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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforivQwTribuni - "Everybody in Southern Oregon Published Daily Except Saturday b , MEDFORD PRSfTING CCX 37-29 North Fir St Phone 2-l ROBERT W RUHL. TxUinr HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City IditOT HARRY CH1PMAN. Telegraph EditOC RICHARD JEWET1. S porta 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. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos, 3.S0 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HUL 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 Medfors Official Paper of Jackson County TJnited Press Full Leased Wire- MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLTDAY COMPANV. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San 1 Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B C NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION iNATIONAlT EDITORIAL AsbctaTtjd.N Flight o' Time Medford arid Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago." 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1944 (It was Friday) Moving picture "Going My Way" with Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald scheduled at Medford's Craterian theater. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The post war freight trucks will be heav ier, higher, longer, and faster. They will be able to lick their weight in locomotives at all crossings. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1934 (It was Saturday) i Sheriff -elect Syd I. Brown names Chris Gottlieb as chief deputy of the tax department and Howard Gault as chief of fice deputy in charge of the legal department. President Roland Beach an nounces that the Medford Glee men are practicing "very strenu ously" for their first concert of 1935. ; ; " 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1924 (It was Monday) Survey shows that water is carried to 45 per cent of homes in. Jackson county, that water is carried an average of . 28 feet, and that the man of the family carries the water 15 per'cent of the time. Reprint .from Weed, Calif., News: "Members of the fire de partment request every one and all vehicles to clear the streets; that is, get to the curb as soon as a fire alarm is sounded, that the fire engine may have right of way, keep off the fire home, keep off the engine, keep out of the way, and do not shout orders to firemen." 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 29, 1914 (It was Tuesday) MichaelBrowri, 73, veteran of the Civil war and one of the few survivors of Libby prison, dies at the home of his daughter in Medford. Francis X. Bushman appears in moving picture at Medford's Star theater; story says "more real action and beautiful photog raphy could not be possible in two reels than this production has." . What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report 1. The Taft-Hartley act, which allows the union shop, sanctions, outlaws, or disregards state laws banning it? 2. Federal civilian regular employees recently have been increasing, decreasing, or stay ing about the same? "3vIn bad storms over the ocean, waves often go as high as 100 feet;' right or wrong?, 4. Sen. McCarthy comes up for reelection in 1956, in 1958, or not until 1960? 5. The Boy Scouts originated in Canada, England, Norway, Switzerland, or., the United States? I ' 6. Most cancers of the mouth are first detected by dentists; right or wrong? 7. The nickname "Pretty Boy" annlied to a lawbreaker named Capone, Costello, Dia-j mond, Floyd, Luciano, xveison or Siegel?- - The Answers: 1. Sanctions Jhem. 2. Decreasing. 3. Wrong. 4. In 1958. 5. England. 6. Right. 7. Floyd, " MAIL TRIBUNE Rail Chief Sees Shortcomings It is always easy to criticize the way the other fellow conducts his business'and this is especially true where the critic knows little or nothing about the problems or difficulties under which the criticized may be operating. ' " Such criticisms usually do not carry much weight. But when "a recognized leader and acknowledged ex pert in a particular field sees fit to find fault with his own business his words should impress not only his business asociates but those who may be affected one way or another by the efficiency or inefficiency of his service, whatever its nature. CUCH an authority sounded off recently about the railroad business. Patrick B. McGinnis, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, writing in the December issue of Railway Progress, a magazine devoted to the railroad industry, asks some questions which must he pretty embarrassing to railroad managements throughout the country.. Here are President McGinnis' questions: Why do we have to wait fifty years to get the passenger trains down to the level of the automobiles? Why do we still have stations when the people want parking facilities? Why can't we pool our purchases of materials and sup plies and reduce the