review information obtainecf m an investigation of TV shows by Frank.S. Ho gan, New York district attorney. Hogan has said he is not sure he has a legal case against individu als or promoters, but if he does the probable charge will be "collusion." And "Variety" reports that the quiz show scandals have ' "sparked new Senate Commerce Committee interest in more hearings on TV ratings this fall." Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monroney (D-Okla.) is quoted as saying he has received directly "new" information on quiz shows. Meanwhile, Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.), who as chairman of the House Commerce Committee has headed up television investigations, said on Sept. 16 that after Hogan completes his investi gation the House group the need for federal iegislaton. Quiz shows moved vision as TV became a rumors of cheating have i l arways inquiring reporters were meu wiui a. euuu I1U ,millllCllU I.UU1 UiJ. W INDUSTRY revenues in 1957 rose 5.2 per orf ohwo 1QF.fi Viiif- OYnonccc rKmhor, 10.7 per cent, the Federal mission has reported. So income taxes actually were lo.b per cent below the 1956 level. ' - CBS has reported higher earnings for the first six months of 1958, but second quarter totals were lower than those of the first three months. With prime evening time still unsold an almost unheard of condition all the chains are looking ahead with fingers crossed. E.R.R. 5ft" No Answer Wednesday, SeDt. 24, is the third anniversary of the first Eisenhower heart attack, and still the question: "What happens if the President is un able to perform his duties?" awaits an answer from Congress. . The President will be suffered two serious seizures since the 1955 at tack. But Congress for three years has stalled on an Eisenhower request that the Cabinet be auth orized to determine presidential disability. Thus all that is available for use in an emergency is the "clear understanding" President Eisenhower said he had reached last February with Vice Pres ident Nixon. I TNDER that modus vivendi, the President would "if possible" inform the Vice President of any temporaiy inability and thfe lat ter would become Acting President. If the Presi dent were not able to do this, the Vice President would "decide the devolution of powers," after such consultation as seemed to him appropriate, "and would serve as Acting President." In either case, the President "would determine when the inability had ended." Former President Truman said the Eisenhower-Nixon pact was "illegal," but his Secretary of State, Dean G.'Acheson, thought it "sensible and politically desirable" in view of the failure of Congress to act. E.R.R. Falsehood as Truth Some 2,500 non-official Americans visited the Soviet Union during the past summer at their own expense. Those interviewed on returning have been unanimous in praising the friendliness of the Russians, and remarking on their avid in terest in all things American. But some answers left the inquirers uncon vinced ; they continued to believe that thousands are starving on the streets of New York; that all Negroes in the South are mistreated ; that the American ruling classes are hell-bent on war. Long years of indoctrination by "Pravda" (Truth), organ of the Soviet Communist Party; Radio Moscow; and other instruments of thought control had given the common people of Russia a firm conviction of the truth of oft-repeated lies. Overseas broadcasts of President Eisenhow er's United Nations speech in August were not heard in the Soviet Union. Some of the return ing tourists said , they found ' themselves almost believing the paper's half-truths and inventions, because there was nothing by which they could be checked. E.R.R. grand jury was sworn may want to look into over from radio to tele mass medium. For years surrounded them, but .;.i, ki Communications Com profits before federal 68 on Oct. 14 ; he has Dennis the Menace flow ya ukb im crap Matter of Fact QUEMOY AND THE DEMOCRATS Washington There is a touch of poetic justice about Harry Truman's support of the Eisenhower-Dulles decis ion not to let C o m m u n ist bullets dictate American ac tion in the Formosa Strait. One Democrat, however, does not make Tirlw tstliA-vr Rowland Evans jr. even so emi nent a Democrat as Mr. Tru man. The countryside is full of other Democrats, including Dean Acheson, who out of deep conviction or a hope of partisan advantage are rais ing fundamental ques t i o n s about the Eisenhower-Dulles policy. These questions have not yet reached the full-bloom stage of an outright partisan attack. It is a bit too early for that. The no-retreat posture of the United States in the matter of the off-shore islands may in the end prove to be more successful than the critics fear. Neither the Demo crats nor the privately-complaining Republicans, of whom there are many, are going to over-commit them selves too soon. . "DUT Mr. Truman himself has left no doubt that de spite the obvious errors of the present Administration that helped create the crisis, he is not going to join his fellow Democrats in any general party assault on the Quemoy policy. This is, of course, the same Mr. Truman whom the Re publicans in 1952 made the special target of their "Korea," Communism and corruption" theme song. Beyond reason-, able doubt, it is also the Tru man of "Truman's war," the