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4 Mondjy, December 22, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTRIBUItE "Everyone to Southern Oregon Ready The Mail Tribune" Published Daily except Saturday by iuti uiiu -KJ. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager uikalu LATHAM, Business Mgr. ERIC W ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorta Editor OUVE STARCHER. Women-! Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Dairy and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 425 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: DaHv and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c o p y 10a All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Ful' 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. MJ NEWSPAPER i PUBLISHEIS 'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL 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 Dae. 22, 1948 (Wednesday) Local "ham" radio opera tors are busy receiving and sending Christmas greetings. The City of Medford has placed an order for 275 addi tional parking meters. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 22. 1938 (Thursday) The Ashland city council approves a $1000 expenditure for advertising the communi ty's attractions. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The sad Christmas stories are the order of the day. They deal chiefly with children who have no place to hang their stockings, but the steering wheel of the family home." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 22, 1928 (Saturday) Medford's first 'annual Christmas annual outdoor il lumination contest is off to a good start. According to assays of sev eral samples the Hunt broth ers may have struck it rich in their gold mine on Savage creek. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 22, 1918 (Sunday) The board of health and city physicians meet to confer on the local flu situation. Nine new cases of flu are reported over the week end. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five of sis is good. l.In what city was the Army -Navy football game played this year? 2. Over what ancient coun try did the dynasty of the Pharoahs rule? 3. The title Dalai Lama suggests what central Asian country? . . 4. Do crows usually fly for ward in a straight line? 5. Name the longest riVer system in the United States. 6. For how many years did Jack Dempsey hold the heavy weight boxing championship title? 7. Are there approximately 2,000, 4,000 or 6,000 coffee beans in a pound? 8. Who was the male star of the motion picture, "The Lost Week End?" 9. Does a cat use a front paw, or a rear paw, to scratch its head? 10. Is brandy made from vegetables, grain, or fruit? Answers: 1. Philadelphia, Pa. 2. Egypt. 3. Tibet. 4. No. 5. Mississippi-Missouri. 6. Sev en years. 7. 4.000. 8. Ray Mil land. 9. A rear paw. 10. Fruit. White House Staff To Get Yule Gifts Washington - (WD - Presi dent and Mrs. Eisenhower present their Christmas gifts to members of the White House staff today. The nature of the gift is a secret. But if past practices are any indication chances are that it will be a painting by the President. About 600 White House em ployees are expected to attend the annual Christmas party for staff members. I.G.Y. Wind-Up The International Geophysical year is closing out, if not in a blaze, at least a small backflash oi controversy. In a preliminary summing up, Dr. Hugh Odi shaw, executive director of the U. S. National Committee for the I. G. Y., has called the venture "the single most significant peaceful activity of mankind since the Kenaissance and the Coper nican revolution." But Rear Adm. John E. Clark, deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, said that while the United States had "lived in a glass house during the international study of the earth and its environment, Soviet Russia had played "coy and superior." QDISHAW had noted, that for the past 18 months ("year" is a misnomer) 60,000 sci entists, technicians, and volunteer observers from 66 nations had manned scientific posts from pole to pole in this common "adventure into the un known." Among the most remarkable findings contributing to an "unprecerented storehouse of facts": 1) The 60,000-square mile Antarctica is not a solid mass but apparently a complex of island and mountain chains. 2) snow area of the world by about 40 per cent miles to 4,500,000. 3) Three major counter-currents have been found and measured in t h e oceans. 4) A vast mineral-rich region has been found in the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. 5) During the past 50 years precipitation in t h e Arctic has averaged twice that of the Antarctic. 