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4 Tuesday, December 30, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDtJTRIBUNE "Everyone lr. Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" published Daily 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 EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Teleg. Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Women1 Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai 1 In Advance. Copy 10c. Dailr and Sunday 1 year $15.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday 1 year $18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 150 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press International Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY CO., INC. Of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta, Vancouver B.C. O NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS j ASSOCIATION I NATION A I 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 Dec. 30. 1948 (Thursday) An Arizona psychology stu dent clad only in diaper and silk top hat and studying motorists' reaction to the same, passes through town hitch-hiking back to classes from Seattle. Don rairweather describes his apprenticeship under the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 30. 1938 (Friday) Diamond Lake is now froz en from shore to shore to a depth of six inches. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "There is only one day left in 1938. Many who planned to do something this year better get busy." 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 30. 1928 (Sunday) Southern Oregon Sales, Inc., announces plans to erect a $100,000 cold storage, pre cooling and packing plant here. J. C. Barnes, 20 North Peach st., wins first prize in the Christmas outdoor light ing contest. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 30, 1918 (Monday) The Ashland Red Cross branch boasts "a most grati fying financial showing." Decorators begin recalci mining the interior of the SP passenger depot, having al ready completed painting the outside. Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What color is Titian blonde, and why is it so named? 2., Name the composer of a famous "Largo." ' x 3. All of the planets re volve about the sun in the same direction; true or false? 4. What is the English translation of the name "Sverige?" 5. In honor of what king is Jacobean furniture named? 6. Under which President of the United States did Adlai Stevenson serve as Vice Presi dent? 7. For what purpose is the Bertillon system used? 8. Does a xylographer play a musical instrument, engage in wood carving, or make maps? 9. If sodium chloride were not served with a meal, what would be lacking? 10. Who played the male lead in the movie, "I Married a Male War Bride"? Answers: 1. Red; used by the painter Titian. 2. HandeL 3. True. 4. Sweden. 5. James I. England. 6. Grover Cleve land. 7. Identification of per sons. 8. Wood carver. 9. Salt. 10. Cary Grant. TAX RETURNS UP Washington -(LTD- An esti mated 59,817,000 income tax returns were filed with the Internal Revenue Service for 1957-an increase of - more than 600,000 from 1956. ACTOR'S MOTHER DIES Mrs. Edith Lake, 70, the mother of actor Arthur (Dag wood) Lake, died Monday of a heart ailment. Lumber Optimism The decreased rail freight rates from this area to southern California and Arizona now in effect will be a big boon to the lumber industry of southwestern Oregon. Also, they represent a big victory for lum bermen in this area who have fought for them. (The battle was started several years ago, and much of the credit for success must go to the late L. L. (Doc) Simpson, who as secretary-manager of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association helped in the gathering of facts and preparation of briefs in the dispute.) Third, they represent action by the Southern Pacific railroad which is of material benefit to this area. ZITHER newspapers have taken cognizance of w this more favorable rate. The Ashland Tid ings says: "With home building predicted for 1959 for the nation as a whole at a good level, and the equalization of the competition condition for mills of this area, there is considerable optimism in the lumber industry . for the months ahead." And the Oregon Statesman in Salem declares : "The lumber market is looking up. A better build ing year is foreseen for 1959 and yards, are stocking up in anticipation. Prices for lumber have strengthened in recent weeks, an unusual trend for this time of year. If the lumber demand holds brisk, less attention will be given to the freight rate differentials." While only time will tell if these optimistic forecasts are borne out, indications at present do justify optimism. E.A. Facing Realities Should the postmaster general, under today's conditions, hold cabinet Congressman Charles trict doesn't think so, and plans to introduce leg islation next year calling for the post office to be made a part of the department of commerce, and for the postmaster general to become an assistant secretary of commerce. Porter makes a good case for it, too, based on knowledge gained during his first term as a member of the post office and civil service com mittee of the house of representatives. DORTER declares that the duties of the post- master general have become increasingly "mechanical and administrative," rather than on a policy-making cabinet level as they were in the early days of the nation when the post office was an integral factor in establishing communications to the new lands of the west. - On the other hand, the congressman believes that another governmental functionary, the