nasty, punchy epithet that the Republicans composed to make sure the voters would not forget where they were supposed to hang the blame for the Korean war. Now, a whole political era removed, Truman is the Dem ocrat who springs to the de fense of Eisenhower and Dulles. His stance beside the President, however, is not likely to be the weightiest fac tor influencing the Democrats on whether to make an all out political attack on the Re publican Far-Eastern policy. Opposing Truman are not only his former Secretary of State, Mr. Acheson, the entire party hierarchy from National Chairman Paul Butler on down and most of the Demo cratic candidates for office, but also public opinion. CONGRESSIONAL mail may sometimes be an inaccur ate barometer of public opin ion, but the overwhelming sentiment against the Quemoy policy now being reflected in mail to the United States Sen ate leaves no doubt how ma jority opinion stands. It is hostile. , Consider these figures based on letters to four Senators in the past ten days: Sen. Case of New Jersey, who attracts mail from East, Coast Eisenhower-Republicans, 35 letters, all opposed to any American involvement over Quemoy; Sen. Kennedy, 190 letters, all but three against the present policy; Sen. Douglas, one of the tiny band of Democrats supporting the President, a ratio of 50 to 1 against the present policy;- and Sen. Knowland, the foremost patron- of a tough Far-Eastern policy, 25 letters against the Administration's, position and 7 in favor. This mail to two Democrats and two Republicans, picked much at random, reveals none of the tell-tale signs of an or ganized pressure ampaign. It has the authentic flavor of the man in the street. And it rw srtoe ' ? By Holland Evans Jr. obviously is a strong tempta tion to the politicians running for office this fall, no matter what politician or what of fice, . to. exploit Quemoy for partisan gain. TT IS no wonder, then, that Truman's support was wel comed by the Administration as one of the happier episodes in an unhappy time. In the words of one top official: "You can bet your last dollar that we are glad to have Truman on our side. We need him." It is also no wonder that parts of the President's tele vised speech, explaining his Formosa Strait policy, could almost have been lifted word for word from some of the flat, earnest Truman speeches of 1951, when.the Korean war stretched ahead, bleakly with out end. Change the place, time and some of the charact ers, and the words could al most have been Truman's. But, as already stated, not even so eminent a Democrat as Truman will dictate Demo cratic party policy on Que moy. Far more to be expected is a gradual increase in criti cism and a growing demand for fundamental revisions of this country's Far-Eastern policy. What impact the po litical attack may have on the Congressional elections, if any at all, is debatable. It will, however, be of capital importance when the Democratic-controlled 86th Con gress convenes next January. (Copyrighted 1958 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Washington Report By William S. White RECOGNITION NEARER Washington There is a spreading conviction here that the end result of the Far East crisis must be either major war or a suc cess for Com munist China's almost psycho tic campaign to muscle her way into the United Na tions. . William S. White ""M" war is a nearly unthinkable last resort, many are reaching the conclusion that the galling and terrible dose of Ameri can recognition of Red China must be swallowed sooner or later. This is reported not gladly, only factually. Recognition is the ultimate course being increasingly asked by some of our best friends among the Western allies. A considerable number of influential American poli ticians, particularly afaiong the Democrats, are looking sadly and reluctantly and al most furtively in the ' same direction. "Furtively" is used because the United States Govern ment, through both the execu tive department and Con gress, is massively and repeat edly, committed against ac knowledging the existence of a bandit regime. fFHOSE now speaking pri vately for a change in this policy are unimpeachably anti-Communist. And some of them, in both the foreign dip lomatic and the American po litical communities, are actu ally quite conservative in their general political think ing. To ask the United States to recognize Communist China is to ask us to accept an un exampled diplomatic humilia tion and an undoubtedly cynical accommodation. These are the people who killed thousands of troops in Korea. These are the people who made unrepented war on the United Nations itself when the U. N. was fighting for col lective . security in Korea. These are the people who con Red Press To Eisenhower s Rejection By HENRY SHAPIRO UPI Correspondent Moscow (DPD The Mos cow press devoted banner headlines today to President Eisenhower's rejection of Premier .Nikita Khrushchev's latest note. The Moscow man-in-the-street took the rejection calm ly,, but diplomatic observers said it led to a situation which apeared to be the most dan gerous the world has known since World War II. "Unprecedented! . . . pre meditated provocation!" said GOP Shooting Back At 'Misstatements' By Ex-President By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent Washington -(UPD- The Re publican party began firing back at