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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNf, Mearere", Or. WeJiteseay, May , If St "Iveryone In Southern Oregoa Reads The Mail Tribane" Published Daily except Saturday by MJJDFORD PRINTING CO. 33 North Fix St Ph. SP 2-141 ROBE3T W RCTTT.. Editor KERB GRITV Advertising Manage GERALD LATHAM. Business Ugr ERIC W AX1XN JR. Managing F.ditor EARL, H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Tel eg Editor RICHARD JEW KIT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Women's Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 I SUBSCRIPTION RATES ... ir.ll 1. A Airm-rf CrtTT tfV" Dail- and Sunday 1 "year $1S.0 Uaily ana aunoay u iiiua. v Daily and Sunday 3 mos. 45$ Sunday Only One year S4.30 wt : .... T n Atfatiia.1U0HfArr1 Ashland Central Point Eagle Point, Jacksonville, owa rau, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue Biv- Dail7 and Sunday-! year $18.00 Ajauy ana ounuay a wo. a.tv Carrier and Dealers copy lOe All lerms t-ain m nmiL Official Paper of City Medferi Official Paper ol Jacssen nmy United Press International Fun Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHt UlAl'U-TI wttct ttai roav r?r rwe. of fices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, las Angucs, Seattle. Portland. St, Louis, At lanta. Vancouver B.C tffiKl NSWSPAM PUSLISHItS "ASSOCIATION MATlOMAi EDITOtlAl a Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson' County History from the files of The Wail Tribune 10, 20. 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO M 6. 1943 (Friday) , Glenn Jackson, Jacksoiw County Chamber of Com merce president, tells mem bers of the state highway commission that the Green cprings mountain highway should be improved. C. Scott HamUtoni sue the city of Central Point for dam ages allegedly resulting from the city's dumping sewage in Bear creek. 20 YEARS AGO May 6, 1939 (Saturday) One of the "Tarzan Boys of Dark Hollow" is arrested on a charge of pigeon-stealing. From Arthur Perry! "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "The Older Girls report an epidem ic of lawnbago among their better halves, as it if alleged, because the grass needs mow ing.", 30 YEARS AGO May 6. 1929 (Monday) Senior high school com mencement exercises are scheduled for the Craterian theater May 29. Three mills plans to cut timber in the Prospect district this summer. 40 YEARS AGO May 6, 1919 (Tuesday) Six high school athletes leave for Eugene for the state track meet. , The vaUey escaped frost damage in March, according to a report. 50 YEARS AGO May 6, 1909 (Thursday) Work resumes in the Des ert Oil company's drilling op eration northeast of town. Thirty carloads of lumber arrive in the past 10 days to supply building projects in this area. Vhal's Your I.Q.? Nina er tan correct is suMrier; avail or eight b excellent; fiva or ix u good. 1. How long did Rip Van- Yinkie sleep? 2. Arnustirs is the branch of; knowledge that treats of heat, light, sound, or elec trieitv? 3. The school song of the Annapolis Naval Academy is 'Anchors Away;" true or false? A The nrniriM of th U.S correspond to what similar areas in Argentina? 5. Does any existing species of bird possess teeth? ' 6. Bourbon whisky is dis tilled from what grain? 7. Name the eight States of the U.S. whose names begin with th letter N. 8. In September, 1945, Ja- pan signed a lormai surrend er document aboard a UJS ttattlpshin- name the ship. ' 9. Correct the foUowing: "Whn Hid vou see?" :- ; 10. What sort of heavenly bodies are Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? Answers: 1. 20 yaars. .2. Sound. 3. Falsa (Anchcti aw.iahl. 4. Pampas. 5. No. 6. Corn. 7. Nebraska. Nevada, New Hampshire. New Jersey J.t Manrieo. NW York North Carolina. North Da kota. 8. Missouri. 9. whom did you seer 10. Planets. Hatfield's Future fr. Oregon's young Republican governor, Mark Odom Hatfield, is the subject of a sympathetic article in this week's Saturday Evening Post. The article is -interesting reading for those who have watched Hatfield climb from a brilliant young college professor of political science through two terms in the house of representatives, a half-term in the senate, and a half-term as sec retary of state before running successfully for the governorship. , The author, Milton MacKaye, states that Hat field, by reason of his election as a Republican in what was otherwise (except in New York) a Democratic year, has made him "potentially a national political figure." HPHE article makes a comparison between Hat- field and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York. Both, it