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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordCWTribuni "Iverybod In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editot RICHARD JEWET1. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Hediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year (12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo 3 JO 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 SIS -00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers Be 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 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. j NATION A lTe D I T 0 1 1 A L NIWSPAMt k PUBLISHER 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 Not. 15, 1944 (It was Wednesday) John Dallaire, Medford, re ceives battlefield promotion from sergeant to second lieuten ant in Italy. ' ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The treas ury department reports it is "perplexed by the popularity of the $1 bill. A further investiga tion will show this is due to their ability to . crumple and crinkle, and lack of jingle. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1934 (It was Thursday) Chairman Eugene Thorndike reports that only $700 is needed to put Medford's Community Chest drive over the top. Medford high school Princi pal Paul Menegat reports that negotiations have" been com pleted for mythical state cham pionship football game between Medford and Hood River high schools. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1924 (It was Saturday) East Main st. residents, kept awake at night by speeders, ask Medford city council to appoint special traffic officer. Two transient youth held by police and charged with robbing store owned by Martin D. Bow ers in Gold Hill. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1914 (It was Sunday) Coach Moore of Medford foot ball team puts squad through rugged drills after local team defeated 13 to 0 by Ashland. From the Local and Personal column: The condition of Fire man Charles Boussum, injured Monday night when the fire truck narrowly missed a. con crete lamp post on Main ave., ahows a steady improvement. What's the Answer? . (Can You Got 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. The' World War I armistice 36 years - ago was signed by President Wilson, Gen. Pershing, the U. S. ambassador to France, or a Maj. D. D. Eisenhower? 2. The number of U. S. auto dealers is around 4,000, 14,000, 40,000 or 140,000? 3. Vice-resident Nixon is the youngest man ever selected to that office; right or wrong? 4. Of all men over 65, more or less than half are either at work or looking for it? 5. Football during the year has more spectators than base ball, or about the same number, or about half as many, or many fewer than half? 6. In which of these does Great. Britain have possessions: Central America, South Amer ica, the West Indies? 7. An ambivalent person is equally strong : in both hands, or attracts and repels at the same time, or likes one sex as well as the other, or doesn't make his meaning clear? The Answers: 1. Gen. Persh ing. 2. 40,000. 3. Wrong (but he's the youngest since the Civil War. 4. Lest than half. 5. Many fewer than half as many. 6. In all three. 7. Attracts and repels at the same lime. KM MAIL TRIBUNE Medford a Livestock Market . The number of animals passing through the live stock auctions in the Medford area has been increas ing rapidly in recent months, among the buyers being men bidding for cattle to fill orders from some of the coast's large centers. The auctions are providing a ready market for whatever number of animals the ranchers and farmers may bring in and have ended the days when a farmer "wishing to sell a milk cow or two, a couple of calves or a few head of steers, had to take whatever price he might be offered by local slaughterers or by the occasional stock buyer who might visit the region. . Of course, the ranchers with large herds shipped to city markets but unless the little fellows could pool their animals and make up a worthwhile shipment, they had only very restricted outlets. THOUGH the change in the area's livestock in- , dustry picture has been all to the good, there is room for further improvement, from the standpoint of financial returns, not only here but throughout the state. - ' At the recent annual meeting of the Western Ore gon Livestock association the members were told that rapid increases in Oregon's population are building pressure for more local finishing of cattle to meet housewives' demands for choice beef. The call for choice beef has been increasing and now prevails the year around, a situation which con trasts with a few years ago when demand f or t h e choice cuts centered largely in the winter months. It was brought out that while Oregon cattle num bers are at an all-time high, most of those leaving the state are feeders. And despite our heavy production we are forced to import our finished beef and about 70 per cent of our live hogs. AS a means of promoting on Oregon farms, one advocated government adoption of a two-price sys tem for grain. This, he said, would also help to dis pose of the nation's huge grain surplus. . The