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o o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDC,TRIBUlfl "Everybody la Southern Oregoo Published Daily Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St. kuuiuhu rtUSiTlItG CO. Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RITHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JH City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Edltof RICHARD JEWET1. Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GBHALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Hewtpaper Entered aa second dais matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of q March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mali la Advance: Per copy lGe. Daily ana Sunday One year $12.00 uauy and bunday tix montns 6JS0 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Sunday Only One year 3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix 0 Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: New Year's day and the one before brought three new babies and ration cards to homes of this city. 20 YEAR SAGO Jan. 5, 1935 (It was Saturday) , Engagement of Sam Colton to Miss Fyrne Wood announced at buffet dinner given at home of Mrs. Roy Shrieve. Floyd F.. Whittle,- Ashland, named potentate of Hillah tem ple of the Shrine. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 5, 1925 (It was Monday) Meeting of Medford school board and local civic clubs slated for discussion of construc tion of new Medford High BchocJ. Prof. Irving E. Vining elected president of Oregon Chamber of Commerce. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 5, 1915 (It was Tuesday) From the Local and Personal column: Medford police are plan ning a new campaign against autoists who run around without lights at nieht and think thev can1 buy their new licenses when they feel like it. Ballots prepared for Jan. 12 Medford city election; C. E Gates and V. J. Emerick to be opposing candidates for mayor. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report .1. Gen. Eisenhower was Army chief of staff before, during or after World War II, or never? k i 0 2. As many as 10 per cent of all U.S. public school teachers 5 are paid under $2500 a year: right or wrong? 3. Receipts from the federal gasoline tax are much more or much less than government grants to states for roads, or about the same? 4. Are more auto trailers reg istered in California, Florida, Michigan, New York or Texas? 5. More than half, exactly half, or less than half of state governors in 1955 are Republi cans? 6. Some state gasoline taxes at the end of 1954 were as high as eight cents a gallon; right or wrong? - 7. A formicary houses ants, bees, drugs, lamas, monks, nuns, wayward juveniles or window display models? , The answers: 1. After World War II. 2. Right. 3. About the anfe as the grants. 4. In Cali fornia. 5. Less than half. 6. tIF I.:.... Va T &ntc BENNY IN HOSPITAL Hollywood U.PJ Comedian Jack Benny underwent treat merit at Cedar of Lebanon hos pital today for a mild virus in fection. He was flown to the hospital yesterday from Palm Springs, where he became ill. -o : MAIL TRIBUNE Plywood Industry Forging Ahead Recent announcement of plans for establishment of two large plywood plants in the Medford area evidences the increasing interest in and utilization of the various types of this material in many phases of construction. While plywood has been manufactured for ap proximately half a century, recent years that its use in building has reached a point where greatly increased expansion of produc tion has been found profitable. "OUTPUT of Douglas fir plywood in the western states in 1954 has been estimated at 3.85 billion square feet, the highest production total in the indus try's history. According to The Timberman, timber industry journal, published in Portland, the addition al 550 million square feet produced in British Colum bia brought the total production of Douglas fir ply wood to 4.4 billion square feet. In addition there were 275 million square feet of pine plywood, 26 million square feet of redwood plywood and 87 million square feet of other softwood plywoods, bringing the. total softwood ply production for the western part of North America to 4.75 billion feet. The area also pro duced 127 million square feet of hardwood plywood for a grand total of 4.88 billion feet of plywood in the west The Timberman reports that during 1954 there were 159 separate plywood and veneer operations in the west coast states, 112 producing plywood and 47 turning out veneer. THE amazing growth in demand for plywood en- couraged the , construction of eight new plants during the past year, four of them in Oregon, three in California and one in British Columbia. This year will see 51 softwood plywood plants in Oregon, 36 in Washington, 17 in California, 10 in British Columbia and one each in Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Six veneer operations were started in 1954, four in California, one in Washington and one in Canada. Present indications are that at least eight new plywood plants will come into operation in the year just starting. If the two new plants get into production here this year