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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordTribuhi "everybody la Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St Phone 8-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph EditOI RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a, ibwi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dailv and Sunday One year $12.00 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 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month .125 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy 1 All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU , f OF CIRCULATION ; Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. 'NATIONAL ' EDIT HAL A$gCTJN NIWSPAMt PUtUISHEIS 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 3. 1944 (It was Friday) Adjutant and Mrs. Charles Rosnick arrive in Medford to take over duties as leaders of Salvation Army corps here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Final re turns from the Halloween front are drifting in. There were many innocent jokes, but what some of the pranksters need is spanksters. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 3, 1934 (It was Saturday) " Entertainment Chairman A. O. Soderberg announces plans for big Community Chest, rally and parade to be held in Med ford. New officers of Central Point Grange include Victor Bursell, master; William Foley, overseer; Evelyn Hamilton, lecturer, and Mrs. Betta Pankey, chaplain. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 3, 1924 . (It was Monday) Rosino and Frances Gallatin, Talent, leave with County Agent Ada Brewster to take part in bread baking contest at Pacific International Livestock exposi tion in Portland. Veteran Republican service league plans big torchlight pa rade on Laurel and Main sts. in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 3. 1914 Applegate team, composed of Jose Wright, Edith Kubli and Bessie Head, and Ruch team, made up of James Rice, Frank Boone, and Lois Rice, debate subject, "Resolved, That Wood Is More Useful Than Iron." From the Local and Personal column: Seemingly the local high school football team has lost the season's honors while their opponents, many inferior, strut forth with the colors. Be cause of their attitude townrd freshman parties the local team will probably, be drawn from the field. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr 1954. Editorial Research Report ll The U.S. pays less than one fourth, or about one-fourth, one third, or one-half, or more than half the budget of U.N.? 2. Of all youngsters who en ter high school, more or less than half are graduated? 3. Dave Beck is president of the longshoremen's, steel work ers', electricians,' teamsters' or textile workers' union? 4. More or less thn half of our Presidents have seen active serv ice in war? 5. Before the Reds took over Russia in 1917, most Russians were Orthodox Catholics, Ro man Catholics, Mohammedans, Jews or Protestants? 5. Who is the oldest: British Prime Minister Churchill, West German Chancellor Adenauer, U.S. ex-president- Hoover, or U.S. ex-Vice-President Barkely? 7. The typical U.S.. hospital has about one nurse available for every two, three, four, five, six, or seven patients? The Answers: 1. About one third. 2. Less than half. 3. Team sters. 4. More than half. 5. Orth odox (Greek) Catholics. 6. Hoover. 7. About one for every three patients. 1 MAIL TRIBUNE What An Yesterday's election takes the writer back over 40 years when the late S. S. Smith, then business man ager of the Mail Tribune, and an ardent and tireless Republican put on a plug-hat, armed himself with a cigar he only smoked on election night a wash boiler and a club, and paraded up and down Main Street celebrating the election of Charles E. Hughes, Republican, over Woodrow Wilson, Democrat. He of course had a group with him, but not Doctor Keene! , IT WAS a great night for the GOP. But it was a terrible 'morning after. For as the records now show President Wilson was reelected in the final count due largely ttf Hiram Johnson and the defec tion of Sunny California. , This ancient reminder is reinforced by the fact that the leading Democratic paper in the country then, the New York World, acknowledged the defeat of President Wilson early election night just as Senator Ives of New York when 200,000 votes behind last night acknowledged his own defeat, only to have late returns pu him a few thousand votes from vic tory! WHAT an election! Contrary to expectations the election was one of the closest, most hard fought and most confusing in many years, and as this is written the final results are still in doubt in this state and several others. However on one issue there can be general agree ment, Dick Neuberger demonstrated once and for all Oregon is no longer a one-party state. He failed to defeat Senator Cordon but he scared him to death, and reduced Cordon's normal majority by thousands of votes. And Dick rati a clean, intelligent and vig orous campaign, of which he can always be proud. CVEN more emphatically did yesterday's election demonstrate there is no danger of this becoming a one-party country. What a cat-and-dog fight from coast to coast and from the Great Lakes to the Mexican border, one side ahead then the other, often only a few hundred votes separating them. , There is no doubt of Democratic control of the House, and the Democrats may even win a'margin of one or two in the Senate in which case Senator Morse will be the most sought after and powerful member of the Upper Housewhich if it happens will raise the blood pressure of certain powerful