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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Xveryone in Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Tribune' Published Daily Except Saturday by MXDFORO PsUNTINQ CO. tT- North ilr 8i Phooa Ml ROBERT W HUH!, KUUf KRNKST R, GILS TRAP, Manager HkRB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. rERGUSON. Managing Kdite ERIC ALLEN JR a Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telefraph EdltOt RICHARD JEW1TT. S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHZR. SoeletT MMj GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second elaaa matter aj Medford. Oregon, pnder Aol M March 8. HOT SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanea: Dally and Sunday one fear flJ.OO Daily and Sunday els moo the i-M Drily and Sunday thraa race. 3 JO Daily and Sunday ona month LM By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoanla. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and oa motor route: Daily and Sunday one year IIS Daily and Sunday One month MS All Terma easn m jwrom Official Paper af tha City el Madiera Official Paper el Jstksoa Cseaty bnlted Press Full Laaaad wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUEXAlF OF ClHCULATlUfl Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPAHT. CTC Office in New York. Chicago, De troit San Praneiace. Lea Angela Seattle Portland, a. Leaks, Atlanta Vancouver. B. C. NATION Ai E0ITOIIAI cSa5' NCWSPAMt UBllSHlKS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Tritune 10. 20. SO and 40 year. ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1943 (It was Monday; Dr. A. E. Merkel, county health officer, advises against swimming in local streams. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The hay crop is reported short. The more pessimistic stockmen predict next winter it will be harder to find a haystack than a needle In one. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 9. 1933 (It was Wednesday) Funds for construction of Dia mond lake highway voted by commission. Floyd Hart returns from trip to east and reports "prosperity is on its way back." 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1923 (It was Thursday) Eastern railroad men shown through local plants. Medford stores set 6 o'clock as closing time. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 9, 1913 (It was Saturday) Pears selling for $1.90 a box fob orchard. University of Southern Ore gon's college of liberal arts of fers course for $25 to early reg istrants. National Forest's Earnings Last Year Make New Record Earnings of the Rogue Riv er National forest for the year ending June 30, 1953. were the highest for any similar period of time in the history of the forest, according to Supervisor Jack Wood. The earnings were from the sale of timber, grazing fees and other forest uses, and totaled $1,461,846.94. Receipts for th year previous were $1,370,000. Timber Sales Big The sale of timber was by far the largest source of income, with $1,447,207.92 from sales. Grazing fees totaled $8,570.92, and other land use income was $1,062.10. Each year 25 per cent of the national forest earnings are re turned to the counties in which the national forest lies. Approxi mately $365,000 from these earn ings of last year will be distrib uted among Jackson, Klamath, Josephine and Douglas counties in Oregon and Siskiyou county in California. Last year Jackson county re ceived about $163,000 from the forest. Similar distribution to counties wiU also be made by omer national forests lying with in their borders. IMPORTED GRASS Geneva, N. Y. (U.R) Field brome grass, an introduction from Sweden, is twins as a new winter cover crop for peacn ana cnerry orchards which do not thrive under a permanent sod system of anil mimimint by experimenters at the N.Y. ataie Agricultural Experiment oiauon nere. MAIL TWBUirK Editorial Policy Explained Juderintr by comments, written and oral, reaching this department there appears to be a considerable misapprehension regarding the Mail Tribune's edi torial policy. (Perhaps the be "method.") Because there are 3 members of the MT staff who now write editorials, and sign their initials, some readers have the idea, that not the Mail Tri bune but the individuals whose initials are signed are personally responsible for the sentiments expressed. That is not true. The sentiments expressed are those of the indi vidual writer, but the responsibility of their publica tion is only that of the paper. Moreover Nothing appears in this Mail Tribune as an organization does not approve, endorse and stand behind, in not only a legal but a moral sense. And so long as is at the helm nothing will. Come newspapers have a score or more of editorial writers but never identify them by initials, or in any other way. There are advantages in that procedure but the Mail Tribune prefers individual identification, both from the standpoint of policy, and reader interest This is not an uncommon practice in the profes sion, nut