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MAIL TRIBUNT, MriferJ, Or. Monday, August 17, 1959 MedfordTribunb "Xveryun u. Mouuiern Oresoa Reads The Mail Tribune Published Dnily except Saturday fir S3 North I'll St Ph SP 2-6141 ROBI.HT W BUH7L. Editor HTCRB GR Advertuinc Manager uii-ALU LAinAM Buaineaa aan ERIC W AXXJEN JR. Managing Cdnor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHAKO JKWETT Snorts Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Women'f Editor DALE RICKS' 'N Circulation May An Indenenden Newspaper Enteral a sernnd class matter at Medlor Oreeon under Aet Of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mai in Advance Copy lOe. Dall- and Sunday 1 year S15 00 Daily and Sunday 4t mos. . 8-OL Dail anc Sunday 3 mos 4.35 Sunday Only One year $430 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue Riv er Talm and on motor routes Daily and Sunday 1 year $18 00 Daily and Sumlay 1 mo . 1 -50 Carrier and Dealers copy 10c AU Terms cair in Advance Offleuil Paper of City of Medford Official Paper et Jackson Canary United Press International PnD Leased Wire MEMBZ OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Ac'vertisin Representative: WEST HOLIDAY CO INC Of fices In New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland St. Louis. At lanta Vancouver BC NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsfepcfiaTKM t CJ Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of Ths Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 17. 1949 (Wednesday) ! The Medford city council "approves a 10-year agreement with Central Point for joint use of the Camp White sewage disposal plant. ' The council also approves Evergreen Bus Lines request a, ." i- .ai.fl (a'IA Mnfi a ride. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1939 (Thursday) Justice of the Peace John A. Chisholm, Gold Hill, ap pears before Justice of the Peace William R. Coleman, Medford, pays the usual fee and is married to Miss Doro thy Harris, Gold Hill. From Arthur Perry's "Ye Smudge Pot" column (by Ben Hur Lampman): f'Give my re gards to the sugar pines, Ar thur, and the blue grouse above the High Lane trail, and the gray squirrels, too, and the dark water below the flat shelves of Upper Trail creek. I wish I had a guest columnist of my own." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 17. 1929 (Saturday) - L. A. Banks buys the Illi hee orchard. A brick yard is to be estab lished at Jacksonville. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1919 (Sunday) Stephen T. Mather hints he may close Crater Lake be cause of 'poor roads and lodge service. Forest fires around the state are growing, and there are not enough men to fight them. SO YEARS AGO Aug. 17, 1909 (Tuesday) The prices of Bartletts soar in the east, and with them, the spirits of local growers. . Installation of the Medford Elks lodge is postponed to October. What's Your lsQ. 7 Nine or fen correct is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five e . six is good. ' 1. Who made the final de- cision to drop the atomic bomb in World War H? ; 2. The Scottish nickname "Sandy" is a familiar form . of what name? 3. On a three-masted sail ing vessel, what are the names of the three masts? 4. What newspaper did Horace Greeley edit? 5. With what street do you associate the famous elope ment of the Brownings? 6. Arranging the names of the months of the year in alphabetical order, which would come last? 7. Is Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Montana, or Idaho? 8. Where in the Bible-are found these words: "Thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over" ? 9. Which amendment to the U. S. Constitution is some times called the "lame duck" amendment? 10. Complete the proverb; "Good fences make good . Answers: 1. President Tru man. 2. Alexander. 3. Fore, main and mizzen. 4. New York Tribune. 5. Wimpole Street. S. September. 7. All three. 8. 23rd Psalm. 9. 20th. 10. "-neighbors." - Our Other Bases Perhaps Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev is playing hard-to-get on visiting U. S. bomber and missiles, bases, or perhaps it's just that we haven't offered entree to the bases he's really interested in. .... President Eisenhower on Aug. 12 in effect repeated an invitation previously extended by Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy to the Com munist party boss, although the Chief Executive made it clear he wasn't going to "push and press it." But the bases on which the Soviet Union has concentrated its attention over the years it's been almost a fixation are our bases overseas. u Liquidation of foreign bases has been a fix ture of virtually every