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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforivCvTbibuki "Everybody id Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. - Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E- C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph EditOf RICHARD JEWETT. Sports 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 ex March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Sr Mail In Adrance: Per copy IGe. Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday Sis months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 155 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Mediord, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold .Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.0fl Daily and Sunday One month 125 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash to Advance Official paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLD3AY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NIWSPAPtt rUBMSHIftS ASSOCIATION N ATION A I D 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. 22. 1944 (It was Friday) Jerry Ross scores field goal in closing seconds to give Medford high school basketball team a 86-35 victory over North Bend. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It will soon be another year, with all its in evitable trials and tribulations, and a session of the legislature, also inevitable. 20 YEARS AGO Dee. 22. 1934 Gecarge Codding, Medford, elected vice-president of Oregon District Attorneys' association. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Christmas shopping was the order of the week, citizens rushing around all week spending money, the de pression to the contrary notwith standing. ' 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 22. 1924 Dick McElhose elected com mander of Medford American Legion post. City of Medford buys Davis lot so Sixth st. can be . extended to Main st. 4 40 YEARS AGO v , Dec. 22. 1914 J. C. Barnes nominated for mayor of Medford by local So cialists. May Robson to appear at Med ford's Page theater in "Martha by the Day." What's the Answer? , (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. The U.S. public schools have less or more than a mil lion teachers? 2. Adlai E. Stevenson was Vice President under President Grant. Cleveland, McKinley, Taft or Wilson? 3. Has any amendment to the U.S. Constitution ever been re pealed? ' 4. The territory called "Se ward's Folly" when the U.S. an- nexed it was Alaska, Hawaii, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico or the .Virgin Islands? N5. Capricornus, sign of the Zodiac, is represented by a crab, goat, bull, ram, pair of twins, or 6. That ?God helps those who help themseilves" was first said by an Old Testament prophet, St Paul, Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin or Abraham Lincoln? 7. An Annie Oakley is an old gray mare, an outdoor privy, a sawed-off shotgun, a pass for ad mission, or a prostitute? The answers: 1. More than a million. 2. Cleveland. 3. One, the 18th (Prohibition). 4. Alaska. 5. Goat. 6. Franklin. 7. A pass. Civil Service Exams For Three Posts Slated Civil service examinations for three positions with the federal government were announced to day, by C. W. Silliman, local representative of the United States Civil Service commission. The positions, and annual sal aries, are electronic engineer (wire communications), $4,205 to , $7,040; telephone specialist, $4, 205, and field representative (telephone operations and loans), $4,205 to $5,940. . Further information and ap plication forms may be obtained at Silliman's office in the Med ford post office building. ITOIIAL .!-- MAIL TRIBUNE Mining Not Entirely Dead Gold mining in this general region as in the rest of the nation, has suffered some almost death dealing blows but the industry isn't, completely dead and in deed there are signs here and there that it may be trying to stage a comeback.- .tV .-; - ' ' T. r , "J. IN the immediate Medford region there have been 1 rymors lately that dry-land dredge operators have been looking over the land lying along the Old Stage road north. Although much of the ground is iri small farms it is believed to hold fairly rich gold values in places and without too much overburden. Mining this land would mess up the landscape for the time being but the soil removed to get at the gold bearing gravel could later be pushed back and the general appearance and agricultural usefulness re stored. ' . - , . In the meantime the mining and stockpiling of chrome ore is continuing in the region constituting about the only actual activity in the mining line close at hand. , ' ' . .. ;:. v THE first severe setback for gold mining came in 1934 when, under terms of the Gold :Act, the gold weight of the dollar was reduced by around