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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDC&wTRIBimi "Everybody in boutbern Urecon Reeds The Ms 11 Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday bi MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-ll ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor " ERIC ALLEN JB., City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at -- Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Hail In Advance: Per copy IGe. Dailv and Sunday On year (12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Sunday Only One year 3.30 Sy Carrier lit 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 $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Carrier and Dealers 5c pei copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Conaty United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT . BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLtDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL" EDITORIAL 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 Nor. 29, 1944 (It was Wednesday) Articles to be auctioned a War Bond premiere at Craterian theater include full case of pine apple, 100-pound sack of sugar, leather brief case, wool blanket, electric iron and 25 gallons of gasoline. .'.''. From Arthur Perry' Ye Smudge Pot column: Even with the shotgun shell shortage all over the land, "unloaded" shot guns are claiming victims. . . 20 YEARS AGO- Not. 29. 1934 : (It was Thursday) ; Medford and Washington high school of Portland battle to 6 to 6 tie in state championship foot ball game played in mud at Multnomah stadium, in Portland; Bill Bates scores Medford touch down. Jackson county taxes to be down about $15,870 from 1933 levels, according to County As sessor J. B. Coleman. 30 YEARS AGO ' .. Not. 29. 1924 (It was Saturday) Medford Masons feast on 200 pounds of Alaskan reindeer meat at local banquet. Medford city council votes to purchase Stutz fire pumper for fire department. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 29. 1914 (It was ' Sunday From the Local and Personal column: A new bridegroom liv ing on Beatty st. last night greet ed seranaders with a club when they gathered in his front yard. One woman seranader was hit across the chest with the club. This incensed the seranaders, who chased the groom back into the house.' He then defied the seranaders to "give me a ride," and announced "I will not stand the treats or anything else." The seranaders then disbanded. " " Great excitement caused in lobby of Medf ord's Nash hotel by woman guest smoking a ciga rette. What's the Answer? (Can You Gat 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. State "fair trade" laws bind all retailers to a price agreement signed by one with a manufactur er, or only retailers signing the agreement? 2. The U. S. is or isn't a full fledged member of the eight power 1954 Southeast Asia De fense Treaty? 3. Which two of these are not golf clubs frequented by Pres. Eisenhower: Cherry Hills, Wing ed Foot, Washington municipal, Augusta, Burning Tree? 4. Boxing recognizes - four, five, six, seven or eight different weight classes? , 5. Which President 'was ad ministered the oath of office by his father? 5. Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman heads the Boy Scouts of Amer ica, the international Y.M.C.A., the 4-H Clubs, the Moral Rearm ament movement, or a big U. S. university? - 7. Haggis is a dish of England, Armenia, Ireland, Mexico, Scot land, or Russia? " The Answers: 1. All retailers, whether they sign or not. 2. Is. 3. Winged Foot and Washington municipal. 4. Eight, starting-with flyweight, bantamweight and featherweight. 5. - Cooliige. 6. Moral Rearmament. 7. ScotlaacUi MAIL TRIBUNE Unhappy Prospect Unless members of the 1955 legislature, which meejs in about six weeks, wield a bigger budgetary ax than they are expected to do, they're going to wind up with a monumental headache similar to the one so familiar to all householders: How to pay the bills? Financially, Oregon has been living 6n "borrow ed time" for a" number of years. , TOURING the war, when thousands of workers came swarming into the state to build ships and do oth er, wartime -jobs, Oregon's income tax collections swelled unprecedentedly. Giant reserves of cash were built up, despite an extremely liberal tax rebate sys tem. ' - ' - , "At one time this reserve amounted to more than $70,000,000. ' But as income tax collections became smaller aft er the war, as the cost of running a state increased (like everything else), and as tax rates continued un changed for all the years after 1940, the reserve got smaller and smaller. Each successive legislature was content to post pone that fiscal headache as long as possible. HTHIS time, though, ii looks as though the legislature .is simply going to have to face facts the state's capital reserve is about gone. The Oregonian in an editorial Sunday estimated it-would be only about $8,000,000 by the time the new fiscal year starts next July 1. . "A conservative estimate is that the legislature meeting in Janunary must raise around $50,000,000 from taxes not now being levied to avoid a deficit in the 1955-57 biennium," the Oregonian says. "Pos sibly, the prospective deficit will be nearer $70,000,- 000." . . "THE editorial goes on to explain that while the state 7 has not collected property taxes for a long time, property taxpayers are paying heavily, just the same, to support local government, principally schools.. r "Property taxpayers in Oregon will pay, in the single fiscal year 1954-55, a total of $134,905,338 a 10 per cent increase over last year. "Of this total, $84,100,000, 62.3 per cent,' will be in local school taxes. Double that for the biennium," the Oregonian continues. 1 , CLSEWHERE on this page appears a story about T4 why school taxes are up. It costs more these days to provide education for our children. The average annual cost this year in Jackson county is $313 per child, compared to $240 in the years 1948 and 1949. As has been remarked 'in these columns before, school taxes, as long as they are wisely spent, are the last things any of us should be complaining about, because good education is probably the best invest ment any of us can make for future generations. BUT this doesn't lessen vvaiv iiavc tu iavca uic xavu vuav x kjjml wc es for local school and governmental purposes are about as high as they should, or can, go., What they have to be concerned with, then, is how to pay for the operation of the state government. If income taxes at their present rates won't do it, and if added property taxes are not to be considered, what remains?.. VI7HAT remains, of course, is a sales tax or some thing like it with a different name. ' . And here the legislators are faced with another fact: The voters of Oregon have repeatedly, arid de cisively, defeated proposals for, a sales tax. They are apt to do so again. THERE is an added complication to the problem. If the legislators decide not to do much of anything about the problem, they will, in effect, be. deciding in favor of automatic increases in property taxes. For the , state, law provides that property 'taxes be levied, and it is only in. the flush war arid post-war years that they have not been collected. As theT Oregonian puts it:' ; ' ; ; , " If it (the legislature) does not find other tax sources to meet a deficit . . . the state levy on real property inopera , tive since 1940 because of the income tax surplus will go back into effect, automatically, to the extent of 6 mills -, ' (actually the levy will range from 5 mills in some counties ;; to 9 mills in others). Add this to the local property taxes for counties, cities and school districts, and the result is painfuL " . J "t ' ' 'aft ' i AS far as the legislators are concerned, the result is painful no matter how it is viewed. It would be exceedingly difficult to decrease state expenditures by any marked degree, for most of them, the biggest ones, are pretty well fixed for school support, institutions, (hospitals, prisons, etc.), and welfare. " ' " '" "" " "' ' "' i Somebody's going to have to pay. And for the legislators to make the decision is going to be almost as painful as doing the paying. A 1955 legislator's lot is not a happy one.' E.A. Kernels Found Glued Chicago (U.R) The world's biggest farm show was rocked today by disqualification of the SUGGESTED BIBLE READING The American Bible Socie ty, the Medford Ministerial Association and the Medford Council . of Church Women are cooperating in sponsoring daily Bible reading in the pe riod between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The suggested scripture reading for today is: Psalm 37. Monday. November 29, 19S4 the problem' of the legisla- To Winning Corn Entry winning "corn king" entry be cause several kernels had been glued into place on the cob. Arnold and Paul Karsk, broth ers from Pecantonica, 111., had been chosen to share the corn king title at the International Hay and Grain Show, c But their entry, was disquali fied after two