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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Friday, October 3, 1958 Mesford4$Tbib UNE "Everyone In 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 otnAi-u LAinAM. Business Mgr. Managing Editor EARL fi ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Soorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor .dale t.Ki-moi. circulation Mgr An Independent Newsnaner Entered as second class matter at Meotora Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Conv 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 aunaay uniy 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 unity ana ounaay i mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c mi lerms t-asn in Advance Offirisl Paper of City of Medford uinciai raper ot Jackson bounty 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 c3T8N ASSO Flight ro Time .Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1948 (Sunday) A gold lode in the old Miller mine on Foots creek is being developed by the Greenhorn Mining company. A plea for men to try out for the Civic theater's produc tion of "Male Animal" is re ported. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 3. 1938 (Monday) The 1938 Community Chest campaign opens tomorrow. TTrom Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "A ma jority of Oregon communities have staged 4-H club livestock sales, and are now eating jun ior bull, while listening to the senior bull." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1928 (Wednesday) A total of $728.50 has been collected here so far for hur ricane relief in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A box social and spell-down has been scheduled by the Jacksonville PTA. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1918 (Thursday) Medford subscriptions to the liberty loan bond campaign have passed the $200,000 mark. The Crater Lake rim road has been completed. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five 01 six is good. 1. Complete the names of three American frontiersmen whose first names were Davy, Daniel and Kit respectively. 2. The author of "Tom Saw yer" was O. Henry; true or false? 3. The capital of Nebraska is Omaha, Lincoln, or Has tings? 4. In which Asiatic country is Mt. Ararat? 5. How many is eight score? 6. Which common garden vegetable was formerly called "love apple"? 7. Who was known as the "Man of Destiny"? 8. A unit of weight for pearls equivalent to one-quarter of a carat is known as a g ? 9. Dale Carnegie is most noted for his course in steel technique, public speaking, or soilless farming? 10. Is the nickname desig nation "Beehive State" applic able to North Dakota, Utah or Wyoming? Answers: 1. Crockett. Boone and Carson. 2. False. (Mark Twain.) 3. Lincoln. 4. Turkey. 5. 160. 6. Tomato. 7.Napoleon Bonaparte. 8. Grain. 9. Public speaking. 10. Utah. - 5 - fe Nothing Air just air is so all-encompassing that most of the time we think of it as "nothing." i But it is something. And that something is a j iascmaung element winch actually is a part of us all, which nourishes and sustains all life, and which forms the shallow "sea" of atmosphere wrncn permits us 10 live at all. Air is life. It is weather. It is a protective blanket which shelters us from murderous radiation. And only now are understand what it is, behaves as it does. IMAGINE the earth uiauicici. ah Duv-n a, case, uic uuiiv uj. uic aunuo- phere (the troposphere, which comprises about 90 per cent of our blanket of air) would be one tenth of an inch thick. And yet this thin covering weighs somewhere around six quadrillion (6,000,000,000,000,000) tons. At sea level, the weight of the air pressing on a square inch of surface weighs about 14.7 pounds. We do not feel it, for our bodies are constructed to withstand it, we would literally blow up. It is this airy mass of gases most of it nitro gen and oxygen, with smatterings of hydrogen, carbon dioxide, argon, ozone, neon, helium, krypton and xenon, and differing amounts of water vapor which forms "the mysterious broth of life, as it is called m a series of articles in the current Saturday Review. THE study of this gassy ocean in which we live 1 has long colored man's thinking, ever since Aristotle considered it some 23 centuries ago. it provoked man s that same curiosity which has led man to ail his discoveries. Why does the sky look blue, he asked. What makes the stars twinkle? originate and develop which today provides us scopes and eyeglasses. Why does thunder Why does sound travel weather than in others? in acoustics. WHAT about the mysteries of electricity in the are the northern lights? These stimulated re search in what is now the science of physics. What causes dew to form? Where do the clouds come from, and what are they? What makes it rain? Why do winds blow? These led to meteorology (still an infant science), and to discoveries in chemistry, mechanics and thermo dynamics. . And the challenge is still there, with more questions unanswered than there are those with answers. rjR. THOMAS M ALONE, one of the authors of the Saturday Review articles, provides some of the answers we do know or think we know. The sky is blue because the blue component of sunlight (it can be seen with the aid of a spectroscope) is widely scattered in the air. Stars twinkle because of small fluctuations in the den sity of the air through which their light passes. Lightning is seen before thunder is heard because light (travelling at 186,000 miles per second) is seen, and sound (travelling at 1,100 feet per sec ond) is heard. Sound travels faster through dense, cool air