they will be able to help supply a demand which the industry optimistically expects will take 10 million square feet more a week. Some of this optimism is based on the fact that 1.2 million housing starts are estimated for 1955 and recent records show plywood is becoming an increasingly popular material in this field. Remodeling, maintenance and repairs plus warehouse and offices and heavy construction are also other markets where plywood is expected to gam. THE past year wasn't all in the first quarter and a summer curtailed output. However, at the strike s end, pent-up demand for the product pushed new orders and production to new highs. According to the Inn berman, conservative estimates put sales for the year about two per cent ahead Concerning the long-term outlook, The Timber man sees broad and expanding markets tor plywood and quotes the Stanford Research Institute report made for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., as authority for an estimated demand for 7.2 billion square feet of plywood per year by 1975. IN ADDITION to the expansion in ordinary plywood 1 production it is noted that new developments in the general plywood family are gaining in acceptance. Texture One-Eleven, a grooved plywood panel first introduced m 1953 was being sold at annual rate of about 36 million square feet panels, brushed, striated and embossed, are bemg produced by at least 14 plants at a rate of 53 million square feet annually. Production of specialty panels in 1954 was estimated at 118 'million square feet. Particle board and hardboard, two products close ly related to the plywood industry, are also forging ahead. Particle board, a more recent development, is now being produced by at least 23 firms. Hard board, a similar but more established product, en joyed a production of 1.59 billion square feet in 1954. In the west, nine hardboard plants produced an estimated 818 million square feet and the three east ern plants turned out an estimated 770 million square feet. THE Stanford Research Institute report sees an in 1 creasing use of hardboard. More and more is be ing used by the furniture and fixtures industry for drawers, dresser backs, under plastic surfaces in dinette sets, and for table tops in inexpensive furni ture built for hard wear. In the fixtures segment of the industry, it'is used for displayscounters and par titions. The institute says total hardboard consumption in all uses may be expected to go from the 1952 level of about one billion square feet to around three bil lion square feet by 1975. If this projection proves anywhere near correct the time may come when lum ber manufacturing interests in this region will wish they had gotten an earlier start in this phase of the industry, just as some now probably wish they had given more thought to plywood earlier in the game. E.C.F. Soons Urge Eisenhower Washington (U.PJ Six sena-, xors wrote .President Eisenhower today urging him to support fed eral construction of a dam in Hells Canyon of the Snake river. Their letter said the Pacific Northwest "needs this keystone for integrated natural resources eeveiopment." It was written by sens. James E. Murray (D- i Wednesday, January 5, 1955 it is only in comparatively clear sailing for the ply- three-month strike m the of 1953. last year. Other specialty To Back Hells Canyon Mont.), Mike Mansfield (D- Mont.), Wayne Morse (Ind. Ore.), Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.), Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) and Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.). Three types of salt are mar ketedcrude salt, kiln dried or semi-refined, and vacuum re- fined salt. , Great Britain May Be on Spot During SEATO Conference u ruiBT.Pfi M. MC CANN ! 7 w United Press Foreign Analyst Great Britain may find itself on the spot at the conference of Southeast Asia Treaty Organiza tion countries to be held in Bangkok, Thai land, next month. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has made' it plain he wants to put some teeth in the Charles ,vrl.ann e 1 g 11 t - iiauun "SEAT O" organization formed to prevent further Communist encroachment in Southeast Asia. There is talk in Washington of a small "mobile striking force" to back up the Southeast Asia treaty. Britain wants no part of any such force. If United States' and British views are to be broiieM. into line before Feb. 23, when the Bangkok conference starts. Dulles and British Foreign Sec retary Anthony Eden will have to do considerable advance nego tiation. Revision Due' Britain is in an embarrassing position in East Asia, and there are suggestions it may have to revise its policy before long. .Britain recognizes the Chinese Communist government and has repudiated the Nationalist gov ernment. Yet British troops fought against the Chinese Reds in Ko rea. The British and Chinese Na tionalist delegates get along well together in the United Nations, In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China issues a New Year's statement. He describes the miniature war involving Nationalist is lands just off the Red mainland as an OVERTURE TO THE BAT TLE OF FORMOSA STRAIT. He adds that full-scale war may break out at