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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordCWTribuhi "Everybody m Southern Oregeo Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 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 Editof RICHARD JEWETT. Sports fcdltor , 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 March 3. 189? - SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per cony 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dauy ana sunaay unree mos d-ou Daily and Sunday One montli 125 Sunday Only One year 2.50 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 On year f 15.00 uaiiy ana &unaay vne montn iJta Carrier and Dealers 5c pei copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Coonty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. CC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver a c 'NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAMt PUBUSHltS 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. 8, 1944 ' (It was Wednesday) Donald Campbell, recently -elected to city council from Ward IV, announces he favors splitting Ward IV into- two sec tions. ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Reform cir cles predict the present shortage of cigars and cigarettes will cure many smokers of the to bacco habit. If the brands of both, now on tap, don't -cure them, nothing will. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1934 (It was Thursday) Medford high school football team to play Hood River here Nov. 24 with winner to play in Portland Thanksgiving- day for mythical state title. Rain in Applegate area quenches three forest fires start ed by careless deer hunters. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1924 " (It was Saturday) City budget for 1924-1925 fis cal year at Central Point is set at $3,355. Bank at Metolius in central Oregon robbed, and "for first time in history" robbers pursued by deputy sheriff in airplane. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 8. 1914 (It was Sunday) John Westerland, and Dr. W. R. Bagley, Talent, named as del egates to meeting of Northwest By-Products league at Spokane. From the Local and Personal column: A kitchen worker at the Medford hotel was dis charged yesterday afternoon, and in a rage heaved a hunk of wood through the dining room window. He was arrested and given 30 days in the county jail this morning for his outbreak by Police Judge . Gay. What's the Answer? (Can You Gat 4 of the 71) Copr. 19S. Editorial Research Report 1. A child over 18 attending school jean be claimed by a par ent as a dependent under the new tax law, no matter how much the child earns; right ortfrdng? 2. No Negro is now5?srmem ber of the U.S. Senate; right or wrong? .- jV ; j- . 3. Taft -Hartley !Act changes proposed by Mr. Eisenhower this year were generally considered pro-Labor, anti-Labor, or about 50-50? 4. Which two of these Re publicans recently stumped the country for G.OJV candidates: Eisenhower, Nixon, Hoover, Dewey, McArthur, Martin, Mc Carthy? - 5. On a loaf of bread selling for 15c" about three, four, five, six or seven cents goes to the farmer? ' 6. Basketball originated in this country or was adapted from the game as played elsewhere? ; 7. Panama hats were so named because most of them used to be made in Panama; right or wrong? Tha Answer: 1. Right. 2 Right. 3. About 50-50. 4. Nixon and Mar tin. 5. About three cents. 6. Originated in Ibis country. 7. Wrong; the term cam from "pal mala hats." MAIL TRIBUNE Letter to Germany Dr. Franz Oexle Suedkurier Konstanz, Germany Dear Franz: . One reason why you have not heard from me for so long is because of the election, about which I am sure you have read. Elections are busy times for news papermen in this country and in Germany, too, I imagine. I wish you could have been in this country during an election. I don't know what they are like in Ger many, but in the United States they are vital, exciting things to watch. -- . TN OREGON, the election was to select a United , States Senator, four Congressmen, a Governor, and a great many lesser officials. The candidates for Sena tor were Senator Guy Cordon (I don't think you met him when you were here) and Dick Neuberger (who I think you met. last fall). - It was a hard-fought campaign, with both candi dates going into every corner of the state, speaking before as many people as they could reach,, talking on radio and television, advertising in the newspa pers, and doing whatever else they could to persuade the voters that they should be elected. It was what we in America call a "dirty", cam paign, and the words half-truths were used a paign, not decided until two days after the election when the last of the votes finally were counted. Cor don was ahead in the counting most of the time, but Neuberger finally won by more than 550,000 cast) at the end. The votes which gave him the victory were castjn Multnomah county (Portland) late on election day, and were the last to be counted. "THERE were two other you would be interested:. Gov. Paul Patterson, whom you met, was reelected, and Gharles O. Porter (you may recall when he politics one night last fall) to Congress. Before the election on constant' stream of candidates coming to Medford. And each had to be met by alks reported for our readers. Feelings ran very high in the campaign, and m reporting speeches we had to be careful to be accurate We ran hundreds of columns of stories about the candidates and what they before the election. It is our way of trying to let our readers have all the facts, by both sides, so they can vote with some knowledge Then, on election night, porting the vote. The polls that time our entire crew of the printers, delivery stopping at the county's voting places to get the first returns.. These were brought or telephoned m to us, and entered on big charts, and the job of tabulat ing began. - v;;", i THROUGHOUT the evening, we broadcast the re- suits, as they grew, "over the radio station, which was broadcasting from our office. After midnight, when things slowed down, a few of us "kept at it all night.. We completed the had them pretty well checked, by 11:30 a.m.,-in time for the paper the day after bed after the paper came out, at about 3:30 o'clock. After it's all over, and down some, I look back on American kind of thing. I somewhat the same, but as get pretty worked up over you could have seen it, from a show! as JLothar would .Betty and the kids send their love. Regards to Margarit. Sincerely, i Eric. New Orchard Heat Tested .. The Oregon Forest Products laboratory, a state operated research agency located on the Oreeon State college campus, is studying sawmill waste material for and vegetable growers of Oregon might be -saved heavy losses from frost damage and a considerable cash saving may also be realized if satisfactory burn ing methods are perfected for the less expensive fuel. VVN important consideration in the possible substitu tion of wood waste for oil heating is the fact that great quantities of the former material are available in or near the localities where heating is principally practiced the Rogue River valley, the Willamette valley and the Hood River valley. ; If the Forest Products Laboratory technicians can come up with a way to heat orchards with sawmill residues instead of the costly and smudge-producing oil now used, they will render both growers and gen eral public a far-reaching and highly appreciated service. E.C.F. : - t-. Mora Tobacco Chewers Salem, Ore U.R) "What we need,' , said James : Walker, chief of Oregon's forest protec tion divisfon, "are more tobacco chewers and fewer careless cigar ette flippers. I am certain our forests would be much safer." Carelessly tossed cigarettes are the greatest source of man caused fires. : Monday, November 8, 1954 "smear', innuendo- ana lot. And it was a close cam about 2,000 votes (out of election contests in which spoke to our group about was 'defeated for election November 2, there was a a newspaperman, and his and fair, to both sides. said and did in the month and all the statements made make up their minds and of what itcs all about. came the big job of re close at 8 o'clock, and at (including reporters, some boys and others) was out, tabulation of returns, and election. I went home to the excitement has died it and think; of it as a truly suppose your elections are you know, Americans can something like this. I wish beginning to end. "What sayr . ; the possibility , of using orchard heating. Fruit Needed in Forests The refinements of civiliza tion have added to t the fire haz ard. In the days when "roU your own" smokes were .the rule, the timber lands were safer, foresters said, because such a cigarette usually went out as soon as you stopped ; puffing. The "tailor mades" can smoulder to the tip end. , .. - ., British Industrialists Slated To Make Bid For Trade With China By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst British industrialists are about to make their biggest bid to date to increase their trade with Communist China. A 33-man delegation is to leave for Peiping this week to study the possibilities of in- , creasing e x ports to