fact is cattlemen generally are operating at considerable disadvantage under present conditions. They are forced to buy grain at prices propped up by the government, while they themselves enjoy no such advantage when disposing of their product. E.C.F. Scramble-Amble in Eugene Medford's neighbor to the north, Eugene, is mak ing an experiment in the "scramble-amble" method of pedestrian crossings in the downtown area. Some have suggested that Medford try it too. Eugene's "pioneering" work in the field can . be observed with interest here, without anyone going out on a limb. Downtown conditions in the two cities are not dissimilar both having relatively narrow streets, crowded parking conditions, and some one way streets. i THE plan is exceedingly io f Vi urotr if wnvlrc During the first cycle, all section, and pedestrians can direction, or even cut across the intersection "Katty corner." ' In the second cycle, all curb, and traffic goes ahead on one of the streets, and can make turns without danger of running down a pedestrian. In the third cycle, traffic on street No. 1 stops, and that on street No. 2 goes. Then it starts all over again. ' ., ' . DILL Tugman, editor of the Eugene Register-Guard, comments:- - ' . "Apparently, the first installation of 'scramble amble' at Broadway and Willamette is quite popular. We hear some people arguing that the time interval for pedestrians should be increased and we think maybe they are right. That should be easy to fix." The plan originated in Denver, and has been ad opted in a number of cities throughout the nation, with some success, although Eugene is the first in Oregon to try it. E.A. Novice Pilot Leads Jets Wild Chase in Stolen Plane Escanaba, Mich. 4U.R) A novice pilot who led civil defense jets on a merry chase after stealing an airplane from Kent county airport 200 miles away was held by state, police today. Darryl Spaulding, 18, of nearby . Gladstone, was arrested last night while hitch-hiking home from the small field where he landed the plane. He was hustled off to Delta county jail here. Spaulding, who said he had "fooled around" with planes but never had taken any flying lessons, startled airport officials at Grand Rapids, Mich., by hopping into a single-engined Beechcraft Bonanza late yesterday and zooming off into the wild blue yonder. His route carried him from Grand Rapids, in Michigan's lower peninsula, across Lake Michigan and into the upper peninsula. : The youth said he had gone to Grand Rapids in search of a job and had planned to join the Air Force in Detroit today because he failed to find one. "As I passed the airport I . got the idea of taking the plane prked in front cf the hangar and flying home for a visit with my family and then flying to Detroit Monday," he said. A statewide alarm was sounded at Kent county airport. He hadn't traveled more than 30 miles before his path was being traced by civil defense spotters. However, he shook off the pursu ing jet planes by flying too low and too slow for them. Guatemala Press Mexico City (U.fe) Arnal do Orantes', press attache of the Guatemalan embassy was assas sinated her early yesterday by an unidentified gunman," possib ly an agent of the Communist underground, police reported. The embassy expressed the belief the killing was a retalia tion for Guatemala's request Monday, November 15, 19S4 the finishing of beef cattle of the convention speakers . simple m operation. This . -r ' - traffic stops at an inter cross either street in any pedestrians, remain on the Attache Murdered that Mexico "extradite officials of the pro-Red .regime of ousted ex-President Jacobo Arbenz. However, Mexico City police held Juan L. Milon Munoz, pres ident of the Guatemalan Nation al Committee against Commun ism, for1 questioning in connec tion with the shooting. Milon was with Orantes when he was shot. - March 1 Seen Likely Ratification Date on German Pact By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst It looks as if March 1 may be made the target date for ratifica tion of the London and Paris agreements to rearm Western uermany ana make it a sov ereign nation despite Rus sian attempts at sabotage. March 1 is about the earliest pos sible date for final approval of the agree ments by the nine powers Charles Hccann .concerned. -There may be minor- crises meantime between France and West Germany over their agree ment on the Saar coal region, which is linked with the arma ment treaty. Russia is making a desperate attempt to sabotage the agree ment, and its note of Saturday proposing an "all-Europe secur ity agreement" was its first big move. The Kremlin has 15 weeks before March 1 to make new moves. But advices from the capitals of the signatory countries indi cate that ratification is certain, and that if there is any delay it will not be serious nor will it be due to Russia. Britain To Lead The nine countries which agreed to the armament treaty are the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Western Ger many, Italy, Belgium, the Neth erlands and Luxembourg. A survey of the nine capitals indicates that! Britain will lead the ratification parade and that the "Benelux" countries Bel gium, the