6) Launching of earth satellites has been a "pioneering and historic event" in itself, usher ing in "the space age." But Admiral Clark fort had meant "great little return to others in rest of the world has been told "little or nothing about Soviet (satellite) launchings, launching equipment, experimental results and the like. THE UNITED States has announced that it has abandoned its promise to hurl into space a fully instrumented basketball-sized earth satellite with a Vanguard rocket before the I. G. Y. ended Dec. 31. But a week later the National Aero nautices and Space Administration announced plans for 8 to 12 space probes a year, starting in 1959. Dr. Odishaw, like other scientists on both sides of the Iron Curtain, pleads for continued international cooperation and discloses that al ready plans are under way for a program called International Geophysical Cooperation 1959. But the U. S. Little America outpost is scheduled to be closed out next Jan. The U. S. Senate at two resolutions calling on other nations, through the zation, to meet and discuss the feasibility of an International Health and Medical Research year, along the lines of the I. G. Y. The chances are that cooperation will continue, prolongation of the I. G. Y. The International Council of Scientific Unions has established spe cial committees for going on with joint research on the oceans, space, the sun, and Antarctica. E. R. R. Hoffa s Newest Project A battle over collective bargaining rights for city, county, and state employees is shaping up, with James R. Hoffa, president of the Interna tional Brotherhood of Teamsters,. in the driver's seat. Hoffa's executive board has voted an un announced sum of money for a campaign to bring a potential 10 million local government employ ees into the union. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell on the following day declared that these workers "de serve a better fate." With almost understatement in view of the Teamsters record of corruption Mitchell explained that union members "have a right to the kind of union leadership . . . that is above reproach, and I do not think that Mr. Hoffa enjoys those virtues." T'HE FIRST major engagement in Hoffa's new A battle will be fought in New York City, where Teamster Local 237 is trying to organize the po lice force, as well as other municipal employees. But city police authorities declare that Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy was standing firm on his position that unionization of the po lice "cannot be accepted" because of their "unique role." Kennedy holds that the police, be cause of their, "governmental functions" and quasi-military duties, must be distinguished from "proprietary" city employees. Kennedy has been equally aloof to the Police Benevolent Associa tion, which also has been seeking designation as collective bargaining agent. LIOFFA'S drive inevitably will conflict with the AFL-CIO, whose affiliates already have jur isdiction over .some public employees. . The powerful postal unions, for example, invariably spearhead lobbying activities of fed eral employees for pay raisees. Under the Taft Hartley Act federal employees are denied the right to strike, but union membership is sanc tioned. The battle is likely to be a furious one; even before their expulsion from the AFL-CIO last year, Hoffa's Teamsters had earned the reputa tion of being the most dynamic and independent of unions in organizing. E.R.R. The total known ice and must be revised upward from 3,240,000 cubic said that the Russian ef benefit" to Russia "with kind." He asked why the 20. the 1958 session passed the President to invite World Health Organi international scientific even without a specific Dennis the Menace I COWDtiT fMD A STDCKIH'I' Today & Tomorrow By Walter Lippmann ON SEIZING THE INITIATIVE At this point in the NATO conference in Paris there is a deadlock between Russia and the Allies on all aspects of the German question. We refuse to dis cuss Berlin except as part of a discus sion of the two Ger manys. Only the two Ger- Walter Lippmann manys, he says, can discuss the future of Germany. Every body on both sides is standing firm. But, as things are now, the initiative in the next moves is in Khrushchev's hands. It is the loss of the in itiative which we should take very seriously. ' For having the initiative, he is able to maneuver, mak ing all sorts of small but re sounding moves, none of them important enough to justify a forcible reply by the West. Suppose, for example, that he begins by ending the Soviet military occupation . of East Berlin. It will be impossible for the West to demand that the Red Army reoccupy East Berlin. We cannot be in the position of insisting that the Red Army occupy some terri tory from which it is willing to withdraw. Suppose Khrush chev turned over his powers to the East German govern ment, and we find that as our trucks arrive at the check ponts, there is waiting for us there, instead of a Soviet of ficial, an East German official to look at the documents and to stamp them so that the truck can proceed. Just as we cannot say to the Russians that they must keep their army in Berlin, so we cannot say that we will not aUow our papers to be stamped by an East German official, if he is doing nothing to interfere with our free access to West Berlin. ' Because the Russians have the initiative, they can use cat-and-mouse tactics at Ber lin, and, without any overt act of violence, they can con fuse and weaken the whole position of the West. "THE Adenauer - Dulles pol icy is purely defensive, and in a diplomatic struggle as in warfare itself, a defens ive strategy without the pros pect of a break-out, is demor alizing. What is more, the policy of standing pat on the German question - which is in fact the policy of Dr. Adenauer and Mrs. Dulles is very danger ous. For there is the ever present possibility of disorder and uprising in East Ger many, and a high probability that the West German forces would then be sucked in, bringing NATO and