price of everything .we buy by about 20 per cent. Why can't we get together and get the ICC to relieve us of about 50 per cent of the paper work which no one looks -at and yet must be filed, so that four years from now we can get a blue book called "Statistics of Class I Railroads?" Why should we fight about having mechanical refriger ation instead of grandmother's icebox? Why pursue dead horses when Fruehauf (truck and trailer manufacturer) is making a monkey out of us? Why scream about faster freight schedules when freight cars still travel only (an average of) two hours a day? . With hot boxes causing train stoppages, why can't we get together on a program of improved bearings or roller bearings so that freight cars without them would be no. good for interchange at the end of three years? It would bring the pries of roller bearings down from $900 a car to szuo a car. . Why do we have to use the present 100-pound, $80 coup- . ler which hasn't been improved substantially since the link and pin? Why can't we develop a hydraulic-pneumatic gad " ' get, similar to that used by airplanes for landing purposes? Why do we use 39-foot rail instead "of 1,000-foot rail? Why do we need all this elaborate signal system when present engineering allows an airplane to fly ' from the United States to Europe and-return without a crew? Why don't we have small vacuum outlets under each passenger car seat which could be connected to a giant vac uum at each terminal to clean the cars, instead of the usual gang of cleaners? Why can't we offer financial incentives for the union men to do their work better, such as giving ticket sellers a slight bonus if their sales exceed average? Why not give train crews an incentive for "on time" performance? DRESIDENT McGinnis might also have asked why some railroad managements have been so slow, if not actually reluctant, about exploring the possibil ities of light, self-propelled equipment for short runs. . ... E.C.F. Americans Salting It Away Oregonians, along with the residents of the rest of the nation are salting away more money for a rainy day than ever before. Figures just released by E. C. Sammons, chairman of the Oregon Savings Bond com mittee show November sales of E and H bonds in the state amounted to $2,645,070. For the eleven months of 1954, the people of Oregon have purchased $33, 280,831 worth of E and H bonds, which was a gain of 27 per cent over the year 1953. According to Morris B. Leonard Sr., Jackson coun ty Savings Bond chairman, sales here amounted to $87,955 in November as compared 'with $49,775 in the same month last year. For the eleven months this year the sales totaled $914,029. In the same period last year the total was $809,282. Jackson county's total for the eleven months of 1954 ranks fifth in the state, the first four being: Multnomah, $15,076,904; Lane, $1,969,960: Marion $1,923,306, and Clackamas, $1,191,290. . OAVINGS and loan associations of the nation are y also reporting unprecedented gains in savings re ceipts. Total assets of the institutions will be approx imately $31,100,000,000 on December 31, an increase of $4,450,000,000 during the year. ;This record increase, which occurred'in the face of a slowdown in business activity, compared with a growth of $3,974,000,000 during 1953, which was the previous record yearly growth. Although figures are not available' it is believed that savings placed in the savings departments of banks, in. mutual investment funds, in stocks and bonds, in insurance and annuities, and in other secur ity forms have increased in approximately the same ratio as have deposits in Savings Bonds and saving and loan associations. E.C.F. WeyerhaeuserSued Portland U.R) Bert A. Par ish, former Castle Rock, Wash., school teacher, has sued Weyer haeuser Timber Company for $533,355, in connection , with a lumber exchange deal. - Weyerhaeuser has petitioned the Federal Court in Portland to hear the complaint, first filed in Multnomah County - Circuit Court. Parish, 76, formerly operated a general store at Castle Rock, Wash., and a sawmill Jit Rainier. In his suit Parish charges he was offered to trade, four parcels of timber in Cowlitz county, Wash., for timber in Lincoln county, Ore. If the Oregon tracts didn't equal the ones in Washington, he was to get deficiency money, the suit claimed. Later, Parish contends, he learned that J. K. Elder, with whom he says he made the deal, was an agent for Weyerhaeuser. Weyerhaeuser, he says, has re fused to convey to hirn the Lin-, Wednesday, December 29, 1954 In Lumber Deal coin county timber. A cruise showed Parish's Washington land contained 41, 137,552 board feet, compared with 5,580,000 feet on the Ore gon land, Parish claimed. Temptation Stronger Than Christmas Spirit Milwaukee, Wis. U.R) Temptation - was stronger than his Christmas spirit, Roger P. Gurney told the judge Tuesday at his hearing on a larceny charge. . Gurney said he went to