Soviet proposal to end the cold war. The propaganda was stepped up after Russia returned its naval base at Port Arthur, Manchuria, to Red China in May, 1955, and its naval base at Porkkala,. Finland, in Sep tember of the same year. " ' IfHRUSHCHEV has returned to the theme with a persistence that indicates real distress. On Jan. 26 declaring that "Khrushchev is more frightened of war than anyone else" he pulled out all the stops. The United States, he charged had "created bases all around" the USSR. "Their planes are flying," he said, ". . . with atomic bombs. Someone may lose his head, anything can happen . . . We, too, have plenty of rockets in position." COCIALIST editors of West Germany were told on May 5 that Russia could destroy their land with eight hydrogen bombsl Khrushchev made it clear that "the countries first to suffer will be those in which the Americans are setting up their rocket bases." . Khrushchev contended that though the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries really possessed a large air force, that force was tech nically outdated and it could be shot down by ordinary anti-aircraft artillery, even by ordinary fighters. "Why, then," he went on, "do the West ern military leaders base themselves on bomber aviation and talk a lot rocket technology is weak . . . Therefore it ap pears that talk about a large number of bombers is being indulged in for purposes of deceit." Referring to this colloauv in a little-reDorted speech at the National War College, Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on July 24 conceded that it was un doubtly good propaganda if Khrushchev could make it stick "since the USSR today is in a posi tion of inferiority vis-a-vis the U. S, with regard to manned bombers. While counseling more strenuous efforts for defense rather than any sort of complacency, Dulles made a further telling point which does as much as anything to explain Khrushchev's anxiety neurosis : "The tremendous effort which we see the Soviets putting into advanced radar, ground-to-air missiles, and other defenses against aircraft would seem to belie the deprecatory statements of Khrushchev about them." E.R.R. Trouble in the Communes? For the second time in less than a year, Red China's leaders appear to be back-pedaling on their plan to regiment the countryside into a collection of ant colonies. Reports reaching the Western listening post at Hong Kong say that the incentive system has been reintroduced in agriculture, that some of the communes in the Swatow area of Kwangtung province m south west China have been disbanded and that vari ous concessions have been made to other com munes in.Kiangsi, Honan, Hunan and Kangsu provinces. bome of the information sources are suspect and it may be that the situation isn't as desperate as pictured. But the Reds have publicly retreated to the extent of allowing families to dine to gether instead of eating in communal mess halls. Vice Premier Teng Tsu-huei in a redent directive said that "future development of socialization of rural housekeeping' would depend on the "vol untary principle." , f IS clear that the commune system has not '' performed as well as Mao & Co. had expected, at least partly because of last year's catastrophic floods. Peking admitted in June that agricultural production during the first six months of the year lagged behind the 1958 pace. The Reds had hoped to expand grain production from 375 mil lion to 525 million tons. Western sources believe the expansion was needed to finance imports of industrial machinery and materials for China's "great leap forward." To make matters worse, the commune system is under doctrinal fire from Marxian coreligion ists. Khrushchev reportedly described the Chi nese experiment as "reactionary" during his celebrated session with Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey. Though the remark was later denied, Khrushchev came very near saying the same thing during his visit to Poland in July, Russia, he said, had tried the same tack after the civil war and found that it was not "what communism is (or) how it ought to be built." However, the communes cannot be written off at this point as a total flop. Mao and the others in the Peking hierarchy have invested their prestige and power too heavily to withdraw with ase ; in fact, some observers think it might jeopardize their hold on the party. Moreover, doctrinaire though they may be, the Communists have always been pragmatic enough to take a step to the rear for every two steps along their determined course. E.R.R. about it? Because their. Dennis the Does anybody im to go Washington Report By WILLIAM DEFEATING