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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORIV&TRIBimi Everyone in Southern Oregon . Reads Tne Mail Tribune rublished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORiy PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-l ROBERT W RUHL. Editor ' ERNEST R. GILS TRAP. Manager HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETTi- Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under A-t of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Daily and Sunday ono year f 12.00 Daily and Sunday six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday one month 1.25 By Carrier In A d v a n c e Medford . Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday one year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday one month 1.25 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County - United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER CF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De. troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocUtion O" NEWSPAPER PUBUSHEtS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County His tory from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 yean ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 13, 1942 (It was Thursday) Visitors to Camp White acti vation ceremonies are asked to conserve gasoline and tire rub ber by taking buses. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The gov-; ernment has let ' a contract for the building of the world's worst roads for testing tanks and other war equipment. The way to ac complish this nefarious purpose ( fs to build a perfect road and then turn logging trucks loose on it. 20 YEARS AGO August 13, 1932 (It was Saturday) A. Fortner, a guest of the J. P. Brays, announces he will re turn to Medford to live during the winters; says Medford's win ters are much more pleasant than those in Arizona, where he lives. 7 County Physician Dr. C. I. Drummond relieves worried par ents by " announcing that the drinking water at Willpen Girl Scout camp on the Applegate is not contaminated. 30 YEARS AGO August 13, 1922 (It was Sunday)' Fishing in the Rogue river proves so unprofitable that com mercial fishermen cease opera tion for several days. Frost specialist from Los An geles is expected in Medford soon to help prepare a pamphlet on the subject for local fruit growers. 40 YEARS AGO August 13, 1912 ' The Rev. John Howard, con nected with the Medford Furni ture and Hardware store, is wounded critically while on a hunting trip. Street Commissioner W. P. Baker spends three days hunting near Medford, returns with one buck, one 250-pound bear, two steelhead trout, 12 small trout, five gallons of blackberries and one gallon of huckleberries; he announces he's going back for more. County Jail Roster Up Over Last Year 'The "popularity" of the Jack son "county jail has risen consid erably over the average attend ance, according to Sheriff How ard Gault. Yesterday morning there were 33 inmates, the sheriff noted, while the average daily maxi mum over the last year has been about 15. The total inmates dur ing August should be consider ably higher than the 62 figure of the same month last year, ne pointed out. The highest monthly attend ance during the first part of this year was January s 79, followed by April's 77, he added. PERFECT HAND . Temple, Tex. (U.R) Mrs. T. Y. Flynt bid three diamonds in a bridge game Tuesday. Her husband mopped his brow and said ''seven spades." Mrs. Flynt said she thought her husband was suffering from the heat. Then he turned up a perfect hand of 13 spades. 9" Editorial Correspondence Stonington, Conn., Aug. 10 Whether the writer is the greatest rainmaker since Noah, or Jupiter Pluvius is pursuing him with relentless rapacity as he travels from one section of the country to the other, the fact remains that everywhere your roving cor respondent goes, the rain, like Mary's lamb, comes following after. And as before remarked, always in record-breaking proportions. ':. This is being typed on Sunday, August 10 at 11 a.m. It has been raining since 3 a.m.; at times in torrential volume. All the house lights are on for it is as dark outside as late evening'. Even the Big Sailing Race has been postponed, and when the amateur sailors of Connecticut refuse to sail because of the weather, the latter has to be something very terrible indeed. And that it is. All records for rainfall in August have been broken in these first ten days, in fact nothing of the sort has happened here since the Stonington land battery repulsed the British years ago. It may not add up to as much as Winnebago county, Illinois, when we were there 16 inches in 30 days! but it is now five inches in ten days, and, of course, if that rate should be maintained the totsl will be only an inch short. However that isn't likely. . Politically, it's all Eisenhower, hereabouts, just as it was five weeks ago in New York and Buffalo. That is, it is anti-Taft. But there is, as far as we have gone, a high respect for Stevenson, and the Portuguese portion of -the population which is the majority is reported to be neutral at present. This is hard to believe but the local "boss" he was born in Lisbon and has a record for know ing all the answers politically, claims that is true. If so, it is quite significant we believe, indicating