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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reada The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Exi MEDFORD O- CO. S7-29 North Fir St Phone 8-6141 ROBERT W. rUUL. Editor feZRB GREY, Advertising Manafer E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JS. BARRY CHIPMAN. Telecraoh Editor wny manor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STARCHES- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor CERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper Entered a second dais matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES 87 Mail In Advance: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 JO Daily and Sunday Three moi, 130 Daily and Sunday One month IM Sunday Only One year 3-30 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HUL Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday On year $130 Daily and Sunday One month 1.29 Carrier and Dealers 5e per copy All Terms Cash to Advance Cfflelal Paper of the City 01 Medlor Official Paper ot Jackton County United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising iicijickjiuiuyi-. , WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY, DjC Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. - . Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Not. 22, 1944 (It was Wednesday) Paul Selby, president of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, names committee to work on Sixth War Loan drive. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot; column: Motorists have discovered the past week, while negotiating curves, ice and frost retain their prewar glickness. JO YEARS AGO Tot. 22, 1934 (It was Thursday) Hood River high school foot ball team arrives in Medford for Friday's mythical state cham- Eionship i game with Medford igh. : State highway department re ports all snow has been cleared from southern Oregon highways. 0 YEARS AGO Nov. 22. 1924 , : (It was Saturday) Many transients ask for sleep ing space in -Medford city jail after weather, becomes cloudy said cold. Prof. Irving Vining of Ash land tells of recent trip to east in talk for Medford Kiwanis elub. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1914 (It was Sunday) Josephine county court issues proclamation of prohibition for city of Grants Pass under local option law. From the Local and Personal column: The new order of the city council cutting the police force to one man by day is in effect. Wednesday night Officer Crawford took the night shift, Special Off icer Carnes being re lieved. What's the Answer? fCsn You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. UNESCO is a U.N. agency on disarmament, women's rights, racial equality, labor conditions. or scientific-educational-cultural matters? 2. The Cotton Bowl Is in At lanta, Dallas, Fort Worth, Hous ton, Miami, or Pasadena? 3. Which of these has the largest circulation: Life, Time, Saturday Evening " Post, Look, Ladies' Home Journal, Colliers? - 4. Women in some states could vote for President before the federal Woman Suffrage amend ment went Into effect; right or wrong? , 5. To make a perfect score (300) at ten pins, a bowler uses the ball 10 times, or more or less than 10? 6. The Erie Canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson river, Lake Ontario and Delaware Bay, the St. Lawrence and the Sus quehanna, or New York harbor and Long Island Sound? ; 7. A pilchard is a fruit, a vege table, a cheese, an . animal, 7 a chemical element or a fish? The Answers: I. Scientific- ducalion-culrural matters. 2. Dallas. 3. Life. 4. Right. 5. Mora than ten times (12). 6. Lake Erie and the Hudson. 7. A small fish. Missing Boy Located In Auto of Parents East Rockaway, N.Y. U.R) More than 200 Nassau county policemen and volunteer fire men searched almost six hours Sunday for little Louis Benton, 7, reported missing by his par ents. " ' The boy turned up later on the back seat of bis parents car where he "just fell asleep." In 1939 the Navy had only 80 destroyers 30 in the Atlantic and 50 in the Pacific." Today there are 125 destroyers in the Pacific alone. 300 Patients Next January, which is less than a month and a half away, Mercy Flights, Inc., will have been in op eration just five years. Last week one of the company's planes carried patient No. 300. If our arithmetic is correct, that's an average of more than one patient each week since the time the old white Cessna took the air on its first flight. e . IT has been the good fortune of this writer to have had close contact with the men and women who organized Mercy Flights and who have kept it going. It hasn't always been easy. Not by a long shot. There were times when the non-profit corpora tion didn't know where its next gallon of gas or quart of oil was coming from. But in this period of almost five years, never has a patient been turned away ber cause of human failings or simple neglect Some flights have been called off because weath er conditions made them impossible, or because of mechanical failures. But neyer because anyone was worried about money, or spending time away from home, or because the pilots were afraid of a com municable disease. . JACKSON county people are familiar with the story. It was they who gave the dimes and dollars which bought the first plane Mercy Flights put into the air. There were money-raising events, and