Indiana exhibitors complained that several kernels had been glued into place at the butt end of the cob. The disqualification raised a ruckus similar to that of last year when the grand champion steer was disqualified in the In ternational Livestock Exposition lor being over age. Matter of Fact au The President And The Bomb Washington Again and again in recent month, President Eisenhower has reverted to the theme of peace, so that he s ometimes seems almost obsessed by the word itself. In a recent short speech, for ex ample, he re f e r r e d to "peace" nine teen times in Stewart Alsop twelve brief paragraphs. According to those who should know, this is not propaganda, or politics, or just talk." Ever since the Eniwetok tests, the almost intolerably cruel facts about the new type hydrogen bomb es pecially the bomb's terrible ra dioactive side-effects have im pressed themselves more and more deeply on the President's mind. Thus when he says that, "since the invention of nuclear weapons . . . there is no alterna tive topeace . . . "he means just what he says. In other words, like Sir Win ston Churchill, who reached the same conclusion earlier, the President is now convinc ed that some way short of appeasem e n t or surrender must he found to avert the horrors of hy drogen war. Thus, long be fore French .premier ivien- . . , i. des - France r spoke, the President had already decided to seek a "meeting at the summ.it", provided certain essential pre-conditions were met. The reasoning behind this de cision is reportedly about as fol lows: In -the first place or at least so the intelligence esti mates reaching the President's desk indicate this country will have a decisive advantage over the Soviet Union in terms of nu clear power for a period of three to five years. This advantage is measured, not so much in terms of bombs as in the means of delivering bombs. This country has now turned out its 1000th B-47 medi um ranee iet bomber, and the very long range B-52 is not at last really beginning to roll off the production lines. The So viet equivalents the TU-39s and the TU-37s are hardly oeyona the prototype stage. 0 so, at least, the intelligence people as sure the President. IF the intelligence is correct, tVio moanint Vvf this three to High Vfinds Bring Irish Prosperity Connemara, Ireland (U.R) High winds and raging storms spell disaster for, many, but for the men of rugged Connemara, on Ireland's western Atlantic coast, they mean prosperity. In the coastal village of Kil- kieran, 40 miles from Galway, an industry has been developed which thrives on bad weather. Alginates Ltd. produces seaweed meal and pays out up to $30,000 a year to the residents for sea weed used m the process. The weeds are called sea rods, known locally as Slatai Mara (sea sticks) and grow in deep water. Nature is the harvester. When the Atlantic is churned by ;tornis the weeds are thrown from the i sea bed and washed ashore along the western sea board. The : hardy residents of Connemara gather the rods and dry them in the open air. Then they cart them to the factory where they are paid $14 a ton. The collection of rods is organized- by the government's lands department in conjunction with the factory. In the Kilkieran factory, the rods are processed and the fin ished products exported 'to Scot land, to reappear in . various shapes and forms paint, glue, sausages, paper and many other things -which one- would not ordinarily associate witn the weeds of the deep. Negotiators Active In Chrysler Dispute Detroit (U.R) Negotiators made a final attempt today to stave off a strike which could wreck Chrysler's comeback bid in the automotive sales field. State and federal mediators joined Chrysler officials and CIO United Auto Workers of ficers in the final effort to settle issues which could idle as many as 100,000 employees. Some 30,000 UAW members employed in the Chrysler auto motive body division were ready to strike at 7 a.m. tomorrow un less setUement is reached. Among, issues involved are charges of assembly line speed ups. : 5! , ; -'- -i, - Brazil is the largest South American country in size and is 250,000 square miles greater in area than the United States of America. , five year period is interpreted rather simply: During this per iod, this country can knock the Soviet Union out while the So viets cannot knock this country out There are, obviously, two ways to use this period of grace. One way is to force a preven tive showdown while the advan tage still rests with us. But, as the President, has publicy