PARTY Washington-The extremists among the Congressional Democrats are- well on the r o a d to de- ij teating tneir nurn nariv in next year's President i a 1 a 1 arWrv TV c they are do ing with that happy inabili ty to under stand reality, which is their invariable characteristic. The prospects for the Re publican nominee, whether he be Vice President Richard Nixon or Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, are far better than a month ago. The most able Democrats here, whether sensibly liber al or moderate or conserva tive, know .it, too. It is not that the Republi can party has suddenly gath ered great new strength by its own actions. It is simply that the Democratic fringes on left and right-but mainly on the left because of the spe cial destructiveness of the ul tra liberals to any common- sense politics-are progressive ly putting an impression of theatrical futility over then party's record. Ultra - liberal pressure groups, notably the labor lob by, are wholly in control-of the ultra liberals in Congress Mn both parties, if it comes to that. If they go on as they are now going on, the Demo cratic ultra liberals and their pressure-group masters will elect a Republican President in 1960-with some consider able help from those they dis like the most, the Democrats from the Deep South. THE latest and best illustra tion of thes pectacular in competence of this curious coalition of left and right wingers is in the labor reform issue. They have succeeded in defeating in the House of Representatives a moderate Democratic reform bUl in favor of a "tougher," and es sentially Republican, meas ure. The winners are several; the Republican party gener ally, President Eisenhower and possibly, for . the short run only, the labor leaders themselves, since the net re sult is likely to be ho final Congressional action at aU in this session. The undoubted loser is the Democratic party generally. The probable los ers, if in a less sure and meas urable way, are aU the ration ally liberal Democratic Presi dential aspirants, like Senator John F. Kennedy of Massa chusetts, who with a good Congressional record might have the most general public appeal. .. rpHE position is this: every politician, Democratic or Republican, save a hanHful of frantic and outright labor stooges, knows perfectly well that the public is demanding. some reiorm. ai. least au per cent of the Democratic mem bers of both houses know that this Democratically - controll ed Congress can adjourn with out acting at aU only at its great peril. (If this should in fact be the outcome, the Re publicans would not be heart broken; after all, the Demo crats would be responsible.) The Senate has long since passed a reasonable bill, largely the work of Senator Kennedy. But the House has now adopted a ' bill which, though perhaps academically not too severe, is entirely too severe to win Senate accept ance. This has been done by the House for two reasons: 1. Be cause the rubber-stamp ultra liberals, under nakedly arro gant orders from the labor lobbyists, refused at every step to give any assistance to William S. White Menace scwepucg, eeaoes Mb ? S. WHITE the sensible liberals who wanted to clean up but not to punish labor. 2. Because many of the moderate Southern Democrats, under less arro gant but nevertheless very real orders from business lob byists, likewise refused assist ance to any compromise that was rational from the Demo cratic viewpoint. These sim ply went over to the Repub licans and the Deep South erners. rpHUS if labor reform is dead for this session-and the odds are 3 to 1 that it is the quetsion of who killed this cock robin is not hard to answer. Two arrows were shot into this bird. One, from the defecting Southern mod erates, went into the wing. But the other, from the ultra liberals, went into the bird's heart. They have gone a long way, the ultra liberals, to convince many reasonable people, including- many reasonable Democrats, that they are sim ply too irresponsible to be en trusted with important af fairs. And inability to control them has hurt their party as a whole. They are good at making demonstrations of "f i g h t, fight, fight." But they are in creasingly proving that they can't perform at their job, which is politics. The end of legislative politics is not to lose actions with proud talk of "no compromise." The' end of legislative politics is to leg islate. They are like a lawyer who, thought he always utter ly enthralls the. jury, also al ways loses his cases. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) End of Democrat Ticket Squabble Seen in Meeting Los Angeles (UPD Civic and party leaders, faced with a "take it or leave it" ulti matum, today were expected to announce a shake-up of the host committee and an end of the bitter squabble over tickets to next year's Demo cratic National Convention here. The host committee will meet with Democratic Na tional Chairman Paul M. But ler at 3 p.m. following a week end of hush-hush meetings in which all participants were pledged to secrecy. Los Angeles has been in sisting that it was entitled to 5,000. of the 16,000 conven tion seats at the Memorial Sports Arena under terms of the convention agreement. The tickets are worth up to $1,000 a pair in "contribu tions" from party members. The city was counting on this money to help raise the $350,000 subsidy it pledged in order to get the convention. Butler Explains Needs . Butler contended no promise of 5,000 seats for the city was made. He has said 1,500 was the limit because nearly 13,000 seats were needed for other convention participants and spectators from outside California. Butler has made it clear he is" determined to reopen bids for the convention from other cities unless his limit of 1,500 tickets to the rally is accepted. The announcement after to day's meeting is expected to be that Butlers ticket limit has been accepted, despite the committee's contention it was originally promised 5,000 tickets; and that oilman Edwin Pauley, the committee's trea surer and chief spokesman for the . 5,000 ticket camp, has stepped down from his post. . An average egg weighs one tenth of one pound. Red Desire Latin America Underscored by Bit SAM FOfiS United Press International Washington - (UPD - Commu nist desire to establish a beachhead on this country's Latin American doorstep has been underscored by Sec retary of State Christian A. Herter's warning that brist ling tensions in the Caribbean are playing into Red hands. Herter told the Conference of Western Hemisphere For eign Ministers at Santiago, Chile, that the ferment of dis order, dispute, hostility and threat in the Caribbean coun tries provide "just the oiroor- tunity international Commu nists are always seeking" to undermine Democracy in the Americas. Ominous evidence that Communist leaders in the Kremlin and Red China are seeking to exploit Latin Political Battle For Control Of Sicily Starts, Writer Says By WILLIAM J. FOX United Press International From the foreign editor's notebook: Sicily Struggle The. political battle for con trol of Sicily apparently has just started. jThus far, it has been a rough, no-holds-barred fight in which the anti-Communists have suffered repeat ed defeats and undermined their own prestige through a series of grave mistakes. But they, are reported determined to fight on against the Reds Matter of Focf By aisop THE NEW COMMUNIST AGGRESSION Washington - Maybe it just proves that the country has been traneuilized, or even an esthetized, m recent years, At any rate, a new Commu- n 1 s t aggres sion in a re in o t e but acutely sensi tive area would have caused a na- Jn-Db Alstin uonwiue sur in the old days; and now it a - - j hardly interrupts the argu ments about what to show Nikita S. Khrushchev. The scene of the new ag gression is Laos, the moun tainous little country that di vides Thailand from the two Vietnams. This is about as far away as possible. But Dien Bien Phu also seemed incon ceivably remote when the French forces were trapped there by the Communist Army of the Vietminh. And Dien Bien Phu opened a wholly new chapter in the history of Asia, after having caused the use of nuclear weapons to be seriously discussed in the Na tional Security Council. The situation in Laos is viewed as potentially very grave indeed in the inner cir cles of the government, and with good reason. But since so little attention has been paid to this situation to date, it may be well to summarize the main facts. IN BRIEF Laos acquired a relatively strong govern ment about a year ago, with the appointment of a new Premier, Phouy Sananikone. As soon as he took office, Pre miere Sananikone then set to work to put the Laotian house in order. In particular, he be gan to reorganize and strengthen the Army, and to root out the surviving ele ments of the Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao is simply an extension of the Communist Vietminh movement. It actu ally ruled two border provinc es, Phong Saly and Samneua, for some time after Indochina was partitioned in 1954. Yet the anti-Pathet Lao campaign of the new Prime Minister went' rather well, as long as Laos was left to itself. Probably the simple fact that the Premiere Sananikone was making too much prog ress decided the Communists to act. Their announced pre