rummage sales, and appeals made for gifts, until the first $3,600 was raised and the plane was purchased. During the first year, the corporation went into debt (a condition which has not been entirely unusual since, either) when it flew emergency, cases at "cost." Later the so-called "pre-paid" plan was worked out, which guaranteed a steadier income, something that could be counted on. IN the early days of the operation, pilots took the. planes out and brought them back simply because they knew that somebody had to. Often, and partic ularly on longer trips, they made a considerable per sonal sacrifice of time and money. Now, fortunately, the corporation can afford to pay them a few cents for each mile flown, but it still doesn't even cover their actual expenses most of the time, let alone make upfor being away from their homes and businesses for periods of a few hours up to a couple of days. MERCY Flights has had four airplanes, in all. First " there was the original white and black twin-engine Cessna with the small door, which served sturd ily and safely until it began to show signs of age. It was replaced by the Cessna now being operated, which still has a lot of safe miles and service to go. A second plane, a Stinson single-engine Reliant, was added a year or two ago, and did notable service a's a "standby" ambulance when the bigger plane was off on a mission, or flying the larger aircraft could smashed up in a landing accident about a year, ago, and was replaced by another plane of the same make, which is in active service FIVE years ago Mercy Flights had nothing but one bank, some pilots who felt that service to the sick and injured was pretty important, and an immense amount of goodwill from county. - Today it has one big, dependable plane, both equipped with stretchers and big loading doors, and loaded downAwith a wide var iety of radio and safety equipment; a secure, dry hangar for the bigger plane; a small bank account and (more important) a small but steady source of income from a couple of thousand southern Oregon people who are its "subscribers." It's come a long way. IT'S come along in other ways, too. Few people knew about it when it started, but today it is known throughout the nation. It has been the subject of articles in national publications several times, and may well be again. About a month ago, one of the Mercy Flights pilots was flying a patient on a long trip, when he re ceived a radio call from an airliner nearby... "You the Mercy plane from Medford?" the radio asked. He was told yes. "I thought so. Good luck to you guys," the other pilot said. x TN Mail Tribune news stories about Mercy Flights, it has often been referred to as "unique." That's no misnomer, nor is it opinion. It's fact In other parts of the country there are other air ambulance services. But in each case they are operat ed by some agency of government, or by commercial operation to make a profit, or under the sponsorship of some group which underwrites its operation. Only in Medford, Oregon, is there an air ambu lance service which is not in business to make money, which is completely, independent which exists, only to serve the sick and injured, and which is operated by a few dedicated souls whose only reward is the feeling of satisfaction they get by knowing they are performing a vital and important service to fellow human beings. E.A. ' ' , 1 Sidewalk Gawkers Watch Thieves Remove Building Tokyo (U.R) Sidewalk su perintendents watched with in terest for three days as a 20 man crew methodically tore down and carried away a two story wooden building. Today, owner Kiyoshi Mura ki told police that "real estate thieves" had stolen his building. Monday, November 22, 1954 into smaller airports where not land safely. It was today. e e - the people of Jackson - steady aircraft, a smaller, Yamhill Woman Dies When Struck by Car McMinnville (U.R) Mrs. Alice L. Smith, 83, of Yamhill, was killed last night when she was struck by an automobile as she walked to church. - Police said the car which hit the elderly woman was driven by Eldon Frank Hermens, 17, of Yamhill. . Matter of Fact KNOWLAND'S INCONVENIENT QUESTIONS Washington Republican Ma jority Leader William Knowl land's now-famous speech warn ing against the dangers of an "atomic stale mate" has been much criticized for war - monger ing, d o o m merchan d i s ing, and bad logic. Yet it might be a good Idea for the Senator's critics to make Joseph Alsop a serious attempt to answer cer tain inconvenient question which Sen. Knowland asks, when he talks about his speech. Suppose, he says, that the time has come when the Soviets have the means utterly to destroy this country. Sup pose they mobilized the Red Army on r the Finnish frontier, and d e m a n d a "friendly" Fin nish govern ment which would mean, of course, a finviti7PrJ Fin- land. Stewart Alsop Then, Sen. Knowland asks, won't a great many people, here as weU as abroad, be saying that after all, we have no treaty ob ligations to Finland, and anyway why risk destruction for a lot of Finns? And won't this sort of re action tend to be repeated, in situation after situation, so that in the end the United States will be isolated and paralyzed? If there is a convincing nega tive answer to these two ques tions, then Sen. Knowland's gloomy thesis that an atomic stalemate will permit the Soviets to nibble the rest of the