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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Monday, October 6, 1958 MEDFORDtJiWrRIBUNB "Everyone tn Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RCHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. Managing Editor EARL ri ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SDOrts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women's Editor UALfc ekh-k,su.. circulation Mgr An Independent Newsoarjer Entered as second class matter at Mefiord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: C o o v 10c Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 uauy ana sunaay o mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday only one year S4.20. 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 .uaiiy ana sunaay l mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Off trial Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRC JLATION 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 PUBLISHES ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCfTlgN Flight fo Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO October 6. 1948 (Wednesday) A parade and fire drill ex hibitions are scheduled for Fire Prevention week. City Councilman Diamond Flynn is "acting acting" may or this week in the absence of Acting Mayor Frank J. Kuntz. 20 YEARS AGO October 6, 1938 (Thursday) About 140 are registered at the Society of Pioneers of , Southern Oregon conclave in Jacksonville. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The recent rains brought out a flock of New Deal umbrellas, devoid of covering but show ing plenty of ribs." - 30 YEARS AGO October 6, 1928 (Saturday) An even dozen Rogue val ley residents are taking fly ing lessons at the Sanders Aeronautical school. A last minute rush of reg istering voters, s me eager to debate the campaign with harassed clerks, descends on the courthouse. 40 YEARS AGO October 6. 1918 (Sunday) The canteen at the Ashland railroad station requests gifts of jellies, jams, preserves and fresh fruit for transient serv icemen on trains stopping there. Shipment of the apple, crop to eastern markets has beguti. What's Your 1.Q.7 Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five oi is is good. 1. Name the aviator who flew the "Spirit of St. Louis." 2. The governor of the Ter ritory of Hawaii is elected by the people of the territory or appointed by the Presi dent? 3. When major sport events are televised, only one cam era is used; true or false? 4. Name the former pro fessional football player who was nicknamed "The Gallop ing Ghost." 5. Was the Irish Free State (Eire) neutral during World - War II? 6. Victor Herbert was the composer of the famous "Mer ry Widow Waltz;" true or false? 7. A gross is twelve dozen; how many dozen is a great gross? 8. Can alien residents of the United States receive re tirement benefits under Soc ial Security? 9. Pliny the Elder was kill ed during the fall of (what city ? 10. The birthstone, for Oc tober is the . Answers: 1. Charles A. Lindbergh. 2. Appointed by the President. 3. False. 4. Red Grange. 5. Yes. 6. False. 7. 144 Doxen. 8. Yes. 9. Pompeii- 10. Opal. HELPS MENTAL PATIENTS London - (LTD - Television sets in mental homes have sometimes started patients on the" ro3d to recovery by re awakening their interest in their surroundings, a study report said today. ' One Year Of Sputniks A year after Sputnik I ascended on Oct. 4, 1957, outer space can hardly be said to be over loaded with earth satellites. Seven in all have been orbited, three by the Russians, four by the United States. Still aloft are one of the Russian, three of the American spinners through space. Sputnik I weighed 184 pounds. It was follow ed within a month by Sputnik II, carrying a dog, Laika, which seems to have stayed alive for about a week. The first Sputnik was burned up by fric tion after three months, but on May 15, 1958 the Russians put into orbit their impressive Sputnik III, weighing almost iy tons. It has completed between 1,900 and 2,000"orbits around the Earth. We tried to orbit a small Vanguard satellite in December 1957 without success. Finally, on the last day of January 1958 the Army succeeded with the 31-pound Explorer I. Explorer II, laun ched March 5, failed to orbit, but the Navy came through with its tiny Vanguard on March 17. It may be only a "grapefruit," but it is expected to last longer than its predecessors and immediate successors. On March 26 came Explorer III, and on July 26 Explorer IV, a 38-pound affair. It circles the Earth in a little less than two hours. Explorer V, launched Aug. 24, repeated Explorer II's failure. The Navy has failed with larger Vanguards. 00 W has a year of Sputniks affected our lives in this country? For one thing, Congress raised the defense budget $6 billion, nearly $1 billion more than President Eisenhower asked. It also created a civilian space agency and sanctioned exchange of atomic inf ormation with Great Britain. Perhaps more important, the impact of Sput niks helped to persuade Congress to adopt the Na- tional Defense Education Act oi iyts, tne urst general aid-to-education Uniquely, it singles out eign languages, also mathematics arid science, for special consideration. Surveys show that as many as 50 high schools are teaching Russian this fall, as against 18 last year. . THE first U. S. shot at the moon failed on Aug. x 17, when our rocket designed to orbit the Earth's only non-man made satellite exploded 10 miles up. The Russians are believed to have