than it does through thinner, warm air, and better through still air than moving air. Lightning is caused by the separation of posi tive and negative charges in masses of air. The northern lights are caused when particles from the sun strike and react chemically with atoms high in the atmosphere. Dew forms when there is sufficient moisture in the air, and when the surface of the earth becomes cooler than the air, permitting the water vapor to condense. Clouds form from water vapor drawn up from bodies of water or the surface of the earth when the vapor pressure of the air is less than that on the surface. Rain is caused when the right conditions of temperature and pressure and vapor combine with tiny nuclei which form the center of rain drops. Winds blow because pressure is greater in one krea of the atmosphere than another, and the air "flows" to equalizethe pressure. rAN man contiol the weather which is, basi y cally, the complicated movements of this thin film of gas which covers us? To a very limited extent he can, at present. But so far this is confined to increasing or stimu lating or limiting precipitation, through the intro duction of new elements to the "broth" of the air. But any widespread control is predicated on a far greater degree of knowledge than we now possess, knowledge which will enable us to pre dict with far greater accuracy the movements of tha masses of air. These movements, in turn, are caused by the power of sunlight, the warmth which beats unevenly on the surface of the earth, nr is reflected back into space, or is absorbed as energy by the gases of There are complicating, factors in each stae-eJ i v i ,. -. wmcn maKe attempts at standing a present impossibility. Much more will nave to De Known before widespread or large-scale Which is probablv world the way it is. Any nation which really could control the weather effectively could rule the world. E.A. But Air scientists beginning to i how it circulates, why it; I a I as a globe four feet in j this pressure. Without curiosity, and it has been These questions helped the science of optics, with telescopes, micro ? follow a lightning flash? better in some kinds of These led to discoveries the atmosDhere. .. . ----- -- o- I more than limited under we can hoDe for anv control of the weather. .lust as well, with the Dennis the Menace nililll1111' wii 'iVHATfe WROMS WITH HIM RUNNING AWAY FROM HOWE? Washington Report By William S. White . NIXON MOVING IN Washington-Vice-President Richard M. Nixon is now mov ing all but openly, in fact if not in form, into the top operating leadership of the Republi can party in succession to President Ei senhower. This is not, however, an- Williara S "white Other of those "new" Nixons so often dis cerned. For there never was any "new" Nixon. There has been only one Nixon-but a Nixon whose progressing skill as a professional politic ian has taught him when to be "tough" and when to go along with the essentially un partisan line of the Eisenhow er tenure. It has been Nixon's actions in these various non-tough periods that have caused many to view him as a "new" man. The truth is that he has been, and still is, simply a man of varying tactics to suit vary ing situations, as are nearly all highly capable politicians. INDEED, the Nixon who is now out on the campaign trail in aid of the Republicans in the November Congression al elections is more nearly the basic Nixon than at- any time since he .undertook a similar job in 1954. He is re turning, that is to say, to his "tough" side. And the face of the party he is presenting is more nearly its basic face than it has been since 1954. What the Vice-President is now undertaking, as the al most certain Republican Presi dential nominee in 1960, is just the sort of many-sided and subtle task that appeals to his great-and earned-sense of expertness. First, he'wishes to cut the Republicans' prospective loss es in November. He has no serious hope of actually bring ing about a Republican Con gressional victory. This is one o the most coldly objective and realistic politicians of our time, and he knows perfectly well what is possible and what is not. At the same time, he is a cool and steady-handed poli tical gambler who is aware that seemingly imminent dis aster can sometimes miracu lously be arrested and even reversed-as has happened in his own career. So if a mi racle should befall and the Republicans actually regain Congress "that, of course, would be a welcome extra dividend. NEXT, Nixon wants to make himself the indispensable leader to those Congressional Try and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF THE THEATRE GUILD once received a play script whose opening curtain rose on a little old French lady knitting in her rocker. Her husband entered, visibly fatigued, and placed his black instrument bag on the table. "Ah, Pierre," said the lady. "You have been away all night Was it a difficult delivery?" "Yes," answered the weary doctor. 