chair man of the atomic energy commission, should be elevated to cabinet rank. He says : "I believe that planned development and use of atomic energy is crucial to our economic future and to our very survival." suspect that Porter's legislation will have " slow going. But it is based on an objective view of the relative importance of the two posi tions the one an important post but one no longer involved with intimate questions of na tional policy; the other in a position of vast im portance, with both civilian and military impli cations, one which may well be in a position to make decisions affecting the very future of the nation. Porter's proposal is a good one, and one facing the cruel realities of today's "mixed-up" world. E.A. Umpqua Corridor One of the pleasantest drives in Oregon is along the Umpqua river, between Scottsburg and Reedsport. Here the river is wide, deep and gently curv ing. The south bank is mostly steep bluff, drop ping off to sheer rock cliffs in many places, and the highway inns along the edge of the water. The north bank is forested. Much of the river along this 15-mile stretch is tidewater, and old pilings, docks and boat houses dot the water and the shoreline. IT IS now proposed that a half-mile on each side of the river along these 15 miles be set aside as a "forest corridor," to be preserved from logging or other industrial activity which might mar its natural scenic beauty. The movement has considerable chance" of success, for both the U.S. forest service and the Oregon department of forestry are sympathetic, and have pledged their assistance. The two agen cies own much of the forested lands in question. And it has been proposed that the privately-owned land in the suggested corridor be exchanged for state or federal commercial forest areas fur ther removed from the river. JRS. Phillip Brandt of Salem, a landscape architect, is head of a statewide committee the purpose of which is to conserve areas of nat ural beauty such as this. Mre. Brandt consideres the lower Umqua drive "one of the state's most priceless scenic assets." We agree. We wish the committee success, and hope whatever difficulties may lie in the way can be solved. For this one area, only some 15 square miles in size, has a far greater overall usefulness as a forested scenic attraction than it could ever have as a source of lumber. E. A. rank O. Porter of this dis Dennis the 'if i'da mm Wis i woulda Matter of Fact By Joseph Alsop THE MOLOTOV PROGRAM London Both here and in Washington, the policymakers hardly know what to do, and l the general ?m public has not been alerted Hence there has been no positive Brit ish or Amer ican reaction, as yet, to the total transfor mation of the Jostptl Alsop Middle East ern scene. . Nevertheless, as I wait for the homeward-bound plane and reflect on the lessons of a long journey, I feel more and more certain that the virtual Communist takeover in Iraq is a truly enormous event. The Kremlin has in fact begun to carry out the Middle Eastern program that old Molotov asked Hitler to approve in the heyday of the Soviet-Nazi pact in 1940. The Molotov program mark ed Constantinople and the straits, Iraq, Iran, and the head of the Persian Gulf, as Joseph Stalin's share of the expected post-war loot in the Middle East. Adolf Hitler share of the expected post-war loot in the Middle East. Adolf Hitler violently rejected these demands presented by Molo tov. But in Iraq today, the Molotov program has briskly come to life again after 18 years on the shelf. VlfHEN I was in Baghdad, ' the Iraqi Communists had already defeated the pro-Nasser nationalists, and their in fluence was already enor mous. But at that time, both the army and the police were still entirely intact and en tirely loyal to the new Iraqi revolutionary leader, Brig. Abdel Karim Kassem. Hence it was still theoretically easy for Kassen to crush the Com munists and rule Iraq in true independence. A little later, however, there was another, wholly abortive coup d'etat attempt at Baghdad, which was probably organized by Communist ag ents provocateurs. Being alarmed by this new attack on his authority, Brig. Kassem was easily persuaded to make a long series of arrests and changes in the police and army. As a result, the Iraqi police are now reportedly un der effective Communist con trol; and the army is also said to be rather deeply pene trated. Thus the Communists must now be regarded as the real masters of Iraq unless and until Brig. Kassem offers 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 paper; in fact the contrary is often the case. Forget the Reckoning To the Editor: It makes one feel a little sad that so many people are becoming con cerned about the taxes they have to pay. So far, only about one half of each one's income goes for taxes. Let us remember that for 25 years we have been voting for taxes, more than for anything else we have voted for taxes. We want dams, power plants and transmission lines; we want roads, highways, and super highways, we want schools. We have the highest paid workers in the world and they are organized: they have the government to en force their demands. In order to obtain employment it is necessary to get permission from the government to work. The tax is 20 per cent of your wage. Next is a permit to work from a union, that is another 10 per cent. The county and state tax is pea nuts. In 180 years we have Menace ear gAl . very positive proof to the con trary. rpHE Communist success in ' Iraq is already exerting severe pressure in two direc tions. One direction is Iran, which was also marked as Kremlin loot in the old Molo tov