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FOUR MZDFORD -(OREQOK) ltoF03DC3&TRIBUNl ' "Xveifbod to Southern Oregon noaaa xno J Mail Tribune' Dally Except Saturday by MESTORD FBIimNG CO. 87-38 North Fir St. Phone 1411 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor EZHB GREY, Advertising Manacer E. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JB, City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph EdttOf RICHARD JEWETT, Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clasa matter at ' Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 189? ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10. Daily and Sunday One year (13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 0 M Daily and Sunday Three moa 350 Daily and Sunday One month 1.39 Sunday Only One year 330 By Carrier In Advance Med ford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. , Taler and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year IISJM Daily and Sunday One month 1.33 Carrier and Dealers So pet copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medferi Official Paper of Jseaum Conatr Tfriited Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU - OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOiXtDAV COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. ... 10 YEARS AGO Not. 10, 1944 (It was Friday) . . , State Sen. Earl Newbry, Ash land, reported among leading contenders for selection as pres ident of Oregon senate. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Secretary Ickes, per custom, has filed his resignation with the president. China, in ' the throes of a war with both Japan and itself, is in no danger of having him, on their hands as a special envoy. 20 YEARS AGO - Nor. 10. 1934 ... . .. ,- -'(It Was Saturday) -. "Baby Take a Bow," starring Shirley Temple, 'James Dunn and Claire ' Trevor, opens; at Medford's Roxy theater. . - yy- : Cliff "Chief" McLean Jeading ground gainer for Coach How ard Hobson's Southern Oregon Normal school football team in 6 to 0 victory over Chico State. 30 YEARS AGO Mot. 10, 1924 ' (It was Monday) Rosina and Frances Gallatin, Talent, receive first prize in team bread making competition at Pacific International Live; stock Exposition. in Portland. County Clerk Florey reports 8,239 votes, largest number in history, were cast in Jackson county during November gen eral election. . 40 YEARS AGO " ' ' Not. 10, 1914 - " .- -; (It was Tuesday) , Two men from Ft. Klamath find camera tripod believed owned by Bokowsky, pioneer photographer, who perished sev eral years before ; on rim of Crater lake. O y From the Local and Personal column: Southern. Pacific motor cars now stop on flag at several road crossings in the .valley, namely Bells lane, west of Cen tral Point; Crater Lake Junc tion, whitman, mile west- ,ox Ashland. In railroading but two directions are - considered, east and west "West bound trains are those running to San Francisco. East bound trains are those run ning from San Francisco. What's the Answer. (Can You Gat 4 of iW.7?) ' Copr. 195. Editorial Research Report whats the answer edg page std 1. Elections NoVi 2 were for 11 Senate seats,- one-half,; be tween one-third and one-half, one-third, or less ; than one- third? 2. The Supreme Court- as it convened for its 1954-55 term contained no, one, two or three atholics? '" : .; 3. Our present Halloween cel ebration derives from the Brit ish Isles, Germany, Scandinav ian lands, France or Africa? 4. Joe DiMaggio holds the rec ord for consecutive hits in 50, more than 50, or less than 50 baseball games? ' 5. Has Montgomery Ward or Sears Roebuck had the greater gales decline so far in 1954 com pared with 1953? - ' .'. '. , 6. About 50, 60, 70, 80 or 90 per cent of all new car sales in volve a trade-in? 7. State so-called "fair trade" laws pertain to sales taxes, brand names, retail prices, c clerks' wages, or honest advertising? The answers: 1. Between one third and one-half. 2 No Caiho lics. 3. From the British Isles. 4. More than 50 (56). 5. Mont gomery Ward. 6. About 80 per cent. 7. Retail prices.' . . The common cold is never fatal and rarely serious in itself, but it may stimulate the onset of a number of other dangerous diseases. MAIL TRIBUNE Veterans Day Tomorrow the nation will observe Veterans Day for the first time,' November 11 having been desig nated by Congress as a legal holiday to replace Arm istice Day which had been observed since World War L ''A--Vvt y. ' .v v-1 The men and women who served in the 1917 war with Germany may witness the supplanting of their particular day with some regret but all . will agree that dedication of a day in recognition of the veter ans of all wars is more appropriate. ' -; IT WOULD be too much too expect thaalj those who have served in the nation's armed forces might join hands under one