Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 03, 1954, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) tlEBF0W!TRILUKl : "Everybody m Southern Uregoo ',' Kaa am me Mail xnwmy yuJjliihed Daily Except Saturday by tT-ga North Fir St. Phone 2-141 BORMT W RTJHL. Editor RThB tiHEY, Advertiaing Manager K. C. rEBGUSON. Managing Editor JOUC ALLEN JB City Editor HARRY CHIPMAJI. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHEB- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newapaper " Entered as second data matter .t . Hertford. Oregon, under Act a March 3. 1897 iUBSCHtPTION RATES . Br Mall In Advance: Per copy loe. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 830 Pally and Sunday Three mo 350 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only On year 330 By Carrier In Advance Med ford, Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent and on motor rout: Daily and Sunday One year f 15.00 pally and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers Be per copy All Terms casn in jiavancg Cilleial Paper ef the City of Mdfor Official Paper ef Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Representative: -- WIST-HOLLiDAY COMPAQ. INC - i- vmw riMM rw. troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Eeatue, rorumna. oi unui. auuh Vancouver B.C.. . . , 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 Dec 3, 1944 (It was Sunday) " Twenty acre farm, one mile from Medford, with new six- room house, large barn, all land Irrigated, offered for sale for $10,500 with terms. s From Arthur ; Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A survey ef the November election results is planned to determine the "Re publican lack." On the face of it, it would appear to have been votes. SO YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1934 ( It was Monday) r Jackson county residents no tified that temporary automo bile licenses will be available Starting Dec. 15. 5 Medford voters decisively en- age disposal plant; work on proj ect to start in January. 90 YEARS AGO Dec. 3, 1924 - fit was Wednesday " .. Christinas trees - attached to lamp posts on Main at. in down town Medford. estate records show that Ore gon has a total of 191,550 auto mobiles. :- " : ' ' " 40 YEARS AGO - Sec. 3, 1914 j (It was Thursday) Medford clothing store adver tises two types of Arrow collars the whitby, which is l7s Inches high, and the Atlanta, which is 2 inches high; both ell for two for 25 cents. - From the Local and Personal column: "Kulture" showed its fine Italian hand this morning at the Will H. Wilson sale, when all clerks appeared rigged out in evening dress for day time toil. A large crowd flocked to the sale, and nearly every family in town now sports a broom that cost a dime, a carload consign ment being received for the sale. What's the Answer? ; (Can You Gat 4 of the 71) Cevr. 1954. Editorial Research Report -1. The U.S. has or hasn't told Moscow that if our lookout planes continue to be fired on over the Pacific, they'll be pro tected by other planes? ; 2. The 1955 Cadillacs sell at higher or lower prices than the 1954s, or at the same prices, model for model? 3. Of all fruits and vegetables going to wholesale markets. more or less than half move by truck? - 4. No. U.S. President has been in office when as old as British Prime Minister Winston Church ill today; right or wrong? '5. "Barnyard golf.' is table tennis, tiddle-dee-winks, jacks. horseshoe pitching, skeet shoot- tog, or craps? 6. High blood pressure can or can't be relieved by some of the newly discovered drugs? 7. What is the British game of draughts called in the U.S.? . The Answers: 1. Has. 2. High, r. 3. More than half. 4. Right. 5. Horseshoe pitching. 6. Can. 7. Checkers. LONG-LIVED SURVIVORS ' Holland, Mich. (U.PJ Five of the 11 children born to Mr. and Mrs. Ryer De Weerd many years ago died t birth or lived only a few years. But the other six are still living and boast a total age of 456 years. They are Henry De Weerd, 70; Albert De Weerd, 72; Mrs. Arthur M. Witteveen, 74; Bert De Weerd, 78; Miss Jennie De Weerd, 80, and George De Weerd, 82. , ,:; . . . More than 2,200,000 military personnel have taken United States Armed Forces Institute courses since the beginning of the program in 1942. MAIL TRIBUNE Accident Recor Aid Prevention Experience is the great-teacher but in the case of - traffic accidents it is , necessary that adequate records of accident details and causes be kept or the experience is of little vhelp except perhaps for those directly involved and sometimes the latter do not live to act on what they might have learned. The National Safety Council in a recently received analysis of Medford's 1953 traffic accident records points out that practically all mishaps are caused by specific conditions and actions and that repetition could be avoided if drivers were better trained and more aware of the iteed for caution and if those in charge of accident prevention were able, by watching the records, to determine wherein lie; the hazards which cause the most accidents; ' THE