program. Here in London, and reportedly in Washington too, the highest policy-makers think that if the Iraqi Com munists consolidate their pow er, the peril in Iran will be immediate and very great. The Shah of Iran has already sounded a warning. But besides the Shah of Iran, Gamal Abdel Nasser himself is also feeling the pressure of the new Commun ist power in Iraq. Nasser and his Arab nationalist move ment formerly benefited, not only from generous Soviet military and economic aid, but also from active support from the Middle Eastern Commun-1 ist parties. Now the Commun ists have begun to compete openly with Nasser's national ists, and the once-sacred Nas ser has been personally at tacked by the Communists in Baghdad. Nasser's first reaction has been to trim his sails a bit in the Western direction. One very . unimportant but still meaningful indication was his last-minute decision to receive me. The decision was undoubt edly occasioned by the news from Baghdad, and I learned of the Communist takeover of the Iraqi police from Nasser's own lips. He also told me that he meant to take early meas ures to crush the underground strength of the Communists in Syria, where the Iraqi at traction would be strongest. These anti-Communist meas ures in Nasser's Syrian "re gion" are now under way. But Nasser, as he all but admitted to me, cannot stop there. Either he must begin to fight the new kind of "foreign interference" in the Arab world as he has always fought Western "inteference," for instance denouncing Brig. Kassem for being the Krem lin's Nurj just as he used to denounce old Nuri himself. Or if he does not stand and fight, Nasser must finally accept the role the Kremlin has planned for him. . THE suppression of the Syrian Communists will not interfere in any way with this Kremlin-planned role. If Nasser finally accepts this role, he will make his peace with the new Communist power in the Eastern part of the Arab world. He will in- name and address of the writer. grown from a bunch of wagon tramps to the most powerful, and wealthiest nation in the world (put a bit of salt on that) so let us crack our heels and shake our fist in the air, and pay our taxes. If need be, sell the old gray mare and mortgage the farm, or .turn the farm to the Land Bank to raise the cash. Let us continue voting for taxes for this is a new age, the Age of Paper. Let us sing with Omar Khayyam, "Make the most of what we yet may spend. Before we too into the dust descend." Let us forget that day of reckoning. It will arrive in due time. Joseph J. Hall, Shady Cove, Ore. Omnipresent ' To the Editor: Omnipresent: When will people learn to suf fer ridicule to uphold faith? Henry C. Lanigan 528 North Front st. Medford Science Concerned With Everything From Space to Brain; Progress Is Forecast Washington (Science Serv- ice)-Science is concerned with everything from the outer most reaches of astronomic space to the intricate work ings of human minds. The science meetings held traditionally in the days be tween Christmas and New Year's, this year principaUy Washington, give not alone re ports of what has been dis covered but a forecast of the progress of science in the months and years to come. There is great potential fu ture progress in the space in the earth's neighborhood. Satellites will orbit and rock ets streak through unknown regions outward toward the moon and planets. Man in space, at least, aft er the dreamings of human Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON IN THE MIDDLE Washington Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon, who is no stranger to the perilous ineights, is again on a owning UJgU wire that tests anew his poised and or- . u:u " dinarily sure 'footwork. 1UC UUUWli JO that he will lanrl tn riic William S. - . , White feet, as usual. The struggle now going on among the Senate Republi cans between the Old Guard and the so-called liberals or moderns deeply involve Mr. Nixon's fortunes. It is to his interest to have the outcome at least seem to give some success to the liberals in their demands for a bigger voice in the Senate Republican leader ship. One of the Vice President's great and frankly recognized necessities is his unannounced candidacy for the 1960 Presi dential nomination is to re move the Old Guardist cast put upon his party by the na ture of the recent Republican Congressional campaign and by its disastrous results. rpHUS, if it can be made to appear to the public that Senate Republicans in choos ing their leaders have paid real attention to the moderns this will be a net gain for Mr. Nixon. tensify his attacks on the re maining Western positions in the Arab lands. And above all, he will strengthen his drive into Africa. If Nasser and the Communists work together in this manner, the consequences win be fatal and uncontrol lable. In justice to Nasser, it must be said that he is alarmed and angered by what has happen ed. Being a genuine national ist, he genuinely dislikes Sov iet interference in Arab af fairs just as much as he dis liked Western interference. He would therefore like to stand and fight. But as Nas ser told me, he cannot "fight on two fronts." Acceptance of the role the Kremlin has plan ned for him is the easiest way out. In short, a bold and im aginative new Western ap proach to Nasser and the Mid dle East can alone prevent the worst from happening. SmaU Western moves are being made. But a new ap proach on the needed scale is certainly not being con templated, partly because London's dealings with Cairo are now deeply influenced by domestic politics, and partly because boldness and imagina tion are now in rather short supply