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Newspaper Page Text4 FrMty, November 7, ItSt MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDefSWRIBUHB "Everyone In Southern Oregoa Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. PH. SP 2-611 " ROBERT W. RCHL. Editor HERB GREY. 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 Alec1 ford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION FATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday I year $13-00 Daily and Sunday 45 mos- 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sunday Only One year $4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle , Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday I year S18.00 Daily and Sunday I mo. 1 50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty 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. jflEWSPAPH . FUkUISMEtS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSOCUTfajN j kj 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 Mot. 7, 1948 (Sunday) An assistant secretary of the interior comes to Medford to confer with groups inter ested in Rogue river water resources development.. Frank Van Dyke, Medford attorney reelected Tuesday to the state house of representa tives, says he has sufficient pledges to assure his election as speaker of the house. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 7. 1938 (Monday) Between 60 and 65 per cent of Jackson county's " eligible voters are expected to go to the polls tomorrow. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: It's all over but the shouting and the counting, as candidates for high office check up to see if they have left a word unsaid, or a promise unmade. It don't eem possible." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 7. 1928 (Wednesday) A. W. Pipes elected mayor of Medford. The fire hall bond issue carries by a majority of 440. '40 YEARS AGO .Not. 7, 1918 (Thursday) The Rogue River Fish bill has evidently lost out in the ;state. ; The community labor board is now working on a complete labor survey in this area. ; What's Your I.Q.? .Nina or ten correct is superior; even or eight is excellent; five ei six is good. 1. In what document are the qualifications for Presi dent of the U. S. set forth? T 2. What famous monument in Egypt has the body of a lion with a human head. - 3. What is the name of the last book in the Old Testa ment? 4. In what city is the prin cipal edition of the Wall .Street Journal published? . 5. "Green Mountain State" is the nickname of which state? ' 6. Pure lard is made from cottonseed oil; true or false? 7. Who succeeded Henry A. Wallace in the office of vice president of the United 'States? 8. In what chain of islands Is Okinawa? 9. Botanically, is the bam ;boo classed as a tree, shrub, or grass? 10. The names Fitch, Fulton, and Rumsey, suggest to your mind what notable invention? Answers: I. Constitution. 2. The Sphinx. 3. MalachL 4. New York City. 5. Vermont. 6 False. 7. Harry S. Truman. 8. The Ryukyus. 9. Grass. 10. Steamboat. NEW ROCKEFELLER FUND : Accra; Ghana" -GOT- A new Rockefeller fund to help bring in new investments and tech nical aid will be established here soon, the government an nounced Thursday night. Property Condemnation The state highway commission is currently in the process of acquiring much land for the con struction of the new freeway through Jackson county. Some property has been purchased, in other cases negotiations are under way, and soon still other property-owners will be approached by the commission, which will purchase, or, if necessary, condemn, the areas needed for the route. In the Rogue River area, some of the resi dents have felt they have not had a fair deal from the commission, they have received. THEIR complaints have on the activities of the right-of-way purchase agents as they have been on what they say is shilly-shallying on the ; itself, first saying one The complaints may be exaggerated. In any thing to have the state come along and take one s property, whether or not one wants to sell. This is particularly true in the case .of a well-loved home of many years. But this is one of right of the state to obtain of ' eminent domain, comes into play. IT IS a right which goes far back into history. A In the early days there in theoiy and in practice, arch) owned everything anyway, and the prop erty user held the land only on sufferance of the state. As property rights became more clearly de fined, so too did limitations on the power of the state to take property. They reached their tion m the U.S. constitution, in the fifth and fourteenth amendments, parts of the Bill of Rights, which, in part, provide: "No person shall ... be deprived of . . . property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without compensation." "No state shall .make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive, any person of . . . property without due process of law; nor deny any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." yHE f ramers of the constitution left it up to congress and the legislatures of the states to define the methods under may be taken for public use. But they did insure that these methods must provide for compensa tion, for due process, and for equal protection. . If agreement can be the property between the owners and the state, that solves the matter. But if agreement cannot be reached, if the owners think the state's offer is too small to be fair, then the right of eminent domain comes in, and the property can be "condemned." In such a case, the matter is taken to court, and the court, usually on what is fair compensation under the circum stances. """ FAIR compensation usually is defined as either one of two thjngs:' - 1. The market value of the property, or, 2. What the property is worth to the owner (in case it is not readily marketable). , , Market value usually is taken to mean the amount at which property would exchange, in. the current market, between a willing' buyer and a willing seller, with equity to both. The difficulty of determining the true market value is well known. It is the subject of a lot of grief among taxpayers, for it is the basis on which all property taxes are levied. THERE are, generally, three approaches to determining fair market vahie. One is the comparative approach, which is based on an analysis of sales and asking prices for comparable properties. Another is based on the past and anticipated earnings of a piece of property. The third is based on the cost of reproduction, which involves both the cost of the land at fair market value, plus the cost of reconstructing the improvements, less depreciation. All of them, of course, depend on the skill, ability and fairness of the appraisal procedures and agents. THESE, basically, are the things which will be crucial to a lot of people in the county in the coming few years, as the big freeway stretches out from Grants Pass, through Rogue River, along the north bank of the Rogue and then across it west of Rock Point, then extending east of Central Point, through Medford along Bear creek, and south and to the east of Ashland. It will result in unhappiness. to some, but if properly handled, hardship to none. It is another case of a minority taking the rap when the overall good and progress of the com munity require it. No one likes it, but sometimes it is necessary. E.A. : .- - . . . What's A Caucus? The Oregonian, which strongly supported Mark Hatfield for governor, and, indeed, most Republican candidates, commented yesterday about the fact that Governor Hatfield will have to wrork with a legislature under control of Demo crats. It said: "If the 27 Republicans stick solidly together behind their governor, his wishes cannot be ignored by the 1959 legislature." , Tine enough. But in that case, what happens to the high indignation of the more partisan Republicans about the "caucus system"? E.A. protesting the treatment , not been based so much part of the department thing, then another. be justified, or they may event, it is an unpleasant . , those cases in which the what it needs, the right was no limit to it, for the state (or the mon clearest general defini which private property reached for. the sale of through' a jury, decides Dennis the Menace 'Ail xxj gotta do is FRy the THE? ' Non-South Democrats Poll 55 Per Cent of Nation's Ballots By RAYMOND LAHR UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD - Demo crats polled roughly 55 per cent of the vote outside the South in winning their land slide victory in Tuesday's elections, the United Press International count showed today. That figure gave Republi can leaders some idea of the job, ahead in their effort to reverse the political trend before the presidential elec tion of 1960. Democratic National Chair man Paul M. Butler was ex pected to report preliminary findings from the post mor tem research in his headquar ters at a news conference to day.- The UPI count was based on the vote cast for candi dates for senator in the 27 non-Southern states electing senators this year; for gover nor in eight states; for state treasurer in Illinois; and the combined vote for House can didates in Kentucky. Neither Illinois nor Kentucky elect ed a senator or governor this year. The 11 Dixie states were excluded because they are so heavily Democratic that the remaining 37 states provide the real battleground in na tional elections. Poll 54.6 Per Cent The vote tabulated In the 37 states showed Democrats polled 54.6 per cent" of the Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the 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 saper; in tact tne contrary orten From Mrs. Hopkins To the Editor: My congrat ulations to the winner in the county clerk's race. He will find the office in good order when he takes over, I am sure. I commend to him the fin est staff of deputies any offi cial could hope to have the good fortune to work with. It has given me a great sat isfaction and real sense of achievement to have served the people of Jackson county the past- five years. I trust my successor will find the of fice what he has imagined it to be. Bereth P. Hdpkins, County Clerk. From Mrs. Nye To the Editor: It will be impossible for me to thank personally the many, many people who have supported me so loyally in my campaign for the office .of state repre; sentative. Your confidence in my ability to carry out this enormous responsibility is a challenge that I will attempt to justify by devoting aU of my energies to it. I would like to repeat what I have said many times dur ing the campaign, that I in tend to keep in close touch with the people of Jackson county and will always wel come an opportunity to dis cuss your problems and your ideas with regard to our state government. Eve Nye, Hillcrest-Phoenix rd. Medford. Lucky Back-Fir To the Editor: Now that Wayne Morse unwittingly helped to defeat one of his proselytes in the Oregon elec tion, may we hope that this good memory of the voters shall continue until they again go to the polls in 1962. It was indeed a lucky back-fire for the state of Oregon. Ralph E. Koozer 108 Nursery st. Ashland bacoh an eggs. I ear total. Inclusion of the South would run up the figure still higher. In 1956 when the Demo crats won slender majorities in the House and Senate de spite