any time. QHIANG scares' me. I'm afraid he WANTS a'hattle in the Formosa strait. Our Sev enth fleet is patrolling there, armed and ready for battle We have Said that if th Tferla att-jMr i ormosa we will defend For mosa. Having said that, we must stick to it just as the boy who araws a line m the dust with his toe and dares his onnonent to cross it has to fight if the other boy DOES cross over. He must fight or lose the re spect of his fellows. HNLY by bringing the United v States into a full-scale war on his side can Chiang hope to get back INTO POWER in China. That's what scares me. A T this point. I'd like to auote XX an ahli anH itirmcrVit-ful Woet. em editor Bill Mathews cf the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Bill is a globe-trotter. He has been all over the world. As he travels, he uses his eyes and he uses his head. He savs: . "Anyone who says the world can not exist part slave and part iree contradicts all history. Co existence of great powers has Deen a normal fact of history and win continue to be." AS proof of what he says, let's take a Innlr at 'Rri-rain Over the long centuries when the idea of freedom of individ ual men was taking shape in .cngiana, Jtngiisnmen were rela tively FREE as freedom went in those days. Everywhere else individual men were enslaved. So You see In those centuries, the com paratively free British coexisted with the practically enslaved peoples of the smaller world nf that day. Out of that coexistence came the BETTER world of TODAY. As BUI Mathews savs. co existence CAN WORK. That is one of the important lessons of history. B ILL adds: The only time war can he justified is to win a political ob jective that is VITAL TO OUR OWN WELFARE." T ET'S . go back to England U agan. In those centuries she fought often. At one time or another, she was at war with every nation of Europe. At one time or another she was AL LIED with every nation in Europe. . , But Through it all she was fight ing for an objective that was vital to her own welfare. That objective was to see to it that no nation became powerful enough to DOMINATE Europe. If that had been permitted to come to pass, the little island of Britain would have been a goner. AND While this went on -The world survived and got better. Coexistence can work. It has worked before. and are usually found voting on the same side. Britain agrees with the United States that the time has not yet come to admit the Chinese Cou munists to the U.N. When the U.N. took up the issue of the imprisonment of 11 American airmen by the Reds, the most eloquent and most force ful speech in favor of U.N. ac tion was made by British dele gate Anthony Nutting. Nutting also said that Britain would be "involved" if the Chi nese Reds attacked Formosa. U. N. Involved That caused quite a stir in Lon don, though it was obviously right. Britain and Nationalist China are fellow members of the U.N., and an attack on any U.N. member naturally would "in volve" the others. Finally, Britain is a member of the Southeast Asia treaty pact which is aimed directly against possible Chinese Red aggression. . The Peiping government has started to make it plain it does not like Britain's policy. Red Prendre Chou En-Lai said in a speech on Dec. 21 that Britain's support of United Statea policy toward Formosa "impairs the relations between China and Britain." "The Chinese government can not but feel great regret at this attitude of the British govern ment," Chou said. The British Labor government recognized Red China on Jan. 6, 1950, immediately after Gener alissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Na tionalist government was driven from the mainland. It is much easier to enter diplomatic rela tions than to break them, and there has been no suggestion that Britain would consider such a break. Obviously, however, Britain is in a diplomatic jam in its con flicting East Asia policy. Sooner or later something wiU have to be done about it. But it would take a major prophet to suggest what. 4-H Forestry Contest Winners Announced Three members of the South west Medford 4-H Forestry club have been named winners of the country 4-H forestry contest, it was announced today by Glenn lUem, county agent. The winners are Joan Dobrot, Carl Dobrot, and Carl Skyrman. They were named winners in competition with members of the Central Point 4-H Forestry club. The Central Pomt and South west Medford clubs tied for first place in competition held last fall at the county 4-H club fair. High scorers for theCentral Point club jn the runoff compe tition between the two clubs were Don Smith and Bruce Boldenow. Grange Central Point Grange Central Point Grange and Ju venile officer's were installed by the Pomona installation team, on Sunday, January 2. Pomona officers and some from other Granges were also given their charges. Master Harold Gebhard stated the year's work off with a meet ing of the newly instaUed offi cers on Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Bohnert. Projects, programs and committees were discussed and planned for 1955. The hew officers will take over the chairs for the regular meet ing of Central Point Grange on Friday, January 7, at 8 p.m. Lecturer