and imports from the "People's Republic." The delega tion represents more than 100 -companies which cover a wide field of British indus try. J Charles Mecaoa - In ' its ne gotiations, the delegation wiU be bound : by the British govern ment's commitments against the export of strategically valuable goods to Red China. But the mission has the bless ing of .the Foreign! Office and the Board of Trade, which in Britain is a government department.,-' " ' " -V ' Stemmed From Geneva There . seems to be a strong feeling, in both industry and the government t that British-Chi nese trade can be increased ma terially without violating the strategic goods ban. The present mission stems from last summer's conference in Geneva which brought the end of the war in Indochina. Ne gotiations were conducted there between representatives of Brit ish industry and members of the Chinese Red delegation. The . Peiping government has Matter of Fact '-- ;f ' ADLAI Washington . Oddly enough, although the election has certain ly been a political net plus for President Eisenhower, . it has probably -also been a net plus for his old rival, Adlai Steven son. This, at least, is the majority view among Stevenson's fellow Democrats. If you look at the election re- sults'from a special, Stevenson- an angle of vision, you can see why. The elec tions did not go nearly as well for the Democrats as they had ex pected. But they! went surprisingly - well for Stev- . enson nonethe less. , 7 Tn ilia firpt Joaeph.Atop. place Sen. Paul Douglas,, from Stevenson's home state of. Illinois, was re elected by a healthy majority. It is no secret that the relationship Detween tne two men has not always been exactiy chummy. But this year, things were patch ed up, and Douglas and Steven son did a Damon and Pythias act on the Illinois hustings. Stevenson went all out for Doue- las, and Douglas, in introducing mm, stopped just short of call ing Stevenson "your next Presi dent' Eisenhower gave Douglass's op ponent, Joe Meek, his blessins. If the amiable but unimpressive Meek had beat en Douglas, this would have been in terpreted uni ver sally as final proof that Stevenson was no match, , for Eisenhower. But: instead, Stevenson's bet on Doug las paid off Stewart Alsep handsomely. . What is more, where the Democratic performance almost lived up to Democratic hope: in the - governorship races btevenson cud particularly well. The majority of the new -Democratic' governors, if not all-out Stevenson men, are at the very least decidedly Stevenson-mind ed. ' ; This is particularly true of Muskie - in Mame, Freeman in Minnesota, Leader in Pennsyl vania. Ribicoff in Connecticut, and, last but not least, Harri man in New York. Harriman's victory gives him a ballot claim in 1956. But almost ' his - first words 'after, being elected were, Tm for Stevenson." r- A DD THAT ex-President Tru man, on the day after the election, for the first time came out flatly for Stevenson in 1956. A row between Truman' and Stevenson, who have - had their differences in the past, has been the great white hope of the large .but ill-organized anti Stevenson underground in the Democratic party. It was hoped, - for example, that such a row might start over the chairmanship of the Demo cratic National Committee, the key .party post soon to be vacat nri hv Stevenson's man: StunVion Mitchell. . The candidate of the! southerner, and conservatives in said that it is interested in get ting both machinery of all sorts and consumer goods. It gives priority to any supplies which will help it in its ambitious five year plan of industrialization. Communist China now pro duces nearly 75 per cent of its foreign trade with the Soviet Russian bloc. But there are in dications that the Russians have given the Chinese little beyond military supplies and only a small quantity of raw materials and machinery. Brilish Experts Pessimistic British exports to Red China are now running at the rate of about $19,500,000 a year. Ex ports from China are at the jate of about $23,500,000. This, of course, is a mere trickle. :-- . The British delegates will know, when they arrive in Peip ing, what they can supply the Chinese Reds. What they have to find out is what the Peiping regime can send to Britain to pay for the things it wants. Many British experts are pessi mistic over trade possibilties. They hold that the Reds have little , with which , they could balance a big flow of trade. Chinese Communist .authori ties are'reported to have hinted that they would want credit ar rangements in any big trade deal. There is no disposition in London to grant any extensive credits to a -regime like that in Peiping. 