President Eisenhower's landslide reelection, Demo cratic senatorial candidates polled a fraction over 51 per cent of the vote in the states, including the South, which held Senate elections. Demo cratic candidates for the House polled about the same percentage. Outside the South, Demo cratic candidates for the House polled only 47 per cent of the vote in 1956. In his first detailed com ment on the meaning of the election, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson belittled the likelihood of po litical warfare between Con gress and the White House. In a speech prepared for a Big Spring, Tex., audience, he promised Democrats in Con gress will meet President Ei senhower "at least halfway, and perhaps even further if the circumstances warrant. Sketches 12-Point Program Johnson . also sketched a 12-point program featuring legislation dealing with labor reforms, farm problems, slum clearance, space: exploration, airport construction, conser vation, aid for depressed areas and other measures. The AFL-CIO, which gave much help to many Demo- name and address of the writer, nm case. Not Gold Hill's To the Editor: The Oct. 30th Mail-Tribune carried a letter from a Mrs. H. J. of Eugene who, from ignorance, lack of information or misinforma tion, wrote she "was shocked to find that the city of Gold Hill has let a dump get start ed just below the House of Mystery". Neither the mayor, the city council or anyone else directly connected with the government of the city of Gold HiU is aware of having a "dump" or allowing a "dump" to get started at the place indicated, which is sev eral miles from Gold Hill. Last April the city council closed for good the old city dump which was located on the hill just north of the city and gave a franchise to an established garbage and trash collecting firm for picking up garbage and trash in the city and disposing of same at the firm's garbage disposal loca tion between Rogue River and Grants Pass. To set the record straight the city of Gold Hill has no direct interest in a "dump" near the House of Mystery or at any other place. It is not my purpose to condone the disposition of "dump" materi als promiscuously about the country side. It is my conten tion that the city of Gold Hill disclaims any part in starting "dumping" operations near the House of Mystery. If the ("dump" to which Mrs. H. J. has reference is on the county road right of way, I . feel sure that the county will see that proper action is taken - to eliminate the un sightly place. If it is on pri vate property, there must be some way to inform the prop erty owner of the- condition so that he may take steps to prevent such dumping and proceed to clean up the, place. ; . Ferd W. Jones, . . . City Recorder " Gold HiU. Ore Rockefeller Now Seen 'Man To Beat' For 1960 Republican Presidential Nod By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington-TOPD-In 50-year-old Nelson 'Aldrich Rockefel ler it may be that the hum bled Republi cans have got t h e m s e Ives "another Ike" or, even, a per sonality cult political d r eamboat in the image of the great FDR, v If such be Lyie c. whsob only nan true, it may prove to be the most significant political fact of 1958 and of 1960, too. This immensely rich man with a big smile and a baby-kissing, pizza pie taste for curbstone politics casts a warm and golden glow over the stricken Republican Party. ' . Warm and golden, that is, except where that glow falls as shadow over the Old Guard, conservative party members. It is shadow, also ciatic winners in the ballot ing Tuesday, unfolded - its first legislative proposals after a meeting of its coun cil Thursday. It asked for a labor reform measure similar to the Kennedy-Ives bill which died in the House last summer. But it threatened to stir even greater controversy by calling for repeal of the Taft Hartley law provision which permits states to enact right- to-work laws outlawing union shop contracts. Such action would nullify the 19 state laws which have been adopt ed. " , The council said Tuesday's vote, defeating right-to-wbrk proposals in five of the six states where the issue was on the ballot, was a mandate to Congress "to end this flank attack on organized labor.' In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS You've heard, I suppose, of the year of the big wind. Well, Tuesday was the DAY of the big wind. IffHEN the wind subsided, here is where the Repub lican party found itself: It stUl has the White House and the APPOINTIVE offices. But- : The" Democrats have a clear majority of both houses of the congress. It "seems probable that with their party major ity, plus such disgruntled dis sidents as they may be able to pick up, they will be able at any time they choose to override ANY Presidential veto. That leaves them in undis puted command of the govern ment. S MUCH for what hap This question remains: - WHY did it happen? T WOULDN'T KNOW. -1; But I'll hazard a guess. 