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4 Thursday, January 29, 195 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. MEDFORDs .Tribune "Everyone it Southern Oregon Keads ine Mail lnpune Published Daily except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fir St. Ph. SP 2-6141 snRtoT w T?TTHT. 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. Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES n.. vr I In - f4anr fTftnv 1 0f Dail- and Sunday 1 year $13.00 Daily and Sunday 6 mos. 8.00 Daily and' Sunday 3 mos. 4-25 Sunday Only One year $450 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Asniana. central romi, r-gic -Dl TVAiirill fZrAA Hill. fWUll, ovvln.. - ' Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue Riv er, laint ana on inuiui iuui. Daily and Sunday 1 year S 18.00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo. 1.50 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 WEST -HOLIDAY CO.. INC. Of fices in New xonc, v.nicago, uk- Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. At lanta. Vancouver B.C. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASfebcClTrSW J Z ,-..,......n Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. - 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1949 (Saturday) i Fifty per cent reduction in load limits on several state highways and county roads has been ordered to protect them while thawing. Formal opening of the vet erans administration domicil iary center at Camp White will be Feb. 20, Manager Paul A. Hatton announced.' ' 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1939 (Sunday) Local 1400 of the Construc tion and General Laborers un ion will hold its first regular meeting Tuesday at the labor temple. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge. Pot" column: "Ed Lamport, the harness maker, has an order from eastern Or egon for six buggy whips.". 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1929 (Friday) Concerning the crime wave of the younger generation that has swept Medford, are the youngsters entirely to blame? The pie social held Satur day night by the Live Oak Grange was well attended. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 29. 1919 (Friday) The 14th annual catalogue of the Monarch Seed and Feed company containing 40 pages of descriptions is being dis tributed to 12,000 homes in this area. Oragnization meeting of the Toastmistress club will be held Monday at the United State National bank. 50 YEARS AGO Jan. 29, 1909 (Friday) After changing the Crater Lake rd. to meet the views of the present Crater Lake rd. commission and Gov. George E. Chamberlain the bill was introduced - Wednesday. The Porter bill now before Congress sets up stringent rules on standardization of packages, grades and market ing of apples. What's Your I.Q.? Nine m ten correct if superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. What did Thomas Jeffer son name his home in Vir ginia? 2. Correct the following: "She is a light complected girl." 3. Who said, "To be pre pared for war is one of the most effectual means of pre serving peace"? 4. Does coral belong to the animal, vegetable, or mineral kingdom? 5. Who was the author of the book "Tom Sawyer"? 6. On Dec. 7, 1958, the communists suffered an over whelming defeat in an elec tion; where did this occur? 7. In which State is Mam moth Cave? 8. In radio, rhat is F M? 9. Fungus needs water to grow; true or false? 10. For what did Paul F. Dietzel receive acclaim in 1958? Answers: 1. Monticello. 2. "She is a light complexion ed . . . 3. George Washing Ion. 4. Animal. 5. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). 6. West Germany. 7. Kentucky. 8. Frequency Modulation. 9. True. 10. Football coach of the year. iwni Communist Party Congress Anastas I. Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union, may or may not make a re port to the special Twenty-First Congress of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. on his trip to the United States, but he is certain to give a full and private account, to Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. Indeed, it is understood that Khru shchev, eager for a first-hand survey of Ameri can conditions, urged Mikoyan to make the tour in the first place. If there is to be any switch in the Soviet "line" in policy toward the United States, or in regard to Berlin or German reunification the Party Congress would furnish the logical sounding board. On a practical basis the Party Congress is too unwieldy to perform any de liberative or legislative functions. Up to 2,400 delegates are expected. The Congress, technically, is the supreme organ of the Communist Party, rather than a governmental body. This special session is un usual in that it is the first "extraordinary" Con gress since March, 1918, when 6newas called by Lenin to ratify the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Party statutes provide that ordinaiy Con gresses are to be convened not less often than once in four years. But only two regular Con gresses have been held since 1939; the latest met in February, 1056. WHILE the principal business of this special session is to , rubberstamp Khrushchev's new seven-year economic development plan, it could also see-the further down-grading of for mer Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin, fired from the presidium of the Central Committee of the Party last September. The Central Committee carries on the work of the Party between Con gresses. Khrushchev lately has been transferring some of the decision-making power ot tne Pre sidium to the Central Committee Secretariat. Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, former Defense Minister and Presidium member, could also come in for further degredation at this Congress. Ironi cally, it was Zhukov's elevation to the Presidium at the 1956 Congress that was supposed to have indicated increased influence in the Party for the Soviet Army. MIKOYAN at the 1956 Congress followed Khrushchev's leadership in denouncing the "cult of personality" under Stalin and praising "collective leadership." The main feature which characterized the work of the Central Commit tee and Presidium during the previous three years since Stalin's death said Mikoyan, was "the fact that after a long interval, collective leadership has been created in our Party." The mere fact of public criticism of Stalin's leadership made the 1956 Congress notable. But the real shocker was to come almost four months later. That was in June, when the U.S. State De partment published a version it had received of the four-hour secret speech Khrushchev had made at the Congress attacking Stalin in savage detail. No such startling development is expected at this year's special Congress. Mikoyan himself, Jan. 18, blandly assured a U.S. television audi ence, that no cult of personality was arising around Premier Khrushchev. Khushchev, he ex plained, "is supported, is popular, because he introduced, he suggested many new reforms which were found to be quite right." Moveover and perhaps even more significantly "one shouldn't mix up the cult of personality with the authority a person might havei" E.R.R. Inflexible Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, chancellor of West Ger many, is a man easily angered particularly by our Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles. His indignation was vented last November when Dulles said, in connection with the Berlin crisis, that the United States might be willing, under certain circumstances, to deal with officials of the East German regime as agents of the Soviet Union. Adenauer gave a low opinion of that line of thinking, notwithstanding that officials of his own Bonn government have engaged in direct negotiations on other matters with East German functionaries. More recently the chancellor has been of fended by a Dulles suggestion that free elections may not be the only way to bring about reunifica tion of his country. The free-elections formula has heretofore been insisted upon by the Western Allies as the essential first step toward German unity. In Adenauer's view, any Allied dealings with the East Germans or any departure from the principle of free elections would be tantamount to recognition of the Soviet-dominated German Democratic Republic as a legitimate state. DENAUER'S recurrent public displays of 'ansrer mav be desismed in Dart to hold the Western governments and his own people in line. He must have been erenuinelv outraged, however. also deeply hurt, when J 1 1 pictured mm as a man wno ieeis no real mission to bring the two Germanys together. It has been clear for some time that if Ger many is ever to be reunited, concessions will have 10 De made Dy tne boviets, by the Western Allies, and by Adenauer himself. This being the case, the Economist observed that the Chancellor's re fusal to consider reunification on any except his own terms amounted to de facto acceptance of a permanently divided Germany. E.R.R. i c? ' ' the London Economist 1 f 1 Dennis the ' 0JD YOU HEAR ME, GEORGE ? I SAID DENNIS IS -GOING TO SPEND THE AFTERNOON WITH US. Matter of Fact THE FALSE ESTIMATES Washington-Evidence is ac cumulating that the Eisenhow er administration has been using grossly over - optimis- tic estimates of Soviet prog ress in guid ed missile pro duction. Even inside the Ad- min istration there is dis quiet about 4nsph Alsop tne iigures now in use, which credit the Soviets with very few inter continental ballistic missiles before 1960-61. Hence a re view of all the evidence has already been started. Pre sumably, the inter - agency committee that is the final authority on these matters will finally produce new "na tional estimates." It is en tirely likely that the new estimates will give the So viets exactly the kind of mis sile capability that has been denounced as nonsensical by Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy. TlIE AN WHILE the old esti- mates, which were pre pared in August, have done and are still doing their des tined work. They were the justification for the Defense Department, budget prepared in October - November. They have been used, and they are still being used by the De fense Department to minimize the missile gap in the eyes of the Congress. .Ironically, the chief excuse for reviewing the estimate is almost the same excuse that the Defense Department for merly used for the lowness of the estimates. As is well known, machinery exists for keeping a radar-watch on. So viet missile tests. Since the first full-range test of a Soviet inter-continental missile in the summer of 1957, not more than four additional full-range tests have been observed. The last was in April of this year, unless what is generally re garded as an unsuccessful moon shot in July was in reality another successful mis sile test. The small number of tests was examined through the deep-rose colored spectacles forced onto all good local noses by the White House and the Budget Bureau. After so few tests, it was concluded the Soviets could not yet be ready to put their inter-continental missile into active pro duction. piVEN when this conclusion was reached, it was fairly ridiculous. In the first place, the American Atlas missile has had only one full-range test. Yet Atlas is considered to be wholly reliable, and is in active, though budget-limited production