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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Monday, September 29,, 1951 MEDFORDsTRIBUNE "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL ft ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Meoford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy lflc. 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 $450. By Carrier In Advance Madford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Pnopnix, 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 c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Med ford 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. 0Z NEWSPAPER 3 i PUBLISHERS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION U W 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 Sept. 29, 1948 (Wednesday) Medford officially took over the Camp White sewage dis- Tjosal clant yesterday. Approximately 25 members of Teamsters Local 962 walk ed off their jobs today at the Medford branch of the.Pacmc Fruit and Produce company. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 29, 1938 (Thursday) A baby elephant and a flea circus are features of the Mammonth Hippodrome rail show. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A hunter returned from the hills this morn, where he bagged a two-horned cow, with four legs and a tail." 30 YEARS AGO ; Sept. 29, 1928 (Saturday) , Plans are developing for street lights on downtown Sixth st. j Southern Oregon fishing streams are being reinforced this week with t stocking of brookies and steelhead. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 29. 1918 (Sunday) Two special military trains, destinations unknown, passed through town yesterday. City folks and valley farm ers voted yesterday on issuing bonds for the Medford Irriga tion district. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. According to the scrip tures, Cain was the brother of whom? 2. In boxing a short chop ping blow to the back of the neck or the base of the skull, is known as what sort of punch? 3. Name the Chief .Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. 4. The late Knute Rockne achieved fame as . football coach of which team? 5. -Which steamship .was sunk first, the SS Titanic, or the SS Lusitania? 6. A citizen must be' older to qualify as a U.S. senator, qr a U.S. representative? 7. A person suffering from nyctophobia has a morbid fear of cuts, nits, or dark ness? 8. Adult moths do not eat fabrics; true or false? 9. Joe Yule Jr. is the real name of which movie star? 10. Name the author of the novel, "Robinson Crusoe." Answers: 1-Abel. 2-Rabbit punch. 3 Earl Warren. 4-No-tre Dame. 5-SS Titanic. 6 U.S. senator. 7 Darkness. 8 True. 9-Mickey Rooney. 10 Daniel Defoe. CHTJRCHILLS ON CRUISE Malaga, Spain - fOPD - Sir Winston and Lady Churchill were en route to Tangier aboard the yacht Chistina to day on a 10-day "golden honeymoon" cruise around the Mediterranean. The Churchills are the guests of Aristotle Onassis, the ship ping ngnate.vThe yacht left here Saturday night. World Series Logistics The 1958 World Series opens Wednesday in Milwaukee, home o'f the National League pennant winning Braves. ' If this World Series goes seven games, as did the 1957 meeting of the same teams, there is no conceivable reason why another new set of rec ords shouldn't be established off the field as well as on. The New York Yankees have announced that reserved seats for the games to be played in New York were already oversubscribed, less than three days after the club had begun accepting mail orders. "The response," said Jack White, Yankee ticket manager, "was the largest in ourJiistory of handling world series tickets." And the frenzied welcome home given the Braves in Milwaukee after they clinched the Sept. 21 indicated no falling off of their popu larity in the midlands. COME of the records established in 1957 are worth recalling. Paid attendance was 394,- 712 for a total of $2,475,978 (exclusive of radio and television fees), both all-time highs. The Braves divided their 60 per cent of the. players' take (of the first four games) into 30 full shares of $8,924,36, another record and a nice chunk of take-home pay for seven days' work. Hotel rooms will be at a high premium in New York, also in Milwaukee. On the day of the first game in New York last year, Oct. 2, the city Hotel Association conceded that all hostelries be tween 30th and 60th streets were jammed. Small but satisfactory hotels farther uptown could take care of the overflow, the group said. The associ ation has 170 member hotels, with 75,000 rooms ; the city as a whole, 372 hotels with 116,291 rooms. Choice seats in Yankee Stadium went at $100 each. One bio- New York-based firm told "The Wall Street Journal" some 300 clients and friends had requested seats free, of course. Ihe comp any was able to get only 50 good seats ; it knew from experience that any free-loaders given poor seats would be sore. . . , . . Milwaukee fans and for that matter the whole "series crowd" are known as big spend ers, and night clubs and fancy restaurants