Republican stalwarts hereabouts, to the danger point. One of the most pleasing election highlights to this department has been the apparent come-back of Sen ator Case, Republican of New Jersey which -if it proves to be true, will deliver a deserved slap to the McCarthyites and Old Guard Republican re actionaries in that state, who worked night, and day to defeat and falsely discredit him. iSo all in all it was a memorable afld thrilling mid term election that demonstrated that the apathy that was feared and so often characterizes mid-term elec tions, need not apply if the people are awakened in due time. R.W.R. Repeal or Enforce It ' There is a law in Oregon against newspapers printing political propaganda on election day. ? The afternoon papers have observed the law fair ly well but the morning papers have not. On election day morning one of them was full of political propaganda, one lay-out telling the people exactly how to vote for certain candidates with the ballot marked accordingly.' We doubt if these violations of the law . do any great harm politically or any particular good for that matter. But the law is the law. And it should be observed by all the press of the state, morning and evening or it should be repealed. "IITE suggest at the next session of the Legislature the matter be cleared up. If the people don't want such a law let it be re pealed. If they do let it be enforced. This half-and-half business is demoralizing, tends to create disrespect for law enforcement in general as well as giving the morning papers an advantage to which they are not entitled R.W.R. a jmw . $!! l FAMILY AFFAIR The family came along when Con gressman . George H. Bender (right) cast his -ballot at Chagrin Falls, O. He is Republican candidate for the Sen ate seat of the late Robert Taft Left to right: Daughter Barbara Stevenson, grand-daughter Nancy Stevenson, son-in-law Ernest Stevenson, grandson Jimmy Stevenson, daughter Virginia Bartlett, son-in-law Joseph Bartlett, Mrs. Bender and grand-daughter Linda Bartlett being held by Bender. Wednesday. November 3, 1954 Election! Yoshida's Visit To United States May Be Pleasant, Profitable Bv CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida's visit to the United States is likely to be both pleas ant and prof itable. Communist China and So v i e t Russia are making a vigo r o u s at tempt to lure Japan away from its close ties to the United States. It is becom- Charles Mrlann Ulg evident that the United States has got to dp something about it, and the something means additional aid to Japan in. one form or another. The big lure that Red China and Red Russia have to offer Japan is the prospect of a huge market in cnina tor its exports. Japan's economy has been getting steadily worse for months. Janan desperately needs foreign trade, and the thought of the Chinese martet must be appealing. Japan in Trouble Washington dispatches said early in August that the admin istration . was getting alarmed over Japan's plight and was giving priority to a study' of means to better it. Direct American aid to Japan ended in 1951. But American military spending, which had totaled up to $80u,uuu,uuu a Is That So? Many are the imaginary, won derful and mostly horrid crea tures that have been invented, the only limits being the writer's imagination and the reader's credulity. So, today, we'll deal with unnatural natural history and populate a zoo with crea tures that lived only in men's minds. PHOENIX: Accounts vary but most agree that this fabulous bird of Arabia was of enormous size, resembled an eagle with feathers partly red and partly golden, and had a lifespan of around' 500 years. Sole example of its species, it assured its own continuity by building a funeral pyre of spices on which it died fragrantly and then arose again from its own ashes, first as a worm, which later changed into a bird. - UNICORN: A four-footed un tamable creature, about the size of a horse sprouting a lion-like tail, and possessing a long single horn growing straight from the middle of its forehead. It in habited the wilds of Syria, Arabia, Ethiopia anil India and according to the ancients, per ished in the great flood. BASILISK: This creature, "King of the dragons and ser pents," was said to wither all vegetation with its awful breath while its glance was fatal to mor tal man. Supposedly born of an egg laid by a decrepit cock but hatched by a repulsive snake, this hideous monster could only be killed by holding a mirror be fore it, whereupon its own death striking -glances would be re reflected upon itself. BARBERRY LAMB: This was half-animal, half vegetable. In old woodcuts, it is a lamb-like animal hanging, from the branches of a tree with the pos terior swatched in foliage. ' An other illustration shows it sprouting from the top of a broad-leafed plant. Because the stalk was flexible, the animal luckily could graze off the grass within reach but when that was exhausted, it died. Bristles On Spine SEA WOLF: A ferocious crea ture inhabiting the sea, bearing an erection of bristles on its spine, from head to tail. SEA SERPENT: No imaginary zoo could exist without this crea ture accounts of which are still frequently heard. Some report it friendly, others extremely fer ocious. The latter usually claim a length of more than 100 feet. When raising its head above water, its height of course over tops masts of ships. It has been said to attack and devour both i ships and sailors. MERMAIDS: Upper half worn- an, lower half fish, usually with i long flowing and greenish-grey hair, disporting themselves in the sea. If -a sailor had been et sea long enough, their charms