'People, at this 'particular moment, are unhappy with things as they are - both at home and abroad. At home, there is the recession, which is just barely beginning to ease off. Abroad, there is ttie cold war - which keeps people upset and apprehensive. So- The people Tuesday follow ed the standard American po litical practice in times when they are unhappy with things as they are and tossed out the ins and put in the outs. THEY applied the rule on both sides of the political fence. In New York they tossed out Millionaire Democrat Har riman and put Millionaire Re publican Rockefeller in his place. In California they tossed out upper bracket Republicans right and left and replaced them with Democrats. In Oregon, they tossed out youthful Democratic Govern or Holmes and replaced him with youthful Republican Hat field. - NEW YORK is a long way off. California and Oregon are close to us. Perhaps - it might be well to 'point out here that in both California and Oregon there were local incidents that may have con tributed to the result. ' In California last spring, there was too much politick ing among top shelf Republi cans too much maneuvering about who would be allowed to run for this and who would be allowed, to run for that. The PEOPLE don't like that. What the people don't like, they are apt to resent. In Oregon, at the last min ute, Senator Morse came out with a nasty, gutter-level at tack on the personal integrity for those numerous Republi cans who look to Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon to lead them in 1960 out of the. wilderness. If Nixon before this election was far and away the man to beat for the 1960 Republican presidential nomi nation, then since the election Rockefeller now is almost in evitably the man Nixon must beat to win the prize. That will not be easy. Nixon Set Pattern Nixon cast the pattern of this year's Republican cam paign He cast it aggressively Dirksen Seen Likely Knowland Successor By WARREN DUFFEE UPI Correspondent Washington fUPD The task of leading the depleted Re publican ranks in the Senate appeared likely today to fall to Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Hl.), a man of conservative bent who has solidly support ed President Eisenhower's programs. Dirksen, once a strong Taft man, is favored to succeed William F. Knowland as Sen ate Republican leader when the 86th Congress convenes in January with the Democrats in overwhelming command. For the past two years, he has been Senate whip or as sistant leader to Knowland, who went down to defeat in his bid for the governorship of California. There is no announced od- position to Dirksen's ascend ancy to the leadership . post and none is expected With their ranks slashed from 47 to 34 by the Demo cratic landslide in the Con gressional elections, the Sen ate Republicans are faced with a major rebuilding process under their new floor leaders. Several names already were being mentioned as possible successors to Dirksen as whip if the Illinois veteran moves up to the minority leader's post. Sens. Prescott Bush (R Conn.).and Gordon AUott (R Colo.) were regarded as strong possibilities for -the assistant leader's post, although neither Neuberger Sees of Wafer Available Madras (DPD Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) predict ed here Thursday night the existence of water in large volumes for domestic, indus trial and agricultural growth of the Columbia River Basin area. Speaking at the annual ban quet of the Oregon Reclama tion Congress, he said, "Our nation's population increases at the rate of 8000 per day, yet 5000 acres of good land disappears from agricultural production during that same period." "These figures," Neuberger said, "are a sobering reminder of the challenge facing Am erica's living standards; but they also foreshadow an era of new growth in the Pacific Northwest region because it is blessed with an abundance of water with which to meet the demands of the future." Neuberger urged members of the reclamation organiza tion to pay "close attention . . . to sound conservation poli cies for multiple - purpose use of our water resources if this region is to take full ad vantage of the priceless asset bestowed on us by reason of climate and geography." of Republican Candidate Mark Hatfield. People don't like that kind of politics. Their natural and proper resent ment may have affected the result of the Oregon guberna torial election. ONE more question: What can the Republican party do to rehabilitate its fortunes? F" MIGHT take a tip from Arizona. In Arizona, Senator Gold- water has been a conservative. He has known where he is going. In his campaign for re election to the senate, ne STAYED a conservative Re publican. He left no doubt of where he stands. He dra matized himself of what he IS. . ' As a conservative Republi can, making no bones about it. offering no opologies for his beliefs, standing pat on his convictions, hewing to the line and. letting the chips fall where they may, he was de cisively re-elected to the U.S. senate in a state that has been overwhelmingly Democratic since its admission to the Union. .There's a hint there for the Republican party. ' Large Volume and so firmly that President 1 Eisenhower and, even, the State Department had to con form. Nixon's and the Presi dent's best was not good enough to prevent party dis aster. But the vice president raised great sums of money and made good new friends for himself among those local politicos who will have much to say in 1960 about the Republican presidential nomi nee. The vice president emerged from the wreckage as politi cal boss of the Eisenhower so far is an announced candi date. Both have generally backed the Eisenhower pro gram. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.), whom Dirksen suc ceeded as whip, is expected to continue as chairman of the conference of GOP senators, which will elect the new floor leader and whip in January. Sen. Milton R. Young (R N. D.), secretary of the con ference, is the fifth member of the Republican Senate hierarchy. Washington Report By William Washington The true cent er of powerover American foreign policy is about to move from Foggy Bottom, the site of the State Depart ment, to Capi tol HilL This coming 1 shift is due primarily to to basic and impersonal po- wiiuam s white litical r e a 1 i- ties. It is not much related to what some presume, rather too melodramatically, will be widespread Democratic bitter ness over President Eisenhow er's unconvincingly "tough" Republican talk in the recent Congressional campaign. The Democrats who will run the opposition show in the new Congress Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and his Senate associates and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Tex as in the House will not be crushed at "What Eisenhower said." They will not lose an hour's sleep over the rhetoric of the campaign. And, almost certainly, there will be no reprisals in the field of foreign p o 1 i c y though on domestic matters there will be another story entirely. Domestically, the Democrats will make much medicine for the Presidential election of 1960. CONTROL of our world af- v fairs-r-not in the opera tional sense but in the stra tegic sense will largely and quickly pass from the Presi dent and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to Con gress for these reasons: . 1. The Eisenhower Admin istration is on the last lap. The President's never very strongly exercised ability to infuence the - Senate will amount to little from here on out. 2. Mostof Mr. Dulles points of close contact with the Sen ate have been lost by circu stances, such as the decision of his closest Congressional friend, Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey, not to seek re-election. The man who will now, in fact though not in form, succeed Mr. Smith as principal GOP spokesman on foreign policy, Senator Bourke B. - Hickenlooper of Iowa, is not notably a "Dulles man," . 3. Regardless of the out come of the Congressional elections, the Senate would have moved forward to re claim its high mission in for eign policy. If for no other reason it would have done so simply because any weaken ing in the Executive Depart ment is invariably followed by a corresponding assertion of the historic claims of the Senate as an institution. urn In Order To Serve You Better the new office of Dr. Robert J. U ne OPTOMETRIST is now located at 820 East Main m V2 Block East of Cottage Street Parking Area Entrance on East Main at Corning Court' administration, a post the President does not covet and for which he is actually unfit by temperament. But for what happened in New York state on election day, Nixon by now might have had the 1960 nomi nation in the bag. He seemed to have bagged it before the votes rolled in. ' AToid GOP Label ' Now Rockefeller stands in Nixon's way, a freshman in the political wars who. in his first time out, showed some marks of poltical instinct ap proaching genius. Alf M. Lan don was rewarded with the 1936 Republican presidential nomination for having sur vived two Roosevelt land-slides-1932-34-in Republican Kansas. The solid fact about Rockefeuer is that he sur vived Tuesday's Democratic H-bomb in big, New Dealish New York. Newsmen who combed the state for trends and inklings reported that there scarcely were any real issues between Rockefeller and New Dealish Gov. Averell Harrlman whom he defeated. Others failed to detect in Rockefeller any solid Republican identity at all. He carefully disassociated himself from the Eisenhower Administration, from its rec ord, from the vice president and from the conservative elements of the GOP. S. Whit rpHUS it may be safely pre dieted that beginning in January our policies abroad will be more nearly made "on the hill" than at any time since long before World War n. This, however, will not re flect any widened Congres sional dislike of Secretary Dulles. Actually, he is more nearly popular now than he was two years ago again because of external circumstances. Though some Democrats did not like what he did in the dispatch of troops to the Mid dle East, they did like the fact that at last there was action instead of talk. If Mr. Dulles made them less than happy he also broadened the thereto fore dangerously thin respect in which he had been held. ' Again, the Dulles policy on Formosa and the off-shore is lands for a time angered many Democrats. Again, however, he so altered his line at last a t ffn a Innff wav Trarant new China rvolirv whirh i not too far away from what the controlling Democrats and liberal Republicans had long hoped or. Ironically, what he did in the summer and fall in fac ing up to events that would not be talked away strength ened him in the human sense, whether his actions were right or wrong. To say, however, that he is more respected than he used to be is not at all to say he will be as influential as he used to be. ON the contrary, he' will typify the declining pow er of the Administration. , The ascending forces over foreign policy will be made up of such as Senator John son and Senators J. William . Ful bright of Arkansas " and Mike Mansfield of Montana. Johnson, who for years has stayed in the background in this area," will be far .more prominent ' in . it now." Ful bright, senior Democratic member of the Foreign Rela tions Committee, will take on marked stature. So will Mans field who, apart from mem bership on that committee, is assistant Democratic leader of the Senate and thus a high member of the Johnson re gency. All three of these new men of power are moderates, and two of them Johnson and Fulbright-s p e a k authenti cally for the South's tradi tional internationalism. This circumstance is immensely fortunate for the Eisenhower Administration and the West- . era world. For it means that the transfer of power over foreign policy will be bland and orderly and expert. With a more partisan Demo cratic leadership it could have been very much otherwise. (Copyright. 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)