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Newspaper Page Text4 Monday, becember 29, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtTEIBUNE "Everyone ir. Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN' JR.. Managing Editor KARL 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. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance, Copy 10c. Dail" and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Dailv and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Onlv One year S4.28 Bv 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. . Ijo Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash indvance OrTTriaFPaper of City of Medford Offi c ia la p e r 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. NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHEIS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IaSSOC&TiQn J W rTT3T IIJnffiTS 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 Dec. 29, 1948 (Wednesday) Senior Captain and Mrs. Charles Rosnick of the Salva . tion Army are to leave for a tour of duty in Honolulu. Icy conditions and new fallen snow make mountain highways treacherous. 20 YEARS AGO ' Dec. 29, 1938 (Thursday) Medford 20-30 club will continue its voluntary finger printing campaign this week. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The new senator from Oregon has left for Washington, D.C., to take the oath of office, and get away, it doth appear, from the oaths of some of his con stituents." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1928 (Saturday) Some $50,000 to $75,000 is to be spent ia- the Medford area next year in Pacific Tel & Tel's improvement and ex pansion program. Two alleged booze runners are captured by law enforce ment authorities in Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1918 (Sunday) Ten movie patrons who dare not to wear flu masks are marched out of the theater and warned by the chief of police. A Belgian string quartette is to perform here next month. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. , 1. Name t!ie Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commis sion. 2. Is an addressee com pelled to receive and sign for : a registered letter? . '. 3. Is iron an element, . or an alloy? " 4. Insert the name of an insect mentioned in this Bibli cal passage: "Go to the , thous sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." 5. In what profession was Clarence S. Darrow eminent? 6. Supply the next line aft er '"I shot an arrow into the air. . . ." 7. What constitutes the in signia of infantrymen in the : U.S. Army? 8. Who, or what, is a donee? 9. Athletic teams of what university are nicknamed "Tar Heels"? 10. Is a zephyr a musical instrument, a South African deer, or a wind? Answers: 1. John McCone. 2. No. 3. Element. 4. "ant." 5. Lawyer. 6. "It fell lo earth I know not where." 7. Crossed rifles. 8. One who receives a gift. 9. University of N.C. 10. Wind. , AT HEADQUARTERS Naples. Italy - lUPIi - Adm. Charles C (Cat) Brown, who takes over Jan. 2 as command er of allied forces in south- em Europe, aiaived at his new headquarters Sunday night. Km GETS RED HAT Lisbon, Portugal -UP&- Fer nando Cardinal Cento, papal nuncio in Lisbon, will receive his cardinal's red hat from Portuguese President Ameri co Thomaz Tuesday morning, lit was announced Sunday. Who Pays For Credit? The reason given by restaurant owners who are beginning to charge diners for extending credit is one of simple economics. They have to pay the Diners' Club, for example, a 7 per cent commission on all charges. Also they wait long periods of time for payment, they contend. The rationale is spelled out by a trade publi- j cation: - : j "Credit cards are enormously popular with businessmen traveling and eating on an expense account. The Bureau of 'Internal Revenue and' the pressure of their own f inns for expense report j accounting (have) made credit cards a real con-1 venience to business films and to their employees, j Why should a restaurant manager have to pay for this credit card service directly : TTHE Diners' Club does charge its members $5 a year. In addition, Diners' charges restaur ants 7 per cent for allowing their customers to sign a tab ; charges to others vaiy. American Ex press card-holders pay $6 a year, and the com mission charges to commercial establishments also vary, averaging about 5 per cent. The Hilton Statler hotel chain, which recently entered the field with its own card appropriately named Carte Blanche charges holders $6 a. year only when the card is to be used outside the hotels. The credit outfits point out that the various commercial firms which use their services take no credit risk and are relieved of billing. More over, they receive payment in one lump sum. But why, the restaurant owners in particular ask, should we have to wait 45 days for payment for today's meal and then pay 7 per cent as a col lection expense? Is it fair to our other customers, many of them regular patrons, who don't ask for credit? 