'But it was worth it History was made last night The baby's name is Victor Hugo." Of course the author wasn't able to maintain that pace all evening. Henry Morgan Bays his favorite melody was composed by the Russian master, Shostakovich. Its title, of course, is "Shostakovich Small by a Waterfall." . "There are really only two things a dedicated writer cannot toler ate," observes Noel Coward. "One is failure; the other success." O 1938. by Bennett Cert. Distributed by King Feature Syndicate. I Republicans who do survive with his help. He thus-and understandably so - would bind them unusually close to him as President, if and when he himself reaches the White House. Third, he is presenting him self as increasingly the spokes man for the orthodox part of the Republican party. That section is still the party's au thentic heart. It has been wholly overshadowed in the Eisenhower years. But the most fundamental of all facts for all Republicans is that the Eisenhower era is drawing to a close and with it is ending the heretofore unique party influence of Mr. Eisenhower himself. By 1960 the Republican party will be in no sense ' an Eisenhower organization. It will have reverted to some thing closely resembling its old pre-Eisenhower structure -and Nixon will be identified with that kind of structure Undoubtedly, too, a part of his present campaign design is to try to ' neutralize what has been perhaps the most damaging single criticism of him. Many have long felt that while he has an almost-matchless, litmus-paper ability to sense public -feelings he has tended merely to reflect rather than to lead and create these public feelings. IN THIS lies at least a par tial explanation of his re cent harsh - and indeed ex treme denunciation of State Department subordinates for alleged "undercutting" of Sec retary John Foster Dulles by disclosing that public mail has been running against our Chi na policy. Nixon has been hurt by this episode in the eyes of those who regarded it as a denial of the democratic theory of gov ernment. Yet-and apart from the fact that what he said on his personal responsibility was demonstrably caring, how ever unwise-his net gains in this affair will exceed his losses, from where he stands. For it has helped to refute he old charge that he only follows and never riskily leads. And, even more impor tantly, it has strengthened his status among the orthodox Republicans. Their deepest convictions-and Nixon's too are engaged in the present China policy. They .will not willingly stand for the slight est softening toward the Chi nese Communists. Here Nixon beyond doubt was speaking their language-just as he is unarguably speaking it in his renewed thrusts at what he calls the "radical" kind of Democrats. (Copyright, 1958. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Diplomatic Exile of No Surprise to Few (Editor's note: The United Press ternational Correspondent Her bert G. Spencer was in Baghdad following the July coup that overthrew King Faisal's regime. In the following dispatch, he analyzes the reasons behind the latest shakeup in the Baghdad revolutionary government). By HERBERT G. SPENCER United Press International Beirut, Lebanon (UPD The diplomatic exile of Abdel Salem Aref, the rabid pro Nasserite who was Premier Abdel Kerim Kassem's right hand man in master-minding the Iraqi revolt, came as no surprise, to some observers of the Baghdad scene. These observers had fore seen the strong possibility of his downfall more than a Decisive Answer to South's Integration Problem in Voting By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Washington - (UPD - Not just around the corner but far down the road there appears to be one decisive home-grown answer to the South's problem of racial integration of its schools. That answer would be a re sounding "aya" in favor of integration. It could and may come from increased political activity by Southern Negroes. The Negro vote already is a political powerhouse in the United States. James A. Farley always was easy in his mind during FDR's campaign when he could figure that he had the Negro vote going for his can didate. Farley estimated that the Negro vote was the bal ance of power between parties in 17 substantially industrial states outside the South. Negro Vote in South Southern Negroes are more numerous actually and pro portionately than are Negroes in the North. Disinterest, dis enfranchisement and one thing and another, however, so diminished voting activity by Southern Negroes that they had practically no political impact. That situation began to change some time ago and the change continues at an accelerating pace. The federal Civil Rights Bill of 1957 was intended to speed the move ment already under way. The National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People is campaigning to register three million southern Negroes for the 1960 election. That registration in 1956 was about 1,300,000. It is calculated that in 10 southern states plus Texas there are about 9,100,000 Negroes and 27,500,000 white persons, 75 per cent of the ag gregate population being In the Day's News By FRANK From Washington: Qualified informants be lieve the state department will restrict the flow of for eign policy information to the public. A stir over releasing infor mation began with a pub lished report that most of the department's current mail op poses the administration stand on the Formosa cr4sis. T DOUBT if restricting the flow of foreign policy in formation to the public is the right way to go about it. A better way would be a foreign policy that the people of the United States will under stand, will accept and will be willing to support "with their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor" to use the in spiring language of the Decla ration of Independence. We haven't had such a for eign policy since the Monroe Doctrine. THE current ruckus over how much to tell the peo ple arises out of the Formosa situation. The reason the mail is 80 per cent against what we appear to have in mind to do in the case of Formosa is that our people are at least 80 per cent against what we will be letting ourselves in for if we stand pat on what seems to be our determina tion to GO TO WAR unless the Red Chinese quit shooting at the little nationalist-held