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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) . MEDFORDWWBUNl Everybody in Southern Oregon neaas ine man iriounc Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager " E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWET1. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgT. An Independent Kewipaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord, Oregon, under Act ol " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dailv and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year 330 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phonl; Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily anrt Sunday One year 15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County ""United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAXiuw west-hollTday company.- mc Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland, St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver BC. 'NATION At" EDITORIAL NEWSPAPEt PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1944 (It was Wednesday) State Senator Earl Newbry, Frank Van Dyke - and O. H. Bengtson to discuss , measures on Nov. 7 ballot at meeting of Jackson County League of Wom en Voters. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The geese are heading south, ' honking through the night, by the thous ands. The public interest is cen tered in politicians, also honk ing, whose goose will be cooked at the polls next Tuesday. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 1. 1934 - w (It was Thursday) - F. C. Pillard award confract for construction .of new Tiller Trail rd. Willis Mahoney, mayor of Klamath Falls, urges Medford residents to vote against Gen eral Martin for governor. 30 YEARS AGO ' Nov. 1,1924 - - (It was Saturday) Wide local interest in forth coming election, particularly in measure which would repeal state income tax. Coolidge con ceded victory for president. Japanese fruit expert visits Professor Reimer at Talent ex periment station. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 1, 1914 (It was Sunday) Judge Lionel Webster to be "principal orator" at Bill Han ley rally scheduled for Medford auditorium. From the Local and Personal column: Harry Diamond and M. A. Berdan have wagered oh the wet-dry vote, the loser to roll a peanut around the Nash block. What's Ihe Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report 1. All Souls day comes on the same day as Halloween, or the day before, or the day after, or two days later? 2. George H. Bender and Tho mas A. Burke are opposing can didates for Senator from Califor nia, Illinois, Michigan, New Jer sey, or Ohio? 3. Social security taxes now bring in more or less than pay ments made to social security recipients, or about the same? 4. There are about the same number of state as national banks, or many more state banks or many more national banks? 5. Jerry Giesler is a prominent divorce lawyer i Chicago, Hous ton, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, or Reno? 6. Vaccination against polio iiext year is planned for thous ands, tens of thousands, hun dreds of thousands, or many mil lion U.S. children? 7. The nation now called Thai land used to be known as Per sia, Taiwan, Dutch East Indies, Siam, or Manchukuo? The Answers: 1. Two days .la ter. 2. Ohio. 3. More than pay ments being made. 4. About the same number of each. S. In Los Angeles. 6. For many millions. 7. Siam. " The Octogon House at Gough and Union streets in San Fran cisco is California headquarters for the National Society of Col onial Dames. MAIL TRIBUNE Recommendations on Candidates For U. S. Senator Richard Neuberger For House of Representatives ' Charles 0. Porter For Governor Joe Carson For Mayor, of Medford Earl Miller Recommendations on Measures No. 1 Raise Pay for Legislators .'.Yes No. 2 County Subdivisions .,r Yes No. 3 Portland Mental Hospital Yes No. 4 Raising Initiative Signatures .-No No. 5 Changing Property Tax No No. 6 Daylight Saving No Recommendation No. 7 Prohibiting Commercial Fishing .... Yes No. 8 Repealing Milk Control Bill ...:............No No. 9 County Juvenile Farm . .Yes No. 10 Stray Dog Regulation ...No For "Independents" Only Just a word and a final one to the Independent Voter. ; We don't refer to the . Independent voter who claims to always place principle above party, but at the last moment always finds that his principles and his party are synonymous. . We refer to the Voter who doesn't give a hang about the party labej, but wants, when it comes to a national election, to pick and choose among the can didates, so he or she may select not the one who might be best for the party, but best for his state and his country. TTO such Independents here we would call attention to a dispatch from New York city in today's paper stating the New York Times after a survey of six can didates for the US Senate, has given its endorsement to Richard Neuberger of Oregon over the incumbent Guy Cordon. .. ' TO anyone