Netherlands and Lux embourg will be last. Matter of Fact THOSE "SECURITY RISKS" AGAIN - Washington There were plenty of Republican statements in the recent campaigns which made the Democrats thirst mightily -for revenge. But this one, by Vice President Richard Nix on, i probably caused more fury in Demo cratic breasts than any Other: . "Ninety -six per cent of 6,926 Commu nists, fellow travelers. sex JoMph Alsop perverts, peo ple with criminal records, dope addicts, drunks, and other secur ity risks removed under the Eis enhower security program were hired by the Truman administra tion."' The use by Nixon and other Republican orators of the "se curity risk" issue was oolitically I highly effective, and this en raged the Democrats all the more. The Democrats now intend to prove, in the most public manner pos- Lsible, that the whole business is a politically motivated fake. The . job of nrovins this if it can , be Stewart Alsop proved wUl be up to the Civil Service Committee. The chair man of the committee is Sen. Olin Johnston of South Carolina. But Johnston reportedly favors the investigation being under taken by a sub-committee headed by either Sen. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma or Sen. John Pas tore of Rhode Island. Although this point is unde cided, there is no question about the intention of the Democrats to go the whole hog in investi gating the Republican claims. Democratic leaders, including prospective Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, House Leader Sam Rayburn, and the most, respected of the conserva tive southerners, have been con sulted. All agree that the thing has got to be done thoroughly, if the Democratic party is not permanently to wear the label of "softness on communism."1 Accordingly, careful spade work has already been done. Quiet preliminary investigations jof. the security systems in key agencies are even now in pro gress. Already, at least one se curity officer in a big agency, resentful of the way the secur ity program has been handled, has volunteered to work for the committee after, the new year. THE committee is shopping for a shrewd lawyer to do the interrogating. Lists of those to be interrogated start with Civil Service Commissioner Philip Young, Postmaster General Ar thur Summerfield, and State De partment Security Officer W. Scott McLeod. But many wit nesses will be called before the investigation ends. When it does end, the Democrats claim that Target The situation at the moment is: ' Britain? The House - of Com mons will debate the agreements Wednesday and Thursday. They will be invited to approve the government's policy. But Queen Elizabeth, not parliament, rati fies treaties. Soon after the de bate, a copy of the agreements will be given to her for her sig nature. France: The National Assem bly is to debate the agreements starting Dec. 14. Then Premier Pierre Mendes-France will ask for a ratification vote. The pre diction is that with the support of the Socialists he will get it easily. United States: President Eisen hower is submitting the agree ments to the Senate today for its ratification. He will recommend that the ratification -vote, which is sure to be favored overwhelm ingly, be taken soon after the new Congress meets Jan. 5. First Order Of Business Canada: The agreements will be among the first order of busi ness when parliament meets early in January. , ' , West Germany: The Bundestag of the Bonn Parliament win de bate the agreements Dec. 16. 17 and 18. Ratification is expected late m February after long com mittee study. Chancellor Konrart Adenauer faces a fight because the Saar agreement is linked with the armament agreements, but it is predicted he will get a comfortable, maioritv. . Italy: Ratification is expected late in February after study in parliamentary committees. Pre mier Mario Scelba is expected to have no trouble. Benelux countries: All plan to ratity alter France and Germany do. No trouble is expected. -Though Russia undoubtedly will keep on trying to sabotage tne agreements, there seems no chance that she can even delay ratification. By Joseph and Stewart Ahep they will have proved the .fol lowing: First, that of the. claimed total of 6,926 "security risks," well over half were first hired by the Eisenhower, administra tion. If true, of course, this flatly contradicts the statement by Nixon quoted above, and many other statements, by Nixon and others. Second, that not a single proven Communist has been fired 'o The half dozens : or .so genuine isubversive suspects who have been fired as security risks occupied for the most part such jobs, as truck drivers, waiters, and so forth. ' Third, that the great majority of those supposedly fired as se curity risks because of subversive information in their files were not fired .at all, 'They simply resigned or retired, without any knowledge that they were being labeled security risks. If true, this of course raises the most serious questions, especially since persons 'who have left the government often give govern ment agencies as references for private jobs. Fourth, that not more than 10 per cent of the cases listed as security risks were in fact ever