that for the first time in recent history, BLIND partisanship even at the union . labor level, has reached a new low, if it has not entirely disappeared. The best reports of the recent Chicago conventions, your cor respondent has seen, were written for the "Saturday Review of Literature," by a Stonington man, John Mason Brown. The reason they are so good is that Brown, an experienced re porter and gifted writer, never attended a national convention before. Everything, therefore, was a new experience to him rather than an old one. He felt things that most of the veterans in the press section did not feel but which they had through the years become conditioned to, therefore they did not register. The result was a wonderfully vivid picture of the two performances by Brown, especially the Republican and a correct one, full of hu man interest, appreciation and discriminating humor. The "New Yorker" -our favorite magazine, and one which we have taken ever since it was established on the other hand; fell down very badly. The conventions should have been its '.'dish," but instead the man assigned to the job, Richard Rovere, handed out a dish of very commonplace and uninspired observations, which no more gave the humor, spirit and atmosphere of the stockyard saturnalia, than the news index of the Chicago Tribune. This is hard to understand for Rovere, too,- is a gifted writer and expe rienced reporter. But he surely had a day off in fact ten days in July at Chicago. a As we look out the window at the rain drenched cove, and Long Island Sound beyond, we wonder why all that precipitation fails to raise the level of the ocean. Imagine what the total must count up to in gallons! Yet there is no apparent change in the water level or the tides. The answer is probably a very simple one but we don't know exactly what it is, unless it is the immensity of the ocean COMPARATIVELY even a heavy rain for a year would probably measure up to only a few drops in a barrel. But Lake Michigan is rising, and so is Lauderdale Lake where we stopped a week ago en route to Madison. The heavy rains un doubtedly affect a small body of water like Lauderdale, but there Is probably some other answer to the Great Lakes. When attending the conventions we often walked up and down the Lake Michigan promenade from Monroe to the 12th street sta tion, and back again. We believe Chicago is the only, large city in the world with a super summer resort, including fishing, sailing and swimming, only a stone's throw from its business center (well, perhaps, Paul Bunyan would have to throw the stone!) and it ex tends for miles north and south a regular Coney Island every week-end. (Only, it is more like the clean and attractive Jones Beach.) And for-free, to all! Uncle Joe should spend a day there when he tours the U.S.A. and then writes "the rise and fall of the AMERICAN empire." 1 . In spite of the record-breaking heat and humidity during that convention visit, however, the lake water was too cold for swim ming. At least it was as cold as Crater Lake, according to the jun ior member of the family, who tried it one torrid Sunday'. And those who have ever tried to swim in Crater Lake, as the writer did some decades ago, will agree that adds up to ice water from a thermos bottle! "Junior.-Miss" solved the problem by taking brjef dips but spending most of the time in the hot sand, as did many of the others, including the husky life-guards. In fact the next day the Chicago papers printed announcements declaring the lake too cold for safe swimming, some strange freak of the weather having taken the hot water along the shore out to sea, and replacing it with the cold water from still farther out. ' Day before yesterday , tried out the nice little 9-hole course across the cove first golf since last May. As usual "Ye Editor's" game was no worse for the long lay-off, in fact if anything a trifle better. There is probably less disposition after a long vacation to think about HOW it should be done, and a greater disposition just to tap the ball without immediately looking up to see where it will-go. At any rate 50 was broken which is always satisfactory these days to the undersigned, if not to the doctor. And as the doc tor always says, quote: "And if it had not been for that etc., etc., I would have had an etc., etc., instead of what I DID have, etc., etc." ' Yes, the water in Lake Michigan is rising, the lower promenade built for pedestrians, is under water in fact. A colored fisherman we chatted with one day he too looked and acted like "Stepin Fetchit" claimed at the present rate all Michigan Avenue will be under water in another five or six years. Perhaps by that time "Stepin" will catch a mess of fish he had been fishing ever since sun-up, he said, and had only one undersized carp to show for it. But two days later he was on the same spot still fishing only a few blocks from the University Club, where -there is white fish but no carp on the menu! . , The "cathedral dining room" in the University Club, by the way, we would say is the most beautiful dining room in the coun try probably in the world. Your correspondent will never forget the sight that greeted his sleepy eyes, the first morning after the first day at the GOP hippodrome when he sat down for breakfast with a steaming demi-tasse before him the early morning sun sparkling on the