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MATT. TWBUNf, MEDFORD, 01. 4 Monday, October 27, 1958 MedfordTribuse "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. RLTHL, Editor HERB GREYL Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H 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 Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 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 $450: 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 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash In -Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO.. INC, Of fices In New York, Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver. B.C. NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHEtS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 3ST lAsgocEj.gN 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 Oct. 27. 1948 (Wednesday) Medford Jaycees are spon soring a Get-Out-t he-Vote campaign, and painting re minders on downtown side walks. Displays of paintings by local artists will appear in store windows here during National Art week. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 27. 1938 (Thursday) The Southern Oregon Con cert association reports great enthusiasm in its current mem bership campaign. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Many valley Democrats have vowed publicly and privately that they will vote the top of the Republican ticket on election day and pray all Republicans do the same." 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 27. 1928 (Saturday) The first walnuts of the sea son are in stock today at the public market. A Hallowe'en frolic is plan ned at the Jacksonville High school gymnasium. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 27. 1918 (Sunday) The state lime plant at Gold Hill is now producing,, and fanners are asked to send in orders to keep it in business. Drilling by officers train ing school and state guard members is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a spent .45 bullet just a few feet from Major Crowson. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; even or eight if excellent; five ot sis is good. 1. Which is the only bird that can drink water without throwing its head back? 2. According to the Bible, which was the elder son of Adam and Eve Cain or Abel? 3. Which of these is the capital of Canada Mon treal, Ottawa, or Quebec? 4. Who wrote the poem, "The Shooting of Dan Mc Grew?" 5. Rattlesnake meat is edi ble; true or false? 6. Name the red-haired foot ball player who was nick named "Galloping Ghost." 7. Is the city of Cleveland, Ohio, situated on Lake Mich igan, Lake Erie, or Lake Su perior? 8. Harriet Beecher are the first two names of the auth or who wrote her noted "Un cle Tom's Cabin" nearly a century ago; what is her sur name? 9. Name the patriotic hymn that begins "O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain." 10. Would you most likely play barnyard golf with cro quet mallets, horseshoes, or pitchforks? Answers: 1. Pigeon. 2. Cain. 3. Ottawa 4.. Robert W. Ser vice. 5. True. 6. Harold (Red) Grange. 7. Lake Erie. 8. Stowe. 9. America. The Beau tiful." 10. Horseshoes. Pittsfield, 111. -(UP&- U. S. Rep. Sid Simpson, (R-Ill.), 64, collapsed and died Sunday while taking part in a cornerstone-laying ceremony at a hosnital. Nobody Like T.R'. The United States has never yet had, may never again have, another President with inter ests so diverse as those of Theodore Roosevelt, the centenary of whose birth is today. Perhaps nearest to T.R. in making the whole world his province was Thomas Jefferson. But the interests of the Sage of Monticello were al most entirely intellectual in science, philosophy, education, art and, especially, architecture. HTHE first President Roosevelt had of course his intellectual side, too. A Phi' Beta Kappa at Harvard, he produced some top-flight historical books. Even in the thick of politics he did much writing (more than Jefferson or FDR), and on leaving the Presidency in 1909 turned out a reg ular column for the Outlook magazine. He was reading the Annals of Tacitus one week, the Paradise Lost of Milton the next. However, he was as much at home in non intellectual as in intellectual pursuits. As a young man he bought and operated a ranch in South Dakota. In the war against Spain he led a cav alry regiment, The Rough Riders, in person, and he tried hard to get an active, not a mere arm chair, command in World War I. He argued about the behavior of wild animals, identified birds of England by their songs. LJE WAS an indefatigable horseman. He took ju-jitsu lessons, had one eye-ball destroyed in White House boxing with a professional pugilist, at some personal danger shot wild animals in Af rican jungles, explored river headwaters in South American jungles, argued military strategy with the Kaiser. But as to music, he said he recogniz ed only two tunes : "one was Yankee Doodle, the other wasn't. Jefferson and the second Roosevelt (whose great hobbies were sailing and stamps) were as popular as T.R. with the hoi polloi. But the Great Unwashed were apt to look up to Jefferson and F.D.R. as high-minded men sincerely interested in their