organization for. almost every war has brought about the birth of its own vet erans group or groups and these have carried on under their separate flags until the inevitable march of time erased the last name from their rosters. The first organization of veterans of an American army came into being back in 1783 while ' George Washington's forces were still in the field. The Soc iety of Cincinnati -was formed at Fishkill, on the Hudson river,, with Washington as its first president. No large . veterans' organizations were formed after the,War of 1812, or the Mexican War. But the war between the states, with its nuge armies, was followed by the forming of powerful veterans' organ izations. The Grand Army of the Republic, composed of . veterans of the Union Army, reached its highest membership in 1890 25 years after the dose of the war. The United Confederate Veterans were likewise strong throughout the southern states. , ; There were not many veterans of . the Spanish American, War, but they formed a strong organiza tion which exists to this day. FOLLOWING World War I, the American Legion was organized in France in 1919 and in the years before World War II the'Xegion membership Tose to more than 1,250,000. Since World War II the Legion membership- has grown still larger as younger veter ans have joined. , . ' An older organization, formed in 1913, was called the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and this too has become powerful in number of mem bers. : . . I : Veterans of World War II founded some new or ganizations solely for veterans of that war. These in clude ' the American Veterans of World War II (AMVETS), founded in 1944,; and the American Veterans Committee, founded in 1946.: . t Other veterans organizations include the Disabled American Veterans formed in 1920 by those who suf-' fered injuries in line of duty and devoted principally ta the care and rehabilitation of veterans.; The or ganization how has more than 1,100 chapters in forty two state departments ,,. ; -"xz -TTHE TOTAL of these separate groups together with 1 their auxiliaries represents a sizeable portion of the nation's citizenship and it may be expected that in the years to come Veterans Day will be given more general emphasis than may seem to be the case' in this first Observance of the Off Street Parking ; ; The recent receipt of the Oregon State Highway commission's report on its study of Medford's traffic clears the way for consideration of the city's off -street parking needs. This civic hot potato was put back in the pantry quite a while back, to await completion of the traffic study arid now that the latter has been de livered to city officials, the time seems at hand for study and action looking toward early solution. : THE problem is sure to grow more vexatious unless something is4 done because, as the engineers point otit, the population increase in Medford arid, the sur rounding area will bring more and more vehicles and visitors into the business section. - ' t ; Although each year will see more people Trying to crowd into the city with,their cars, if the council f ollows some of the engineers' recommendations they will find even less curb parking available than now for the experts f avor parking bans on some of the more heavily traveled streets. INURING the past two or three years a few alert rf Medford people have tried to point but to citv of ficials, merchants . and - property owners that unless action is taken to provide off-street parking, down town business is. sure; to; suffer and property values will b'e adversely affected.. ' For the most part these .warningshave resembled voices crying in the wilderness. But recently there has been some effort on the part of a few individual bus inessmen to set up parking space for their own pro tection. These installations have been all to the good, the only trouble is they are for the convenience of patrons of the particular business places which main tain them. The patrons of scores of other merchants, professional men, etc., are no. better off in the way of parking than they were before. - " ; THERE has been some sentiment here against at 1 tempting to float a city bond issue to buy off-street parking lots, , it being contended -that the big bond buying concerns are too dictatorial and demanding in their attitude toward such issues, and that meters in stalled to raise the money to pay off the bonds must collect at too high a rate. White there may be some basis for the opposition sentiment, it is interesting to" note that orocressive cities in Calif ornia are voting for such outlays, Hay-1 waru, ior lnsiance, ; recenuy approving a $YoU,UUU bond issue. E.C.F. Wednesday, NoYomber 10, 1854 holiday. E.C.R In the Day's Hews "... . By FRANK JENKINS Up over the waters that nar rowly divide American-occupied Japan from : the Russian occu pied islands to the' north of Ja pan, : two Russian jet fighters shoot down an ARMED Ameri can photo-mapping plane. The R u s s i a n MIGS were sighted before they opened fire. A me mb e r of the crew in formed the 35-year-old Ameri can air force captain command ing the American : Superfort that the Russians were making a pass and that it was a FIRING pass. ' '- - , An instant later,, the Rossians' bullets tore into the Superfort's Number; One; outboard engine. AT TfflS point in the story, let's quote" from' the dis patches:- - - - - - -. , Captain Feith" (the Superfort's commander) told newsmen that the air force has left it to ''the aircraft commander's direction," as he put. it, whether . or not . to open fire when attacked. : He added: i". v. "I decided for -the safety of the crew we should leave." ' v SO THEY Jhit 4the air in their parachutes. Ten of the crew's eleven . members, were- saved. The eleventh was drowned. JO THERE it is. Our was armed It could plane have fired back. Under his orders, the decision was up to the Super fort's commander. In the split second that was his to make the decision, we decided not to shoot. , , Was he right? . Or was he wrong? BEFORE answering those ques tions, let's consider a copy righted story printed today by the Washington Post and Times Herald. . The story says that President Eisenhower, overruled the Joint chiefs of staff in September in a proposal xor American air at tacks on the Chinese Commu nist mainland. The joint chiefs the story says, had approved authorizing such attacks by a vote of three to one with Army Chief of Staff Ridgway casting the lone NO vote. The purpose of. the proposal was to prevent the Reds from landing on the little Nationalist- held island of Quemoy Just off the mainland coast which the Reds had been shelling. President Ei'senh ower,- the Washington paper's story says, VETOED THE, PROPOSAli at an extraordinary meeting of the National Security, Council in Denver on Septv 12. ' N . rjiHAT is to say: In that split second that was his in which to make the deci sion to shoot or not to shoot, young- Captain Feith made the same . decision that was made by his commander-in-chief, the President of the United States, back in September. His decision was NOT TO SHOOT. . . . So; was Ike's, if the Washing ton paper's story: is correct, r I think both decisions were wise. -; '.. yv- -'y'- - ' THERE ; are grave reasons of military : strategy why we should take offensive measures to prevent a communist attack on Formosa . and its surround ing islands, y y " . ." If Formosa IS -ATTACKED, we'H have to get to war. to fight off the attack. 1: think every American is agreed as to that. There . are grave reasons why our planes, if attacked, should fight back. If the Russians get the idea that under no circum stances wUl we fight, they'U ga to war with us.t I think no one doubts that. . There are even graver reasons why unless we are attacked in such force as to leave no doubt that WAR is :' intended we shouldn't take , offensive steps that will Involve us in shootng war in Asia, which .would mean shooting war all over the world. fVHE reasons why we i- SHOULDN'T, it seems to me, clearly outweigh the reasons why we should. "The years (perhaps the generations) to come will be ticklish years. . We must be prepared to : fight at the drop Windswept Istves in soft browns, peers and yellows. 5-piece placa setting ..... .J1835 , China & Glassware ' 2nd Floor India Prime To Remain Quiring Presidency By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst 24 Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is quitting as president of India's dominant political party, but he still will be a pretty busy man. :.yr' 'A;i:'y .'y ''-. : ' - In addition to being Prenjier of a nation of 357,000,000 people, Nehru remains India's ' foreign minister, de fense minister a n d' minister for scientific research. ' He also ' is bidding for the diplomatic leadership ! of a bloc of East Asian coun tries land he dreams of a Chmrlea Mccaan larger bloc Of Asian and African countries. He is making India's voice heard in aU world affairs. Inside India, he has. to keep a wary eye on the small but active Indian Communist party, which has 27 members in Parliament. At the moment, he is deciding what to do about the" 700,000 head-bunting Naga tribesmen, in the dense " forest over, by the Burma frontier, who nave pro claimed themselves ."the Peo ple's Sovereign -Republic V .of Nagaland." It seems unlikely that, as he approaches his 65th birthday Sunday, Nehru WUl be able to permit himself , more than 414 to 5 hours hours of sleep a day to which he has limited himself for years. . ' India's Dominant Figure . Ever since India attained its independence in 1947, Nehru has been this country's one dominant figure. - He has made