117HAT has happened in answer to this query is " that a great many restaurants' have issued credit cards of their own. But it's only a partial answer. A man with, say, oil company credit cards, an American Telephone & Telegraph card, a Diners' or Hilton or Am jbe sold very easily on adding a flock of restaur ant cards to his bulging wallet. Indeed, some com panies have eliminated charge cards for their personnel, and some individuals are going back to the radical yet old-fashioned idea of paying for their meals with cash. Still the battle of the credit giants continues to be waged, and all the big films boast of ex panding membership rosters. The State Univer sity of Iowa is issuing to students a new time saving "LD." card, and university fees such as those for health services are being thus charged to students. PVEN banks are getting into the act. The Chase " Manhattan Bank on Dec. 1 became the first bank in New York City credit, ine plan started witn some 6,vw mer chants cooperating, honoring credit cards issued to some' 200,000 retail customers. ' Card-holders receive one bill from the bank a month.: They may pay the entire amount in 10 days, or one fifth when billed and the remainder over a period of four months. The charge for the latter option is 1 per cent per month on the un paid balance. Merchants receive cash at once for all sales slips presented at the bank, also paying a fee ranging downward on volume from 6 per cent. E.R.R. Lower Tax The federal tax on admissions will be reduced on Jan. 1. The reduction is part of a technical overhauling of the excise taxes that wras voted by Congress in 1958. At present the 10 per cent tax is waived on tickets costing 90 cents or less. If the charge is over 90 cents, the tax is levied on the whole amount. The new tax exempts admissions costing $1 or less, and on higher ones is levied is levied only on the amount over $1. For example, the present tax on a $1.50 tick et is 15 cents. The new tax is 5 cents (10 per cent oh 50 cents, the amount over $1). And admis issions to places solely for "physical exercise," like swimming pools, bathing beaches, skating rinks, (but not dance halls) are to be tax-exempt. TN 1953 a bill was passed to eliminate the tax on motion picture admissions altogether, but was vetoed by President Eisenhower. In 1954 the ad missions tax was reduced to 10 from the former 20 per cent, and tickets of 50 cents or less were exempted. The exemption was increased to 90 cents in 1956. "The tax is to be paid by the person paying for the admission," the law specifies. However, it remains to be seen whether a movie ticket will now cost 10 cents less overall, let's say, in every case where the tax is 10 cents less. Some movie theater owners have long been insisting that, to offset rising costs and TV competition, they can stay in business only by raising the base price of admission. E.R.R. Editorial Comment ASHLAND GRATEFUL As this year draws to a close we believe it high time for Ashland to say a most sin cere THANK YOU to the Medford men and women who have worked so diligently on the campaign to raise funds for the new Shakespearean theater and to the business firms and individuals who have made contributions. While the festival is now recognized as one of the state's top three summer-time ex card, is not going to to offer charge account on Admissions attractions and benefits from the influx of visitors are also felt in ' Medford. Ashland is the prime beneficiary. It required broad vision and generosity for Medford people to undertake support of the campaign. They have given generously of their time and money. We know we speak for all of Ashland when we say to these fine Medford people, "Your assistance is deeply ap preciated and we thank you sincerely." -Ashland .Daily Tidings Dennis the 'THE KIPS DECIDED THAT O0 W&& IKE MOM WE HAVE THE MOST FUN PLMlH' IH TUB H0U65 Of' Washington Report By WILLIAM Washington The Senate Republicans are in extraordi nary disarray, as in anxiety " and almost in ; panic they i await opening f r 4-1 n A ... Ul UiC new Congress. At every hand are evi dences of divi- s i o n between the orthodox, old-1 ine Re publicans and the liberal or modern Repub licans-who by and large have significantly stopped calling themselves "Eisenhower Re publicans." The liberals are demanding a louder voice in the Senate Republican leadership, where they have not had any real voice at all in half a genera tion. There is a good deal of marching and counter-marching in this campaign of rebel lion, and its total hopes and intentions are hardly clear yet. At minimum, however, it seems to involve a fairly de termined challenge to Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois, the prospective Senate GOP leader in succession to former Senator William Knowland of California. It does not, how ever seem to contemplate any challenge at all to the GOP powerhouse on the Old Guard side, Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire. TO PUT in an attack on Re publican Old Guard di rection of the party without firing a shot at Bridges is like attacking an enemy division while carefully avoiding any hostile action against an ene my army. If, in short, the liberals were able to push Dirksen aside-and this is most unlike-ly-they would have accom plished little in any practical wav. For Bridges, as chair man of the Senate GOP Pol icy committee, will be the real Republican leader next time, no matter who holds that title and no matter how successful may seem any lib eral "revolt." This is so because the essen tial power in what is left of the Republican party in the Senate is in the hands of or thodox Republicans, of whom Bridges is unchallenged lead er. And it is so because a strong chairman of "policy" can always dominate a