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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1959)
i MAIL TRIBUNE, Med ford, Oregon, Wednesday, March 18, 1959 Khrushchev Must Reverse Policy To Stop Cold War, Truman Declares Counterattack Sought Against Check Passers An intensified counterat tack by merchants, the pubilc and law enforcement officials' against fraudulent check pass ers has been called for by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion. Don McNeil, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in commending Hoover's action, is urging all business and professional people and citizens in this area to cooperate by exer cising greater care in cashing checks for strangers without adequate identification." In a letter to law enforce ment officials, Hoover re vealed that the annual loss due to fraudulent checks amounts to S535 million. National Pestilence He wrote, "The plague of the fraudulent check passers who day to day amass a for tune in illegal profits from American business and citi zens is assuming proportions of a national pestilence. "Based on available data and police experience, em ployment in the criminal oc cupation of bad check passing is at a new high level, with no recession in sight." In the battle against fraud ulent check passing, the "vic tim" represents the principal hope for success. The bad check passer does not have to nil . city or poimam to CHICAGO COMVEMIIMT CONMECTIOIS x TO KANSAS CITY AND ST. LOO IS Dew Tm Uri CITY Of POtTUHl l:MrJL... If.hrtlani 2:45 PJ U. The Dates 45SPX .l.relet 7:06 PX ....LtlaSfaide 1:05 P. ttlrier 3:30 P.M. '..Jr. I tm if n. un aaecrm I 1:35 FX..." U.tawr 1 7:00 A.M. ...-.Ar.lletj- I Only one night to Denver on the Domeliner City of Portland. Convenient connection at" Denver means faster time to Kansas City and St. Louis. Whether you travel for business or pleasure the Dome Lounge, the Dome Coach and the world's only Dome Diner are just a few of the City of Portland features that will make your trip truly memorable. 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Hoover wrote that "to cope with the far-ranging activi ties of this class of criminals, however, the counterattack must be intensified on a na tionwide scale. Carelessness of the victims themselves . . . must be a primary target . . . Only when the work becomes difficult, the profits small, and the risks great will the nefarious trade of worthless check passing cease to flourish." BLASTS VITAMIN PILLS Memphis, Tenn. - (UPD - Dr. Louis M. Orr, president-elect of the American Medical As sociation, said Tuesday that the vitamin pill fad causes the public to spend a billion dollars a year on "nutritional nonsense." Orr, an Orlando, Fla., urologist, said our food supply provides all the vita mins and minerals necessary for good health. FBI Buy Now! and really SAVE! 1I1JP 3 mnwm$mm nm n sMC l i 23 cu. ft. p.ity i t III ftl0O0(?CuX3y,, Guaranteed to Outperform All Others 25 Ou. H. UprigM Holds 875 Lbs. Sale! '559 Save 80.00 Over Reg. Price 17 Gu. R. Upright-Holds 595 Lbs. 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SP 3-5433 PROOF Food Sayings Will Make Your Payments ish Soviet Conduct Blamed For Situation (Continued from Page One) For our part, we tried to help many nations to help themselves at a great sacrifice to our own people. We are still doing it. But Russia since the end of the war has used the resources of nations she occupied for the requirements of her own military and eco nomic and expansionist aims. It is out of such selfish So viet conduct that the cold war developed, and the only way to stop the cold war is for Khrushchev to reverse this policy of building Russia at the expense of her neighbors. It is because of Russia's persistent refusal to cooper ate that NATO, whose tenth anniversary will be observed in April, was organized. In the face of Russia's encroach ments NATO provided mu tual safety and protection against aggression. NATO to day provides force and con stant viligance against any threat to the safety of any of its members. NATO was set up solely for the protec tion of the independence of its members and has no other reason for its existence. Costly Undertaking The maintenance of NATO has been a costly and burden some undertaking, but the price of freedom has always been costly, and I would sug gest that this is no time to subordinate the peace and freedom of our allies and our selves to economic consider ations. We may as well face it. This problem is going to be with us for a long time to come, and we will have to continue to make economic sacrifices, perhaps on an even larger scale. I would remind Mr. Khrush chev that he is deluding him self about the economic en durance of the West and about the resoluteness of its people to be free. One