is pointed out, are relatively young, both are "liberal" Republicans, both were early supporters of Dwight Eisenhower, and both ran campaigns which emphasized a non-partisan ap proach, appealing to Democrats, Republicans and uncommitted voters alike. All these points are valid, and it may be, in deed, that the future holds national political promise, for Hatfield. The role most often men tioned is that as a vice-presidential candidate on a Rockefeller ticket But there are several factors which might mitigate against this possibility. , , H ATFIELD'S almost-meteoric career has been marked, for one thine:, by jumping from one candidacy to another almost too fast, in the eyes of some critics. He left the state senate to run for secretary of state, left that office in mid term to run for governor, and if he were to seek higher office in the mid-term of his governorship, it could be used against him (although this would carry. more weight with Oregon voters than it would with those in th& nation at large). ... , More urifcortant than lot of people, Republicans and Democrats alike, believe is his lack of forthright, courageous lead ership in the short time he .' . IS campaign last fall gave the impression, if nnt the snecific assurance, that he would be H able to maintain and improve state services, while holding the tax line, or even reducing them. This mav be leiritimate camDaiem talk, but in view of the financial problems facing the state, it may come back to flaunt him, particularly if the state's tax nliffht becomes more serious within the next two years as , Anu, pussiuiy must, uiipuiuuib ox Aiamciu. has somehow failed to "project" his image and his views since takinp- office. He has been over shadowed by the bickering within the legislature, -1 1- " 1 1 i- T U ....l-imia ana ins puuiic pruxiouiiceiueiiis nave, it suiueuiuw seems, a querulous quality not in keeping with the image of a young, courageous and liberal-minded political leader. M ARK Hatfield is a uersonablej friendly and, xvp. believe, able ground, both educationally and through experi- if 1 1 TT 1 J.1 3 J ence, is unexcepuonaDie. of youth, eood looks, an ffirthrnmino" child. His war record, his churcn contacts, his aDiiity j. I i 1 1 i... ,Ci-V. ...J. " m m ' m in minirie ireeiv aim un from all segments of society, from college pro- e . i i n i. j i.: i i lessors to lumuerjacjtus, an a t i 1 nca stean. Desnite all these, and desDite his thousand per cent record in elections up to this point, Hat- iieia nas sun to get across to many peopie wnat l 1 1 i Xl i 1 ' J 4 I 1 n is, in nara lerms, mat to do. It is well-known he is and the sales tax. But if bigger things, he must what he is for, too. H..A. Another It is the hone, surely, son county that the air the Iruit growers can put into enect tne inree phase plan announced yesterday morning. DesDite a small minority who would end or chard heating out-of-hand, and be damned to the consequences, most reasonable people acKnowi edsre the necessity to protect the fruit from frost, so long as genuine attempts are made to mitigate the smoke nuisance. But at the same time, people can be forgiven if they view the assurances of the committee with a jaundiced eye. They've heard such talk before. Yet the smudge smoke this year was worse than it has been in recent years. ' WE WILL believe in the good faith of the or- chardists this time, and will continue to do so until proven wrong. Burning of tires (which we were told several years ago would cease forthwith) should be ban ned outright. A five-year program of replacement of the smoky type of pots is not unreasonable. (But the practice of buying used ones, cheap, from California where they have been outlawed, will hardly build good-will.) Judging by the reaction of many good people in the Medford area, the orchardists will be given another chance to make the necessary changes. If not, however, we believe that the state air pollution authority will be "pressed" (in the un fortunate phrase of one I enforcing the law. E. A. this, however, is what a has been in office. can certainly happen. vcmnp man. His back ne nas uie auvaiitage attractive wife and a 1 euuai ueims wiui ucuuic suuiu illui m guuu yvu- ne sianas ior ana eeri.s against traffic accidents Hatfield is to eo on to get across the image of Chance of most people in Jack pollution committee of of its spokesmen) into Dennis the I JUST tOSTW TEMPER. KM Senators, Agency Chief Defend 'Right to Know But By FRANK ELEAZER Washington - (UPD - It was a heartwarming sight: Two sena tors versus a bureaucrat, each side outdoing the' other in