Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 23, 1954, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOOH MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDUiwTRIBUXl "Everybody in Southern Oregon - ttea me mil iiidum Published Daily Except Saturday by tOfiurunu rouiuflu w. 87-29 North Fir St Phone 3-S141 HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. c. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JB City Editor HARRY CH3PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor ' OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor . JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second data matter at Med ford. Oregon, under - Act of March 3. 1897 " ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy lOe. -Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mot, M Daily and Sunday One month , L2S Sunday Only One year ' ZM 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 - $19.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.28 Carrier and Dealers 0e per copy : Ail Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ef Jackson Coenty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: VTEST-HOLLtDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York, Chicago. D troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. . k IN AT I P N A 1? t P TjQ 1 1 A I NIWJPAUt UBIIIHIIt 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. 23. 1944 (It was Thursday) ' Alva Perl Bonney, mayor, of Central Point, dies at his home From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Today Thanksgiving feasjing ends for the year. Small boys amazed by their gastronomical feats. Even dieting ladies partook freely, and on many a male vest buttons flew. . 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 23. 1934 -. (If was Friday) Eugene Thorndike named head of Medford's Community Chest campaign. ; Pabst Brewing company pur chases large . part of hop crop grown in Applegate valley.' 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 231924 (It was Sunday) :,-. irans ieri. arrives nome lor Thanksgiving ' vacation from Oregon Agricultural college. Rogue River valley flour mill on South Front st. destroyed by fire; loss estimated at $25,000.' 40 YEARS AGO x Nov. 23. 1914 (It was Monday) Medford city charter commis sion completes work on new charter which includes city man ager plan. From the Local and Personal column: The Country club will institute a cross town golf match Thanksgiving, starting from the University club at 9 a.m.. and finishing at the ninth hole on the Country club links. The course will be north on Fir to Jackson, east on Jackson to Riverside, norm on Riverside . to McAn- drews ford of Bear creek, thence down the county road to- the links. Six entries have been filed to date for the match. .. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of thm 7?) Copr. 19S4. Editorial Research Report 1. "Discount houses" now ac count for almost five, ten, 15, 20. cr 25 per cent of all U.S. retail business? 2. Sanatoria for tuberculosis victims are increasing or decreas ing, or staying about the same In number? 1 3, The Nobel prizes ' were founded by a newspaper pub lisher,; producer of explosives, British mine developer in .South Africa, or Swedish match mag nate?;: - r , .. ..... 4. Cadillac plans to make 15,- 000, 50,000, 115,000, 150,000 or 500,000 cars next. year?. 5. Has any out-and-out Social ist ever been elected to the U.S. Senate? . 6. Men who haven't gone to college have on the whole a higher or a lower income than men who have or about the same? ."' ' V" ' . 7. The largest city where Span ish is generally spoken is Barce lona, Buenors Aires, Madrid, Manila, Mexico City or Rio de Janeiro? . The Answers: 1. For almost 20 per cent. 2. Decreasing. 3. A pro ducer of explosives. 4 150.000. 5. No. 6. Lower. 7. Buenos Aires. Dead-' line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other days 9:30 previous day-i a JE 1 I Spew 73 MAIL TRIBUNE Two Great Actors The sudden death of tuc xvuBsiaii ueiegauon 10 me united .Nations, re moves another great actor from the world stage of POLITICAL drama, very much as the sudden death of Lionel Barrymore only a few days ago, removed one of the great American actors, from the American stage of the CREATIVE drama. . Mr. Barrymore was in person a most kindly and considerate GENTLEman, and according to those newspaper men who knew A. Vishinsky best, the Rus sian delegate in the realm of personal relationships, was one of the most charming and ingratiating indi viduals ever sent to this country by Moscow. All, the press, they say, liked him . personally and liked his jokes and banter but officially "no thanks." JUST as Mr. Barrymore's favorite roles, however, -. were always the repellent, unpleasant, or even evil types, so Mr. Vishinsky was always cast as the "Old Man Debbil" in the UN and officially he never had to get out of character for he took his orders from the Kremlin and followed them as faithfully, as Lionel Barrymore took his role and his script from the management and followed both with the fidelity of the truly creative artist. 