who KNOWS the New York Times, its reputation for integrity, its independence, its complete freedom from political bias and its essential conservatism, that endorsement is of unusual impor tance; For the New York Times never endorses any can didate for any office without the most painstaking re search and a careful balancing of all the salient facts. Being strong for. President Eisenhower, this action can only mean, that "this newspaper regarded by practically all newspapermen .as the greatest and most influential in the country, has checked up on the two candidates in Oregon and decided that Neu berger is th,e candidate who would help President Eisenhower carry out his program successfully and Cordon is the candidate who, as his, record demon strates, would rejoin that small group of GOP reac tionaries where he has been, and do everything to hinder Eisenhower's progressive national and world leadership. ;- ,: . - , The Mail Tribune naturally is pleased to have a paper like the Times agree with its own view of the senatorial contest in this state so exactly. Not only because it is such a great newspaper and so free from bias, but because its judgment is so free from any ulterior influence, because it can have no interest in Oregon or this senate race other than its strong desire to have the most capable and enlighten ed congressional support for President Eisenhower in the Upper House that can be obtained. In taking this stand against Cordon incidentally the Times joins Walter Lippman of the strongly Re publican New York Herald Tribune, and The Nation, one of the oldest journals of political opinion in the country, both equally impartial as far as Oregon is concerned and who oppose other reason than that he lationism and obstructionism which they don't want in this government for the next two years R.W.R, Ex-Governor of Alaska Raps GOP in Medford Interview The Republican policy of "re treat, recession, renege 'and re trench" resulted in Alaskans vot ing Democratic in the recent election according to Ernest Guening, former governor of Alaska. The former official and Mrs. Gruening, enroute to Wash-, ing, D. C. form their home in Alaska, are to leave this morn ing after an overnight stop here. Former Governor Gruening stated that Alaska, in excellent economic condition until after the Republicans went into power soon showed the effects of Re publican retrenchment. He said the program to improve Alaskan highways had been slashed to nothing," and that power de velopment, badly needed in Alaska, had been curtailed with even funds for engineering studies on the proposed Devil's canyon project cut off. Gruening said a large hotel in McKinley National park, built by the Democrats and since op erated by the Alaskan Railway, had been closed by Secretary of Interior McKay and that a fine hospital, built as an answer to the "long neglected tubercu losis situation in Alaska" was because "the Republicans did not have the grace, decency or good sense to keep it operating." Patients who should be hospital ized in Alaska are now being sent to Washington and Oregon, h? added, to "die far from friends and relatives." .j Monday. November 1, 1954 Senator Cordon for no represents that type of iso Gruening was governor of Alaska for 13 years beginning in 1939, and prior to that lime had been director of the division of territories and island posses sions for the Department of the Interior. In addition to his gov ernmental service, he has held editorial positions with a num ber of large newspapers and magazines in the east, including editorship of the Nation. . The Gruenings are guests here of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Schwamm, 6 South - Groveland ave. Sch wamm served under Governor Gruening as director of the de partment of aviation for Alaska. Gil! Named To Act In Labor Dispute Portland (U.R) State. Sen. Warren Gill, Lebanon, Ore., said today he has been named by the Federal Mediation board to act as a referee in the dispute be tween the International Associa tion' of Machinists and the Fly ing Tigers Air line. Gill said three referees will hear the case in Los Angeles within two or three weeks. The union was to appoint one adjust ment board member and the em ployer one. Gill is the public rep resentative. - Gill said he was notified of the appointment today by Robert Boyd, a member of the board. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. For Neuberger and Porter To the Editor: Never in the history of mankind was so much taken from so many (and future generations) by so few, in so short a time as when the robber barons-looters of the public do main, stole most of America's natural resources (legalized thie very). And never was any coun try's natural resources so wan tonly wasted and destroyed as ! America's. In 1908 Pres. Theodore Roose velt warned: "We are over the verge of a timber famine in this country, and it is . unpardonable for the nation or the states to permit any further cutting of our timber save in accordance with a system which will provide that the next generation shall see the timber increased instead of di minished." (Page all T.R. voters.) The Weyerhaeuser-WCLA, et al hallabaloo up to 3 or 4 years ago of "inexhaustible timber," "More trees growing each year than are being cut," etc., etc., has now a "tree farm," "reduce taxes" fla vor, and increased vitriol on the U.S. Forest Service. The Serena timber-mining is only one of many steals of the people's heritage and isnt there a law against buying stolen property? Less than 100 years ago Con gressman Ignatius Donnelly warned: "The unbridled greed of big business and its corruptive influence on politicians is driv ing the masses to not even vote and seek relief in Communism.'.' " ... maybe revolution?" . While considering the 10 Com mandments, Moses' land laws, his exclamation on Mt. Nebo about the Promised Land and the deserts that followed we'd better read and heed Dr. Wal ter Lowdermilks 11th command ment and vole for Neuberger and Porter, to save a bit of the people's heritage for our grand children and other Americans, quote: "Thou shalt inherit the holy earth as a faithful steward. conserving its resources and productivity from generation to generation. Thou shalt safe . guard thy fields from erosion; thy living waters from drying up, thy forests from desola tion, and protect, thy hills from overgrazing by the herds, that .thy ; descendants may have abundance forever. If any shall fail in this stewardship -of the land, thy faithful fields shall become sterile stony ground or wasting gullies, and ..thy descendants shall decrease and live in poverty or perish from off the face of the earth.", John E. Gribble, ... 139 Kenwood ave., Medford, Ore. Road To Coast Urged To the Editor: Roseburg, as well as all cities on Highway 99, up to the Columbia River, have at least two convenient routes to the coast. Residents of these cit ies can travel to the coast on. one highway, up or down the coast and return on another highway, all well paved and un der 200 miles for the round trip. If people of the Rogue valley want to make the same kind of drive they will have to cover considerably more than 400 miles. It is a hard all-day trip with little time to enjoy the beautiful coast scenery. Medford residents who want to fish at the mouth of the Rogue river must travel about 200 miles. To see the rhododendrons when in bloom means a trip of more than 400 miles. s If Roseburg people feel that they should , have one or both of . their coastal highways im proved, then people of the Rogue valley and Klamath countvi should be entitled to one conven ient coast highway. . There are now in southern Oregon "approximately 150,000 residents. Another 15 years will see a quarter of a million in this section. Manv of its nresent resi dents -will live long enough to see half -a million people in southern Oregon.. Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties should unite their ef forts to bring about construction of an entirely new highway to Preferred by So Many Reposing Room Selection Room Family Room Air (Refrigterated) Conditioning Seating Capacity 290 The best costs no more. Why accept less? Mabel CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors West Main at Sixth Phone Medford 2-71 1 1 Member National Selected Mortician! by Intftatioa. the coast. As directly west from Grants Pass as suitable terrain will permit. Highways pay for themselves by increasing popu lation centers, create new oppor tunities' for recreation, commer cial, agricultural and industrial activities, aqd of major impor tance open up new areas for set tlement by our increased popu lation. The next session of Congress jwill give serious consideration to the recent suggestion of Presi dent Eisenhower for a multi-billion dollar federal-state road building program. In view of the fact that our present highways fall far short of meeting the needs of current automotive traffic, much less what it, win be ten, twenty years hence, some definite action will certainly be taken. In anticipation of such favor able action it would appear ad visable for the Rogue valley communities to get together and make a survey of their future highway needs. A Rogue Valley Highways association should be organized, representing all in- 1 terested communities, to . gather lacts ana iigures, as a meaium of contact with federal and state authorities and to support a recommended highways de velopment. John H. Holtz, Medford, Ore. 2121 Jackson blvd., Delinquent Dogs To the Editor: Delinquent owners are the sole responsibil ity for delinquent dogs. Both need training. A dog owner can be sued for trespass, destruction of property, or contamination by the animal and is subject to lo cal nuisance and sanitary condi tions. State or other laws offer no comparison and do not allow the tights of others to be tramp led upon or leave loopholes for self-righteousness or sarcasm to protestants. The regulation to be voted upon is for the benefit of both dogs and owners