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MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. 4 Monday, January 5, 1959 "Everyone Is Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Mgr. ERIC W. ALLEN JR, Managing Editor KARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. 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. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By M a 1 1 In Advance, Copy 10c. Dailr and Sunday 1 year 115.00 Daily and Sunday S mos. 8.00 Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14.20 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 Surnlcy 1 mo. 1.50 Carrier and Dealers c spy 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. lO" NEWSPAPER . PUBLISHERS - ''ASSOCIATION MATIONAL EDITORIAL as(&c&ti(q)n C7 Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Mayor Thomas Williams of Ashland Inspires furor in the grand style by his new ap pointments to municipal posts. The answer to the "Sleepy Hour" quiz program's mystery question is placed in a safe deposit box at the U. S. Na tional Bank. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 5, 1949 (Thursday) A total of 605 Christmas greeting cards are destroyed at Medford post office, victims of incorrect or insufficient ad dressing. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The first lady of the land con templates with horror, what would happen if there were no newspapers for 30 days. We also view with alarm." 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 5. 1929 (Saturday) A 12-passenger airplane lands at the local airport. Medford and the Rogue River valley reportedly have enjoyed the most prosperous year in history during 1928. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 5, 1919 (Sunday) Oregon soldiers in the 91st Division, are ordered home from France. F. L. Tou Velle is scheduled to take over as county judge tomorrow. What's Your I.Q.? Nine er ten correct is superior; seven cr eight is excellent; five or lix is good. 1. What is the name for an instrument marking time (in music) by means of a pendu lum? 2. What famous document was promulgated at Runny mede in 1215? 3. In what comic opera is there a character "Little But tercup?" 4. In the mining industry in the United States, what are "captive" coal mines? 5. Correct the following: John is the best of the two men. 6. Name the three States of the Union that have four-letter names. 7. What is the opposite of clockwise? 8. Which are the "one-eyed" Jacks in a modern deck of playing cards? 9. In Spanish what does "Puerto Rico" mean? 10. How many Cardinals did Pope John recently ap point? Answers: I. Metronome. 2. Magna Charta. 3."H.M.S. Pin afore." 4. Mines owned by the steel mills using the entire mine output. 5. "John is the better ..." 6. Iowa, Ohio, Utah. 7. Counter - clockwise. 8. Spades and Hearts. 9. "Rich Port." 10. 23. Millman Named Bend Mayor by Committee Bend - (CPD - Jack C. Demp sey, millman and local union leader, has been named mayor of this city by a seven man committee. Dempsey took over the city gavel from' Melvin L. Rogers New commission members are George Breast, Dr. R- E. Johnson, Dr. Charles J. Rice and William E. Miller. Hold over members are W. M. Loy and T. D. Sexton. More Legal Bingo The playing of bingo is being put on a formal, carefully supervised basis in New York City. Un der terms of a city Bingo law signed by Mayor Wagner on Aug. 2 and approved by the voters by better than two-to-one Nov. 4 religious or ben evolent organizations may run the games only under the stern eye of the municipal Department of Licenses. Holding of illegal sessions is a mis demeanor. The New York law formalizes a situation un der which religious and benevolent organizations had been holding games under protection of a Court of Appeals ruling of 1952. DRIOR to a constitutional amendment approved by New York State voters in November 1957, Bingo under the auspices of churches and frater nal organizations had been winked at by local law enforcement officers in New York State as in many other jurisdictions. Even so, making Bingo altogether legal had the strong support of many Roman Catholic churches in the state. Protestant leaders were strongly opposed. Under the revised New York constitution, vo ters must approve legalized Bingo by referendum before the games can be set up. Prior to the Nov. 4 vote, some 500 localities in the state had adopt ed Bingo. And almost 700 eligible groups had asked for licenses to conduct the games. These licenses one for each session, with a monthly limit of six come at a fee of $10, which is split by city and state. Prizes are limited to $250 for a single game; $1,000 for any one "oc casion.' 