blue waters of Lake Michigan below as the scene stretched off into the clear lines of the distant Michigan shore. Also the rainbow colors of the windows reflected on the white table cloth and the gleaming silver! . Too bad AGAIN Uncle Joe couldn't have been there, and talked things over with our next Newport and PROVIDENCE! R.WJt. Driver Vision Check Chicago (U.R) . Automobile accidents could be reduced five per cent annually by careful checking of drivers' vision, a vision expert says. The reduction would save 67, 000 motorists from death or in jury, according to Prof. D. J. Moffie, director of North Caro lina State College's occupational vision research division. Moffie told a Midwest Safety meeting that he based his esti mate of five per cent on results of driver vision examinations conducted by the North Carolina highway safety division. Wednesday, August 13, I9S2 down at the "Point" around 150 rain-washed air, to the dim skyline out door neighbor, Senator Green of Could Cut Accidents ' In its tests the. division used an "ortho-rater," a scientific in strument for measuring basic visual skills. The examination is required of all applicants for drivers licenses in his state, Moffie said. - He said the ortho-rater testing program had been used by indus try in job selection and place ment procedures. ' - "Evidence indicates that sub stantial savings result, through the- use of the instrument, from - lowered accident rates, higher efficiency, and better morale," Moffie explained.,, Crosstown dn pred ne gib sanp sanp enfieai iaq ni puiqeq In the Day's By FRANK JENKINS More on the king business: The ailing Duke of Windsor began his day today (in Monte catini, Italy) by drinking a Scotch and soda. (He is recover ing from a digestive attack). The duke left his hotel room at noon and immediately went to the bar for his one drink. Later he went to the hotel rest aurant and ate a hearty meal. THESE EX-KINGS lead a rug ged and ascetic life, don't they? Wouldnt' you hate to be in their shoes? THAT gets us back to fat King Farouk (I just saw a new pic ture of him, and he's even tub bier than I thought.) Farouk is said to have owned a third of all the farm land of Egypt. His third is estimated to be about two million acres. That, by a simple mathematical compu tation, places the total arable land of Egypt at about six mil lion acres. In the Klamath Basin alone (which is only a small part of the total arable area of Ore gon) there are now about 300, 000 irrigated acres. That is about one-twentieth of the total arable area in Egypt. The population of Egypt is about TWENTY MILLION. THIS COMPARISON is made interesting by a statement buried somewhere in the vol uminous files of the U.S. de partment of agriculture, that the soil of the old Tule bed is prob ably the richest soil in the world with the exception of the Nile valley. If that is true, the relatively small Klamath Basin of Oregon, on an acre for acre basis, could support a population of a MIL LION people. If, that is The standards of living were equal. They aren't thank the Lord! Oregon's standard of liv ing is one of the highest in the world. The standard of living of 95 per cent of the people of Eg ypt is one of the LOWEST IN THE WORLD. w HY? Well, the standard of living of the 95 per cent of the Egyp tian people who are at the bot tom of the heap is among the lowest in the world because of the scandalous manner in which the king business (meaning gov ernment) in Egypt has been ABUSED. ' I hope - you've never seen Egypt or at least that part of it lying outside a few tourist spots in Cairo and Alexandria. It's a sight to haunt you air your days. The people! The poor, piti ful, disease-ridden, . fly-blown, flea-bitten people! That's what happens when government goes to pot. FAT FAROUK, before they gave him the long-overdue bum's rush, is said to have been perhaps one of the two richest men in the world. The other is believed to be one of the nizams Or maharajas or what-you-may-call-'ems of India, where living conditions are more or less sim ilar to those in Egypt. IlfE HAVE rich people in this country but in the main they have becom3 rich by pion eering new developments in in dustry that have enabled mil lions of our people to become well-to-do. There's a vast difference. r APPEARS that in Jordan, another Middle East country, they've decided to put the boot to another king Talal, who is said to be mentally incomp etent. Jordan's - people - are a shade better off than Egypt's, but it's a narrow decision. In Iran, old Mossadegh is tak ing over and the shah of Iran appears to be. on the .way out. If you want to know, why, go to Iran and TAKE A LOOK AT THE PEOPLE. That tells the story. Ridiculous as Weeping Willie Mossadegh appears at this distance, he is giving the poverty-stricken com mon people of Iran a vision of something they never have had, but. know they WANT. By Roland Coe qtiTa - j - oS stq leq n.I nq sieaA om; it ojim. jood sH News PERSONALLY, I hope this booting out of kings CON TINUES in the Middle East coun tries. It is something that is long overdue. AND I HOPE also that our state department gets smart enough and wise enough and HUMANITARIAN enough to tell the British and the French, un der whose COLONIAL IMPER IALISM these good - for - noth ing, play - boy, nasty-rich kings have flourished, that the jig is up and the days of colonial