1 '. 1 -- ' :" Hence there is little excite ment over the possibility . of a dramatic increase in British-Chinese trade. But British traders are trying to establish a basis for the'future. . . j . . Stewart Alsep the anti-Stevenson underground was Sen. Earls Clements of Ken tucky. But now Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas, anathema- to regular Democrats 'because o! his apostasy in 1952, has bestowed what is probably .the kiss of death on Clements by coming out strong for him. There ap pears to be a good chance that a- compromise . choice will be found in James Finnegan, an able Democratic politician from Philadelphia, who is believed acceptable to both the Truman and Stevenson forces. Thus there appears very little likelihood of a Truman-Steyenson row. - What, then,' short of his fall ing down an empty elevator shaft, can beat 'Stevenson? The answer 'appears to Je, "Steven son.'! , . " : According to friends, Steven son is thoroughly - fed up with politics. He is tired of the 'whiskey and mustard routine." He is tired of making speeches, He is tired, particularly, of mak ing, the kind of speeches he has been making this autumn. Stevenson felt an obligation to help pay off the debt acquired by the Democratic party in his campaign. So he has been mak ing speeches to people willing to pay large sums to eat dry chicken and hear him talk. These people were party stalwarts, with no taste for the high level political dissertation in which Stevenson excels. They wanted "give 'em hell" ' speeches, . Accordingly, Stvenson game 'em hell but he does not'take to it naturally; and he disliked every minute of it. i - v. ':' He disliked even, more the al most universal assumption this autumn that he was an active candidate for the 1958 nomina tion. And he. is now telling friends that, far from being an active candidate, he Is through with politics at least for a year. He will make no political speeches. He .will have nothing to do with .choosing the next National chairman. He will stick; to his knitting and his law prao tice. ! frriHERE ARE those who believe that such aloofnes could de stroy Stevenson politically f "If Adlai tries to play coy again, hc's through." There are those! who believe that taking himself out of the. limelight is very smart nolitics that . ' Sevenson is cleverly protecting .himself against the dangers of being too far out in front too soon. . Finally, there are those who believe that Stevenson is simply and quite genuinely a tired man, puzzled about his future. And this last theory, naive though it may seem, may be the right one after ,11. ' (Copyright, 1954, Naw York V - Herald Tribune Inc.) WEATHER : v Br UNITED PRESS Northern California: Rain from Santa Maria and Fresno north and mostly cloudy elsewhere; few widely scattered showers to night - but generally clearing; cooler; ' southerly wind 30-50 MPH early today . Point Reyes north ' and 20-35 southward to Monterey, decreasing in after noon and gradually shifting to westerly, : . Dead "line Sunday - Classified is at SSSSi Understand Politics Babson Declares By ROGER" W. BABSON ' Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail . Tribune). Naturally, the Republicans are much disap pointed by Tuesday's election results. It, however, shows that the Eisenhower "Millionaire Cabinet" does not understand politics. Frankly, there is no rea son why these able businessmen should be experts on 'political matters any more than Con gressmen should be able, to suc cessfully run steel, coal, or au tomobile companies, y During the two years when I was Assistant Secretary of Labor, I learned that politics is a profession. Big businessmen, big lawyers, big bankers, and big generals have not been train ed for getting votes. I forecast that President Eisenhower will soon reorganize this and make changes in his Cabinet and his advisors. Not Disturbed . As to the effect of the election on business, I am not disturbed. This is too big a country to. be upset by these election results. The election means only a . de lay in remedying some of the New Deal errors. '' In the meantime, less money will be spent by large compa nies for expansion, but more money "will be spent by wage workers in the dime stores. Both Democrats and Republicans will work for less unemployment be tween now and 1956. There will be no World War III during 1955. "All in all, I forecast no great changes, certainly nei ther a "boom" nor a "bust." In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS . This changing world note: j ; For the first time in the his tory of the U. S. senate, a woman will succeed a "woman in the senate Monday. - ? She is Mrs. George Abel, who replaces Mrs. Eve Bowring. Both are Republicans from Nebraska. NEVER BEFORE ;has a woman walked down the: senate aisle to the vice-president's chair to escort another woman to take the oath of office. 