if pro perly understood. If a dog is not well fed and sheltered and kept within the bounds then his owner should not be allowed to own one or claim immunity as a dog lover. The regulation to be voted on is a human one and further laws are needed to blot out the cruel sight of half starved dogs and cats running loose every where. A national law is needed to regulate the breeding and care of pets and if one is wanted the' owner should willingly stand the cost of this addition to the family circle. " Personally I have bought dog and cat food by the case and found good homes for many stray dogs, and cats. My -wife is a natural animal nurse, and is now treating an outcast cat for starvation ' . and infected shoulder. A dog cannot speak for itself and has that faithful ness and loyalty beyond human comprehension and it is this virtue recognized in the Bible when it says: "Be kind to ani mals and do not feed your pets unclean food." Vote YES for the animals' sake. (Name on File) . Time For Change To the Editor: "Its time for a change" right now in the State of Oregon. Senator Cordon says not to exchange a record for a promise. AU I can say is, Sena tor, after looking over and seeing the result of your record, I'll take a promise any day. Of course the Senator's definition of a promise may be that of the present administration. ' I recall the present administration mak ing quite a few promises that we have yet to see fulfilled.- ; I read where V. P. Nixon was convinced the Democrats will vote in a Republican Congress this coming Tuesday. Mr. Nixon is certainly; better convinced of this than 'most Democrats. I don't believe he gives us Demo crats enough credit for our sense of fairness and fair play, which in my opinion his campaigning lacks. Mr. Nixon and a few of his fellow Republicans are put ting on the most disgraceful cam- j paign ever.-1 am specifically re Arrangement Room Quiet Chapel Business Offices Carlos ferring to their smears and slan ders against loyal American cit izens such as Adlai Stevenson. Also I would like to comment on Fulton Lewis Jr.'s remark about Richard Neuberger - being associated with communists ele ments and being what he called slightly pink., As a. news commentator Mr. Fulton Lewis Jr. should . be above the use of such smear and mud slinging tactics;- of course this only goes to prove just how desperate the Republicans have become. Yes, I agree with Edith Y. Ingle and many other loyal Americans. The Republicans are barking, up the wrong tree. Of course we Democrats don't mind a little barking, but please lets eleminate the biting. Mrs. Richard D. Kane, . R. R. 1, Bex 407A, Talent, Ore. From Ex-Forest Chief To the Editor: As a former Chief of the United States Forest Service, I realize the importance of electing Richard L. Neuberger to the Senate in order to conserve our resources of water-power, timber, grazing lands and oil reserves. Already, we have lost the vast offshore oil'deposits that should have been used for our children's schools. - Unless we can elect men like Richard L. Neuberger, we are in danger of seeing other valuable natural resources lost for all time. The crucial job now is to get our friends to the polls Novem ber 2nd to round up the vote for Richard L. Neuberger. .Talk with your neighbors, your rela tives, your friends urge upon them the vital task of using our sacred right of franchise. If our friends vote, we will win. We can be defeated only through non-voting, only by stay-at-homes who shirk their civic duty. Lyle F. Watts, Ex-Chief U.S. Foresf Service, Portland. Wants One Party Hold Broken To the Editor: I heartily agree with the excellent letter of Mrs, Harvey Wyatf which appeared in the Mail Tribune Sunday. Oregon has so suffered in the past from a One Party monop oly that this slate has virtually stood while our sister states of California and Washington have gotten the plums and progressed.' The Democratic Party de serves great credit f on- producing this year a slate of superior can didates including Richard L. Neuberger, famous author-legislator, nominee for the United States senate, Joseph K. Carson former Portland mayor and member of the U. S, Maritime Commissioner for Governor, Charles O. Porter for Congress and Norman O. Nilsen for State labor commissioner. The voters would do Oregon a great long-awaited service by electing these outstanding men and breaking the One Party stranglehold under which our "little Orphan Annie" state has suffocated for half a centuiy. Darlyne M. Rudd 119 N. Central Ave. Medford, Ore. The Serena Fact Isn't Denied To the Editor: S. V. McQueen of the Kogap Lumber Industries seems to feel that'jt is purely coincidental that A. A. Laus mann, who has reportedly under written much jsf the GOP cam paign propaganda in this county last year, including a special edition of a well known week ly, obtained choice timber from the Al Serena "mine." Maybe it is also purely coinci dental but there is a great dis crepancy in the reports from observers in the woods