forty per cent. In 1935, the price of gold was fixed by President Roosevelt at $35 an ounce, an increase from the pre vious $20 plus. Most devastating of all, however, was the war time order suspending all dredging and placer mining as nonessential. Recovery from this last wound has been slow principally because inflation has boosted operating costs to a point where only the very richest properties can be worked profitably. LMONG the very few fairly large properties in the southern Oregon-northern California region of sufficient richness to warrant operation is the Siskon mine in the Happy Camp neighborhood. Happy Camp is situated on the Klamath river in Siskiyou. county, California, and lies south and west of Medford. The Siskon mine, owned by the Siskon Corpora tion of Reno, Nev., shipped approximately $313,000 worth of gold and silver bullion to the U.S. Mint in San Francisco as a result of six and one-quarter months of operation this year. .; Development work was also carried on during the past summer and in a report to the stockholders the Siskon corporation officials stated that explora tion will be started next year in 'the "Billy's Mine" area, a mineralized one not yet properly investigated but which is believed to contain a large body of cop per pre. . : . .. ;" Also in the . copper ore zone is the Gray Eagle mine, which the corporation has leased with option to buy. During World War II the Gray Eagle pro duced and milled approximately 465,000 tons of cop per ore for another company but acquisition of. the mine was spurred because of gold deposits which were found there. The gold can be mined with a power shovel, the Siskon officials Relieve. MO REAL revival of gold mining is expected for the immediate Medford vicinity unless something should come of the long-continued ef forts to secure a raise in the government price, or permission for dealing in the metal on the free market." ..On numerous world markets the open price for gold has often ranged considerably higher than the price fixed in this country. United States producers could not legally make sales in those markets, how ever. E.CJY V The Robe : It now develops that some of Oregon's circuit judges are not exactly enthusiastic about donning a long black robe while presiding over their courts. At the annual meeting of the Circuit Judges Asso ciation of Oregon held recently in Portland it was decided that among other things needed to add dignity to court procedure ot tne sombre vestments Jong associated witn me higher judicial branches. -v - - - SINCE the association meeting one' of Marion coun ty's judges has said it would be cumbersome for him to wear a robe, another declared he would not wear one while hearing juvenile cases and a third indicated he had not made up his mind whether to follow the association's recommendation or not. The black robe which found its way to this country from England, where courts are nothing, if not dignified undoubtedly lends something to the formal atmosphere. But we cannot help feeling that if he goes along with the majority, Jackson county's Judge Hanna, besides whatever dignity he may add, will be in for some pretty stuffy sessions, come sum mer time. ; It gets right down warmish in the court room here during July and August and even though the robe be made of thin material its long swaddling folds would do nothing to promote the judge's comfort. He hasn't expressed himself publicly as to adop tion of, the judicial habiliment but we bet he, and some of the other judges, particularly those in the eastern part of the state, will hand down an opinion not altogether complimentary when the mercury reg isters around 95. E.C.F. - - Log Pierces Truck Cab; Kills Crescent City Man Oeswmt City. Calif. Aaron Walker, Crescent City, was kill ed yesterday when the top log on his loaded truck pierced the cab as the truck hit a tree on a logging road in the south fork Smith river area. v v Wednesday, Dteomber 22, . 1954 in this state is the wearing 1 Walker, according to examin ing physicians, died of a broken neck and crushed chest. Howard Moody, also. Crescent City, a passenger in the truck, leaped from' the cab before it struck, the tree and was unhurt. 