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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Beade The Mail Tribune" TuUlabed Doily KxeeptJ Saturday 7-29 North rir St. Phone MM1 KoakR1 W. RUHL sdito? KHNEST R. GILS TRAP, Memiger flfkB tiRV. Adertlln sbaeaer . c. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Teleraph Editor RICHARD JEWTt. SPEditor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor CERALD LATHAM. Circulation Ugr. An Independent Newpeper " Entered w eeeond eleea matter ej Itodlord, Oregon, under Am at - iWbSCRIPtlON RA1 Mali in mum Daily and Sunday one year 00 Daily and Sunday month 6.50 Drily and Sunday three moo. 350 Daily and Sunday one month 1-23 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Taient and an motor routeat Daily and Sunday one jeer US 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-23 All lenratasninnariiDw flilicul Paper of the City ef Mooter Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: ' WEST-HOLLIDAV COMPANY. INC Office in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. ?t Louis. Atlanta aneMjverBC NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The MaU Trillin JO. SO, SO and 40 year. ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 14, 1943 (It Was Sunday) William Vanier, Lake Creek, killed when bicycle struck by bus. From Arthur Perry's Smudge Pot column: Several days the past week were so hot their chairs got up when the sitters did. 20 YEARS AGO Aug 14, 1933 (It Was Tuesday) L. A. Banks, local orator, sen tenced to life imprisonment. All defendants in ballot theft be hind prison bars, except one. Ten.TCrature of 108 degrees highest i ere in seven years. SO YEAR3 AGO Aug. 14, 1923 (It Was Wednesday) School opening delayed until September 24 to allow students to assist in harvest. Carload of Chevrolet autos overturns in local freight yards. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 14. 1913 (It Was Thursday) Local couples return from 10 day, 1,000 mile auto trip, with out even a puncture. Rogue Bartlett pears bring $2 a box in New York, highest of season. Editorial Comment Mr. Hall's Oysters One of the things that puzzled us in the political talk by Leon ard Hall of Oyster Bay, N. Y., chairman of the Republican na tional committee, to Oregon party faithful at the $100-a-plate fund raising dinner last week, was his oblique defense of the offshire oil legislation. Mr. Hall, in somewhat jocular vein, told how he used to gather claims and oysters on the tide lands at Oyster Bay in boyhood. It was not until a "new deal su preme court" held the tidelands to be property of the federal government many years later, he said, that he found out he had been eating Uncle Sam's oysters. But surely, the Republican party chief, if he is to explain to the people the decision of Presi dent Eisenhower and congress to give title of offshore oil to the states, ought to know what lands he is talking about. The tide lands, the shore areas covered and uncovered by the tides have never been disputed. Nor have the bays. These always have been recognized as state controlled. It is the submerged land beyond lowtide mark, to the "historic boundaries" of the nation three miles for most coastal states, lO'fc miles for Texas and Florida which were awarded to the states by the mis called "tidelands" bill. Other legislation will fix federal title to the submerged lands beyond the historic, boundaries, to the edge of the continental shelf. Mr. Hall's little joke fell flat. He should not repeat it to other Republican audiences. Portland Oregonian FILLS TOBY'S SEAT Concord, N. H. U.R) Gov. Hugh Gregg today appointed a fellow Republican, Robert W. Upton, a Concord lawyer, to fill the U. S. Senate seat vacated by the death last month of Sen. Our lea W. Tobey (R-N JU MAIL TRIBUHE All in Three Hours Mr- and Mrs. George F. Martin sold their home in Venice, Calif., a few days ago and, like many oth ers in California have done in recent years, headed north to find a place where things weren't quite so crowded, where Mr. Martin, a retired carpenter, could enjoy a bit of fishing and where the children two sons and a daughter could attend a good school, ' They looked over available property in Red Bluff, also in Redding, without finding anything to their liking and finally decided to come on north to the Medford area. e e e e e STOPPING in at The Mail Tribune business office at 8:30 a.m., Wednesday, Mr. Martin bought the Monday and Tuesday editions in order to scan the real estate ads. Within three hours he had gone to a real estate dealer's office to learn the location of a piece of property advertised for sale, had inspected the farm, just north of Eagle Point on Crater Lake highway, paid down his earnest money and the deal was in escrow. . Mrs. Martin, who is a registered surgical nurse and former night superintendent of Washington Hos pital in Culver City, Calif., is camping out with the children on their newly purchased property while the head of the family is en route to Redding to get the track load of furniture which they left while home hunting further north. TPHE Martins in telling about their new home ex- pressed themselves as very well pleased with it, the Medford country, the courtesy and service rendered by the local real estate agent, and incidentally they had a good word for the little classified ad in The Mail Tribune that started the chain of events which enabled them to locate and buy a home all in the space of three hours. E.C.F. Vacation Travel Hints This is vacation time, the season