apparently it is new to many and has re cently led to some doubt and confusion, among our readers. We trust this explanation will remove both. R.W.R. Its Now Up to the Council The Mail Tribune has aroused considerable local excitement regarding the manner in which it has reported and editorialized on what has come to be known as the "Hurley incident." borne of the comment has not THHE Mail Tribune has reported the matter 1 "straight," on what it considers to be its im portance and value as news. The Mail Tnbune is not to "cet" ANYone. It seeks attacked no one personally. A careful reading of its columns, both news and editorial, will bear out these statements. This newspaper's only the public good. It believes to report the iacts as accurately as possible in the news columns, and to draw conclusions from those facts in the editorial columns. The Mail Tribune has done that, and will con tinue to do JUST that! . fXNE of the criticisms has v cident" has been "blown its importance. This is not or what he was makes no Al 11 a 1 1 . ming is mat nis aeatn nas revealed a situation where it was possible for a man any man to remain prone, ill and half conscious in the jail for 41 miser able hours without attention or medical treatment The county grand jury, plete investigation of the matter, came to certain con elusions and made certain recommendations, "with a deep sense of responsibility." Yet its members have been assailed and reviled which graphically reveals very important department lice aepanmeni. flNE of the jury's recommendations one which took courage to make rM4 ngn ux puute, Kiaiuus iucireuie, oe repiacea wim an able and experienced officer, preferably from outside the city. The Mail Tribune has police, editorially or otherwse. His character, as far as we Know, is aoove reproacn. But he IS responsible for the discipline and efficiency of his department and in recent months a year in fact that has NOT been satisfactory. The poor Hurley tragedy, for which must laxe tneir snare of Diame. CRIDAY afternoon the mously to retain Chief In fact, judging by the sentiments expressed by some members he will be on the job for life- Well, that is OK with the Mail Tribune. The council acted entirely within its rights, BUT the question with nAmAvi.l mm a t ? fcioujiai vxie it is iiut wjiu may, ur may now, De at the head of the city police department for 24 years or for a life-time. The question is: are the peo ple of Medford to get the sort of police service a city ui iis size and importance deserves, or are tney not If this Hurley incident, with its trade con sequences, has proved such a lesson to the chief and his department, that a marked improvement will be shown and Medford will get the service to which it is entitled hereafter, FINE. No one will be more pleased Ai a l. r rt man me mail lnoune. DUT if the future demonstrates this can't be done under the old chief then certainly there should be a new one. And it will be directly up to the City Council, to get a new one. ondaT. Aogtut fl, 1119 more accurate term wouia department of which the the present management has been favorable, some contrary to report out no "scapeeoat" It has interest in the matter is a newspaper's function is been that the "Hurley in- up" out of proportion to true. A man has died. Who difference. The important i e. . e A after a careful and com for publishing a report serious deficiencies in a of public service the po was that the present chief i i i , . not attacked the chief of service culminated in the he and his department the responsibility and the city council voted unani McCredie. of course.' the Mail. Tribune is not a X. 1. 1 With the unanimous endorsement of Chief Mc Credie by Mayor Flynn and the Council Friday, in view of the record in the department in recent months, the responsibility now is solely theirs and it can't be shirked! E.A. v. The "Incident" Is Not Closed THE Mail Tribune is glad to hear that the investiga 1 .tion of the police department's procedures, initiat ed and conducted by Councilman John Snider, is to be continued. We hope the councilmen who-are on the police committee .will be able to find an adequate remedy for the present situation, which has been somewhat obscured by the heated debate over whether Chief McCredie was to be retained, or re placed. Entirely aside from that debate! a number of questions regarding the police department have been raised by the grand jury, by citizens of Medford, and by the mayor and the council itself. These MUST be answered. I TNTIL they are answered to the satisfaction of the residents of Medford, who are paying for police service, we cannot consider the "Hurley incident" as closed. E.A. When will World War III Start) As things are going now, World War HI will start approximately Armistice Day, 1953. If the American people don't want it to start then or at any other time they better get busy with their representatives in the congress, and elsewhere For by the phrase "as refer particularly to two public statements made on