fail ed at least three times at a moonshot. We may make another tiy on Columbus Day, the Russians 36 hours or so earlier. These shots at the moon have little strategic value for the uresent. even if successful. And that may be true also of the Earth satellites. More important strategically are the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile programs. t In these Russia is supposed to be ahead, but our defense people were cheered when an ICBM Atlas missile found its target 3,000 miles away on Sept. 14 third such bull's-eye in four tries. And on Sept. 25 a Bomarc missile again intercep ted and destroyed some distance away another missile headed for our coast. Also important strategically are atomic sub marines, in these days when atomic missiles can be fired from under water. We have five atomic submarines in commission, three more launched, 14 more under construction, 11 more authorized. Though the Soviet Union nutnumbers us in to tal submarines by five to one, it has announced nothing like the achievement this summer of the "Nautilus" and "Skate" in cruising thousands of miles under the Arctic icecap and beyond with out surfacing. E.R.R. City Finances The larger an American city, the more it is apt to spend per capita on its police force. Aver age expenditures for police protection run $15 $17 per inhabitant in the 18 U. S. cities of over half a million population, only $10-$12 in the 98 from 100,000 to 500,000. The typical city of from 25,000 to 100,000 population spends only a little over $9 per inhab itant per year on its police force. And for cities of less than 25,000 the average falls belows $7. On the other hand, the average cost of fire protection varies little by size of city, around $9 per capita, until you get down to the veiy small ones. Streets cost per capita pretty much the same, too, to pave and re-pave regardless of size of city. And that's apt to be true of "sanitation" sewers, sewage disposal, street cleaning, trash collection. These four items police, fire department, streets, sanitation account for almost half of what the typical U. S. city spends eveiy year, according to recent figures published by the Cen sus Bureau. IXHEN it comes to revenue, the largest single TT source in almost every city, large or small, is the general property tax, chiefly of course on real estate. For U. S. cities as a whole the prop erty tax last year accounted for a little more than half of all revenue. Another large source of income for most cities 20 per cent as a national average is revenue turned over by the state government, to a lesser extent by the federal government, in some cases by other local governments. Then a substantial total comes from various licenses, fees, assess ments, charges, etc., each of which may be small by itself. However the separate expenditures and rev enue percentages may vaiy from one city to an other, two things are true of practically all cities: They spend more every year and their citizens complain of being overtaxed. E.R.R." bill in U. S. history. the study of modern for Dennis the Menace i FEEL SOPK fOR ANYBOOy UtfT SWRTS SCWIHWV7H THIS Glflf Matter of JFercf bv SHALL WE RETREAT AGAIN Tokyo-Is it really neces sary for the United States to run the grave risks involved in defending the wretched little offshore islands? The q u e s t i on is bound to pre occupy any reporter on his way home from a first hand look at 4osPb aisop Quemoy and the crisis in the Taiwan Strait. Judging . by the reports from home, anyone who wants to answer the above question at all sensibly must begin by pointing out that he is not answering certain other questions. First, there is the question whether the Sino-American commitment on the offshore islands was a wise commit ment to make. The answer happens to be that it was an incredibly foolish commit ment, directly resulting ' om the Madison Avenue fakery of the early Eisenhower per iod of foreign policy. TUT the question itself is " now irrelevant. You would not refuse to pay the doctor because your children ought never to have been ex posed to " typhoid fever by their nurse. You would pay the doctor now and think about firing the nurse later. By the same token, the Sino American commitment on the offshore islands cannot be made to disappear by wails that it was all the fault of John Foster Dulles. It is woolly minded twaddle to argue that the price of not honoring the commitment will be reduced because the commitment should not have been made. Again, there is the question whether the United States has really made a binding commitment to defend the offshore islands. The answer happens to be that a power ful legal mind, X-raying the various American official statements on the subject, may well find the usual pas sages of Sullivan and Cromwell-size small print on the back of the contract. BUT the answer, in this case is irrplpvant. Tn thp pvps of Asia, in the eyes of peip ing, in the eyes of Moscow, the American government stands committed. Having no training at ' Sullivan and Cromwell, our friends in Asia and our Communist enemies do not read the fine print. The contest . for the islands was made into a final and decisive test of American will and strength by the big, bold talk the leaders of the Amer ican government so freely in dulged in when the contest began some months ago. This grim, inescapable fact makes lit necessary to re phrase question number one, whether the U. S. really must run the risk of defending the wretched little offshore is lands. The real question