1X7E DON'T wish to carry the similarity further or 7 imply in any way that there was any REAL kin ship in character or nature between one of Americas most beloved actors, and one of America's most heart-itly-hated foreign emissaries. . . But they were both by NATURE GREAT actors, and neither could have succeeded so well, or for so many years, in their respective careers, had they not been. The unfortunate thing, from the standpoint of this country, and the world (perhaps even Russia) is that Vishinsky did not follow the Barrymore example and go on the Russian stage instead of entering the law and Soviet Russia's politics and taking such an im portant role in its foreign relations. R.W.R. Stung! The reaction to the recent election has been al most as curious as the campaign was before it. : And nothing "more cunouser" than the comment on the defeat of Senator Cordon by one of the most prominent political observers .in the country, none other than Raymond Moley, former head of FDR's "brain trust but of late a conservative political col umnist in the conservative and factual "News Week." TPHE reaction is the harder to understand, because A1 Mr. Moley apparently made quite an extensive' study of the Oregon situation, and talked with many of the Senator's intimate friends about it, prior and subsequent to the election. .; But here is a portion of his verdict as republished in The Oregon Voter, quote: , r . 4 : "Cordon was incapable of advertising himself What was especially serious was that Neuberger had all the bet- -' ter of the newspaper publicity. The Portland papers did weU for Cordon but apparently some of the other papers. gave Cordon an editorial or two and then gave.aU the;. news to Neuberger." . We wish the pontificial Mr. Mbrley would, in his next installment, name some or bne-df the papers and also point out the lack of advertising on the part of our senior Senator who toured all over the state, and when he wasn't on the radio was on TV hour after hour, as the weeks went by, as everyone in Ore gon knows. ' Would that indicate any "INcapacity for adver tising," self or otherwise? And how about the Sen ator's published expense account and the thousands of dollars allegedly spent for advertising each day did it go. to advertising for Cordon or to the aid of the Korean babies? "How foolish can we get?" TTHE "alleged lack of newspaper support is even more 1 preposterous. As was pointed out during the cam paign, there were only 3 or 4 papers in the state that failed to support Cordon and the GOP; ticket. The Oregon press in fact was close to 90 for Cordon and against Neuberger. And if any of the press gave our former State Senator the best of it in its news columns we failed to see them and are quite certain Mr. Moley. would, if called upon, be unable to name them. The simple truth is there was none. x : FOR evidence of the situation, that is familiar to our 1 readers for it isn't far away, we would cite the "non-Portland" ' Klamath papers. They went all-out for Cordon editorially and in news columns, day after day in every way. So did all the other papers in our exchange, list, except over in Coos Bay, here in Med ford and in far-off Pendleton. ; ? And yet, according to the News Week expert, Cordon lost because he couldn't advertise himself and had no newspaper, support outside of Portland at least none that was effective. We wonder what -could have happened to Mr. Moley or. to his informants, or. both. Someone or something must have slipped up badly between here and New York to get such a farcical ex planation of the Cordon defeat as that. ., . r . . v To make such a claim which is so directly contrary to the facts, and facts known by practically every one here in Oregon, is difficult to understand. It can't be the presidential bee that has also, stung the distinguished Raymond Moley. ' -But SOMEthing must haye--and badly! R.W.R. Tuesday, November 23, 1934 Andrei Vishinsky, head of S ACCEPTS INVITATION H. L. Krekeler (right), German ambassador to the U. S., bids former President Herbert Hoover goodbye as latter prepares to board presidential plane "Columbine" at Idlewild Airport. Hoover is flying to Germany on invitation of - Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. 4 " . - v Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the 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. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Genius Seldom Recognized To the Editor: Of all the low down, depraved; and downright cruel ways that the human race seems heir to, that of making light of the mentally deficient surely is the worst. E. A. points it up most pointedly in his edi torial in Friday's Mail Tribune, wherein he also quotes the let ter from a mother of a mentally unf ortuhate who tells how cruel children can be to such a one. To me, such actions of thought less children might stem from the "jokes" they hear their eld ers tell of what the hair-lip guy replied etc., - etc. . .Such beUy laughing things never were funny to me,' being too remind ful of my own nervous and em harassed stuttering of childhood days and stubborn refusal to an swer questions was my only re course. A hermit's life was my long-planned haven of refuge from the mimicking of school mates and even members of my own family. A Scotch lad who came to teach in our farm neighborhood saved me from that lonely ex istence. Maybe it was because ,he was in love. with my sister, but he got me quieted down and reading from my old dog-eared McGuffy with such pride of ac complishment ;. that going to school lost much of .its snake- pitish complex. ' Plenty of children have trouble going to school, not be cause they are mentally defic ient, but often because they want to do their own thinking, like Edison, Luther ;. Burbank and Henry Ford who were consider ed quite off-the-beam at one time-Machine' shop workers told me howthey and, others refused to sit with Henry at lunch-time and listen to ids :"crack-pot'' ideas of a horseless carriage. Yeah, we njust. remember that the genius we applaud and shout hozzanas for today, is often the "fool" we snickered at and shied away from, yesterday. F. H. Clifford, , 1211 W. Main, Medford, Ore. Lady Lioni Apprtciatiy " To the Editor: The Medford Lady Lions wish to thank all who helped in making our "cake and candy" sale at the Liods Club carnival a success. The Medford ;Mail Tribune for cooperation and publicity,' and a special thanks to Olive Starcher; to those who donated cake and candy,, the business houses for their donations, the High School for use of a popcorn machine. We . certainly appreciated the help. Money we received from this sale will be used to buy dolls and toys f or - underprivil eged children at Christmas time. Our Christmas toy project carried on jointiy with the Med ford Fire department each year is becoming ; widely . k n o w n throughout the state. It has been so well thought of that several other' Lions club auxiliaries are starting the same project. This makes us proud, and happy that we are instrumental n having Christmas brought into homes of children; that might other wise, not have a Christmas. The church groups, business houses, and .clubs that have had Christmas parties in the past and exchange toys instead of gifts, then turned the toys over to our club and firemen to be distributed to needy children, will be -welcpmed this year. We : plan -to have a - working party on the night of December 20, arranging the toys for dis tribution December 21 and 22. Medford Lady Lions, Mrs. Dwight R. Johnson, ' Publicity Chairman OPENING GROCERY STORE and "COMMERCIAL TROUT FARM ' AT RAINBOW MOTEL c Shady Core, Ore. , SATURDAY, NOV. 20, 1 954 MdttGr Of FdCt The Radiological Haiard: Washington A grave debate the gravest since the debate on whether to make the hydrogen bomb is now going on be hind closed doors in the highest govern ment circles. Primarily, this debate is concerned with whether the "Super-Super" a hydrogen hnmb exnected to develop sev- Joteph Alsop eral times the monstrous power . of the great bomb ex ploded at Eniwetok last spring should be tested. In a more general sense, the debate is also concerned with .whether this country is right to rely on the hydrogen bomb as its principal offensive weap on. Both Issues are related di rectly to the danger to hu man life inher ent in the radi ological side effects of the new type of Stewart Alaop hydrogen bomb. There is nothing proper ly secret about this radiological danger. Anything known in this country on : the subject is cer tainly known- in Russia, where the new type of hydrogen bomb, with its heavy, noxious radiolog ical side-effects, was first tested. Indeed, the real trouble is that no one, in Russia, in this coun try,: or anywhere else, really knows enough about this sub ject. The most distinguished ex perts hotly disagree about the nature and the extent of the danger. -These reporters have recently beens in voluminous correspond ence with phsysicists, geneticists and other experts on this matter of