nomi nal floor leader, as the late Senator Robert A. Taft so well proved a decade ago. rPHE moderns thus have much the stronger case in logic, for the lesson on the November Congressional elec tion returns could not have been plainer. This was that the Republican party will win no contests by returning to Try and William S. White By BENNETT CERF- AT A PUBLIC LIBRARY branch, a very little boy brought a very Scholarly, a very large and a very weighty book to the desk. The librarian looked at it in surprise, and remarked, "This is rather technical, isn't it?" The very little boy indignantly replied, 'It was that way when I got it!" Thornton Wilders play, "The Skin of Our Teeth," de lighted the eggheads, but proved exceedingly mystifying to "tired business men" in search of a simple evening's entertainment. One such gent appealed to his wife after the final curtain, I wish you'd tell me exactly what this -darn play was intended to accomplish." "Why. George,' she told him, "Wilder was trying to epitomize the problems and the pitfalls confronting the human race from the beginning of time to the pres ent day." "Shuckr," grumbled the husband, "there must have been more to it than THAT!" C ttal, by Burnett Out Distributed by King Featuna Syndic Menace S. WHITE yesterday. The moderns have clearly read this lesson; they are in fear of the whole fu- ture of the party unless it al ters its tone at the top. But logic does not always prevail m political atlairs The moderns have far the bet ter argument; but the Old Guard has many more troops, and far more veteran troops Moreover, what might be called the Bridges position has been immeasurably strengthed by President Eis enhower himself. Mr. Eisenhower in the Con gressional campaign became progressively more nearly s traditional than a modern Re publican. The author of "Eisenhower Republicanism" .himself, in effect, abandoned that identi fication. ' And now, in his budget message, he has wholly "adopt ed the old-fashioned Republi canism that so long had stood in direct opposition to his views. This $77 billion budget may or may not be sound eco nomics. But it cannot possi bly permit the Republicans to do the things in public wel fare which the moderns will feel absolutely necessary un less the election disasters of 1958 are to be capped by elec tion catastrophes in 1960. A PRESIDENT'S budget imAQ:!a ic at anv time trip true heart of the matter; this is the real expression of Presi dential philosophy and presi dential purpose. Money, in this as in other languages, speaks louder than many, many words. Everybody who is not a romantic knows that the man who stands at the cash register where the mon ey goes out as well as comes in-is really the man in con trol. Perhaps this is sad; but it is so. And it is orthodox Republi canism that stands at the cash register now-stands, that is, at the point of ultimate deci sion over Republican policy. Thus the Republican liberals will not save their party or themselves by gallant sorties for or against individuals in the, lesser Senate leadership posts. They will save them selves, if at all, by joining the Democrats in a massive push to take the budget away from the President and the ortho dox Republicans. This is the crisis-and not whether Smith or Jones or Brown is to be called a floor leader, an assist ant floor leader, or whatnot. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) BUY NEW EQUIPMENT Washington-(DPD-New equip ment allowing air traffic con trollers to watch radar sets under daylight conditions has been ordered by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. . Stop Me J. Edgar Hoover Issues Reminder That Communist Threat in U.S. Still Exists By LYLE C. WILSON . Washington - (UPD - Lost in all of that Christmas rush was a warning of which good citi- z e n s should take heed, al though they probably will not. The warn ing was con tained in the year - end re port of FBI Director J. .yie c. Wilson .agar noover. Hoover said the Communist underground again was on the march in the United States. He put it like this: Sensing a more favorable atmosphere, the Communist Party, U.S.A., and its dupes and sympathizers gained fur ther courage and became more vocal in their attacks upon law enforcement and other professions which are dedi cated to preserving our free doms. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under cer tain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publica 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. "M" a Distraction To the Editor: During the past year and a half that' I have lived in Medford, I have appreciated your editorials. I have not agreed with all of them, some of the recent ones have motivated a few com ments from me. I liked the "Misanthrope's Christmas Gift," the "Christ mas Parable," and "An 'M on Roxy Ann?" on the 23rd. One of the things that im pressed me when I moved into the valley, was the fact that teen agers of this area have not acquired the habit of smearing paint on old barns such as Class of '58, '59, etc. An 'M' on Roxy Ann or any hill around Medford would be more of a distinc tion than an attraction. The energy, time and money ex pended on an 'M could serve many more useful purposes. Many students could suggest substitutes that would be better. I have appreciated your comments on making Medford. beautiful, the downtown park ing problem and juvenile de