welfare, horizontally across the same personality plane at "Teddy" as one of them. E.R.R. Chiang Nationalist China's man of steel, President Chiano- Kai-shek, nearincr his 71st birthdav next Friday, still exercises a dictatorial voice over evacuees and .the nearlv wan, the term both the Communists and Nation alists use for .Formosa. Reported in excellent by a London Times special correspondent as "stern, bleak, unshaken, uncompnsmg Metho dist" and always the soldier. On Taiwan as on the mainland, he keeps armed forces under his complete 'personal con trol. Chiang meets his present adversity with the cold calm of a man who has made a life-long companion of hardship. Born Chiang. Jui-yuan (he changed his name after joining the 'Chinese revolutionary movement) in the town of Chikou, in the coastal province of Chekiang, he early came to know the poverty of Chinese farm life, made more grinding after his father died when Chiang was only nine. THE young Chiang chose a military career, at A tending preparatory service schools in China and Japan. He went AWOL from the latter to join the Chinese revolutionary movement of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose favor and confidence he early gained. By 1923 he had become Dr. Sun's chief of staff, in which capacity he made a four month visit to Moscow. Except for a brief period of retirement Chiang has been virtual ruler of the Chinese Nationalists since 1927, when he split with the Communists. A dramatic reconciliation of Communist and Kuomintang party (Nationalist) leaders was ef fected by the kidnaping of Chiang at Sian in De cember 1936, but full-fledged war with Japan in 1937 and the subsequent internecine conflicts of World War II precluded any genuine under standing. Chiang became titular head of the Chinese state in 1943. He was elected President for a six year term in April 1948 under a new constitution adopted the previous year; re-elected in 1954. He had volunarily retired, Jan. 21, 1949 in the face of Communist victories on the mainland. On March 1, 1950, with the backing of the Kuomin tang and the Legislative Yuan, he reclaimed the Presidency on the island of Formosa. A FTER his wedding to Mei-ling Soong, daugh "terof well-to-do Shanghai Christians, in 1927, the Generalissimo became a devout Metho dist. Mme. Chiang frequently has visited the United States to ask Nationalist support total ing some $2.5 billion. . Despite his excellent health, Chiang's age is a cause for some concern among Nationalist well wishers. The Vice President of the Republic of China is Chen Cheng, but Chiang's likely succes sor is his Russian-trained elder son, Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo,who directs the Nationalist cloak-and-dagger activities and strictly controls the police on Formosa. E.R.R. at 71 controlling some say the 2 million mainland 8 million natives on Tai health, he is described the Chinese Nationalist Dennis the Menace 'Mom, would you mind 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 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. Protests Tactics To the Editor: The follow ing "open letter" has also been sent to Gov. Robert Holmes and Rep. Charles Porter; Due to the dissatisfaction a number of land owners have experienced in their dealings With the state highway depart ment, we are writing you this letter to inform you of some facts. We refer to the extension of Highway , 99 south from Grants Pass which at this time is under acquisition. We have been ill-advised and facts have been diregard ed in many instances. The tactics of their agents have been so deceptive that many of us now fear to deal with them, which indicates many are ready to no longer enter tain them. This would mean that court action would be necessary to bring out all the facts in each respective case. We do not like to be forced to gain our fair and just equity in this manner.-' Some of our complaints more specificaUy listed are as follows: 1. Contradictory and mis leading statements regarding information a land owner needs to understand how values are arrived at. 2. Coercive methods ap parently intended to frighten client into signing an option without any further dickering or "horsetrading." 3. Refusal to discuss com parative values of respective parcels of land even though they are side by side or as identical as two pieces of prop erty can be. 4. Will not submit apprais ed figures of the M.A.I. ap praiser to the land owners that he may know the un biased figures from which they pretend ' to arrive at values, whereas the M. A. I. appraisers' fees are paid by the taxpayer and is a public record. It should be available to those concerned. May we impress on you that we only ask for a fair and just deal. Henry Corbin, 5664 Foothill blvd. Grants Pass, Ore. and six others. Claims Misrepresentation To the Editor: It has been called to my attention that Congressman Charles O. Por ter is attempting what ap pears to me to be a deliberate attempt to deceive the people of this Congressional District Try and -By BENNETT CERF- HPEDDY ROOSEVELT, President, big-game hunter and writer J- of first-rate biographies and histories, coined many Ameri canisms that have become part