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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1953)
FOUR MEDFORD (OWEOOm "I very one in Southern Ofefoa Reads Tba Mail Tribune" - Tt-a North r St. Phone S-S14.1 ROBCRV W klML Editor r.BNEST E, CILSTBAP. MM -&RB GREY Advertialn ? K C. FERGUSON. Manacln dMO KMC ALLEN JR, City Bditor HARRY CHIPMAfi TOeJ RICHARD JEWiTT. porta OLIVE STARCHER. Socity IMlto GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ugr. An Independent Newspaper "Tntered a second cum Medford. Oregon, onder Act e March S. 1SOT SUBSCRIPTION RAfU Mill In Advance: Daily and Sunday one T-91 Daily and Sunday ata montba S.50 Drily and Sunday three asoa. SSO Daily and Sunday -oemooth LJ3 j Carrier In Advance Medford Aihland. Central Point atoPctot Jacksonville. Gold Wn. Shady Cove. Rogue Biver. Taienl and cn motor route: Daily and Sunday one year Daily and Sunday One month IJs All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medfera i dm Vtill IMaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF rlRCULATION Advertising Representative mcT uni i iniv r-nMPAlfV- INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Lea Angel ea Seattle. Portland. t Lome, Atlanta Vancouver. B. C. NATIONAL f DITOtlAL V NIWS'AMt PUtllSHIIS ASSOCIATION Righto' Time Medford ana Jacksua Comity History from the files of The Mail TrUune 10. ZQ. W 40 yr fa 10 YEARS AGO AUG. 12. 1943 (It was Thursday) . The Rev. Ward A. Rice be comes pastor of First Christian church. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: On a Beall lane farm, in the backyard, a sunflower is still valiantly cam paigning for Alf Landon of Kan sas, the world's worst stump speaker and GOP entry for pres ident in 1936. The sunflower acreage in Jackson county was good, but not enough that year. 20 YEARS AGO Am. 12. 1933 (It was Saturday) Gov. Meier pays hurried visit to city on way to Gold Beach. Temperature scoots to 101 de grees for second day in a row. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 12. 1923 ' (It was Sunday) Bride and groom to spend honeymoon walking from Med ford to top of Mt. Hood. Price war cuts gasoline to lie a gallon in Portland. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 12. 1913 (It was Tuesday) Medford apples sold to New Zealand firm, first fruit from this section ever to go to the antipodes. ' Railroad grant swindlers to be prosecuted. Suit involves United States against Oregon and California Railroad comp any. State Federations Aid to Apprentices San Francisco Development of the national apprenticeship program has been greatly aided by support from state federations of labor, according to W. F. Pat terson, director of the U.S. De partment of Labor's bureau of apprenticeship. Speaking here this week at a convention, of the California State Federation of Labor, Pat terson said there are some 8,000 joint apprenticeship committees throughout the nation, with more than 20,000 members from or ganized labor, and that there are now more than 162,000 regis tered apprentices in the United States and territories. More than 2,000 former mem bers of the armed services each month are entering apprentice training, he said. Most catfish feed almost en tirely by scent. An exception is the channel cat, the gamest of the tribe, which feeds a good deal by sight. Court Records DISTRICT COt'RT . John D. Nile, defective tail light ST.30. George K. Neville, no motor vehicle license. $10. Roger K. PuM. no operator's li cense. Sff. George W. Large, overload. S30. Jack J. Duffer. Inadequate brakes. 97.SO. Deward O. Waelty. operating mo tor vehicle while vehicle license sus pended. $10. driving while operator's license suspended. SIS and two-day Jail sentence suspended. Vernal R. Shroy, overhelght load. 10. Jackson K. Kemp, overload. $31.80. Merlin W. J" J aril, no motor vehicle license. 10.. POLICE COl'RT Robert J. Dolan, failure to stop at atop sign, S3. jucnara xugeoa) ray. MAIL TRIBUNE Traffic Change Troubles The mid nlan. or one-wav street pattern, should not be adopted by a city competent survey of present ana expected trainc problems involved, and consultation with all interests concerned. In some instances where the radical change has been inaugurated cities have found this out too late. They have learned the nard way tnat tne grid system is no cure-all in traffic control, that it may in fact prove regrettably detrimental, economic ally, to some segments of a city, and that the initial pattern generally requires at least minor changes from time to time as experience through use may dictate. R OSEBURG, for instance, traffic expert from the ment in an effort to find