defense of our right to know how the pub lic money is spent. But I guess nobody won, least of all us taxpayers. It was a Frank Eleazer meeting of the Senate's sub committee on constitutional rights, headed by Sen. Thomas C. Hennings Jr. (D-Mo.). AU the fuss was about foreign aid. Hennings took the position this costs billions of dollars and that the people who put up the money are entitled to know 'what's done with it Sen. Roman Hruska (R-Neb.), said he couldn't agree more because "this is public bus iness." Even Leonard J. Saccio, acting foreign aid boss, could see this' was reasonable. In fact he said we taxpayers should be "fully informed.? He said he bets doUars to doughnuts his agency is the niost thoroughly investigated in town, and that he likes it this way. : Kay Words 'Just About' Saccio said he lets Congress' investigators who keep the lawmakers informed so they can teU us see just about every record he has. Hennings said the key words here were "just about." The things Saccio's agency guards from the congresisonal gumshoes, it develops, are papers called "evaluation re ports." Hennings seemed to think they contain some in teresting stuff. Saccio said maybe so, but it's for his eyes only. ' He said what happens is that the agency picks teams of good men to go out to the 66 countries on the foreign aid list and bring back pri vate reports on how things are going. If they couldn't count on the agency keeping their rports confidential, he said, these feUows might not tell the whole story Challenge Saccio Hennings and Hruska said these reports sounded like just' the kind most needed by the congresional watchdogs. They chalenged Saccio's right to withhold them. Saccio cited precedent, a presidential order, and an at torney general's ruling ia support of his refusal to pro duce them. He said the whole thing boiled down to "execu tive privilege" derived from the constitutional division of Try and Stop Klo By BENNETT CERT ALGERNON SWINBURNE was leaving his London club one evening, and looked for hit hat. AH the poet could find were four top-hats belonging to ether members of the club. In a raee. he threw the toDnera on the floor, and was doing ax war dance on them when a hall porter came running up to discover the cause of the commotion. "Where's my hat?" thun dered Swinburne. "Sir,1 replied the porter, "you had none. You told me the evening was so fine you decided to come without one." ' "You are absolutely cor rect," agreed the poet, his anger vanishing: Then, look ing at the ruined hats on the floor, he added, "I imagine the theirs, either." it. Israel Weisfield Botes that tbe jeep Whkh carried the Third Army Catholic chaplain in World War U hen the iaaortpUce, ."Bringing Up Father.1 - ; . lKa by Bennett Cert. SfstrfMtei IT KHf 1 Menace powers among the Congress, the executive, and the courts. Hennings' subcommittee has been doing battle with this same argument for almost four years. Somewhat wearily, Hennings said he was a little sick of this "executive privi lege." - Hennings could have quit there, while ahead, but he continued: "Some of us (in the Con gress) don't have much privi lege in the government. A fel low 'can get up anywhere and ask where I .stand. There's not much that some of us can conceal." Headline Publicising Payroll Saccio was much too smart to comment on that. Or maybe he just hadn't seen . all the stuff in the papers about sen India Needs More Help in Fight For Development; Sources Eyed Washington - India gained its independence at just about the time the cold war was starting. '. Although basicaUy democratic in forms of govern ment and habits of thought, it has done its best to foUow a neutral course in the great struggle between the free and Communist worlds. Its ener gies have been 'concentrated on pushing forward projects of economic development vi tally needed to raise the liv ing standards if India's huge and rapidly growing popula tion. In that task it has re ceived substantial aid from the United States and the World Bank and also from the Soviet Union. - All through the underde veloped countries of the East recently emerged from colon ial status," the main aim and longing is to gain the means for a better life and to do it in a hurry . A looming question for the smaller lands is wheth er they will be able to folow the exampe of democratic India or perhaps be forced into accepting that of Com munist China. Peking's sacri fice of human liberties to pro duction goals may be lost ito sight if Red China continues to make spectacular material strides. ThuSjSubstantial prog ress against poverty cannot be delayed