today. In the second place, the most deci sive tests are not those made at full-range. They are made with heavy loads of extra in strumentation, which sharply reduce the distances travelled. And third, the Soviet ICBM is a very much, simpler and more efficient design than the Atlas, and it therefore needs less testing. For these reasons, and be cause of Nikita Khrushchev's published claims, the current estimates would need review in any case. But the main factor behind the decision to review the estimates has been, quite, simply, the continuing failure to identify Soviet ICBM tests since last July at the latest and probably last April. In August, the silence had not lasted long enough to become ominous, so to say; but by now it is considered highly ominous. THE silence is considered ominous because tests of an important weapon are never absolutely suspended, except for one of two reasons. Tests may end because the weapon is finally judged a total fail ure. Or tests may end because the weapon is finally judged Men" Alsop to be entirely satisfactory, and therefore ready for full scale production. The Soviet ICBM is certainly no total failure. Hence the Soviets probably began to accumulate a stock pile of operational ICBMs be tween at least six and perhaps nine months ago. Working at stretch, the ex isting production line of the great missile - manufacturing complex in the Dneiprostroy region is thought to be able to turn out 15 ICBMs each month. If active production has been ordered, the Soviets must also be assumed to have ordered at least one more pro duction line to be opened. Even without the second line, moreover, the Soviets ought to have at least 300 ICBMs by the end of 1959, if not some what earlier; and their rate of output should certainly reach 500 ICBMs per annum by New Year's, 1960. ' Jfn contrast, Secretary Mc Elroy and his staff told the Senate Armed Services com mittee that the Soviets would not have more than 100 ICBMs by the end of this year, and would not be pro ducing 500 per annum before 1962. These were comfort able assumptions; but if they remain the basis of national policy, they can produce most uncomfortable results. Today & Tomorrow By Walter PRIORITY IN CIVIL RIGHTS It would be a good thing if Congress could deal with civil rights legislation early in the session. For later on, especially i n the spring and during the summer, there are likely to be many dis tractions. There will be V10 usual traf- Walter " . . . Lippmann IlC jam Of bills, and in all probability there will . be spectacular events in foreign affairs. Now, and in the next few months, there is an opportunity to pay attention to the great issues involved in. the field of civil rights. It will be useful to take stock of the present pqsition, as seen from the point " of view of those who wish to realize, not to resist and to nullify, the enjoyment by Ne groes of the constitutional rights which are now denied to them. More precisely, we may ask ourselves what is the situation in the field of af firmative action by Congress? THE ANSWER, broadly speaking, is that legisla tion to protect the right to vote has a far better prospect than legislation directed against segregation in" the pub lic schools. It has a better prospect of being passed by Congress without a serious filibuster, and it has a better prospect of being accepted and observed in all but the deepest and darkest South. ' There is, of course, a close connection between the de gree of resistance to a bill in the Senate and the degree of resistance to a law in the states affected. For all practical purposes one may say that civil rights legislation which is opposed by virtually all the Southern states will in practice be nul lified in the Southern states. BEGINNING in the late summer of 1957, it has become clear that, in respect to Congress, the road forward is that of legislation to pro tect the right to vote. This was shown in the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation of any kind to pass Congress since the end of the Reconstruction period. This act authorized Federal intervention in the states to protect the right to vote. It Russian Economic War Challenge Viewed Seriously; By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Editor The capitalistic world will do well to take at face value Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush chev's newest declaration of all - out eco n o m i c war fare. It may 1 be assumed he .. means it, and thinks he can win it. Con- versely, it also may be assum ed he means it Fnil JNewsom when he says he does not want a nuclear war, in which the chief antagonists would have to be the United States and the Soviet Union and in which both sides admit there could be no real winner. This week's declaration of economic war against the West is not new. Rather, it is a mark of Soviet consisten cy. Khrushchev first chal lenged the capitalistic nations to all-out economic war in his address ; to the Communist Party's 20th congress in Feb ruary, 1956. It was unfortunate that at that time, most of he world's attention went to his denun ciation of the , late Josef Stalin. Revises Lenin's Theory In that same speech came his revision of Lenin's theory that wars are inevitable and that only wars and violence can lead to socialism. Khrush chev said then, as he told the 21st Communist Party congress this week, that the TODAY In Oregon History (A Centennial Feature) JANUARY 29, 1890 The Portland 8c Vancouv er Railroad company today sent their ferry, which has been moored at Johnson's wharf since the freeze up, to the Columbia to make an attempt to break the ice up to Vancouver. Owing to the heavy wind storm