Friday last THE first was credited to General Mark Clark from TXTo oVi i s vi T f ' ..i 4a 111... mim4 . H OOUUJJVUU, XS.V. DUU nos AJ UUS CXXCl,l. "If the truce is broken I would be in favor of using any and every weapon at the disposal of my country in strik ing back at them." e e e e e TF AN agreement is not A. RinorlinnTi RhaA has threat tme A in raaiima tiost.ili. MaaallfriWII AMtVV WaVaa ties. If within the same length of time the Chinese Reds shows no disposition to "come to terms," then the US delegation will quit Korea and come home. These two facts add up on or about the 11th of November, 195o. ' lOULD that necessarily T Yes, if the statement lieved. It would not only mean World War III. For the use of "every weapon available" would of course mean the use of the atom and hydrogen bombs. They would not fined to Korea, but would out" war against China. Faced by such a serious situation might not Red China come to terms? "MIGHT" happen in this But the second statement mentioned makes that highly unlikely. For also ator Henry Cabot Lodge reiterated his stand regard ing the admission of China into the UN, saying em phatically: "That will never be done!" In other words, as has out in this department, the United States will never recognize the nation that MUST sign the treaty of peace, if peace is ever to be signed. For such recogni tion would, by the terms of the UN charter, admit Red China, into the United Nations. DEFORE any of our excitable gentry start digging a bomb-shelter however, we would explain this offering is somewhat in famous radio broadcast Mars. That is : it is based upon could happen, has or will DUT it is not, as far as this department is concerned, entirely fiction, nor completely fanciful. We are perfectly serious in our belief in fact that unless there is a RADICAL change either in the policy of this country, or that of Red China, there is no more chance of a peace treaty being signed within 90 days or 90 months for that matter than there is of a 3- legged horse winning the The only hope, as we the other or maybe both period, CHANGE R.W.R. Utility Executive Dies at Oakridge John W. Kirby Sr., 66, Oak ridge, Ore., a former resident of Medford and a vice-president of Columbia Utilities company, Medford, died at his home early Thursday. Mr. Kirby wag born in 1887 in Charlotte, N. C, and moved to Oregon in 1036. For a time he was associated with Columbia Utilities in Klamath county as an officer, and at the time of his death was in charge of the Oak ridge operations of the company. Survivors include his widow, Florence Hood Kirby; three sons, John Jr., Medford; James M , Merrill, and Richard D., Oak ridge, and one daughter, Mrs. Stanley H. Brewer, Seattle. There are four grandsons. Mr. Kirby was the brother-in-law of things are eoine now" we reached within 90 days VWVVMVVI W e vwnaaaa w aawweeaa to a breaking of the truce mean war? quoted above can be be war, but a world war be effective in a war con be necessary in an "all China might anything mad world. on August 7th, former Sen previously been pointed the mood of Orson Welles depicting an invasion from the assumption that what happen. Kentucky Derby. see it is, that one side or will within that critical D. O. Hood. Medfor. Interment was in Klamath Memorial Park cemetery, Klam ath Falls. 4-H Cfobs Howard 4-H Club Howard 4-H Livestock club held its last meeting July 27 at the Sportsmen's club. We dis cussed the pre-fairs and our pro jects. The next meeting will be Aug. 10 at the Sportsman's club, and aU parents and members are urg ed to attend to learn more about the county fair. Gerry and Carol Anderson wiU .have a special program that night. Nancy Barnes . Reporter Crosstown t "Are you the Mrs. Pekeberry nobody will Matter of Fact SIR WINSTON'S ILLNESS London Those in the best po sitions to judge do not believe that Sir Winston Churchill will ever again be able to assume the active, day to day leadership o f his country. There has been much specula tion about Church ill's illness, ranging from reports that it was wholly Stewart AJaop "diplomatic," to circumstantial accounts of total paralysis. The facts are these. In the last week of June Churchill suffered a atroke, caused by a partially blocked artery which resulted in an in terference of the blood supply to the brain. The stroke was relatively mild; there was little loss of movement and the mar velous Churchulian intellect was left unimpaired. Even so, be cause of Churchill's age, the doctors took an extremely se rious view of what had happen ed, and believed, at best, that Churchill would be a semi-in valid confined to a wheel chair for a long time. They were reckoning, how ever, without Sir Winston Churchill. He immediately de manded what all doctors hate to give a clear and simple ex planation of what was wrong. He then proceeded to prescribe for . himself an unconventional course of treatment, designed to restore his circulation. To the astonishment of the doctors, he was able very soon to leave his wheel chair. He now