4 Tuesday, December 30, 1958
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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
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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
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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.)
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