the Sov iet Union to an open clash. It think it likely that the fear of such a crisis in Ger many is the main, not the on ly', reason why Khrushchev has posed the Berlin problem at this time, that is to say be fore all the problems of West German rearmament have been definitely settled. . It is true, as so many say, that West Berlin presents an an noying contrast to East Ber lin. It is also true that this contrast might help to pro voke the kind of uprising in East Germany which might be uncontrollable. . WE in the West have an in terest in maintaining nnr presence in West Berlin. On the ground of our honorable commitments, on the ground of our political interests, on the ground of general Euro pean security, we have to maintain our presence in Ber lin in order to make sure that Berlin becomes again the cap ital of a reunited Germany. But we have an interest, also, in getting a settlement of the whole German question be fore there is in East Germany a popular outbreak which could lead to a great war. To protect these interests we need to regain the initia" tive, and instead of reacting to Khrushchev's actions we need to compel him to react to ours. There is a way to do this. But it involves, as any bold forward strategy does, risks. The initiative can be re gained by challenging Khrush chev to show that he wiU in fact permit the two German governments to negotiate a plan of German reunification, He is always saying that this is what he wants. But is he prepared to go through with it, if, instead of rejecting his offer, we took him up on it? WHAT are the risks of such a move? Perhaps the greatest risk, which may for the time being be too great a risk, is that it would damage severely Dr. Adenauer's pres tige in Germany. He has been ardent in opposition to the idea of a negotiation by the two Germanys. But just under the surface, the idea has wide support in West Germany, ev en in his own party, even in his own government. Yet he is almost certain to resist the idea to the end, and the Unit ed States is too deeply com mitted to force such a change of policy on the grand old man. Nevertheless, if there is any other way of dealing with the German question, which in cludes Berlin, I wish some body in authority would say what it is. Everybody knows that the two Germanys can not now be integrated by the old formula of free elections, not only because the Kremlin will not permit it but also be cause neither of the two Ger manys is willing to accept the troubles which integration would now cause. ' THERE is reason to doubt whether Russia, if it were put up to her, would in fact agree. If Russia does not agree, we would at least have the initiative and the prepon derant moral influence in Central Europe. If she did agree, there is no reason to suppose that the West Ger mans, with their greater num bers and greater wealth and power, are incapable of nego tiating successfully with the East Germans. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Against Sales Tax To the Editor: I can't help but write to second the well expressed opinions of Mr. Glyndon Loomer of Rogue River about sales taxes. The sales tax is the most unfair chastisement that can be received by the working man. The wage earner pays the great majority of taxes via the "pass on" method, and the sales tax would be an additional burden of no par ticular value. . What guarantee have we that the sales tax would not be in addition to, rather than in place of, the income tax or property taxes? We have lived in the Port land area for many years and have seen the ' Washington sales tax in action. I can say very definitely that I don't like it. As for eliminating personal property taxes. Why? For what purpose? It seems to me that owning property carries with it the obligation to carry- part of the load of local gov ernment. Some of the tax load can be reduced by eliminating the "pork barrel" in government. Matter of Fact AN AIRLIFT WON'T WORK Paris - An airlift, the ex pensive but relatively easy way out mat saved Berlin last time, will surely not de feat a renew ed Berlin blockade. . That single fact means that the real, the crycial, ai,, xne truiy ser ious decision about Berlin was not taken by the grand rally of Foreign Ministers of the Western allies here in Paris. It means that their "decision" to defend Berlin were, in reality, no more than indications ot a lenaency to take the right decision later on. Nikita Khrushchev will surely notice this important distinction, even if nobody else does. The stark fact that there is no easy way out of the Ber lin crisis is what distinguishes this round in the cold war from all its predecessors, ex cept Korea and Quemoy. Even Quemoy, even Korea did not demand the kind of ulti mate and painful test of will that the Berlin crisis seems likely to demand. Radar jam ming is the development that blocks the escape-by-airlift from the Berlin impasse. In 1948 the Soviet electronic in dustry had not yet reached the stage of producing effect ive radar jamming devices. Night and bad weather land ings by the planes flying the airlift were therefore entire ly possible. By using the ground control approach sys tem, cargoes continued to be landed in Berlin every three or four minutes, even when ceiling and visibility were both close to ero: IN the last 10 years, how ever, the Soviet electronic industry