former President Tru man today, accusing him of "many mistatements and mud slinging" in his first round of 1958 campaign speeches. ' GOP National Chairman Meade Alcorn issued a "Tru man vs. The Truth Fact Sheet" and said the national committee would prepare more if necessary to "correct" the former president's "ma jor mistatements." Alcorn said Truman speech es last week included "a mountain-sized pile of distor tions, half-truths and outright deliberate falsehoods design ed to deceive Americans." No Mention "It is most interesting to note that Mr. Truman makes no mention of his party's stand on civil rights and of fers no explanation to his northern audiences as to why southern Democrats are clos ing public schools rather than obeying the law," Alcorn said.' To Truman's charge the GOP wanted to prevent full production, the "fact sheet" said national production this year was about 100 billion dollars above the peak year under the Truman adminis tration. As for his statement Repub licans wanted some unem ployment and wanted to hold wages down, the GOP replied that more Americans are at work and earning more than ever before and personal in come is at record levels. Budget Dispute spired in the Communist seiz ure and theft of part of what used to be French Indo-China. And these are the people who long ago drove our National ist Chinese ally, Chiang Kai jhek, out of mainland China and now distantly beseige him in his last island refuge of Formosa. All this is conceded by these foreign friends and by those American politicians who now believe it must be faced up to -who press this bitter thing upon us. Still, they point out that there is a mania in the determination of Red China to bludgeon the world into giving it a quasi-respectabil-ity by way of U. N. member ship. THEY are convinced that Peiping will set the world aflame, in a nuclear flame of total world war if neces sary, before it will be long denied this mark of "face." They" believe that even the Russians, who are not notably sensitive about such, things, are becoming alarmed at how far Peiping might be prepared to go. They acknowledge that recognition would mean the end of any kind of hope for Chiang beyond the hope of remaining on Formosa with our support. They do not ad mit, however- and this is the whole kernel of their argu ment - that all this need mean the loss to the West of For mosa itself as an anchor in our security line. They are suggesting that perhaps we could agree to neutralize the small off-Formosa islands - Quemoy and so on - but accompany this with an all-Western, and not merely American, proclama tion that any Communist as sault on Formosa itself would mean that we would all go in together, to the end, against that aggression. They suggest, in a word, that the undeniably heavy loss of American prestige in volved in recognition need not m.ean any net loss in American-Western power. On the contrary, they say, this kind of settlement would put our Western allies actually on Reacts Violently the head lines in the commu nist' organ Pravda. Its' edi torial described the Presi dent's action as "insolent." Red China Echoes Red China, echoing the line laid down Sunday by Rus sia, said America's refusal to abandon its friends . in the Far East had transformed the diplomatic ' negotiations in Warsaw to "mere empty words." "If the United States is really sincere, it must ' im mediately stop its armed pro vocations and war threats and Commenting on Truman's remarks about the budget, the national committee said the national debt had risen $234 billion under Democratic ad ministrations and that the re cent Democratic Congress had voted for more spending than the Eisenhower administra tion asked. . The GOP said "Truman is right" in saying missile re search was delayed but de clared "he is the one who held up the research pro grams." . 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 al! letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed e400 words. The letters printed in this column do not necessarily represent the views of the aaper; in fact the contrary is often the ease. Who're They Kidding? To the Editor: An amazing thing has happened in Oregon politics. When Governor Holmes called a special session to provide a tax cut, every "Re publican politician in . the state renounced the idea. Our local Republican state sena tor, together with the Repub lican legislator, went on TV to state that it was "impru dent" and that the state should hang on to the money. . Now that the people have received their 20 per cent cut in taxes, those same Republi cans try to claim credit, and even to say it wasn't enough. Who do the Republicans think they're kidding? Mark Norton Phoenix, Ore. Esperanto To the Editor: A serious difficulty confronting world wide television is the lan guage barriers. Yet the means for worldwide understanding is at hand: the international language, Esperanto, devel oped and proved in 70 years' use. Coming generations can en joy benefits of international communication through this simple, neutral interlanguage provided we lead the "way now to its adoption by the United Nations as the official auxiliary or second language, to be taught in the schools of all member nation's. Then our youngsters will enjoy TV from any place in the world with equal ease, our side for the first time in the Formosa