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A MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dforJ, Or. Menday, August 3, 1959 MedforcvTribukx "Everyone is Southern Oregon Readi The Mall Tribune' Published DhII llshed DhIU except Saturday by aCJDFOrtP PRINTTOQ CO worm tn st Pb SP 2-S141 ROBI.Hr W RTJHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager UII'AUI LATHAM Business Hn ERIC W ALLEN JR. ' Managing fcditor EARL H ADAMS, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHAKO JieWETt Snort Kdito OLIVE STARCHEH Women'! Editor DALE EKICKSON Circulation Mr An Independent Nnmnwr Enterea a& second class matter al Meatorn ureaon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mil : In Advance Coov 10c Dall- and Sunday 1 year BIS. 00 Daily and Sunday moa. tX(C uaxiy ane Sunday 3 mos 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Asiuana central Point. Eagle roint, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routei Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Suntlsy 1 mo 1-50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c Ail lernu Casr m Advance Official Paper of City mf Medlars' oinciai paper of JaeHtun County United Press International Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU" OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative flees In Nevt York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At tarn a Vancouver B C. NEWSPAPER v PUBLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL j htpy 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 -".GO Aug. 3, 1949 (Wednesday) More than 650 theatre goers, representing the larg est opening night audience in history, attend-id the Shakespeare Festival's "Ro meo and Juliet." Police anl Postmaster Moore Hamilton investigate the origin of a mysterious lead slug that crashed through the post office sky light. 20 YEARS AGO-' Aug. 3, 1939 (Thursday) Ten Central Point youths are charged with petty lar ceny for a r id on John Boh nert'g watermelon patch. From Arthur Terry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Fletch Fish, the boom-day tenor of Phoenix, still warbles, but in the lower notes. There was a time when, if Mr. Fish let loose with his high one, no orchestra could drown him." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 3, 1929 (Saturday) The Bagley cannery at Ashland is making sauer kraut out o Talent cabbage. Many huckleberries are re ported in the Rabbit Ears district near Union Creek. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 3. 1919 (Sunday) A scarcity of houses is re ported throughout the vaUey. Army planes are to patro the Medford district for for est fires. 50 YEARS .'.GO Aug. 3. 1909 "uesdav) President Barnum of the Rogue Ri-er- railro..d ex presses concern that grass-hoppers-rather than herds of buffalo - may hamper his trains. Jackson county's offer of bounties brings in three panther scalps. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten correct fs superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or tix is good. 1. On the average, is the life expectancy of women in the U. S. longer or shorter, than that of men? 2. In Greek mythology, the griffon was. half lion and half what? 3. If you were served Irish cobblers, what kind of vege table would it be? 4. What is the nickname of the box into which legislators drop bills they are introduc ing? 5. Does the U. S. Constitu tion prescribe a higher mini mum age for Senators or Rep resentatives? 6. In Longfellow's poem about e village blacksmith, under what kind of tree did the vUlage smithy stand? 7. Can the U. S. President veto a part of any congression al biU? 8. Most footbaU fans know that the "Orange Bowl" is lo cated in Florida, do you know whether it is in Jacksonville, Miami, or Tampa? 9. How many golden balls signify the pawnbroker's trade? . 10. Would 3, or 5, in the fraction 35 be the numera tor? Answers: 1. Longer. 2. Ea gle. 3. White potatoes. 4. "Hopper." 5. Senators. 6. Chestnut. 7. No. (It must be aU or nothing). 8. Miami. 9. Thxo. 10. Three. Low Water The Grants Pass Courier and the Coos Bay limes editorialize the same day on the low stage of the flow of water in Rogue river. The Courier brands it a serious situation, and regards it as a threat to fish life and a menace to the supply of irrigation water. The Times notes that low water on the lower Rogue hampered the boat racet Agness, and complains perature is slowly rising. It attributes the trouble to increasing use of irrigation water upstream and foresees more diversion The Grants Pass Courier cites the situation as proof of the need for dams and spillways. ' . THERE is no presently practical way of in- creasing the rainfall and thus providing more runoff; but the people of the Rogue River basin have been offered programs for dams to hold back flood water for later release, plans prepared both by the Reclamation Bureau and the Corps of Engineers. So long as they and outside par tisans keep scrapping nothing will be done and the Rogue may continue for multiple use. Obviously the thing to do is to go ahead with upstream storage dams. If they don't those pre cious fish in the Rogue may die of thirst. Salem (Oregon) Statesman. It's A Good Birthday Party When Stanford Research Institute told the Oregon Centennial Commission that 8-10,000,000 people could come to Oregon in 1959 to partici pate in the state's 100th birthday party, some people said, What was pursue the matter, however, because the type of study Stanford Research conducted. Now, it