in India if that country is to retain its present strong position of leadership in South and Southeast Asia. Much Aid Required Development of the Indian economy by methods accept able in free countries requires a vast in-pouring of foreign capital. Since it attained inde pendence in 1947, India has other gentlemen won't be using, 'Internal Interference' Charge by Reds Provides Contrast in Communist Thought By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor One source of Red China's current indignation with India is the charge that the latter's Interest in Tibet constitutes interference in- Red China's internal af fairs. It provides an interesting contrast in Commun ist thinking. For exam ple inv Com munist eyes it is not inter- Phii Nswsom ierence in a nation's internal affairs when Red propaganda agencies at tack established non V Com munist governments of Asia or Europe which accept U.S. aid. It is not interference in U. S. internal affairs when the Moscow or Peiping radios make vicious attacks against officials of the U. S. govern ment. " Don't Talk ator's payrolls. In general, these are almost as secret as Saccio's "evaluations" and possibly in some cases as in teresting. Hennings has declined to make his payroll public, until the Senate as a body decides this should be done. So has Hruska. Hennings is chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, which has before it just such a proposal. He didn't make any announcement ' : though about getting it approved any time soon. And Saccio didn't say any thing about changing his mind. ' " v,:- So I guess we shouldn't look for new enlightment soon, from either side of the table, received a cumulative total of around $2.6 billion worth of aid of various kinds from abroad. The United States has been the source of approxi mately $1.6 billion. The World Bank has loaned more than $500 m i 11 i o n. Communist sources have supplied about $300 million. A large part of the aid to India has gone to supply for eign materials or technical as sistance needed to expand ag ricultural and industrial pro duction and carry out objec tives of the government's eco nomic planning. An industrial policy announced in 1948 di vided the economy into public and private sectors. Nearly a score of key industries were designated state monopolies, and a large number of other industries were left entirely to private enterprise. In the middle was a mixed group in which new government-owned companies were to operate alongside existing private companies. Five-Year Plan Economic planning was car ried further in 1951, when India initiated its first five year plan. The plan called for expenditure of nearly $5 bil lion in the pubic sector of in dustry and anticipated an equa outlay by industries in the private sector. Emphasis was on expansion of agricul tural production. The second five-year plan, started in the spring ox 1956, doubled public-sector expenditures to $10 billion and shifted the empha sis to industrial expansion. Foreigin aid, though greatly increased since the second five-year plan went into ef fect, has still not been suffic ient to cover Indian foreign exchange deficits. PlannedHn vestments recently had to be cut back $500 million for that reason. Most of the American aid has been in the form of loans rather than grants. The United States has supplied $518 million for technical as sistance: $130 million in de velopment assistance loans be fore 1957 and $175 million since that date; $150 mijlion in. Export-Import Bank cred its to purchase heavy capital goods; and $664 million in sur plus agricultural commodities sold for rupees, most of which were loaned back for Indian development projects: Source Depleted The greater part of the loans has been made repay able, In rupees. The chief cur rent source of such "soft" loans is this country's Devel opment Loan Fund, set up in 1951. Further aid to India from the United States de pends at the moment on how far Congress' goes to meet ad ministrative pleas for support nf the foreif n aid oroaTam President Eisenhower has It is not interference in in ternal affairs when Russian tanks rumble into a presum ably sovereign Hungary to quash an internal revolt against a hated Communist regime. Reds Not Worried But it is interference in Red China's internal affairs when India expresses sympathy for the Tibetans and gives sanc tuary to the Dalai Lama when he flees his Tibetan capital of Lhasa after a series of bro ken Red promises. - It is characteristic of Com munism that its spokesmen are not worried by inconsis tencies either in word or deed. But the Red Chinese