National Safety Council's analysis and report on conditions here, made in cooperation with the Medford Safety Council and the police department, show that this city recorded 61 per cent of the acci dent facts last year, ranking 109th among the cities of the country in this work.; , v ' " Traffic accident records are generally collected and analyzed by the police departments, according to the Council, since most of the reports are from its investigating officers. The Council adds that an ade quate staff is necessary if the officers are to do a completely satisfactory job. Experience has shown that 200 man-days, per 1000 accidents, are required to properly process accident records. On that basis, the Council says, Medford should have spent 191 man- days to process the volume of reports received instead of the 6.5 man-days the department was, able to de vote to the work. ' '- ' ? With complete records available city traffic-engineers can determine the principal causes of col Ssions, the extent of roadway defects and vision ob scurements and the locations where most accidents" occur. Using the records the public safety officials can keep the public informed enforcement officers learn the spots to watch for the violations which so often lead to accidents. THE Council ranked Medford's police traffic activ ity 53rd among the 456 that eieht traffic officers would be required for us i.il -a: j! conviction Tate in hit - and exceeded the 75 -per cent minimum generally' ob tained. . The city's 100 per cent of convictions and penalty in arrests for hazardous traffic violations, was also rated unusually good. The final comment in the Council's analysis of traffic supervision here expressed particular regret that .information was not sufficiently complete for evaluation of action taken against drinking drivers. "Nowhere," said the Council, "is general practice more equivocal, nor the need for decisive action more urgent, than in keeping full records and seeing that full effect of the law is visited upon persons found under the influence of intoxicants while driving." E.C.F. Salvation Army Week This is an important week for the Salvation Army. Not only is the great religious and charitable organi zation celebrating the 75th to the United States, but work preparing to bring fortunate. CEVENTY-FIVE years ago a small band of seven women officers and one man landed in New York City from England to, plant the flag of the Salvation Army and to. "claim America for God." Though hardships, ridicule and abuse were' everyday occur rences to them, they proceeded with courage and de termination to the tasks which they had set for them selves and within a few years had established centers of. operation across the nation. . The secret of the success which has enabled the organization to expand so service, both spiritual and On the spiritual side is the-taking of Christian truth into the slums, the prisons, the hospitals, seeking out those m need of reassurance and the light of hope. Many such Icould not be metnoas. In its material ministrations to those in need, the Salvation Army last year and 1,914,638 lodgings. In addition there is social work covering a multitude of services visitation among the needy and ill; to help the destitute and homes and hospitals for the unmarried mother; low cost hotels for those in smaller income brackets; day care centers for children, clubs for servicemen and many others. ..... ... - fTHE Salvation Army's anniversary celebration would be a good time for fellow citizens to show their appreciation for services rendered. In a substantial-way this can be done by dropping a contribu tion in the Christmas kettles when downtown. The kettles are the Army's chief source of funds for. its Christmas time charitable work. E.C.F. HE FLIPPED " Syracuse, N.Y. (U.RP-Richard Dean was so happy about the 50 cent piece he found on a street that he began flipping the coin into the air as he walked away. The coin landed in the 12-year-old's mouth. Richard landed in the hospital, where doctors re moved the coin from his throat Friday. December 3, 1954 and alert to hazards, and reporting cities and stated and one more civilian clerk to compare favorably with tTj-fj inn - run arrests substantially anniversary of its coming its members are hard at Christmas cheer to the less , greatly lies in the unselfish material, which it renders. reached by more orthodox provided 9,431,550 meals establishment of centers unemployed; maternity PUBLIC RELATIONS ."--'"v ' Block Island, R. I. (U.B Res idents of this isolated island 10 miles off the Rhode Island coast know which side their bread is buttered on. They honored at a dinner the skippers of the two small steamers that maintain the principal contact1 between the island and the mainland Babson . . . 