the home of Larry Fischer, 22, oil Christmas Eve to extend his hol iday greetings. . ' When' he found no one at home, Gurnejr said, he entered to wait for Fischer. When Fisch er didn't return, Gurney said he went to a closet and stole $75. The case was continued. Mendes-France Proves Himself as Pol if ica I St By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Win, lose or draw, Premier Pierre Mendes - France has proved himself a master politi cal strategist. It looks as if he is going to win his fight for the ratification of the treaties to rearm West ern Germany. If he does, it will be be cause he has over come Charles Mctann fear, 'obstruc tion, desertion and personal hostility- in the French National Assembly.: First, he has overcome the fears of many deputies 'who re gard German military ; might as a greater menace to France than possible Communist aggression. Secondly, by fancy political footwork he has overcome the tireless attempts of the Com munists to delay : and confuse the voting. He has overcome the desertion of many deputies upon whose votes he had counted, and the Is That So? By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist ComeNNew Year eve and your friends break out in boisterous song, "Home, home on the range, where the- deer and the antelope play . . ." you might ask: "Which antelope?" Fact is, no antelopes exist in America. True antelopes are con fined to the Old World. What we have are pronghorn, a rare, dis tinctive aU-American mammal, the .only one in the. world which has pronged horns planted on a bony core, shed annually by male and female. The closest "rel ative is the mountain goat. And what is our Rocky Moun tain -goat? It's not a true goat at all more of . a connecting link between anteiope and goat. Act ually, its kissin' cousin is the European chamois. Near the goat country, are bur elk and what a misnomer that is! The elk was supposedly nam ed for the European moose a small broad-palmated animal'. ita The correct name for elk is wa piti. (Remember the line: "Hip- pity-hoppity, here comes the wapiti?") To compound the confusion of names, our moose is related to the European elk only ' it is slightly larger. Continuing in our deer fam ily, our American caribou is in reality a reindeer and distinctive in this reindeer trait both bucks and does', "or 'cows and bulls, shed antlers annually. Coming to the buffalo, surely our plains' animal could by no stretch of the imagination be al lied to the Old World buffalo. Correctly, it is called bison, a close relative of the European bison or wisent. Many Names for Mountain Lion Our seldom-seen mountain lion, which once roamed every state and almost every province in North America has been call ed by more names than any oth er cougar (the best, to my way of thinking), puma, panther, painter, catamount, American lion and jaguar. Of course, he is neither a lion or a jaguar. ' Our ringtail cat, more accur ately called, the ringed tail cat, is no cat and no distant relation. It belongs to the raccoon family. The wolverine or. wolverene, has no connection whatever with the wolf-r-although it was cred ited with wolfish tendencies;:It is very similar to the glutton of Europe. The fisher, one of our rarest animals, never fishes. Our prai rie dog is no dog. Our flying , squirrel does not fly, but glides. Our ground hog, accurately speaking, is a woodchuck. As for our porcupine, make no mistake it is not a hedgehog. The hedgehog, an insectivore, is re lated to the mole and shrew. Our porcupine is a rodent. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete - 30-volume set. of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week,' new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply cannot answer your many friendly ; letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 579, Sausa lito, Calif. pip waste ra teg ist 'personal hostility some feel to ward him. Lukewarm To EDC . It was known when Mendes France took office last June that he was lukewarm toward the European Defense Commun ity pact, which then was to be the vehicle, for German arma ment.. ' , : The. EDC agreement was re jected by the National Assembly. But then came the new Western European Union treaties in .whose drafting Mendes-France played a leading part. As part of those treaties, Mednes - France negotiated with West German Chancellor , Kon- rad Adenauer an agreement on the" Saar, which had been a bar rier to French-German relations ever since the. war. That in itself was a triumph. The big fight was still ahead. The ratification debate started on Dec. 20. Mendes - France's enemies rigged up a complicated plot to get him. Georges Bidault, of the Popu lar Republicans, took the lead. Mendes-France has accused that party of, being responsible for the loss of the Indochina war. The idea was to ratify the Ger man treaties, but in the process to weaken Mendes-France so he could be overthrown later. Four