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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORIVWrRrBlWl Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor ERNEST R. GILS TRAP, Manager HERB GREY, Adverting MAnager E C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act Of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES d Moil In Arivnnee: Daily and Sunday on year $12 00 Daily and Sunday six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3 30 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In Advinc e Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent nH nn mnlnr mute: Daily and Sunday one year $15 00 Uatiyana aunaay uno inm All terms v-hbh in auvmim Official Paper of the City of Medford uinciai raper oi ciun United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLlDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De. troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL IDITORIAl 6" VNIWSfAM PUtllf Hilt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mtdford and Jackie County Hli Wry hem th iilal o tha Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 rears if. 10 YEARS AGO May IB. 1942 (It wbi Saturday) Floyd K. Dover, Grants Pass, concedes Democratic nomination of Edward Kelly, Medford, as candidate for congress from fourth congressional district; only 18 per cent of county's reg istered voters cast ballots. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The people poured out to vote to a man Fri day, excepting, of course, about 10,000 souls of both sexes. 20 YEARS AGO May 18. 1S32 (It was Monday) County Assessor J. B. Cole man states that the 1932 primary election "Is the first in Jackson county in which I cannot predict that any one candidate is a likely winner." George Codding, candidate for reelection as Jackson county dis trict attorney, denies that he has refused to issue warrants on valid complaints; states "it is the policy of my office to conduct investigations before pulling the county to the expense of trials." 30 YEARS AGO May 16. 1922 (It was Tuesday) Oregon Governor Ben Olcott charges Ku Klux Klan backing for his opponent in primary elec tion shows "blind fanaticism, se cret conspiracies and cowardly, hidden hatreds." Sheriff's office announces poll ing places for Jackson county's 55 primary election polling places 40 YEARS AGO May 16, 1912 Oregon backers for William Howard Taft claim his renomi natlon as Republican party's can didate for president is assured; stale their candidate has 527 of 530 delegates necessary for re nomination. Oregon delegate to national Socialist party convention de nounces charges his party is guilty of causing mob violence during labor disputes. Gresham Girl Killed By Concrete Pipe Gresham U.R) Four-year-old Karen Owens of Gresham lost her life Thursday night during a childish game of rolling inside a concrete pipe on slope near the Multnomah county fair grounds Sheriff's deputies said the freakish tragedy occurred when the pipe which Karen and three other youngsters were taking turns "riding ' went out of con trol and smashed against anoth er pipe. The impact broke the pipe into several pieces .one of which apparently crashed against the youngster's skull. Karen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Owens, Gresham, was dead on arrival at a hospital. POLICE TO MEET Seattle (U.R Police adminis trators from Washington, Ore gon, Idaho and Montana will at tend a two-day civil defense police services Institute In Port land May 19-20, Regional De fense Director Roger . Dunham said Friday, MAIL TRIBUNE Boy Scout Circus Tomorrow Boys singly, or in groups are interesting. Get a thousand of them together demonstrating various phases of Boy Scout activities, fun and frolic, and what have you got? a circus, no less! TOMORROW evening boys from Jackson and Jose VtVtiviA nnnnfltn iv. A C ." ,.1 . 1 . . i. . piiiuc vuuuucs in uicgun, aim oioiuyuu cuumy, California, will stage their second annual circus in the Medford high school football stadium with the greatest assemblage of Scouts, Cubs and Explorers in the history of Crater Lake Area council. Built around the theme "World Brotherhood Through Scouting," the program will include numer ous and interesting demonstrations of Scouting, first aid, life saving, historic and modern methods of sig nalling, tower and bridge construction with ropes and logs, erection of a World Jamboree camp, au thentic Indian dances, den meetings, a "Noah's Ark" of 100 weird animals, and many other features. There will be a grand entry featuring Scouts from the three counties making up the Crater, Lake Area council and the closing ceremony will be equally im pressive as it will include most of the assembled youths. A LL in all, the Scout Circus will be an interesting " event for the boys, their parents, and the general public, young and old. Such an ambitious effort by the Scouts and their leaders deserves the support of all in the community and that support can be best shown by buying a ticket and being among those present when the lights go on at 8 p.m. Kids under 17 don't even have to buy a ticket. E. C. F. Professional Merger Seen Osteopaths in Medford are showing