then prevailing, very little could be accomplished in the way of breaking up the ice. The ice has been found to be four inches thick. No one can now -cross over to Van couver. ) Lippmann was passed without a filibus ter when, but only when, the Administration agreed to de lete what was known as Part III, which would have author ized Federal intervention against segregation in the pub lic schools. This distinction between votes and schools is in prac tice today the distinction be tween what Congress may be able to deal with effectively and what it cannot now hope to legislate about or to enforce if it could legislate. This dis tinction is at the core of the Johnson compromise on the rules about cloture to stop a filibuster. In this compromise the Southerners in effect agreed not to filibuster against legislation to protect political rights if they re tained the power to filibuster against legislation about so cial rights. Rule XXII as amended says that legislation may be killed by filibuster if the whole .South is united against the legislation. npHE EXISTENCE of this dis tinction has now been confirmed as the working rule both by President Eisenhower and Sen. Lyndon Johnson. The President did this at the Na tional Press Club conference on Wednesday, January 14th. He was asked this question: "In 1957 Congress passed at your suggestion a civil rights bill dealing largely with vot ing. Do you think the Con gress should pass civil rights legislation dealing specifical ly with problems arising from school segregation?" The Pres ident replied, "I think when we get into the field of law here we must be very careful. I do believe in the law con cerning voting . . ." A few days later, Sen. John son introduced his program to protect civil rights. It is a bill to extend the life of the Civil Rights Commission, to do something about the bomb ings in the Southern states, to set up a mediation and con ciliation service in racial con flicts and to give the Attorney General subpoena powers un der the voting rights law. On the central - distinction be tween voting rights and school desegregation, the President and Sen. Johnson are agreed in principle. THIS, then, is for the time being, the way forward to use the Federal power to en able . qualified Negroes to, 1 J5i Signs Mount That They Mean It end for capitalism will come through economic warfare. Had these warnings been heeded, there might have been less surprise when the Soviets: -Built a steel mill for India -Set up a 100 million dollar Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, 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. Burns' Anniversary ' To the Editor: We can no longer participate in watch ing television but "monie a canty day (John) we've had wi'ane anither," so we helped celebrate Robert Burns' birth day by reading the writings of that man Ingersoll said gave in four lines all the philosophy of life: "To make a happy fire side clime. For we'ans and wife '' Is the true pathos And sublime of human life." . We read on Burns' birth day some notes from an un published lecture by R. G. Ingersoll on Robert Burns. Mr. Ingersoll closed his notes with the following poem he composed while visiting the "little clay house" where Rob ert Burns was born 200 years ago, Jan. 26: Though Scotland boasts a thousand names, Of patriot, king and peer, The noblest, grandest of them all, ' Was loved and cradled here. Here lived the gentle pleasant prince, The loving cotter-king, Compared with whom the greatest lord Is but a titled thing. 'Tis but a cot roofed in with straw, A hovel made of clay; One door shuts out the snow and storm, One window greets the day; And yet I stand within this room, And hold all thrones in ' scorn; For here beneath this lowly thatch, Love's sweetest bard was born. Within this hallowed hut I feel Like one who clasps a shrine, When the glad lips at last have touched The something deemed di vine. And here the world through all the years, As long as day returns, The tribute of its love and tears, Will pay to Robert Burns. Charity R. Sander, 408 Oak Grove rd., Medford. Dog Feed Dog To the Editor: For the past month or more, it seems to me, Jackson county has been going to the dogs at a fright ening rate of speed. It is not difficult for a lot of us to remember back some 50 or 60 years when most dogs were hard working and honorable citizens of their communities. Few dogs in those days were considered pets; more often they belong ed, and were one member of the family. A man was not considered to be of much ac count who would not defend his dog with his own life, unless the dog was proved guilty of some skulduggery beyond the question of doubt. There was a time quite a few of us can remember when a horse was considered to be man's best friend. Today the horse race has literally gone to the dogs. Case after case of canned horse meat is serv ed each day to pets. Shortly there will be no more horses. The government so far has not seen fit to pay a subsidy to breeder., of horses to be used for dog food, and I know of no one who has applied to the legislature for relief. I can think of but one way to bring this doggoned subject to a successful con clusion: At the dog asylum let us erect a small cannery, and process all dispatched canines into dog food. This will make Mutt and Mongrel self-supporting, and, in time, bring the dog population into equilibrium. Few people have time to have their pets steri lized, and teach them to keep their feet on the ground, and provide a boneyard for them. Let us do all we can to save the county from going com pletely to the dogs. , Joseph J. Hall, Shady Cove, Ore. vote. If this can be accom plished, it