when newspa pers, magazines, the radio and other media are sup plying advice as to where to go, how to get there, what to see, what to wear, etcetra and etcetra, in order to get maximum enjoyment out of the two or three weeks absence from home and work. Unfortu nately, however, no one has taken the time to set down some much needed hints on how to behave while traveling by automobile Just why the vacationer has been neglected in this important respect is hard to understand when so many people are giving forth with tips on all the other vaca tion phases. IT IS our hope that the following information will be of help to readers who have not yet enjoyed their vacation, and that perhaps some will wish to clip and save the item for future years. First, of course, one should leave the matter of packing to some other member of the family. In this way there will be no divided authority and when the blame for forgetting the can-opener, Willie's vitamins or Father's fishing reel has to be assessed, there will be no argument as to who was at fault. AS SOON as the car is five miles on the road it is time to start worrying about whether all the ele ments were turned off on the electric stove. This is a practically inexhaustible subject and can be depended on to keep all in a happy holiday mood for many miles throughout the vacation. Should the cookstove guessing game become wearisome, interesting and delightful conversation may be developed by comments on the ability of who ever is driving. Such remarks are especially appreci ated by the one at the wheel if traffic is heavy or the road tortuous. On stopping for the night it is well to send an investigating and negotiating committee to contact the motel proprietor and inspect the premises offered. There is seldom unanimity of opinion as to the desira bility or the price of the accommodations but this need not detract from the general enjoyment as all will later agree that the motel back a few miles, or i the one a few miles further been much better than the one finally selected. In case the party retires late, doors may be slammed, bath Water run, and loud laughter and con versation carried on for a couple of hours so that other tenants may be wakened to enjoy the carnival spirit. This is a game nearly all travelers can and do indulge in so, conversely, if your hour of arrival is early those in your party can retire at once with as surance that they will be aroused for the fun when later comers enact the role of waker-uppers. , This delightful routine may be repeated in re verse in the morning with a little variation thrown in when it is discovered an hour and fifty miles after departing that one of the kids has swiped three towels and that Grandma left her spare upper plate in the motel bathroom. TRAVEL by auto, it must be realized, cannot fol- low any set pattern as far as passenger behavior is. concerned. Any number of variations can be and are introduced, depending on the number and re lationship of those making up the party. Where children are involved, insistent demands for a drink of water, an ice cream pone or nther re freshment are always good for many interesting miles. f a rin1rnnn aIaa cam,. w At- ? 1- -1 - voi oicAtJtoa vevu aiou set c w mane uic pusoUnuiy of a fatal collision less horrible to think about On arrival at the destination, whether seashore, mountain or lake resort, or even a visit at the home of relatives or friends, the vacationer can mostly rely on his or her training or experience as to proper deportment- Those wishing to be 100 per cent right may consult Emily Post. Our hints apply only when the vacationer is on the road. g&F, Friday, August 14. W up the road would have Great Deal Depends On China's Future Relation With USSR United Press Foreign Analyst Red China looms large on the world's future, with a great deal dependent o n China's own future rela tions with Red Russia. Can these two dictator ships, controll 000,000,000 pe ing nearly 1, 0 0 0,0 0 0,0 0 0 people, event- nallv a a n t 1'hilNewM each other a, co-partners, or must their divid ed interests and ambitions drive them apart? Mussolini and Hitler proved there can be no such thing as equal dictators. One had to rule the other. 4 Drifting Apart So it would seem that finally either the Russian or -Chinese dictatorships must absorb the other, or come to a definite part ing of the ways. It was on this premise that Britain based its policy, prior to Chinese entry into the Korean war, when it gave diplomatic recognition to the Peiping gov ernment. Lately there have been cau tious predictions again that China and Russia were drifting apart. These are based on the theory that China's Mao Tse Tung never will bow to Stalin's suc cessor as he did to Stalin, that China's and Russia's natural in terests must clash in such bor der areas as Manchuria, Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang Province and that Russia already is sus picious of Chinese motives in India and the whole Southeast Asia. Examples of Unity These reasons all may be valid in the long run. But now, while China may be seeking more free dom of action from the Kremlin, the two are too dependent on Matter of Fact IN A GARDEN, ON A TRAIN London After a little while, when a junketing reported has left one country for another, things which seemed lm- p o r t a n t and vivid at the time tend to fade and blur, until only a queer dim mix ture of c i t i e s and people and planes and ho tels and con versations and Stewart Alsop' pleasures and discomforts is left. Yet almost