Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 23, 1950, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFOBB (OREOON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thurtdar. Much 11, 1110 MEDFORDITRIBimE "Everyone to Southern Oregon Rudi Tht Mall Tribune" Dally bnpt Saturday Publlahed by MKUrORD PRINTING CO. 27-2 North Fir St Phona a-14l ROBERT W ERNEST K RUHU Editor OILSTRAP Manage uv.nn c.nRV Advertlalna Mir. t r FERGUSON Managing Edltoi rar a 1. 1. EN JR.. city Editor oadrv rHIPMAN TelesraDb Edltoi HF.NRV L. GREEN. Sunday Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MP An Independent Newipapar Entered aa aecond claia matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Aet of March 1. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES a ull. In Advance: n.llv and Sunday one rear... Jtf 0(1 Daily and Sunday U mootha 4.75 Dally and Sunday three moa iAM Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 oy carrier in navance diwuwu Ashland. Central Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Talent and oo mntnr routea: Dally and Sunday one year..ia.ou Dally and Sunday one month 1.00 All Term Caab In Advance Official Paper of the City of M.dtore Official raper or aacaioo wiuav United Preaa Full Leased Win MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPAOTr. INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco Loe Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver, B C. N ATI 'V NEWSPAMt UBUSHEIS "ASSOCIATION ONAL EDITORIAL Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackeoa County Mfcv tory from rho (ilea at rka Mas) Tribe no 10. 20 and 14 yean at 10 YEARS AGO TODAY March 23. 1940 (It Was Saturday) Farmers and Fruitgrowers bank, Medford, purchased by United States National bank. F. L. TouVelle, Jacksonville, named to Garner-for-president committee in state. Beta Sigma Phi sorority elects Mary Peterson president. Nearly 300 youngsters take part in first all city Easter eRg hunt sponsored by local Kiwanis club. Lao Williams and Shirley Croucher take over operation of General Petroleum company ita tlon in Mediord. 20 YEARS AGO TODAY March 23. 1930 (It Was Saturday) Ward Howell. Ashland high Acer, named center on all-state Second team. Blue Ledga directors plan erec tion of concentrator and aeriai tramway at mine. Groceteria to open second store at Sixth and urape streets. B. H. Conkle resigns as prin cipal of high school; Glenn Smith takes position. 34 YEARS AGO TODAY March 23. 1916 Grammar school teacher sal ary minimum placed at $65 and maximum at ?8U, wnue nign school teachers to get $85 and $100 respectively. Medford baseball team re elects R. L. Ewing president and names Dick Antle treasurer and L. S. Bcvcrldge secretary. Miss Bruce Putnam and Miss Naomi Hemphill to play piano duet at Roosevelt P.T.A. meeting tomorrow night. State Production Workers Receive Average $65.86 Salem, Ore., Mar. 23 u.R) Production workers In Oregon received an average weekly pav check of $H5.86 during the final quarter of 1940, the state unem ployment compensation commis sion and the United States bureau of labor statistics said in a Joint report today. About 4 0 0 representative manufacturers In all parts of the state are reporting employ ment and nav rolls each month In building up the new earnings iigiires, ine report said. An average working week of nearly 39 hours at $1.09 an hour was indicated in the report. Second Highest Oregon's average is second highest among 27 states now re- Corting In cooperation with the nited States bureau of labor statistics. Wyoming, with a work week of more than 41 hours reported $f8, although the hourly rate was only $1.64. Washington was third. Just un der S(15. California followed at . less than $62. The average for , reporting stales was $55.47. Although printing and pub ; llshing led all manufacturing croups with an average of more than f.7fl far mlri.rWitmKni I most of Oregon's high figure was , credited to lumber and logging. The lumber and logging Inrius I trv, with earnings of more than ' $70 a week, represented about 60 per cent of Oregon's 125.000 production workers. This com , pared with an average of $66.85 for northern sawmill and log ging workers and $37.02 for those In the touth. A Letter From Norway Some weeks ago we commented hre on the rec reational value of hosteling as practiced in some coun tries and to a less extent in parts of the United States, We suggested that because of its scenic attractions, the Rogue River valley holds great possibilities for such organized hiking, particularly tor the younger folk. THE editorial was forwarded by Mrs. Fred C. San- der of Medford to her son, Fred Cyril Sander, who with his wife, and son, Fred C.III, are presently living; in Oslo, Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Sander were teaching in Long Beach, Cal., last year when they won a Fulbright scholarship covering