has become have many less visitors than Stanford Research predicted and the thought is spreading that Ore gon's birthday party has I T HASN'T been a failure. Tourist travel to Ore gon is up over a year ago. The Centennial Exposition and International Trade Pair will at worst show a very small deficit when it closes in September, and the chances are good that it will wind up debt free. The Molalla and St Paul rodeos had capacity crowds. The Shakespearean Festival at Ashland had a record advance sale as has the Pendleton Round-Up. Uregon is getting more visitors this year than she has ever had before. BEYOND this there has been something that a tremendous amount of nial Wagon Train has been followed by readers of newspapers in every state of the union as it has made its way from Independence, Mo., to Independence, Ore. Over all that long route the train has drawn huge crowds. All the important magazines have had big "spreads" on Oregon, Radio listeners and TV. viewers throughout the country have seen and heard much of Oregon. The Stanford Research prediction was regret able. It's best now to forget it. We're having a good birthday party. It's certain to bring the state some long range benefits. Many people have had their first look at Oregon this year. Many will want to visit again. Some will want to return as permanent residents. It's a good birthday party. Let's live it up ! Pendleton East-Oregonian. , Two Millions for Nothing The damage claim of the Dixon-Yates syndi cate against the United States Government which the United States Court of Claims has just upheld leaves the Eisenhower Administration in a thor oughly ironical position. Here is an economy-preaching Administra tion, which has scrimped on resource develop ment, public education, national defense and many other items, called on to pay out $1,867,545 for absolutely nothing in return a complete waste of money. Here is an Administration which promised to bring business methods to Govern ment penalized to the tune of nearly two mil lions by its own bungling. -. POR the Dixon-Yates case has been a bungle from beginning to end. President Eisenhower ordered the contract in 1954 to produce private power to replace power the Tennessee Valley Authority was supplying to the United States Energy Commission and President Eisenhower canceled the contract in 1955 when it became too hot to handle. The Administration through its Department of Justice then attacked, as against the public interest, the contract it had commanded the TVA and the AEC to sign as being in the public inter est. The legal attack was based on the contention that Wall Street Banker Adolphe Wenzell was guilty of conflict of interest for serving the Gov ernment and his firm at the same time. If there was any conflict, it had been carefully arranged within the Administration itself. AT THE same time as his Attorney General was attacking the canceled contract in court, President Eisenhower continued to defend it at press conferences, aided by his then chairman of the ' EC, Lewis L. Strauss. What more would it take to make ah opera bouffe? A musical accompaniment would be re quired, but it would be a crime against literature to change a word of the script. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. on Roque that the rivers water tern for industry. to suffer deterioration that again?" They didn't apparent that Oregon will been a failure. publicity. The Centen Dennis the Menace Matter of Fact THE ROCKEFELLER CLIMATE Now York-The more you test he dimate of Gov. Iel- son Rockefeller's high com' -ian, thr; more t'.-j con' iction grows the New York governor will l4S end by. mak ing a serious, active bid for the Rep ubli- can presiden- tial nomim Jnsph Alsop uon. One little climatic sign, for instance, is the derisive bitter ness that has been provoked by the special assignment fdr t ? Republican convention that has been given to the New York State Chairman L. Judson Morhouse. A couple of weeks ago, Morhouse got the word from he Republican National committee, which is completely controlled by sup port -rs of Vice President P'chard M. Nixon. The word came, out of the blue as it were, in a letter from the Nw Jersey Nation al Committeewoman, Mrs. Web ter Todd. Mrs. Todd wrote Jhat she was so glad Morhouse was going to serve with her . the committee oh Program and Music. 'IDES choosing the en tertainers and the musical selections to while -iway the delegates' empty hours, this committee has some say about more important matters, such as -the choice of keynote speaker. Nonethless, the as signment did not seem quite in keeping with Morhouse's standing as party chairman in N"w York stte. And it did not fit 'n very weU, eith er, with Morhouse's hopes to drive a Rockefeller steam roller into the convention hall. Another, much more major sign is the vivid interest one encounters her abouts in the great topic of political pri maries. Interest in primaries is a common symr torn in can didates who 'iope to win nom inations because they are the people's rather than the poli ticians' choice. Vice President Nixon is quite obviously the politicians' choice. Hence Governor Rockefeller will have to be nominated as the choice of the people, if he is to be nominated at all. The argument about pri maries between the governor and his entourage is rather closely linked 'o the other ar gument, already reported in this space, about the desir ability of the governor going out and beginning to work actively for the nomination in the months that