do a huge business. THIS inevitably will be a big gambling as well A as a big spending series. Spencer J. Drayton, head of the Thoroughbred Racing Association Protective Bureau and a former FBI agent, said at this time last year that his data showed a great deal more money- had been wagered on baseball during the season than was "wagered legally on horse racing or any other sport." Estimates of the amount changing hands on the 1957 world series alone ran in excess of half a million dol lars. This was money placed with bookmakers. The additional bets in office pools and man-toman wagers would run to a vast sum. On a sheer money basis, the fellow who's got most out of the world series over the years prob ably would be Yankee coach Frank Crosetti. This year Crosetti will break his own record for par ticipation in the series nine times as player, nine as a coach. Up to last year his total series takings were estimated at over $100,000. His 1957 cut in the losers' share came to $5,606 and the chances are he'll drag down more this year. There'll be no prediction here on the series outcome. But on an actuarial basis, you'd have to pnve the Yankees the nod. After all: in the stag gering 23 years the Yankees have played in the series, they've lost only six times, oniy inrice in the past 30 years: E.R.R. The Staph Menace Tf von are one of' the 90.000.000 Americans nrnrerrpH hv snrp-ical-hosoitalization insurance, you should be interested in the fact (1) that ris ing health insurance rates are attributed in con siderable degree to "subscriber over-utilization" of hospitals and "unnecessary surgery' ; ana tne added fact (2) that medical resources now are hPino- hnstilv mobilized to combat the spread of staphylococcal diseases usually contracted in hos pitals. Widespread outbreaks of staphylococcus post operative infections have been attributed to new and hardy strains of the staph bug which are little affected by the antibiotic wonder drugs. Some have emerp-ed as specific eDidemic strains. U. S. O A x Surgeon General L. E. Burney has said that one . -m t, 1 1 j 1 I ll. J 1 strain has got a long lead in controlling it are "truly A RECENT conference of germ fighters, called by the Public Health Service at the request of the American Hospital Association to map a na tional campaign against the staph menace, agreed that no easy solution is at sort must be to the traditional methods of pre venting infection. A leading Philadlphia .surgeon recommended adequate scrubbing .techniques (in hospitals) combined with thorough alcohol rinse of the skin." He had no doubt that meticu lous sanitary precautions would result in "a wound infection rate of practically zero." Nevertheless, it would be well to give some thought to the staph bug if you have looked for ward to a freeloadihg rest cure in the hospital or have contemplated an unnecessary operation at your health fund's expense. E.R.R. National League flag on on us ; tnat tne siaKes awful." hand and that first re Dennis the Menace (gV9S8TS (WfSWCCa-,C.T:.(g) 5UR PARENTS ARE A PAIS SCWETWE3. 6UT Wl) GOTTA We. 'SfA UNLgSS U GOT tfXR OWN HOUSE. Matter of Fact By Rowland Evans Jr. By ROWLAND EVANS JR. While Joseph, Alsop re ports from the Far East, Rowland Evans Jr. covers the home base. P.S. ON SHERMAN ADAMS Washington The defense strategy devised for Sherman Adams last June, after the - first of the ' ' Bernard finlrl- u r e s, ".was tried out in secret on two carefully se lected guinea pigs, Sens. Case of New t . j Rowland Evans ,"r c f ' e nQ jr. Javits of New York. It would have been dif ficult to find a moresympa thetic sounding - board than these two East Coast, Eisen hower Republicans, ' neither of whom has the sliehtest election worries this year. And yet, the preview of the impending defense of Mr. Adams that they got from Charles F. Willis Jr., the able former White House official, left Sens. Case and Javits as unmoved as mummies.- The sneak preview came shortly before Mr. Adams went up to the old House of fice building to testify before the . Harris subcommittee. Both Javits and Case felt even then that Mr. Adams' goose was cooked. It had al ready become an odds-on bet that his defense before the House committee could not save him and that Republican candidates, who had never felt at home with him any way, would drive him out. HPHE chilly reaction of Case -- and Javits should have warned the Adams forces of what lay ahead, but instead it was ignored. This failure to sense the political and philosophic atmosphere that gripped Washington on the heels of the Adams-Goldfine disclosures was the first er ror of those who' thought Mr. Adams could, survive. The second was more grievous and . inexplicable. This was Mr. Adams' failure to make the "clean breast" of the full extent of his relation ship with Bernard Goldfine. It was Vice President Nixon, an acknowledged authority on correct conduct under fire, who told Mr. Adams that if he testified he should with out question tell aU. Why Mr. Adams did not follow this sound advice and lay bare the detailed history of favors he