always, something sticks in the memory like a burr, still alive and real, to remain there for years. These re membered moments rarely in volve important personages, and they rarely seemed important at the time. Yet perhaps they re main vivid because they have a meaning, after all; and it may therefore be worth describing two such incidents, which oc curred during the weeks this re porter spent in Germany. The scene of the first is the garden of a very big, very ugly house in Berlin. There is a long table in the garden, with a dozen or so men seated or standing around it. The men are most ly in their twenties or early thirties. They wear open shirts and they have hard, tough faces. They are filled with a nerv ous excitement They smoke cig arettes insatiably, and they tend all to talk at once. Most of these men are factory workers. Many of them have been condemned to death in absentia. For all of them took a leading part in the uprising which swept the Soviet zone of Germany in mid-June. They, and some thirty or forty others who are billeted in the big, ugly house, eluded the secret police and escaped to the safe haven of West Berlin. fN occasions such as this, a " reporter must wear a shield cf skepticism. He must be alert for the concocted story, the boastful exaggeration, or the simple lie. And what these men describe sounds wildly improb able. They tell how, in city after city in the Soviet zone, the peo ple spntaneoustly rose and seized power from the Kremlin's puppet police state. You mean, one or another is asked, that you actually opened the prisons, and took over all the public buildings? But what hap pened to the Communist offi cials? The young men laugh: "They ran away." Then how about the vopos, the Communist "People's Police?" One man says contemptuously, "our .vopos threw their arms in the canal." Another says, "our vopos joined the uprising." Others nod their head in confirmation. Then how about the people themselves? Surely there were some loyal to the regime? A mall ht"t lottoM TT.n ,wffr each other for an early break. In fact, present plans seem to call for even closer cooperation. Chinese and Soviet railway laborers are at work on lines to make possible the operation of through trains between China and the USSR. The Chinese-Soviet aviation corporation is planning a new air line to operate between Sin kiang and Omsk in Asiatic Rus sia. Meantime, the Chinese-Russian petroleum company is ex tending its oil explorations in Sinkiang. Mediator Asked To Enter Talks With PT&T, Union Portland U.R) A federal Mediation Service Commission er was to step into negotiations today between the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph Company and CIO Communications workers. The commissioner. Bob Mc Clelland, was requested by the union to enter the talks. An offer was made late yester day by PT it T of an average weekly pay increase of $1.82. The union asked increases rang ing from $2 to $22.50 a week, improvements in working condi tions and other benefits. A company spokesman said the proposed pay increase would boost the company's annual la bor cost in Oregon by about $500,000. He said the increase varies from $1 a week for oper ators in some Oregon communi ties to $2 for switchmen in cen tral exchanges. Earlier the company submit ted a proposal on non-wage items. Contracts expire August 17 for the union's Oregon division. Stewart Also his head: "not one no-one, no where." Another says, "it was like a volksfest, a celebration of all the people, in the streets. They really thought they were free." As the questioning continues, skepticism melts away. These men are obviously telling the simple truth, however incredible the truth may - be. They and others like them, without arms, without prior organization, led a genuine workers' revolution, which within a few hours crumbled the puppet police state into nothing until the Soviet tanks and troops arrived. A contest between an unarmed people and a great army can have only one outcome a fact worth bearing in mind. Yet as one looks around the table at the tough angry faces, one can not help wondering how long the Kremlin, Red army and all, can hold its puppet empire to gether. The thought is quickly suppressed, as mere wishful thinking. But it keeps coming back. 1 rpHE second incident was su premely unimportant yet it too keeps coming back in mind. The scene is a dreary rail road station in the Soviet zone of Germany. The time is near midnight. For some mysterious reason, the American military train bound for Frankfort has stopped for a moment at this station. Across the platform, large numbers of young boys ere piling into a battered train, on their way, no doubt, to some Communist strength through joy festival. A large, poorly dressed man is ambling along the platform, and he stops suddenly to stare stolidly at this reporter, who. is leaning out of a corridor win dow. Seized with an unac customed impulse of good fellow ship, this reporter waves at the large man, and shouts "Hi!" The large man grins broadly, and starts to wave back. Then his arm is arrested in midair, as by some solid object, and the smile leaves his face. He glances once, quickly, at the boys in the other train, and walks rapid ly away. As the American train pulls out, the memory of that sudden ly arrested gesture takes on a meaning which, perhaps, it never had. As to many people with mild claustrophobic tendencies, a train has always seemed to this reporter a little like a prison for the duration of a train Journey, the traveller is