has entirely caught up with the comparable West ern industry, at any rate in aU military requirements. Some time ago,' powerful So viet radar jamming mechan isms were installed at four sites surrounding Berlin. The intention is obvious. Even if the Soviet's East German pup pets do not carry out their blustering promises to send up fighters against Western aircraft flying to Berlin, the landings will be radar-jammed. There is no way to stop or overcome the jamming, either, except with well placed A-bombs. , If an airlift is jammed, it cannot really sustain Berlin, unless very important new technological breakthroughs of a quiet unforeseen char acter are achieved in the in terim. The city has only three airports, Templehof, Gatow, and Tegel. Space is so limited that even these three airports cannot be used to the utter most, because of the conges tion of flight paths. Even in summer, Berlin weather is bad. In winter, the city, be ing far to the north, has only a few hours of daylight each day. For these reasons an air lift depending on landing car goes only in daylight and good weather cannot do the job. And this is true despite the fact that our new trans port aircraft are very much larger than the C-54s which were the work horses of the old airlift. BERLIN has huge stocks - a year's supply of coal and six months or more of other essential categories. A day time, fair-weather airlift can indeed extend the period be fore Berlin's stocks' will be finally exhausted. But 15 months from the beginning of a strict siege is the current maximum estimate, of the period during . which Berlin can be sustained by airlift if the landings are jammed. All this is so horribly im portant ("horribly" is the right word), precisely because by no means all the Western allies have faced the hard facts of Berlin's changed situ ation. After talking airlift in a way that must have vastly encouraged Khrushchev and company, the American policy-makers have now be- With all the waste and dupli cation in our government agencies, how can we have any but high taxes? Let us all do a little clear thinking. Clear thinking will show that the sales tax is not for the people of Oregon. The voters of Oregon have been turning down the sales tax for as long as I can re member. Let's keep at it. Lauren Seymour, 311 No. Howard St., - Medford " -FOR SALE OR LEASE Adding Machines - Calculators TYPEWRITERS - DICTAPHONES "Standard-Portable-Electric" , "Timemaster" Ask about our Rental Purchase Options rMP MTQ Medford Office Equipment Co. V UIV7n I 9 "Voight will give yeii a better 4el" 41 South Grape Phone SP 2-4100 EASY PARKING By Joseph' Alsep gun to admit that it will be fatal to surrender any of Ber lin's supply routes, on the ground or in the air. They are in fact talking about armed convoys. Yet the British are talking airlift to this day. If the ob vious objections are mention ed, the British answer comes straight from Mister Micaw ber. It is said that something will turn up in the technolo gical domain or something will turn up in negotiations with the' Soviets, and so Ber lin may stUl be saved before the 15 months come to an end and Berlin is starved into sub jection. . rpHE truth is, however, that if the Western allies go on talking airlift, Khrushchev will press on with his block ade scheme; and if the West ern allies then take refuge in an airlift, Khrushchev will fold his hands across his belly and smilingly wait for his eventual victory. He knows the operational factors as well as anyone. He will conclude, with reason, that the Western allies will not make an H bomb war when their airlift fails, after they themselves have failed the great initial test of will at the beginning of the blockade. In truth, this expedient which looks like an easy way out is only a slow road to eventual surrender. A very wise leader in the councils of the West has put the true sit uation in a nutshell: "There is no way to keep our commit ment to the people of Berlin except to be fully ready to fight a general war for Ber lin. But if the Soviets clearly understand that we really are ready to fight a general war for Berlin, then we shall not have to do so." Once the easy way out is seen to be no way out at all, and the above-stated - prin ciples are also accepted, real istic discussion can begin about details of tactics, both political and military. Tactics matter very much less than the essential decision to meet the first challenge at Berlin without shiftiness, without self-delusion, without the smallest retreat." The Paris meeting just concluded at least gives grounds for hope that this essential decision will be taken in due course, even if it has not been taken here. One can only wait and pray. (Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Editorial Comment INTERIM COMMITTEE 'DUCKS' ISSUE To spur state action for pro tection of roadside beauty from being marred by bill boards Sen. Neuberger intro duced and Congress passed a provision by which states which conform to certain standards respecting outdoor signs along interstate high ways will get one-half per cent more of federal aid. The Oregon legislative interim committee when urged to recommend appropriate ac tion in the next Assembly ducked the issue thus: "Is is the opinion of the committee that there is not yet sufficient information available upon which a