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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) EDF0RDOlTRIBUirS "Everybody in Southern Oregon Rad Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY, Advertising Manager . T. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor EUC ALLEN JH, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editos RICHARD JEWETT. S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON, Sunday Editor GZRALP LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second dasa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ay Mail In Adranee: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3J0 Daily and Sunday One mentis 125 Sunday Only One year 330 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 Ona year 815.00 ' Daily and Sunday Ona month lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medror Official Paper OT jacason conniy ""United Press Full Leased Wire UTEM-RER ' OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLTOAY COMPANS". DC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, IjOs nmeia Seattle, Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. Flight o' Time Medford and aTackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. r 10 YEARS AGO Dee. 10, 1944 (It was Sunday) C. C Clemons, Medford, .elect ed president of Oregon Horticul tural society, and Medford chosen as site of 1945 conven tion. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot columns Every fog has its day, and the first one of 4he season here has had about a week. I 20 YEARS AGO Dae. 10. 1934 (It was Monday) George ' Porter takes high honors at Medford Gun club trap shoot; Bill Bates, T. E.-Daniels and Dr. Low tied for second dace. C. G. Smith, acting superin tendent of Medford schools, re port hopes dim for postseason football game between Medford High school and McKinley High school of Honolulu. ' 30 YEARS AGO . Dae. 101924 (It was Wednesday) - - . Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Palm, Med ford, leave San Francisco on start of round-the-world trip. N. H. Franklin, Medford, pres ident of Jackson County Sunday School association, calls for countywide meeting of ministers and Sunday school officials.' 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 10. 1914 (It was Thursday George Putnam and R. L. Ewing represent local sportsmen organizations at convention of State League of Sportsmen's clubs. From the Local and Personal column: The authorities were notified today of the theft of chickens from 10 hen houses in the southern part of the city. The work is laid at the door of hungry tramps. A couple of cases of wanderers entering restaur ants, eating substantial meals, and then refusing to pay for same, have been reported to the police. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report L More or fewer than 100 Commuryst leaders have so far been convicted under the Smith act of conspiring to overthrow the Government by force? 2. Mfost areas "depressed" from industrial shutdowns are in the East and Eastern Middle West, or in the South, or west of the Mississippi? 3. Sen. Knowland, G.O.P. leader of Senate, wants us to break relations with Russia now, or if it continues ' its present policies, or if it becomes even more anti-U. S.? 4. Tht Navy names its cruis ers for states, cities, naval heroes, fish, or qualities of char acter? 5. Republicans will remain chairmen of Senate and House committees until after the 1956 election fcr President; right or wrong? 6. The last great power to rec oganize the U.S. after its war of independence from England was England, France, Prussia, Russia or Spain? 7. John Calvin, the great Prot estant reformer, was a. French- or Swiss? The lnw(R- 1. SHahtlv few. er than 100 so far. 2. In the East arid Eastern Middle West. 3. Now. 4. For cities. 5. Wrong, they'll be replaced by Demo crats in January. 6. Russia. ?. Frenchman. , .. . . ' Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. MAIL TRIBUNE Worthwhile Effort ' Young people, like most growing things, do much better if cultivated and given proper attention. If they are to grow up to be good citizens, men and women of character; and with understanding of the necessity for effort," and if they are to have know-how and skills, they must have the help and guidance of older persons. Most of tfiese highly desirable qual ities can be acquired through home training, if the home is what it should be, and some are gained through the schools. But there is additional training and example available for the youngsters and thous ands of them are benefiting by this opportutiny of fered by the 4-H in Oregon and elsewhere. MEMBERSHIP in the 4-H jumped more than six . per cent in this state in the current year with a total of 26,120 boys and girls enrolled compared with 24,526 in 1953. : 'V:;- There was a considerable gain in the number of