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4 Men4ay, Norewtur 24, 1 95S MAIL TRIBUNE, MEOFORD, ORE. "Everyone In Southern Oregoa Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by MEOFORD PRiNTINU CO. S3 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W R'UHL. Editor HERB GRZY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business HlgT. ERIC W AlLt.N JK, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women"! Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION PATES B Mail In Advance. Copy 10c, Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 423 Sunday Onlv One year $4 20. Rv Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, uom run. Ptioenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1 SO Carrier and Dealers c o p T 10c Ail Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper or daemon connry 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. gqOZ NEWSPAPlt k PUBllSHEtS "ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 3271 I asTocCatSn ua'&a i s Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files bt The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1948 (Wednesday) A phone call to Grants Pass confirms that despite a per sistent rumor here the high school stadium there did not burn to the ground this morn ing. California Oregon Power company and Southern Pa cific railroad are listed 1-2 as Jackson county's leading tax payers. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1938 (Thursday) Close to one thousand youngsters pedal their bikes through town to call attention to traffic safety. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "For these things, and many more, thanks can be given today: For health and teeth to chew the turkey, and the tender ness thereof." 30 YEARS AGO Not. 24, 1928 (Saturday) A federal radio airways sta tion is to be established on the Crater Lake highway near the proposed Medford airport. Carold Parker buys rights to being Medford agent for a new manikan gum machine. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 24. 1918 (Sunday) Efforts are under way to organize an Oregon National Guard company here. Josephine Hartzell, 13, is Jackson county's prize turkey raiser, having sold her flock of 70 for $280. What's Your I.Q.? Nina nr hs correct is fuHriar: seven or eight i excellent; five of six it good. 1. Is the caliber of a gun barrel a measure of the length of the barrel, or the interior diameter? 2. In Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" what is the name of the king of Scotland who is murdered by MacBeth? 3. What is the former name for Iran? 4. In what country is Ran goon? 5. What is the opening phrase of "The American's Creed?" 6. Which is further north, Cape Henry or Cape Hat teras? 7. What is the capital of South Dakota? 8. : The normal temperature of the human body is 90.6, 89.9 or 98.6 degrees. 9. A marathon is a horse race; true or false? 10. The author of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," was Sir Ar thur Conan Doyle, Edgar Al len Poe, or Robert Louis Ste venson? Answers: 1. Interior diame ter. 2. Duncan. 3. Persia. 4. Burma. 5. "I believe in the United States of America." 6. Cape Henry. 7. Pierre. 8. 98.6. 8. Falsa. 10. Stevenson. NT f rrt.' r lime for Living It had been so long since our twinkle-eyed little old lady with gray lace shawl from the lower bend of the river had been to our office that we thought it time we took down by the sedges where the curlews call and the gray gulls soar against the rim of beach pines on the far sand dunes. visit her. We had no need to worry for she was taking good care of the creaks of a little arthritis and though she hadn't been in town for lo these many weeks, she was still adding up the memories of a memorial Indian summer like a precious jewel for a treasure much richer than any jeweler's safe could contain. "These people, poof!" she laughed. "They keep coming around and talking about high taxes, a new hospital bond issue, costs, costs, timber ap- praisals, high price of and all they do is clutter up their hearts with the misery of their brains." CHE wralked to the rosewood cabinet that had come around to Oregon via the Cape and took out some notes she had been making this fall. "Each person owes it to himself to open his heart to beauty in order that each day can be lived as if no other day would ever come. And in so doing the heart will sing, the mind will be at peace, and you have a happy thought to pass on to others." She smiled, "How do you like that?" Or take this one : "If you would own yourself then do away with your 'self and see only 'others' and then will you truly own your 'self'." She beamed as we said it might also be a Ger trude Stein item. "I don't know what you mean," she laughed, "but I hope you mean it right." And we hastened to tell her that Gertrude Stein had made herself quite a bit of money and a lot more fame by her writings. "I'm not a writer you who has lived until now it is time that I keep my days busy and thoughtful I need to put a bit of thinking in with my