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: Philippians 4 In the Day's News V' . By FRANK JENKINS I came down to the office this morning (a bit late, this being the Christmas season), walked briskly up to the robot that we caU a teletype, tore from it an armful of the paper tape it was industriously spitting out and sat down at the typewriter. "Oh, Boy!" I said after a glance at the stuff the machine had been grinding out. "This is going to be duck soup." THERE were murders three of them, on the juicy side. There were fatal traffic acci dents galore. There was a tale that .Russia has told Britain to lay off this NATO business or we'll cancel the mutual assistance . pact we now have with you. v . Old Hatoyama, Japan's new premier, had just decided to do something he d told the voters before4 his election he wouldn't do. T1LENTY of raw material," I told. myself, rolling iip my sleeves. .v. .' AT that moment, it occurred to me that the Klamath Falls Herald and News (in whose of fice this is written) had announc ed that in this week before Christmas it would print 'on its front page only the good news, the constructve news, the news having to do with the BETTER qualities of human beings rather than the WORSE qualities. And this stuff goes on' the Herald and News front page! S O I started scratching. I turned up a tale about wind storms that have caused more than a million dollars damage to winter wheat crops in Eastern Colorado (by blowing the wheat plants out of the. dry, dusty soil.) "Well," I said, "maybe that will help to cut down the. vast mountain of subsidized wheat we have piled up and thus will help to get us back to the time when supply and demand for wheat wUl again be in balance. That ' COULD be constructive news." ' , '. But no,' the poor devils in Eastern Colorado will be too hard hit in comparison with the rest of us. So that won t do. THERE was a tale about a -- Greek who came to this coun try 47 years ago, made his pile, went back to the Greek village where he was borri, used quite a wad of his money to finance school improvements, built some new roads, rebuilt the bell tower of a ruined church and as a re sult GOT ELECTED MAYOR by his native town's grateful citi- Z6X1S ' r Surely, I thought, this is the kind of stuff I'm looking for. B UT I read on. It developed ' that the former Greek, pleased and honored, asked the U.S. consulate, in Ath ens for just a few months! as mayor of a foreign town while he finished up some more im provements. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NOTIFIED HIM THAT IF HE DOES ANYTHING OF THAT SORT HE'LL LOSE HIS U.S. CITIZENSHIP. . AND so it went, all down through the long roll of tele type tape. In every promising bit of ointment there was. a fly. In each case-the fly was some aspect of the story that had to do with the WORSE qualities of human beings rather than the BETTER qualities. V rjTCEN . Just as I was losing hope And also faith in the news- I came upon this one:' . In the town of Greenfield, in Massachusetts, the Red Cross is holding a Christmas party on Dec. 29. There'U be favors. There will be door prizes and refresh ments. The ticket of admission will be - - - ONE PINT OF BLOOD. THAT fixed everything up. Giving one's blood, so that some other human being- who might otherwise die may have a chance to live, -most certainly has to do with the better aspects of human beings rather than 'the worse aspects.- . There ARE people who follow the GOLDEN RULE. SAFE DRIVING URGED Salem (U.R) Secretary of State Earl T.iNewbry appealed to motorists today for concerted individual effort to prevent hol iday accidents, noting that Ore gon's 1954 traffic death toll is already pushing dangerously to ward 400. .. 15 N. CENTRAL PH. 2-2970 mat Will Democrats or Right-Wing Give lite Roughest Time in By LYLE C. WILSON , . United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) It is an open question right now whether President Eisenhower will have more trouble in the 84th Congress with Democrats or with the right wing of his own Republican party. It could be that he will have serious trouble with both. If so, Mr. Eisenhower will be a bruised and angry man before the end of the congressional ses sion which begins next Jan. 5. Teamed, the right wingers of his own. party and the vote minded Democratic opposition could give the President such a drubbing as none has taken siuuc loox-d wnen congress undertook to make Herbert Hoover the goat for all the ills since creation. - . " Mr. Eisenhower has a hole card, however, which former President Hoover did not have when the 72nd Congress con vened midwav in his White LHouse term. His card is the ace The first thing Mr. Eisenhow er did after his party was lick ed in last November's election Is That So? SOME BUTTERFLIES SPEND WINTER IN LOW SHRUBBERY The cold months are usually considered the quiet season, and wild life asleep but, actually, even on the bitterest winter day, life is pulsing in woods and fields,, even for some of our smallest cold-blooded insects. To carry through, some insects pass these m o n t h s as larvae grubs or caterpillars; some as pupae in' hardened shells; some as eggs; while not a few continue their life cycle right through freezing temperatures, To withstand the rigors of their other chemical contents winter, some adults decrease their body water and "increase their other ' chemical contents with the results that they can be supercooled and resist below- zero