trapped and held in a small space as surely as by a locked steel door. But now the train seems like a prison no longer. The prison, instead, is outside and all around. Again, the fleeting, no doubt wishful thought occurs can the Russians really keep half of Europe in a prison, forever? Somehow, in the long reach of history, it seems unlikely al though it is very hard to see how the prison can be opened. (Copyright, 1953. M ww York Keloid Tribuaa. Is) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you've noticed the troubles that Franc is having. In the whole nation, almost no trains are running. All buses have stopped. In Paris no taxis are available. There is no mail service. Except for local dial systems, the phones are out No telegrams can be sent. Tourists are fleeing the coun try if they can, but flight from France is difficult With the trains stopped, foreign airlines are doing what they can, but that isn't much. In Paris, ground crews began walking off the Job at the airports. Shipping has been tied up at the great ports of Marseilles and Dunkirk. And so on. r ISN'T a Communist strike. It was called by the Social ist workers force which is the biggest NON-COMMUNIST labor group in France. It is a strike against the government which, in France, runs transportation and communications. Specifical ly, it is a strike against the pol icies of the new French premier, Joseph Laniel, who has been making a serious attempt to halt the soaring inflation that is destroying the French' econ omy by hiking prices so high that French goods can no longer be sold in international trade. His first move was an at tempt to cut the staggeringly high cost of government by re ducing the number of govern ment employees and raising the age at which government retire ment pensions are available. The French communists had nothing to do with starting of the strike, but now that it is spreading like a fire in dry grass they are climbing on the band wagon and doing everything they can to increase the con fusion. AT the same time, Italy, France's neighbor on the Mediterranean, is blowing her political top. Her new premier, Piccioni (pronounced pee-chee-OH-ni), announces suddenly that he can't form a government (that is to say, he cant get a cabinet of ministers to serve with him.) That leaves the Italian state headless again, as it has been most of the time since the gen eral Italian elections early in June. Piccioni doesn't specify in detail what caused him to fall. He just throws up his hands and mutters that it's an Impossible task. VAS ist los? I wouldn't know, But If you'U get out your encyclo pedia and read up on John Law, you'll get an inkling of what may be wrong. John Law was a Scottish financier who found ed the first French bank in 1716 and organized the Mississippi Bubble. There isn't space to go into that scheme here, but it brought on an era of wild specu lation and even wilder inflation in France as a result of which everybody quit working and sav ing. The French government quit bothering with taxes and paid for everything by printing and issuing paper money. ""THE Mississippi Bubble brought France to the edge of finan cial ruin. It Js worth noting that France has AGAIN been paying her bills with paper money instead of working and taxing and economizing. THERE is another disturbing thought Ever since the end of the war, WE have been supporting the economies of France and Italy (along with other European na tions) with American money (which has been taken from the pockets of American taxpayers.) Isn't it Just possible that by WPA-ing the governments of Italy and France we have RUIN ED THE PEOPLE of Italy and France? DO you remember the story (referred to in this space a few days ago) of the baby robin that was picked up by a warm hearted do-gooder and pampered and spoiled and shielded from all the hard knocks of robin life? The robin never did learn to get out and rustle for itself. As a result if its benefactor should die, the robin would be HELP LESS and would probably starve to death. I think maybe there's a moral for us in that Maybe there's a moral in It for the Italians and the French. RIGHT UNDER THEIR NOSES Buffalo. N. Y. ttJ.R) A straw vote for Mayor was taken at the annual police desk lieuten ants outing here. When it came time to count the votes, it was discovered someone had stolen the ballot box. BEN H. TODD REGISTERED ARCHITECT Announces the opening of New Offices at Suite 303, U.S. National Bank Bldg. 0 Telephone 2-5180 Crosstovn : ' . Thai was a beautiful homer. Charlie, but it wasn't necessary te run around TWICEf Babson and By ROGER W. BABSON Gloucester, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) I am glad to be here in dear old Gloucester, Mass., for another summer. Let me testify that it has a most healthful and w V efficient c 1 i- mate. It com bines cool sum mers and mild winters in a most remark able way. From some of the 400 cities in which this column will be published I will have letters from their Chambers of Coom merce to prove that their com munity is a milder and more pleasant place to live. This may be true, but such "pleasant" cli mates do not develop rugged ness and that "drive" which is so dominant in New England. Furthermore, I am not compar ing New England on the basis of natural resources. We have no oil, or natural gas, or coal; we have no broad acres of fertile lands; we have no mines of iron, copper or other minerals. We have nothing but rocks, wood lands, brains, and energy. New England does have a cli mate which develops