said, he flatly rules out this course. He reportedly refuses to discuss the possibility of preventive war, even in private, and even on a hypothetical basis. As of today, this country would be badly hurt in a nuclear war, and our allies probably destroyed. But this is apparently not the chief reason for the President's refusal to-con-sider preventive war. He finds the mass killing required in a knock-out blow at the Soviet Union profoundly morally abhor rent. The only other rational alter native to a preventive showdown is negotiation. This is the course the President has chosen. As he has been at pains to make clear, he does not believe that commu nism has changed its essential nature. Yet intelligence and diplomat ic reports have given him some reason to believe that the awful characteristics of the new type of hydrogen bomb which the Soviets were the first to explode is at least to some extent in fluencing Soviet policy, just as it is influencing American- and British policy. Malenkov's public statement that a nuclear war now means "the end of civilization" has been repeated in private in even stronger terms by other Rus sians, notably by V. M. Mclotov at the Geneva conference. And the statement, after all, is true and the Soviet rulers have every reason to know that it is true. The President hopes for no In Day's These words are written on the morning of . Thanksgiving Dayi in the Year of Our Lord A.D. 1954, in the midst of a tech nological revolution that is daily adding to human life new com forts, new luxuries, new leisure AND NEW RESPONSIBILI TIES. I suppose before the day is over some grumpy pessimist will growl to himself: "I'd like to know what I'VE got to be thankful for in these days." T ISTEN, sir: ON THE FIRST THANKS GIVING DAY THE PILGRIM COLONISTS GAVE THANKS HUMBLY AND GRATEFULLY THAT THEY WERE STILL ALIVE, TJERE is a remarkable thing: On that first Thanksgiving Day, the Plymouth colonists and the Indians in whose midst they had settled JOINED TOGETHER IN THANKSGIVING. The whites contributed of what they had among other things, the produce of their gar dens.. The, Indians brought wild turkeys and .venison as their share. Working together, they spent days preparing the feast They spent three days in feast ing and prayer.' Then the Indians returned to the forest and the white colonists returned to their tasks. They had joined, together ihT amity and friendship and. they parted in amity and friendship. rVO able men came together at Plymouth colony. They were Massasoit, the Indian chief, and Governor Bradford, of the whites. ; Massasoit and his tribesmen taught the whites , new ways of planting crops (including putting a dead fish in each hill of planted corn' to serve as fertilizer) and where and how to catch fish in abundance. . - Governor Bradford and his people taught the Indians the ways of civilization, including the use of better tools.' : : 4 S . time went on, a good trad- O ..... . .WM Q W . . M W 1. V- W the colonists and their Indian neighbors. The Indians sold bea ver skins and other furs, which the colonists were able to sell at a good profit to English traders. They paid for them with hoes and axes and gpod warm English cloth and such products of the white man's industry, which add ed to the Indians' comfort and helped to raise their standard of living. That is what honest trade does. ' ' THIS mutually beneficial friendship and cooperation between the whites and the In dians at Plymouth began in 1621. Having faith in each other the kind of faith that is founded on NEW KINDERGARTEN ; Begins Monday, Nov. 29 Christian Pre-School Training ' CHILDREN CAN ENROLL ANY TIME - Reasonable Rates ; . Experienced Staff MEDFORD ASSEMBLY OF GOD 1108 WEST MAIN STREET For Further Information Phone 2-4292 or 2-5328 Tax Study Group Lists County Hikes i n Sc hoo I Expend i tu res; Reasons for Increases Given The annual cost of educating a child in Jackson county public schools went up approximately $93 during the four-year period from 1948-49 to 1952-53, accord- grandiose settlement, no true peace, but a kind of freezing in position, based on the realities of power. "A you-stay-in-your-backyard-and-we'll-stay-in - our backyard agreement, with mu tual destruction the penalty for straying," was the way one policy-maker phrased it. The Presi dent himself calls what he has in mind a "modus vivendi." A most serious effort to negotiate such a way of living together is thus very likely to be the next act in the world drama. If the effort fails, our policy can be recast