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MAIL TRIBUNE, MriferJ, Or. Thursday, Sept. 24, 19St Everyone ta Southern Oiejoai Reads The Mail Tribune Published Diily except Saturday by 33 North Hi St Pb SP 2-6141 ROBiKT W RUHL. Editrr HERB GBEY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Mgi ERIC W ALLEN JR. Managing Kdrtar KARL H ADAMS, aty Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleg Editor RICHARD XEWETtf Snorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Womeal Editor PALE EKICKSfjN Circulation May An Independent NewrnapeT Entered as second elan natter at Medfern Oreeon under AM of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mai i In Advance. Copy 10c. Dail-? and Sunday 1 year $154)0 Daily and Sunday moa. 1-00 Daily and Sunday 3 moa. 4-25 Sunday Only On year 94.30 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cava Rogue Riv er. Talent and on motor routca Dail7 and Sunday 1 year 918 00 Daily and Sunday 1 mo 1.50 Carrier and Dealer copy 10c All Terms casrt in Advance Official Paper ef City af MedforJ Official Paper oi Jacfcaon county United Press International Pun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: nrror nni rrtAV fr rwr? tices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis. At lanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER UILISHERS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 an50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1949 (Saturday) Orbin Cooksey and Hank Pr ingle, Medford businessmen, rptum from Kodiak island with the hides of two indige nous bear and several hun dred feet of film. The Medford Business col lege announces expansion oi its night study program. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1939 (Sunday) Pictures of the 1940 cars arrive from Detroit, with re ports from manufacturers stressing "completely new de sign" and "ultra modern fea tures." From Arthur Pefrv's "Ye Smudge Pot" column: "Hunt ers have been returning from the hills all week, intact and under their own steam." 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1929 (Tuesday) The editor of the Grants Pass Courier is aroused by the Williams creek cut-off road proposal, and announces he will muster opposition. O O. Almderfer denies ht will be a candidate for the state senate in the next pri mary. - 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 24, 1919 (Wednesday) The high cost of living con tinues, and grumblings and rumblings . are heard here abouts and thereabouts. A scenic drive up Roxy Ann, lighted by electricity, and a similarly lighted monu ment at the summit commemo rating the heroism of Jackson county boys in the war, is proposed. 50 YEARS AGO Sept. 24. 1909 (Friday) "Hard lookers" and "bad ones" are migrating south through Medford- J. S. Howard tells' citizens of the increase in Rogue val ley property values. .What's Yosr I.Q.? Nine or ten correct is u eerier; seven or eight is excellent; five or sis is flood. 1. During what war did the Trent Affair occur? 2. If you saw a newborn ele phant, would you call it a cud, calf, or dud? 3. The expression "put your John Hancock on this," is de rived from the large, firm sig nature of John Hancock on what document? 4. The woodchuck is a vege tarian; true or false? 5. Name the capital of Kan sas. 6. Which of these states was admitted earlier to the Umon Oreson or Utah? 7. Who was the Spanish con queror of Mexico? 8.. Is Guido's scale used in astronomy, music or survey ing? . 9. Did Gertrude Ederle gain fame as a tennis star, swim mer, or golfer? 10 In what war was "Re member the Maine" an Ameri can hattlecry? . 1- War Between the States. 2. Calf. 3. Declara tion of Indepenaenw -. 5. Topeka. 6. OW nando Cortes, t. Music 9. SwiSn. 10. SpBtah-Aini-can War. 2TC Confusion Along the Rogue The state water resources board made a lot of sense last week when it attempted to bring order into the apparently confused picture of what is going on relative to the development of the Rogue River basin. The confusion, of than real, and comes from the fact that more than a half-dozen agencies federal, state and private are interested Each, at one time or ments and recommendations. And if Joe Citizen is confused as a result, THE ROGUE basin is ment. It needs dams for flood control, power, irri gation, recreational purposes, and to enhance the rivers declining fishery. The problem is, who manner. And how are be derived, and costs of construction and oper ation, to be allocated. x Each agency, and many individuals, have come up with differing points of view, and with differing emphasis on the problems with which they are most concerned. . THE CORPS of engineers, which has made the most recent study, is primarily concerned with flood control. The bureau of reclamation, which conducted earlier studies of the structing the Talent project, is primarily con cerned with irrigation. As of now, these are which can actually do The fish and wildlife enough, is concerned with the preservation and improvement of fish runs. Although in the past it has failed to participate in advance planning, limiting itself to appraising plans made by other agencies, it is now showing signs of assisting in such planning. OTHER GROUPS, such as the Izaak Walton League and the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association, have special points of view. Apparently the only has accepted the responsibility of