is whether the United States can safely shirk or fail this kind of test of American will and strength. The consequences of shirk ing or failure suggest the an swer. Even if shirking is the American government's final choice, it is first of all very doubtful whether Chiang Kai shek can be forced to retreat from the islands. He is much more likely to resort to des perate measures that will widen the war.s By our gov ernment's own doing, the choice is partly Chiang's to make. IF CHIANG retreats under severe American pressure, however, this reporter does not believe that Formosa will be instantly lost to Commu nism. By Asian standards, the Formosans are quite ex- Joseph Alsop ceptionally well off. They will not choose Communism unless they have no other choice. But they will be left with no other choice in the end, because of the other pre dictable consequences of an American backdown at this juncture. 1 Let the American govern ment be proven a mere pack of empty braggarts, easy bluffers and false friends in a pinch, in this test of the American leaders' own mak ing. Then every remaining Western position in Asia will soon be lost or undermined, as the Western positions in the Middle East have been lost or undermined already. Then every Western friend in Asia will soon change sides or be destroyed, as has already happened with the West's friends in the Middle East. This process in Asia, which win be rapid, will doom For mosa in the end. And it will rot just doom Formosa, but also the American bases in Japan and the Philippines, the struggling government in South Vietnam, the courag eous Burmese, and every thing else that is worth sav ing in the area. . NOR will it' end there. Those who cry out against defending the offshore islands with conventional weapons had better remember that the vastly more exposed and im portant position at Berlin can only be defended wijh nu clear weapons. They had bet ter consider that they are ask ing, they are even actively in viting another blockade of Berlin and further Commu nist attacks, direct or indi rect, on every vulnerable po sition that now depends on the Moscow-Peiping estimate of America's strength of arm and will. This is perhaps the most terrible aspect of the whole ugly situation. The Soviet probing in the Middle East only began after President Eisenhower had so strangely gone to Geneva to swear his dedication to peace at any price. The test on the off shore islands only began after the last test in the Mid dle East had shown .the total emptiness of the big talk of the Eisenhower'Doctrine. Can any sane man 'suppose that failure of the present test will not lead on to further tests of a far more difficult nature? All this does not mean that there is no need to press for more sensible military dispo sition in the Formosa Strait after the present test has been won. But, as suggested above, the fact that the existing mili tary dispositions are not sen sible does not alter or dimin ish the decisive significance of the test of our strength and will. If we fail the test the failure will be applauded as Munich was applauded, but it fry and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF GIL HODGES remembers a day during the 1947 World Series when a rookie pitcher 5 the surprise nomination, and promptly walked four Yankett in a row in the first inning. The manager, Burt Shotten, hur- ' ried to the mound and asked, "What's the trouble, boy?" "Not a thing," he countered cheerfully. "I'm just pacing myself." Burt took the ball out of his hand and said. "That's just fine. Now go to the clubhouse and pace the floor." Exit youngster. Enter veteran Hal Gregg. (And the Bums win dat one, 3-2, in de nine-t!) A bridge partner -of Expert Ely Culbertson once threw away a certain grand slam. Culbertson assured him, "I see Vig things ahead of you all of them insuperable obstacles." When the game was over, he added for good measure, "You can fool some of the people all of the time. You're one of them." I25S, by Bsaastt C"DlriuUd by Stag Features Sjr&jUsa& Kadar Apparently in In Hungary; Experts By RUSSELL JONES UPI Correspondent Vienna - (UPD Hungarian Communist boss Janos Kadar, the man who called in So viet tanks to crush the 1956 revolution, is involved in a fight for his political - and perhaps his actual - life. Iron Curtain experts here believe Kadar is under an attack by a group led by Pre mier Ferenc Nuennich, and may well be purged within the next few months. While many factors enter into the battle, the experts cite these points of Kadar's vulnerability: -More than any other cur rent leader, Kadar was identi fied with the revolutionary government of Imre Nagy, and can be attacked for many of the "crimes" for which Nagy was executed. -Conversely, he was the tool used by the Soviets to overthrow the Nagy govern ment and, as such, is the focus of the people's hatred. -While trying to end the revolution and the general strike which followed it, Kadar made many, public promises which now 'are em barrassing to the party and government. Jailed for "Revisionism" -Despite his role in crush Washington Report By William HELP FROM HARRY- Washington-The Eisenhower administration now appears likely to emerge in good order from the For mosa vcri sis and to be able to protect true Ameri can interests there without either war or a diplomatic rupture with in the West- William s white em alliance. If, happily, this is indeed the outcome, the President will have well earned the praise of reasonable and re sponsible men "everywhere. But it is time somebody said what the Administration itself is never likely to say. This is that a great contribution to this prospective Eisenhower triumph has been made by a man named Harry S. Tru man. Mr. Truman is held in such low esteem by the Eisenhower Administration that he has never been invited to the White , House even for rou tinely social reasons. Never theless, he has been a rock like ally to Mr. Eisenhower in the Formosa troubles as he has been earlier when we risked war in the. Middle East to rescue Lebanon. 