Delmar Smith has arranged a program to include fun for all. Carlos Morris will show a travelogue and others will give New Year's resolu tions. Freida Smith and Lucille Geb hard will send the Grange news to the Mail Tribune during 1955. There will also be a separate Juvenile Grange reporter. Juvenile Grange The regular meeting of Cen tral Point Juvenile Grange will be on January 7, with the new officers conducting the meeting. Matron Lucile Frink is ready with new programs and projects for the coming year, and a lec turer's program has been planned. - Officers elected and installed for the. year are: Matron, Lucile Frink; master, Margaret Taylor; overseer, Russell Frink; lectur er, Kenneth Gebhard; steward, Jimmy Frink; assistant steward, Frank Mengel; chaplain, Joan Dobrot; treasurer, Billy Hall; secretary, Bobby Kuest; gate keeper, Bruce Niedermeyer; Ceres, Carol Lee Kuest; Pomona, Janet Ray Kelly; Flora, Nicky Hammond; lady assistant stew ard, Judy Frink; pianist, Nancy Niedermeyer. . Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday ; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 Dreviousday. 1st Choice Of Millions A PLOUGH PH0W5T Pope Recovers From Hiccups, Attends Mass VATICAN CITY (U.R) Pope Pius XII, fully recovered from the mild attack of hiccups he suf fered Monday night, rose early today and attended a special mass in his private chapel. Prof. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, the pontiffs physician, visited him after mass. He said he found the Pope in excellent spirits, cheered by reports of favorable reaction to his Christmas message. Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ringer-Naturalist Facts vs. fallacies. This one is about snakes. Fallacy: A snake can inflict poison and sting with its forked tongue. v Fact: The flickering forked tongue is soft and Incapable of inflicting any injury. It is a highly developed sense organ used principally in touching and as an aid in smelling. That is why, as the snake goes about, it darts its tongue in and out con tinuously, particularly when its suspicion has been aroused. Fallacy: A rattlesnake s age can be told by the number of its rattles. ' Fact: This belief stems from the assumption that the rattler sheds its skin once a year and in doing so adds a rattle. How ever, the rattlesnake does not shed its skin once a year regu lary. It sheds its skin, depending upon the amount of food it eats. It may not shed at aU, or it may shed several times, two or three in fact, comes closer to being the average. And although a rat tle is; usually added with each shedding, old ones frequently break off. Fallacy: Snakes can charm birds, animals and even humans by their cold stare. Fact: It. is true that some peo ple are so frightened by snakes that they are frozen immovable but this reaction is not the same as being charmed or hynotized. May Become Frightened Furthermore, most naturalists do not believe that snakes can charm smaller animals any more than they can charm people. But it seems possible that some of the. smaller creatures may like wise become so frightened that they cannot move until it is too late. It must be borne in mind too that some animals "freeze'1 becoming immobile, to avoid be ing seen by many of their foes. Some mother birds flutter dangerously near a snake to give it the impression of easy capture until it has drawn the snake a safe distance from its nest when it miraculously recovers and flies away. Occasionally, a moth er bird. underestimates the rap id darting of a snake and its cap tured. (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 wiU be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Savings MEDFORD, First Mortgage Loans. . Investments and Securities Cash on Hand and in Banks Furniture, Fixtures Total Assets Members' Share Accounts Loans 'm Process ' Other Liabilities-..... Specific Reserves. General Reserves- Undivided Profits- Total Liabilities.. 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 Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with e view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Duff Ideal Choice , To The Editor: I am pleased with Medford's city council in their appointment of Mr. Robert Duff as city manager. 4 For a number of years my family and I lived in Grand Junction, Colo., a city about the size of Medford. They have had the city manager form of gov ernment there since about 1925. For several years I was em ployed by the city of Grand Junction in their shops and dur ing that time saw a number of managers come and go. It seemed those from other states and with the highest recommen dations sometimes cost the tax payers the most money for ierv ices rendered. It is reasonable that a man ac quainted with the affairs of Medford and as well known as is Mr. Duff, would be the ideal choice for city manager. Medford has made many gains in the 8 years. we have lived here and I feel confident we wiU continue to progress undejr our new city manager form of gov ernment. Again, I wish to express my appreciation to the city council for their choice of .Mr. Duff as our first city manager. Hoyt F. Hay, 310 Maple St., Medford, Ore. Regarding the New Year