1VELL, the men haven't done IT too well in the business of government. Maybe the women can do bet ter. ' TUST HOW haven't the men done too well? , If you want an answer to that one, take a look at the tax statement you'll get shortly from your spendthrift old uncle; (who is always depicted m the car toons as aman.) The . men haye been running the government. v The government has !, been spending, the money. FOR the sake of : the argument, let's assume that you who are reading this are a man. Let's suppose you're an average Amer ican business man. 'Let's sup pose further that last night you were entertaining a customer. Let's assume that you enter tained him at the BEST PLACES, With all the trimmings. . In that event, the check would have been a hefty one. ' LET'S now assume that it is the next, morning and you are telling your wife about it. In cluding WHAT IT COST. Let's go no farther into the gory details. - I just want to offer a bet at this point that you found her unenthusiastic about the "whole business and unsympathetic with your explanation that you just HAD to do it and that after all it was a good investment because he was a customer and you need ed his patronage. . TTERE'S why your wife's . re- cepuon of your report on your enterprise of the night be fore was chilly: j SHE WAS THINKING OF ALL THE THINGS SHE COULD HAVE BOUGHT WITH THE MONEY YOU THREW AWAY SO RECKLESSLY. THIS Fable of the Man and A His! Customer that T've'iiist related explains why I'm com ing to believe that maybe it will be wise if we get more women into the fantastic business of government especially the double-f antastic business of our federal government. . When - it is proposed in the congress to spend a squillion dol lars on this or that, men can rea son themselves into the belief that it is a sound proposal and that great good can come of it Men can look at things like that in the LARGER way. They can kid themselves about the greatest good ; to the greatest number. And so on. , WOMEN are realists. Being realists, they look right through all the flubdub and com pute how! much that ' squillion dollars is going to COST THEM individually in the way of taxes and right after that they think FtOUON PRODUCT Is That So? Turn-about's fair play, isn't it? You readers have been bombard ing me with questions, now let me ask you some. Why should certain animals be burdened with cumbersome appendages for which they can have no possible use? For 'ex ample, the horned toad of our southwest desert. It has enor mous spines on its back and head. Yet, it makes no use of these weapons either offensive ly or defensively. When mo lested it shoots from the cor ner of its eye a fine jet of blood at its aggressor. Why does the proboscis mon key, the Jimmy Durante of the ammal world, have such a long snozzle? Surely that long hook! ed beak is not for hooking over a cherry limb to hold fruit within hand-reach? Why do some . animals . have such, enormous, heavy antlers; and then shed them each year? The moose's weigh up to 70 pounds. Surely it takes a tre mendous amount of vitality sim- ply to grow these palmated jobs within a few months, each year. (In fact, during the antler-growing season, the male moose lies around. a. great deal apparently tuckered out from the ordeal.) Or the -elk why; his wide spread? What could be more awkward for . high-tailing through the dense woods than a five-foot-wide rack? Or, for that matter, why does the deer have any antlers? .After all, an oc casional buck sometimes doesn't even grow any and yet these so-called ( "hummels" do right well for -themselves Without antlers they ram. into the harem- masters with their antlerless heads and rout them. Besides there is the abiding danger of locking the many-pronged ant lers during combat and then dying a miserable death of star vation and exhaustion. ' Or, if antlers are necessary and good,, why doesn't the fe male have them? (The caribou, alone, does.) After all, it is the female : who gets heavy with young,; nurses 'them, and then defends - them doesn't she need them more- than the male? Heavy Fur Coat Sure enough, in cold country a heavy . coat ; of fur might in sure a musk ox or a polar pear from catching . the sniffles, but why does ' the