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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEIFORIVt&TRIBUNl "Everybody in Southern Oregon Beada The Mtl Trtbnna" pubUsbed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager I. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor EUC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editoi RICHARD JEWETX. 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 aiarcn a, iovi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Adrance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Sunday Only One year 3.90 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comity United Press Full Leased Wire" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU - OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLDJAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NIWSrAMt J FUBUSHIftS ASSOCIATION (NATIONAL? EDIT TOIIAL :Cjtn 7 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. 8, 1944 Ot Was Friday) v Lt. Col.' Robert G. Emmens, "Medford, named to serve on Allied Control board for Ro mania. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The weath er is such that waterproof roofs and "powder-dry" shoes have started to leak. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1934 at "Was Saturday) "William A. Corthell, 89, Tal ent, a veteran of the Civil war " and a resident of Jackson coun ty for 45 years, dies while on visit In Los Angeles. Chamberlain Carr, Gold Hill, makes application for water from left fork of Lyons gulch f or gold mining operation. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 8., 1924 at Was Monday) Laurence J. DeRycke, Med ford, named to debating at Al bany college. Ada Brewster, county demon stration agent, organizes home economics club in Wellen dis trict. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 8, 1914 at Was Tuesday) . Stars of Rose Society vaude ville show include "Pop" Gates, Fletcher Fish, Dolph Phipps, Ed Andrews, Miss Carolyn An . drews, Sprague Riegel, Mrs. A. Conro Fiero, and Alfred Carpen ter. - , " From the Local and Personal column: - Five wandering gents were Quartered in the city iail Monday night and the total ag gregate wealth of the outfit was 20 cents. "One of the number a middle-aged man, was obsessed with the religious ideas, and kept repeating over and over the ap propriate bi of Scripture for him, reading "The birds of the air have nests, and the foxes have holes, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay His head." What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. !9S4. Editorial Research Report 1. At least one state in the South has more Negro than White public school pupils; right or wrong? 2. A two-thirds vote . in the Senate is needed to ratify a peace treaty. It is or isn't need ed also for a declaration of war? 3. Most poultry and eggs mov ing to wholesale markets go by truck or train? 4. Hippocrates and Galen were notable in ancient Greece in philosophy, architecture, the drama, medicine, or astronomy? 5. Does the Constitution, or an act of Congress, or neither, prescribe that a Supreme Court justice be a lawyer? 6. Most states bar drivers lic enses for epileptics; s right or wrong? ' 7. Daniel Webster -compiled gg a famous dictionary; right or wrong? The answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Jin't (majority vote needed in both houses.). 3. Almost all by truck. 4. Medicine. 5. Neither. 6 Right 7 Wrong (thai was Noah Webster) MAIL TRIBUNE S-D Jackson county drivers will have to be more care ful than they were the same day last year if they are to do their part in the nation-wide campaign to make December 15, "S-D Day" (Safe-Driving Day), com pletely free of traffic accidents. The date has been designated by President Eisen hower's Action Committee for Traffic Safety for an all-out effort to dramatize the possibilities in saving of life and property when proper care and caution are exercised by motorists and pedestrians. On December 15 of last year there were six traffic accidents in Jackson county. Four of them, involving property damage only, occurred within city limits, and two accidents, one involving property damage and the other causing injuries to three persons, oc curred in rural areas. In Oregon as a whole there were 163 accidents and 28 persons were injured during the day. In the nation 104 were killed. CTRICT observance of all written laws governing traffic, and the unwritten laws of courtesy on the streets and highways will without doubt cut the traffic toll for the day. And it is figured that if the toll can be reduced on one day of the year by strict observance and enforcement plus courtesy, it can be held to a minimum on all other days of the year by the same methods. -It is high time for something to be done to jolt Americans out of their seeming acceptance of traffic accidents as an unavoidable consequence of present day life. ' 'At least a partial result of this defeat attitude last year, was the killing of 38,300 men, women and chil dren in traffic accidents. That