considerable interest in a proposal now being considered in Cali fornia, and by the American Medical association, which would, according to recent articles in California papers, "amalgamate" the medical and osteopathic fields. One Los Angeles newspaper said: "THE California Medical association for the first time has taken steps to recognize osteopathic physicians as being on an equal footing with doctors." And an article in the San Francisco Chronicle quoted the chairman of the board of trustees of the AM A as saying: "It may be many, years can be completed, but both the union will be of benefit public, and that the details can be worked out. A CCORDING to the Chronicle article, if eventually the two groups of practitioners agree to merge, the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons, in Los Angeles, would become a medical school, grant ing an M.D. degree, and its graduates would take the regular state medical board examinations for their licenses. Presumably the school would have to in crease its present requirements for graduation, under the proposal. In Oregon at the present states, both candidates for as osteopaths are examined by the same board, which is composed of seven men, six physicians and an os teopath. In both Oregon and California, osteopaths are legally empowered -to practice medicine and surgery. THE AMA spokesman said that if the proposed merger is completed, the six osteopathic colleges in the country would become medical schools. It would appear that the profession of osteopathy,, which has done much to raise its standards in the past years, is considering the last step, which in turn would logically lead to the disappearance of the profession as distinct from that of medicine. E. A. Albany's Courteous Drivers Wp'vo an tVinrnnirVi lv snlrl nn thp traffic RflfetV w.w w.v. v.v,a.V mvMvrain a n rl tYa offnrfa rf lives that we find ourselves writing repeatedly, per haps redundantly, on the subject. Some of it may sound like scolding. Well, the reckless driver has no apology coming. But the careful, considerate, courteous driver is entitled to an occasional pat on the back. A friend vvhn Viua livorl Vioro nnlv a short limp pnmmpntPCi the other day on the exceptional courtesy of the drivers m Albany, me ngnt-oi-way is given pedestrians wim hottpi m-ncp Vipfp thnn wp'vp hppn Accustomed to see ing in some others places. death toll this year as compared witn mat 01 isnu 1 not unrelated to rather more discourteous driving than we like to see. Just one other thought on this: If you're a pedes trian and we all are to a greater or less degree as we ornt ohnnt the tnwn it. won't hp s:ifp tn flPlirp that this commendable Albany invariable. Don t take chances. Maybe this fellow coming up to the crossing at a lively clip is not one of our courteous Albany drivers. And just one single hit may be all the way from merely expensive to fatal. Albany Democrat-Herald. Northwest Building Boosted 10 Per Cent Seattle (U.R Building activ ity in the Pacific Northwest last month increased 10 per cent over April of 1951, figures compiled by the Construction News Bulle tin showed Friday. The Seattle trade Journal said the dollar value of permits issued last month waj 146,776,606, com Friday. May 18. 19S2 before the amalgamation groups are confident that to both groups, and to the time, .and in some other licenses as physicians and - - - V iKncn nrnmntinff it in RS1VP Possibly Portland's double courtesy of the road will be pared to $33,278,919 recorded In April a year ago. Hangar Carrlaa Mothballs Worcester, Mass. (U.P The Hang-Wright Co. of Wor cester Is marketing a coat hang er made of hollow tubes to hold "built-in" mothballs. Crosstown "W got a baby pitcher my pop took of rae. I'm glad to lee you got clothei on your kidl" Babson Discusses Sayings Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) The man in the street has done as much this year to stop inflation and s t a b i lize our currency as all the govern ment regula t i o n s put to gether. I won der if the aver a g e American r e a I i zes how much he has really help to curb inflation through restraining his urge to spend and by voluntary saving? He has done a job that ought to make the front pages of every paper in the country. I say this because only through a program of natural, voluntary savings can America keep strong. , You can be sure that in this election year the politicians will be taking the credit for what you have done. They will tell you that inflation has been slow ed to a standstill by their price and wage controls, their heavy tax program and their tighten ing of consumer credit. Not one of us is going to be stupid enough to deny that an aspirin or a selt zer mny help a headache. But unless we are very stupid Indeed, we realize the aspirin is only a sedative, not a cure. A look at the record since the close of the war shows the politician to be a good hawker of patent cure-alls but a mighty poor diagnostician. Sometimes, after awakening from an overdose of drugs, the hang-over which follows is worse than the pain one first endured. As a result, the American people have lost confidence In the poli tician s patent