were said to be irresistible. Some land-lubber, versions gave them two tails, and a few endowed them with animal ears. A more popular sea-going version was the siren. This girl-fish had the power of singing with such magi cal effects that she could charm to their doom all persons who heard her. year, had helped to keep Japan going.' This spending has been slashed drastically since the end of the Korean war, and soon may drop to $200,000,000 a year. The Japanese foreign trade balance is more than $1,00Q, 000,000 a year on the adverse side. On Oct. 11, at the end of their big conference in Peiping, Red China and Soviet Russia made a joint declaration "concerning relations with Japan." Japan, the declaration said, would strengthen itself by tak ing the path of "establishing normal relations, broad eco nomic cooperation and cultural ties with other states, in the first place with her neighbors." Reds Are Busy "The governments of the So viet Union and the Chinese Peo ple's Republic . . . stand for the development of extensive trade relations with Japan on mutual ly profitable terms and estab lishment of close cultural rela tions with her," the declaration continued. The Communists have follow ed this up actively in their pro paganda. It may aU be very transparent but Japan, which now restricts its trade with Red China as an aUy of the United States, cannot be deaf to such appeals. Yoshida may be expected to ask President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington what they suggest as the alternative to closer economic ties between Japan and Red China. By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Kidnaped People Less attractive female-animal forms were harpies, chimaeras, lamias. Harpies were ugly wing ed females with long claws who kidnaped people. Lamias, no im provement, were four - footed men with animal heads, and flowing hair and scaled bodies who spent nights sucking the blood of little innocent children. The chimaera, a fire-breathing gal, was forepart, lion, middle part goat, and hind-part dragon. Her gainly daughter, a sphinx, possessed the winged body of a lion, the upper part remaining woman. MERMEN: The male counter part of the mermaid was this marine Pan model of the sea. He was usually garnished with horns. Variations of this charm ing male were centaurs, satyrs, gorgons. The centaur was a man from head to loins, the remain der the body of a horse with tail rampant and four legs. The satyr was a man with a goatlike head, replete with horns, the up per part of the body a man, the tail of a fish. To complete the get-up, rear feet were, webbed. Last we have the gorgon which again mixed human male and animal form. His head was cov ered with scales like those of a serpent, the hands were clawed, the tusks were those of a boar, and he was girded with serpents. An altogether prepossessing, creature. (Copyright, 1954. by Eugene Burns.) (Distributed by McCluro Newspaper Syndicate.) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week lo the reader who sends ma the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of , this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal, craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I sim ply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SOI co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575,. Sausalito, Calif. BETTER STREET LIGHTS Portland U.R) Portland vot ers approved a measure to im prove the city's street lighting system, but they turned down three other tax proposals in yes terday's election. The street lighting measure will place a levy of $1,000,000 a year for the next 10 years on Portland tax payers. FAST TIME LOSES ' Seattle (U.R) Washington voters yesterday defeated a pro posal for daylight saving time with late returns from rural areas sending it down to defeat. i.t iiiiiZnSS5!5Str (si ? a JzJ HENRY DWORSHAK Dworshak Wins Over Glen Taylor Pocatello, I d a xx o (U.R) Guitar-strumming Glen H. Tay lor, one-time candidate for vice president on the Progressive Party ticket, failed today to win his way back to the U.S. Senate. He was soundly defeated by the Renublican incumbent. Hen ry Dworshak, former Burley publisher. . Taylor long has been one of the most colorful figures in Idaho politics. He tried for elec tion several times before mak ing his way to the Senate after a campaign that featured his guitar and his talented family. In Washington, he rode a horse up the Capitol steps to attract attention to his troubles in find ing a home. In 1948, he was the Progres sive Party's unsuccessful candid date for vice-president on the ticket with Henry Wallace. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Aid For Hungry in Europe To the Editor: Think of being able to deliver 4,000 pounds of dried milk, cheese, or butter to hungry people in Europe, the Near East and the East for only $10! Any one of us can do this now through the American Friends Service Committee's pro gram of distributing donated gov ernment surpluses. At wholesale prices this means $480 worth of dried milk or $1,000 worth of cheese, or $1,600 worth of but ter. ; The low cost of delivering these commodities is possible be cause of the already established programs of the American Friends Service Committee in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Ja pan, Jordan, Korea and El Salva dor. In most of these areas distri bution arrangements have al ready been operating, utilizing foreign as well as American vol unteers. Here social welfare work is balanced with long-range programs of rehabilitation and social and technical assistance, all impartially administered. There are many reasons why we should avail ourselves of this opportunity the high . cost of continuing to store the surpluses (now $700,000 per day), the threat to world peace that comes from alluring promises made to the hungry two-thirds of the world's people. It has been dem onstrated over and over again in relief fields and proven in scien tific laboratories that the hungry gravitate to an authoritarian form of government. Perhaps the primary reason for most of us is that it is simply an expression of our religious concern and of our faith that deeds of mercy do make a difference in human rela tions. Your gift may be sent to the Portland Regional Office, Amer ican Jrnenas Service Commit tee, 1108 S. E. Grand Avenue, Tl X, . 