world to death falls to the ground But in all the criticism of Sen. Knowland's position; no really convincing answers to the ques tions he has posted have been forthcoming. And it is at least worth noting that the Senator's speech was no mere sudden ges ture. He thought about it long and hard before he made it " ' ' HE FIRST thought of making such a speech during the re cent campaign. Knowland was genuinely disturbed by the "peace issue" as it was developed during the campaign The cam paign line began to sound to his ears suspiciously like "peace at any price." He made a campaign time speech,' warning against this kind of peace,' but no one paid much attention. After the election he decided definitely that he ought to speak his mind, however inconvenient this might be to the Administra tion. He carefully considered the time and place. He decided that the speech had to be made before last Wednesday's meeting of Congressional leaders at the White House. Otherwise, it would be interpreted abroad as an official trial balloon, and this he wanted to avoid. He decided also that it ought to be delivered on the Senate floor, rather than in some other public forum, in order to give it all possible weight. But in or der to avoid any impression of a Congressional concert to seize control of foreign policy, he was careful to consult with no other Senator before making his speech. ' ., '.v - All this suggests how very serious Knowland is about the issue he. has raised. His purpose is fourfold. ' e e piIRST, HE wants to wave what he calls a "yellow warning flag" before the Western govern ments, including the Eisenhower administration. Rightly or wrongly,, he senses that a deal with the Soviets may be in the making. He wants to serve notice in advance that he will lead a fight against ; any deal which smacks of "appeasement which recognizes, for example, Soviet control over the European statel lites. : ' "' 1 't y Second, Knowland wants also to wave a warning flag before the Communist bloc. He wants to serve notice on the Commun ist rulers that there is a price which the United States will not pay for peace. ' Third, he wants to remind the American people that the price for peace can be too high. He fears that the Eisenhower admin istration may find itself isolated and without popular support if in some future crisis it is neces sary in the national interest to risk war; Finally, Knowland wants to initiate another great debate on American policy He says frankly that he does not know where such a debate will lead or where it ought to lead. For himseif, he says with apparent sincerity, he rules our preventive war. He does not rule out much higher expenditures : for 9 conventional arms, or the drawing of a "thus far and no farther'' line right around the perimeter of the Communist empire, or some other course as yet unconsidered. :3 . ', " ;;i..v-' ' TN ANY event, he is sure that the most public possible re-examination of our strategic posi tion, with all the key civilian and military leaders parading before Congress, is now essen- Ktial. For Knowland is old-fash ioned enough to believe that when the American people know the essential facts of their situa tion, they . wiU react wisely to them. v Knowland may be :C wrong. There may be, for example, some undisclosed reason why our posi tion is really getting better and better, as claimed, while the Soviet Union is obtaining : the means to destroy us. But no one who has talked to him can doubt that the big, lumbering Republi can leader is absolutely sincere in the course he has chosen. "I have three grandchildren. he says. "God , knows I don't want them in a war. But if the Soviets get a - decisive atomic stockpile, and then we have to choose between surrender and a hopeless war, I don't want my grandchildren asking me why I didn't try to do something about it, when I was in the U.S. Sen ate and the United States still had a big lead in atomic weap ons." (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Is That So? By Eugene Burns ';..'' Ranger-Naturalist Did you know that . A toad can swim about under water, dive, or. just sit there pondering the imponderables and breathing in his own special way until the cows come home but when he wants to eat his food he must come topside. The praying mantis, a long eared, long-bodied insect, is per haps the only one that can turn its head around as we can. If all glaciers were to melt, the level of the seas would rise anywhere from 65 to 165 feet depending upon your authority. If the rise should amount to 100 feet, most of our Atlantic sea board with its cities and towns would be submerged; the lower part of the Mississippi vaUey would be under water; and the surf would be curling against the foothills of the Appalachians. 4 However,; if another ice age were to come and rob the world of much of its moisture, the seas would recede leaving us sitting high and dry up 200, "300 or even 400 feet, depending upon your authority. As it now stands, the oceans are filling. Along the 1,000 mile stretch from Massachusetts to Florida, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and along the Pacific coast, the waters rose from 2-4 inches .: during 1930 1948. , The rattlesnake which is found nearly everywhere in the Americas is found nowhere else on earth. . . When empty, your stomach shrivels up to just about ; the size of your index finger. There's enough gold in the aceans to make every person in the world a millionaire! In a cubic mile of sea water, there is roughly $93,000,000 worth with an additional bonus of $8,500. 