attacks on India seem particularly in consistent. It is very doubt ful the Red Chinese want the Dalai Lama back since he has opposed them consistently and since, in the Panchen Lama, among Buddhists, they have a hand-picked candidate to suc ceed him as Tibet's ruler. Further, in attacking India, they are attacking the one major non-Communist nation which has been their most consistent apologist. Pressure on Nehru The result has been increas ing, pressure on Indian Pre mier Jawaharlal Nehru from politicians at home to take a new look at India's foreign policy. ' . In his recent public utter ances, Nehru has appeared more hurt than angry at Pei ping's intemperate attacks. He has denied charges that the Tibetan revolt was fostered from the Indian side of the border. He has labelled some Red Chinese charges "irresponsi ble" but he has been careful to say they were uttered "in excitement and I hope the ex citement will pass." But his irritation has shown through, especially in a recent statement to the Indian Par liament that he was unable to say why certain Red Chin ese maps incorporate slices of Indian territory and border recommenaea an appropria tion of $700 million for fiscal 1960 to replenish DJL.F.'s now Virtually empty treasury. Sen. J. W. ' Fulbright (D-Ark.). chairman of the Foreign Re lations Committee, has pro posed that D1.F. be given au thority now to lend $7.5 bil lion over the next five years at the rate of $1.5 billion a year. Editorial Research Re ports. Political Parties Borrowing Some of Other's Techniques Bt RAYMOND LAHR Washington-flJPD-If imitation is the sincerest flattery, each of the political parties is flat tering the other. The Republicans . are pre paring to publish a magazine to give the party line to the faithful. This is an idea bor rowed from the Democrats, who have had their own live ly magazine going since the summer of 1953. Now the Democrats are pre paring to salute former Presi dent Truman on his 75th birthday Friday with fund raising functions linking 15 cities by closed circuit tele vision. They borrowed this . idea from the Republicans who raised about $3 million in 1956 by using closed circuit TV in the same way to cele brate the third anniversary of President Eisenhower's first inauguration. Hope to Fatten Purse The Democrats have no $3 million goal, but they do ex pect to fatten their bank ac count with receipts from about 49,000 paying guests. For their money, the TV viewers will get a mixture of Democratic oratory, entertainment, a Tru man speech and filmed high lights of the Truman years in the White House. The former President has been bouncing around Wash ington and New York for the past two weeks giving advice ito Congress and making unihibited comments on al most every subject except bis choice for the 1960 presiden tial nomination. If and when he answers that question, he will surprise a great many Democrats if he endorses any one but Sen. Stuart Syming ton from his home state of Missouri. Truman Partisans The TV show will no doubt please the Truman partisans who want to assign him a place among the great presi dents while the political de bate about his administration it still far from finished, areas under Indian protection. One school of thought in New Delhi believes that envy lies at the root of Peiping's unbridled attacks against In dia. WUI Support Red China This school believes Pei ping is jealous of India's rank in world politics and was an noyed at Moscow's suggest ion that India should be . in cluded in a summit confer ence whUe Peiping itself was ignored. ' -In a world of power politics Letters to the Editor must beer 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 rioht to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Utters 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. Against Ordinance I Criticise Sentenes. To the Editor: At the last' regular meeting of the Shady Cove Grange, it was moved, seconded, and carried without a dissenting vote that: The Shady Cove Grange is op posed to the present proposed planning ordinance, and that a letter be sent to the County Court, and the Medford Mail Tribune stating our action. Anna Beryl Kee, Sec. Shady Cove -Grange "We're Being Robbed" To the Editor: In his WoodsWater and Wildlife" column in The. Medford Mail Tribune May 1, 'Hank, De Voss, instructor on the Med ford public school system staff sounds some wise words of warning. Hank potently puts it: "We are being robbed and don't know it." That's been one of the ter rible great blights on the fair face of Oregon through most of her first hundred years stolen, wasted