is lands that lie within cannon range of the Red Chinese mainland. To the bulk of our people, that doesn't make sense. So they have taken their pens in hand to tell their government they are AGAINST it. That, it seems to me, is what the people should do. It is interesting to note that as the people have made plain what they think about this situation that they don't like, the government appears to be around to a milder posi tion that the people will s jport. ' month ago when he was re lieved of his position as dep uty armed forces commander. Fiery tongued and violently anti-American, Aref was too extreme an Arab nationalist to fit the pattern of the repub lican regime's determination to get the best of all camps East, West and Arab. "Nasser of Iraq" There was also a strong possibility that - Aref, now shorn of his posts as deputy premier, deputy armed forces minister and minister of the interior, had personal ambi tions which clashed with those of Kassem and Gui dance Minister Sadiq Shan- white and 25 per cent Negro. The percentage of Negroes in these states is calculated as follows: Virginia 22 per cent; Ten nessee 16; Arkansas 22; North Carolina 26; South Carolina 39; Georgia 31; Florida 22; Alabama 32; Mississippi 45; Louisiana 33; and Texas 13. It is obvious that if Negroes in any of those states other than Texas and Tennessee voted their potential strength and voted together, they would become a political pow er of tremendous possibilities. Real Two-Party System That is what may come about and with it, perhaps, pressures on the Southern po litical structure so severe as to bring about a real two party system. Moreover, in local elections voting Negroes might put into state capitols and county courthouses of ficials as enthusiastically in favor of intermingling the races as some of the present office holders are opposed. News stories occasionally come out of the South indi cating that Southern political leaders are beginning to give serious thought to the likely coming role of the Negro in southern politics. The left wing or liberal wing of the Democratic Party in the North is firmly tied to the Negro vote although Republicans have begun again to share a bit of it. November, '1956, election returns showed that the Ei senhower-Nixon ticket had improved its situation over 1952 in significant New Yotk, Chicago, Philadelphia and De troit Negro districts. A ma jority supported the Demo cratic presidential ticket but a larger proportion in 1956 than in 1952 went to Eisen hower. JENKINS UT enough of war and ru mors of war. Let's turn to less serious subjects. International Society (note the capital S) "hooped" it up at New York's Astor hotel last night. The hoops were passed out to SOCIALITES at the climax of a ball that net ted $25,000 for the New York Herald Tribune's fresh air fund for under-privileged children. HMMMMMM. That raises an interest ing question in these modern and highly practical days. What is a Socialite? rC MAY interest you to know that Webster's Inter collegiate Dictionary doesn't include the word. Why? I suppose it is because the Intercollegiate is a condensed and practical dictionary that defines only words that are of interest to busy and practical people. So why, in the cen tury of the common man, in clude such words as "soci alite?" . TURNING to the Webster 1 Unabridged, we find this definition: "A person promi nent in high society; especial ly one who is entered in the Social Register." The Un abridged dictionary defines Social Register as "a book containing the . names of so cially prominent people." I T IS at least interesting and it may be significant that in this , modern age Socialites are not above such things as getting inside a plas tic jigger that has come to be known as a Hula Hoop and wiggling their hips in such a manner as to make the hoop spin around and around. In the bad old days, about all Socialites could find to do was to walk around in fancy clothes witn their noses held disdainfully high. Maybe we're mak'4 g progress toward a better world. Aref Is Observers shal. Impressed by Aref's ability to excite crowds with the Nas ser type oratory he perfected day after day while barn storming the Iraqi country side, many correspondents and even some diplomats be gan tagging him as the "Nas ser of Iraq." They supposed Aref would eventually unseat Kassem much as Nasser had removed the more moderate Gen. Na guib in Egypt in 1952. - But diplomatic observers in Baghdad w'ho seemed to have the surest knowledge of Iraqi army matters were confident that Kassef rather than Aref had the Army's real confi dence. Army Ail-Powerful And in Iraq he who has the army has power. It also became increasingly apparent by late August that Kassem and Shanshal were at the point where' it was ne cessary to take steps to tone down Aref. His anti-Western tirades were painfully embar rassing to the new govern ment, which wanted to please everybody. By then, in private conver sations with the highest Iraqi officials Aref got no stronger occolade than "he's a good army officer." Aref's heavy-handed man ner of dealing with delicate international problems proved embarrassing. For instance, while Kassem and Shanshal advocated clo ser ties with the United Arab Republic and there is no doubt the revolutionaries wanted a close-knit alliance with Nasser Aref was open ly plumping for union with the UAR. . Eisenhower Ready to Take Active Roll in Political Campaign By FRANK ELEAZER United Press International Washington (UPD Republi can National Chairman Meade Alcorn reported today that President Eisenhower is ready to undertake the most active political role since he came into office in behalf of this year's GOP congressional candidates. Alcorne said after a cam paign strategy huddle with the President that the stepped-up schedule an nounced by Eisenhower Timber Sales Up, Benson Declares . Eugene - (UPD - Secretary of Agricuture Ezra Taft Ben son told an audience in the heart of the timber belt here Thursday night that sales of national forest timber have been expanded during the Ei senhower administration and the program will continue. Benson spoke earlier at a luncheon meeting in Salem He said here that "new sales of national forest timber the past year were increased sharply to 2,828,000,000 board feet, slightly more than a billion board feet higher than .