000 of silver. To treat this vol ume of water, however, would require the daily fining and draining of 400 tanks of water. each 500 feet square and 15 feet aeep. Eyes at End of Arms The starfish not fish carries rudimentary eyes at the end of each arm a tiny eyespot really, simplest of eyes. With it, the starfish can do little more than tell between light and dark ness. The angle worm, with no eyes at aU, can tell the same difference. ' ' Among ,the mammals which once roamed . North America were huge sloths, mastodons, camels, horses and sabre-toothed tigers. A mare has 36 teeth; a stallion 40. About 650,000 different in sects have been classified, named and . counted yet there are stiU thousands left to be classified and named. ' The largest turtle In the world, the sea-going leatherneck, some times grows to be 9 feet and can' weigh as much as a half a ton. It lives in warm ocean waters. - j- , Among humans, ' there are three kinds of color blindness: one group is unable to see red and green as normal people do; a second is unable to distinguish yellows and ; blues; a i third is totally colorblind though this is not nearly so common. - The latter cannot see any colors at all their world is seen in shades of light and' dark grays. (Copyright, 1954, By Eugene Burns) 7 :V (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges win award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wild life a complete '30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS - The McCarthy censure debate has been recessed until Novem ber 29 while McCarthy himself is being treated for an elbow in jury received while the contro versial Wisconsin senator was being shaken hands with by an ebullient admirer. Doubt is being expressed In Washington this morning as to whether the censure resolution will get to a vote at all. in this special spank-McCarthy session of the senate. v-V-' QENATE Republican leader Bill Knowland thinks it will. He says: - ;. ' -:'-::.:-: "There Is no doubt In my mind that the issue will be resolved by a vote on the censure resolution before the midnight of Decem ber 24 adjournment date." This pious opinion is shared by Senator Arthur Watkins, . chair man of the special six-man com mittee which presented the res olution of censure, who tells the reporters: ."I don't believe the recess will prevent a vote. I am confident the member&aOf the senate will permit the matter to come to a vote before the adjournment deadline." T DON'T altogether go along Awith these distinguished gen tlemen, but if what they predict comes to pass, WHAT A SIGH OF RELIEF WILL GO UP FROM THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE SENATE CHAM BER! W,- Otherwise, the very, very hot McCarthy potato will be depos ited right in the tender palms of the Democrats' hands and THEY will have to dispose of it. I KNOW that sounds cynical, but when it comes to profes sional politics and politicians am cynicaL I will remain so until (if ever) somebody discovers and puts into practice the FACT that a major ity of the American people are coming to have more admiration for men with sincerity and con viction than for 'the now-too- prevalent "I'm for anything, dear Lord, that wul bring me vote" type. T1HE United States has assumed the job of building the "dis tant early warning" screen pf radar stations along the Cana dian-Alaskan rim of our conti nent. Its job will be to give us an early warning of enemy bombers for targets in Canada and-or the U. S. : , -v.- Both Canada and the United States will participate in the pro ject, but responsibility for the work of construction ana instal lation vrtll be vested in the U.S. IT IS thus in this fantasticmod- ern world that we get warning of an enemy's approach. Back in Natty Bumpo's day,: it was the crackling twig stepped on by the unwary Indian that gave warn ing.. -The world Is progressing. Technologically, that is. - ; The underlying principles re main the same. T'D like to add, at this point, 1 that the paleface whose skuU was cloven by a tomahawk ac curately thrown by the, Mingo redskin in Natty's day was JUST AS DEAD as the modern person who is within the radius of total destruction of an atom or a hy drogen bomb. . FI CONCLUSION, I'd like to call for a show of hands from those (especiaUy those in the lower age brackets) who know who Natty Bumpo was, There is no jackpot This Isn't a quiz show. I'd just like to know. Goodwill Industries Plans Modern Plant Buffalo, N. Y. U.R Good win Industries Inc. wiU have one of, the most modern shel tered : workshops for , handicap ped employees In the country when a $350,000 addition to its present quarters is completed early next year. - v The managing director, Glenn W. Leighbody, said the Buffalo plant wiU have a "meditation room," an air-conditioned, sound proof place on the second floor where the handicapped workers can go when they wish to think out a problem or just sit and meditate. ". The four-story 'structure, which wiU provide room for a boost In , the. employment Of handicapped persons : from- the present. . 