medicines and have decided to try an old-fashioned remedy thrift. This old fashioned remedy is producing some phenomenal results. It has actually caused a halt in the in flation epidemic. Voluntary Savings More Than Doubled Through voluntary savings our people more than doubled their 1951 savings over 1950, putting better than $22 billion into the sock. At the same time, consum er debt held steady for 1951: only 34 per cent of disposable income after taxes, and but 32 per cent of savings. Yet, the same potential to spend was there. More people are earning more money than in any previous post war year; Incomes arc better for 25 million families. They could have gone on a spending spree, Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.Rl West erns and wrestling on television will get competition next fall from Bach and Bcethov ven. A top musi cal conductor, Werner Jans sen, revealed Friday, his symphony or chestra is star red in the first television mo vies of long hair music. Alin Mo by On these three-mimile "mast torpicces in miniature'' the or chestra ploys "Tales of the Vien na Woods" while the camera follows a ballet ... or the orch estra is shown playing excerpts from Beethoven's fifth symph ony. Janssen is sure that the public will be happy to find good music sandwiched between panel quiz shows nnd puppets en TV. Relief From Puppets "I'm sure Beethoven will be a relief from puppet shows." the conductor says. "When you've had nothing but hasli for dinner, a little cavier is good once in a while. "In 1933. for example. I was conducting in Germany and tel evision was more prominent there than here. Television trucks in Hie street would show symphony orchestras, and they would stop traffic People would line up for blocks." By Roland Co ' 2fif but they didn't. My guess is that they didn't because the average man has lost faith in the politi cian and his panaceas. He is won dering if he can keep afloat if prices go much higher. So he is beginning to put a little money aside for harder times. He is less and less inclined to mortgage his future lor a TV set or a new car. People everywhere who have good wages ought to continue to save as much as they can while the going is good. Bank Accounts, Bonds Most Popular Savings Bank accounts and savings bonds are still the most popular places to save money. This last year the nation's 529 mutual savings banks reported an all- time high in new savings ac counts, with 3 million more ac counts. Despite this exceptional ly good year for the banks, there is a trend away from the banks, and a trend away from buying U.S. savings bonds. The number of families that have become in terested in mutual investment trusts and other stocks has tre bled in the last couple of years while the number who have put their savings into real estate has increased about 80 per cent. I hope that small investors who are now buying stocks for the first time will not be disap pointed. The high prices at which most popular stocks are now sell ing are danger signals. The small saver, especially, should know that at only one point in history (1929-30) were stocks selling higher than they are today, and he should remember well what happened then. Risk Factor Increases With Higher Stock Prices I am not predicting a stock market crash. I am merely warn ing that the risk factor of buying stocks increases as the prices of stocks advance. This risk is fur ther accentuated by unstable world conditions and the -uncer tainties of an election year. It, therefore, might be wise to take profits and put them into savings banks and government bonds. This would enable' you to set aside a nest egg now so that it will be ready for use when prices drop. Whatever you do, save. The great need for strengthening our national economy today and for keeping it strong for years to come is voluntarily en forced savings. Join the parade of savers, today even though the political outlook appears better. ly ALINI MOSSY Unirid Press Cerrespena'tiil Janssen, who's guest-conduct ed all over Europe and on net work radio symphony programs, tried to interest TV bigwigs in his musical movies two years ago. TV couldn't afford to pay much and the little screen would hardly show 90 musicians, any way. Filming 100 Movlet "They said it was too classi cal," he sighed. "Television was starting out like radio. "I've done more symphony radio than anybody else in the business. I saw what was hap pening . . , one classical pro gram after another went off. He launched his Idea again this year and is filming 100 of the three-minute movies. Now he's swamped with offers. The films can be combined for longer programs, or for showing in "art" theaters. They are filmed in color, with an eye on the future of TV. Not Too Visual "We're doing opera, ballet symphonies, everything," h e says, "for 'The Nutcracker Suite' we'll show three minutes of bal let. Or the screen will show ab stract designs, paintings or voc alists while the music plays. We won't make it too visual, so it won't detract from the music." "I don't think the public will object to classical music on TV If It's done right." Nebraska is the only state which is contained wholly with in