a way out of the controversy which has developed since one-way traffic was set up there. , Roseburg's trouble stems from the fact that the grid plan was laid out exclusively for traffic control, to expedite traffic and to get vehicles out of congested zones as quickly as possible. The plan is said to have worked efficiently so far as its basic objectives are concerned, too efficient ly according to downtown business interests which are how contending that they are losing trade be cause of the change and that tourist trade in particu lar has shown a decline. DEFORE many years Medford, and our sister city Ashland on the south, will be by-passed by High way 99, just as other Oregon cities have been in recent years. It isn't logical to assume that the state is building the four-lane highways through the rural areas of this region with the intention of funneling the traffic through some miles of narrow, congested city streets. Any traffic survey in Medford, looking to possible adoption of the grid plan or other major changes in routing, will be of little permanent value unless the location of the future by-pass is first made known by the highway commission. When this information is obtained, city traffic patterns can be set up to conform and make the best use of both the highway and street connections. E.C.F. Travel Tip The Mail Tribune in publishing a series of illus trated Sunday f eatues on where to go and what to see is giving local residents and our visitors a more intimate knowledge of location and attractions of the many scenic and recreational spots to be found in the nearby Medford area. For those who have the time andor inclination for a bit more extended jaunt we would like to recommend the drive over to Gold Beach, at the mouth of Rogue river, and the boat trip up that brawling stream to Agness, tiny hamlet 4.14 uic iiiiucb ui vnc vi tiic imiylUU 9 XilUOv pXXiillbiVC regions. THE five-hour drive for the conservative driver, x that is to Gold Beach has everything-. There is the rugged scenery as one T" J iave junction westward, tne nignway winding through giant trees on the Smith River cut-off, and then on reachincr Hiehwav 101 the vast vistas nf ocean beach and tumbling But the greatest thrill of all is the 32-mile voyage up the Rogue. Shallow draft boats, with powerful engines go skittering over riffles that appear im possible of navigation, wending their way between lofty tree-clad banks where deer are sighted resting near the water's edee. and cranes and other water fowl gaze unafraid at the -arriving at Agness about noon there is time for a family style dinner at the old inn before the boat men signal the return triD. The downstream iniir- ney on the swift current takes much less time, arrival at tne oock Deing scneduied lor shortly after 3 p. m. For those who have known the Rogue only in its upper reaches the triD to Atmem fHves a new anrl highly enjoyable acquaintance with this turbulent J 1 A J 1 A ana oeauiuui stream. QF course there is also V alone the COast if one W - to Medford for a day or Diuney i james, wno declares Uregon's coastline is the most beautiful he has PVPr fippn fiPnf o man .nf A- 1 1 . 1 show basis for the editor's Gladiola Show, west recently to pnotograph some of the more scenic SDOts and the series nf rtWnroa in loot t Open Today at Grants Pass aV 1 m at . A floral float parade today opened the annual Grants Pass Gladiolus Festival which this year is combined with the 1993 Josephine county fair and the Oregon State Gladiolus Society's Gladiolus show. The Festival opened at the county fairgrounds on the Redwood highway just outside of Grants Pass. The first day's events, in ad dition to the parade include the coronation ceremony and a var iety show at 8 p. m. Bulb Auction Planned County fair events began at 8 a. m. The state Gladiolus show opened at 1 p. m. Thursday events include a pig-scramble for youngsters at 6:30 p. m.. the an nual Gladiolus bulb auction and the annual livestock auction at 8 p.m. Friday will be Grants Pass Day with special afternoon and evening programs. The fair will close Saturday evening with midget auto races. Wednesday. August 11. IMS until after a thorough and is preparing to call in a State Highway Depart crosses the mountains from 1 ' a a. silver surf. passing craft- plenty of scenery to enjoy wishes t.n rlelav tho ratnm ' wws, D11V A VVMI two. Life Magazine editor acclaim. E.C.F. County Fair The Roval Rnurlam of Port. land will Join with the Royal Gladilians of Grants Pass in staffing the coronation of Queen Gladys XIII, who will be se lected from the seven princesses. Flower Show In addition to the Gladiolus show, the fair flower show will be held Friday and Saturday, The 1953 fair premium book issued last week contains over 400 classes of exhibits other than livestock in which southern Ore gon citizens are invited to par ticipate. Entries by amateurs are solicited in both the state Gladiolus show and the regular fair flower show, as weU as in agriculture, horticulture and home economics classes. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair to day, tonight and Thursday ex cept coastal fog. Crosstovn This must be a photograph of one of mother's old boy friends. It's signed 'be it wishes from Rudolph Valentino.' " Matter of Fact MALENKOV'S POWER MACHINE ! Washington The right way to understand Georgi Malen kov's claim to know the secret of the hydro gen bomb, is as part of a much larger whole. Even a Soviet hydrogen bomb would not be a dan ger to this country, all by itself. But it is a very great danger indeed, as one part in Joseph Alsop a gigantic machine of Soviet power which is now nearing completion. As to the specific problem of the bomb, it now seems to be fairly well established that no Soviet test explosion has occur red as yet.' According to reliable report, at any rate, no sign of an explosion has yet been picked up by the American long range de tection system. What is now expected, there fore, is a Soviet repetition of our own Eniwetok test of 1951. Before very long, if the fore casters are correct, they wiU try out a weaon like the chief bomb of our 1951 Eniwetok series. This bomb had a power of more than 200 kilo-tons more than the explosive force of 200,000 tons of TNT and it contained a small quantity of the heavy hy drogen mixture which forms the core of a true hydrogen bomb. Our Eniwetok tests had a dou ble purpose to experiment with one of the very powerful atomic bombs that are needed as triggers for hydrogen bombs, and to gain data on the hydro gen fusion reaction. A similar bomb test will justify Malen- kov's boast. It is in order for the Soviets, whose biggest bomb to date had a power under ejghty kilotons. And such a test will not delay the Soviet over-aU atomic build-up, by requiring conver sion of plutonium reactors to produce large quantities of tri tium, the fantastically costly very heavy hydrogen that is the most important component of a true hydrogen bomb. rr this is the sort of thing Mal kov was talking about, there is no reason to adjust past esti mates of the Soviet atomic pro gress, which placed the begin ning of the time of real danger towards the end of next year. Unfortunately, however, there are excellent reasons to adjust past estimates of a related So viet effort the build-up of the Soviet Long Range Air Army, which gives meaning to Soviet atomic power. In brief, it is now confirmed that the Soviets have started quantity production of the TU 31 a big turbo-jet bomber com parable in range and other characteristics to our own B-36 The TU-31 will give the Long Range Air Army what it has heretofore lacked, the capability to make round-trip attacks on American targets from bases on Soviet territory. In addition, there are good reasons to believe that the So viets now have the prototype of a giant jet bomber comparable to our B-52 the most advanced bomber we possess. The new plane was expected to be shown, in fact, at the Moscow air show that was cancelled by bad weather. If weather permits, the showing may well have taken place before these words can be printed. In any case this new plane, if its existence is confirm GRABOYTS JEWELERS 108 East Mail Diamond Eirgage merit kings 3 Budgac Tsnraa 0v Roland Cot r JoMsh Alsgf) ed, will put Soviet strategic air development almost on a par with our own. Finally, to complete this pat tern of growing Soviet air atomic strength, there are the marked peculiarities of the new Soviet budget, which Malenkov announced with such a flourish. Malenkov chiefly esphasized the larger share ol the Russian national Income that ls'&ow to be allocated to the consumer. In view of the extraordinary rise of Soviet national income and productivity since the end of the war, greater generosity to the mass of the population is certain ly overdue. It should not be dif ficult to finance, either, since the Soviets have largely com pleted their most massive mili tary program, the re-equipment of their huge ground forces. TtfEANWHILE Malenkov made "A no mention whatever of two features of the budget which are deeply disquieting. On the one hand .all the grandiose capital projects of Stalin's old age have now been cancelled. For in stance, the dead dictator's heirs have stopped construction of the canal from the Aral Sea