India, which at first had dominion status, a sovereign republic which recog nizes Queen Elizabeth only as a symbol of the unity of the Brit ish Commonwealth of Nations. He has been embroiled in dis putes with India's neighbor Paki stan, over the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and with France and Portugal " over the ' little colonies they settled in the 16th and. 17th centuries on the Indian coast, ' - i ' Nehru also has been exceed ingly free in his - criticism of United States policies in south east Asia and in the world gen erally. ) At the moment, he seems to get along better. with Mao Tse Hung and Chou En-Lai, the Chi nese Communist leaders. . Nehru agrees with Mao and Chou on the , - posssibility : of "peaceful co-existance' between the Communist and free world, Net Pro-Communist; ; , y tiut flienru is neither a pro- Communist nor a fellow-traveler. He is strickly an. Indian and an Asian, determined to give : his country its place in the world and to make Asia a continent ruled only by Asians. He expressed his own politi- Editorial Comment Detention Homes r Jackson County voted in favor of establishing a Juvenile deten tion home. This wUl make the third in the state. Multnomah and Lane each has one. Lane made the -mistake of converting a big old house into a juvenile home which has proven very un satisfactory. M a r 1 on County voters- rejected a juvenile center facility last May. Good deten tion quarters are - provided in the new courthouse; and some use is made of the Multnomah County home. If the idea spreads counties might well give consid eration to jointly operated or supported " detention homes. Oregon (Salem) Statesman. of a hat, but we MUSTN'T FIGHT, unless the provocation is clear and unavoidable. In- these' years to come, we must speak softly but carry a big stick. It isn't going to be easy, but if we are to lead the world away from its own de struction in an atomic war that's what we must do. C7? WDRLD'S FINEST... FOR UFET1ME ENJOTMENT ' Buy NOW To Enjoy ..Through ' H the Holiday Season Ahead ' USE SWEM'S STANDARD PURCHASE -PLAM - ""$10.00 Down and $10.00 Per Month . (Other terms to Fit Your Budget if desired) A 1 Minister Busy After cal philosphy in a speech in New Delhi Tuesday. "The picture I have in mind is definitely and absolutely So cialistic," he said. Nehru explained that he did not mean Socialism in its doc trinaire sense.' What he believes in, he said, is a society in which the means of production would be owned or controlled by the people, for the - benefit "of all. There still wUl be plenty of room in such a society, he said, for pri vate enterprise.; "We must realize that the day of the acquisitive element of so ciety has not passed but is pass ing," he said. . Communications , Letter to tha Editor must beat the nama and addren of tha writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen 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. Xetters submitted for publica tion must' not exceed 400 words. I Hire the Handicapped - To the Editor: The Presiden- t i a 1 proclamation designating Veterans' day to tmpplant the day formerly observed as Armis tice day, we believe, Is appro priate. ' "7. ' Since World War ' I, the end ing of which Armistice day has commemorated for 35 years, we have been engaged in another World War, and following that, American boys have been killed and disabled in Korea. As the years passed, Armistice took on a Jarger meaning. When we bow our heads and face &ast at 11 o'clock, we cannot help but think also of those who died in these later wars and police actions. t Congress has made this change from Armistice day to Veterans day. at the urging of the veter ans organizations wno xeit u should no longer be designated in recosnition of World War only. but. as Memorial day to the -war dead, Veterans day should be in recognition of the livlne veterans of all our na tion's wars. y Memorial day also started ojat as a day of remembrance of the war dead of Just the one war, that between the states. But with the passing of time this day too was given greater signifi cance because of the fallen of wars after the Civil War. So. we have a day for . the dead, and. a day for the living of our -wars. But among those who returned still , alive, are . many who left a part of their bodies, an. arm, a leg, an . eye,, perhaps both eyes, or other injuries which caused a part : of their well-being to be left behind when they returned to civil life, Our one purpose is the reha bilitation and welfare - of these disabled, ; who number nearly four million, and-who now de sire- a chance to reenter society as self - supporting citizens, through employment of the phy sically handicapped. 7 ' Proper job placement " will bear out our contention that it pays to hire the handicapped. ; i Pat Graham, Presidept. Veterans Allied council Adj. & Service Officer DAVNo. 