a year's study at the University of Oslo, lhere they are engaged in research, he in education and she in psychology. On receipt of the editorial, the former Medford man sent The Mail Tribune the following interesting letter: I was very happy to read your recent editorial on "hosteling" and the American Youth Hostels. I hope that It attracted local attention and that some able and public spirited citizen will take it upon himself to begin this type of recreation in the Rogue River valley. The valley is quite Ideal for all types of hosteling, winter' and summer. I would like to add that hosteling is no longer confined just to the east coast, but local chapters are springing up rapidly on our west coast. I believe both Seattle and Port land have groups and there are quite a number in Cali fornia. Something over a year ago, a group of us in Long Beach started a chapter which has within a few months blossomed into a sizeable group with regularly scheduled tours almost every week-end. Arranging such outing amidst the traffic of Los Angeles County is not an easy thing! Here in Norway, where ray family and I have been spending the past year, almost the entire population partici pates in some form of hosteling or outdoor activity. Now during the winter, cross-country skiing is the sport almost everyone takes part In. The entire nation is literally criss crossed with a network of well-marked ski trails, and it is possible to go out for a few hours or a few weeks depend ing on the time and energy available. Within the city limits of Oslo itself, there are probably at least a hundred miles of marked ski trails (Oslo is the largest city in the world in area), and it is possible for many of the citizens to ski from their front doors right out into the midst of the forest and mountains. Or if you wish you may board one of the electric trolleys and in 20 to 30 minutes be in wonderful ski country complete with trails, many slalom courses, jumps, etc. On an ordinary Sunday, the trolleys carry over 40.000 people with their skis, to the woods and recently on "Hol menkollen Day" (the day the experts use the famous Hoi menkollen ski Jump) over 100,000 were carried. Perhaps even more wonderful than the numbers involved ii the range of age of the participants. The children start learning here when they're three or four and many times we have encountered both men and women skiers on the trails with packs on their backs, that were well along in their seventies! In the spring, summer and fall, the people continue to take to the mountains, hiking, cycling or boating. And it is not unusual for office secretaries and the like, to spend their entire three week vacation (with pay and guaranteed by national law) hiking from one mountain to the next, either sleeping out or using the huts maintained by the hiking clubs. We have tried a bit of this hiking In the fall and skiing in the winter and even a week of such outdoor ac tivity changes your entire outlook on life. You begin to feel that it is only during such times that you really live. We are looking forward to returning to the West Coast this summer and we hope we find other people that are also Interested in developing the magnificent possibilities that our country offers for this type of recreation. I hope you will encourage such activities in the Rogue River valley. E.C.F. There's Many a Tax Slip Now that our federal tax returns are in the in ternal revenue collector's mill many of us are wonder ing if, and when, they will be returned with a demand for additional details, explanation or more money. e e e fXF course, each of the 53,000,000 individual income tax returns is given a routine check for arithmetic and apparent reasonableness of claimed deductions and exemptions, further than that, however, the scru tiny is not so close. If you are among those lucky enough to have had income over $100,000, the chances are only 68 out of 100 that your tax return will be given a thorough audit. For those in the $25,000 to $100,000 bracket the chances for a minute going over are 48 out of 100 ; for those making $7,000 to $25,000, 18 out of 100, and for those with income below $7000 the chances are only four out of 100. "THE number sending in deliberately falsified tax reports, or returns which for one reason or an other are not correct is very large. The internal rev enue bureau figures about one return out of each four is faulty, and of those which are detected and refer red back to the taxpayer, it is noted that the errors are hardly ever in favor of Uncle Sam. CO large is the number of faulty or fraudulent re turns that the internal revenue commissioner fig ures a vast amount of tax money is lost through inabil ity of his limited staff of auditors to make a more thorough check. He cites the fact that although only 4.5 per cent of all returns in 1947 were given a thor ough audit, nearly $750,000,000 