reviewed in any security office. The great bulk of the "security firings" were simple personnel actions. Fifth, that McLeod actually hired applicants for jobs with the State Department and then fired them, thus swelling the State Department's claimed total of security risks. Sixth, that when some of the facts about the security risk pro gram began to come out early this year, at least one prominent member of the Administration favored backing down. He ar gued strongly ,at a White House meeting that the only honest thing to do was to admit that a serious mistake had been made. He was supposedly over-ruled by Vice-President Nixon, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, and other Presidential political ad visers. ; " : : : " SEVENTH; and finally, the Democrats claim to be able to prove that, by the standards of the Administration security risk program, no lesser men than Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the President him self could be labeled "security risks." :" " " These are, mind you, still mere allegations, and it is still up to the Democrats to prove them. But if thev Drove even some of them, rather grave ques tions of honest political dealings will be raised. In any event, one thing is certain. ' For months to coine the welkin will ring with bitter charges and counter charges on this issue. . -. (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Individual prospectors have made nearly all the important new uranium discoveries in the United-States. Early in 1949 at Marysvale, Utah, about 160 miles sduth of Salt Lake City, a prospector discovered radio active minerals while examining some 'old mines and gave the United States its first important source of primary uranium. lis That So? By Eugene Burns ; Rlnger-Naturalisr Did you know that .- . .' "The trout and salmon are na tive only to waters north of the equator. Parrots, owls, vultures and eagles may live almost a cen tury. . ' ," ' : " If the weather remains below 50 degrees tomatoes will remain green no matter how ripe. If the ' offspring' of only six moths were to live '. a year, they could devour the weight . of a baby grand piano. . , . . ; Relieved of insects, . cattle wiU average 50 pounds heavier; cows will give up to 20 per cent more milk. The only ' mainland country without poisonous snaker. is Chile; but many island coun- THAT- SOt v N tries are without them, includ ing Cuba, Haiti, Hawaii, Ice land, Ireland, Madagascar. New Zealand, the Orkney and Shet land islands; and many islands m the Pacific. The lammergeier, the largest European bird of prey, has been known to harass chamois into tumbling off cliffs. In feeding upon the bodies, bones are a special delicacy. If too large to be swallowed whole, the bird carries them aloft and lets them drop to the rocks below where they break to pieces. The sweet potato doesn't be long to the potato family it's a member of the morning glory tribe. ' Sirius is denser than any metal or stone on earth a pint of that, star would weight 25 tons. However, a football made of the material of an ave rage star would weight only about half a ton! Of the 42 highest mountain peaks in the U.S., 35 are in colorful. Colorado.' -Highest Navigable . Lake The highest navigable lake in the world is Lake Titicaca in South America over two miles high. New York's first major in dustry was in beaver pelts that is why the city's seal bears a picture tjf the beaver. Only the female polar bear hibernates; the male . keeps plodding about. . Hail only falls in summer. What passes for hail in winter is fine-grained snow. : A hail stone can only be manufactured in the -turbulent winds of a thunderstorm. .Incident ally, Java is the ' thunderstormiest country. Cork comes ' from an ever green tree called a cork oak, native to " the ' Mediterranean. Before a tree can be stripped, it must be at least 20 years old and the first stripping is coarse and rough and only fit for grape packing. The next crop, 10 years later, is used for stop ping bottles. A snake has no eyelids. As a result, sleeping or waking, he has a fixed stare. However the eyes are protected with trans parent shields. These are shed when the snake sheds its skin, up to four times or more a year when young and growing rapid ly. ' To every hundred, pounds of ocean water, there ; are three pounds of salt. Added up, that is enough to cover the whole of North America with a half-mile deep1 helping. And whatever salt you eat today, will eventually get to the sea1 Nasturtium got its name from two Latin words meaning nose and twist no doubt due to its pungency. , (Copyright, 1954. by.,. .Eugene Burns). (Released by McClure ,V Newspaper Syndicate). Free: By special arrangement with the editors of tho Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award oach week to the reader who sends mo - the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volumo set of this wOrld-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considere'd. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SOI care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa lito, Calif. . -- ' NOW IS THE TIME to start building an insured savings account with us. You will find, it pleasant and profitable to invest here. - -;o' FIRST FEDERAL SAYINGS & LOAN'ASS'N of Medford ' 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Savo In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS TIIY COLLEAGUE Charley Stanton of the Roseburg News-Review has been talking with Les Childs, a geologist who has spent years exploring the mineral deposits of Southern Oregon, and he wrote' a column about it the other day. . ; His column suggests some fas cinating possibilities. " ',..-? FOR example: "Douglas county, Les pre dicts, Will eventually have a very large and. important mineral in dustry . . . He is particularly interested in Douglas county clays. He reports extensive de posits of clay of the' type used in ceramics.' Douglas county could supply the entire nation with dishes for many years to come, Childs says. - "Another abundant material is talc. Talc is to be iound in many parts of Douglas county and in large amounts. Much of it is of a quality suitable for use in cosmetics." '.' CHARLEY goes on with a discus sion of the fascinating little jiggers known as transistors that are revolutionizing the elec tronic industry. Transistors, replacing the bulkier electronic tubes, may ultimately make Dick Tracy's two-way ' wrist radio a possibility for everybody which may the Lord forbid! Their uses seem to be endless. Transistors are a metal known as germanium, uougias county has large deposits of minerals in which germanium is one of the components. All that is needed to bring into use a new Southern Oregon raw material already in active demand in an economical method for separating german ium from the other metals with which it is found. ' STANTON continues: "Childs also believes that certain of Douglas county's min erals can be brought into a wed- wing with wood. He has visions of a board made from waste wood combined with certain min erals. The board would be fire- resistant and would have high tensile strength, yet could be worked easily with the usual complement of carpenter tools. He has already done some ex perimenting along that line." - -,.. . THAT widens he subject of presently useless raw ma terials to include Klamath coun ty, which has fabulous deposits of pumice sand, and ample sus tained yield supplies Of pulp timber, including jackpine, which has hitherto been useless but is now known to be one of the most valuable of the pulp woods. . Why couldn't wood, fiber be combined with, pumice to make wallboard of the type that Childs suggests? We , certainly need some research along that line. .... - DUMICE blocks are a useful building material, but they suffer the handicap of absorbing water readily, thus making struc tures built of them too damp. Why couldn t Douglas county's ceramic clay be combined with pumice sand to make a moisture- resistant building material? JACKSON and Josephine coun ties are known to be literal storehouses of valuable minerals, including chrome, which goes into the bright work on automo biles, and goodness only knows how many other strategic metals nearly all of which are waiting only upon better and more eco nomical methods of reduction. The 30 million dollar Nickel Hill development in Douglas county is a shining example . of what happens when these hew and more economical methods of re duction are found. "OEFORE we get clear away from pumice, let's not forget that Klamath county's pumice sands contain titanium, the new wonder metal. - If waterproof pumice bricks and pumice-wood fiber wallboard could be made to absorb the cost of handling, leaving titanium as a f or-free by-product, it would be some thing. - - HOW shall we go about ob tainini ipvplonmpnt nf thpsp immensely valuable but still dor In Advance of Need Our pre-arrangement, without obli gation, presents three plans cover ing all situations. v ! "Distinctive but not expensive" ' Mabel CONGER-MORRIS Funeral Directors West Main at Sixth Phone Medford 2-7111 Member National Selected Mertidaai by lavitatioa News mant resources? One answer is RESEARCH. I think EVERY Southern Oregon county should levy a tax of at least half mill, with the money thus raised going into funds for basic research into possible uses for our now dormant raw mater ials. - ? A NOTHER basic Southern Ore- gon need is AMPLE power. Power in such abundance that it will be available at reasonable rates, for HUGE users of it. As an example of such pos sible uses, competent men tell me it isn't improbable that the concentrated ores of Nevada, the great storehouse cf minerals in the West, could be shipped . to Southern Oregon to be smelted here with Southern Oregon power. They think that might be cheaper than shipping the power to Nevada which has no power and never can have any because it has no water. That would be a new HEAVY industry for Southern Oregon. Heavy industry revolutionizes the areas into which it comes. IIHS have ample power in our " Southern Oregon rivers. We need imperatively to get it fully developed. About 70,000 one-room schools were open in 1950-51 compared with 200,000 in 1916. More than 50,000 have been abandoned since 1941. . ... the letters start. 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