and destroyed natural resources. Had President Theodore Roosevelt's May 13, 1908 declaration, command, been heeded and adhered to, Ore gon's economy might have been stabilized assured, per petuated, and later tax wor ries greatly lessened. Through this Conservation Week a number of news items will apear in Jackson county and other Oregon newspapers with reference to natural re- cources. Each may convey dif ferent viewpoints, but all will doubtless contain food for thought, much serious thought. John Gribble Chairman for Jackson County Conservation Week The judgment of history on Truman presumably will be based on his foreign policy rather than his domestic pro gram. The monuments of the Truman administration were the Truman Doctrine to keep Greece and Turkey free, the Marshall Plan, NATO, the Point Four program for back ward countries and the decis ion to fight in Korea. His domestic program did not fare so well in a Congress where the dominant conserva tive coalition thought that it tasted too much like an ex tension of the New Deal. A glance back to 1950 shows Truman advocating the Brannan Plan for agriculture, federal aid for schools, nation al health insurance, repeal of the Taft-Hartley law and a set of Civil Rights proposals. MIDGETS WANT RIDE Hollywood -JUPD-The Little People of America, an inter national organization of mid gets, appealed to the Pentagon Tuesday night to allow midgets to aid the U. S. satel lite program by riding in the rockets. j C. M. Litwiner YOU MAY BE ASSURED . . . that each individual requirement and need is met wherf' your loved ones are entrusted to our care. The "Better" Service since 1935 LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND W Never Close this reasoning does not seem entirely valid. Nehru is a man with an ap parently infinite capacity for turning he other cheek.- This week he announced that re gardless of Peiping's attacks, he will continue to support Red China for membership in the United Nations. But pressure for a review of relations with Red China is building within his own party and it seems Nehru may not be able to fence-sit forever. To the Editor: Th ir year sentence gave td part with Judge Main for his in the cattle theft of Dec. 27. 1958 Why did he give the older man a suspended sen tence and the boy, he goes to the pen? It looks like in justice. Chester "Keene, 142 Glenwood rd., Medford. Editor's note: The names in the above communication have been deleted. A check of circuit court records shows that the "boy" who received the three-year sentence had prior criminal convictions, and had a record of parole violation. These facts, dis closed in pre-sentence inves tigation, are taken into con sideration by any judge passing sentence. in Cemetery Cleanup To the Editor: I.O.OJ". cemetery, Central Point, clean up has been scheduled for all day, Friday, May 8. All persons who are inter ested in the improvement project and clean-up are in vited to participate. I do hope all persons with friends and relatives in that cemetery will be interested for that truly is the worst looking cemetery I ever saw. Bring hoes, rakes, shovels, wheel-barrows and lawn mowers to work with. . t; C'L. Bergman, Eagle Point. Importance of Clinic To the Editor: As ,we are now in our membership drive for the Child Guidance Clinic, I would like to impress upon the people the importance of the clinic. The clinic will see children up to 16 years of age. Our staff works with the parents and teachers when necessary, and the child, to solve their problems. Many children are guided safely through these problems and on to a well ad justed life instead of becom ing one of our delinquents who goes on as a "mixed up kid" getting into trouble eventually. I feel the clinic is import ant and should be sponsored by everyone in this locality who have an interest in chil dren and youth. Betty Dusenberry Box 44 - Trail, Ore. HELP FOR POLICE New York (UPD A law which would permit the city to use 100 "metermen" to re place police handing out sum monses for overtime parking was introduced in the city council Tuesday: Under it, uniformed but unarmed civil ians would begin handing out the tickets starting July 1. Helps Yen Overcome FALSE TEETH Looseness and Worry No longer be annoyed or feel lll-m-ease because of loose, wobbly false teeth. FASTEETH. an Improved alka line (non-acid) powder, sprinkled on your plates holds them firmer so they feel more comfortable Avoid embar rassment caused by loose plates. Get CAS TEETH todaj at any drug couotam. Mrs. Litwiller "It is better to know us and not need us than to need us and not know us."