was more than all the American servicemen killed or missing in action dur ing the three years of the Korean war. NOTHER reason why dangers of discourteous fact that the number of fatal mishaps per mile of travel is increasing rapidly, right along with the in creasing number of motor vehicles. - It took this countiy a half century to register the first millionth traffic death. That was in 1951. But at the present rate, only half as long will be required to kill the second million, according to the president's Action Committee for Traffic safety. WHILE the traffic fatality toll is bad enough, the nnwlai f linca fnfiirorl ic arvnallrrtcr Last, vasiiv 1,350,000 persons were disabled to at least some ex tent. With about 55,000,000 vehicles rolling along the nation's roads in 1953 there were nearly 10,000,000 traffic accidents. The government estimates that there will be around 85,000,000 trucks and cars by 1975, 21 years from now. If traffic smashups and death and iniury continue to increase as the number of machines grows, 1975 will resemble Carry ing Perfection Too Far ., Farmers and those interested in agricultural pro gress are constantly striving for perfection in their products more bushels per acre of grain, cattle, with more and better meat, larger and tastier fruit, bigger and better vegetables. All of these and many other fruits of the soil are selected, cultivated, fertilized and finally harvested with care and devotion. Our own Prof. F. C. Reimer, for instance has spent years in research, experimenting with and growing pears, striving - and with considerable success to produce, among other things, fruit with Ted-tinged skinsr an attribute highly desired in order to catch the consumer's eye. OUCH efforts, as long as they merely give nature an assist, are highly commendable for there is ulti mate' benefit for everyone. But the two Pecatonica, 111., brothers went too far. Jointly named as the na tion's corn kings at the International Livestock Ex position in Chicago, it was later discovered that their 10-ear entry, picked as the most nearly perfect of hundreds of samples, wasn't as perfect as first sup posed. Some of the kernels had been glued on-the cob. E.C.F. , Winter Vacations Although the "good old summer time" has always been thought of as vacation time, more and more Ore gonians are taking time off in the winter. They don't all hie themselves to distant warm spots in the south either; thousands of them are enjoying winter sports and scenery nearer home. A large number of Oregon coastal accommoda tions have special rates during the winter months for the benefit of those who like to watch winter storms or take a few days rest during the off-season vaca tion months. At times there is delightful winter wea ther along the coast with warm and sunny days," just right for hiking along the beach, hunting for agates, driftwood and other things washed in by heavy seas. ONOW sports, of course, beckon the largest number of winter vacationers. The United States Forest service reports that last winter saw a record attend ance at Oregon winter sports areas with a total of 312,910 people counted. E.C.F. Lands Claimed Ruined Chicago (U.R) Ovier-irrisa- tion has ruined production on thousands of acres of farmland, a Department of Agriculture en gineer said. William F. Long, a drainage engineer of the Soil Conserva tion Service, said large tracts of fertile soil become water -soaked Wednesday December 8, 1934 Day we need to wake up to the or reckless driving is the a war year without guns." By Over-Irrigation and useless year after year and can be reclaimed only through installation of proper drainage works. . Long told the. American So ciety of Agriculture Engineers meeting yesterday that adequate drainage systems range in cost from $15 to $50 an acre. Is That So? In Monday's column we dis cussed animals which hastened man's development the domes ticated dog, pig, cattle, reindeer, sheep, "goat - and cat. Besides these, today we will discuss others which helped him along the way to becoming civilized. Without having concentrated food, transportation, and draft animals to help till the soil, man could not have lived in compact communities and he never, could have attained his present state of culture. THE DONKEY: One of the first creatures, of burden, it was perhaps first ; domesticated in Egypt, long before the Egyptians knew of the horse. The early 1 ass must have been a swift ani mal in early art it is shown hitched to a chariot with four wheels about 3,000 B. C. The wild ass still living in northern Africa may well be its ancestor. From the middle east, it spread quite rapidly and was known in England during the reign of Ethelred. HORSE: Once hunted, for its flesh, it may have originated in Mongolia where it still exists in a limited area although its for mer range was extensive. The wild ass of the Gobi desert has a horse-like appearance.; The re lationship between the horse and the ass, after all, is quite close: they can interbreed and produce offspring, the mule. In