lie just ahead. GOVERNOR Rockefeller himself still seemr to be tempted by the theory that he can hold back until' next Try and i -By BENNETT CERF- "T'M AFRAID I wasn't cut out to be a traveling salesman,'' JL sighed a young college graduate after his first five-week-long trip through the midwest. "All that happened was no orders to speak of, and an insult at practically every account I visited." "That's funny," mused the veteran sales manager, "I was on the road for over 30 years. I had my samples flung out windows, I was thrown down flights of stairs, I had my ancestry questioned by phone opera tors and office boys. But in sulted? Neverir Add to your stock of stories about lady-drivers the experi ence of a. cod in an. informa tion booth on a. New Jersey parkway. A young lady drove up and asked directions to Atlantic City. The cop wrote them out for her. The young lady thanked him and then promptly rammed her car into the information booth. The cop picked himself up from the rubble, took back his direc tions, and gave her a ticket. - O lSoS, by Beaaatt Cecfc KistrSlioted by Sinr Feaaores Sysdiesh, j By Joseph Alsop winter and then come from behind with hr sudden rush of a Wendell illkie in 1940, If he follows this pro cedure, the rush will quite likely he made in the various state prim-ries. His name has been entered in New Hamp shire, but he has not with drawn it. Maybe he will do so in the end, but it must be said that the governor visibly de lights i i th mere idea of pri mary campaigning, with "U its exciting rough and tumble and rich, unending contacts with the voting masses. The story does not end, either, with tPi obvious rel ish for a form of activity that fills Vice President Nixon with pale distate, In the Rockefeller ento'iraf e r w adays, those terrible words, "the California primary," are to be heard with surprising frequency. The point is that the vice President's own state holds the last and most open of all the state primaries. If Cover nor Rockefeller challenges him in California itself, the Vice Pr sident can hardly dodge the challenge. If Gov ernor RockefeUer were then to win the primary, the effect on the Nixon fortunes would be downright catastrophic. These are in fact the reasons why the Vice President has given much time in recent months to strengthening his California fences. NONETHELESS, the idea of entering the California primary is at least being played with, if not yet serious ly considered, by the Gover nor and his adv'sers. There could be no clearer. proof of the important change that has taken place here. The change is in the nature of the argu ment in the Rockefeller camp. It is no longer about whether to make a bid for the nomina tion, but insead concerns how best to make the strong est bid. In these circumstances, one would normally make a flat prediction of an eventual active and avowed Rockefel ler candidacy. The prediction must be conditional, however, because the Governor, who is a realist, has squarely faced the central -fact ;n his own situation. TL's is the fact that he can only be nominated if he looks much more like a winner than the Vice Presi dent. So far the public opinion polls have not made Rockefel ler look more like a winner. If he cannot change this situ ation, "".ockefeller knows he has no chance. But if he can change it-and he is clearly going to try-an epic Nixon- Rockefeller battle for the nomination will surely be in cluded in next year's list of excitements. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Stop Mo Foreign Notebook: September Summit Chances Dim; British Election Forecast (Editor's Note: During UPI Foreign Editor Phil Newsom'i vacation his for eign news commentary col limn will be written by oth er UPI staffers. By WILLIAM J, FOX From the foreign editor's notebook: . . Summit. Session . Western diplomats at Gen eva now see not the slightest chance of a summit meeting in September. The foreign minister's deadlock appears to have killed all chances of President Trips Abroad; During Autumn By WILLIAM THEIS Washington-(OPJ)-Vice Presi dent Nixon's dramatic Soviet tour is shaping up more and more as a 1960 political plus for the Californian. And the other presidential hopefuls are now hardening their own foreign travel plans for this fall. The Far East, Africa and Europe are in for some au tumn visitations. Most of those in the Democratic field of "real" or "potential" presiden tial candidates will be moving out. For some, it's a serious case of "closing the foreign policy gap." j None of the Democrats who'd like to square off against Nixon in the presiden tial showdown next year can hope to match him in over seas mileage, handshakes or vodka-wine toasts. The vice president has been building major foreign policy expert ence since 1933, when he Washington Report By WILLIAM NIXON AND THE BUDGET Washington-Vice President Richard M. Nixon's mission to Moscow will hardly be more significant for his Presidential ambitions than another and far less dra matic mission he must un dertake right here in Wash ington. The return- ing Nixon faces a creep- w,1E,n!B- ing crisis the White House Cabinet over Vio ciyp shane and tone of next year's Federal budget. Already, the highest figures within the Eisenhower Ad ministration are beginning wearily to discuss this hardy nprpnnial. In Russia, the Vice Presi dent served as middleman be tween President Eisenhower an Nikita Khrushchev. In Washington, now his task is thisr to find and maintain a politically strong position ahmit midway' between "spenders" like Arthur Flem the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and "savers" like Secretary of the Treasury Robert Anderson. THE whole of the Cabinet, according to what some of its members have just toia this correspondent, is either frankly pro-Nixon for 1960 or, at worst, certainly friendly toward his nomination for the Presidency. The Vice Presi dent, nevertheless, is in a pe culiarly delicate situation on the last budget to be prepared by the Eisenhower Adminis tration. No matter what sort of budget it turns out to be, Eisenhower has nothing to gain or to lose. For he is bow ing out of public life. But Nixon has everything to gain or to lose, as the man who frankly presents himself as the President's inevitable heir apparent. Army, Marines to Get New Missile Washintgon-OJPD-The Army and Marines are , going to equip infantrymen with a new guided missile designed ' to knock down low-flying com bat planes. Sketchy details of the new weapon, called "the Redeye" were disclosed and test models were shown as part of the annual three-day meeting here of the Association of the U. S. Army. The Redeye looks like a World War II anti-tank ba zooka. The weapon, fired from the shoulder, has an infra-red "heat seeker" in its nose which will carry it to a straf ing or bombing airplane that gets within range. The Redeye and its launch er weigh 20 pounds. The weapon is four feet long. The Army has awarded a six-million-dollar contract to develop the weapon to Con vair Division of General Dy namics Corp., which will do the work at its Pomona, Calif., plant. that eventuality. But if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States ma terializes, the diplomats be lieve it might be followed in a more hopeful atmosphere by a Big Four summit gath ering several months hence, British Elections The pervasive feeling in Britain is that the long-expected parliamentary general election will be held in Oc tober. Parliament adjourned last Thursday and, between now and October, the politi cians will be hitting the road Hopefuls Slate spent 10 weeks going through the Far East and around the world. When he returns from Russia and Poland, he'll have traveled 145,000 miles abroad and wiU have visited more than 50 countries as vice pres ident. Of the Senate's crop of Democratic presidential possi bilities, only Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas intends to be a 1958 stay at home. He insists he's hot a candidate for anything but the Senate next year and plans no forays outside this country. The other three senatorial potential candidates have more ambitious plans. Big Travel Schedule Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), running hard but moving slowly,' has the big gest travel schedule and the most formidable foreign pol icy background of the three. Humphrey made headlines last December with his eight- S. WHITE The Vice President cannot, and will not, attempt to dis associate himself in any im portant way from the "hold- the line" spending policy to which Eisenhower 15 determ ined to cling through the twilight of his tenure. Nixon months ago . took a decision that he would sustain this stand. ALL the same, the Vice President has every inten tion to avoid being identified with fiscal policies having any strongly Old Guard Re publican flavor. What the gov ernment does and does not do in various Welfare ' fields between now and the 1960 election will be actually more his concern than that of any body else. For it will hurt or help him more than anybody 6ls6. Whatever the final 1961 budget, he will be stuck with it, as a part of the regime that will have made it. Thus his basic necessity is to con trol the shaping of that budget. And within this central strategy his operations will be complicated. He must not seem to propose any flat re pudiation of Eisenhower's passionate devotion to budget balancing. He must not, on the other hand, allow the new budget, if he can help it, to indicate that its sole reason for being is to save money, come what may. For Nixon's prospective rival for the 1960 Presidential nomination, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York, is not committed to any Federal budget, either the present one or the coming one. Rockefel ler will be free to go entirely his own way on all budget questions - and free to nail Nixon on any shortcoming in the new budget. XTO ONE is more wryly J.1 aware of this than is the Vice President. Thus, it may be predicted with full confidence, he will now set about a very delicate approach to mix Flemming attitudes with Anderson at titudes and so to fix upon a budget that will not be too bie but will not pinch too much in the wrong places. The substance of the prob lem is to keep a reasonaDie ceiling on the total budget, but, working wittun tnose limits, to accentuate spend ing in some welfare categories and to cut it down in less sensitive areas. One of Nixon's most power ful friends suggests that this is not so impossibly difficult as it might look. At any rate, it will surely not be easy; and it is what the Vice President must now accomplish. (Copyright, 1959. by United Feature Syndicate, incj More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH Here is a pleasant way to overcome loose plate discomfort. FAS TEETH, an improved powder, sprinkled on upper and lower plates holds them firmer so tbat they feel more com fortable. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling. It's alkaline (non acid). Does not sour. Checks "plate odor" (denture breath). Get FAS TEETH today at say drug counter. to keep alive their election hopes. The Conservatives hope to reap the benefit of any Eisenhower-Khrushchev meeting and subsequent sura, mit session by claiming these as beneficial outgrowths of Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan's personal - "thawing out" journey to Moscow last February. The Labor Party is certain to keep alive the problems of the African col onies, particularly the trou bles in the Central African Federation. It undoubtedly will underline these as signs hour talk with Khrushchev, Now he s planning a month- long Far East tour in Novem ber. . The Minnesotan wants to visit South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Formosa and India-then come home by way of Italy and Poland. ' Humphrey started piling up foreign affairs experience in 1951, as a delegate to the Council of Europe in Stras bourg. In 1956 he was a dele gate to the United Nations. In 1957, following the Suez cri sis and before the Lebanon- Iraq blow-up, he visited the Mideast and the countries of "NATO South." Then last year he went to Moscow, West Benin and Finland. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D- Mass.), who leads the Demo cratic lineup in most presiden tial polls, has a fall trip to Africa in the works. He hopes to spend three weeks there, starting either in late August or in December. He'll go as chairman of the foreign rela tions subcommittee on Afri can affairs. : Kennedy beat Nixon to Rus sia by 20 years. He went on his own in 1939 as a young man of 22. Now he wants to visit some of the newly inde pendent African countries Nixon paid formal visits to eight of these in 1957. Kennedy Working Hard . Kennedy has been working hard "on the gap." He has in terested himself in India's fu ture and startled the Senate a year ago with a forceful speech analyzing the French crisis in Algeria in terms which added up to quick in dependence: - Sen. Stuart Symington CD Mo.), regarded by some re spected . politicians ., as : the Democrat ."most likely" ' has tentative plans to go to Lon don this fall. His .stated. rea son is to see his son,, now lo cated there. But the trip easily could be expanded, as they often are. Symington has a view of world problems based largely on his service as air secretary in the Truman administration In that capacity he made two working trips to the Far East in 1949 .-nd has made similar European visits as a senator in 1954 and 1957. His studies abroad have centered on arm ed forces and foreign aid de velopments. And there are other politi cal travelers outside the Sen ate. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, a Democratic "fa vorite son," is thinking of go ing to the Far East. Demo cratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, Republican Gov. William G. Stratton of Illinois, and seven other gov ernors have just returned from Russia. Reasonable Funerals (Priced for Everyone) :iKv::-: FRIENDLY, of discontent with Conserva tive government policies. . Lead Balloon The Russians can be expect ed to ignore a Japanese trial balloon floated through a Tokyo columnist for buy ing back part of the Sakhal in Island in the Kuriles seized by Russia after World War II. As far as the Russians, are concerned the trial balloon is filled with lead. Japan would like the territory back for two reasons: It would aid the fishing industry and remove a Russian gun barrel pointed at the northern Japanese main, island of Hokkaido. The Russians have taken no note of the hints, and may not even honor the proposal with a re fusal. Atomic Club France may join the atomic club sometime this fall or next spring. The first French atomic bomb probably will be exploded on the Sahara des ert. It probably will weight about five tons, too bulky for a bomber to carry. But the explosion itself is the impor tant thing. It means Presii dent de Gaulle has won ad mission to the atomic club with the United States, Rus sia and Britain. When it hap pens, look for more French demands for a louder voice in Allied policy. Pendulum Massive French military of fensives in Algeria soon may be abandoned for more fluid striking tactics. Reason: The rebels disperse more and more into relatively unguard ed regions as French troops are drawn together for the sledgehammer blows con ceived by air force General Challe, the military com mander. It will not be the first time the strategic pen dulum has swung back. Oper ations have changed from in tensive to extensive oper more than five years of fight ing a will-o-the-wisp rebel army. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer although "nder cer tain circumstances tne use of a Sen name or initial for publica on is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words N More Monkeys To the Editor: That man in Ashland has done it again. Somebody please hide his ink and his pen! His monkey business is driving me wild. He sounds like he has the mind of a child. It took him so long to beat round the bush And kill off 10 monkeys in a Hupmobile rush His monkeys have ridden that Mail Tribune page For weeks now; it seems like an endless age. Can we now sit back and enjoy the heat Or anything else the mon keys to beat? All kidding aside, it WAS kind of clever. But monkeys no more, please - never, no never. Mrs. Delbert Casey Route 1, Box 358 Central Point, Ore. Texas' tourist trade is said to bring more income to the state than any industry ex cept cotton'. 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