elderberry jelly. WE'VE known this little lady with the smile m her eyes for more than a decade of editing and each time we come away feeling that there are so many riches not known to others that she owns. So it was this week during Indian Summer she told us "This is the time for living, and no one needs a modern tranquilizer pill if he'll listen to he song of the sea, the the call of the wild duck marsh where the tidal arms come creeping in to make a sanctuary for the loveliness of the wild world. And so it is truly, that is a time for living in he heady Indian summer days and nights when all the world is filled with the fall's fruition. Ralph Stuller in the Coquille Valley Sentinel. Cactus Jack at 90 John Nance (Cactus Jack) Garner, Vice Pres ident of the United States from 1933 to 1941, was 90 on Saturday. He became our third nonage narian, former "Veep." The first vice president, John Adams, lived more than six months after his 90th birthday. The 22d, Levi F. Morton, former Wall Street banker, went on to his 96th. Adams was only former Pres ident to reach 90. THE Texas where Garner was born in 1868 was oV-.nf oes rl if f ai-onf oc rvn'M Via frnm the Toyjis of 1958. No oil flowed and ly nonexistent. The state the House ot Kepresentatives, as against lis zz today. Anybody so rash as to predict it would someday vote for a Republican president, as it was to do m 1928, 1952, have been shot. State legislator, county judge, elected to the House for 15 successive terms, Garner became its minority leader in 1929, its Speaker in 1931. With his firm sense of party loyalty he helped to put across even New Deal legislation not exactly to his taste Opposed to a third term for "The Chief,". at the age of 71 he let his name be used for the 1940 presidential nomination. But he had only 61 votes at the convention (James A. Farley got 73), and retired to ruminate under his own vine and fig tree. E.R.R. Try and By BENNETT CERF- A STICKY MOMENT in International relations popped up when the English ambassador was escorted through some secret Navy installations in Annapolis. He was out alone for a pre -breakfast stroll one crisp morning when he was suddenly halted by a mid shipman on sentry duty. "Restricted area, sir. Youll have to turn back, said the sentry. "But I'm the British Ambassador, spluttered the visitor. "They've let me see every thing up to now. Just what's going on here?" "Sir," snapped the middy, "it's secret practice for the Army football game." From Ira Granr.es: "Poor Willie on one summer's day With an A-bomb began to play. There was a boom, and now, Z guess. He hasn't much Togetherness. ' -OUKfcby Btcostt CcrL KrtrtbuUd by Bag rattan &B4ictf r . 7 off and made our wray And so we went today to and stringing each day food, prices on new cars know, I'm just, a person whir of the birds wings, down by a saffron sedged industry was practical had only four seats in 1956, would undoubtedly Stop Me Dennis the Menace 1F DlMf?5 READY, I'D 6ETTB? Matter of Fact By ROWLAND EVANS JR. While Joseph Alsop re ports from the Middle East, Rowland Evans Jr. covers the home base. THE NEW BUDGET Washington There are significant signs that Presi dent Eisenhower is setting r out on his last two years in office in a way that almost seem calculated to to install the Democrats in the White House in 1960. Rowland Evani , jr. The Presi dent, of course, would scarce ly agree with that assessment. But his gnawing preoccupa tion with cutting Federal spending; his virtual orders to the Departments that there shall be no new Federal pro grams of any kind, other than programs to kill existing pro grams; his resolve to go ahead with a manpower' re duction and other muscle trimming in the armed forces -these and other signs of re trenchment are dramatic testi mony that the mesasge of the 1958 election may somehow have failed to penetrate the White House. The fiscal policy of reduce, pare and cut-back may be the easiest solution to the terrible complex question of deficit spending and record national debts. But in the view of an important minority of top Presidential advisors, it is very bad politics just at the time the Republicans seem most in need of a new image to put before the country. It is stirring up some sharp dis cord on the Eisenhower team. One Cabinet member has boldly told the White House that fiscal retrenchment will have drastic political reper cussions in 1960. IN FACT, this official has said that if the Democrats could plant their ' most cun ning saboteur in a high policy-making job in the White House, he could do no more to help the Democrats than a budget policy that ignores the dynamic problems of a new era. The agencies to get hurt first and most by a Federal economy wave are, after De fense, Dr. Arthur Flemming's Health, Education and Wel fare Department and James P. Mitchell's Labor Depart ment. There two members of the team, together with In terior's Fred Seaton, are put ting up the strongest case against the policy of retrench ment by the Budget Bureau that the Cabinet conserva tives, strongly supported thus far by the President, are in sisting upon. The President's target, of course, is to move as close to a balanced budget as pos sible. The deficit for this year will be around $12,000,000,- Banks, Stores Said Needing Trainees Northfield, Minn.