America where once a small pre-historic horse lived, the wild horse is of course the offspring of horses brought to Mexico by the Spaniards in the early 1500s. CAMEL: The progenitor of the one-humped camel became ex tinct as a wild animal so long ago that its original habitat is a matter of conjecture but t it is generally believed to be Arabia. The two-humped camel, found in the desert regions of central Asia, may have originated in that area. Elephant Easily Tamed "ELEPHANT: Largest of all domesticated animals, curiously, it is the most easily tamed and trained.t Practically ,'all captive elephants are caught . as adult animals and within a few months of capture are sufficiently docile to be worked. Its origin is south eastern Asia. (The African ele phant, less subject to domestica tion, comes from southern Afri ca.) v' r-"' u LLAMA: In South America where the wheel was never in vented, the llama, a descendent of the larger and more hand some guanaco of Ecuador, Peru and the plains of Patagonia, was domesticated by. the Peruvians. Females were usually reserved for their flesh and milk; males for burden. . BIRDS: Numerous domesti cated birds have . proven : their value to mankind. Falcons have been used by man more than 3,000 years to help him capture prey. In the Orient, "the deep diving ' cormorant has -been taught to catch fish. ; From the wild, duck, or mal lard, have .'descended; all the present breeds of the " domesti cated duck with the T lone ex ception of the muscqvy duck, which comes from Mexico and South America. Geese stem from the gray lag, widely-, distributed European species. The chicken stiU used in some places for foreseeing and fore telling, harks back to the wild red jungle fowl of India and Burma, being domesticated per- Mendes Orders Haste In BigTour Parley Paris U.R) Premier ; Pierre Mendes-France gave his ambas sador to Russia last minute in structions today to speed up France's "parallel" efforts to ar range a new Big Four' confer ence. ' The foreign ministers of the United States, France and Brit ain scheduled a meeting here next week to work out a com promise between tte hurry up efforts of France and the ' go slow inclinations of Britain and America. Mendes - France c a 1 1 e d in French Ambassador Louis Joxe for a long talk at the Quai d Orsay this morning before send ing him back to Moscow this afternoon. mm wm Slabs and Rough Bfox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood f Big Double Load or. Single Load. Tel. , 2-2111 By Eugene Bums Ranger-Naturalist haps 3,500 years ago. The guinea fowl comes from west Africa and the turkey from Mexico. INSECTS: No small role has been played by insects. The silk worm, of great antiquity, origi nated in China where it was carefully guarded for many cen turies before it reached Japan and thence India and the rest of Europe. - ' Less known, the cochineal, a little native insect of Mexico, feeds on cactus and is valuable for its dying properties. Like the turkey, it was taken to Europe by the Spaniards. But of even older origin, per haps, is the honey bee which, supposedly, is of Asiatic origin. For ages past, it ha been culti vated extensively for honey. In many places today it is rented to pollinate orchards. (Copyright, 1954, by Eugene Burns) (Distributed 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 of world-famous , reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. . In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Ho! Hum! " I'm afraid it's that kind of day in the news. For example: An Oregon man (name omit ted) has just sent a five dollar bill to a hotel at Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he once worked. In a letter accompany ing the five-spot, he says: . v "I needed some money one time and I didn't ring up a few dimes on a few occasions. . . I hope this will be satisfactory to you ... I wUl now feel that I've done the right thing." , TWO Questions: Was it his conscience that was prodding him? " Or was it a desire for a little publicity? I hope it was the former. Still- There are so MANY publicity seekers in this modern world. We'd be better off, I think, if there were FEWER of them. TNfA statement made in New Orleans Paul Butler, the new Democratic " national chairman, questioned President Eisenhow er's ability to govern or to unite the American people. , Today Sen. H. Alexander Smith Vcalls - Butler's statement "a reflection on the American voter's capacity to elect capable officials." TF I were you, gentlemen, I'd A just consider the source and let it go at that. It's Butler's-bus-mess to question the ability of ANYBODY BUT A DEMOCRAT to govern and unite the Ameri can people. . That's politic as; the game is played ; ;:; HERE'S an interesting con trast: From Washington in the unitea states of America: President Eisenhower has signed an executive order eivino all federal workers Friday, De cember 24, as a fuU holiday and tne aiternoon of Friday, Decem ber 31, as a half holidav. From Communist rulers of Czechoslovakia are , toughening up men policy