is as limitless as the other, and certainly both are inexhaustible as long as the Kremlin continues to challenge free governments. Of course, it is disconcert ing to see the head of a mighty power, inflated by his mis siles, try to impose his will on the rest of the world. To play on the hopes and long ings of the world for peace one day and dash them the next is cruel and heartless behavior. It is possible that Khrushchev's histronics are the fruit of his education in the Lenin school of political warfare where the Commu nist leaders were instructed to concentrate on achieving military supremacy and where it was taught that once having achieved this supremacy, the next step in the Communist time-table was to launch a peace offensive. Sweetness and Light In this peace offensive they would shift from intransi gence to sweetness and light to dazzle the unsuspecting free nations with promises. The third step in the time table is to wait until the West's protective guard is. lowered and then follow this with a swift attack and ulti mate conquest. We have every reason to be wary of Russia's professions .of peace unless we get un mistakable evidence that Rus sia means it now. I would say to Khrushchev that peace is a serious and solemn busi ness and that we will be ready to deal with him, or his suc cessor, in a fourthright way. Surely Prime Minister Mac millan's recent experience in Moscow illustrates how each change in the Kremlin brings new stresses and anxieties to tax our hopes for peace. I believe "that Macmillan's visit to Moscow is significant for this reason: It should serve to remind the world and some of the leaders of the West that peace with the Soviets is still a one-way street and can, at this stage, be had only, on their terms. Therefore, there must be unity among our allies and not several attitudes with even minor variations developing lest the Russians exploit the situation to divide us. Sense of Insecurity When we had the monop oly of the atom bomb, Rus sia's intransigence was ex plained away on the grounds that she was fearful of the West and acted belligerently out of a sense of insecurity. Khrushchev now boasts that he can wipe out any part of the world, with his stockpile of missiles and hydrogen war heads. Yet Khrushchev's be havior is still intransigent and his manner belligerent. It should be clear by now that the Kremlin's attitude . has nothing to do with Russian security, but is solely domi- raawwf 'nniiii whim i wun" ti i 'i nnirt)iinflinUliit',W ini"''iii mmt u iui,iircvrid MEETING IN EAST BERLIN, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev smiles as East German Premier Otto Grotewohl (right) makes point in conference on Berlin crisis. At left is Walter Ulbricht, secretary of East German Communist party. nated by ambition to com munize the world. In this ambition the Krem lin faces disappointment and frustration, and here lies the threat and danger to peace. If the leaders of the Krem lin would study history a lit tle more and their maps a little less, they would begin to see the impossibility of realizing their ambition to communize the world. I hope that a foreign min isters' meeting can be held in an effort to make a fresh start to deal with the prob lems of Berlin and Germany. Meetings Proved Useless If a meeting at the sum mit is for the purpose of af firming and furtherinc the constructive actions taken at the foreign ministers' level- all well and good. But since the Potsdam Con ference where the agreements made were immediately vio lated by Stalin, meetings at the summit have proved use NO WITNESS BOXES New York-UPD-Kings Coun ty Surrogate Maximilian Moss called fiis first court to order Tuesday in Brooklyn's new $18,500,000 Supreme Court building. He noticed that something was missing the witness box. Building officials iniormed Moss that the arch itects had not provided wit ness boxes in any of the ele gant courtrooms because a committee of judges wanted it thatway. Moss ordered a wit ness box installed with all due speed. America's inadequate high way system involves a loss of about $3 billion annually to the public in lost time, mis haps and other factors. less. I would hope that we can avoid the dangers of impul sive action as well as the pitfalls of "flexibility" and expediency, which seem to tempt some of our friends. I continue to be optimistic about the prospects of peace, but only if we keep a firm grip on ourselves and if we think and act creatively in our foreign policy. y Credit Gladly Given USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT eys 7 r 1 2 17 South Central 3 DAYS ONLY MARCH 19-20-21 Thursday - Friday - Saturday You'll be surprised and pleased at the savings we are offering during this event. 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