the Missouri River basin. In the Day's News BY FRANK JENKINS From London: "British aircraft constructors announced today an additional refinement to the ejector seat of speed-of-sound fighter planes a tiny gadget that automati cally brings the pilot safely to earth even if he has lost con sciousness. "The invention is a baromet ric box the size of a pack of cig arettes that takes over as soon as the pilot is hurled out of the plane, frees him from the seat and at the right altitude opens his chute. "Designers figure that in quit ting a 600-mile-an-hour plane the pilot might pass out or not oth erwise be in good shape to open his parachute." PRETTY complicated? Wait a minute. How about this growing talk to the effect that modern jet fighter planes are getting too fast and TOO COMPLICATED for human brains and human reactions to keep up with. We are hearing already that such planes must eventually be MANNED BY ROBOTS. We are told that if the Russians do it first we'll be OUT. That's pretty complicated stuff, too. THEN there are these platforms in space, man-made and man maintained. They'll circle the earth in an orbit, as other satel lites (not man-made) circle other planets. From them (maybe) we'll launch (maybe) guided missiles with atomic warheads that will smash any city on earth we might elect to smash. Or (again maybe) we'll broadcast from them television programs that will cover the earth from one point of origin. Again we're told that if the Russians do all this FIRST the jig will be up for us. So it's up to US to do it first. HOW about these floating plat forms? How will the air be up there? How about the tem perature? How will human be ings sustain life on them? How will living conditions be? Who will want to man them? If no body volunteers, will somebody be drafted to do it? Again the answer may be ROBOTS. That raises another question: HOW ABOUT GOVERN MENT? THERE is a lot of talk much of it by intelligent, able, thoughtful men to the effect that the BIG thing that is wrong with our federal government is that it has become so huge, so complicated that no mere man can comprehend it all. In the re sulting confusion, SELF-SEEKERS find the opportunity to gain power or to gain pelf. Is the answer to that more robots? T SHUDDER to think of it. I don't want to be governed by a robot. There are robots and robots, you know just like people. There was Percy the Iron Man Brains He Has 'Nix. You will recognize him, of course, only if you're much older than you like to admit. He was one of the early very, very early comic strip characters. He was an amusing blunderer. He was al ways getting himself into jams and he usually got out of them in ways that brought laughs. BUT There was Frankenstein the robot created by Mary Woll- stonecran Shelley away back in 1822 (you see, people were thinking about robots even then.) The robot in Mrs. Shelley's novel was created by a scientist, and it was a holy terror. It destroyed its creator and raised merry hell generally. IF WE fall back on robots to do our governing for us, we could get one like that. I'm "agin' " the whole idea. I'd rather take my chances with MEN. 1UT,' in a world in which com- plication is growing by leaps and bounds a world in which we are already talking about robots to handle fighter planes that have become too compli cated and terrible to be handled by men born of women, a world in which we already recognize that our mathematical problems are so vast that THINKING MACHINES have to be built to handle problems that are too big and too fast for men's slow minds is there any other alter native? T THINK there is. The alternative Is the prin ciple of the Golden Rule deal with others as you want others to deal with you. That principle is simple enough to be applied by mere men. If we followed it. we wouldn't need robots. We could handle all our problems ourselves. To reduce motor accidents, an institute of psychological re search has been opened in Ber lin, where motorists and pedes trians may have their reflexes and reactions tested. SKATING IVIRY WED. & FRI. NIGHTS it tiit Rojut Valley Ballroom Signing of German Peace Contract Could Bring Red Bv PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The signing of the West Ger man peace contract by the Big Three foreign ministers may touch off a big three days for the Commun ists. As of now, the United States, France and Br itain are scheduled to sign the papers restor ing virtual sov e r e ignty t o Phil Tsewsora West Germany on May 24. On May 25, Gen Matthew B. Ridgway is sched uled to arrive in Paris to take over as European supreme com mander. On May 26 the European de fense community treaty is to be signed. Coincidentally, the important local elections also come on May 25. Could Be Outbreak Signal Any one of the four events normally would be a signal for Communist outbreaks. Coming consecutively as they do, they create a situation of po tential dynamite. In Italy and France, the dem onstrations will be dealt with by police and handled as strict ly internal matters. The pros pects are excellent for a few COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must ben the name and address ot the