50 Babson Park, Mass. Special to Mail Tribune) Part of our Fiftieth Anniversary; celebrated recently In Wellesley, Mass., was spent looking ahead 50 years to the year 2004. Dr. E. F. W. Alexand erson, a dis ciple of Stein jmetz and long 'time engi neer research er for General Electric and the Radio Cor p o r a tion of 0 Begsr W. Babsea America, made some startling statements. If he and the other speakers did not hold such im portant positions today, we would take these statements "with a grain of salt," but under the circumstances they deserve attention. Here's what we pre dict for 50 years from now. Our offspring will . 109k back on the 1954 era as one of primi tive existence. Automation will have taken over completely, not only in the factory, but also in the home and on the farm. For example, Dr. Alexanderson pre dicts that the business executive will live in the country and com mute to work by helicopter over a special-frequency airline chan nel which will pilot his plane automatically and safely to its destination. The busy business executive won't have to go to the office so often, for he will have private TV circuits between his home and his office and can go into conference or look in on any part of his factory byneans of numerous television eyes. He wiU be able to go to his summer place in the mountains and, again by means of private TV circuits, see and talk with his children back home. By the same means, he can look, in on his cattle or into his chicken house. A button pushed at his mountain house wiU carry an impulse via short wave to the chicken house back on the farm, and ' the chickens will be fed and the eggs collected, sized,: and boxed auto matically, " - , ' Machines will be powered by atomic capsules, and by 2004 we will consume as much power in one year as we did in aU the years from 1 A.D. to 1954, Homes, and . working establish ments will all be air-condition ed. Electronic ovens will cook our food in seconds. Foods will be wrapped and sealed in inex Is That So? A natural puzzler. Guess my identity by two and you're . an expert; by four is excellent; by six is still good". -The answer is tucked away in the last para graph. 1. I'm a bow-legged,, ravenous highwayman.' Although I live in the deep-snow country, my color does not change. Evil-tempered always, and powerful, I brook no interference I spit in any animal's . eye, routing creatures 10 times my own size. I don't" smeU like a rose. 2. I live all the way around the northern world, south of the Arctic circle, . in Asia, . Europe W THAT" 90 and North America. Warm" cli mates have not attraction for me although I once lived in north ern Pennsylvania and in New Mexico. Though short-legged, I am a wide-ranging bandit ny circuit may take, me 8-10 days. 3. 1 am the largest member of the : weasel family. My fur is moderately long, coarse, and black-brown with lighter streaks on top of my broad head, under my chin, and on . the back, My feet are hair-covered to traverse snow; my long, curved claws semi-retractile. 4. Though small, In my range I am king of beasts. Whenever I meet an animal enjoying a re past, the hair on my back and neck rises straight up, my tail goes into the air, and I advance to the attack with a growl, driv ing the world's largest carnivore, from his own klil and not just singly, but even in pairs! I come off second beat only with the porcupine: I have been found dead with their quills puncturing my intestines and stomach. " Eats All Me& V.A, 5. 1 am a glutton, eatine meat of all kinds, ages and conditions. If necessary, I swim rivers in pursuit of my food which con sists of beavers, marmots, foxes, hares, lemmings, rats, chip munks, ground-roosting ptarmi gan and best of all, mice. My powerful digestive system dis poses of the huge meals I eat efficiently. What I cannot. eat at once, I come back to. Or tear into chunks anti bury for future use, , My favorite stratagem is to climb a tree or rock and drop on the back of a moose or cari bou, often dinging for 100 yards or more. ; . 6. Trappers hate me. With dia bolical tcunning, they say, I fol Years pensive plastics and will keep crisp, fresn, and deuciously palatable indefinitely. " People will be healthier and happier. They will live to be 100 with no debilitating effects. This age will be known as the atomic age an era of unprecedented technologi cal advancement and Material prosperity.-; Women, Official In Government Seen Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, Treas urer of the United States, pre dicts that one-half of our elec tive and appointive officials will be women in 2004 half of the House of Representatives, and a third of the Senate. The Secre-; tary of State wUl be a woman. Through the efforts of women the' world over, there wUl be an effective outlawing of war. . In predicting business trends of the future, considerably more emphasis wUl be given to samp ling, market analysis, and dis covering what people think and why they think that way. This kind of analysis will enable us to predict human behavior and business trends ; far . more ac curately than is now possible. Leaders Concerned About Civilisation : ;:; ; ' Both V Miss Marearet Clarj'tv President of Wellesley college, ana Dr. Alexanderson are con cerned about the kind of civiliza tion our technological advances will leave us with in 