in Washington. Flab bily, flaccidly, feebly, the worst will therefore be allow ed to happen. At the moment, at any rate, that seems the most probable forecast. (c) 1958 New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Neuberger To Back Gas Tax Increase Portland -(LTD- Sen. Richard Neuberger( D-Ore.) said today he will support President Ei senhower's requests for high er gasoline taxes and in creased postage rates. The junior senator from Oregon is a member of two Senate committees strategic to both issues the roads and highways subcommittee of the Senate Post Office Committee. Neuberger said he was choosing the taxes in prefer ence to what he described as : a worse evil, inflation." NO WAGE DEMANDS Washington -(LTD- Sen. Es tes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), wants labor to refrain from any wage demands which basic industries could use to justify price increases. Kefauver, chairman of the Senate anti trust subcommittee, said on Monday night such wage de mands would add to the in flationary spiral. imagination? Next year's sci ence meetings and those of the next year and the'year aft er will be asking this ques tion, still unanswered, unless a suicide attempt is made in a Soviet space vehicle to orbit a man or woman for a short time with little chance of a safe return. Cancer? The laboratories are working full speed on drugs to check this great kill er 'in many disguises. Success cannot be predicted confi dently. Education in science is spurting forward with more dollars and more enthusiasms by students, teachers, indus try and government. Are the Russians ahead? Will they spend more money and sur pass our attempts to outmatch S. WHITE But of almost equal weight is another Nixon necessity. This is not to have it said fairly that he had interfered in the fight within the Senate Republicans in any way re ally hostile to the Old Guard. For, as has previously been noted by this columnist, Old Guardists headed by Senator Styles Bridges of New Hamp shire will run the GOP in the new Senate no matter what "liberal" may be solemnly chosen to some post within the party leadership. This is simply because the real power is still with the Old Guard. Mr. Nixon still requires the friendship or at least the tol eration of the Old Guard. Heretofore glowing with many vigorous salutes from President Eisenhower he had been the more or less auto matic choice for 1960 of nearly all "Eisenhower Re publicans." But those in the Senate who used to be "Eisenhower Re publicans" are that no longer. They do not now call them selves Eisenhower Republi cans in light of the President's progressive turn toward Old Guard Republicanism. Now, they are simply "liberals" or moderns." MOREOVER, the hero now to many of these now "liberal" or "modern" and erstwhile "Eisenhower" Re publicans is not a man named Richard M. Nixon. It is Gov ernor-elect Nelson Rockefeller of New York. So it is clear that Mr. Nixon, as still the front-runner for the 1960 Presidential nomination and as the un titled operating national head of his party, must do all at once two quite different things: He must see to it that the GOP does not so speak in the Senate as to remind the peo ple of the kind of party Alf M. Landon led against Frank lin Roosevelt in 1936. And he must see to it, in doing this, that he does not burn any bridge with the Bridges Re publicans (if so wretched a pun may be forgiven in what is, after all, a holiday season). The probable end results, so far as the fight among the Senate Republicans is con cerned: Non-modern, non-liberal Senator Everett McKin ley Dirksen of Illinois to be chosen, according to form, as floor leader; Senator Thomas H. Kuchel of California, a moderate liberal, to be elected assistant leader in deference to the liberal-moderns; Sena tor Bridges to stay on unchal lenged as chairman of the GOP policy committee and as the real boss of the show. THIS KIND of compromise would rather well fit Mr. Nixon's needs. It would have, moreover, one large addition al advantage. This is that Sen ator Kuchel simply as a prac tical political operator and this is what any leader or as sistant leader needs to be is incomparably more able than any three other mem bers of the liberal-modern wing put together. Kuchel has long been over shadowed by more eminent Californians. There is Mr. Nixon himself. And there was Senator William F. Know land, the former floor leader who left the Senate to try in vain for Governor of Califor nia. Now Kuchel has a chance to come forward on his own and this he will do. In doing so, he will be intentionally or not of great help to the Vice President. Why? Simply because Ku chel's influence will usually be cast upon the side of a middling, western-style liber alism of such Senators as Clifford Case of New Jersey and Jacob Javits of New York. The presence of such a counter-weight could not pos sibly fail to ease the Nixon problem of finding just the right kind of complexion bal ance for the Republican party's face for 1960. (Copyright, 1958, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) them? American experts have inspected U.S.S..R. progress with mixed judgments being reported and evaluated. One sure conclusion: Soviet educa tion is off the ground in suc cessful flight like their ICBMs and satellites. Respect for Ideas There is more respect for intanglibles and ideas. Those who discuss the problem of formulating a problem are being heard respectfully. One thesis is that mathematical in utility does advance science. New exciting fields of chem istry and physics concern free radicals and high energy radi ation. Some of the new knowl edge