had received from Goldfine is one of those totally inex plicable mysteries. He must have known that once he chose to fight it out, all these hidden facts would pop up in the end, as even the most un- discoverable : facts have a habit of doing. And when they did, they could not fail to prejudice his case. THE third error made by the Adams defense was its failure to sense the de cisive character of Sen. Knowland's warning that per haps Mr. Adams had outlived his usefulness to the Presi dent. The warning was soon followed by outright de mands for his resignation. The Republicans knew they had lost their hound's tooth. For example, their 1958 speakers' handbook listed as the second major Eisenhower accomplishment: "Cleaned up the mess in Washington; re stored honesty and integrity to government." The newest version of the handbook, just off the press, makes no such claim. And yet, the President per mitted time to pass in the hope that the wolves would somehow stop baying and go away. Finally, of course, the Maine election forced the is sue and Mr. Adams made his challenging fareweU address. Although it is not hard to understand how, in bitter mmmmmm ness, he was moved to blame his resignation on an "cam paign of vilification," the tone of the address has to be judged the final and perhaps most serious error of all in the sad course of events since last June. As the Democrats are at great pains to point out, Mr. Adams' departure now stands officially as an act of political expediency, not an act to restore an im peccable standard of conduct in public office. rpHAT is the past. The fu- -- ture is unclear, but two forecasts are possible: First, that Vice President Nixon and the Republican National Committee will move at once to expand their influence on Administration policy and ab sorb some of the purely polit ical functions that have been included in Mr. Adams' broad preserve. Second, that evidence may soon be at hand to dramatize the President's appeal last June: ."I need him." For Gov. Adams surely has that dis tinctive, rare genius for pub lic administration on which the Eisenhower system whol ly depends. Who else, alone or in combination, can fill his . place soon? What substi tute is there for the ultimate authority of the "O. K., S. A." that Adams affixed to count less state papers before send ing them to the President for final signature? Perhaps it is the system that must give .way in the sudden removal of the man who made it work. 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of 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. Wants the Truth To the Editor: Thanks to Bert Kissinger for his letter. J. Frank Dobie, as with every writer of things before his time, makes mistakes. It is the cooperation of just such interested persons as Mr. Kis singer that makes it possible to record such periods au thentically. True West and Frontier Times strives always for the truth and nothing else. No stories not based on truth are accepted. As you can imagine, such editorial policy is diffi cult when writing about cur rent events; much more diffi cult is it to hold a clear line of truth concerning things of the past. I disagree concerning Wyatt Earp. I think he was a bandit and a killer. In the letters to the editor in these maga zines I find many who agree with me. The Jacksonville Museum Jjooklet says the First Protestant church was built in 1854; the Jubilee pamphlet dftes it 1851. An organization erected a plaque to the Rogue River Valley Railroad recently; many of1 See fmnklin FDREPILACES NOW IBUG PINES LUMBER -CD. Corner 6th and Fir Russia Warns That Reel China Should Be Included in Disarmament Talks By K. C. THALER UPI Correspondent London (BPD -Soviet Russia has thrown a new monkey wrench into the disarmament debate which may block any major arms-cut accord for an indefinite period. In a thinly veiled warning Russia virtually served no tice on the West that there would be no solution of the disarmament problem with out Red China's participation. This was the reading by diplomatic experts of a seem ingly casual remark by Sov iet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko during an oration at the United Nations Assem bly in support of Communist China's admission to the world organization. Gromyko, pleading for the Peiping's regime admission to the U. N. said until this hap pened many important ques tions such as disarmament could not be dealt with properly. This was Moscow's way of saying that Red China will have to participate in future in disarmament negotiations if they are to get anywhere. Fits Into Pattern The move fits into the pic ture of latest developments in the Sino-Russian alignment and gives fresh support to re cent indications of Commu nist China's growing pres sure on the Kremlin. So far Moscow has not yet formally raised the point. But judging from previous exper ience Western diplomats ex pected to be confronted with a demand for Red Chinese participation when disarma ment issue is revived. Wa shington Re po rt By William Washington -The moderate Southern politicians are