250 : to about 350, Is speciaUy designed to meet the requirements of the handi capped. .. , BIKE FEVER -;- Brockton, Mass. U.Kk A 10-year-old boy walked into the police station and reported his bike stolen. Police had one matching the description "and turned it over to him. One hour later the lad was back with the bike and the story that he did not own it and had used the tale to get one. ' J '';''''"; 1 t " . , tions wiU be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. . Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. A ma. LAUNCHING 1954 Christmas Elsenhower receives his seals from Dr. Esmond Long, director of research of National Tuberculosis Association. (IxUrnational) Moscow's Requested All-Eurooe May Provide Laugh By CHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Moscow's call for an ;"aU- European security" conference may provide the big diplomatic laugh of the Christmas sea son. The Kremlin invited 25 countries to attend the con ference. It looks as if only eight, all of won o 111 . munist may accept. charies Mccann There is every indication that the Soviet gov ernment faces a humiliating re buff. Russia . called the conference on Nov. 13, asking that it be held in either Moscow or Paris on Nov. 29. - It was, of course, a move to sabotage the treaties for rearm ing Western Germany which had been signed In Paris on Oct, 23, three weeks earlier, ' But it 'was ; apparent almost from the first that the move would fail, and it appears how that, the failure. wul be dismal. Kremlin Realised Mistake Apparently the Kremlin real ized already that it blundered, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov an nounced in Moscow Saturday that he was willing to delay his conference if the Western Allies would delay ratification of the German rearmament, treaties. It has already been empha sized that the Allies intend to push the ratification -through, as soon as possible, and that there wttl be no meeting with Russia before final approval.' ' ' ' ' It is hoped that the ratifica tions , wfll be completed . by March 1. Molotov and Premier Georgi M. Malenkov must have known in the first place that it would be physically impossible to ar range such a conference on such short notice. The thought processes of Rus sian Communist leaders are pe culiar. But could Malenkov and Molotov reaUy have hoped to lure any of the Western Allies with such obvious bait? Did they really hope that the offer of such a conference might cause dissen sion among the Allies? It is dif ficult to believe, but it is pos sible. How Many. To Attend?. . . ... The question remains how many of the other non-Communist countries Invited the Kremlin hoped to draw into the confer ence. ' ' i ; ' - ?': ' ?-' -. 4 ' Invitations were sent .to 12 members' of the' North' Atlantic Treaty Organization the United States, -Great Britain France; Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Greece and Turkey. They are biddirig'for" priority in rejecting the invitation. Invited ' also ' were ' Austria, Sweden,; Finland., , Switzerland, Yugoslavia, ' Albania, Bulgaria, Communist China, .Czechqslpva: kia, East Germany, Hungary Po land and Romania.. 1l "w We Invite Comparison H "The Best Costs No More v . tr Why Accept Less?' : t CONGER-MORRIS " Funeral Directors West Main at Sixth Phone 'Medford 2-7111 Member National Selected Morticians by Invitatioa r: V seal camnalKh. President Dwieht D. Conclave Austria Is firmly aligned with the West. Yugoslavia has aligned itself with the West also, though it Is a Communist country. Neither Is likely to accept the Kremlin's bid. Neutrals Not Cooperative Sweden, Finland and Switzer land are neutrals. Sweden has sent a note to Moscow refusing even to give a definite answer j to the invitation unless a majori ty of others accepted. Little Fin land, which must co-exist with its great and greedy neighbor Russia, went even farther. It said it would not attend unless all countries invited did. Switzer land is expected to follow the lead of its fellow neutrals. Thus, for the big 26-nation conference, only eight probabili ties i reman Communist China and several Moscow statellites. There is dark talk in Commun ist capitals that the "peace-loving" nations the Reds may form an alliance of their own to Offset the Western Alliance. But, as has been said previously, there already Is such an alliance, and it hardly can be made any stronger.' ," INVESTIGATE whather you are aarmarkina your savings to provide security far later life, extra cash income new, or are just starting to accumulate an emergency fund. It will pay you to investigate here. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated - To Thosa Who Save Teacher Won Her GEO. N. TAYLOR , She was a Hi School girl and her folks so whipped her the , night before that she would not go home. But ' " teacher per suaded her to to go back. It seems that the : girl's older sis ter had stayed aut late nights ; with some fel low and had a baby. Then she skipped . out with the Cellow, leaving. the old folks to raise the kiddle. Teacher urged the : girl to go back home and show the parents all kindness. The - girl refused and teacher pleaded with her " and prayed for her. Finally the girl agreed to try it. Later she told teacher; that it worked and home was : now like heaven. ONE Teacher is a true Chris tion of -a great prayer family. TWO Pray , God in. He prom ises that whatsoever you ask inr Christ's name,, that will God give you. ;.. raw aav. 1 ? . m rlwp- Mabel -:: 'V Carlos L&&