im perialism are over so far as we are. concerned that from here on out we're going to be on the side of the poor, pitiful people of the Middle East who for so long have been given the dirty end of the stick- Why shouldn't we take that po sition? After all, we were the first people in the world to throw off the yoke of colonial imperialism We fought the Revolutionary War because that's what the Britain of George the Third was trying to do to us and we would not stand for it. We said we'd DIE FIRST. It's getting high time for us to BE OURSELVES in the world instead of backing up the col onial exploiters who happen at the moment to be our cocktail party friends. AIR CRASH KILLS 24 Goiania, Brazil (U.R) Twen ty-four persons were killed when a Brazilian National Air Transport airliner crashed in Palmeiras near here Tuesday. A NJcios' Worth of- Comment On BY HARMAN United Press Washington (U.R) A gentle man in Jamaica, N.Y., thinks the government ought to get into the love busi ness. The idea struck George Durst when he read in the papers that the National Wid ows and Wid owers Club plans to study the problem of old and - middle-age love at Harmon Nichols a confab soon in Chicago. I'm pretty sure Durst had his tongue rolled up in his cheek when he wrote me, but anyhow, here's what he said: He suggested that one or both political parties include in their planning or in their campaign ing a "solid" matrimonial plank, to help single persons find suit able mates. Durst made the observation that "70 per cent of the 4,000, 000 members of lonely hearts clubs matrimonial bureaus are women, mostly older women." I don't know where my corres pondent got his figures, but I'll take his word for it. Matrimonial Bureau Needed He thought if the government goes into this thing, it "ought to do it the right way.". "I suggest," he suggested, "that what this country needs is not a five-cent cigar, but a good $5 to $10 federal matrimonial bureau. "The government could set up a new Cabinet bureau and call it the U.S. Department of Friendship and Romance, which for a reasonable registration fee of $10.55 (including a love tax) would register and list sincere marriage-minded men and wo men. , ."They could list their help wanted, matrimonial : advertise ments in a 50 cents a month fed eral : matrimonial mart bulletin", via the U.S. Printing Office. Can't Take It With Them "After all, women in the fond able forties, fascinating fifties, and lovable sixties should rea lize that they can't take their money with them, so why let the income tax man grab it all? Congressional Quiz Questions and Answers on What Goes on at the Capital Furnished by Congressional Quarterly News Features. Q. Is it true1 that with favo.' able action by only seven more states, the Constitution will be amended to limit the federal in come tax? A. No. The legislatures of 29 states have proposed some sort pf a Constitutional limit on fed eral taxing powers. But they have called for different ap proaches and seven states re scinded their actions. Even after Congress or a Constitutional convention agreed on a proposed amendment 36 states would have to ratify it before it would be come part of the Constitution. Q. How can the Constitution be amended? A.- Two main steps are re quired. An amendment must be proposed formally, either by a two-thirds vote of the House and Senate, or by a special Conven tion called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the states, through either their leg islatures or special state conven tions. The ' convention method has never been used either for proposing or ratifying amend ments. Q. I happen to know a rich man who gets a social security check every month. I thought only people of limited means were eligible. ' A. Any retired person -65 years old whose 'income from wages or salary is not more than $75 a month is eligible for pay ments if he Worked in an oc cupation covered by social secur ity. It doesn't make any differ ence how much he has in the bank. In fact, Federal Security Agency officials after a sample survey estimated that from 50 to 200 millionaires are drawing social security checks. Q. How' diligent were Cong ressmen this year in going "On The Record?" A. They slipped. For the fourth straight year, the Senate showed a decline, while the House dropped from its record 1951 mark. Figures compiled by Congressional Quarterly show Senators voted or declared their stands on an average of 90.2 per cent of the record (roll-call) votes in 1949, but fell to 86.8 in 1952. The House went on the Record an average of 86.4 per cent in 1949, 88.8 per cent in 1951, and 83.7 per cent in 1952. Q. Did many lawmakers make perfect scores in going on record on roll-call votes? A. Only one Senator, Olin D. Johnston, (D-S.C), went on the Record on 100 per cent of the 129 roll-call ' votes this ses sion. Nineteen made their stands known at least 98 per cent of the time. In the House, 25 mem bers nine Democrats, 16 Re publicans voted or declared their stands on all of the 72 House roll- calls. (Copyright 1952, Congression al Quarterly). This and That W. NICHOLS Feature Writer It seems to me that many older women, who groan and yip about high income taxes could easily afford to own husbands as a practical income tax deduc tion item and get a dog-walker to boot." And oh, yes, while the govern ment is at it, it could set