looking at the basin from a rounded, balanced viewpoint is the state water resources board. . It advocates basin development. But it wants it done in a way in which the best interests of all groups will be served, with as little damage as possible done to any. TO THIS END it has recommended : That the fish and wildlife service continue with their water temperature studies and com plete them as soon as possible so that there will be some basis for plans to aid the fishery. That work proceed on tional storage is possible That studies of timber cutting practices along streams be made to determine if they have any effect on water temperatures. That the non-controversial dams already sur veyed and found to have a favorable cost-benefit ratio be authorized and constructed. . NE of its most important recommendations, to our way of thinking, was for a determination of realistic benefits to be secured from fish, wild life and recreational aspects of federal projects. Up to-this point, federal benefit-cost ratios have been based in most part on flood control, irrigation and power alone. '-. ' But these do not constitute a true picture of the worth of a project. They are important, of course. But as population increases, and the cities encroach on the suburbs, the suburbs on the rural areas, and the camper, fisherman and tourist on everything else, the other aspects of benefit-cost allocations must be given a higher priority. . AS HAS been said here before,, there has been a lack of coordination and intelligent cooper ation,; particularly among federal agencies, in thinking out what the Rogue basin needs. Perhaps the agencies, on a local level, could form a Rogue basin interagency committee (it has been done at higher levels) to thresh out their respective roles, and come up with a logical program. , Perhaps tomorrow morning's meeting of peo ple interested in the basin, t-naries u. f orter, one of the stauncnest support ers of sound basin development, will result in more effective coordination or at least liaison. IN ANY event, the state water resources board up to this point has taken the honors for level headedness in looking at the basin's potential as a whole, and not from any small or special view point. It is only such an attitude, on the part of all individuals and agencies involved, which can result in concrete action. Nothing will happen if dissention and bickering continue. Meanwhile, the Rogue's fishery continues to decline, the water temperatures to rise in the summer, the streamflow to decrease, thousands of acres of irrigable land lie idle or semi-idle, recreation suffers, and the threat of floods re mains. And this after more than 10 years. E.A. course, is more apparent in the proposals. another, has made state it is understandable. ripe for further develop is to do this, and in what the benefits which will basin, and which is con the only two agencies any dam construction. service, understandably official agency which studies to see if addi in upstream sites. called by Congressman ! Dennis the Menace aafl - JE 5 J ALWAYS WttiiS KIND. A Matter of Fact ai.oP THUNDER OVER CHINA : Washington-At this crucial juncture, on the very eve of the Khrushchev - Eisenhower talks, the cwm TVrYvm c rt f ? 0j ill y-f bviuu w , i bad trouble in Y ' A China have a special, extra meaning. The J . line Khru- w JT'-'i shchev takes at Camp Da vid, especially about the ob- Jospb Aisop scure but ugly threat in Laos, is bound to be deeply affected if Khrushchev is haunted by worry about China. On the face of the evidence, moreover, Khrushchev ought to be decidedly worried. Ever since the Communes program was announced, certain ob servers have argued that Mao Tse-Tung was risking the fu ture of his government, by trying to repeat in China in 1959 the brutal exoeriment that Stalin began in Russia in 1929, with the first five-year plan. This minority view now has strong factual support. The changes in the Chinese Communist Armed Forces constitute the most dramatic single item of evidence. The Chinese hero of the Korean war, Marshal Peng Teh-Huai, has , been abruptly removed from the Ministry of Defense, the Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Huang Ko- Cheng, has also been unceremoniously dis missed. In themselves these two simultaneous changes would be quite remarkable enough. K1 FACT, however, the new- named Minister of De fense is Gen. Lin Piao, once famous as a revolutionary commander, but absolutely unheard of since he was badly wounded by strafing Ameri can airplanes in the early phase of the Korean fighting. And the new Army Chief of Staff is none other than the former Minister of Public Security - in other words, the head of the Chinese Com munist secret police Gen. Lo Jui-Ching. In every totalitarian society in our time, just as much in Nazi Germany as in the Soviet Union, the relations between the regular armed forces and the secret police have always been venomous and embitter ed. Thus the choice of the secret police chief to run the army under the ailing Lin Piao, is a truly astonishing event. Think of Hitler nam ing Himmler to head the Ger man General staff. Think of Stalin naming Beria to head the Red Army. These com parisons give you the event's true measure. This strange event can only mean that grave and wide spread disaffection is believ ed to exist in the Chinese Communist armed forces. This Try and Stop Mo -By