2004. Both fear that science, if pursued on a straight materialistic nlane. will lead man into some real trouble. There is a serious fear in the minds of many educators lest education today is too con cerned with teaching facts rather than develonine thinking men and women of character anri stature who know why as well as now. A good climate for husinpec and a soundly administered gov ernment "do not - just happen. Thev are the rjrbdiint.c! nf aWo leadership. And leadershin: eood or bad, is more closely tied to our religious- and educational system than 'we - mav like tn admit. Good leadership depends on excellence 01 instruction in church, school, and coUege. In the last--: analvsis. what wi ' rin with our technological advarices whether we shall have peace or war. nroeress or decline in the art of living in 2004 may well aepena on tne Kina of churches schools: and colleges Vou and 1 want and on the financial sup port we give them today. By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist low their.? entire trap line at night and remove trapped ani mals and devour them; or spring their traps and rob them of bait, even . hiding Ahe . traps them selves. I'm much too smart to get caught. Because of my super natural ingenuity, I have been subject,'- of .course, to untold legends and quaint stories. - 7. - Woodsmen f of v the' north woods, have cursed me for my propensity for 1 breaking -into their cabins and what I cannot eat or carry away I spoil -with my vile-smeUing secretions. A notorious thief, I have lugged away blankets, canned goods, dishes, cutlery, axes, kettles, guns and even stove lids as if out of sheer deviltry. ; Lives Solitary Life 7 . 8. I live a solitary grumpy life except in February or early March when I take a mate for a brief courtship. .Two or three young, seldom more, are born in underground burrows and their coats - are pale. In their defense, the mother is ferocious.; By fall, fully two-thirds grown, they can fend for themselves. 9. Both the Eskimo and Indian prize -my hide for fringing; and fnr narlra-honH Hniner it is Ideal f unlike most other furs, it does not collect and hold moisture. i",: iO. Because of .my. looks and stench I have been called, skunk bear; because of my. nefarious activities, le carajou (French Canadian), devil' incarnate, and glutton. Nonetheless, Michigan saw fit to take my name form the Wolverine state. . ;f (Copyright, 1954, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana,, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set ef this f W "' J Where Toys are a business, net a sideline The. TOY HOUSE 20 South SUGGESTED BIBLE -READING The American Bible So ciety, 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: Psalms 103. In ihe Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS In Washington the other day, only 25 senators showed up for the day's grist of debate on the McCarthy censure resolution The , senate's sergeant-at-arms had to be sent out to round up eough more to make a quorum of ,49. . ' Remember the . story of the farmer who was' "goin' to town to git drunk, and GOSH how I dread it" It sums up the McCarthy , sit uation pretty accurately. jyjEANWHILE President Eisenhower backs up Secretary of State Dulles in opposition to a blockade of Communist China at this time. The White House said, .the Pres ident agrees with Dulles that a blockade would constitute "war action," which the United States does not plan. Senator " William Knowland renewed his call for a China blockade as a way of making the Communists release 13 im prisoned Americans. Dulles had ruled out such ac tion in a speech from Chicago. O'S right? Ike and. Dulles Or Senator Knowland? WHAT SHOULD WE DO? rjraOSE are hard questions. One of our proudest traditions revolves around an American named Perdicaris, who was kid napped back .in 1904 by a hell raising Moroccan bandit named Ahmed Ibn-Muhammed Raisuli. Raisuli had been pn a kidnap ing binge that had the world of that day pretty well - upset Among others, he had kidnaped and held for ransom a London Times correspondent named Walter Harris. Europe , was then in one of those . delicate situa tions (so numerous through his tory) when nobody wanted to do anything that might rock the boat and upset the uneasy peace that then existed. ; President Theodore Roosevelt took the situation in hand. He sent a cablegram to the Sultan of Morocco demanding; "Perdi caris alive or Raisuli dead." " -i He got Perdicaris alive; Promptly. Teddy's bold action settled Raisuli's : hash, He dis appeared from the stage of his tory. . ' . THIS might be a good, time to quote Edmund Spenser, who said in the Faerie Queene back in the 1500s: "But times do change and move continually.' Back in Teddy Roosevelt's day, there was ho atom bomb. There was no hydrogen bomb, And Morocco was a LITTLE country. At worst, aU Teddy would have had to do would have been to send the fleet and land the Marines on Morocco's shores. It would have been all over soon. " rjTOESE are different days. More direful days. No one ; now knows, what might