the radiological hazard, and have yet to find two who wholly agree. On the official level also, there is a wide variation be tween the estimates of the dan ger made by the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense De partment. The A. E. C.'s conclu sions are less frightening than the Pentagon's although the A. E. C. in its secret studies is by no means as reassuring as " its official statements on -this sub ject. -' THE radiological hazard falls info three parts local fall out, distant fall-out, arid general radioactivity. The phenomenon of local fall-out, which trans forms the hydrogen bomb from a city-destroying to a state-paralyzing weapon by blanketing an area of 4,000 square miles with radio-active dust, has al ready been ' described in this space. ';;.:-"-''- 'V! Distant fall-out is caused by the lighter particles radio-activated in the explosion. These particles enter the upper atmo sphere and they then fall out capriciously anywhere on earth. Wherever this fall-out occurs there is a temporary, local in crease in the level of radio-activity. After the Eniwetok tests, there were a number of such dis tant fall-outs at scattered points in the United States, notably in ; Landmark Books 1 iJ4im and Women I FOR AGES 8 TO 11 j ROOK & GIFT SHOP I JoMph ni Stewart Alsop the Middle West, in Florida, and in the area of Washington, D. C. Most experts believe that dis tant fall-out causes no immedi ate danger to living persons, since,' on its voyage round the earth on the high winds the radio active material loses much of its power. Some experts, how ever, like Dr. A. xi. sturtevant of California, do believe that lo cal increases in the . radiation levels may lead to "an increase in the probability of malignant growths." Distant fall-out may also pre sent a danger to the human foe tus also here again the experts disagree. In this case, the .'.'bad actor" is radioactive strontium, produced in massive quantities in the fireball of the new type of hydrogen bomb. Strontium has the characteristic of settling in the bone structure once it enters the body, radio strontium therefore becomes a permanent part of the body, and constantly irradiates the body, cells. The human foetus is peculiarly sensitive to radiation, particu larly before the twentieth week, since its cells are increasing at a prodigious rate. A particularly Lheavy fall-out of strontium thus might reach and harm or destroy the - foetus through a compli cated cattle -milk-mother-foetus chain. . . . . : Some experts, to be sure, hotly deny that there is any danger of increased incidence of cancer or stillbirths from distant fall-out; But there does seem, to be gen eral agreement that a long-term "biological . hazard" exists, in that, at some point, increased levels of radioactivity will dam age the genes. This in turn will increase the production of hu man mutations, or monsters, to use the word to which some geneticists object. The .danger here is not to living persons, but to future generations. . TIN ALLY, there is the univer- - sal hazard the danger that "repeated atomic explosions will lead to a degree of general radio activity which no one can tolerate or escape," to use the words of the British Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Edgar Adrian. It is this dan ger, which will be examined fur ther in another report, which has particularly obsessed British Prime Minister Sir . Winston Churchill, since he learned the facts about the Eniwetok tests. All this is enough to suggest why there is a debate in pro gress in the inner circles of the government. No one can really be sure what radiological side- effects a testing of so terrible a weapon as the. Super-Super might have. The A. E. C.'s radi ation experts grossly underesti mated the radiation hazard for the Eniwetok tests, and thus the Marshall Islanders and the Jap anese crewmen of the "Fortun ate Dragon" , were endangered. The - experts could "be wrong again.-: :-- ,';;' ;v:v1: no one can reauy be sure, moreover, at just what 'mega- tonnage level" (repeated explo sions of) the hydrogen bomb, cur principal offensive weapon, might destroy, hot only the ene my, but all life on earth. Indeed, this is the most terrifying fact about this terrifying weapon that no one really knows what it will do. ' (Copyright, 1954, New York " Herald Tribune Inc.) . One of Adolf Hitler's Biggest; Headaches May Plague By CHARLES M. McCANN - United Press Foreign Analyst The man who was the No.' 1 trouble maker for Adolf Hitler before' World War H may soon return to Ger many to be come trouble maker No, ' l for the Bonn republic. ; ' It is bad that Otto Strasser, who has been in exile in Cana da for years, may ' soon, be : permitted, t