BENNETT CERF SIDNEY JAMES, of Sports Illustrated thinks football coaches of big university teams are about as. insecure as it's pos-; sible to be. He cites this story to emphasize his point. After one of Red Sanders' UCLA elevens had enjoyed a spectacularly successful season, a horde of students and happy alumni gathered outside of Sanders' house and hollered until he came to the window to greet them. As he opened it, the coach whispered ap prehensively to his wife, "I wonder which one's got the rope!" - An elderly millionaire had died, and the family was gath- ered for the reading of the will. The children were pleased to learn that the entire estate was divided equally among; them, hut, the hussy who had hooked him in marriage was outraged. "To my young fourth wife," read the will, "who insisted that her health was more important than my money and my happiness I leave-my econd-hand sun lamp." ji 1352. br Bennett Cert Distributed iy JSiug Tttiurtt Syndicate. - - TJllAKN KK& C4WD. evidence of disaffection in the armed forces is not especially surprising, moreover, in view of the strong evidence of gen eral political disaffection in Communist China. lifUCH HAS ALREADY W-l been made of the open ad mission, by an August plenum of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, that all the high claims for the "Big Leap Forward" were in fact based on fraudulent statistics. It was striking enough for the Chinese gov ernment to admit that it had been lying to its people, and indeed lying to itself. But now that a full text is avail able, Premier Chou En-Lai's speech after : the plenum ' is seen to contain an even more striking series of rebukes to unnamed disaffected persons These "reactionaries" are quoted as "calling the Com munes program forced labor and depriving the people of their freedom;" and they are warned: "that is a shameless slander." They are told it "is impermissible to belittle in the slightest" the program of Wackyard blast furnaces, even although Chou En-Lai admits in the same breath that the program has been abandoned. Tnese "reactionaries" are further quoted as "asserting that the people's .Communes are in an awful mess." They are told that it is slander to talk about shortages on the consumers' market the only goods in short supply are list ed as "pork, beef, mutton, egg products . . . cotton wadding for domestic use, leather shoes, electric bulbs." There fore, says Chou En-Lai, the "people (who say) that before liberation one could get any thing in the market, but now nothing is available" are guilty of "vicious distortion.' QJOME PEOPLE, says Pre- mier Chou En-i,ai again, "greatly underestimate and even deny the great achieve ments of (the) great leap for ward and of the people's Com munes. They exaggerate . . shortcomings and efforts in the work . . . This kind of thinking and sentiment has grown in the past two months." Add to these open admis sions of the existence of dis sidence, the changes that have now been made in the armed forces. Add other evidence, too, like the implied but quite easily detectable recent criti cism of the deified Mao Tse Tung himself. Consider such signs as the curious absence of any pronouncement from Chou En-Lai's theoretical su perior, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist, govern ment, and reputed chief advo cate of the Communes experi ment, Liu Shao-Chi. (c) 1959 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Trouble Again Brewing in Two States Of Perennially Troubled Middle East By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign Editor . Trouble once more appar ently is brewing in two states of the perennially troubled Middle East. In Baghdad, th e "moment of truth" may b e approach ing for Iraqi str o n g m a n Maj. Gen. Ab del Karim Kassem. Reports from Beirut Phil Newsom teU of a new "palace revolt" against youthful King Hussein of Jordan. Both have in them the seeds of far-reaching consequences. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although "nder cer . tain circumstances the use of a pen name ot initial for publica tion is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification ana condensation Letters submitted for publica tion must nut exceed 400 words Arms and Mercy Ships To the Editor: For the most part the Khrushchev pro posals were not startingly new, but his proposal to dis band all armies in four years will, I fear, be a powerful propaganda weapon among the smaller nations of the world. Coming on top of the Russian moon-rocket success and the announcement by one of our leading scientists that we are three years behind the Russians in our space pro gram, it doesn't appear that our world position is being advanced very rapidly. Since the executive depart ment, in the hands of the president, has the bulk of the foreign relations authority, it is obvious that when we choose a president, we should choose a man who has demon strated initiative in advancing solid planning not .one who displays only a talent for bickering' with Russian pre miers. The small nations of the world are not looking for missiles and orators instead they want food and health. One of the most humanitarian plans along this-line has been brought forth under the name of the "White Fleet and was introduced as a concurrent resolution in the Congress of the United States by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minne sota. , This