of our language. Examples: pussyfooter, weasel words, lunatic fringe, muckraker, square deal, and malefactors of great wealth. Another TR quote sup plied by Herman Hagedorn, director of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial com- mission: "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying any thing real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accomplishment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement" An exam paper at Michigan State included this question: "If hav ing the tonsils removed is a tonsillectomy and the appendix removed is an appendectomy, what la the term for having a growth from the head removed?" One ingenious student answered, "A haircut" O 195s, by Seaaett Cert. Siitributed by King Feature! Syndicate turnin'the tv oh?' concerning his position and his votes on important farm legislation. I have carefully checked Mr. Porter's record. Certain statements credited to him concerning his voting record and his position on farm mat ters are false. On Oct. 8, the Eugene Register-Guard quoted him as say ing, in regard to the so-called "omnibus farm bill," that "I voted only for consideration of the farm bill and when it came up for a vote, I voted against it." This is untrue. Wiser Democrats and Republi cans killed this bill in June, 1958, when it came up for a vote to debate it, so Mr. Por ter would have had no other opportunity to vote for or against it. . In a letter to the Medford Mail Tribune on Oct. 19, he did "conec t" the same erroneous statement which had been made almost three weeks earlier in Medford. He made this "correction" only after he was confronted with his own record. In the same letter, however, he stated "My position has always been against price supports for so called basic crops." This, also, is untrue. He voted for the continuation of high parity payments in March, 1958. He vote$ for the Agriculture Act of 1958 in August, 1958. 17fail to find in his record even one vote against high price sup ports. I also fail to find that he ever corrected the false statement made in Eugene. It seems to me to be a ser ious matter when a Congress man from the Fourth District of Oregon supports costly, wasteful legislation which would help no farmers or ranchers in this District, but which would help increase our cost of living and which would affect our already high' tax burden. It seems even more serious, however, when he deliberately attempts to mis represent this record to voters of his District, by claiming positions and votes which, on the record, are the opposite of the truth. I think the attention of the public should be called to this matter. Glen W. Johnson Azalea River Ranch Azalea, Ore. Mrs. Nye on Taxes To the Editor: In answer to Mr. M. J. Olson, in the Oct. 22, Mail Tribune, I have come to believe that control is our biggest problem in taxation. As a housewife I have always Stop Me solved my budget problems by estimating the amount of money I could expect to have available to run my home and apportioning that money to meet our household needs. I think the state should operate in the same manner. The legis lature should, . I believe, de termine the rate of taxation which is reasonable and fair to expect of our citizens, keep ing in mind our per capita wealth and the fact that we must maintain a competitive position with our neighboring states. The amount which such a tax program would raise should then be apportioned among the various govern mental agencies. Instead of this, they have allowed pres sure groups to build a budget of astronomical proportions, which must then be met by whatever tax rate is required. As far as a sales tax is con cerned, I do not now or have I ever favored it as an addi tional tax. If a sales tax can be drawn so that it will op erate as a property tax off-set, I think it should be consider ed, but I am a little concern ed because some of the big spenders in the legislature who were formerly opposed to a sales tax are now showing an interest in it, and I suspect that they want it as an addi tional source of revenue.. I would want nothing to lo with that type of sales tax. Dr. Sly, of the Princeton Re search Department, who has been making a survey of the Oregon tax structure, states that it can stand no substan tial increase of expenditures, meaning that our income tax rates are at a maximum now. Further state spending, there fore, can only come from a new source of revenue. In the final analysis, the people of Oregon will decide whether or not they want a sales tax. Eve Nye Route 3, Box 203 Medford How About Olwell Way? To the Editor: For several days photographs of unsightly residential and commercial scenes have appeared on the front page of the Tribune in your worthy campaign to "Make Medford Beautiful." Since the cause is of primary value to the community, why not suggest the city take the initiative? Across East Jackson st. from Hedrick Junior high is "Olwell Way." You wUl find this unmarked street on your map of the city one block long joining Jackson and Crown streets. Residences have been built on both street approaches, but the remain ing portion of the street is bogged down with a frog pond, tule, and