and those AT FIRST leveshnenrs made ty the 10th of thel month cam divi dends as ef the' First. BOTES? f f ww ww In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS The great game of politics as it is played: Adlai Stevenson charges in Wilmington, Del., - that GOP spokesmen have conducted what he calls a campaign of slander, epithets and accusations of Com munists in government. He sin gles out for especial attention Vice-President Nixon, who is campaigning across the country. Nixon, Adlai says, is "playing a cynical numbers game design ed to suggest that thousands of our public servants were ' dis loyal." PRESIDENT Eisenhower took a last swing around the cir cle (to use an old political cliche) and included Kentucky in his itinerary. Ex - Vice - President Barkley, who is gunning for his old job of Senator against a wicked Repub lican who somehow sneaked into the U.S. Senate from Kentucky, when the Democrats weren't looking, cracks: "The President of the United States, of course, wiU always be welcome in our state, but he might just as well have gone out and played another game of golf. Kentuckians know how to vote." ONE might say. to Adlai that there was a tiue in our not too distant past when it really did look like "thousands of our public servants were disloyal" And . x It might be added In those days Richard Nixon (now Vice-President, then a Sen ator) was working effectively to throw the disloyal ones out in stead of working to keep them in.. F" JUSTICE to the kindly old gentleman, it should be said that Ex-Veep Barkley - isn't as mean as his erack about "anoth er game of golf" sounds. People who . don't play golf (because they can't afford to belong to released by Mr. McQueen (Mr. Lausmann's man Friday) regard ing the amount" of pine logs going to Kogap. -The most inter esting fact is that the timber did manage to go to. the firm owned by the head of the Oregon Republican Clubs. That fact has not been denied by anyone. ' Alvin D. York '.. . P. O. Box 189 Medford. Answer to S. V. McQueen To the Editor: First I wish to thank Mr. S. V.' McQueen for putting in public records the fact that timber is. and has " been "mined" from the Al Serena mining claim and is being sold to various .mills in the- Rogue valley. ' L" . I believe the majority of the voters of Jackson county ; are fully awarq that it must have taken a 'tremendous amount of political pull to legalize the sale of timber from a non-producing mining claim. This 'was accom plished by Congressman ' Harris Ellsworth through Secretary of Interior McKay's office and was condoned by Senator Guy Cor don. . I don't know who will profit the most from this obvious "giveaway," but it won't be the people of Jackson county. As far as cheap insinuations or implications go I stated that timber has been sold to A. A. Lausmann from the Al- Serena property and that he was the President of the Oregon Repub lican clubs. Both statements were substantiated by S. V. Mc Queen's letter so I can only as sume that they must be facts. William A. Hoxie, 953 Kenyon st, Medford, Ore. ' FEDERAL SAFETY FIRST-Your account is insured to . $10,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. - ADEQUATE RETURN Our. current divi dend is at the rate of 3 per annum. O INVEST NOW-Secure your own future . with savings. FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Losa Assn. of Usdfcrd 27 North Holly - R Fv Kyle, Secretary News expensive clubs) are supposed to be bitterly jealous of those who DO play golf.' In politics, as it is played, one just HAS to appeal to prejudices if pne is to follow the accepted rules. - - '' ; ; - LET'S add this crack: S t If the lovable old eji-Veep gets back into the 'Senate he'll be safe for six years and can go back comfortably and happily to playing golf with his cronies. '. . Such is politics. V- "- -'-.Vs AN AFTERTHOUGHT: Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all form the habit of just voting for the best man, re gardless, and let it go at that? TN MOSCOW the other day, the wife of the No. 2 secretary in the U.S embassy and the wife of the assistant naval attache went out on the town with a camera (cameras are regarded as even -more suspicious than guns in Russia). In the course of their wander ings, they took some pictures of Russian children at play. As a result, the Soviet foreign minis fry brands the wife of the assist ant secretary of our embassy as ''personally unacceptable in Rus sia," which amounts to a request that 'she leave the country. They accuse her of "hooligan ism." . DIPLOMACY, in these days, is becoming almost , as bac"ly screwballed as politics. Do you reckon the world will ever get back to something ap"" proaching common sense? I can only say that it would be won derful if something like that should come to pass. TEST-PROVED t?19SH Priced at less than "H Has much, butper- cti equal to 5 leading . m4 iieek nw. competitive aide averaging $268! COM! IN FOR T!T DITAILSJ GEO. E. 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