linquency. Other comments have added to my information about problems of this area. I believe I will try to paint a picture of a misanthrope. Jack Teeters, 1304 Reddy ave., Medford Training Bedbugs To the Editor: For many years since 1926, when I was manager of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce, I have periodically kept in touch with your fine newspaper and my friends in the valley, es pecially on the subject of bed bugs. As the old-timers will re call, and the present popula tion of Jacksonville would like to forget, the hotels of that pioneer mining commun ity were long and widely known for their bedbugs. Your newspaper in its early issues carried stories of guests who stopped at the hotels and their encounters with the bugs. Also, the general stores of Medford always carried large stocks of salt. I recall even as late as 1926 when I - lived down there being especially interested in the unusually large piles of salt in the stores. At that time the bugs were being rapidly extermin ated and I presume today not single bug remains. My reason for writing now is to call attention to your readers who possibly might have escaped reading it of the story in the current issue of Newsweek," which has a most fascinating account of what a California professor has been accomplishing in training these bugs to feed up on other food than human be ings. One can speculate the pleas ure early day travelers in southern Oregon could have experienced had these bugs been so trained years ago. The beautiful pear, apple and cherry orchards, I am sure, would have been appreciated in their true glory and grand eur had not the late attacks of these bugs been remembered. I might add that Boise be ing the headquarters of Re gion 1 of the Bureau of Recla mation, we hear a great deal about your water problems and occasionally see some of your good folks who come to enlighten our staff on your needs. Ned Harlan, Partner Riley's Boise, Ida. "Its leadership rein s," Hoover reported of the Com munist Party, U.S.A., "are firmly held by rabidly pro Soviet elements and the par ty's ultimate objective re Matter of Fact Berlin Here in this city, more than 2,000,000 brave and vigorous people have bet IfW their futures 3 on the honor- a d l e resolu tion of the United States and the West ell ern allies. If you come here, there f ore, the West's Berlin 4ospb aisob commit ment assumes a terrible real ity, a grim, almost painful concreteness. You ask yourself, "Are we going to keep our pledged word to these brave men and wpmen who have relied on us?" And since keeping our pledged word to the Berliners will surely mean being ready for a big war, you ask your self further, "If we do hot ut terly dishonor ourselves by some sort of circuitous sur render, does this mean that a big war must come?" Fortunately, the evidence from Moscow to date suggests a hopeful answer to the sec ond question. Nikita Khrush chev and his fellow policy makers in the Kremlin are quite shrewd and well inform ed enough to know that no real decisions about the Ber lin crisis were taken at the Paris meeting of leaders of the West. TWO score and eign, defense more for- and other ministers, attended by over a thousand high officials and military officers, met and agreed that surrender in Ber lin would equal surrender ev erywhere. But they did not reach agreement on the only point requiring a hard decis ion: what specifically to do if the Soviets authorize their East German puppets to re new the blockade of Berlin. Thus because the Paris ral ly was not really overwhelm ingly impressive, it is encour aging that the Soviets seemed to have been impressed. Two days after the release of the statement of the guarantors of Berlin - Britain, France, and the United States, plus West ern Germany - Anastas Miko- yan unexpectedly asked for a visa "to visit the Soviet Am bassador in Washington." Mi- koyan's obvious purpose is to smell the weather in the streets in the capital of the Western alliance. By Soviet standards, the more overt Moscow comments on the Paris rally were also exceptionally restrained." F a. n ADDITION, passages re peating the worst of Nikita Khrushchev's previous threat were most significantly cut out of the published version of a speech delivered in War saw by the Kremlin's chief East German puppet, slimy Walter Ulbricht. All these signs point to the conclusion that the Kremlin is having thoughts about risk ing a big war for Berlin. At the same time, it is needful to note that we are not over the hump yet. In fact, the hump has not even been reached. The hump is the specific decision about what to do, if and when Khrushchev begins to carry out his Berlin threat. The spade work for this decis ion is to be done at Bonn, where the United States is fortunately represented by one of the best American di plomats of this generation, David K. E. Bruce. Together with the West Berliners and appropriate military officers, Bruce and his British and French colleagues have stud ied the cruel, tactical problem of Berlin. After approval by all the governments concern ed, the conclusions thus reach ed in Bonn will become hard Western policy. SECRECY was no doubt one reason for the . choice of this way of reaching the ug liest single decision the West em alliance has had to take since the end of the second World War. But it is still cer tain that the decision will not be truly secret. The interests involved are too great. The Kremlin will surely learn about it, if the decision makers flinch or quail or fudge their task. Particularly in Britain, the ' tendency to flinch or fudge is pretty S a s s y ? 