out of five parliamen tary committees .concerned turned in unfavorable reports on the German arms agreements. Rejects German Armament Then, last Friday, the as sembly itself rejected the arm ing of Germany. That was an ac cident. It was a straight vote, not one of confidence. Mendes-France was just be ginning to fight. He came back with a new ratification layout, involving a series of confidence votes. Some called for approval of treaty provisions, others for a reversal of the assembly's un favorable vote of Friday. . Mendes - France passed the first big hurdle in the early hours- of Tuesday morning, when the assembly In a 19-hour session agreed to invite West Germany to enter the North At lantic Treaty Organzation. Mendes-France dominated the entire session. , Today the voting starts again. Whatever happens, Mendes France can say he fought a good fight. ). ' Oregon Licenses To Be Standard Size Salem (U.R) Oregon auto mobile license plates to be is sued' starting. Jan, . 1 will :.be of size 6-by-12 inches to conform to a national : standardization movement, Secretary of State Earl Newbry said today. Oregon plates in recent years have been SVfc-by-l? inches. Newbry said Oregon was among the first states to give notice of intention to adopt standard size plates. "The objective," he said, "is to get one size plate in use throughout the United States and Canada so vehicle manufac turers may design buiK-in re- ceptacles to hold license plates In 1953, there were 69 differ ent plate sizes in the U.S. and Canada. -- -', '....' Deed line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a jn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday Regular Special TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE ONLY 3 LEFT 127 North Central In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS. Interesting information: Some 240,000 acres of timber lands in Oregon were . certified as tree farms this past year. That brings the total tree-farm system in,our state to nearly three and a quarter million acres. - One trend this past year, has been an increasing number " of small landowners, . joining . the tree farm conservation move ment. ' ' ' " nHHATS GOOD news. 'V . It means -that in the future Oregon's timber will become ' ja crop, . to be harvested annually. It means guaranteeing Oregon's future with a self-renewing raw material that will provide pay rolls indefinitely on into the fu ture. It means the end of the old cut-out-and-move-out cycle. TNCREASINGLY in the future, - Oregon's (and Northern Cal if ornia's) timber will be : reck oned in terms of FIBER, rather than in terms of boards. ? These tree farms will become vast fiber-producing areas more like cotton fields than like forests as we have known them in the more wasteful days of the past. ' In the future, the develop ment that is based upon our for ests will be PERMANENT de velopment. THAT'S hopeful and construc tive news. Here's some PROBLEM news: It is estimated that the popu lation of Japan reached a total of eighty-eight and one-third millions on October 1. That is an increase of one and a quarter millions over the estimate for 1953. rpHAT IS to say: The population of Japan, whose area is less than one and a half times the area of the state of Oregon, is already HALF AS LARGE AS THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES and is growing at the rate of va mil lion and a quarter a year. WHY IS that a problem? WeU, the basic resources of the rugged, mountainous islands that make up Japan are smaller than the basic resources of the state of Oregon. That means that the people of Japan, like the people of the British islands, must trade with the world or starve. We won't let them trade with us to any considerable extent, because they can produce more cheaply than we can and there fore can undersell us. Their natural trade territory is Asia. Asia Isgrowihgly- Communist. If the Japs can't trade with us, they will have to trade withJ the Communists. If they, trade with the Communists their in terests wiU lie increasingly with the Communist world rather than with the free world. THIS IS the problem' simply stated: - . We NEED the Japanese as air lies. ' . But how are we to KEEP them as allies if they are forced by circumstances to trade with our enemies instead of trading with us? . ' HORSE JUDGE . Springfield, Mass. U.R) P. T. Barnum, known as America's greatest circus promoter, was also a judge of horseflesh. Bar num was an infield pony judge at the first major horse . show in North America held here in October, 1853. IE Aim 1 im o o Lamp and Timer Z' r . o Automatic Oven r A- o 3 Storage Drawers 5i ' '' ' Price $254.95 r NOW $199.95 Medford's Exclusive Across From Penney s COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mafl Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. ; All Things Forseen - : , To the Editor: Old almanacs would be valuable now as an