'THE New York system is modeled after New Jersey's legalized Bingo. There, according to a Feb. 12 report of the New Jersey control com mission, "Commercial interests and professionals have been successfully barred from participation in legalized Bingo and raffles." Bingo and certain forms of raffles were made legal in Jersey in May 1954. More than 90 per cent of Garden State communities have authoriz ed the gambling games. In the first full year of legalized play, 1955, Bingo attendance totaled 4,426,800 at 20,400 games, with receipts of $13,797,156. Two. years later, 5,228,110 players participated in 22,887 games, with receipts of $19,025,938. Raffles rought the total take to $26,042,630. CONGRESS in the Federal Revenue Act of 1951 in effect exempted Bingo from new controls and taxes imposed on organized gambling. The same liberal treatment was accorded "card games such as draw poker, stud poker, and blackjack, roulette games, dice games such as craps . . . keeno games, and the gambling wheels frequent ly encountered at county fairs and for charity." The State Lottery Control Commission in New York is headed by Richards W. Hannah, ironi cally enough, in view of the religious controversy over Bingo, a lay leader of the Protestant Episco pal church. In command in New York City will be a Roman Catholic, Commissioner of Licenses Ber nard J. O'Connell, whose job is to oversee such diverse activities as the city's entertainment and theatre presentations, its auctions, and its garbage collection. E.R.R. President and That Vice President Nixon is in any way "dictating" the President's annual state of the union message has been indignantly denied by the Administration. But the White House admit ted freely it has been consulting Mr. Nixon, not only on the message but also on policies. This close political partnership, if it can be called that, between President and Vice President has been relatively rare For one thing, m the old to "balance the ticket" Vice President a quite from the choice for President. The country did have birds of a feather in Taft and Sherman, both conservative, and in Truman and Barkley, both haters of stuffed shirts. Nevertheless, for anything as close as the Eisenhower-Nixon political cooperation, we'd probab ly have to go back more than a century, to Presi dent Polk and George M. Dallas and to Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. E.R.R. Higher Federal! Gas Tax? Increase the federal tax on gasoline, the Presi dent says he'll ask the new Congress. But whether Congress complies with the request could be something else again. After all, the tax was raised only 2y2 years ago, to 3 from 2 cents a gallon. The federal gas tax was first levied in 1932, during the dire depression of that time, at one cent a gallon. It rose to iy2 cents in 1933, went back to one cent in 1934, stayed there for six years, was hiked to iy2 cents again in 1940, to 2 cents in 1951. THE increase to 3 cents in 1956 accompanied the new program for an elaborate interstate highway system. And the take from the whole gasoline tax, also from all the other federal taxes involved in highway use, was earmarked for a special highway trust fund. k Now, however, it is found that the program will cost more than originally anticipated like everything else these days. So proceeds from the "gas" tax increase, if Congress votes it. won't swell Treasury revenues, but will simply help to keep the Treasury deficit down. E.R.R. Vice President in U. S. political history. days it was customary that is, to choose for different breed of cat Dennis the Veca am eve nti iM AAAnac DAUGHTERS BIRTHDAY PARTY AND Washington Report By WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER-SINGING Washington - The fact that Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York has now let the 1 other shoe j drop and all j b u t openly I announced his i: candidacy for ;the 1960 Re- ) publican Pres- i idential nom ination is only the surface of this political story. Th joke in both parties here is that the new Gover nor's inaugural address at Al bany has almost ruined the one he intends tp make in Washington as President in 1961. It is too bad, the irrev erent politicians say, that he has used up so many of. his good lines ahead of time. But the cream of the jest though it has a certain sour taste to a good many people here, including Vice-President Richard M. Nixon - is quite beyond all this. It is not simply that Rockefeller has confronted the regular and Old Guard Republicans with a very early challenge. Worse yet, there is every indication that he will be harder even than Dwight D. Eisenhower to bring