projects during the year and the number of clubs also went up from 3238 to 3402. The greatest gain was in clothing projects which are proving increasingly popular with the girls. In cluding knitting, the clothing numbers were 7787 in 1953 and 8896 this year. The number interested in knitting alone came .close to doubling itself, going from 531 members to 978. t Junior leadership percentage gains were outstand ing. In this project, which is designed to develop leadership ability in the 4-H club members, only 53 were enrolled last year and it was available in only a few counties. Expanded through the year, it at tracted 452 more than 8y2 times as many as in 1953; A few of the boys showed interest in some of the skills most commonly thought of as of interest only to the feminine gender 1508 of them enrolled in home economics, 559 went in for breakfast prepara tion projects and camp cookery, 122 signed up for luncheon preparation, 140 enrolled for bachelor sew ing, and 33 took knitting. , ' On the other hand, an even larger number of girls signed up for projects concerning the handling of livestock, a total of 2314. Of these many have shown outstanding ability. THERE must have been AASV M TT 1 1 r nearly zuu 4-i leaaers ana junior leaaers wno received service pins or certificates at the annual leaders' banquet Tuesday night at the Gold Hill Grange hall. The recipients were those who are de voting a portion of their time to teaching and train ing young people in the 4-H projects. Some have given years to the work. For all of the leaders the many accomplishments of their boys and girls serve as a heart-warming re ward for services rendered. -E.C.F. Coast Economy Growing Fast While it is realized that the Pacific coast states Washington, Oregon and California are experienc ing considerable economic growth, a recent survey of life insurance company investments in the region serves to emphasize just how vast and rapid the ex pansion really is. - ' - I IFE insurance companies, which nave huge sums of money that must be kept at work are allocating an increasing share of their. capital funds to, invest ments in the coast states. during and since the war the life, companies' stake in the area is now larger in relation to aggregate policy reserves back of contracts in force in these states, than in most sections of the country. At the start of this year, the companies had $7, 215,788,000 invested in somewhat of a cross section of the economy in the three states. This was an in crease of seven per cent, over the previous year and was two and one-third times the total invested in this region at the close of World War II. " At the start Of the. current year life insurance companies had $2,388,048,000 invested in the secur ities of business and industry of the region. This was three and one-half times the corresponding in vestment in 1945 and five times such holdings in 1938. - lfORTGAGE financing extended to Pacific region property owners by the life companies had risen to $3,251,689,000 at the start of this year, over seven times such financing outstanding 'at the end of World War II. This was an increase of $322,717,000 dur ing 1953 and was $2,800,000,000 more than at the start of 1946. . TTHE most important thing about all this money pouring in is that it helps to create more jobs to take care of our growing population. As the funds aid in establishment of new industries -and business enterprises and enlargement of those already set up nearly everyone benefits one way or another. . According to a United States Chamber of Com merce check made some time ago, for every 100 new industrial jobs provided, retail sales in the immediate area may. be expected to rise approximately $36Q,r 000, personal income $590,000, and bank ' deposits $270,000. An increase of 100 industrial workers may be counted on to mean around 174 new jobs in other lines of work, 112 more households and a population increase of 296 new purchasers of all manner of goods and services. E.C.F. j 1 NO CONFIDENCE ' Albany, N. Y.OJ.PJ Candi dates sometimes fail to vote for themselves. A canvass by the Albany. County . .Board - cf . Elec tions disclosed that no. votes for Republican committeemen were cast either in . the 13th or the 18th wards. Friday, Dcmbr 10, 1954 a special thrill . for the " 1 J1 1 As a result of investments COSTLY FILL-UP Portland, Me. (U.R) Mrs. Marion Neff backed into the gasoline station pump and then attempted to pull away - not realizing the hose Was caught in her bumper The pump top pled, 'and broken wires started a fire that did $350 damage. Support of Demand To Free 11 Americans Heads News for Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD - I. Nations outside the Iron Curtain came strongly to the side of the United States in its demand ; that the Chinese Communists free 11 American airmen imprisoned on fake spy charges. Under a United Nations resolution sponsored by 16 Allied countries which fought in Korea, Secretary General : Dag Hammarskjold will seek contact with the Peiping government in the " name of the U.N. British Delegate Anthony Nutting told the'General' Assembly: "These airmen are not just members of the American Air Force.; They are soldiers of the world organi zation. . Their lives, their free dom, their future, their safety is the responsibility of each and every one of us. They went forth to uphold our" cause. We jnust uphold theirs." Despite the ex plosive issues which still divide East and West,, President Eisen hower said at a press conference that the free world's fears of a global war are less than they were four years ago when he be came Allied supreme comman der in Europe. 2. French authorities had high hope that; the serious outbreak by nationalist terrorists in Tu nisia was nearing its end. Near ly all of 2,500 fellagha outlaws surrendered after a peace offer. A home rule program for Tuni sia is in prospect. 3. West Berliners dealt a knockout blow to the Commu nists in an election for a city parliament. The Reds got 2.7 per cent of the vote not enough to give them a single seat. In a comparable election in 1946 they polled 13.7 per cent of the vote. THE BAD 1. Premier Yoshida resigned as the result of a months-long Japanese political crisis. He was succeeded by Ichiro Hatoyama; an ultra-nationalist. Hatoyama is expected to continue close co operation with the United States. However, lie favors increased trade with Red China and So Babson . . Montgomery Ward New York City (Special to Mail Tribune Without doubt S. L. Avery is cranky at times, as is every reader of, this column wh eln reaching 80 years of. age ;He, however, :is doing a won derful job with Montgomery Ward. I cannot imagine how Brr w. Babsaa. any sensible stockholder can give his proxy to anyone else. ; ; The company has close to 600 stores and is one of. the great merchandisers ; of America. In these days I prefer merchandise stocks to any others. They are not dependent like a manufac turer on only a few products or habits. They are fairly free from . labor troubles and losses from changing styles. They also give investors an- important di versification of locations with stores in every state. Further more in case of World War III Montgomery Ward offers pro tection against bombing. In addition to this, the com pany is a bank crammed fuU of cash, bonds, and notes and ac counts receivable of nearly $500, 000,000. In fact, I. know of no company in the world like it. Under Avery's management it should be safer than any bank. All other "banks" report, as de posits, only the money belonging to others. These depositors could draw out their money and close the bank at any time. Their de posits really are debts which the bank" owes. Not so with Mont gomery Ward. As a stockholder in this company you are the de positor and own the cash. Readers Advised To ' Keep Nest-Egg of Cash Today the Dow-Jones Indus trial Average is higher than at its peak in 1929. Yet," the divi dends on these stocks minus the Federal taxes which the average investor must pay are less than in 1929. I'm not now forecasting any immediate crash; in fact, most of my friends here in New York are bullish as they were in December, 1928. But I surely do advise readers I : 2 3 1 EAST SI XTH ST. ' - I MUTTON .. -BEEF.. , VEAl SLICED ROAST STEAK ROAST BACON viet Russia. Further. Hatovama Jtiad to promise the Socialists,' wno supported, him, that he would call a general parliamen tary election. The election may leave the situation even more confused than it is now. ! - 2. The. new state of southern Viet Nam in Indochina was threatened by a .civil , war be tween supporters, and opponents of Premier Ngo . Dinh Diem, whom the. United States favors. A battalion of troops loyal . to Ngo rebelled against the army command. - Most of the army favors Gen. Nguyen Van Hinh, whom Ngo ousted. - 3.The Chinese "Communists started talking .tougher. Chinese Red Premier and Foreign Minis ter Chou. En-Lai denounced the new United States-Nationalist China defense treaty as a "grave, warlike provocation." Chou said that unless the United States withdraws all its armed forces from Formosa, the Nationalist stronghold, and the area adja cent to it, it will have to bear "all the grave consequences." The Peiping Radio said further that the Reds have no intention of freeing the American airmen they imprisoned as spies." Paris Agreement OKd by Committee Paris U.R) The Foreign Af fairs committee of the French National Assembly approved the Paris agreements rearming Ger many by the margin of a single vote today. The vote on the Western Euro pean Union was 16 to 15 with 11 abstentions. At the same time the commit tee approved the modified Bonn agreements restoring German sovereignty by a vote of 24 to 15 with three abstentions. The committee approved the agreement on the Saar by a vote of 24 to 6 with 12 abstentions. The votes represented a first victory ' in Premier ' Pierre Men- des-France s fight to get Assenv bly approval .of the Western Eu ropean Unions and German re' armament by Christmas. of this column' to keep a good nest-egg of cash just in case the unexpected should happen. Don't be like the Five Foolish Virgins of Bible days. See Matt. 25:1-13 Readers however answer my warnings by saying: ' ."But I need the income. My bank will pay 'me only from 1 to 3 I need more than this to live on." Then what is my answer? 'iBuy Montgomery Ward. So long as S. L. Avery is in control vou set a good dividend on your, money and yet have it practically in cash, or inventory, or valuable land. Furthermore, . if inflation comes and the value of the dollar declines, the value of the inven tory and land should increase So, whatever haDDens boom bust, or a continuance of present business I believe Monteomerv Ward is your best investment and protection." Parkless Shoppers - - - Turn To Mail Orders In addition to the 580 or more stores and the cash to which I have above referred, Montgom ery Ward has . one . of the two best cash mail order-businesses in the .world, amounting to about $350,000,000 annually. When you see automobiles with stickers: "No Parking No Shopping," or "Less .Shopping Less Local Jobs," it does not necessarily mean that the shoppers curtail their buying. In most cases they resort to mail orders again. Mail order buying however hurts your local merchants. Mail orders will continue on the increase due to the cussed inconvenience to shoppers of finding a parking place and the brutal manner in which- city au thorities are treating shoppers who are dependent UDon cars. It is reasonable to make ."all- day" or "half-day" parkers go to a public garage or . narking lot and pay a fee. But the pres ent system of using parking meters is driving shoppers away or causing them to co home with fewer purchases. Any merchants whose Christmas. business falls below last year's can blame it on their city government. Fail ure on the part, of city authori ties to . Drovide sufficient -fre parking space is the chief cause of business failures today. , - Is That So? By Eugane Burnt Ranger-Naturalist 1 A quiz it . iz! Twelve right makes you an expert; nine is ex cellent; seven is good. Questions are based on earlier columns. 1. Which of.: these animals may live a century: man, par rot, owl, vulture, eagle, ele phant, tortoise? - . 2. What do these words-have in common: sounder, pod, gag gle? . ; ." : .- . 3. Give the male, female and young names of these: peafowl, rabbit, seal. 4. True or false: Several mi grating birds, notably the swal lows of Capistrano, arrive at their destination at the same date, year after year." 5. Which of these statements is true: A; The Alaska fur-bearing seal can bolt down alive up to one third its weight. Bi. Males may be eight times as heavy as females. C. The mother's butter- fat ratio is about 12 times that aim of a domesticated cow. D. The female has two wombs, con ceiving in the rested one, shortly after giving birth. E. It may nurse its young once in three days. 6. True or false: Small ani mals such as mice, rats, squir rels, rabbits and birds average a life of less than six months. 7. In -which continent is the rattlesnake found: North Amer ica? South American? .Eurasia? Africa? Australia?. 8. A cubic mile of ccean contains approximately 2-, 10-, or 90, million dollars worth of gold. , , . . , ':. .. 9. Which of these mammals once roamed North America Sloths, mastodons, camels, horse, saber-toothed tiger? , . 10. -About how many insects have been classified: 100,000, 250,000, 500,000 or 650,000? 11. The world's human popu; lation totals today:. One and one- half 2-, m, or 3 biUion? ? True or False y 12. Which , of these state ments is true: The male sea horse has an . abdominal . pouch in which the female deposits her eggs and he hatches them. The male sea-catfish hatches the fe male's, eggs in his mouth. The male Siamese ' f igRting fish builds a bubble nest atop -the water in which he guards the female's eggs. 13. If you drive a nail into a tree trunk 5 feet from the ground when it is a sapling; it wiU move . upward steadily as the tree grows. Right or wrong? 14. Some birds lay - many eggs, some few. Pair up the bird with the number of eggs it cus tomarily lays: Hummingbird, robin, hornbill, quail 1, 2, 4, and 14 eggs. ANSWERS: 1. Infrequently, any one of these may live to be 100 years or more. -2. These are groups of ani mals: A sounder of pigs; a pod of whales, a gaggle of geese. " 3. Peafowl peacock, pea hen, peachick; rabbit buck, pup. ; '-:.. . ' . 4. False. "Occasionally,- ; the dates may" coincide. " But the dates are fairly close together, 5. All true. " 6. True -The average life span is amazingly short. Of course, each qne is capable of living much longer. 7. The rattlesnake is found in North and South South Amer ica only. . : . 8. A cubic mile of ocean cott tains slightly over $90,'000,000 worth of gold. 9. All of these animals once roamed North America. 10. About 650,000 insects have been classified. There are thousands more. ! 11. The world's human pop ulation is about 2.5 billion, r v' 12: Again, all of these fish statements are true. 13. The nail wUl remain at the same height. A true grows from the top. 14. The hornbill lays one egg; the hummingbird, two, the robin, four, the quail 14. Some In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Japan's pro-American premier Shigeru Yoshida, along with all his cabinet, resigns in the face of extreme pressure from both the right and the left (in political parlance, right means conserva tive, left means radical.) Apparently a middle of the road policy hasn't been popular in Japan. B UT- Yoshida's successor, Ichiro Hatoyama, is expected to try an even more tricky middle of the road maneuver. He favors diplo matic relations and increased trade with Russia and Red China within a framework of friend ship with the West, : 1 ' He wants no change in Japan's close military ties with the United States. But he wants TRADE with Communist Asia, which has always been Japan's big' customer. One would say offhand that he'll be good if he gets away with it. - - ; , -: H OW COME all this? Well, when Japan waded into war (at Pearl Harbor) she went out all-or-nothing , for Asia. As so often happens to a high-stakes gambler, she lost all. She ? lost the : war and she LOST HER MARKETS. A T FIRST, it wasn't so bad. Under wise and able General MacArthur, we were a friendly conqueror. We WPA'd Japan, in a. big way in the early years of the occupation. Thanks to our aid, the occupation situation wasn't too rugged. Came then Korea. Japan lived high up on the bog on the war boom resulting from the supply and maintenance of our troops during the. Korean war. While that lasted, everything was eco nomically rosy in the land of the Mikado. But with the end of the Korean war there came the in evitable return to an economy of peace. The return to peace is hurting. 117E KNOW something about " that. It was 'reflected in the voting at our recent election. of these birds hatch more than one brood a year. (Copyright, 1954. by Eugene Burns) : (Distributed by The McClure Newspapers) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia ; Americana, my panel judges will award each week to the reader who' sends me the best question on nature and wildlife this world famous reference work, in' a handsome Sealcraft binding Eash wttk, new ques tions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! cb Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. TWIN TROUBLE - Providence, R, I.-UU.PJ Pa trolman Raymond F. Bagley tried for more than a year to bring John Harrison to court on a speeding charge. But Harri son's .twin brother kept getting in the way. The patrolman never could be sure he was contacting the right twin. Then he won. Harrison's twin brother joined the armed forces. A Wonderful Gift Of Fabulous Music - - . . - f 1 " ' ' 60 fabulous performances never before on records , GLENN MILLER LIMITED EDITION VOL. II USE YOUR CHARGE ACCOUNT News Everybody loves a boom. Nobody loves the return from boom to normal. - : r The Japs don't like it any better than anybody else. . BEING HUMAN and having had democracy forced on4 them by the Americans they. follow the democratic way and take it out on the government. " ?, They've just taken their dis contents out on old Yoshida. JJESIDES We must remember The Japs have suffered a calamity which we being prac tically self-sufficient can not fully understand. Japan, like Britain, must LIVE BY TRADE. In their tiny and mountainous islands . less than 50 per cent largein area than the state of Oregon and with a population of more than ".SEVENTY, ; MIL LIONS they can produce only a microscopic share of their needs. - ; - . , ; The rest they must get by im porting raw materials and ex porting finished products. rjtHAT IS TO say, by trade When they lost their natural markets in Asia, they lost every thing. F WE'RE to keep the Japanese alive and KEEP THEIR FRIENDSHIP, it looks like we have three choices: - , : 1. Let them TRADE WITH US which so r far we havl shown no disposition to do. 2. Let them trade with all of Asia they can, including Red China, and hope they'll still keep their friendship with us. 3. Go on WPA'ing them. M AYBE there's another choice: TURN 'EM LOOSE. Let 'em go on their own. In that event, they'll probably wind up in the bosom of Commu nism which has . TRADE to offer to them. Trade, to the Jap; anese, is life itself. 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