Strait. They are not with us there now, by any means. TiHIS is the sort of proposal, wise or not, that is going to be increasingly heard in Washington by the time the new Congress assembles in January. How that Congress may respond, should the Ad ministration itself shift ground on recognition in the mean time, no one can say. One thing, however, may be regarded as absolutely cer tain: the Senate's heretofore monolithic objection . to any kind of recognition will be significantly, though not necesssarily critically, weak ened. The very heart of that objection has been in a hard Republican, core centered around Sen. William F. Know land, .the Republican floor leader. Mr. Knowland, now a can didate for governor of Cali fornia, will not again be in a position to supply an adamant anti-recognition lead ership. The power equation" on the issue, in consequence, will be measurably altered. (Copyright. 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Do FALSE TEETH Reek, Slide or Slip? 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Pravda quoted the Rome Communist organ "Unita" as denouncing the "senseless stubbornness" with which Ei senhower had labeled Red China an aggressor. The Rome Reds also accused the President of "vulgarly trying to distort the calm but de cisive words of Khrushchev." "Other reports," from New York, said "simple Ameri cans" are bombarding U.S newspapers and politicians with letters demanding an end to "the adventurous policy of Dulles and Eisen hower in the Far East." and will forge bonds of un derstanding now impossible across the language barriers. The Esperanto league, Meadville, Pa., can supply in formation about the interna tional language. Mrs. Mary J. Gibson P.O. Box 117 Riverdale, Calif. Who't Spending? To the Editor: In viewing Thursday's political telecast on KBES-TV, sponsored by the Jackson County Republi can Women's club, some ex tremely interesting questions came to my mind, especially in light of the fact that the programs are planned on a weekly basis. ; Who is spending all of this money, for the confessed pur pose of defeating one incum bent candidate? Why should a Medford stock broker and a Grants Pass politician tell us how to vote? - Further, Fay Bristol, a Jo sephine county repregenta tive, remarked that when s friend has money, "you na turally try to talk him out of some of it." Is that the way Republicans treat friends? Is Mr. Bristol's attitude that tax money should come from "the little people" the type 'we want in government? I'm going to vote for Bob Duncan, and if the stock broker (James Ragland) keeps bringing in out-of-county Re publicans to tell us how to vote, everybody will vote for Bob.' 1 - Both Bob and Marijane Duncan are going to Salem as representatives, if my vote is any indication. R. H. Southard 228 South Ivy st. Very Lenient Terms (When necessary you may have 30 months to pay, with no interest or carrying charges). f"A ' ' Ml Frank FRIENDLY, Editorial Comment ABOLITION THE HARD WAY The argument that capital punishment should be abol ished because of the possibil ity of the execution of an in nocent person often meets with skepticism. A prevailing attitude is that it just couldn't happen. Of course, it can and has happened. Dr. Ford Lewis, as sistant minister of the First Unitarian church' of Portland. has correspondence revealing mat just such tragic error prompted scrapping of the death penalty in at least two of the six states that have forsworn it. "Many years ago (in excess of 60) the state of Maine did have a capital punishment sta tute which called for hang ing," Maine Gov. Edmund S. Muskie wrote Dr. Lewis. "In the course of applying this statute one of our in mates was hanged who after wards was found to be en tirely innocent. This unfor tunate accident was the main reason for doing away with capital punishment in this state . . ." From the executive offices of another state, Rhode Island, came a similar ac count: "This state, many years ago, had capital punishment for first degree murder, but in one instance a man was convicted and executed and later it was found he was in nocent. The law was then changed, and it now provides that capital punishment can only be imposed in the case of a person who commits a mur der while serving a life sen tence." The latter provision is the same as would prevail in Oregon should the people approve abolition of capital punishment in the November election. Response to Dr. Lewis' let ters to the governors of the six states Maine, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and North Dakota -reflected general public sat isfaction with absence of the death penalty. In point of fact, statistics confirm that the homicide rate in these states as a group is substantially lower than the average in states which take a life for a life." There is no way of know ing how many innocent lives have been forfeited to the spirit of revenge embodied In the death penalty. The cases cited in Maine and Rhode Island are exceptions to the rule that an execution closes the case. The moral is: It should not be necessary to kill an inno cent man to motivate Ore gonians to eliminate capital punishment. Portland Ort. gonian. fflflSTfB Ammtica' largest Setting TOILET TANK BALL Noisy running toilets can watt or 1000 gallons of water o day. 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