blackberry vine- It wouldn't need to be a major project with asphalt surface, curbing, etc. Just punch the street through, drain the water, surface with gravel and rid the community of a top -grade unsightly mess. Too, this would provide additional car parking space for the public turning out for civic affairs at Hedrick Jun ior high. Just one more thought, and I'm sure it hasn't escaped you. Why not take a shot-of the picturesque barn across from Hedrick for your campaign? Jack H. Nichols 232 Olwell Way Medford 'Paraphrase' in Versa To the Editor: The further story of Geddes the gent, Who now boasts a new accom plishment: "I offer to my constituency My shiny new foreign policy! I just found out the voter cares About these here foreign af fairs. The voter's choice is my selec-tion- At least from now until elec tion. So now I stay up nights and look At the pictures in my history book, And learn about the foreign places Inhabited by (ugh!) other races. So friends, if elected, I will stand Against dictatorship in every land, But do so diplomatically, And offend no man who might hurt me, And when in doubt I'll simply do The opposite from my oppo nents who Don't understand how Rose burg can be The entire universe to me." George W. Rode Fluhrer Building Medford Doesn't Like Herblock To the Editor: I would like to ask if you people at the Mail Tribune honestly feel that Herblock's cartoons are contributing anything to the common good. In my opinion he is just a clever fellow who has a unique way of signing his name to political cartoons that contribute nothing to freedom and democracy. Roy F. Thompson 660 Clover lane . ' r Ashland Nasser's Sway Seen Long-Term Thing; Greater Influence Due By WILBUR G. LANDREY UPI Correspondent Cairo-flJPD-Things are likely to keep going the way of Ga- mal Nasser in the Middle East during the coming months and years. The UAR president is the symbol of Arab nationalism- he may even be its prisoner. In practice, his non-alignment has meant hostility to ward the West while accept ing the helping hand of Rus sia. But Nasser is his own and not the Communists' man. Any one of several coun tries could come under Nas ser's sway in the coming year, whether he encourages them or not. Nothing succeeds like success. When Western diplomats talk of the Arab nationalism which Nasser represents, they agree: "You can't stop it." The holdouts against his policy since the revolution chased Western influence from Iraq are isolated and shaky. Jordan Most Explosive Jordan is potentially the most explosive. In spite of British troops now on their way home or a United Na tions "presence," one bullet could end King Hussein and his regime. Hussein is the poorest insurance risk in the Arab world. The Middle East has fooled its prophets before, but diplo mats believe Hussein may go sooner than later, one way or another. Nasser probably would pre fer to see the West go on foot ing the bill for impoverished Jordan for the present, taking the political blame and wor rying about the long border with Israel. But if a revolu tionary government in Jordan asks to join his UAR, he can't New Drug To Reduce Blood Pressure Praised Washington - (UPD - The Na tional Heart Institute today announced "impressive" re sults with a new drug for lowering blood pressure. It said research physicians of the institute have found that the drug, known as JB 516, "produces marked and sustained lowermg of blood pressure in patients with hy pertension." Hypertension is the medical name for the dis ease commonly known as high blood pressure, one of the na tion's leading causes of death. Formal Paper The research physicians are Drs. Louis Gillespie Jr., Lu ther L. Terry and Albert Sjoerdsma. They presented a formal paner on their research today before a scientific ses sion of the American Heart association at San Francisco. The findings were simultan eously made public here by the institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health at.Bethesda, Md. The physicians reported that JB 516 does not seem to pro duce some of the undesirable side effects of other blood pressure-lowering drugs now in use. These side effects in clude sexual impotence, dry mouth and constipation. Color Blindness In some patients JB 516 has produced a unique side effect of its own temporary color blindness. . This condition has disappeared upon withdrawal of the drug. , It has been'-administered to date to 21 patients, of whom 19 responded with "significant and sustained lowering" of blood pressure. The physicians said how ever that further clinical tests must " be made before the drug's lasting value in treat ment of hypertension can be known. tyree Appointed Antarctic Commander Christchurch, New Zealand -(UPD-Rear Adm. George J. Du fek announced today that Rear1 Adm. David Merrill Ty ree had been named to suc ceed him as U.S. antarctic commander. Tyree is now commander of the U.S. Navy task force in nuclear bomb tests at Eni wetok. DIRECTOR DIES Montreal -UPD- George H. Richards, 57, senior vice pres ident and director of the Cel anese Corp. of America, died Sunday of a heart attack. Worry of FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? Don't be embarrassed by loose false teeth slipping, dropping or wobbling when you eat, talk or laugh. Just sprinkle a little FASTEETH on your plates. This pleasant powder gives a remarkable sense of added comfort and security by holding plates more firmly. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non-acid). Oct FASTEETH at any drug counter. His radio and press con tinue their attacks against Hussein. Victory for Nasser In Lebanon, the appoint ment of rebel leader Rashid Karami as premier represents a victory for the rebels and at least a moral victory for Nasser. Lebanon will have enough to do licking its political wounds in the coming months and trying to prevent out breaks of new trouble. Roscoe Drummond Reports . ... (Drummond Is substituting for Walter Lippmann, during the latter's trip to Russia.) THE BIG STAKE IN CALIFORNIA Los Angeles - Evervthine- literally evervthinz is at stake here in the California election this fall. No less than this: The fate of the Republican party, perhaps for a long time to come, in a state where in dependent Republicanism has ruled for many years. The shape of the Presiden tial tickets of both parties in 1960. The coloration in foreign and domestic policy 5like, of both parties in Congess. And to a large extent the future of the right - to - work (anti-closed shop) movement throughout the country. . In the whole budget of na tional politics this year, here in one package is the biggest stake in what in a few years will be the most populous and politically the most powerful state in the Union-the biggest bloc of votes at both conven tions, the biggest bloc of votes in the Electorial College,' the largest delegation in Con gress. No doubt about it, some thing big is going to give here on Nov. 4. T OOK at the stake in terms - of its leading personalities: If Sen. William F. Know land wins the governorship, particularly with all the odds against him as they are to day, he will instantly become a formidable contender for the 1960 Presidential nomin ation and will provide a focal point "for Republican conser vative" opposition to Vice President Nixon. If Sen. Knowland wins, Mr Nixon's prospects for the nomination will be somewhat hurt and his prospects of elec tion, if nominated, improved If Mr. Knowland loses, Mr, Nixon's nomination will be nearly assured and his pros pects of elections impaired be cause he will have lost a se cure Republican home base from which to operate. If Democratic nom inee Edmund (Pat) Brown wins the Governorship, he will be a power in the Dem ocratic party nationally, can do much to help it win in 1960, will be a big factor at the convention, and a pros pect for the Vice President ial nomination. . - AND there are these other consequences: If the Republicans lose in California, Sen. Knowland will be an extinguished politi cal figure, the party will have lost one of its most vigorous and respected conservatives and the cause of an Asia-first Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) CSC- a, yv y The monarchy of Saudi Ara bia may not be immune to revolution indefinitely. Crown Prince and Premier Feisal, the real power in the country, came here last month and patched things up between the Saudis and Nasser, who earlier this year charged King Saud with trying to assassi nate him. But observers believe revo lution in Saudi Arabia is one of those things which could come tomorrow -or in five years. foreign policy and all-out sup port of Chiang Kai-shek will have lost one of its most in fluential advocates. If the Democrats win, it will probably be a full-scale sweep, including decisive con trol of the state legislature which will enable the Demo crats to re-gerrymander the Congressional districts in a way which will produce a heavily titled Democratic del egation in Congress for a long time. If the Democrats win, the right-to-work referendum will probably lose, and if the same thing happens in Ohio where the anti-right-to-work Demo cratic nominee for Governor, Mike DiSalle, is visibly run ning ahead of Gov. O'Neil then most observers believe it will end for some time at tempts to get a national right-to-work law and will likely start a repeal movement in some of the 18 states which have such laws. THE radiant Mr. Eisenhower anrl trip riarrl-Vuttini Mr. Nixon have done their best to kindle fire and force behind the Republican campaign. But they have now come "and gone, the voting is near at hand and the factors which still point to Democratic vic tory remain: Pat Brown's massive pri mary ' majority over Bill Knowland. New registrations running 3-to-l Democratic. A newly united Democratic pary an an openly divided Republican party with Goodie Knight unforgiving Mr. Knowland's wresting the Gub ernatorial re-nomination from- his hands and letting . it "be known that a .vote against Knowland-including his own - would be all right with him. Republican moderates, like Earl Warren and Knight, have been able easily to defeat Democratic Left-Wingers. But now a Democratic moderate is running against an authen tic Republican conservative and the outcome on Nov. 4 will be something to watch. (C) 1958 New York ' Herald Tribune Inc. 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