to the Caspian Sea, and the tunnel from Sakhalin, under the Straits of Tartary, to the Siber ian mainland. By so doing, they have proportionally increased the already enormous capital funds available for more imme diately useful purposes, such as the expansion of aircraft produc tion. On the other hand, "residua! expenditures have also been enormously increased, from 28.3 billion rubles in the 1952 bud get, to no less than 73.9 billion rubles in this year's budget. This special category of outlays is never Itemized In tne soviet budget It is generally believed to provide most of the financing for the Soviet atomic effort, the guided missile development pro gram, and the like. The meaning of such an increase, coming at this time, should not require fur ther comment. The likelihood- is strong that the Soviet annual investment in the atomic program, guided mis sile development and other spec ial weapons projects, now con siderably exceeds our own in vestments. Add the progress of Soviet strategic air. Add, fur ther, the Soviet build-up whicn our own Chiefs of Staff have held will reach a stage of acute dancer in 1954. The sum of all the evidence is a future danger for which, at present, this coun try is making no adequaie prep aration. (Convrioht. 1953. New York Herald Tribune. Inc.) Boise (U.R) The Public Utilities Commission is holding under advisement tne appiica tinn of Hells Canvon Tours, Baker, Ore., to extend its tourist service to the Idaho side oi rieiis Canyon. SAVE S S S IFMEE mm mm .WIESTfffimKJ SMKWCDIE In the Day's tlevs By FRANK JENKINS President Syngman Rhee says the South Korean army will use the truce time to train for an of fensive if an offensive becomes necessary, but he adds that his country will obey the armistice. YOU'RE a very wise old man, sir. For whatever freedom and independence you and your country gain in the future, YOU'LL HAVE TO DEPEND ON YOURSELVES. But If you are as wise as so far you have seemed to be, you won't in the future bite off any more than you can masticate. . If you tackle too much while you are still too little and weak, you can lose the liberty that you country seems now to be in a fair way to gain. HERE is a rugged question: Do you reckon that liberty really IS on the march through out the world? I'm afraid to try to answer that one. Outside Germany, I can see no signs of it in Europe unless it might be in Turkey. EUROPE is old and weak and " tired and CYNICAL. With the possible exception of the Germans and the Turks, its peo ple seem to have no WILL TO FIGHT for freedom. Judging by appearance, they'd rather take a chance on getting along under be heel of Russian masters than to risk' death in a fight for lib erty. I hate to say it, but to me it doesn't appear that they are of much value to us as allies. In a nasty scrap, you'd better go it alone than with allies who HANG BACK ON YOU. T TBERTY is on the march in - Asia but in Asia those who seek liberty look upon us as AGENTS OF OPPRESSION. They regard us as allies of the imperial powers that for cen turies have been the masters of Asia, using the people there as their servants. We'll have to change that South Korea offers us the key with which to unlock the door of the PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE in Asia. If we are to take ad vantage of that opportunity, we'll have to stand back of the South Koreans, aiding and pro tecting them while they gam the strength, both economics and military, with which to pro tect their own liberties. A big job? It certainly Is. . But if we are to take our right ful place as the leader and the protector of human freedom throughout the world, that's about the job that is cut out for us. DEFUGEES from East Ger- many within the past few days report that the Russians have pulled another boner. They are SELLING, at profiteering prices, the American food they confiscated from hungry East Germans. Their propaganda line is that the confiscated food parcels are being given to hungry WEST Germans in Berlin, but what they are really doing, these recent refugees from behind the Iron Curtain say, is to re-label the packages and PUT THEM UP FOR SALE in the communist state stores where non-rationed foods are sold at black market prices to squeeze more money out of the people for the com munist treasury. PLORY Hallelujah! Russian communism is be ginning to prove at last to the world that a tiger never changes its stripes. Smirk and purr as it may, the Russian communist tiger is still a tiger. The boys in the Kremlin are proving to all and sundry that Russian communism is too foul a thing to be permitted to live in the modern world. No