8 Unifype Machine Donated To OSC ; Corvallis j(U.R) The Oregon State college journalism depart ment today announced it had ac quired an aged Unitype machine, the only one of its type left in Oregon. y y ; ; . The Unitype, which cast type letters in a line from a keyboard in the days before development of the Linotype, was given to the college by the Amity Stand ard, a weekly newspaper. Uni type was used by Oregon news papers in the early part of the century., y -.yyT-yVr-'i:;- The gift was made by Phil Meeker, new owner of the Standard, and by Mrs. Gertrude Richter, widow of the late Hen ry J. Richter who was editor of the paper from 1917. to 1949. Open Til 9 P.M. - Tofiita ,-V7 Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) What has 1 happened to the telemeter? The pay-as-you-look developers insisted today the difficulty is "temporary" and "subscrip tion TV is hotter than ever." !We expect the Fe-deral Co mmunica- tions Commis sion to hold Aline Mas? hearings on subscription TV. within the next six to nine months. We are defi nitely moving ahead " reported Paul MacNamara, . an executive of the International Telemeter Corp. y yyy'y-yV: . .."I just returned from Wash ington and things look good," he said. : Reports that ' Telemeter had fizzled in Palm Springs, he went on, were "not true." He said Tel emeter closed for the summer in the desert resort town because many of the. residents moved away - during the mid-summer heat. - . Paramount Film , Paramount Studio, which has money invested in the Telemeter operation, was the only film factory to all Telemeter to use its films for the Palm Springs experiment. , r - . Recently a group of theaters announced a battle to the death against subscription TV. . "Towards the end of last sea son the trend was toward using old pictures and that wasn't much more than what's on free television," MacNamara .said. . "But we hope to resume Tele meter by the first of the year, We're developing a new coin box now that will make change." y A year ago the Telemeter firm took the Hollywood press to Palm Springs to watch- the opening of the first subscription TV with, much ballyho and op timism.. At that tune the . pro moters predicted an early vic tory -for the system. They also planned to install subscription TV,, without waiting for FCC approval, s in "closed circuit" areas that-, don't come under government! jurisdiction. Plans Dropped But today MacNamara , said plans to start Telemeter in the Burbank-Glendale area were dropped because of technical dif ficulties. No further installations are in the works. A Telemeter worker in Palm Springs said the company aver aged $6 to $10 a month per cus tomer, with 210 units 'operating. ':;.-:-..v. Cheek Thmlm&im lKr.- . X r .-.- - t Whistling Teakettle . - UP ELECTRIC MIXER Hamilton Baach Electric Mixer. $42.00 Comp. Boats, whips, mixes, - stirs, -blends! Equipped with 2 bowls, de tachable mixer head & juicer. EGG BEATERS 39c High Spaas) . Conter Drira Colors to Match Your Kitchen USE OUR OPEN WEDNESDAY EVENINGS! FREE PARKING I Vi aQQC!yiNi?c eg SPECIALISTS IN MEDFORD ' By AUNE MOSBY United Praia CorraspeaJaat "We think tha government will listen now because many? small TV stations will testify they can't keep going with only advertisers as support," Mac ; Namara said. "Also, the minor league baseball clubs are. ask ing for some sort of relief, and r subscription TV is the answer." ; Greyhound lines' new Seen!-,; cruiser bus, which company of ficials say. will go into: use in. this area, in the near future,; was displayed to the public, here , yesterday afternoon. j Features of the . ntyr busses include a raised observation, -, deck, picture windows, perfect ed air conditioning, and - wash' room facilities with running wa ter:'. ' '-y:----y y -yv They have been on display in Portland, Salem, Eugene, Al bany, Ashland, and other small er towns, as well as in Medford. The bus was on display nere in front of the United States Na tional bank biding at Central ave. and Main st. The first few of the busses to. be delivered are already in op eration in various parts ox tne -country; and it is expected that they will be in use on express runs in the Pacific northwest by the first of the year. -y' i Mary Miles, one oi inose u. charge of displaying ine dus here, said comment on the new . - 1 knnn tfA-V scenicruisers u . favorable" everywhere nas been shown. Th nvpraee nulling power of a locomotive today is about 25 per cent greater than a was w years . ago. SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with saving. Have lha things you want through sys tematic saving. Don't Just dream . . . or wish, but have the things you want in Ufa by saving for them. Start with any amount. '-.-,-. 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