in additional taxes was recovered thereby. E.C.F. Crosstown by Roland Com "Pop's right, iomelhln' has to ba dona about my report cara. i n got 10 gal rid 01 ill Washington Report By Bob Dickey Washington Report STNDG .. wasnington. Mar. 23 me key to low cost power for the Pacific northwest lies in the O'Mahoney amendment to the rivers and harbors bill (H. R. 5472), says the bu reau of recla mation. This is the ame n d m e n t which author izes the con struction of 13 Columbia ba ft i n reclama tion projects Dasin account. Bob Dicker Market Costs Absorb Most Of Food Income The average consumer paid $215, retail value, for the farm food products in the market bas ket in 1949, according to the weekly farm price report pre pared by the Oregon State col- ege extension service. Farmers received $103 of (hat amount or 48 per cent, the re port said, and the balance, $112 52 per cent, went toward marketing charges At the end of the year, the retail cost rate to consumers was down to $207 person per year, but mnrket- ng charges were still $112: farmers were getting only 48 per cent, compared with 49 per cent In December, 1848. The extension service pointed out that In addition to the farm food products, consumers also huy Imported foods, fishery pro duets, and other foods not from United States farms. Therefore, the service claimed, farmers actually received a smaller per centage of the consumers' total food dollars than is Indicated by the figures. Die Mall Trlbunt Want Ada Jet Pilots Killed As Planes Hit Home Emmons, W. Va Mar. 23 (U.R Two air force Jet pilots crashed to their deaths today five min utes after taking off from the Charleston airport where they were grounded when they rani out of fuel. The fivers were Identified at Lt. Col. A. F. Relnhardt and Capt. George Fans. The sabre-type jets smashed into a home in this tiny Coal river mountain town ahortly aft er taking off from the Kanawha airport on their way to Klrtland field In Albuquerque, N. M., their home base. and sets up (Basin account is just the trade name for the proposal to keep one set of books for all the fed eral water projects of the Colum bia basin.) It is this basin account Droviso that will herald the maintaining of low cost power rates, accord ing to the Bu-Rec officials. Here is the way they arrive at such conclusion. Public power In the northwest Is now furnished chiefly by Bon neville and Grand Coulee dams. Even though the power revenues lor these two dams are computed differently, by sheer coincidence the power rates are approximate ly me same, consequently, pub lic power in the area is now selling at a uniform rate. High Cost Dams In a few years this situation is going to change. The new pow er producing dams sucn as Mc- Nary. Detroit and Hunarv Horse, are going to cost more and as a result rates will have to be higher. These dams are go ing to be more expensive be cause they are being built with present day high cost labor, in stead of depression labor which was available for Bonneville and Grand Coulee. The question then becomes: How will the rates rise? Will they be kept at a uniform rate but Keyed to the highest priced dam of the area? Or will they be sold at different prices at differ ent dams? Still another possible mctnod is to have the power soio at a uniform rate through out the area representing the av erage of the different rates from the dams. This is the scheme contem plated by the basin account. By its provisions all power rates would be averaged and from it they would establish the uniform power rate for the area. This, the Bu-Rec people say, is the key to maintaining the cheapest possible power rate for the northwest. The basin account proviso has several other significant aspects dealing with highly technical features of project pay-out and rngation project feasibility. which will not be dealt with here. Cordon Amendment Sen. Guy Cordon does not sub scribe to the changes proposed by basin account. But he does support the authorization of the 3 reclamation projects in the O'Mahoney amendment. Cordon has. therefore, introduced his own amendment to supplant the O'Mahoney version. In so far as the authorization of the projects Is concerned, the two amendments are Identical. But in the Cordon amendment all of the provisions for the ba sin account are stricken. What the Cordon amendment provides is a little basin account for the purpose of paying the ir rigation subsidy from the inter est component of Hell's Canyon dam. In contrast, the basin account uses the interest component on all the dams of the area, includ ing both engineers and Bu-Rec dams, for an irrigation subsidy. It was Sen. Cordon's aim to curtail as much as possible any changes in the existing recla mation laws and still provide an irrigation subsidy for the proj ects authorized. So he just tied the other 12 projects authorized to Hell's Canyon dam for the purpose of the