3 Times Faster Relief Certified laboratory tests prove BELl-ANS tablets neutralize 3 times as much stomach acidity in one minute as many leading digestive tablets. Get BELL-ANS today for the fastest known relief. 35 at dragg'Sts. Send postal to BEll-ANS, Orangeburg, H. Y. for liberal free sample. IS ox iJ mains the overthrow and de struction of our government by force and violence." In Powerful Places Hoover is not given to loose language. He could not have By Joseph AIsop strong. The British seriously want to duck the Berlin issue by taking refuge in another air-lift that cannot do the job. Among the British policy makers, moreover, something very like a mass psychosis has now been produced by several different factors, including the past follies of American policy-making. The sharpness of the psychosis was indicated by the fantastic statement of the British Embassy in Bonn, that the threat to Berlin was decidedly less dangerous than the threat of the British econ omic dispute with the Euro pean partners in the common market. TN THESE circumstances, the Bonn decision-making will not be easy. If the decis ion is indeed to flinch . or fudge, one can predict with bleak confidence that Khrush chev and company will go for ward with their Berlin scheme, thus leaving almost no alternative at all except a big war or a big surrender. But on the evidence to date, one can also predict with fair confidence that real firmness will lead to a suspension of the threat to Berlin, at least until the worst period of mis sile gap begins two years from now. There are several tactical approaches to the Berlin prob lem that make sense. For ex ample, the city of Berlin can not be indefinitely supplied by a radar-jammed air-lift; and taking refuge in an air lift is therefore a slow way to surrender. But although the city as a whole cannot be sup plied by air-lift, the Allied garrisons in Berlin, number ing only a few thousand men, can be supplied in this man ner. This will avoid Allied recognition of East German authority over the highways leading to Berlin, and the ci vilian supply lines can per haps be safeguarded, in the meanwhile, by an Allied promise to resort to armed convoys if the civilian road and rail traffics interrupted. All the different approach es have their virtues. Every possible approach but direct resort to armed convoying has the weakness of vulnerability to Soviet and East German "salami" tactics. But the de tails of the future decision matter much less than the firmness of will behind it. Copyright 1958 New York Herald Tribune Inc. STARTING SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 1959 Listen To K.M.E.D. Hear your Favorite Hymns Sung By . . . "Tennessee Ernie" Ford Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) rrSr': if Frank Perl FRIENDLY, been unaware that the impli cation of the first quoted para graph is that there is actually a more favorable atmosphere in the United States now than previously for Communist plots and maneuvers. The question arises: More favorable now than when? Surely not more favorable likely that Hoover meant the years ago when a broad scale Communist infiltration of practically everything gained for the Commies or their stooges desirable and signifi cant places where you scarce ly would believe if it were not a matter of record. Such places, for instance, as in the White House, the State Department, the Treasury, the Agriculture Department, the National Labor Relations Board, the CIO. to name some bell ringers. Those were the days, and let them not return. There was considerable public outcry about all of this way back yonder when it was laid out for all to know and the Republicans made a lot of political mileage out of it in the 1952 campaign. It is not now than, say, 10. 15 or 20 new atmosphere was so favor able as all of that. Even so, his report should jar and jab the citizens out of any com placency which they may be enjoying. Jarred and jabbed out of same, too, should be the. Republican politicos who did so much yelling in 1952 and before, about the Com munist infiltration of the Roosevelt and Truman admin istrations. Secrets in Danger It was only last October that the New York Times re ported on page one that Penta gon and Atomic Energy Com- mission officials were express ing alarm because of fears that Soviet agents in the U.S. were doing some fancy spy ing on U. S. atom tests. The new atmosphere must be mighty favorable to permit that. Americans seem reluctant to believe that the ultimate objective of the Communist Party, U.SA., is the over throw and -destruction of the U. S. government by force and violence. That is all a matter of record, too, set down in books written by the Ameri can bosses of the American Communists. William Z. Foster laid it all out in a book more than 25 years ago; its title: 'Toward a Soviet America." The final chapter coldly proposes revo lution in the United States. Subheads of that chapter are such as: Nationalization of In dustry and Agriculture; Liqui dation of Religion; Expropria tion of Capitalists. It is worth remembering that Adolf Hitler also wrote a book. 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