will make a great difference. For insofar as the Negro people are able to vote in the deep South, there will be, as Sen. Johnson said, "plenty they can do to help themselves." deal with Syria, including rights to oil exploration. -Virtually took over the Egyptian economy with an arms deal which gave the Soviets first claim on Egyp tian cotton. Dog Rules To the Editor: I have been reading about the dog situa tion and hope my views can help. In the first place over production is caused by mon grel females and their off spring. The people that have these mongrel pups give them to everybody and anyone just to get rid of them, and so on and on until the city dog pound is full of mongrel dogs. The owners never have them shot for distemper or spay them, which costs about $25 to S30. I have no dislike for a dog which contains many breeds, but they are neglected be cause they have no initial value. Some of the best dogs are mixed breeds. It seems unfair to tax the people who love and train their dogs and let the cute puppy mongrel go free without any tax all summer, and then in the winter- send him or her off to the dog pound and be an expense to the taxpayer. I would like to quote a few dog laws for dog lovers: 1. Pure bred or registered, either sex. 2. Distemper shots and spayed. 3. Kennel or house dog, these dogs should not be overtaxed and their offspring will be an asset to the dog world. This is for a cute puppy for junior and when grown taken to the dog pound: 1. Mongrel females not vac cinated or spayed. 2. Males which have no dis temper shots. . 3. Stray or lost dogs with out tag. These are the pests in the dog world and should be de stroyed or taxed so heavily that the cute puppy lover will not indulge. The people who have a pup every spring without protect ing the animal from disease, etc., should be barred from ever having a dog or a pup. The protection one gives an animal shows faith in the per son as an animal lover. A good dog helps keep the home safe and a child happy. Leo A. Rifenbark, 1131 Pinecroft ave., Medford Welcome Centennial To the Editor: People are anxious to celebrate the Cen tennial year. It's an opportun ity that comes but once in a hundred years. Now is the time to display and talk "good old Oregon." I am an Oregon pioneer and proud of itl My parents moved to Oregon in 1878 when I was 13 years of age. While living at Jackson ville we made the acquaint ance of Mrs. Madam Holt, owner and operator of a boarding house. In 1879 she built the U. S. Hotel at Jack sonville. In 1879 my parents settled at Ashland. We lived neighbors to Llndsey Apple gate, one of the brothers who located and laid out the Ap plegate Trail. In 1883 the courthouse at SIMPLE The fundamentals of our service . . . Understanding Reverence Dignity i ft hawk from th FRANK MORGAN - HAROLD SNODGRASS, FUNERAL DIRECTORS DAY OR NIGHT -Offered multi-million dol lar trade agreements to Brazil and Argentina. -Were able to upset world markets in both tin and platinum. . Aims Never Change Those are only a few exam ples of Soviet financial and barter dealings of the last few years. The potential for enor mous economic power lies within the Soviet Union. And it is multiplied by the enor mous potential of Soviet man power which works for the state, under living conditions and rates of pay dictated by the state. A basic tenet for dealing with Communist states long has been that Communist aims never change, while methods may. And so, even the idea of economic war is not new. It was, in fact, spelled out by Stalin. In Stalin's last work, published early in 1952, he set forth a course based on (A) "peaceful coexistence" de signed to isolate the United States from its allies, and (B) a domestic policy based on an increase of consumer goods. Jacksonvillenow used for a museum, was built. My broth er, the late George W. Bran don, hauled the lumber from the Marsh Planing Mill at Ashland Jacksonville to build the courthouse. I have written several his torical stories of Oregon, which are available, if need ed in any way to help the Cen tennial work along. It will seem like Pioneer Days to again see the mail carried on horseback and go ing fast. It will be fun to watch them go by. Frank S. Brandon, 211 North Ivy St., Medford. Public Project To the Editor: The problem of the county dog pound and everything pertaining to it is not just a matter of whether one likes dogs or npt. It has assumed greater proportions and cannot be ignored by our public officials, both city and county. Of course, they have al ways been reluctant to finance the things that are necessary to be done and that is why the problem has reached the present stage. It is useless to increase dog licenses or to have any tax at all if they are not collected. The job can not be handled by any one man. However, increasing the tax on both male and female dogs is a step in the right di rection. Dog breeders must be taxed also. A general spaying pro gram in cooperation with vet erinarians must be started. There is no nicer pet than a spayed female especially for children. The law that pre vents females in heat to run at large must be enforced. Ir responsible people who do not take proper care of their dogs should be fined for cruelty to animals. It is the starved and abused dog that roams around and ultimately ends up in dog pound. The poor creatures are not to blame, it is their owner's fault just as negli gent parents contribute to the delinquency of children. Then the taxpayers must support them in foster homes and in the County Detention Home. And so the care of abandoned dogs has become a public project. A. E. Bold, North Pacific Highway, Talent. Courthous PHONE SP 2-8030