touch off . another world war.. And no one knows where another world war, once touch ed off, might end. I can't escape the feeling that this is a time for 'patience and great forbearance. Meanwhile V KEEPING STRONG. EVERYTHING STOPS Winsted, Conn. (U.PJ An air raid warden,-' under orders to stop all traffic during a Civil De fense test, did just that. Th'e warden ordered. a fire truck to halt and prevented it from going to the scene of a test "explosion." world-famous reference work In a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new. questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS TRAT SOI c'o Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Barrier United States Defense News Tops Treaty With Formosa Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: f THE GOOD 1. Th United States signed a mutual defense treaty with Na tionalist China. Under the trea ty, the United States will defend Formosa and its neighboring Pescadores islands against any Chinese Communist attack. If a decision whether to defend the. Nationalist - held islands imme diately off the Red-held main land becomes necessary, it will be made on a spot basis. Secre tary of State John Foster Dul les, reemphasizing this, coun try's determination to free 13. Americans imprisoned on faked charges by the Chinese Reds, said the government will con sider blockading the Chinese coast if other means fail. : 2. The United States, Great Britain and France laid down some stiff terms, in notes to Moscow, for the Big Four for eign minister conference which the Kremlin seeks. Before any such meeting is held, the Allies said, the treaties for rearming Western Germany must be rati fied, Russia must agree to sign an Austrian independence trea ty, and it mustclarify its posi tion on free elections to unify Germany. 3. Fanatical Fellagha Nation alist rebels in Tunisia started surrendering in response to a French government peace offer. It was a small but encouraging break in the attempt of Premier Mehdes-France to end terrorism in Tunisia, Morocco ' and Al giers. THE BAD 1. Eight Communist countries meeting in Moscow agreed to rearm Eastern Germany and to form an Eastern Etirnnean -mili tary aluance if West Germany is rearmed. It was a retort, made with the speed possible only in countries where free speech and political opposition are outlaw- ed, to the Allied determination to ratify the West German arma ment treaties. It is questionable how dependable an East Ger man army or the army of any Communist satellite country may prove. But the Moscow ac tion serves to intensify East- West disagreement and to make a cold war settlement more re mote. . " -. ;' ' 2. Viet Nam troops and police fought throughout Tuesday night in Saigon, capital, of the new state of southern Viet NamJ in Indochina. The situation held the possibilities of breaking into civil , war. The - fighting came just at , the time : when France and the- United States sought to strengthen Premier .Ngo Dinh Diem and reduce the threat that Viet ; Nam might f aU ; to the Communists. : " 3.; Debate In United Nations over primitive West New Gui Irince Mer REGISTRAR Fine leather gifts p imiriiri mrTrnr-" ' ami i.... sgegMcaaen i imnwi. ! M 1 - The Registrar with additional pocket ' for cuds, tickets and duplicate keys. California - Saddle Leather ' my .run iL for Week nea served only to embitter ref lations between the Netherlands . and . Indonesia. Indonesia de mands that the Netherlands, , from which it won its independ ence in 1949, hand over its part. of the world s second largest island. Indonesia asked the UN. to call on the Netherlands to re. sume negotiations. The Political committee voted 34-to 14 to ask the two countries to continue to , try to solve the dispute. Austra- lia; which holds the rest of New ; Guinea, vigorously ; supported,1 the Netherlands against the reso-' lution. Golden Eagle Astonishes Residents Cleveland,' O. (U.R) Subur ban Beachwood residents have' a right to be somewhat aston--ished. It isn't : every day you -see a golden eagle around your neighborhood. v " - The great bird, rare in North America, is' owned by Louis1 Gaeta, who was sent the, bird' by a friend in Montana.' " - ' Gaeta, a World War II Air ",. Force veteran, became interested ' 5n falconry while serving in Ger-' many and is training JeeebeL as the glowering bird is called, in ; that ancient sport. : ' ? During the day Jezebel is" moored to a perch in Gaeta s front yard and at night she is tethered on the front porch. - Raw meat is her fare. Jezebel has -an eight-foot'' wing spread and must be handled ' ., gingerly , because of her power-v ful claws and beak, which are enough to keep the most ardent' bird lovers at respectful cus--tances. - -. ': HOW AFOUT, DIXIE? Hattiesburg, Miss. (U.K- A ournalism student, Patty. Sue Flynn, made a survey of names on the enrollment list at Missis sippi Southern College. She found students named East, West , and North. But there wasn't one -South on this Deep South campus.- PEEttlAHEH? 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