plan called for the establishing of a fleet of mercy ships (hospital ships converted from naval vessels confined to mothballs,) mercy ships equipped to handle natural disasters and serve as public health training ve hicles throughout the world. Certainly the people who are barely living care little about how many missiles we have - but they do care about who has the cure for their problems. Bill Bradley State Representative Gresham, Ore. Leiler to Mr. K To the Editor: I call this a letter to Mr. Khrushchev: I listened to your speech to United Nations last Friday. I was thrilled by it! The ideas you expressed were so noble, unselfish, and pre-eminently true, if only they could be carried out. And I gloried in the: fact that you expressed them so boldly.. I also marvelled at the command of our language by Mr. Troyanovsky. His choice of words was excellent and he expressed your ideas so very well. His voice is fine. He gave me the impression of a cultured gentleman. But all the time you were talking, pictures kept coming into my mind in krleidoscopic sequence. The iiquiaation ox the peasants, the unfair war with Finland, the rape of Po land, the death of the three Baltic states as independent nations, the unnecessary Ko rean War provoked by you, the atrocities in Hungary, the hundreds of East Germans who even now every month flee from that workers para dise; the atrocity stones com ing out of Tibet, your pres ent machinations in Laos and India, and last, your humilia tion of Boris Pasternak, a man of whom you should be proud. No, Mr. Khrushchev, we cannot believe you are seri ous. We know your truly fine speech is merely., window dressing for propaganda pur poses. W- KnOW you rtxc a pupil of Karl Marx and that he had no reverence for truth. When you begin to un do some of the injustices you have perpetrated, perhaps we might begin to believe you. Believe i ie, we would like to do so, but now, no, because it would be suicide. Anna M. Streed 36 North Peach it. Medford. Keports of tne trouble in Iraq come primarily through the Cairo and Damascus ra dios of the United Arab Re public, and tell of mobs dem onstrating in Baghdad and four provincial centers against the executions of 17 .anti-Communist leaders. The Cairo and Damascus broadcasts are significant be cause they appear to mark the end of an uneasy truce in the war of words between the Kassem and UAR President Gamal Abdel Nasser that Iraq finally is falling wholly into the hands of the Communists. Advocating Overthrow Radio Damascus said that Baghdad demonstraters chant ed: "Let Kassem follow Nuri." Nuri . was Nuri As-said whose mutilated body was dragged through Baghdad streets in the revolution which overthrew the Iraq monarchy. It meant that UAR propa ganda outlets once more were advocating Kassem's violent overthrow. These controlled outlets would not repeat such sentiments unless they fol lowed closely along the lines of official thinking. The 17 men executed in Iraq were convicted of play ing a part in last spring's abortive Mosul revolt in northern Iraq. It is a section of Iraq known to be most sympathetic to Nasser's brand Odds Increasing That Mitchell May Have to Eat His Hat Washington -(DPB The odds are increasing that Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell will be called upon to eat his hat. ' Labor economists said today chances were growing slim mer each day the steel strike continues that unemployment in October will fall below three million. Mitchell, predicting that it would decline below this lev el, pledged to an AFL-CIO unemployment rally last GM Has Month's Supply of Steel . .' Detroit -(DPD- General Mo tors said today it could pro duce at least 475,000 1960 automobiles and trucks, and continue operations through the last days of October be fore the steel strike forces a shutdown of its assembly lines. However, the pinch of steel shortages already is affecting the pipelines of component parts. John F. Gordon, president of General Motors, announced today that "supplies of steel on hand will permit continued production of passenger cars and trucks through the latter part of October." The statement added: "By then we will have pro duced and shipped to our dealers, a total of 475,000 new 1960 model cars and trucks. Our non - automotive operations have sufficient : steel to produce some time beyond the latter part of October. "However, layoffs in some of our plants producing auto motive components, parts and accessories already have be gun. These plants normally produce material four to six weeks ahead of final assem bly." Non-automotive operations which Gordon said could con tinue beyond October include Frigidaires and other electri cal goods. Rockefeller Movement Opens Concord. N. H. (UPD The New Hampshire draft Rocke feller committee opened tem porary headquarters here to day in the belief the New York governor "will have to respond to the mounting pres sure to be a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination. State Sen. Robert English is a leader oi tne 4U jew Hampshire Republicans who earlier this month urged Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller to enter this state's first-in-the-nation primary next Mar. 8. He said that as far as he knew, no other presidential hopeful, Democrat or Republican, had opened headquarters any where in the nation. English said he had no in side information on whether Rockefeller