will yield new processes for factories. Other effects will be upon potential space propulsion and upon food pre servation. Women are urging their usefulness in science and re belling at suggestions that there is an inferior sex. There will be pointings to the more Here's How Parties Supported Platforms Proposed By Congressional Quarterly Washington-(CQ)-The Dem ocratic - controlled Congress and the Republican-dominated Administration have two more years in which to live up to the party convention plat forms they hammered togeth er so eagerly in 1956. Some of the platform prom ises have been kept; others have gone the way of most resolutions unattended .and often forgotten. Congressional Quarterly matched the actual perform ance by the Administration and Congress so far against the 1956 platform promises. Here is a summary of the findings: Civil Rights: Both parties pledged to fight against illegal discrimination based on race, religion, etc.. but both de plored the use of force. The Administration sent Federal troops to Little Rock in 1957 and also asked for a biparti san commission to investigate charges of violation and a new civil . rights division in the Justice Department. Con gress provided these in the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Aid lo Education: Both par ties promised Federal money to build schools. The subject wasn't brought up by the Ad ministration in 1958 and no action was taken by Congress. Both parties promised schol arships but these were scrapped in favor of a loan program. Promised improve ments in scientific and tech nological education were sought in the National De fense Educatios Act of 1958. Social Security: Both par ties promised to extend social security coverage and increase benefits. The Administration made no such requests but Congress, as it has in the past four election years, liberalized social security. Labor: Both parties urged extension of the minimum wage to larger numbers of workers. Congress failed to act on such a request from the Administration. The Dem ocratic platform called for re peal of the Taft-Hartley Act; the Republicans wanted to re vise it. It was not repealed. The Administration asked for revisions but the Kennedy Ives bill to provide them fail ed to get through the House. Defense: A strong national defense establishment was ar dently called for by both plat forms. Both Administration and Congress saw to it that Counsel With Mr. Insurance Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone SP 3-7343 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOLLY ST. nearly equivalent place of women in Russian science and medicine. Future IGY Results The world's gigantic geo physical study of the earth may slow down a little but the impetus of the IGY will bring results in months and years to come. Human behavior is still paramount in its effect on the whole world, scientists in cluded. New and old drugs will be studied because of their modification of our moods and qualities. There will be discussed whether one of the great men tal disorders, schizophrenia, has a biochemical origin that may lead to treatment and prevention. Almost as important as what research finds is the fact that scientists are more and more talking to people as they" talk to each other. Such popu lar understanding isr the stuff of democracy. in 1956 national defense was the big gest item in the budget-between 59 and 60 per cent of all Federal expenditures. Ad ministration and Congress also joined in putting through a reorganization of the Penta gon aimed at more efficient defense. Statehood: Both parties promised statehood for Alaska and Hawaii. Alaska won state hood in 1958; Hawaii still is a territory. Taxes: Tax reduction, espe cially for low and middle-income groups, was promised by both parties. No such re duction occurred. Government Spending: The Democratic platform promised a "honest and realistic bal ance of the Federal Budget"; the Republicans promised a "continued balancing of the budget". The 1958 fiscal year deficit was $2.8 billion and the deficit for fiscal 1959 if estimated at $12.2 billion. World Trade: The Demo crats promised "vigorous" support of the Reciprocal Trade Program; Republicans said international trade should be speeded "gradually". The program was extended with substantial tariff - cutting au thority. To further reduction of trade barriers, the Admin istration twice requested U.S. membership in the Organiza tion for Trade Cooperation. Congress took no action. Farm Problems: Both par ties promised full (100 per cent) parity. Parity ratio in 1958 stood at 82 per cent. In 1958, a farm bill was ap proved that reduced prica supports and eased produc tion controls on cotton, rice and corn and extended for three years the incentive pay ment program for wool. (Copyright 1958, Congressional Quarterly Inc.) Free Book on Arthritis" And Rheumatism HOW TO AVOID CRIPPLING DEFORMITIES An maiine book entitled "Arthritis and Rheumatism' will be sent free to anyone who will write for it. It reveals why drugs and medi cines give only temporary relief and fail to remove the causes of the trouble; explains a specialized non-surgical treatment which has proven successful since 1919. You incur no obligation in send ing for this instructive book. It may be the means of saving you years of untold misery. Write to day to The Ball Clinic, Dept. 2609 fxcelsior Springs, Missouri . Fred Brennan END OR BEGINNING? As we look back over 1 958 we are indeed thankful for your patronage . . . and with the beginning of a NEW YEAR we extend our heartiest good wishes for your continued health, happiness and pros perity. Bill Fish