courage, initiative, and "drive." Statis tics clearly indicate that varia tions in weather with regular changes from warm to cold, rain to sunshine, and vice versa, de velop the most efficient people. Any Chamber of Commerce of ficial who doubts this should read the books and reports of Ellsworth Huntington before criticizing this article. Every city, however, has some out standing advantage which, if properly capitalized, should cause it to grow and prosper. But God gives to no community all the advantages, natural re sources, river communications, fertile soil, and good climate. Regulating Weather For Rain and Sunshine Think these six facts oven 1. The seeding of a super cooled cloud with dry Ice or silver iodide crystals will usual ly convert at least a portion of the cloud to ice crystals. Under appropriate conditions such seed ing will release variable amounts of precipitation from fairly deep and active cumulus clouds. Small, inactive cumulus clouds are usally dissipated when tfiey are seeded with dry ice. 2. The injection of small water drops or salt particles into the bases of deep, warm (non-supercooled) cumulus clouds will us ually release variable amounts of rain if the vertical velocities in the clouds are substantial. Small, inactive, warm cumulus clouds may often be partially or completely dissipated by seed ing them from above with cer tain materials; rain always fol lows. 3. Present knowledge of at mospheric processes offers no basis for the belief that the weather or climate of a large portion of the nation can be modified by cloud seeding. The results of experiments which have been conducted to explore such large-scale effects are con sidered to be inconclusive. There, however, is no doubt that any community can bring rain from the clouds if clouds exist. , 4. Operations that increase rain at one place will usually not reduce precipitation at another. Rain making in New York is unlikely to have any effect on New England, for our rain is produced usually from fresh moisture from the sea to the south of us. The low-pressure area that is moving through or By Roland Co Weather north of New York will causa southerly winds there, and pre cipitation from them. The same low moving through or north of New England will have a new batch of southerly air to work with. 5. Regarding the warming up of the climate, I still believe that the rate of change is rather slow and that in the course of the usual variability seasons sub stantially colder as well as warmer than normal are still to be expected. Statistics show that the average temperature where you live has increased only 3 de grees in 100 years. Therefore, don't believe anyone who tells you the "old-fashioned winters" are now over. You may have one next year. 6. 'Forget threat to the weather of atomic tests, flying saucers, and trips to the moon.. Push-Buton Farming ' Possible for Future For 50 years the fertilizer companies have been selling pro ducts to hasten growth. Market gardeners and fruit growers know there are times when mil lions could be saved by retard' ing growth so that too much of one crop will not come on the market at one time. Further more, fruit crops are often lost by too early budding. This will be prevented before long by the use of the new wonder chemical "Hydrazine." (For details see Scientific American for July 1953.) I am already testing it to make unnecessary the mowing of my lawn but once or twice a season. Perhaps the most remarkable possible development is coming in the use of sprays to kill in sects and other pests. I have a friend who is spraying his trees with electronic waves; he uses no chemical sprays. These waves, he claims, both save him money and do not harm the fruit birds, or bees which are so necessary for good gardens and fruit or chards. I look forward -to the time when a farmer will sit in his office and push one button for rain; another for warmer weather; another for spraying his crops; another for artificial ly inseminating his cows while he watches colored television dramas. George laker Another "first" in nation-wide television coverage is scheduled for September if some sponsor can be found who II pick up tab of some $50, 000. That's the "Miss A m e r ica" pageant in Atlantic City, whose promo ters have con sented to net work television of this parade of beauty for the first time. The return of Arthur Godfrey to his "Talent Scouts" program en abled the Redhead to pull th highest share of the TV audience he has ever racked up with any of his CBS-TV shows. On the first night of his return, Godfrey pulled over 91 of the TViewing audi ence measured by the Trendex rat ing scale. That's a real welcome back! The Sunday night Colgate Com edy Hour will return to the TV waves the first week of October, with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as the opening night stars. The fol lowing week's show will feature Jimmy Durante, who has moved over from the Saturday night "All Star Revue." And while we're on the subject of comedians. Red Skelton has signed a new long term contract with CBS-TV, and he will do his shows "live" instead of on film. Feeling is that Red will climb back to his top rating if he stays "live." A top rating in TV, is the result of consistent, quality performance . . . and the same is true of TV sets. You get this dependable per formance wijh ADMIRAL TV . . . and you get a wide selection of beautifully styled cabinets, too. Stop in and see the Admiral mod els in our display, at YOUNGER S APfLIANCf STORE 91 N. aH4e Pfcoee 2-6419