1JR. Truman's backing of XTX Mr. Eisenhower in the Formosa Strait has been with out ifs, ands or buts. The tem tation to do otherwise would have been great. For the Tru man Administration was be labored by the Republicans over this same issue China policy as no other admin istration has ever been bela bored on any question beyond our shoreline. All the same, when Presi dent Eisenhower shoved in his stack of chips over For mosa, the spry, elderly man now living in Independence, Mo., came forward to stand at his elbow. And Mr. Tru man stands there still, though partisan Democratic interests would have been better served by howling at the White House. A few supposedly less "partisan" Democrats have, in fact, done so. And Mr. Truman has done will surely be paid for as Munich was paid for. (1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) ing the revolution, Kadar's whole record lays him open to the charge of "revisionism," currently the worst heresy in the Communist ' book.- Al though the expression was not then used, it was for just this crime that he Was im prisoned and tortured by the Stalinists in 1950. -Aside from G y o r g y Lukacs, now in obscurity, Kadar is the last surviving founder of the Hungarian Workers Socialist Party, set up by Nagy when the old Communist Party collapsed under the impact of the revo lution. Of the other founders, Nagy was executed, Ferenc Donath sentenced to. 12 years and Geza Losonczi died while awaiting trial. The experts believe the battle between Kadar and Muennich was joined when the latter forced the trial and execution of Nagy and his colleagues. They say that the trial opened last Jan. 28, with Kadar resigning from the pre miership in protest the next day. Kadar Against Trial Kadar, they say, was against the trial as both unjust -and unnecessary, and - as events proved correct - likely to re vive memories both in Hun gary and the rest of the world. S. White more than refuse to be a bit ter second guesser. He has used his still - immense weight within the Democratic party to mute criticism from others, even including his much-loved Secretary of State, Dean Acheson. -. . THERE is hardly the slight est doubt that a critical Truman attitude toward the Eisenhower Administration would have all but paralyzed it; the going has been hard enough even with the former President's help. All this has been an act of bigness. But to those who real ly know him this was the en tirely predictable course of Harry S.'Truman. For the odd truth is that Mr. Truman is two men all at -once: he is on many issues the very mod el of the "give 'em hell" par tisan ready to pick up any handy club and apply it with happy vigor to any Republi can skull. Bjut thus he will act only when the issues are do mestic. In such fields no "good" Republican ever lived, or ever could. There will be no errors here to sentimental ize Mr,. Truman or his admin istration; he and it had faults, and plenty of them. But in the great foreign matters, upon which as a na tion we might live or die, this was one of the most responsi ble and least partisan Presi dents in our history. This cor respondent asserts as much not only on his own observa tion but also on the authority of a most-elevated Washing ton veteran, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn. TN 45 years in the House Rayburn has known many Presidents and has been extremely close to some. He is a man with a sense of fair ness to history and has an ab solutely impartial way of viewing even his friends when he thinks in historical terms. And the speaker once told me that of all the Presidents he had known only one was totally indifferent to partisan gain or loss in foreign policy. This was Mr. Truman. "The first time the congres sional 'leaders were called to the White House after Har ry became President," Ray burn recalled with a slow smile, "was on a foreign cri sis. . "Harry outlined what he proposed to do. We all listen ed. Then Harry asked if any body had any questions. Somebody (from the Congres sional group) asked him what the domestic political reper cussions would be what the politics of it would be. Harry turned on him and said: 'Let's get one thing straight. I never want to hear that damn word 'politics' mentioned here again when we are discussing a thing like this.' "And," Rayburn went on, "never was it mentioned again, in my hearing at least, in any of the many other such foreign policy meetings be tween the President and the Congressional leadership." (Copyright. 