while we still retain the nuclear advantage. SO runs the reasoning. There ar0 rin7ene ctt rfiffinilt mipc. tions which could be asked about this seasoning, notably the ques tions which, Sen. Knowland has already asked about the evident dangers of a policy which ac cepts an "atomic stalemate."" Yet it is impossible not to sym pathise with the President, as he wrestles earnestly with the cruel dilemma imposed by the cruel new weapons. "I sometimes won der," wrote the late Sen. Vah denberg to his pastor, just before he died, "whether the wit of man is competent to deal with this murderous discovery." And the discovery was, after all, very much less murderous in those days than it is now. (Copyright, 1954, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) News mutual good worksGovernor Bradford and Massasoit made a treaty of friendship- that lasted until 1661, a period of FORTY years. That's what sound and honest and able leaders WHO HAVE CONFIDENCE IN EACH OTHER can do for their, people TT is interesting to speculate as to what might have happened all the way across our continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific, if there had been Massasoits and Governor Bradfords on - BOTH SIDES. I like to think that if such had been the case the whites and the reds would have merged gradually and naturally and amicably-and all the bloody and terrible massacres on both sides would have been avoided. Sound and honest and able leadership is a WONDERFUL thing. . - ITOW came it about that this era of friendship and coopera tion between the whites and the reds that began in the early days of Plymouth colony was ended? It's a sad story. EventuaUy, the king of England gave permission to . various English adventurers to establish trading posts north ward along the shore of Cape Cod bay. These men were rough and ready fellows who were MORE INTERESTED , IN HEAVY PROFITS THAN IN GOOD CITIZENSHIP They wanted to get rich quick, and didn't care much how they did it. They stole and they lied and they cheated. That ended the era of peace and good will. '' ANE more question: " How came it that the whites and the reds got along so ami cably and happily at the BE GINNING?. . That, too, is an interesting story. The Pilgrims landed at Ply mouth in September. That win ter the colony was swept by a strange disease that carried off 44 of their number. All those terrible months they lived in deadly fear of the surrounding Indians. What they didn't know was that two years earlier an un known disease HAD KILLED OFF MOST OF THE INDIANS. What happened, you see, is that at Plymouth in the spring of 1621 the two races, the reds and the whites, came together in the spirit of humbleness and toler ance that follows mutual adver sity. ' j NEARLY 2,000 years ago Sen- j eca the Stoic wrote: j "Fire is the test of gold; adver sity is the test of strong men.". Some 14 centuries later, Will iam Shakespeare wrote: "Sweet are the uses of ad . versity '.V ; . -"Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous -." . . "Wears yet a precious jewel . in his head." ing to figures compiled by Ore gon Business and Tax Research. The total average expense per child for 1948-49 was $240 in Jackson county. By 1952-53, this had increased to $313, according to OBTR figures. The non-partisan taxpayer as sociation breaks the figures down this way: ' ' -. Costs Shown : ':::. In 1948-49, the Jackson coun ty total cost per pupil in average daily attendance included -$148 for instructional salaries (includ ing superintendents and super visors), $15 for transportation. and $76 . fo other current ex-i penditures. By 1952-1953, these costs have risen to $192 for instructional salaries, $17 for transportation, and $103 for other current ex penditures. . Despite the $93 increase in total current expenditures, Jack son county's costs rose less than that of some other counties dur ing the four-year period. In 1948-49, Jackson county s total current expenditure per average daily attendance was the 13th lowest in the state. Lowest on the list at that . time , was Crook county, in sparsely settled central Oregon, with a total ex penditure of only $197. Eighth Lowest In 1952-53, Jackson ' county's total current expenditure per average daily attendance was eighth lowest in the state: Wash ington and Multnomah counties tied for the lowest-cost spot with expenditures of $291 per pupils Jackson county exactly Tield its own during the four years in comparison with the statewide county average. Jackson county was $6 below the state