con ducting a slow retreat of im- m e n s e skill a g a i n st the heavy pres sures of the Southern" ex tremists on one flank and of the ad vanced North e r n . D e m o cratic liber- William S. White ais on me Other flank. These moderates -are the masters of the art of politics in this country, whether one agrees or disagrees with them. And in this uneasy autumn they are ' demonstrating as much. " No other set of political men has been in such danger in generations. They are lit erally and painfully in the middle of the most passionate domestic issue of this century, that of civil rights. The Deep Southerners are attempting to destroy these it's members know nothing of an assault by the president of this railroad 'upon a Med ford mayor, and a hard-fighting editor who was right, and a libel suit. Research in Jacksonville is hard. Some cooperate; some do not want it publicized. I am persistant, and with luck, readers of these magazines will begin to read about our area very soon. I will receive damning letters,' for mistakes; for telling the truth, and mis cellaneous reasons. If those who know the truth want nothing but the truth in print, then I say that if they will give me some facts they can be sure I won't write any thing else, for someone must begin the story of our area and it is, at best, a form of pioneering, with plenty of 'savages' fighting it. I will appreciate any facts, leads, stories, photos, or other help offered me by anyone who - knows history of our area and would like to see it written and preserved for future generations. Virginia D. Card, P.O. Box 145, Medford AT "Since 1908" Next month representa tives of the United States, Britain and Russia are slated to meet in Geneva (Oct. 31) to discuss the suspension of nuclear, tests under an inter national control system. The West wants to use this occasion for,a resumption of broader disarmament consid erations, Russia wants an unconditional suspension of tests. The subject of Red China probably will then crop up. Such demand could in present circumstances in ef fect block any further dis armament negotiations for an Local Enforcement Seen Idea Of Administration for Labor By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington - (DPD. Organ ized labor has given the Ei senhower administration a fast okay on the idea that there is plenty of unenforced law a t the local level to deal with union thieves and g 6 o n squad slug gers. Labor Sec- . Lyle C. Wilson retary James P. Mitchell fathered the thought In a, re cent Atlantic City speech be fore the annual convention of the steelworkers. Mftch'eH's approach to new federal labor legislation was negative - S. White moderates and to head the South into a campaign of to tal and endless - and hopeless - resistance to school integra tion. The Northern Democrat ic liberals are not so much trying to end the political lives of the moderates as to wrest control of the party from them. . ';.-: fTHUS, the Southern moder- ates can only fall back and try to limit their losses. This is the strategy that is now unfolding - and brilliant ly unfolding, given their"des perate circumstances. The field marshal is the Senate Democratic leader, Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. The man who will now be perhaps his chief lieutenant has been chosen not from Senatorial or Congressional ranks and not even from the upper South - where there is at least some present possi bility of accommodating the integration issue. Instead, this new subordi nate officer comes from the deepest South; he is J. P. Coleman, Governor of Missis sippi. Mr. Coleman has just been made chairman of the Conference of Southern Gov ernors. His election involved "jumping" him over the head of the man who would nor mally have got the post by seniority, . Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas. : , ' rpHIS was a "Johnson opera tion" in that it undoubted ly represented the Senator's desires. So much may be con fidently assumed even though Johnson was nowhere near the site of the recent South ern Governors' Conference at Lexington, Ky., where . the deed was done. For Coleman is an old Johnson associate. Since before 1956 they have been working together to avoid a fatal party split over civil rights. . Coleman7 Mississippi or no Mississippi, has steadfastly re fused to talk in -terms of a new war between the states over integration. He is . now taking the lead, moreover, in squelching any talk of a Southern bloc breaking away from the Democratic party in 1960. . Faubus has been effectively isolated and every other Southern extremist "will cer tainly be isolated by the mod erate Southern .leadership by I960 if its plans materialize. Budget Terms Phone SP 2-6251 rti in! indefinite period. . Until now- Russia has car fully by-parsed the issue of Red Chinese participation in arms cut negotiations. Issue Not Raised She has done so despite the fact that both the West's and her own disarmement pro posals provided for a reduc tion of Communist Chinese armed forces as well as their own in any future global arrangement. Nor did