would be a can didate. "I doubt the governor has made a final decision," Eng lish said, but "we believe eventually Gov. Rockefeller will have to respond to the mounting pressure to be a candidate." , of Arab nationalism. In fact, Iraq's foreign minister in an interview . with this corre spondent in Baghdad last spring, blamed Nasser for fos tering the revolt. The UAR will not be alone in watching the trend of events in Iraq. The. Cairo and Damascus re ports say Kassem is thinking of reviving the Communist influenced "popular resistance forces" to deal with the vio lence. If he does so, he will have gone far toward meet ing demands which Western diplomats last 'spring said would be the measure of Com munist power. Those demands were that he carry out death sentences passed by the people's court and that he "arm the people," specifically, the popular re sistance forces. Communism is not involved in the reports of new troubles for Jordan's King Hussein. In Max, in a move to be come hisown man, Hussein thew out his long-time pre mier, Samir Rifai,-' and ap pointed a man of his own choice and thinking, Bazza Majali. Both Rifai and Majali were friends of the West, but Rifai was notably anti-Nasser. Hus sein has moved closer to the UAR reigme of late, and Rifai and Hussein's autocratic moth- April that he would eat his hat if his forecast did not come true. The secretary has been si lent on his five-month-old promise recently, but it's a topic of lively interest among the statisticians who work on the monthly job -report. Disrupted By Strike ,.; Unemployment was esti mated at 3,426,000 in August, the latest figures available, Normally it would decline in September and hit. its yearly low in October. . But the steel strike has dis rupted "normal" trends be cause of its job-destroying sec ondary effects in steel-using and steel-servicing industries. This is true even though the 500,000 strikers are ' counted at having jobs. As a result, Mitchell's in trouble. Even if the strike ended abruptly, it might take some time for laid-off work ers to be recalled. And there's no guarantee that the strike will end in the immediate future. Federal mediators have reported "absolutely no progress" in negotiations since it began last July 15. Beginning To Snowball Mitchell's own fact-finding reports show that the effects of the 71-day-old walkout are beginning to snowball in in dustries depending on steel supplies. Caterpillar Tractor, for example, announced it will close its plants and lay off 11,000 workers on Oct. 3 unless the strike ends before then. Aside from the strike, one labor department " economist said, Mitchell's prediction un doubtedly would have been correct. Even now, he added, it will be "touch and go" whether the jobless figure is above or below the three-million mark. As the a (ram th nmimnm MAMK MOtOAN - HAIOU) SNOOGMSS, FUNHAl DIRECTORS DAY OH NIGHT er, (jueen z.em, are said to have joined forces to restore the old order of things. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Leaving the Pacific Coast- where he spent three days he seems to have enjoyed Mr. K lets' go a statement that, coming from him, is at least interesting. Speaking in San Francisco, as he enters his plane to head for Iowa's tall cornfields,, he says he would . like to help build a society in which all men would be brothers. He reiterates his plea for total disarmament.. He says v he seeks complete equality and and no enmity. - He adds: - "You may not agree with us, but we are guided by noble aspirations in our struggle for communism, and we are going to wage this struggle not by the force of arms, but by our words." - He professes to be no long er MAD AT ANYONE - not even Mayor Norris Poulson of Los Angeles with whom he quarreled roughly and public ly Saturday ni ght. ' . HMMMMMMMMM. Over in the high country, where this is written, his words remind us of K. Sugar man, whose famous slogan was "I ain't mad at nobody." There's a difference, of course. K. Sugarman was just a little man, making a living - like all the rest of us. ,He realized that to make a good living he must get along with the people around him. . K. Sugarman meant it. We are compelled -by cir cumstances to doubt Mr. K's sincerity. He is exposed to all the temptations of world conquest.- He holds too much power in his two hands. His tory tells us that is dangerous. It warps men's minds. 1 I17HAT TO DO? " Well . . . we MUSTN'T go off the deep end. We must keep our fingers crossed and our powder dry. We must stay strong. We must stay super-strong. We must stay grim. We must stay prepared to launch AT ANY MOMENT fleets of atom-bomb-bearing planes. Things like Mr. K talked about this morning as he was leaving San Francisco don't just, hap pen. They have to be MADE to happen. . . . .. CAN THEY be made to hap pen? ' Let's put it this way: - j If they are made to happen, MEN will have to make them happen. . THAT BRINGS US to Josiah Gilbert Holland and his deathless poem The Day's De mand in which he says: -"God give us men! A time like this demands "Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands .... 'Men who possess opinions and a will; "Men who have honor; men who will not lie; .'Men who can stand before a demagogue "And damn his treacherous flatteries without wink ing; "Tall men, sun -crowned, who live above the fog "In public duty and in pri vate thinking." : PHONE S 2-8030