4 . x-ur liana . Your gifts are deductible for tax-accounting purposes. . Harold Barton, Rt. 4, Box 319, Eugene, Ore. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 530 previous day. Douglas Beats Meek; Demands FBI Probe Of GOP 'Slow Count' Chicago U.R) Sen. Paul H. Douglas, a liberal Democrat, won reelection to a second term nHair nvr RemihliVan .T,K I T. Meek , and promptly demand ed an FBI investigation of "slow counts." Meek, a conservative) Repub lican making his first bid for elective office, gave a virtual concession early today and said S. F. Beats Down Cable Car Issue San Francisco U.R) Cold, hard economy won a victory over sentiment here yesterday. San -Francisco's voters flatly turned down a proposal to re store a city's clanging little cable cars to their former glory. The picturesque but tax-gulp ing dinkie system was slashed in two last January by economy minded city fathers. . This caused a wail of anguish from a minority group of senti mentalists who claimed the move had left the city a dreary and charmless place. The pro-cable car clique put up an initiative measure to re store the system to its former status and hang the expense. They found, however, that the majority of their fellow citi zens were a little more hard hearted. Final returns early to day showed the measure was voted down by a whopping 128,- 482 to 78,466. The situation had some conso lation for the cable-lovers, how ever. Still in effect is a proposi tion passed by the voters last June to spend $1,000,000 to re furbish and modernize the re maining half of the system. In other wards, in spite of all the hoo-raw, youican still ride a cable car in San Francisco. But not quite as far. Republicans Sweep Election in Kansas Topeka, Kan. (U.R) Re publicans swept Kansas, a state they normally control, in yester day's election, regaining the one seat in the House they lost two years ago. ".' Lt. Gov, Fred Hall, who buck ed the Republican organization to gain his nomination, was elected governor over Democrat George Docking, and U.S. Sen, Andrew F. Schoeppel won a second term over George McGill, a former Democratic Senator and recently a federal tariff commissioner. In the 1st Kansas District, which Democrat Rep. Howard S. Miller won in 1952, he was beat en by state Rep. William H. Avery, a Republican. Republican incumbents retained the other five seats they held in the 83rd Congress. y . EARTH SLIDE FATAL El Limon, Colombia (U.R) Rain-loosened earth that cascad ed down on this mountain rail town Monday night, killed at least 31 and perhaps as many as 40 persons, authorities said to day. The landslide buried 15 homes and other buildings and blocked the railroad linking Me- dellin, Colombia's second city, with the river port'of Berrio.. BIGGER RETURNS Let our friendly staff pay higher dividends rate is 3 annually. Only 7 More Days! Funds invested here by November 10th, will earn dividends from November 1st Jackson County Federal SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. "Where You Are Paid To Save" i"I wish him all the luck in the worid." UnPcted Strength ""W a wiuie-uiaitneu vet eran of two world wars, took heavily Democratic Chicago as expected and showed unexpect ed strength in the traditionally GOP downstate area. Shortly after claiming an "ap parent victory" early today, Douglas mgrily accused Repub licans of engineering a "slow count." He sent a telegram to the FBI charging "all indications point to the fact that Republicans are holding out large numbers of precincts in Dupage, Kane and McHenry counties in an effort to manipulate the election. - Douglas asked Guy .Bannister, chief Chicago FBI agent, to send agents to the three counties "to check for possible fraud." Most Races in Doubt Illinois voters also chose 25 Congressmen, but most of the races were still in doubt early today. Victors included four Democrats and four Republi cans, with no major upsets yet recorded. In state and Cook county races, however, Democrats showed re surgent strength. Anions? the I Democratic Cook countv win ners was sheriff's candidate Jo seph T. Lohman, who was at tacked by the Republicans on charges that he said policemen tend to marry prostitutes. Dewey Orders Guard Over Voting Records New York (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey today ordered police and sheriffs to guard all voting records of New York State until an official public re canvass of the vote is made. In a statement issued - this morning, he said: "By reason of the extreme closeness of the vote for state offices I am directing the com missioners and chiefs of police in all the state and , all sheriffs forthwith to place patrolman or deputies in charge : of 'each vot ing machine as well as all regis try books and voting records, and ; to maintain uninterrupted custody thereof until completion of the official public recanvass of the vote." . 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