-(UPD-Phil-ip L. Fjelstad, director of the St. Olaf College placement bu reau, says the nation's banks and department stores are in the market for trainees. For youths thinking of teaching careers, Fjelstad said shortages exist manly in the sciences, English and wom en's physical education. Government and social work are also good fields for American youngsters seeking careers. Fjelstad said that in both cases salary and person nel standards have been raised to the point where they compare favorably with teach ing and industrial positions. f I GO OUTAHO UNTIE DAD J By Rowland Evans Jr. 000. Perhaps half of this can be wiped out by higher tax revenues in the next fiscal year, leaving some $6,000,' 000,000 as the target for re duced spending. Those in the Cabinet who are now struggling against the Budget Bureau are tell ing the President that his new budget will set the tone and pace of his final two years in office. At a recent Cabinet meeting, according to quali fied informants, Dr. Flem ming said his Department could not accept the Budget Bureau's edict against any and all new welfare pro grams. He was quickly sup ported by several other Cabi net members. Even Secretary of State Dulles is concerned He knows that a budget that skimps on everything but foreign aid is an engraved in vitation to Congress to cut the heart out of foreign aid. WHERE DOES Vice Presi dent Nixon stand? He stands in an ironic position. By nature, politicaly and in- telectually Nixon is a man of action, a bold , planner, the precise opposite of a stand patter. And yet the whole tone of the recent Republican campaign, which he helped to set, is almost driving the Ad ministration into fiscal re trenchment now. The para dox is that results of the elec tion seem to argue even more powerfully the other way. Quietly, privately, it can be assumed that the Vice Presi dent is using all his per suasion against a budget that will give the Democrats in Congress all the initiative on slum clearance, school con struction, atomic power, aid for depressed areas and a host of other measures that the strongest Democratic Con gress in 22 years is already gleefully contemplating. Mr. Nixon has not forgotten Mr. Truman's , sensational 1948 campaign against a "do nothing" Republican Con gress. He could well be weighing what might happen if the Democrats campaigned in 1960 against a do-nothing Republican Executive. The secret debate in the Cabinet is far from over. It may, in fact, spill out into the open in an embarrassing way before it "ends. - (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addresi of the writer although under cer- tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for puuiica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. "Tail-Holt" Crossing To the Editor: One of the old historic landmarks which evidently has long since been almost forgotten was the site of the fording of the river about one-quarter mile above the present location of the new Rogue River bridge. Ac cording to all the stories we received from some of the early settlers at Woodville years ago, was that before the town was named Wood ville,. it was called "Tail-Holt" after a near tragedy of one person who held onto a horse's tail to prevent his being swept downstream by tin swollen river in the at tempt to cross over safely. We were also informed of an old doctor who resided at Woodville, by the name of Samuel Morse. He had left a year or so before we arrived in 1912 at Woodville. He was nearly 100 years old then. It was the same old doctor who had lived in the mid-west, and was. present when we were ushered into the world and first saw the light of day. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford. Wilson Speculates on Vast" Increase in Debt, Economic Collapse by Year 1989 By LYLE C. WILSON UPI Correspondent Washington - (UPD-Applica-tion of a sharp pencil, simple arithmetic and the facts of life to the U. S. n a t i onal debt can pro duce some figures so ter rifying a s t o be almost un unbelieveable. For e x ample: If the national debt ie c. wuson i n c reases in the next 30 years as it has in the past 30 years, we all would be busted by 1989. By that year we all would be earning dollars which wouldn't be worth much, if anything. For a real switch, it probably would be easier then to earn deflated dollars than to spend them. Who, with real goods or services to trade, would want to exchange either for phony dollars worth a ha-penny, or less? Such a hard decision may never have to be made by American citizens, al though it has happened else where in recent years and could happen here. Perhaps it is a shade less Washington Report By William S. Whits NEW PERIOD IN DANGER Washington -The Eisen h o w e r Administration i s again reducing the armed forces in the face of what is