Moscow raise the issue when earlier this year East and West debated the convocation of a conference of scientists from both camps don't enact much, if any. t "You are going to hear much conversation about labor legislation," Mitchell told the steelworkers. "We may disagree as to the kind of legislation which is need ed, but there are some things on which we are completely agreed. "One is that any labor leg islation at the federal level shall not be repressive or pun itive. "And two, labor legislation at the federal level should not contain so-called antitrust laws directed against labor. "And three, it seems to me that no one and certainly not this administration nor myself would have the tem erity to ' propose a federal right to work law." Need Local Enforcement The steelworkers had greet ed Mitchell with some booing but they began to warm up with some ,applause after he outlined his policies, which in cluded: "It seems to me that one of the problems is we don't " For the central problem of the Southern moderates, al ways acute, is sharpening daily, as well they know. What they now have most to fear is far more than a re jection at the next convention of their efforts to hold the civil rights plank to a middle road one. The nightmare they must face is that the North ern liberals, so long exasper ated, may turn up this time determined to drive the whole South from the party, with out making much distinction between "good" and "bad" Southerners. . rriHE moderates, therefore, are maneuvering not to permit any situation to arise in which they could reason ably be charged with any as sociation with any prospec tive Southern bolters. No other political group has more to lose. Southern moderates have long control led , Congress even though they are a minority there. And not the least of their perils lies in simple, human envy. Some Northern liberals are not exactly happy in the ob vious fact that, right or wrong as they may be on issues, the Southern moderates are in comparably " and " undeniably more able. To dislodge these brilliant professionals would take some doing. But it could be done - and most of all if they could fairly be identified in 1960 with any aspect of Southern extremism. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) .... - - Reasonabl (Priced for FRIENDLY, ' J' X 1 in Geneva to examine the possibilities of nuclear explo sions detection. At one time there was hitch in these preliminary talks when Russia tried to back out; it was then assumed that Peiping had attempted to veto the meeting because it had been left out in the cold. However, the Geneva con ference took place tnd its Eastern representatives in fact recommended with their Western colleagues that a test detection control system should be -spread worldwide that would have to include China. need federal laws to check mugging and goon squads and criminal tactics. What we do need is a recognition at the community level that these (local) laws should be en forced; and we need support to the law enforcement peo ple so that intimidated work ers can testify without fear of reprisal and that grand juries can indict arsonists and thugs at the local level. No one has to wait for Washing ton to pass a law to check these evils." Some days later, AFL-CIO President George Meany ad dressed the International Union of Electrical Workers in Philadelphia. Meany also was content with local laws as written to deal with union crooks and thugs, but he com plained that the. solid local citizenry- do not support or ganized labor's effort to clean house. "There doesn't seem to be a district county attorney in this country who is inter ested," Meany said. "In not a single instance do we find where any local district (coun ty) attorney has taken interest. There are upwards of 3,000 DA's in the United States. "Can it be," Meany asked, "that there is some discrim ination in which nothing is done when there is embezzling from the workers?" -Agreement on Approach He also challenged the ethics of the American Bar whereunder union crooks are served by legal counsel,- tak ing union money to defend union crooks. As to business men, Meany said "where a crook is on one side .of the table representing labor, you have another crook on the other side representing busi-' ness." In contrast to the unan imity with which organized labor opposes the Eisenhower administration and the Re publican party in politics, there was - substantial agree ment in the Meany and Mit chell speeches on the size, shape and basic approach to political problems related to organized labor. Both approaches substan tially ignore an area of the labor question which urgent ly attracts the support of a great many citizens and even more so arouses the angry op position of the. leaders of or ganized labor. That is the area in which some persons see Big Labor as dangerously powerful. That side of the debate is well pre-' sented in the 1957 book "Labor Union Monopoly A Clear and Present . Danger", by Donald R. Richberg, once assistant to President FDR. 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