down from the high, amiable stratosphere in which he. floats with such amazing grace and skill. AT ALBANY the problems of 1Tpw VnrV- KtatoWhinh must at least for a time strongly engage the new Gov ernor-were well and truly subordinated by Rockefeller to a message not merely to this nation but to all the world. President Eisenhower, from his very first campaign on ward, until lately had been frustrating the regular Re publicans beyond belief by observing periodically that he was both conservative and liberal. He was conservative in spending, he used to say, but he was liberal in dealing with the people's needs. Those Republicans with old-fashioned and clear at tachments to conservatism -like the Eisenhower rival for the 1952 Presidential nomina tion, the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio-found this hard to take. They did not mind the President's being conservative or, if he chose, even liberal. But, they com plained, it was very difficult to make issues against a man who said he was both-and all at once. DUT if they had trouble in pinning down the Presi dent, think what their task will be with Governor Rock Try and William S. White -By BENNETT CERF- PLED RUSSELL tells about a spifficated gent sitting in Row 65 at a bowl football game who staggered to his feet time and again to yell, "Hey, Gus! Look at me up here!" Where upon, down in Row 20, an other man would rise, look up, and wave ecstatically. Finally, however, the man in Row 20 had enough. "Stay in your seat and watch the game," he shout ed testily, "And besides, my name isn't Gus." TV producer to Hollywood was complaining of the trouble he had encountered easting the role of a detective in a new serial just contracted for. "Be patient," counseled Frank Sinatra. "It's a well known fact that not every Tom and Harry can be & Dick!" , Cartoonist Charles Addams, who leans toward tha macabre In most of his famous drawings, is seriously considering eliminating people with two heads from his future productions. He explains, "Too many angry letters from the two-headed set" 0 1953, by Beaaett Cart DUtributad by Kin: features lyadfcate. Menace MticrU iwrtvn liiU m UP? HE FlVB yEAPS S. WHITE efeller! For he went President Eisenhower one better: He announced that he would be conservative and liberal-and "progressive," too-and aU at once. Nixon is now under formal notice that Rockefeller is a major contender against him for the top place in 1960. There is no surprise in this, perhaps, except for its timing. What is really sobering is this: The Vice-President himself is no amateur at putting the "high level" tone into polit ical speeches when he is of a mind; but after Albany no one here believes that he can possibly hope to match the Governor in this regard. There probably is no na tional politician, moreover, who would seriously deny that the Rockefeller inaugur al was as glowingly delivered as it was glowingly written. Its inspirational quality was such as to make the ablest of the White House ghosts feel rather crudely down to earth in their prose. For this was a Rockefeller prose that sings, sings, and sings. r . AND . THE intonation re minded many here - in cluding some Republicans still acutely sensitive to the memories of two decades ago -of the rich, cultivated and quietly triumphant voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt. . As the situation is seen here, . the Governor has, in deed, thrown a rock into the pond, the fat into the fire and his hat into the ring. The re percussions will be wide and possibly unruly among the reduced and already quarrel ing Republican minority in the new Congress. For what the new Gover nor has said at Albany will give the partisans practically no breathing space before the hard necessity of making up their minds as to whether it should be Nixon or Rocke feller in 1960. They are understandably still rather bruised from what happened to their party in the November Congressional elections. They feel it too bad that Rockefeller could not have given them at least a little time-say, a couple of months-to rest and catch their breath before calling upon them to stand up and be counted for 1960. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) HAROLD W. CLOSE Princetone, N.. - (DPD-Dr. Harold Wilberforce Close, dean emeritus of the School of Arts and Sciences of the American University of Bei rut, Lebanon, died here Thurs day. Close, 70,' resided here. Stop Me Ike's 'Balanced7 Budget Reminder That Budget-Cutting Hasn't Been Successful By LYLE C. WILSON Washington -UPD- President Eisenhower's jump - the - gun announcement that his new budget would be balan c e d is a reminder that Franklin D. Roosevelt was budget minded dur ing the first half dozen years of his &lJ long tenure. tyie c. Wilson FDR never made it, and finally stopped making any promies that the government could or would live within it. Harry Truman, who followed him, rang all bells not only as spender but as tax collector. Their tax collections rare ly overtook government spending, however, so both Roosevelt and Truman bor rowed heavily to cover the difference. The public debt was a mere 19 billion dollars in 1932, the year FDR first was elected President. It had grown to 258 billion dollars by 1945, the year he died. It was 266 billion dollars in 1953, the year Eisenhower TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JAN. 5. 1847 Salty sailors of HMS Mo desto open Oregon's second theatrical season with all male performance of "High Life Below the Stairs," "The Deuce is in Him," and "The Irish Widow." JAN. 5. 1887 Eighty six members of the North P a c if i c Fruit Growers' association, hold ing their first annual meet ing in Portland's city coun cil chambers, announce the value of the year's fruit crop, $170,000, "for an off year is not a bad showing for our young orchards." Editorial Comment PAY-TV ARGUMENT All of the arguments in favor of pay TV have been demonstrated to Southern Oregon viewers within the last week, and probably pre sented without any real in tent to do so. After carrying the fine pro fessional football games dur ing the season, station KBES failed to put on the cham pionship game last Sunday. On New Year's day, the partial presentation of the wonderful parade in Pasa dena left much to be desired and the program showing the parade was cut off long be fore the parade was over. With many Southern Ore- gonians interested in the Rose Bowl game between Cali fornia and Iowa, the TV sta tion hung onto the Cotton Bowl until almost the last straggler had left the stands It undoubtedly seemed to many a viewer that the sta tion was almost reluctant to leave the deserted stands down in Texas and switch to Pasadena. Most people have not been sold on pay TV, but after the Inst few days we suspect a good many are now in favor of giving it a trial. Ashland Daily Tidings. Portland Police Slowed by Weather Portland -(DPD- Portland's city police force was partially demobilized Saturday. Icy temperatures froze ra diators of seven of the 29 prowl and traffic cars on duty. Finally all cars were ord ered to the police garage at frequent intervals for radia tor checks. East precinct had four of its nine cars out of action at one time. L-1 BTTIE Buster Brown Will CLOSED TOMORROW ALL DAY TUESDAY, JAN. 6, Preparing for Our Big Semi-Annual SALE Starting Wednesday, 9 a.m. took over. Eisenhower Made Promises To candidate Eisenhower in 1952 this was a shocking situ ation, accompanied by a con dition of creeping inflation which was reducing the pur chasing power of the U.S. dol lar to about 50 cents. On Oct. 22, 1952, candidate Eisenhower was in Troy, N.Y., seeking the vote of the shirt and collar workers. Tru Matter of Fact A HUNDRED MILLION Washington - For the first time, a rational explanation is available for the fearful, ?mmm cruciallv im portant mys tery of Chi na's . agricul t u r a 1 com munes. , The mystery can be simply summed up. It is easy to under stand i i j-ii.: 4osph Alsop wiiy me 111- nese Communist leaders have found it necessary to imitate Stalin. But why on earth have they chosen to out-Stalin Stalin? The Soviet dictator's collectivization of Russian ag riculture was quite sufficient ly terrible. Why have the Chi nese chosen the infinitely more terrible and more un settling commune system? The answer almost certain ly lies in the almost incred ible statistics concerning the current labor corvees in Com munist China, which have been obtained from Western official analysts. It is authori tatively stated that the pres ent labor corvees comprise close to 100,000,000 people. In other words, the number of Chinese currently engaged in forced labor is a good deal more than half of the popula tion of the United States, and nearly half the population of the Soviet Union. r: MUST BE understood, of course, that forced labor of the Chinese corvee is not ex actly like Soviet forced labor. Criminals and political dissi dents may be included, but in China all law-abiding citi zens not belonging to the privileged class are and al ways have been subject to corvee. In fact, Chinese civil ization was largely built by corvee labor; and ' what is staggering and unprecedented in the figure given above is simply its size. Even in China, however, you cannot take one able bodied person in every six for special construction projects, and still have enough left over to till the fields. The most ruthless and cruel mili tary mobilization of peasant man-and-woman-power was needed, therefore, because this was the only way to maintain agricultural output with the hands still available. The system of the rural com munes resulted. . This explanation of a phe nomenon that has seemed in explicable has another kind of significance, too. It seems that the chance of grave in ternal trouble in Communist China is considerably greater than most people have sup posed. HERE the background reas oning becomes a bit more complicated. In brief, the Chi nese leaders have been driven to carry out their hideous "agricultural reform" just as Stalin was driven. This prob lem is financing their enor mous program of forced in dustrialization. Hence they have had to take the country side in hand, to seize a far larger share of the product of agriculture, and to depress the living standard all to gain more funds for capital invest ments. In every respect but one, moreover, Stalin's task in the period of the first Five Year plan was easier than Mao's Shoe Store Be man was President and can didate Eisenhower charged on that day that the Truman ad ministration deliberately had caused monetary inflation - as a political policy designed to create an illusion of pros perity. "This is always done," Eis enhower said, "by adminis trations that care more for the next election than for the next generation. By Joseph Alsop task today. China today is far worse off than Russia was then, with a lower living standard, a smaller store of resources as yet untapped, and so on and on. But China has the tradition of the labor corvee. Miracles of construc tion can be accomplished by Chinese peasants accustomed to corvee labor. Ancient work habits, ingrained by millenia, make this kind of construc tion remarkably efficient in China, whereas Soviet forced labor was most inefficient. BUT if the system of com munes was necessitated because 100,000,000 people were already toiling in labor corvees, then China's one great special asset had al ready been expended even before Mao Tse-Tung made the same harsh choice that Stalin made. Thus there is no special factor that may ease the agony to which the Chi nese people have now been condemned. There is nothing to, hasten the moment when their agony will bear fruit, as the agony of the Russian peo ple finally bore fruit, in the form of a vastly increased na tional product. According to the same au thoritative analysts already quoted, massive peasant ris ings were rather near at hand before the Chinese Commu nist leaders recently back tracked a little. The back tracking took the primary form of a reduction of the work norms for the rural communes. But in a nation already living close ' to the margin of starvation, reduc ing the work norms will not alter the effects of sharply cutting the "living standards in order to finance industrial outlays. Today, captive China, "sick and friendless, all a laboring race repines, like a race in sunken cities, like a nation in ,the mines." In this situation, no one who knows the history and character of the Chinese people can deny the possibil ity of the worst kind of in ternal trouble, although no one can guarantee it, either. (Copyright. 1959, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Hear Your FAVORITE HYMNS on KM EVERY SUNDAY Sung by Tennessee Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) jjprj ' - 'X FRIENDLY, Eisenhower proposed to combat inflation by "slicing the fat out of our federal budget." And how is it now, more than six years after, with President Eisenhower's budg et? It is like this: Whereas the Truman budget (for fis cal 1953), which Eisenhower was denouncing that October day in Troy, proposed to spend a whopping $74 billion, the new Eisenhower budget will be for spending in the general area of $77 billion. New Spending Champion Truman, however, had an all-out inflationary budget for fiscal 1953 compared to Eisen hower's new budget which will be for fiscal 1960. There is more doubt than confidence, however, that the fiscal 1960 budget will be in balance at the end of that year. One year ago, Eisenhow er planned to spend about $74 billion and foresaw a budget surplus of $466 mil lion. That surplus hope long since was abandoned. The deficit at the end of the cur rent fiscal year-June 30, 1959 -may hit $12 billion. FDR 'and Truman were spectacular tax collectors and spenders of other people's money. Comes now President Eisenhower who has licked 'em both. He came into office six years ago this month and already he is the champ. 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