average of $246 for 1948-49, and was still $6 below the state average of $319 in 1952-53. A breakdown of , the total cur rent expenditures for the 1952 53 year show that Jackson coun ty's instructional salaries made up 61 per cent of the total cost, compared with 62 per cent for the state. Jackson county's trans portation costs were 5.4 per cent, compared with 5.9 for the state, and the county's : other current expenditures were 32.9 per cent of the total cost compared with nearly 32 per cent for the state average. Less Than Others Jackson county's 1952-53 an nual total current expenditures were less than those for three of its neighboring- ? counties. The figures are, Jackson county, $313, Josephine county, $336, Klamath county, $344, and Doug las county, $327. Despite the large areas includ ed .in some Jackson county school districts, transportation costs in Jackson county are much less a factor in total costs than they are in some parts of the state. For the 1952-53 year, trans portation costs in Oregon ranged from only $3 in Multnomah county, to $117 in Sherman coun ty. . .-4 - " ' --.; ' -, Average daily attendance, on which these figures are based, increased drastically in Jackson county from 1948-49 to 1952-53. In the four-year period, they went up from 9,311.4 to 11,405.6. Total current expenses during the same four years went up from-$2,238,175 to $3,573,158. Medford District Figures for School District 49, which includes the Medford pub lic schools, showed these changes for the period from 1943-49 to 1952-53. Average daily attendance up from 3,198.7 to 4,257.0. Total current expenses up: from $697,- MEW with BIG HOT WATER CAPACITY 3,000 watts boosted to 9,000 watts means QUICKER RECOVERY . . . . EASY to INSTALL. No flues needed, better hot water service 'than flame heaters safe and lean! For Home Owners Completely Installed NOTHING DOWN FHA TERMS Payments As Low As ... ; $6.50 Per .Mo. . Authorized Dealer General Electric Appliances 589 to $1,056,098. Total current expense per ADA up from $218 to $248. Instructional salaries per ADA up from $152 to $175. Transportation per ADA down from .8 to .7. Other current ex-'' penses per ADA up from $64 to:. $71. Statewide, the cost of educav lion in the public school system increased nearly 30 per cent nC the four-year period,' with the? average daily attendance increas-', ed nearly 30 per cent in the four year period, with the average; daily attendance increasing from zio.sby to ZD4,7b. me increase; in total current expense of op-i eratmg the state s public schools", was from $53,381,047 to $81 517,990. ': Salaries Up ' Officials in the state Depart-; ment of Education are quoted by Oregon Business and Tax Re search as explaining the increas ed cost of education as being due in large part to increased salaries for teachers, plus an increase in the cost of transportation. With an eye to the future, OBTR estimates that Jackson county will need new school con- . mentary classrooms and 64 sec struction amounting to 78 ele ondary classrooms in the period starting last June 1 and ending in the 1959-60 school year. Cost of these new classrooms is esti mated at $3,606,482. ... This estimated cost includes new plants, additions to existing plans, remodeling of existing plants, equipment, new sites, en- jargemenis, ana improvements.-. "ON THE DOT" twice s yeir generous earnings are paid to our investors. , It's an un failing thrill, this attractive rate cf pay for the use of your hare earned dollars! , FIRST FEDERAL SAYINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford v, 2 North Holly ' An Institution Dedicated . To Those Who Save ' Box That Talks GEO. N. TAYLOR "It Speaks our ownYeo words." So said Grandma Pan of the Yeo tribe, there in Asia. And she drew up a stool to listen to the Strang e words of the strange God who loves all the Yeo people and sent, his Son, Jesus Christ, to save them from their sins. This Son of God can also save, the Yeo people from the fear and worship of evil spirits. The box gave it all in Yeo words and Grandmother took it all in. How silly of the missionary to ask if she understood it. And the kiddies and the men came close to hear. World-Wide: God give eternal life to the Yeo people as well as to us Americans. And with eternal life, God gives new ways, days, hope and cheer to ' all who possess Christ in. their heart as God the Saviour who died for their sins. This Mess age sent by a family of Beaver- ton, Ore.. Paid adv. COMPACT Water Heater 115 E. MAIN , PHONE 214585 1 v"; 1 ni l !! ,. '