because produc tion Isn't high enough. They de cree that workers can't have tho afternoon ) before Christmas off unless they have fulfilled their preduction quotas and they add that New Year's Day is to be considered a normal WORK DAY. TIERE'S what it means: In free enterprise , America PRODUCTION is Droceedin n satisfactorily that an extra day ana a naif off during the holiday season can be easUy afforded. In Communist-ruled ',Czecho slavakia production is proceed ing so UNSATISFACTORILY that everbody has to go on work ing even on New Year's Day. : - TTEEP this in mind: You can't divide what isn't produced, i v -.. .; ": ' Free Americans are able to PRODUCE MORE than enslaved Communists. : So free Americans can HAVE MORE than enslaved ' Commun ists. - . . FUEL CO. Court & MeAndrevrs' 7 Japan Entering New Phase in Post Political History By CHARLES M. MC CANN United Press Foreign Analyst "Mr. One Man" is out and Japan is entering A new phase of its post-war political history. Prime Min ister , Shigeru Yoshida , has been forced to resign at a critical time in East Asia. It looks as if there may be a period of po litical instabil ity in : Japan, which will end Charles Mclann only with a general parliamentary election if it ends then. For the United States, the big question is which way Japan will head in the next few months in its foreign relations. There is every reason to hope the country will contiue its close relations with the United States, and continue to build up its new army to meet the threat of Com munist aggression. But United States-Japanese re lations are unlikely to be as close as they were under Yo shida. May Ask Closer Red Ties There is likely to be a demand for greatly increased trade and improved diplomatic relations with Communist China and Rus sia. It was with sorely wounded pride that Yoshida gave up the prime ministry. He fought stub bornly, during a long, political crisis, to keep his job. In the end, he was forced out by members of his own Liberal party. To make things worse, Japan's new political strong man is Ich iro Hatoyama, Yoshida's one time close friend and present bitter enemy, "Mr. One Man," as Yoshida is called because he likes to run Crab Fishermen Vote Acceptance of Offer Newport, Ore. (U.PJ Most crab fishermen voted tentative acceptance, of an offer by two canneries here in a price dispute that has kept boats in port for the past several days. , New England' Fish" company and Harold Penter Fish com p a n y offered 11-cents-a-pound for crab, but the Point Adams company stuck to its 10-cent offer. . j Fishermen had refused to work when prices dropped from 12 to 10 cents a pound. Another meeting was schedul ed here today and fishermen will talk over the 11-cent offer with other crab men from Depoe Bay, Reedsport, Coos Bay and Port Orford. v GRAHAM TO QUIT Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) Otto Graham, the first' player signed by the Cleveland Browns and the key performer in the team's unprecedented string of eight straight division titles, said today he definitely wUl be "through with football" at the end of the current National League season. "I've never said it so definitely before," Graham said he as prepared to lead the team - against the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday in a game that could clinch Cleveland's ninth pennant in . as many tries. Investment madi by tht 10th of th month earn divi dends First. at of the 27 V i ir It k Wa things all by himself, had been premier for six years and seven weeks longer than, any -previous premier in Japanese history. At 76, it might be thought Yo shida would be ready for a rest. But he was not what seems to be his permanent 'retirement from politics was far from his mind. " ' - Political Mess PoliticaUy, Japan is In some thing of a mess. Yoshida's Lib eral party now has 185 seats in the 467-seat House of Representa tives, which, runs the country as the House- of Commons does in Great Britain. The Socialist par ty is split. The left wing has 72 seats, the right wing 61. Hato yama's new Japan ' Democratic party nas 120 seats. ' The word from Tokyo is that 71-year-old Hatoyama almost certainly will be selected pre mier by the House,. with the aid of the Socialists. Yoshida's own candidate is Taketora Ogata, No. 2 man under Yoshida in the Lib eral party. But" many Liberals really prefer Hatoyama, and he may become leader of a coalition of Liberals and his own Demo crats. ' . TTatnvamft ramA ni Valn " KJ Ll y premier in 1946. But Gen. Doug las Mae Arthur purged him be cause of his ultra-nationalist rec ord. Hatoyama had formed the liberal tiarty. When he was purged, he chose Yoshida to re place him as leader. He was de- . rv 1 Z 1AE1 TT , ... fuigcu ixi xaji. xie Drose witn Yoshida and formed his own party. - SANTA STOLEN Lima, Ohio (U.R) Santa Claus was reported missing to day. Joseph Uhl, a florist, told police that a wooden Santa, six ieet tail, was stolen from in front of his greenhouse Tues day. - . 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