tiques, especially; the ones circu lated at the turn of the century. We are referring to the ones hav ing prophecies of future events. We recall one of the 18th century vintage portrayingmen and wom en of the year 1920, when women would be wearing slacks, and using cigarettes as men do. Another event foretold and foreseen, the modern Helicopter and how it would use the city sky scrapers" as a landing floor. The beginning of the 19th century was an experimental age for perpetual motion con traptions of aU descriptions, all the fantastic machines lacked, they were devoid of the at tributes to .increase their own power of motion or speed." A sage once remarked, that "all events casts their shadows ' be fore them." It is apparent there is no accidental occurrences only what we cannot account for. Man has discovered nwr.y use ful patterns from the snow crystals for centuries, even now. A new year brings it's rewards be it good or not so good, the mills of the Gods " continue to grind. May we aU be the bene factors of achievement 1955. Bert Kissinger 520 Boardman St. Moral Rearmament Washington U.R) Moral re armament is "doing for Africa what Abraham Lincoln did for this country," a Moslem leader said Tuesday night. Yakubu Tali, the "Very Big Chief" of 1,500,000 Moslems on Africa's Gold Coast,- told the world assembly for moral re armament the movement is in spiring and . transforming his people. Moral rearmament is an "idea to win the world" through abso lute honesty, absolute purity, ab solute unselfishness and absolute love. The assembly turned its at tention today to speeches by An gelo Pasetto, former leader of the Central Communist cell in Italy, and James Haworth of the British Labor party. An estimated 500 persons, some in flowing robes, saris and other colorful costumes attend ed Tuesday night's opening meeting oi ine lu-aay comer ence. But registration is expect ed to climb to." about 2,000 be fore the meeting closes. Tax Evasion Brings Five-Year Sentence - Tacoma (U.R) A former Se attle hotel man, William Corbett, convicted of income tax evasion, was sentenced yesterday to five years in a federal prison. U. S. District Court Judge George Boldt also fined Corbett $10,000 and court costs amount ing to $6,700, Corbett was convicted of evad ing approximately $8,000 in in come taxes during the years 1945-1946. "Attorneys, for Corbett, whose attempt to get a new trial was denied,' said, they would appeal the case to .the 'Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Fran cisco. j . 55.00 j -j-a ?:W HOTPOINT Dealer "Every Man a Liar" To the Editor I read Mrs. Santo's answer to T. R. Thomp son's letter on Christmas, As a matter of public interest, : I would like to submit the follow ing additional points. Mrs. Santo took exception to Mr. Thompson's statement that Christians are commanded to celebrate our Lord's death, not his birth. She said: "Where has anyone's death been celebrated? Certainly not out Lord's." Evi dently she overlooked the Scrip ture proof he listed, that of I Cor. 12:23-26. The apostle Paul was there referring to a regular commemorating of the Last Sup per, a memorial or celebration of our Lord's death. Why was it to be celebrated? Because such sacrificial death (not his birth) opened up the way to life to believing humans. In addi ton, Jesus had proven his integ rity to God under great testing, and thus died in vindication of God's' supremacy. So why shouldn't Christians celebrate the Lord's death, as Jesus him-self-advised at Luke 22:19. And the same principle is true regarding the followers of Jesus. It isn't their birth that is import ant, but rather their death in faithfulness to God (Rev. 2:10; EccL 7:8). For this reason Eccle siastes 7:1 tells us that the day , of death is better than the day of birth. Birthday celebrations? Yes, they, are mentioned in the Bible. But only two of them. Two pagan kings, Pharaoh and Her od, celebrated birthdays their own! And showing the spirit of the occasion, those heathen kings topped the festivities each time with murder (Gen. 40:20; Matt. 14:6-12). Although Mr. Thompson gave Bible proof for commemorating Jesus death, Mrs. Santo failed to furnish any texts instructing us to celebrate his birth. The fact remains that Christmas ' is of pagan origin and, consequently, contrary to true Christianity. Also, all the Bible evidence is, as noted by Mr. Thompson, that Jesus wasn't even born in De cember. So the matter becomes one of , following human tradi tion, or of letting . God be true though it makes every man a liar' (Matt. 15:3, 8, 9; Rom. 3:3,4). Mrs. Linnie George 618 Beatty St. HOW RIGHT ' . Leicester, England (U.B Crockery salesman Percy Kel shaw's sample -loaded station wagon overturned twice after a collision today, scattering a Quarter ton of cups and 6aucers, and-Kelshaw's book. The book was entitled ."The Flying Satf cers Have Landed." 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