-- . in the pre ceding fiscal year." . Sales this year, he said, will be at approximately the same high rate as was attain ed last year." The secretary repeated his pediction of continued steady gains for agricultue and de- plared that "the farm bill passed this summer is a long step toward freedom for our farmers and away from con trol over farming by rigid government formula." Glue Developed To Mend Bones Chicago - (UPD A Phila delphia physician has reveal ed development of a glue which unites broken bones so tightly that the affected limb can be used in 48 hours. Dr. Michael Manderino, assistant professor at Hahne mann Meaicai uonege in Philadelphia, discussed the material Thursday at a meet ing in advance of the Ameri can College of Surgeons con vention which opens Monday. Manderino said the sutH stance, called polyurethane, had been tested clinically for the past two years on both animals and humans. The material is plastic which foams when mixed with a catalyst. The foam is poured into" the fracture and solidifies, Manderino said. He said the glue knits the bones so effectively that in most cases the patient can re sume use of the affected area without splints in two days. U.S. to Enter Nuclear Test Ban Tallrr in Faith iuiiu in i mill Washington OIFi) The Unit ed States will enter nuclear test ban negotiations with Russia Oct. 31 "in good faith" despite uncertainty over So viet testing policy, official sources said today. Russia confirmed Thursday night it had resumed testing of nuclear weapons after it had anonunced last March 31 it was halting such experi ments. The new Soviet an- nouncement accused the United States and Britain of forcing the resumption be cause the Western countries refused to follow the Russian lead. Official sources here said the United States plans to stand fast by its offer to sus pend tests starting Ocl. 31 when negotiations are sched- uled to open at Geneva, Swit zerland, on a nuclear test ban. In Series Now They said the TTnitpri states was srarrelv in a DOti.. --- protest the Soviet resumption vigorously since this country is in the middle of a test se ries of its own at the Atomic Energy commission s Nevada test site. These tests are siatea to be completed by the end of this month. The AEC announced Friday nigm rcussia nau caiuu;u two more nuclear weapons of "moderate" size at its prov ing ground north of the Arc tic circle. The tests were the third and fourth reported by the AEC in the last two days. Sources here have pointed out that this country ana Britain have reserved . the right to resume their tests if Russia does not follow .sun after Oct. 31. Thursday would be expanded still further to give him 'a very active and very aggres- ci7o nart in thp ramnaim." He also served notice that Republicans were prepared to meet the Democrats head-on if they wanted to make an is sue of the administration's TTftrmnca nnlinv Alcorn accused top Demo cratic campaign speakers of "preaching appeasement." He expressed the view that such Democrats as isn. ueorge A. Smathers of Florida and Sen. jonn j!'. ri.enneay ot Massa chusetts showed evidence of being willing to "write off" the Philippines and Aleutian Islands as a "few dots of land." Alcorn and Howard Pyle, administrative assistant to the President, took up with Eisen hower a heavy expansion of his announced campaign plans. As of Thursday Eisen hower had booked nine coast to coast appearances, but Al corn said this schedule would be increased materially. Alcorn said the President would step up his activity not only in the East, but in other areas. "There has been an in creasing desire on the part of the President to pitch into this campaign vigorously." ' Huddle Monday Asked whether this meant that "-e President was taking a rnvrxt active leadership role than he had in past cam paigns, Alcorn said I think that is a fair conclusion." The GOP chairman sharply attacked the Democrats for "shifting their position" al most weekly on the major is sues. He said "they are win ning to see us through anoth er Munich . . . another Ko rean mess." Alcorn and Pyle also took up with the President plans for the big GOP strategy meeting at the. White House Monday during which the plans for new attacks on . apathy in Republican ranks. Medical Examiner System Suggested Portland (UPD - An .interim committee on coroner qualifi cations Thursday recom mended a state medical ex aminer system in place of the elected coroner system for . Oregon. . The committee headed by, State Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) voted 7-1 to recommend adoption of two bills towards that end. The ex aminer would be under the State Board of Health. One committee member, Dr. Arch W. Diack,, Portland, withheld his vote. He said he felt the medical examiner should be under the office of of state police. Fred S. Buell, Springfield,. the Lane county, . coroner, voted against the majority.. v . - - - .