gu'ereza which comes from the very .. nottesi narts of Abyssinia go' through life beneath a heavy load of fur?: ; . Why does the giant, fish-eat- ine roeodile' have a .box-iuce structure - on the upper ..end of his snout? If anything, it's a hindrance. Why does the rattlesnake have a rattle? Certainly it is a won- lrfiil nrean and granted it warns approaching enemies to keeD clear. But then, doesn't it also alert and forewarn its own victims? And doesn't it draw the attention of hostile creatures to its own presence when it might be the better part of valor to stay quiet and keep alive? ' Whv -the erotesaue bill of the hnrnhill. the west African bird with the tremendously enlarged hollow superstructure? Alter au, nt all the thines they could have bought with the money. LET'S put it this way: . Everv billion dollars the anvArnment snends COStS YOU S an individual about seven bucks. If you're a man, you can think of . those seven iron men in the LARGER SENSE. If vou're a woman, you can t. You think of it in terms of what you could have BOUGHT FOR YOURSELF with that seven dol lars. I'm coming to think it might be an excellent idea if we got MORE women into government. Adequate Staff A staff to properly dudes: Gordon Hays, Joseph Ho- sick. John Duffy. Carol Waltermire, William Driscoll. "The Best Costs No More Why Accept Less? Mabel CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors, West Main at Sixth Phone Medford 2-7II1 Member NaHaaal Sajactad rAarticUaa by WitahW By f ogaaa Boras ; Raaaar-Natiiralict it doesn't use Its beak, ifor a hammer as does the woodpecker it , nests in a hole' which it finds, not makes, and its food consists -of fruits - and insects. the latter taken on the fly. . r v Enormous Bill ; .:':V .' Or the toucan's "bill, which is altogether enormous - and dis- .MnHn.4:nH 1 ' Ttri xl - . mandibles which must; be an extra, load on. its shoulders? : why do only, the males of some "animals have c ertain does: the bull-headed seal.-have such, an enormous crest of fat extending from, its snout? . Or whv 'does the' male narwhal alone possess that single long twisted spear? If useful, surely the female deserves and is en titled to one? i Why does the sloth hang up side down,, living a topsy-turvy be no special advantage in hang ing from a branch and walking ahont 1 that nrrnr mntt rtf- vnur - - j - j " - life--how much easier to relax and be comfortable and lie along on tep of the limb? (Copyright 1954, by . - Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure- ' Newspaper Syndicate) - ( Free: By special arrangement with tha editors of tha Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of ludgas will award each weak to lha reader who sands me : tha bast question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume sat of this world-famous refer ance work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, 'new questions ' will be considered. Sorry, I - simply can't , answer your many . friendly letters. M neaze taaress . your . quesnons to: IS THAT SOI co Medford Mail Tribune. Box 57S. Sausal- ito, Calif. WIRED FOR MILK H -! Fairview, Okla. (U.R) When a healthy cow began giving less milk recently, a veterinarian's examination . revealed she had too much iron in her system about four inches worth. -The ailing bossie had . swallowed a piece of baling wire. "Oil THE DOT" twice a year generous earnings are paid to our investors. It's a unfailing thrill, this attractive rata of pay for the use of your, hard earned dollars! ""!.,. o FIRST FEDERAL SAYINGS & LOAN -ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly r An Institution Dedicated Ta Those Who Save The Kept Woman GEO. N. TAYLOR " 1 Barnum's i Circus T- raised Its tents in a city of the deep South that day and now, late at night a long passenger train was stop-.. ping'- at tne plantations and ! mm hamlets to let off the crowd. In one car was a young woman who lived in a cabin by herself and wag kept by a man who visit-. ed : her on oc casion. Now what place had this young wo man in the : scheme of things eternal? Just this God - sent Christ to die for that girl, and us also, whatever our sin. Down in our hearts we are to believe on Christ as the Lord and Sa viour who died for us. Never will we have peace until we have Christ as the one and only God and Saviour of lost mankind and ourselves. ' By that we have eternal life. Being saved, our part is1 to pray for that girl out in the cabin and the lost every where. This message sponsored by a Beaverton dairyman and family. Pd. Adv. serve you in- Charles Dorrell, Fred Ryde and Carlos 1 3W 4