write) although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub iication must not exceed 400 words DST Progressive To the Editor: I have read most of the letters regarding Daylight Time and have yet to hear one real reason for not hav ing it, other than "why change it from the way it's always been?" People used to drive horses and buggies until they tound a better way. When the majority of the larg er town.s in the state have adopt ed DST. our neighboring state to the south has done so, most of the larger cities in Washington are on it, surely we in Medford are modern enough and progres sive enough to do the samel As far as the Little Daisies are concerned, I don't believe they will realize there has been a change in the city if no one tells them. Surely there can be no finan cial loss to any one either inside or outside the city because of Daylight Saving Time, but there would have been severe loss to many without it. More power to our City Council. Mrs. Paul Bauer 1522 Terrace Drive Medford, Ore. Why Not Both? To the Editor: As the time bomb seems about to explode in our midst I think it's time for someono to extract the fuse, or the cap or whatever they do to render time bombs harmless. Since our human existence has to be largely a 50-50 propo sition give and take live and let live why not apply that principla to this situation? Why not have standard time from midnight to noon and daylight saving from noon to midnight? That way the farmer and the school children wouldn't have to get up by dark before the cows and the chickens and the sportsmen would still have their extra hour of daylight for fish ing golfing or lawn-mowing. In fact' if they still wanted to get up an hour early and have two extra hours nobody would mind (unless perhaps their wives). All in favor please raise their voices! Florence Foster 233 South Ivy Medford, Ore. fcW.ffl.',MIMI FIRED OFF A JOB UVSTHAr. ar WELL, EVERY TIME I ?l STARTEP DELIVERING t AM ORDER OP RICH MAID RESIST ITS GOODNESS A V Ifl I- . if- lr-t-i I Outbreaks cracked heads but probably no international incidents. The real danger spot is Ger many and the core of it is the divided city of Berlin. Demonstrations Urged There. East Berliners are be ing urged by the Russians into massive demonstrations against the Western peace contract, and three days of hysteria could re sult in a real international Inci dent, In fact, therein lies the possi bility of just such an Incident as Western leaders have feared that Russia, by under or over estimating Western intent, could trigger off a major conflict by accident. Any attempt by Communist led East Berliners to take over West Berlin by force could be the firing pin. Will Fight Alliance It is obvious that Russia will take every step short of a major conflict to sabotage any German alliance with the remainder of Western Europe. It might be she even would risk touching off a German civ il war. During the three' big days, Western eyes, of necessity, must be on a number of points at once. For example French C o nv munists plan as unfriendly a re ception as possible for Ridg way. Paris police are concerned enough about it to assign 15,000 men to smash the hostile dem onstrations. Epithets Due Ridgway Greeting Ridgway will be such epithets as "Korean war crim inal" and "germ killer," It will be a minor test of strength for the French Com munists who plan demonstra tions in all major cities. The fact that Ridgway's ar rival in Europe coincides with the Italian elections may prove a blessing to Italian police. It alian law prohibits political dem onstrations on election day or the two days preceding. Net Income Tax Collections Ahead Of 1951 Figures Salem (U.R) Net income tax collections for the first 10 months of this year are ahead of those for the similar period a year earlier by more than $16, 000 000 Ray Smith, chairman of the' State Tax commission said Thursday. The fiscal year started July 1. In the first four months of the calendar year, or through April 30, the state was $8,000,000 ahead of collections for the first four months of 1951. For the four months, collec tions were $31,920,837.44, com pared with $24,055,296.68 for the similar 1951 period. Income tax collections for the 10 months of fiscal year amount ed to a whopping $56,699,039.16. That compares with $40,031,570. 46 in the first 10 months of the I Drevious fiscal vear. Seven Spokane Mills End Strike by CIO Spokane (U.R) Some 450 members of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) have ended their strike and ex pected to return to work Friday at seven Spokane mills. The workers voted to accept an offer calling for a 7V4 cent hourly boost as well as Improved holiday and vacation provisions, O. D. Armstrong, business rep-' resentative of local 10-100, re ported. However, Armstrong said the settlement did not affect the big operations at Deer Park pine in dustries, Northwest Timber, or Kaniksu national forest. MEDFORD PHARMACY 127 EAST 6TH Just Off Central For Complete Prescription Service 9 A.M . 10 30 PM. NICH1 Call 2-6253 If No Answe' Call 2-8582 Prompt Free Delivery Baby Needs Sick Room Supplies Rentals Gordon Hudson Medforrl'i Own Modern Ph. -ey anY