necessary irriga tion subsidy. Criticism The main objection to Cordon's amendment is that it does not deal with the coming uneven power rates. In his measure he has left out the basin account which sets up the uniform system. Cordon s answer to this criti cism is that it will be three years before any new power will be available in the area and he feels the problem should be studied at length before any new schemes are adopted. I he age-old scrap between the army engineers and the bureau of reclamation has flared up again. This time it is over the building of the Eklutna power project in Alaska. On Jan. 7, 1949, Bu-Rec sub mitted a two-inch thick report to the secretary of the interior, recommending that they be per mitted to build the project. Now, over a year later, the en gineers have come out with a like proposal. On Mar. 6, 1950, the Portland, Ore., office of the engineers announced by public notice that they had made an interim report on various Alaska projects. Included is a recom mendation that they be author ized to construct the Eklutna project. The engineers and Bu-Rec pro- .... AROUND HOLLYWOOD Hollywood, Mar. 23 (U.R That new fashion note from Paris fingertip nighties "for men only" got an indig nant brush-off today from Hollywood he men, who think spring is a heckuva time to start dress ing for bed. How they drape their torsos between w mi bys bellowed, "eeTiare is their own blankety-blank business. It might be in pajam tops and it might not, dependirig upon a number of things. A Parisian haberdasher an nounced yesterday he had de signed bottomless pajamas for his customers along the Champs Elysees. They are, reported haber dasher Nick Levy, tailored nif ties, draped to a point four inches above the masculine knee. posals are practically identical. The location of the project would be in the same place, the dams would be alike and the amount of power produced would oe approximately the same. It VIRGINIA MkPHIRSON Uaitoe) taaa Cemsaaaaeat And the boys are snapping 'em up. 1 "A man in a fingerlength nightie reminds me of a bargain basement sale," Red Skelton quipped. "Half off." Even thinking about it, shud dered Dennis O'Keefe, gives him insomnia. Wouldn't Ba Caught Dead "I wouldn't be caught dead In one of the things. I wouldn't even keep 'em handy in case of fire." Lex "Tarzan" Barker, who swings through the movie jun gles in six inches of strategically placed leather, just snorted. "You're supposed to 'undress' for bed aren't you? Why should I put on more clothes to sleep in than I do to work in? Confiden tially, I'm an 'in-the-raw' man, myself." Howard Duff and Robert Ryan said they were, too. "If this report is true," Ryan said, "it marks the first time in history 50,000,000 Frenchman can be wrong." Johnny Lewis, the funny-faced half of the comedy team of Mar tin and Lewis, says these skimpy sleepers would wreak havoc on Hollywood's bed habits. It'd Ba Murder "It'd be murder." he groaned. "How could we ever eat crackers Norman Thomas Not To Seek Presidency Salem, Ore., Mar. 23. (U.Ri Norman Thomas, who has been socialist nominee for president six times, won't run again. He told a press conference here Tuesday that "no one should seek public office when he is as old as I am." Asked how he rates Sen. Way ne Morse, Oregon republican, Thomas said: "I think enough of him not to give him the kiss of death by praising him too highly. He and I disagree on a lot of things, but Morse is an able man." Of Oregon's other republican senator, Guy Cordon, Thomas said: "If you ever wanted a neut er person in congress Cordon is your man. He is so neuter that you never even know he's in the senate." be fatal, y'know." The ladies couldn't get ex cited about 'em, either. Marie" Wilson said she's afraid If France forces those exposed male knees on America it'll set the Marshall Plan back 10 years. "Obviously," she lisped, "this guy has never spent a crowded Sunday at the beach." Corinne Calvet, a French beauty, refused to stand up for ner countryman. "Masculine legs sticking out like a sack like bones? she In bed? A thing like that could gasped. "Nevairel" Be slim and trim in whatever fashion may dictate . . . with Roman Meal Bread. It's so very simple ... so delightful, too ... for no other bread can possibly have the tastiness t that greets you in every slice of Roman Meal. It's the bread for you ... so good to eat ... so kind to your figure.' R0MMJMEM Bread A favorite with MEN. Subscribers To report Improper or non delivery of the Mall trlbunt phone i-iiii before i d p. tn. daily ana 19:31 a. m. Sunday If reiular dill rtr t arrives !hirtlj after )ou rail, plraat notify office, thus eliminating pacta) metsenger turrit. If Ymm Have Healiat to aeek better heerinf becauee yen did not sent to be aeen eeering that little hearing "but tan" In your ear. heailate na longer! 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