walks about, although for brief pe riods and with some difficulty. In short, he has made a near- miraculous recovery. But the facts remain. x a a a riHURCHILL is nearing 80. A man ox inai age wno nas nau of another, especially when sub- jectea to pnysicai ana nervous premiersnip is secona oniy ma; oi vne American prcamciii-jr. Tkla 4a Mrhw fllMA flC trt thp situation aouoi wnemer nurcn- AAA, JIUWtlvi .."O" courage and tough his constitu i . ..ifMio, mairniTir.nL ills tion, can continue mutii iuu&ca as Prime Minister. Th decision of course rests with ChurchiU and he has ap- parenUy not coniiaea nis inten tions even to his intimates. He has made clear his determina tion, however, mai i orei.n mm- l-A i.ivfitf VAurt ahntild be la lci nAJtiiui. - his successor. Despite much spec ulation that Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler (whose star has been rising steadily) may succeed Churchill, there is not much doubt that Churchill will have nis way. In England, such matters are decided by a small inner circle , i t- .hi. raw. the inner OX leaueia. " ..o - circle consists of ChurchiU, Lord Salisbury, Eden and Butter. All four notably including Butler himself are agreed on Eden as Churchill's successor. But the situation is compucaiea , fact Eden has been seriously lU. and is not yet fully recovered. Eden is expected to be en- ii t... Santember or nrpiT wen "J early October. If Churchill were to resign owore ever, Eden could hardly take over This is why there is : a string belief in J-fg-Mf quarters that ChurchiU has al ready decided to step out, and that he is merely -keeping the seat warm for Anthony. a a a AGAINST this seat-warming theory should be placed the undoubted fact that ChurchiU has a profound desire to play a decisive pete-making role, as the last great act of a great life. This desire may cause cnurcn iU to stay on as Prime Minister for some time longer, although he will certainly hand over to Eden the day-to-day business of the government. Churchill's motivations for his Cy Roland Co who's had three husbands, how. ever know?" Stewart Abe famous May 11th speech, calling for a four-power meeting at the highest level, were, of course, mixed. They .were certainly in part political; ChurchiU unques tionably had his eye on an im portant by-election then impend ing. They were also in part per sonal; ChurchiU was deeply an gered by the socialists' war mongering charge in the last elections. But his basic motiva tion rose above the political or the personal.' According to those who have discussed his proposal with him, ChurchiU reasons that Stalin's death marked a great world change, and that it would be folly rigidly to adhere to past policy until an effort was made to find out what this change might mean. He reasons further that the West wiU strongly re sist making further sacrifices to organize its defenses, unless it is first demonstrated that an agreed settlement is not a pos sible alternative. On this last point, at least, every day that passes seems to confirm the old man's prescience. The notion that ChurchiU wants to appease the Russians enrages him almost as much as the Socialists' war-mongering charge. "Surely they do not think," Churchill remarked to a recent visitor, "that I would sell the pass." At any rate, however "irresponsible Churchill s pro posal may have seemed in Wash ington, it should be very weU understood there that his May 11 speech struck an extraordi narily responsive chord in Eng land and throughout Europe. a PARTLY for this reason, ChurchlU's political prestige, in these days of his illness and old age, is almost as high as dur ing the war days. Members of his own party, who used to con sider him a political Uability, and hope for his retirement, now look forward to this prospect with profound regret. "After all," one Conservative leader re marked recently, "he is the only great man England has left." It sometimes seems that he is the only great man the world has left. When the day comes for Churchill to step down as it must rather soon it will be a sad day for the world as weU as for Britain. (Copyright, 1953, Haw York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Second Largest Tax Collection Received by State Salem (U.PJ The state had its second largest tax collection in the fiscal year ended June 30, according to the State Tax Com mission. The total was $62,206,184.76. a decrease of $2,689,303.88. or 4.1 per cent, from the $64,895. 488.64 recorded for the 1951-52 fiscal year, the aU-time high. The commission said the de crease in collections was limited to corporation excise tax re ceipts as personal income tax payments increased $775,315.65 from the 1991-92 total of $42, 824.849.24 to $43,600,164.89. Corporation excise tax collec tions dropped from $22,070, 639.70 in 1951-52 to $18,606,- 019.87 in 1952-53, a decrease of $3,464,619.53, or 15.7 per cent. The number of returns re ceived increased from 556,736 m 1951-52 to 569,818 in 1952-53. Gross additional and delin quent coUections, including pen alties and interest, totaled $4,- 459.059.02. The commission filed its print ed state levy of taxes for the 1953-94 fiscal year today with Secretary of State Earl T. New- bry. " Hartford, Conn. (U.R) The Central Baptist Church has a juke box so worshippers can have sacred music at any time. No nickels are required. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor moat bear tha name and address of the writer although under certain circura a pen Dime or Initial for publication is permle aible. The Mail Tribune- reserves the right to edit all letters with an ere to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words. From a Hungry Crilic To the Editor By a hannv ac cident I got hold of a small but very interesting magazine call ed The Challenge, published right here in Medford. NaturaUy I wanted to look into it further, since the mag is really packed with good reading. But picture by amazement when not a soul in Medford knew a thing about it! Only by going to your news room and collaring a newshound was I able to trace The Chal lenge to its lair. Now this is something like a scandal for your scandalsheet. ain't it? The magazine is posi tively a good one of its kind, and Medford should at once go to work and be proud of it When you look into the mat ter I am sure youll agree. And you'U of course let people know about it Yes, if it ain't good for a fea ture article I'U eat your hat without any dressing whatever! Harold Ramslie Co. I, Camp White Ha Wants Very "Old Crow!" To the Editor: There are up wards of three billion crows in North America, according to gov ernment figures, each scheduled to live 12 years unless eliminated earlier by gun, poison or trap. My grandfather, for instance, had a politically minded talking crow which he chased off his farm when the bird deserted Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 and plumped for Alton B. Parker for president so grandpa said. Grandpa also claimed that he found the crow as a fledgling when it was blown out of its nest in the spring of 1861 the year he enlisted in the Fifth ArtiUery. That would make the old crow 43 years old at the time their friendship was fractured over politics. Lately I have been inquiring among bird experts as to the longevity of crows without much luck. A friend in Kentucky wrote that he was sending along an old crow which had been around for 125 years. Another wag offered to ship me, prepaid, an elderly female relative by marriage. One friend sent me the pro ceedings of the London Zoologi cal Society for 1938, containing an account of a European crow which came into the possession of the Comte de Beaucorps when he was ten years old and the crow was 20 and was stiU a household pet when he died 70 years later. This made the crow if the story is true 90 years old when the Comte died. However, what I am looking for are authenticated very old crows and I thought that you or your readers might know of birds in captivity that have Uved beyond the 12 years of natural expectancy. I would deeply ap preciate any help from you or your readers. Stewart Little, 1 East 43rd St.. New York City. N. Y. Blames Mayor and CouncU To the Editor: I do not see how the councU and mayor can fire Chief McCredie when his job was administrative and not legis lative. If they do, they as a body should accept their full respon sibility and resign, for the fail ure of the Police Department to foUow Sgt BeaU's recommenda tions rest with the mayor and councU alone. The Safety committee runs both the police and fire depart ments and they hired consultants to make recommendations for both departments. The ex-fire chief who had had 22 years fire department exper ience tried to carry out the rec ommendations of the fire depart ment consultant and was told by the chairman of the safety com mittee "Leo Wiedner isn t run ning the Medford fire depart ment, we are" and your chief re signed because he could get no cooperation or permission from the mayor or council to carry out those recommendations. Why should Chief McCredie stick his neck out in the interest of a better police department when he had just seen what would happen if he did. The mayor and council showed their satisfaction with the way the police department was run when they reappointed Chief McCredie last January 1st. They cannot use the same ex cuse with the fire department that they are using with the po lice department that the lack of money was their reason for not foUowing the consultants recom mendations. Did they ask for the money to carry out Sgt BeaU's recommendations? I believe that all city em ployees should be under civil service, but not the kind of civil service the mayor and councU gave the fire department after the people had voted for it That is only a farce. I believe it is time for the voters and taxpayers to wake up. Cleo Ca noose, 55 Ross Court ' TWIN STUDENTS HoUy Springs, Miss. U.R) Weida and Wanda Godman are twins in more than looks. They made identical grades in aU their studies at the University of Mississippi.