o . cnarie mci ann . go back to t Western Germany. He has been trying to get back ever since the end of the war. Allied occupation officials re fused to admit him. " " ',; But now, with Western Ger many . about to become a ; soy ereign nation,. the, West German Supreme Administrative. Court has. finally restored his citizen- Two Added to Of Northwest Area Two new television channels to the Pacific Northwest were placed in service today by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company, according to Jack Creager, local PT&T manager, They bring the total number , of channels available here to three. All are able to transmit color. Creager -said; They can pipe na tional and Pacific coast network programs north from Sacra mento to TV stations in Oregon and Washington. - - Creager explained that the ad dition of two channels will give a . wider choice of programs to communities which have only one TV station. The four TV out lets in Oregon are KBES, In Medford; KVAL, in Eugene, and KPTV and KOIN in Portland. Costs Told ::. :;... ; ;-;'.;- - The project cost $1,254,000 Creager, said, with $694,000 of this spent in California, $480, 000 in Oregon and $80,000 in Washington. The job took a year and a half. : - v . To bring the new: channels north, PT&T constructed a radio' relay system 'between ft Sacra mento . and Chico, " with : a ' 20 foot tower a$" Chico.' Between Chico and Portland, amplifiers were, added every eight miles at 47 repeater points along the 540 mile route of the coaxial cable, and additional radio relay equip ment was installed at the termi nals and the four relay points of - the - Portland-Seattle ' micro wave relay system; -The coaxial cable follows Highway 99 most of the way. There'are three kinds of dikes in Holland, the National . Geo graphic society says, uig ones standing in the sea, the "watch ers," fend off the first assault of the waves. If they crumble, the "sleepers" behind them take over. Finally come the "dreamers," last-resprt defend ers of individual farms. - (7 Fashionette . 0. M. SAL COATS BROKEN SIZES and COLORS! $f9',COATS!f20 m m m w V COATS ZJ $ 4 95 COATS All Virgin WmI 0 OFF on SUITS Sizes 1 0 to 20 and a few half sixes :f JUMPERS-WOKINS.ZE5 - Corduroys - Acetate Rayon - Wools .10 to 18 Red, Grey, Blue,. Black 5500or2for5H00 USE OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN . FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS The 22 SOUTH CENTRAL. Fashionette Adenauer ship to him. The Nazis had taken it away. ; ' - ' , ' Dispatches from Germany say it is likely that Strasser will be permitted to go back home soon. If he is, and. there seems no way to keep him out, it may be taken for granted that despite any possible attempts to keep ' him under control,. Strasser will be mixing in politics. .'. Despite : his . 21-year absence from Germany, Strasser still has many supporters there all en emies of the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Will Try To Revive Party Strasser has announced that if he gets back he will try to re vive the "black Front" : which, he organized after he broke with Hitler in 1930. In his- absence, he managed to form by long-distance intrigue "Federation for the Rebirth of Germany" which draws its support from extreme right-wing nationalists, of whom Germany already has too many. . Strasser may be able to -unite nationalists, including many for mer Nazis, under his leadership. Strasser joined the Nazi party. of which his brother Gregor was a member, in 1925. . His background was Socialist, and it was not long before he began as did his brother; also a Nazi leader to disagree with Nazi policy. ' For one thing, Otto Strasser wanted the Nazi party to de pend more on the working peo ple and less on big business. Fled in 1933 ' ' , After his break with Hitler, Strasser remained in Germany until the Nazis attained power in 1933. Then he prudently fled to Czechoslovakia. Gregor, who remained, was murdered in the great "blood purge" of dissident Nazis in 1934. - - Otto Strasser became the arch enemy of Hitler, organizing op position to the official Nazi party from Czechoslovakia and other countries in which he lived. He moved about as the Nazis tried to extradite him in one country and another. He turned up in France in 1940 and in Canada in 1941. There he has been living," in enforced quiet, a Bridgetown, Nova Scotia. ' Canada will gain if he leaves. Germany will lose. For Strasser may have been an enemy of Hitler but he also is an enemy, of today's demo cratic. Germany. ; r PERMANENT . VAVEO From COMPLETE CUT and SET Anyway ' you desire iti . CRATER. AN : BEAUTY SHOP 41 South Central Phone 2-4830 - m m ww w S 00 MIHIum Um4! . ..Across from the CrattriaR m.