proper decision concerning legisla tion in this regard could be made. ' The committee feels that present legislation is ade quate, but should further legislation be desired, it recommends that a future in terim committee study the impact and cost of such re quest." This committee not only dodges the issue but seeks to bury it for another two years. The issue of billboard regu lation has been threshed out so often in the Oregon Legisla ture that the subject is "old hat" save to newer members. The present legislation is grossly inadequate: witness the signboards along Baldock freeway. As for "cost" the Neuberger provision means revenue to offset any cost for expunging o f advertising rights. When the new route south to Albany was being located, the property owners themselves proposed to yield such rights in the interest of conserving the beauty of the roadside. The Oregon Roadside Coun cil should not be daunted by this rebuff. It should press the issue anew, with the Neuber ger provision as a lever. The Statesman isn't unfriendly to outdoor advertising; but doesn't want it obscuring the scenery, especially along our major highways. - Oregon Statesman, Salem. Washington Report By William MIDDLE-ROADERS London - Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's ruling Conservative party, which continues to look stronger than its Labor opposition, is depending on a strictly mid dle - road ap proach to maintain its power. This is made plain in con v e r s a t i ons with top peo ple in the government. Indeed, there is a curiously strong and unexampled par allel between the political views and techniques of the Conservatives here and of the controlling "moderate" Demo crats at home. . The next national election here, under law, must be held no later than the spring of 1959. It is in the power of the majority party, however, to call an earlier election ' at whatever time it chooses. Thus, the general view here is that actually the Conserva tives will order an election this spring if Macmillan's ap peal still seems on the up curve. IF The Conservatives win again, the two great coun tries of the West will be in control of centrist and highly professional politicians. For in Washington it is fair to say that the real operating power in our government has largely passed from the Eisenhower White Nouse to the middling Democrats who will run the new Congress. On various specific issues, of course, there are differ ences between these middle road Democrats and the Mac millan Conservatives here. But even on specific issues there is much in common. Both sets of dominant poli ticians, here and at home, basically believe that a freer and ever - enlarging world trade is perhaps the best guar antee for the future of the West. . Neither set is at all pre pared to submit to Russian clamors for a kind of atomic disarmament that would leave the West militarily weaker in the net than the Soviet Union. But both sets believe most of all that the way to operate politics is not to try to force any absolutely clear division among, the people on issues. Rather they seek the favor of what in both countries has become the decisive middle section of the voters. . . THE Macmillan government is no more willing than are the controlling Democrats at home to make of politics a William S. White Call at PERL'S - riOV .. . I PI y" '& I Christmas KIM ' ART , Calendar ' FREE ' 1959 Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) . it , ' Y'r 1 r s FRIENDLY, itffyfyP fal? T4 7 ' ' & ' ' '; t'JtZ m 'Cifi V) t. tirtriWiMtiftiiiliB li mt 1 m i F:an.k g! Perl akKi S. Whit straight-out contest between "good" and "evil" - the guys in the white hats against the guys in the black hats, so to speak. ' s .'. Instead, this first truly en trenched British Conservative government since Winston Churchill's retirement prefers to make effective and toler able policies rather' than speeches of fighting ideology. The government is carefully cutting away into some of the heretofore pro-Labor vote by keeping just far enough to the left in public welfare pro grams not to become out of date in public thinking.- It js not interested in maintaining old Tory ideas absolutely in tact - as the Republicans dis astrously tried to do in out recent Congressional . elec tions. ' On the other hand, this gov ernment will not allow de mands for more welfarism to push it so far to the left as to leave it trying to out-Labor the Labor party. WHAT is very odd about it all is this: for some rea son successful politics has come to mean about the same thing on both sides of the At lantic. This is a practice' of performing more or less in the interests of a majority of the people and of forgetting all about the demands of the extremes on left and right.v Harold Macmillan in a way symbolizes the declining aris tocratic tradition in England. All the same, this rather hand some, quiet and extremely savvy politician understands the ruling force today in Brit ish as well as in American politics. This is not to sigh for a past utterly gone and also not to rush too heedless ly to meet the opening fu ture. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Go to Home Appliance and buy your adorable wife a G-E Mobile MaicT Dishwasher for Christmas PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 12-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE
