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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordITribuki "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph Edltot RICHARD JEWETT. SporU 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. lSS? SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One' year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Tnree raos a.DU Daily and Sunday Onemontb 2i Sunday Only One year 3.50 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 $1S.(HI Daily and Sunday One month 1.29 Carrier and Dealers 5c pet copy All Terms Cash In Advance . Official Paper of the City of Medfori" Official Paper of Jackson County United Press FuH Leased Wire1"1 MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLtDAY COMPANY, DfC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle, Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NIWSPAPlt FUlliSHEKS ASSOCIATION EOITOIIAL gap c5TiN 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. 15, 1944 - ' Nine newly elected directors of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce include Seth Bullis, A. M. Cannon, D. L. Flynn, Herb Grey, E. H. Hedrick, John P. Moffat, B. L. Nutting, M. T. Wray, and H. S. DeueL From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot colum: A number of goose hunters threaten to talk turkey with the bureau crats on the shotgun shell situa tion. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 15. 1934 (It was Saturday) County officials including Treasurer A. C. Walker, Clerk Geitge Carter, Judge Earl B. Dq Commissioners Ralph Bill ings and Emmett Nealon, and Engineer Paul Rynning leave for Portland, to attend state meet ing. University of Hawaii football team, coached by Blaine Klum, former Medford High school coach, defeats Denver univer sity before largest football crowd in Hawaii's history. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 15, 1924 (It was Monday) Medford city council approves use of $13,500 for purchase of new pumper truck fire, depart ment. Carcasses of 15 reindeer ar rive from Alaska and go on sale in Medford meat markets. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 15. 1914 (It was Tuesday) Members of Medford fire de partment weaving a shawl, to be presented as a Christmas gift to Miss Clara Woods of the Med ford National bank. From the Local and Personal column: All high school dances have been called off until fur ther notice as a result of a re cent rumpus at a dance held in the hall over Daniels for Duds. The trouble followed the inva sion of a freshman dance Dy up per classmen. The local lodge oc cupying the hall seeks damage for a number of spears broken during the disturbance. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of Iht 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. More Americans will die in 1955 .from cancer, polio, " tuber culosis or auto accident? 2. About five, ten, 15 or 20 per cent of all new cars sold are station wagons? 3. Jesus of Nazareth was prob ably born in what is now B.C. or A.D., or on the dividing line B.C. or A.D.? 4. Isaak Walton was a famous physicist, jockey, fisherman, character in i novel, or rabbi? 5. About 10,' 20, 30, 40, or 50 per cent of all children in public schools get there by bus? 6. The enormous Pentagon Building of the Defense Depart ment has four, five, six, seven or eight sides? 7. A prestidigitator picks pock ets, does tricks with his- hands, forges signatures, puts creases in clothes, or runs a printing press? 1. Auto accidents. 2. About five per cent (last year). 3.' B.C. 4. Fisherman. 5. About 30 per cent. 6, Five. 7. Does tricks with his hands. N ATI O N A MAIL TRIBUNE A Needed Object Lesson It will be interesting to motorists and pedestrians hower's plea that today.be uay. ah agencies tnrougnout the country which re ceive accident reports will send, them in to central stations for tabulation lennwn snnn affpv pIosp uv it www uavva vvwv . i 1 i tonignc. In Oregon the county and state police will forward accident reports to the secretary of state's office in Salem at stated intervals during the 24-hour period. The totals will be released to newspapers and j." pleted. DEGARDLESS of what omer news meaia as. soon V hecrnnrl nr harlTWeTYilW ic a nan-imlo-rlv black month in the country's traffic record books and one m which more than the December of last year led accident fatality total or states showed thafin annroximatelv one out of cverv four accidents, either the mvOlVea haa Deen armKing. But there will be other 01 WhlCh It Will De JUSt as i t . -a nreidents as at. this timp .Artnallv. t.hp. lmnnrtanep. of caution in traffic becomes because of the increasing on the roads and highways. Oregon, for instance registered and it is estimated that by 1975 there will u 110c onn TiV.--w fi-, n foi -P sk nnn nno UC X, J.i,vvfV. iui. uic uouuii) a tuwi .ut vvjuv v cars, trucks, buses and other vehicles is forecast. - SAFE-Driving Day was proclaimed for the purpose sLnr? dese . , . j t v abUlty to rule, troops and police - ui oiiuvvuiK ucuuic uiaii awiutuu iai& tuu i nave lougni eacn otner. an reduced. Let's hope the effort brings results, not only V, -.TTo-rr H orl n mc wajr ui "vm auxx fiufwy coysu.iuuoj, wwo an ooject lesson wnicn win oe lasting. Ti.u.r. Milk Controls The coming legislature rlir nf inilV voomlafinn Tvnrnsn1s fnr 4ra pnnsirlpratinn judging by the number of vi gumuuwviiu uuu . aummu; aummmw. , i result of the confabs, since the state control law was voted out in November, resolutions and recommenda- tions have been piling up rapidly and there is time for drafting still more before the lawmakers convene Tonnnnr 1ft ' " ' -w. ' . . . At a recent meeting m gon Dairymen's association, miun' onnw.no Avnnnn. V.am mora nmnned b In Hon given oivyoj. xivxS vxiii KysicpwBw w B and C grade milk from the fluid market, to make it unlawful to add water to milk, giving the agricultural department authority to condemn unfit equipment, authority to stop continued ji 1 i l 1 dairy plant laws pending a court decision on an ap- neal, increasing price differentials between grades, and permitting one-cow owners to sell surplus milk Qhucks! The entertainments to neighbors without meeting Grade A regulations. F?mXV ' ' what a do-gooder will take a WHILE some segments of the dairy industry may notion to do. -rtolintrt rnononfmntlf rcf vavinns rPOnlfltinTlS Tld w.rTn , w liiu t v."Mwiiiiv vr, ,mwv- ve -- r FLt teletype, goes on; .- controls, to apply in. addition to existing sanitary 1 in charlotte, n.c, last night laws, is advisable, those who have surveyed the sit- a ywcA group singing Christ- .. 7 i i -i ii,i mas carols in the streets noticed uation on the national level are of the opinion that something slightly off in the freer and more flexible milk marketing would bring performance, a little investiga lower prices to the consumer, would increase milk tion disclosed that one giri,; per- dnnkmg, and also do much the entire nation. v An article in a recent says investigation in 16 milk-pfoducing areas across the country has shown that even though the U.b. ex- pects a 5.5 billion pound milk surplus this year, Amer- icans, by and, large, do not drink all the milk they j mil ; 1- rp; unt iiu neea. lfle mam leaauu, eavo j.iuic, kets all over the nation have been- saddled with con- trols that create artificially SUmptlOn. Time found that state more restrictive than the federal system, are a patch- WOrk Of. politics and protection for local milk pro- UUCclo. Wisconsin IS cited as highly efficient mass production and distribution methods, could deliver fresh milk in Manhattan for 11.2 cents a QUart Wholesale (almost One Cent less fV, xw V.l- nmVa wiion mc icw xwix pi. t two. Israeli fighters over a for keeps all Wisconsin milk OUt. , ; bidden zone of the Israeli coast. The Time article points American families must buy milk, ; whatever , the price. But consumers have demonstrated that - they buy more milk when the price goes down. And that when the price dropped as much as three cents a quart in Kansas City, Mo., last year, sales of milk promptly .noQ 7 A .arif - . rose i.k per cent. , . , m . ; -7V: . - , ' ' '' , UNIVERSITY of Illinois agricultuial economist "who surveyed milk-nriciner in fifty cities last. year. found that prices were invariably, higher where state Controls existed. . , Washington State's agriculture director, Hlong with some other milk experts, advocates more use of the federal marketing law faimer, but allows efficient SavmgS On to housewives. ' . AS a writer in the Farm Journal summed up the situation: All the milk now being produced can be sold to consumers if the artificial obstacles are removed. ; v . This evidence' should be tiori when the legislators start mulling over the flood r . of. milk bills now being drafted for Oregon. E.C.F. , Wednesday, Deeeafctr 13, 1834 learn how mud! attention paid -to President Eisen observed as Safe-Driving: and the results should be nf - to hnnVc of -rYii1 vw - Nwa.o MW JA-l-lvlXlXcLll V ; . - -- - sheriffs, chiefs of police . -i i , - as laouiauons are com today's accident record may usual caution is necessary, all other months with an 9,400. Reports from 21 motorist or the pedestrian months and days, in each important to guard against , ., i .1 more evident e-toyr, number of motor vehicles - now has 750,000 .vehicles i-,y.QvfiT ooiml fr,1o-.r Knf 9C will have a plentiful sup meetings being held by ' , - Jt ' Salem, called by the Ore- a number of bills were breaking of fluid milk or J I to improve the health oi issue , of Time magazine high prices and cut con- x controls, "which are far .. I a . State which, because Of "Rtif Mom VnrV cfofo lo-nr out that for health's sake, which protects the dairy distributors to. pass their , . given careful cohsidera- M- fv - V"r v ier warn Unless French Go All Out To By CHARLES' M. McCANN United Press- Foreign Analyst That was a grim prediction which the incomins chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Com- ' mittee made on his return from Indo china. "It is my personal opin- ion that Viet Nam is lost un less the French get out 100 per cent political ly, economical ly . and mili Charles Mctann tarily," Rep. James P. Richards said LroUoSg1 devI!opmIntsWS indochma would be inclined to ,e'veiy confidently against viet Nam, one of the three states of Indochina, was parti- l-- The Communist rebels got the Viet Nam government and the H..M wwuwviiiuv French. Viet Nam has been getting pro- gressiveiy worse. chaos, it is involved in a crisis which involves the government, e. Army and the powerful re- Migious Sects. ' while Emperor Bao Dai basks on me rrencn Kiviera. anH army battaiiion has rebelled and seizea a town ana irench armor- ed trains have been held ud bv dissident army elements. At the same .time northern Viet Nam, under Communist leader Ho Chi Minh, is being converted into a Ked stronghold. with a firm government and a powerful army. f Tfg Dciv's By FRANK JENKINS Let's start off on the frivo lous side this morning tn England, the inmates of A the grim old prison at Maid- stone are oeing treated to a se- ries of holiday season entertain- ments. considering ail the cir- cumstances, the choice of sub- M ;o - " '"c uuix oxue. The prisons saw a profes sional strong woman give a dem- "atBA1Rn HOW TO BEND is to be a lecture by a society Vincoce on Vi5c thorn.- "OTTT hostess on this theme: 'ut about in London. south than charlotte, was add- ing a word to the opening line P2V - oh - iiv v town 0f Bethlehem." mHArs an right, honey chile, 1 Singin' it "Lir or town of Bethlehem" makes what hap- pened in the manger at Bethle- hem seem more real and living to you, i reckon the angels that are hstemn win understand. VTOW let's get serious. . pilot and four out of nine Arabs being detained after their Syrian airliner was forced down by Is- raplt . fiVhtpr nlanps nar Te Aviv. The dispatch does'nt ex- g five of the Arabs we An Israeli spokesman says the Plane, on its way from Damascus to i taiTo, was mtercepted by Tfe pane's c?Ptain mes tn StiSS the night. T supposf. vou must havi. no. ticed that in this controver- s5a modem world whenever somebody on one side makes a statement somebody on the oth- tT sidp rlpnips it and save that it didn't happen that way. ; in ihes d of fa i0us communications there is1 worldwide forum, provided by TFt'flVf ing public opinion is com- Ung to be recognized by every- Jll . Whenever anybody on one side makes a statementon a con- troversiai subject somebody on fndeSe facts were otherwise. tion: ' How, are the, coinmon ZSils m' V ' . ' 1 seen Lost Save It Ho's agents are . spreading throughout Indochina, trying to undermine the governments of southern Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. France retains its hold in Laos and Cambodia for the present but its hold on southern Viet Nam is weakening. France has recognized Viet Nam as a fully independent and sovereign state Inside the French Union, which is modeled after the British Commonwealth of Nations. Under the Geneva agreement. elections are to be held in the summer of 1956 in both northern and southern Viet Nam. They are to determine the future gov ernments of the Communist and non-Communist states. Many Things Can Happen But it is only too evident that many things can happen in south ern Vie Nam before that. The Viet Nam government in formed the United States in Sep tember that it wants the entire French expeditionary force to get out by March, .1956. The Vietnamese want to put their de fense in the hands of their own army. . , President Eisenhower sent Gen. J. Lawton Collins, Army chief of staff, to Indochina to Indochina to survey , the situa tion. It is expected that Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will go there soon to join CoUins. Under present plans, the Unit ed. States is preparing to under take the training of the Viet Nam army. France, naturally, is not too enthusiastic over that prospect, even though it probably will have to go along with it. Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles will talk over the situation with Premier Pierre Mendes-France. during the North Atlantic Treaty conference in Paris this week. But unless things change, Ho Chi Minh may decide Vit Nam's future. - NgWS T THINK perhaps we'U aU have to think of ourselves as jurors. ) In a trial, you know, the prose cution alleges that the defendant is guilty and summons witnesses to prove its contention. The de fense aUeges that the defendant ISN'T guilty and summons wit nesses to prove ITS contention, f The jurors have to consider both sides and decide which set of alleged facts is true and which set isn't true. A good juror uses COMMON SENSE in arriving at his decision. J THINK in this controversial modern world if we are to avoid complete confusion we'll have to listen increasingly , to both sides and then use our own common sense in arriving at an idea of what is true and what is mere smoke screen. I THINK that is especially true in the case of politics where the ins contend that they ought to be KEPT IN and the outs con tend that they should be PUT IN. 4Ms . fS?oS oq VJo w o roS ) EVERETT McGEE - LEE SHAEFER - FEATURING MOVING Taken Trip Communications r Letters to the Editor mint bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of -a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Loved and Lost To the Editor: Penelope (Pen nie) Beatrice, died this morning. Someone said she was just a dog. Maybe so, but only ! those who have loved and been loved by a dog, with its particular kind of unquestioning, unwavering de votion could understand our loss. : In the years we've had this golden cocker, "our little red head," we called her, she has been a hunting partner and thank you, Pennie, for all the birds we'd not have had except for your cooperation a com panion and a friend to us, a play mate, baby sitter and confidante to the children, who younger than she have never known a time when we "were Pennie-less. Her - good-neighbor policy of learning the boundaries of our property and staying within their limits, in the three places we've lived during her lifetime, has won. her many friends and caused no friction in our neigh bored friendships. She'd have been 15 years old in May, and I understand we're lucky, that 14 years plus, with one dog is quite a while, Though they've sped by they're packed with memories, comical, happy and sad in these last days when we knew the time had come to say goodbye. An acquaintance says, "don't get attached to another one, it's just too hard to see them go." The happiness, fun and joy we got from Pennie outweighs the rest and I think it proves the old quotation, '"Tis better to have loved and lost, than neVer to have loved at all," even ap plies to "just a dog," anyway if it's your own particular dog. Ernestyn Charley, Rt. 2, Box 388D Medford, Ore. Communist Issue Claimed Exploited Washington J(U.R The , staff of the House Un-American Acti vities committee has prepared a report charging that right-wing "hate groups" are exploiting the Communist issue "to promote other activities equaUy subver sive and equally un-American." The report, which still is awaiting committee , approval urges the Justice Department to prosecute one of these groups under the. Smith Act forbidding any conspiracy to overthrow the government by force. If said subversion cannot be combated by subversion, and that advocates vof Fascism, as well as of Communism, are of "grave" concern to the com mittee. COMMUNIST MOVIE ; . . London U.R) Moscow Radio announced yesterday the Soviet Ministry of Culture will launch its second festival of Chinese Communist movies in Moscow Dec. 20 with a showing of the latest feature in from Shanghai entitled, "Hack off the Paws of The Devil." . .1 LARRY no n m dd' Just Returned from Jamaica AT THE CHURCH of CHRIST PHOENIX, OREGON ' BEGINNING " ' DEC. 13 at 7:30 P.M. PICTURES of JAMAICA by LARRY BAIRD on Recent. to This Mission Field Is That So? , Many popular superstitions are based upon animals. For example, a rabbit's foot is supposed to bring good luck. This belief harkens back to an cient days when the rabbit was recognized as an emblem of fer tility, with procreative powers vastiy superior to aU other ani mals of its size. - Naturally the foot, which came in touch with Mother Earth, supposedly the giver of aU life, was the rabbit's most sacred part, . Cats of old, worshipped by Egyptians, wore jeweled decora tions . on their ears and were accorded the rank of human members of the family. Upon death, their eyebrows were shaved, they were embalmed, given elegant funerals, and laid to rest in a cat mortuary one of which, recently excavated, con tained 180,000 feline mummies. But the belief graduaUy grew that among cats the black ones stood for evil. The pre-potent master of eviL Satan, was said to go about frequentty disguised as a cat.' Hence, need I add, to have a black cat cross one's path au tomatically consigned him t& misfortune unless he sensibly changed his direction so as not to cross the path the cat made. The belief that babies are brought by the stork originated perhaps in northwestern Europe where the stork is revered as an omen of sood. although even aerlier, in Roman mythology, the stork was sacred to Venus god dess of love, and whenever a pair of these birds built their nest atop a house it bespoke Venus' blessing. : ; GraduaUy in the Netherlands the belief grew that a stork al ways flew over a house where birth was about to take place. Hence the legend that the stork brought the baby probably grew out of this superstition. Lucky Hortftho . Then there's the lucky horse shoe. Its power for good may have come from one or two ori gins: First, The shoe, which re sembled a crescent moon, was in itself a bringer of good fortune; Second, St. Dunstan, a monk who shod horses, recognized the devil who had taken the form of a horse and in shoeing it extract ed a promise from the devil that he would never enter or disturb a building on which the horse shoe had been hung. . , ..' Whatever luck the shoe may carry, it is courting bad luck to HILTON GRAVELY ILL - Lone Beach. Calif. U.R) - English-born author James Hi! ton, ! under : treatment for a "type" of general infection," was reported in - -extremely grave" condition today at Sea side hospital. . - -'- MIKISTERS By Eugtnt Bbmt Ranger-Naturalist approach a horse rjuickly from the rear without talking gently. (Released by McClure News paper 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 cdmplete 30-volume set of this 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 our ques tions to: IS THAT SO! c'o Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. - 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 period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. . The suggested scripture reading for today is: . John 15. ronson : Whirlwind ' $Q50 :. O up , $1.00 A Weekly : We Given Northern Stamps OPEN TIL 9 P.M. ; WEDNESDAY . Chapman : jewglers s 109 East Main - Phone 2-5623 I" J 5 C;xl . IIRTH$?ONt rv' 1 $I 0CWIKl . -t S1.00 WtEKlT? ft 1 Stimwufi f Vl4. COSTUME J ffi&T j JEMEUT I dL $195 I i SPECIAL ' j SAVINGS : y ' ' lt . I, . S few' y: PEARLS W ' $195 " .1