responsibly admitted here to be a hard ening line by the Russian and Chinese Com munists all across the world. Williams White i-enia- gon under orders from Presi dent Eisenhower, is cutting military manpower by 70,000 to a total force, for all serv ices combined, of 2,525,000 or less. Does thi"s inevitably mean, less actual firepower? On this point there is endless and insoluble argument. Some experts contend we are "get ting more bang for a buck by streamlining the forces." Other experts retort that this slogan is as nonsensical as it is in poor taste. It is like arguing, says this group, that a thing - defense - can become bigger on the inside while it becomes smaller on the outside. What is clear beyond any dispute, however - indeed what is freely conceded - is all the following. TIKITA Khrushchev, the Soviet dictator, is moving his policies back toward the sullen menace of the old Stal in days. We know it to be a fact that "toughness" is suc ceeding a comparatively long period of relative relaxation in the Kremlin. Chillingly, we don't know why; we don't even have a good educated guess. The consensus still is that Khrushchev does not want war - not, at any rate, for two or three years. After that period, his intercontinental ballistics missiles - weapons capable of traveling 5,000 miles or more and leaving un speakable destruction at the end of the line will be in operational numbers." That is, he wil have many of them. Already, he has tested a num ber - more than a handful; less than 20. All the same, even now the Russians are putting on the pressure across many seas -and inside the Soviet Union as well as outside. Their probing challenges to the West around Berlin are much worrying us - though we be lieve the Russians will not yet push the thing to a point where we must fight. AND there is danger to free wnrlrl intaroca frnm Tfari in the Middle East to Vene zuela and the Argentine in South America - not to men tion from Pakistan to Indo- ORDER Your NOW -from VILLAGE DAIRY SMITH East Main at Genessee ' At Mm low price at Savage Turkey than likely to happen here be cause the past 30 years' in crease in the national debt- on which all of this unhappy speculation is based- was enormously furthered by the extra - ordinary expenses of World War II and of the cold war which has come after it. Economy Would Be Scuttled Another war of the magni tude of World War II and the national debt probably would scuttle the United States economy. And who is there here or anywhere to say for sure that World War III will not one day be under way? The cold war compels gov ernment spending at a rate which steadily increases the national debt, but not at the destructive rate of hot war outlays. What happened to the na tional debt in 30 years from 1929 was that it increased about 18-fold. It is moving toward $289 billion today. The shocker in the story of the national debt is the an nual cost in interest 'to the holders of government secur ities. The treasury must pay out nearly $8 billion in interest in the present fiscal year. In terest paid on the national debt in the past 10 years China to Indonesia to For mosa in the Far East. Com munist subversion is, quite frankly, doing all too well in many places, and we know it. The Russians, at the same time, are seen as having all but abandoned their long clamor to force us into a so- called nuclear "disarmament" that would leave the. essential power balance tipped on their side. Why they have done so is another in a long list of sinister enigmas. Is it because they suspect we will adopt proposals such as that of Senator Albert Gore (D., Tenn.) to stop all our bomb tests in the imme diate upper air but go on with vital underground and outer space experiments? (This would draw most of the teeth from Soviet propaganda picturing us as insisting on poisoning the atmosphere while it would permit us to go ahead with our weapons work in areas where there could be no harmful fall-out). Or is it simply that the Russians are taking up a bru tal candor and implicity ad mitting that they are now turning on the heat valve and shutting off the charm valve? , MONE of this do we know. -11 We know only that on the most hopeful possible esti mate we are entering a period of vast danger for the next two or three years. And if all goes in the best possible way beyond this time we shall con front many years and per haps decades - of exhausting and perilous cold war. All these circumstances will suggest why the truly adult politicians in both parties in this country will not be irre sponsible enough to try to tear the Eisenhower Adminis tration to shreds in its com ing last two years. They all know how scary is the score. And they all know that no body alive no Congress, no party - can direct the Presi dent's operation of the Penta gon. There is only one com mander-in-chief; and it is he. They all desperately hope he is right about military manpower; many desperately fear he may be wrong. But there is nothing whatever they can usefully do about it. All can only earnestly wish for the President, in this mat ter, the best possible success in this autumn of his public life. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) CALLED SHORT-SIGHTED Moscow - (UPD - The Soviet army newspaper Red btar during the week end accused Turkey, Iran and Pakistan of a "short-sighted policy" in negotiating with the United States for a defense pact. "Savage" Phont SP 3-4379 you would pay at Farm itself. comes to more than $66,500,- 000,000. Peanuts, you might say, compared to what the na tional debt will cost 30 years from now if it continues to increase in the future as it has in the past. . Eighteen times more . debt would re quire 18 times more interest for the bond holders. $144 Billion In Interest That would be an interest bill of $144 billion in the 1989 fiscal year and some where in that great sum would be the dime that broke the taxpayer's back and broke the back of the American economy, to boot. That much money would run the govern ment for nearly two years right now at the present lev els of spending which are not by any means low. There are alternatives to the steady and very large in Republican Prospect For Regaining House Control Dim in 1960 By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) Can the Republicans regain con trol of Congress in the fore seeable future? That question is being raised seriously this week by those who have analyzed the returns from the shattering 1958 election. The voters Nov. 4 reduced the GOP contingent in the Senate to its lowest point since 1940 and cut the Repub lican House delegation to the smallest number since 1936. Republican recapture of the Senate in 1960 is made al most impossible by the fact that the Democrats, who have 62 seats, will risk only 10 of them outside the South in the next election. They could lose all 10 and still control the Senate, 52-40. In the House, the odds against the GOP in 1960 are almost as great The Republi cans retained 153 seats in the recent election and need a gain of 66 seats in 1960 to muster a bare majority. Need Another 1920 The only recent President ial election in which the Re publicans have managed that kind of gain was, Warren G. Harding's 1920 sweep, in which the GOP picked up 61 seats. Republicans gained 75 House seats in 1938, but that wasn't a Presidential election year. Actually, a Congressional Quarterly analysis indicates the odds are against the Re publicans in the 1960 House election. The reason; Republicans have many more tightly-con tested districts to defend in 1960 than Democrats do. The analysis shows that a pro-Democratic .switch of less than 10 per cent in the popu lar vote would cost the Re publicans 75 per cent of their remaining 153 House seats. A similar switch to the Re publicans would send only 23 per cent of the 282 sitting Democrats down to defeat. That is true because only 337 Republicans were elected to the House this year with more than 60 per cent of the total vote, while 209 Demo crats rolled up that big a mar gin. A Rare Switch Putting it another way,- the Democrats could just about withstand a 10 per cent switch Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) .4" l&f"" ',y W' Home FRIENDLY, crease over the years of the national debt. They are either to reduce spending within the limits of government in come or to increase taxes to cover the difference. A com bination of both would be doubly effective and, prob ably, more acceptable to the U. S. taxpayer. The alternative confronting government in 1989 - assum ing that the debt should by then have increased 18-fold -would be these: Pay the inter est or repudiate the debt. There would be another way out, however. It is the way Germany chose in the middle 1920s when her internal debt came unbearable, unmanage able and unpayable. The Germans simply paid off with inflated, worthless printing press money. It worked. in the popular vote in every Congresional District in the country - and stil control the House. Such a switch, by the way. would be almost unprecedent ed. The Democratic landslide of 1958 was achieved on an estimated 5 per cent gain in the national popular vote. If the Republicans don't regain the House in 1960, the prfessionals think it may be a long time before they are in a position to offer another serious challenge. They point out that Demo crats now have complete con trol of the legislatures in 29 states, while the Republicans have such control in only eight. The other legislatures are divided between the par ties. In many states, the legis latures will have an oppor- tunity to redraw the Congres sional district boundaries after the 1960 census. The professionals expect the Democrats to look out for their own interests in re districting the states they' control. The resulting Democratic advantage, they say, will make it even harder for Re publicans to gain control of the House than it is now. (Copyright Congressional Quarterly Inc.) 0GO s 5 ft lay-away Deposit UU reserves her SINGER NOW . for Christmas . delivery. Easy monthly terms! 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