1958, By Unit ed Feature Syndicate Inc.) Mere Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here Is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. PASTEETH, an Improved powder, sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so that they teel more com fortable. No (rummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. Ifs alkaline (non acid ) . Does not sour. Checks "plate odor' (denture breath). Get FAS TEETH today at any drug counter Fight for Life Assess Signs He is said to have believed that Nagy and the others should have been left in cus tody until forgotten. Since then, several Kadar supporters have been re moved from high positions and replaced by Muennich men, but the experts are not yet ready to write Kadar off. They cite two good reasons for this: -Soviet premier and party boss Nikita Khrushchev: in ommunications 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 all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The letters printed in this column do not- necessarily represent the views of the aaper; in fact the contrary is often the case. What's A Republican? ' To the Editor: . I fail to understand what type of gov ernor the so called GOP cand idate aspires to be. He says he wouldn't be a Republican governor and I can assure you that 'he lacks the qualifica tions to be a Democratic one. Although the Republican candidate doesn't want to wear the elephant's coat or tail in 1958, my memory is not so short that I have for gotten his all out support for the ultra - conservative ex GOP polilicos, Guy Cordon and Doug McKay. It also seems strange that while the ' GOP candidate wants a divorce from his party, the giant artillery of the GOP,; Richard Nixon and Ezra Taft Berison, are stump ing Oregon to elect an alleged Republican governor. The secretary of state and GOP candidate has expressed the desire that if elected he would want to become some type . Aof neutral governor. What does this mean? In his appointments as secretary of state, I can't seem to remem ber any Democratic appoint ments only Republicans. I presume that all of these ap pointees were neutral and bi partisan Republicans. Dave Epps,' Chairman Democratic Party of Oregon 429 Governor . Bldg. Portland 4, Ore. Fairness and Honesty To the Editor: A matter of utmost importance to .all peo ple who ' believe in fairness and honesty' in our appeal courts is before us today. Here in Medford resides a man 61 years of age who is so completely incapable of supporting himself that his own doctor lias" warned him not ' to -walk outside or his next attack may be his last, This man applied for social security, with his doctor's statement, and witnesses, and was denied. On what grounds? None! The referee in this case completely ignored the doc tor and witnesses and set forth his own diagnosis and opinion. An appeal was made to the council in Washington, D.C., and denied with the ex planation the referee's de cision was automatically con sidered just, without the mat ter even being investigated! Is this a typical example of an appeal council's considera tion? I surely hope not. Yet they never even bothered to check the referee's decision. What is this council supposed to be for, if not to check referee's statements that have been refuted by a medical man's own words. Something should be done! How many people so needy Very Lenient Terms (When necessary you may have 30 months to pay, with no interest or carrying charges). 1 'v 1 t' I i FRIENDLY, talks with foreign visitors has described Kadar as a friend, and friends of the Soviet lead er are not likely to be purged. -The Hungarian economy is worse off this year than last, and tht Soviet plans which have kept it afloat, come due next year. Barring an eco nomic miracle, Hungary can not pay them, and a scapegoat will be needed. Muennich as easily as Kadar could be chosen for the role. and m trouble place their hopes in this council onjy to find it is all a farce? I say this matter should be aired and corrected before too many people are permanently injured by such lack of in terest. Barbara Muse, Trail, Ore. Still For Koch To the Editor: I, say it's a problem not for just a hand ful of people in a committee to appoint a man for to be a candidate for Sheriff of Jack son county, when he happens to be, one of the committee men. . It should be for all the' vo ters of Jackson county to have a say. Also it's unf au to my way of thinking. Why should Mr. Sheehan be ap pointed and not Mr. Ray Koch? They both lost in the primary election. I say give him a chance also. Think hard, all you kind people and voters, about this. Koch was out to protect all the citizens and their rights and not for just a name. When Mr. Sheehan lost in the primary he than signed up' to run for mayor of Rogue ' River, now he is running for sheriff, that which now he would have to resign from mayor and go to a bigger name. That's that way I see it. ' ' ' Koch has had 17 years ex perience in all the fields as a sheriff should require, not as a salesman as for stamps. If that's what we want I would rather have Mr. Walsh than Sheehan. As for me when I go to vote I am go ing to vote for a man that has the know-how and experience and who can get Jackson county in right path of good government and clean poli tics. That is Mr. Koch for me. How many more of yoa feel the same as I do? It is high time to start thinking and doing something about it, not when it's too late, and put a man in the office who is for us honestly, and ' who is not a scared of these political at torneys. If you do not be lieve me, ask him. Well what do you say. Do you want a handful of peo ple to pick out for you who to vote for and run your lives, or forget . we are Am erican Citizens and have our rights. This is no personal reflec tion on anyone, I just feel that it is unfair, as I am just one of the many labor men that cannot go to these meet ings. Julius E. Davis, 3781 Hilsinger rd. Medford. PERL Funeral H ome Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