text was the arrival of a 130 man American training mis sion for the Laotian Army. In any case, the Communists act ed about three weeks ago, us ing just the same device they used to use against the French, v IN FORMER times, the Viet minh sent their recruits across the border into Com munist China, to be safely trained and formed into fight ing units there. This time, the Quality to Establish Beachhead in American unrest has been accumulating steadily this year. Latin Americans are being given the "Red-Carpet" treat ment in Moscow and Peiping.. Soviet Premier Kikita Khru shchev and Red China strong man Mao Tse-Tung have lent their personal prestige to the drive. Significant Signposts Here are some of the signi ficant signposts that have marked the Red campaign in the trouble-torn Caribbean as well as other Latin American countries beset by political hostilities, and economic dis tress: , -During the 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow this year, delegates of 18 Commu nist parties in Latin America their problems were accorded with every available weapon of political obstructionism and sabotage. The Communists scored last week with their machiavel lian masterpiece when they joined to elect a regional gov ernment of "Christian Socials" and right wing turncoats un der Silvia Milazzo. In return, Milazzo gave the Communists and : left wing Socialists the support they needed to pack the seven, legislative commit tees of the regional assembly. The catch is that Milazzo's Vietminh rules of North Viet nam played the role of the Chinese. A considerable num ber of Pathet Lao adherents were sheltered in North Viet nam, armed from the Viet minh arsenals, formed into battalions and trained by the Vietminh Army, and stiffened with Vietminh hard core Com munist leaders. These troops were then sent back across the Laos border three weeks ago to begin guerilla war against the Laotian govern ment. - The force moved in small outfits, probably none larger than company size. The two provinces attacked, the old Pathet Lao stronghold, Phong Saly and Samneua, are lack ing in communications, moun tainous, and heavily jungled. Thus estimating the invading force is difficult, but it is be lieved to be somewhere be tween 1,500 and 2,000 men. The force is" smaU. But in view of the terrain and the natural advantage always en joyed by guerilla fighters, even this small force consti tutes an extremely difficult problem for the Laotian Army of 25,000 men. Hence it is too early to form any idea of the probable outcome of the cam paign against the invaders. MEANWHILE, exceedingly arrogant statements, brandishing all sorts of dire threats, have been made in the Vietminh capital at Hanoi, and by the Communist Chi nese government in Peking. Finally, it should be noted that the Vietminh chieftain, Ho Chin Minh, has just been the guest of President Eisen hower's future guest, Nikita S. Khrushchev. Hence it must be assumed that Khrushchev was privy to Ho Chih Minh's plans for Laos. Just this fact makes the at tack on Laos an ugly business, even , if it is successfully re pelled. After all, this bare faced Communist aggression was launched when Khrush chev was already packing his bags for a White House visit. In other times Khrushchev, if invited, would now be disin- vited. Furthermore, there are in dications that the Vietminh government has additional battalions of alleged patriots to send across the Laos bor der. If the aggression is thus expanded, the situation can quite easily get out of hand. And if this happens, and noth ing is done about it, the re sults will not be confined to Laos. In fact the partition of Indochina sponsored by the American government in 1954 will finally turn out to be just what it looked at the time a delayed action Mu nich in Asia. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. . Grand Manitoulin, an is land in Lake Huron, is almost as large as Rhode Island. , Fresher! DAIRY FOODS ed an emphatic Red spot light. Eleven of these dele gates delivered addresses to the congress. Reports from various sources indicate that their problems were accored "preferential consideration." Khrushchev himself hailed what he called Latin Amer ica's struggle against U.S. "imperialism." -Twelve of the Latin Amer ican delegates went from Moscow to Communist China where Mao Tse-Tung receiv ed them with -assurances of "continued fraternal sup port." -Since the visit by the delegates in March, Spanish language broadcasts from Peiping have approximately doubled. There . has been a substantial increase of visitors from Latin America to China. Non-Communists as well as government has only a one vote