temperatures. -. A few migrate, notably the monarch butterfly . which may make a 3,000 mile round-trip to warmer climes. But with most, the migration is confined to just a short distance,' perhaps only from exposed tree tops to pro tected habitats. Most astonish ing, some fragile-seeming but terflies live the winter through in low shrubbery, perhaps com pletely enveloped as long as 4 months in snow and ice. Queen wasps hide under leaves in the forests; female ants, likewise, live. through the winter and start new colonies the following season. The potato bug buries itself several inches underground. House flies, like many other insects, become exceedingly slug gish at about 50 degrees and to them a prolonged below-zero temperature is usually fatal. As a result, every faU, they die by the millions, and billions. Only a tiny remnant puUs through in sheltered areas under bark and fallen leaves, although in warm barns, and attics they may re main active the year 'round. Of .the small group, of survivors, curiously, the vast majority are fertilized females. Clothes' moths remain in warm buildings until spring; cockroaches seek out dark base ments. . Common as this overwintering method may seem, many more survive cold winter in the larva and pupae stage some begin ning as larvae and ending as pupae. The methods are diverse: Eu ropean corn borers go into corn stalks: the "maggot" of the Hes sian fly hides in joints of wheat stalks; the 'larva of coddling LITTLE JACK HORNER - CORNERS mOBUZtA MY CHRISTMAS PIE , WAS MIGHTY GOOD BUT JUST LOOK AT MY.SHIRT was to take back some of the hard things he had said about the Democrats. He followed up with friendlier gestures, includ ing conferences and a ' pledge that Republican cabinet officers would confer with the Democra tic leadership before fixing cer tain policy targets next year. Moreover, the President ham mers away at his favorite politi cal theme that the Republican party must be a party of moderate-minded men and women, considerably to . the left of the old-line Republican leadership symbolized by. such men as the late Robert A. Taft, Speaker Joseph W. Martin Jr., and per haps Senate Republican" Leader William F. Knowland. Small Comfort There There is small comfort for the conservative elements of the Re publican party in Mr. Eisenhow er's5 determined effort to shape up a 1955 legislative program with which a considerable num ber of Democrats ' might go along. Republican conservatives likely will be the first to bolt the administration program when it comes to Congress. The President can get along By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist moth if it is not in some juicy apple, spins a cocoon of silk in the digestive . tract of a" horse; the ox-warbler larvae feed be neath the hide of cattle. The army worm, . cutworm, tomato worm, cabbage worm all lar vae and many others bore into the ground in the fall and be come pupae, then emerging in spring as adult flies, beetles or moths. (The 17-year locusts,o of course, take 17 years to emerge.) Other insects pass the entire winter as pupae, in the "cocoon" or chrysalis there are innum erable kinds, some beautifully marked, . under the protective shaggy bark of trees or in hol-lowed-out chambers, in the froz en ground. Look inside and the. contents may seem dormant, yet wonderful changes are going on from these, in spring, will emerge beautiful, winged crea tures, v .! - Another common way for in sects to' pass the winter is by egg. Ampng these, grasshoppers deposit their eggs in packet like masses an inch or more be neath the ground. The tent cata pillar moth fastens its eggs, on twigs in fruit trees. Eggs of plant lice are glued to various plants. Gypsy moths hide their eggs under stones, or under bark or the sides of buildings. . As for the egg's survival qual ities, grasshopper's eggs actual ly develop more rapidly when kept in wintry below-freezing temperatures! v - Finally, some insects continue to . reproduce throughout ,the year, even during January , and February. Among these, are many stone flies fully a third of that numerous family, : cock roaches, chicken lice, sheep ticks. And there is one cave- beetle which is so well-adjusted to cold life that it lives its entire exist ence in ice grottoes where the weather never warms up beyond one degree ibove freezing! t , ' .(Copyright, 1954 by ;.; Eugene Burns) (Distributed by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) .Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia i Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends be the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vblume 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 yau many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SO! co this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. ENGINEER DIES Vancouver, Wash. (U.R) Vancouver City Engineer Carl it. Skooglund, 46, died yesterday at a Vancouver hospital follow ing a heart attack at a city hall Christmas party. Skooglund had been city engineer for 2V& years. LOGGER KILLED . : THE; YELLOW PAGES .'LIST A PLACE TO WASH AWAY THE DIRT i Used by 9 outcf tOpccplssa ulds io ticss rtho sell or serve without them provided a sub stanial number of Democrats stay hitched. But the Democrats are up against the political facts of life. These include the fact that the Democrats will need in 1956 a program of their own about which to brag in urging voters to return, a Democrat to the White House. V . . ; If Mr. Eisenhower should run again, it would be embarrassing for Democrats , to oppose him if during the 84th Congress they had been whooping it up and enacting a Republican President's legislative program. Shelved Hoover's Program In 1931-32 when , Democrats were intent on destroying Mr. Visits To Red China By Nehru, Beneficial By CHARLES M. McCANN - United Press Correspondent The visits which Prime Minis ters Jawaharlal Nehru of India and U Nu of Burma paid to Communist China recently prom ise, surprising-; ly, to prove beneficial and not harmful from the West ern viewpoint. In fact, dis patches i n d i cate that the United States might have been justified in paying the cbaries Mctann travelling ex penses of the two East Asian leaders. - - Both Nehru and U Nu seem to have seen some of the flaws in the Red Chinese system. Nehru's tone toward the United States has been much more friendly since he returned home, and more sharply critical of Indian Communists. U Nu praised the . United States, it is reported, even while he was in Peiping, and is think ing of visiting this country. Nehru and U . Nu are "neu tralists" and "Asia for 'the Asians" men. . They regard the Chinese Com munists as fellow Asians, and the big Western countries as "colonial", powers, which want to keep Asian and African peoples, in bondage. Both Anti-Communist '; But both are decidedly anti- Communists as regards the Reds in their own countries. . .Nehru, as soon as he returned from China, commented on. the way the Chinese Reds have iso lated their . people f r o m the world.. -;He said that while he was in Peiping he had to depend on news bulletins from" the; In dian Embassy to keep in touch with world developments, be cause Chinese newspapers were so rigidly censored. Dispatches from New .Delhi report that Nehru and the num erous Indian newspaper men who accompanied him to China have been more critical of Com munism and , more friendly to ward the United States since their return. The dispatches say that better American-Indian re ?4 Ch nstmas 1 V Al I Types and Kinds ; Singles ahd: Boxecl Assortments. Wrap and t YdUUfUO frfA$ritlWYBU0VPA6S Republicans flew Congress? Hoover, they simply pigeon holed his recommendations and produced a program of their own. That strategy obtained the election of a Democratic presi dent after two. years and kept the party in power for 20, bar ring a momentary Republican recovery in the 80th Congress. Four other presidents within the past 45 years have faced an opposition Congress in one or both - houses. They: were Taft, Wilson, Hoover and Truman. ' The. only man able to beat the rap was Harry S. Truman, the: little man . from Independ ence, Mo. Mr. Truman began the practice ' of politics where all the others left off. - U N u Seen To West lations are likely. Discussing his visit to Peiping in Parliament, Nehru said that there had been international crises in March and September when war on a big scale ap peared to be near." Nehru referred presumably to the Indochina crisis and the fighting between the National ists and Communists along the China Coast. Praises Eisenhower ; He praised President Eisen hower warmly for the part. he- played "in the avoidance of war.'.' . Twice since he returned home Nehru has .angrily denounced the Indian Communist party. He ac cused it of trying to foment an insurrection and called a Red at- tack on the speaker of Parlia-. ment "a vicious thing" which showed the "extraordinary in competence" and "lack of any sense of responsibility" of, the Communist party. U Nu was quoted as saying, in a banquet in his honor in Peip ing, that Americans are "very generous and brave" people. He " criticized Red Chinese leaders for their poor relations with the United States. . U Nu was reported also to have told the Chinese hosts that he hopes to visit the United States- soon. . Latest reports indicate that U Nu is quietly interceding with the Peiping regime to free the 11 American Air Force men im prisoned on fake spy charges. There Is No Substitute ... ... . . . . For an insured savings account. Start with any, amount. You'll discover friendly, personal service. 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