aside one week well before this com ing Christmas as National Matri monial Week, he said. SHE PAID ANYWAY Grand Forks, N.D. (U.R) Parking meters have been out lawed in North Dakota but Per ry Dornheim, a hotel bell cap tain, said Wednesday he saw a woman park her car and care fully examine the pipe on. which a meter once stood. Finally she pulled out a nickel and dropped it down the empty pipe. Forest fires each year cost mil lions of dollars! Don't start one. Prevent forest fires, Keep Ore gon Green! FOR The American Legion Club Monarchs Fee! Shaky As King of Jordan Second To Feel Boot By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The shifting sands of Near and Mid-East politics have cost an other monarch his throne. Jor- an's mentally ailing King Talal has been tossed out and his 17-year-old son proclaim ed King Hous s e i n II. A three -man re gency will rule until the new .monafth 'hil rewsora . ... next May. The change gives emphasis to a remark once credited to an other recently disposed monarch-King Farouk of Egypt. Farouk is supposed to have said that soon there only would be five kings left the King of England a,nd the four kings in a deck of cards. Farouk's fore cast was, perhaps, a bit unfair to the king business but be comes especially interesting in light of his own recent fate and that of the King of Jordan. Of the seven monarchies in the Middle East, two others are shaky. In Iran, the powers of Shah Reza Pahlevi are being steadily Whittled down by Nationalist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. Imam Ahmed of Yemen has confessed he is nervous about his future. When Farouk fell, Imam Ahmed promptly banned the use of all radio sets in his kingdom to prevent the news spreading among his people. I wo conditions have con tributed to Middle East unrest and to Western difficulties in pushing through such projects as agreement on defense of the Suez Canal, an overall Middle East defense plan and settle ment of the Iranian oil contro versy. National Jealousies Blamed They are, first, a surging na tionalism among all Arab states and with it the growth of "neu tralism" between the Western and Communist worlds, and, sec ond, national jealousies which have prevented agreement among the Arab states them selves. ; In Iran, nationalism took the form of seizure of- the British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. and adamant refusal to nego tiate on any except Iran's own terms, even though it could mean ruin and Communist oc cupation of the country. In Egypt, it was insistence on evacuation of British troops from Suez and recognition of Egypt's king as monarch also of the Sudan. Arab rivalries are more com plicated. . Jordan's new King Hussein II The T-Pee Dance Hall Wishes to Thank The Huge Crowd That Attended Our Opening Dance Saturday Night For your convenience, parking facilities, park ing area lights, and air conditioning will be added improvements for our regular Saturday night dance., . . ' The Management Every Wednesday & Friday Nights DOUBLE SESSIONS FRIDAY NIGHTS ROGUE VALLEY BALLROOM One Block South of City Limits on Hi way 99 YOUR Presents The Lovely Chanteuse VALER APPEARING NIGHTLY With Her UNIQUE SONG STYLINGS LEGIONNAIRES AND GUESTS . is the great grandson of King Hussein of the Hejaz in which is located Mecca and other of the Arab world's holiest cities. Hussein, claiming direct descent from Mohammed, lost. the Hejaz in a bitter war with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Hussein also was the founder of the Hashemite dynasties which now rule Iraq as well as Jordan. Thus, no love lost be tween Jordan and Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Syria lives in dread of a un ion between Iraq and Jordan. Jordan accuses Prince Naif of plotting against the throne from nearby Lebanon; they all point a finger of scorn at Egypt for her miserable showing against the Israeli and Jordan is ac cused of a fancy double-cross in moving on Jerusalem. The United States and Britain together, have a stake, of more than $2,000,000,000 invested in Near and Mid-East oil alone. The world has a stake . in Mid-East defenses. But Farouk may have been a lot closer right than he knew. Farm Bureau Plans To Name Chairman For Cattle Group A commodity chairman for the Jackson County Farm Bu reau cattle ' and dairy farmers will be appointed at a farm bu reau meeting Thursday, August 14, at 8 p.m. in the county court house, members said today. A discussion of the functions of the group will also be held at the meeting. Reports will be given on the actions of the Oregon Farm Bu reau delegates meeting which was held August 3-5 in Bend. They will include final decisions on "the resolution which were before the delegates at that time. These decisions are now before the various County Farm Bu reaus for changes or additions. Changes to the tentative reso lutions will be considered by the county delegates at the annual meeting at Baker, to be held the last of November. Final plans will be made at the Thursday meeting here for attending the regional meeting scheduled for September 8 in Roseburg. Some local members are also planning to attend the American Farm Bureau Federa tion convention, to be held De cember 8-11 in Seattle. Oregon's forests are the most productive in the world. Let's keep them that -way by prevent ing forest fires. PLEASURE