Date To the Editor: I noted in yes terday's paper an editorial over your initials in which you state: Up to the time of Julius Caesar the Romans had dated the New Year from the beginning of win ter ... - If I remember my history cor rectly the fifth and sixth months of the Roman calendar or Quintilus and Sextilus got the present names of July and Aug- ust in honor of Julius and Au gustus Caesar but the- seventh, eighth, 9th, and 10th months of the Roman calendar still bear the names of these numerals, i.e September, October, November, and December. But if December meant the "tenth" month at the time of Julius Caesar, then March must have been the first month and February the last which would seem logical as it has an odd length compared to the other months which ere of either 30 or 31 days. Bill Newhall, 301 Ardmore Ave., Medford, Ore. Ed. Note: The comment has been referred to B. B. a contrib uting editor who wrote the edi torial in question. Keeps His Fingers Crossed To the Editor: However, those who can re member 1929,. will be excused if they keep their fingers crossed. Whoever Is. running this show has always had a bad habit of raising hopes highest, when old Humpty Dumpty has been just about to fall off the wall, again J R.W.R. Brother, you have said i mouthful. From all signs and in dications it won't be long now. When bankers and investment "counselors' (with their hun dred percent record of stupidity and miscalling the turn over the past 50. years), along with most other forecasters, come out with "reassuring" statements that the present stock market boom "is not like 1929 because it aint," and our synthetic prosperity (supported for the past twenty years solely by fantastic public spending) is the real McCoy and destined to go on and on? Well, the canny man immediately starts putting his house in order. 1 Jim Fuller, Ashland, Ore. FIFTY-FOURTH SEMI-ANNUL STATEMENT & Loan Association of Hodford OREGON O DECEMBER 31, 1954 STATEMENT OF CONDITION ASSETS and Equipment, less depreciation.. . LIABILITIES ,..$ 141,308.24., 16,559.79.. Christ Was Suspected Also To the Editor: In the current "debate" going on in your paper, t would like to supplement the "negative" with 400 words of "rebuttal." The' question as or iginally propounded was wheth er the Christmas celebration has Bible backing. Side issues have been raised and patriotism, ques tioned all in an effort to swaj the readers' emotions, rather than objectively refute th points made. ' VVUUIUJf .V MIV .III V-J. UWg V4. n- Mrs. Santo, I do not deny the virgin birth of Jesus I believe in it sincerely. But I do not be lieve that such virgin birth is honored by taking an old pagan -celebration of sun (not son) wor- . ship and tying Christ's name to it And about the wise men men tioned. The wise men that visit ed first Herod and then Jesus were magicians or astrologers. The Greek word translated "wise men" is "magi" and means magicians or astrologers. Show ing the truth of this, we read Acts 13:8-10 where this same . Greek word "magus" (singular of magi) is used to refer to Ely mas the sorcerer whom Paul called a son of the Devil. (God condemned astrology among the ancient Israelites see Isa. 47:13) the "wise men" were led by the star to murderous King Herod, and only after such visit did it come and stand over Jesus. Would God have sent un-Theo- cratic astrologers, guided them by something the Jews were for bidden to worship, and sent them to a heathen king who wanted to kill Jesus? Only Satan, the De vil would plot such a thing! Also, the wise men didn't come bear ing gifts at the time of Jesus' birth, but rather later, possibly. two years later, since that was the maximum afee of those, kill ed by Herod in an effort to get Jesus. Jesus was then a "young child" living in a "house," not Mrs. Santo forgets Christmas and questions one's Christianity because of that one's claimed lack of patriotism. It would be revealing to apply such objec tion to Jeremiah, the apostles, and even Jesus, who were all charged with sedition. . Mrs. Linnie George, 618 Beatty. Medford, Oregon. Grange Appreciative To the Editor: On behalf of Central Point Grange we want to express our sincere thanks for your fine services and kind nesses in giving us very good publicity this past year. Many thanks and may we wish you and the paper, bolli a happy and prosperous New Year. Eudora Bohnert, j Central Point Grange. Danny Kaye Wins Humanitarian Award! Hollywood (U.R) Comedian Danny Kaye has won the Hu manitarian of the Year award for 1954 because of his work as ambassador at large for the UN International Childrens fund. The announcement that Kaye had won the award came yes terday from Noah A. Atler, president of the Denver Hospi tal and Sanitarium, which an nually honors outstanding serv ice to humanity. Previous winners were Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dore Schary, George Jessel, Paul G. Hoffman and Drew Pearson. Mrs. Roose velt will present the award to Kaye at the annual Humanitar- an Award dinner In Beverly Hills March 20. .$2,190,700.47 - 155,500.00 . 257,966.85 3,793.58 .$2,607,960.90 .$2,385,861.27 62,909.45 1,022.15 300.00 157,868.03 .$2,607,960.90 rStV sffnp