Need To Purchase To Participate S ON GASOLINE ON THE POINT SO. CENTRAL AT SO. RIVERSIDE United States Learns Facte of Korea Truce By PHIL NEWSOM United Press Foreign Analyst The United States is learning the facta of life about the Ko rean truce. One of the harshest facts so far is Gen. Mark Clark's e s t i mate that the Chinese Com munist may be holding as many as twice the number of American war prisoners they have admitted. This is not to imply that Pail Ne the truce should be regretted It has halted, temnorarilv. at least, slaughter on the battle field and it is brineinc home 3,313 American war prisoners. But subseauent events have pointed up the warning of mili tary commanders that a truce simply marks a suspension of hostilities, not the end. The Strangest War Further comDlicatine the sit uation are the rules under which the Korean war was foueht. wherein commanders in the field were governed not by military but by diplomatic necessities. So this straneest of all wars ended in the strangest of all truces. This is a truce without a vi- aaf Congressional Quiz QuettioM aaa1 Answers mm What Goes Oa at the Capital Fernfe1 by Ceaaieailoail Qaarterf News Features Q How does she amount of money appropriated by Congress this year for defense compare with the amounts asked by for mer President Truman and Pres ident Elsenhower? A Congress July 29 passed a biU providing $34,371,541,000 to the Department of defense for fiscal 1954. This was less than both the $40,719,931,000 recommended by ex-President Truman and the $35,771,563,000 requested by President Eisen hower. Q Has there really been much of a cutback on govern ment employees? A The Joint Committee on Reduction of non-essential Fed eral Expenditures July 28 "re ported the government had 2, 482,359 civilian employees on the payroll at the end of fiscal 1952 (June 30). This was 116,999 fewer employees than were ser ving the government on June 30, 1952. '. Q Why is the U.S. flag' flown over the Capitol in Washington at night? A The custom originated during World War I because it was felt for patriotic reasons there should be one building in the country over which the flag should always fly. The Capitol was designated since it was out side military regulations which demand the furling of the flag at sunset. , Q If there any fixed date on which Congress most adjourn. A The Legislative Reorgani zation act of 1946 says that Con gress shall adjourn July 31, but Congress frequently has failed by this limit just as it did this year, when the session ended early August 4.. Q I understand Congress ap proved a proposal to send $100 million worth of farm surpluses to needy friendly nations. Can we spare this much? A Legislation would author- Nine Market Zones Made for Milk Control . Portland (U.PJ Oregon has been divided into nine market zones for milk control purposes. The State Board of Agricul ture said semi-annual price hear ings would be held in each zone. The zones include: Zone 4 Douglas, Josephine and Jackson counties. Yerba Buena island, midway between San Francisco and Oak land, is known to oldtimers as "Goat island." JV SUBURBAN AWARDED NEXT SEPTEMBER 25 WEEKLY DRAWING TUESDAY 8 P.M. tor and without a vanquished- in which neither side can im press its will except behind its ' own lines. Hence the enormitv nf k problem raised hv on.r.i Clark. Clark says that after th . ent exchange is completed de mands wiU be made through ine Armistice commission for an accounting of aU nrisonm. A Solution Needed - If satisfaction is not gained there, then the nroblem will hat taken before the Tntpmtnn.i Conference which will try to set- ue &.orea s political future this fall. Secretary of Stat Dun. w j threatened United States retalia tion against the Reds. But what kind of retaliation? To the people of the United States, the holding of some 3,000 Reds for a like number of Amer icans would scarcely seem an even trade nor would it even be likely to impress the Chi nese. Another very great difficulty is the fact that it will be many months, if ever, before registra tion teams are able to learn any where near accurately the num ber of Americans taken prisoner,, the number who died in Red prison camps and those who simnly are missine and nr. I sumed dead. ize the President to send to friendly peoples aboard $100 million in surplus agricultural commodities. This would be one thirtieth of the more than $3 billion worth of eovernment- owned surplus farm products commodity Credit Corporation has in storage under various Ag riculture department programs. . (Copyright 1953. Congression al Quartrely.) 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