margin in the assembly and can be overthrown by the Communists at any time. The Communists and Socialists, on the other hand, cannot be dis lodged from the legislative committees which are elected for four-year terms, and thus control the real law-making power of Sicily. Japan and Korea Japan and the Republic of Korea, two of the United States' principal allies in Asia, still are deadlocked over re sumption of diplomatic rela- tions-and no early conclusion of current negotiations on that point appears in sight. Korea is angered over Tokyo's deci sion to repatriate Korean resi dents from Japan to Communists-run North Korea. And Japan feels just as strongly about Korea's establishment of President Syngman R he e's fishery line. Korea is delaying lifting its ban on trade with Japan as a negotiating weapon, but ob servers feel this kind of pres sure is . likely to have little influence on Tokyo. Flood Aid Diplomatic sources in Tai pei are wondering what the Nationalist Chinese would do if Communist China should of fer relief supplies to Formosa's flood and earthquake victims, Red China, also stricken with floods, rejected just such an offer from the Nationalists a few weeks ago, causing Taipei to say; that Peiping felt no compassion for its needy citi zens. De Gaulle and Morocco i After President Charles de Gaulle visits Algeria on Aug. 27, the French are expected tq make new efforts to ar range a meeting between "le grand Charlie" and King Mor hammed V of Morocco in an effort to arrange some kind of Algerian settlement. Such a meeting appeared imminent less than a n.onth ago when Mohammed was in Paris for medical treatment. But he left for home suddenly without seeing De Gaulle. Philippine-U.S. Relations Agreement with The Philip pines over the long-tangled issue of U".S. military bases now seems farther away than ever. U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen reportedly does not expect to reach any kind of agreement. And certain influ ential Filipinos apparently are determined to prevent agree ment at all costs so the issue can be kept alive for future troublesome use. Reasonable Funeral (Priced for Everyone) FRANK PERL FREE Parking Space Adjacent To Mortuary FRIENDLY. WW Herter known Communists have been given the "Red Carpet" treatment. -In one five-day Deriod in July Communist China enter tained student delegations from 10 Latin American coun tries, plus a medical delega tion from Bolivia, and a former vice president of cniie. The welcome mat is out particularly for women's groups, youth organizations, trade unionists and former government officials. A delegation of Commu nist Chinese journalists has toured Latin America. Their visit developed into a subtle campaign to hire locaL report ers in those countries to as sist in preparing propaganda broadcasts to Latin America. The delegation arrived in Cuba July 8 anrl was wpI- comed by a number of promi nent Cuban officials. Alliance With Castro? -There is some evidence of a close aliance between Chi nese Communists and their party colleagues in Fidel Cas tro's Cuba. On July 10. a broadcast from Lima, Peru, said that the "New Chinese Democratic Alliance," would shortly publish a newspaper in Havana known as "Kuan Wa Po." The "New Chinese Democratic Alliance" was de scribed as the only Chinese Communist organization of ficially established in Cuba. It was reported the offices of its newspaper would share the same building which houses "Hoy," an avowed Communist outfit. The Senate Internal Se curity Committee is focusing its attention on the Commu nist maneuvers. A few days ago, Joseph Kornfeder, a one-time Commu nist organizer who worked for the Kremlin in Latin America in 1930's, testified on the new tactics. He predicted a rash of revolutions in the near future similar to that which brought Castro to power. He said they will be "truly Communist Revolu tions but do not look like it." Herier Stresses Importances " The importance that Herter and other U.S. officials attach to the "cold war" for Latin America was stressed by the fact the Secretary personally attended the . Santiago ' con ference. Openly deploring the arm ed threats being exchanged by neighbors in the Carib bean, Herter said: These tensions proviaea just the opportunity interna tional communists are aiwsys seeking to project themselves and their anti-Democratic policies and practices into the affairs of our countries." " a A Great New -Shopping Adventure Is in Store for You! Watch for it! Hear your fav orite hymns on KMED every Sunday, 10:35 a.m., sung by "Tennessee Ernie" Ford PERL Funeral Home Phone SP 2-6675 LADY ATTENDANT HOMELIKE ATMOSPHERE ft Mm - av
