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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Xverybody In Southern Oregoo am am mm mm TTlDuna" - Published Daily Except Saturday by CO. 27-39 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor . HERB GREY. Advertising Mananr E. C. FERGUSON.. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR city Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph EdUoi KiCHAKD JEWETT. SporU Editor OLIVE STAR CHER- Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor . GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newtpaper Entered as second das matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 - SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Per cod? ICe. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos,' 3.90 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Sunday Only One year 330 By Carrier In Advance Medlord Ashland. Central Potat, Eagle Point, . Jacksonville, . Gold i Hill. Phoenix, Shady cove. Rogue River, Talent and on motor routes: Duly and Sunday One year ' I15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 129 Carrier and Dealers 8c per copy All lerms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford official Paper of JacKson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU- o OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative. lvertislng Representative; WEST.HOLLTOAY COMPANY. WC omcea u New Yorav Chicago, oe troit. san Francisco. ixs Angelas, Seattle. Portland. St touts. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C : 'NATIONAL EDITORIAL a h rlTa t ila M O" NEWSPAPER PUtLISHERS ''ASSOCIATION. Flight Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The ;Mail Tribune.: 10, 20, 30 and u years ago. , 10 YEARS AGO-. , Jan. 7. 1945 .' ' ij ' : (It was Sunday ;: Hal. Rickman. scores 15 points to lead St. Mary's basketball i team to 43 to 31 victory over Sacred Heart, of .Klamath Falls. From Arthur .Perry's Ye - Smudge Pot column: The solar ' system has started the elongation of the days. y . ; ' . ' 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 7. 1935 .'. .. . (It was Monday) .. Bill Bowerman, head coach " at Franklin High school in Port ' land, visits in Medford, where he was prominent in high school athletics. .... '"'.i - Ashland city council instructs : City Attorney Frank Van Dyke to work out contract for pur chase ' of Pompadour Mineral springs. : . - . ,-" '" ' . " . . , 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 7, 1925 ''i-U' jfft was Wednesday) r Ben Plymale first ; Jackson county veteran of World War I to receive veterans insurance certificate. No out of state cars registered at Medford state registration bu reau for first time in more than a year, Secretary Lee Garlock reports. . .. 40 YEARS AGO -Jan. 7. 1915 (It was Thursday) - ' 3 Medford's starting lineup for basketball game with Grants Pass expected to be Beacpm, center; Thomas and Williamson, forwards, and Pelouze and Cow gill, guards; special effort to be made to have building warm for game. v:" ;' From the Local and Personal column; Three of the toughest looking citizens the, police have come in contact with- this winter sojourned in the city yesterday. They ' were bewhiskered, . and ragged - and tattered' and torn; and not an article of theif wear ing apparel . was . whole.- - They were ordered out of town after they had frightened a number of housewives ; in the western part of the city. . What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) f: Copr. 1954. Editorial Research Report : 1. The Congress , which con 'vened on Jan. 5, is the 74th, 80th, 84th, 90th or 94th? v . A i 2. On security grounds Wolf Ladejinsky lost his post in the Army Dental Corps, State De partment Ft Monmouth ; Re search project. Agriculture De partment, or Voice of America? 3. The average worker in :thev U.S. loses about. 5, 74, 10, ; 12 15, 17, or 20. days ofwork.a year because of illness? " ' 4. A general sales tax is im posed in . most states; right or wrong? . 5. Average age of men. now being drafted into the Army is 19, 20, 21, 22, or 23? 1 j . 6. Until the new House elected a Speaker, it was presided over by the old Speaker, Vice-President Nixon, its chaplain, clerk, or member of longest service?- 7. Nicosia is the capital of which disturbed ; area of the world' much in the news lately?. The Answers: 1. 841h. 2. Agri ; culture Department. 3. About 7Yi work day a year. 4. Right. 5. 21. 6. Its derk. 7. Cyprus. MAIL TRIBUNE State May End Flax Fiasco Flax, Oregon's perennial problem child,-will again be up for consideration during the forthcoming ses sion of the legislature. This time the question will be whether to continue operating, the prison flax mill. - . MEMBERS of the state flax and linen board, meet .'ing recently with the board of control, told the board that the flax operation is no longer tied to ag riculture' development in the Willamette, valley, as was the intention when the 1915 legislature authoriz ed establishment of the prison flax mill. Although for the past several years the flax mill has been a losing proposition the flax board chair man stated his belief that installation of some inex pensive machinery would make it possible to carry on for tie next two years in the black, in any event, Governor Patterson has made it clear that the peni tentiary mill will be continued through, this year. It has' been estimated that about two years would be required to wind up operations should the legisla ture decide to get the state out of the business. TT;WAS many years ago v flax5 mill was authorized that Willamette valley interests,, believing that, grown and processed in that region, sought state aid in getting started. With the help of experts, some from this country and some imported from abroad, flax was successfully grown, but misfortune and mishand ling seemed to dog the project from the outset. Time after time huge stores of flax straw burned myster iously. The processing often went awry, there were bitter battles for the jobs created by the state aid, "and much wrangling over administrative procedures. Year after year it was necessary to use state funds to bail the flax project out. Ultimately the suspicion grew in other parts of the state that those mainly in- . , I'l IV l 1 '11 1 terestea m tne venture were more concerned witn od- taining the state money for salaries and land leases than they were in actually producing and marketing the product. . ;. . , IF THE 1955 legislature decides to close the prison : flax mill, and the convicts., hope it will fori they hate to work in the mill's dust laden air, the state will be finally, taking an action which many believe should have. been taken years ago. E.C.F. A Diet Education Needed : - Good eating habits - are more the result of how much you know than of how much money you make, according to a study conducted by Cornell Univer sity. . " - ' v" ' . ' . ''i ' The university's researchers "who interviewed 1, 640 employed people found that diets improved stead ily among older folk as their educational level in creased, while Only slight, improvement f ollowed. in come increases. i ' v ' ' . ' A less than desirable milk usage was found to be one of the most important employees though as the was a steady increase in the used at least some milk. The survey showed that dent need to encourage the its products. ; - THE study should be of ducing and distributing of ment agencies having to of the price supports program. ' - : , The department of agriculture, for instance, has long been struggling with present time it is planning of dried eggs to feed children through , the , school lunch program, as one means of reducing the storage pile. - While the milk producers' organizations and the dairy industry in general have been making some progress: in educating the public as to the value of milk in the diet,1 little or no similar effort has been made in behalf of eggs. -Eggs by themselves- not only supply some of the basic, vital food values but less combinations with other foods. Because of their nutritional importance, ease of distribution and com parative low cost eggs lend themselves admirably to exploitation. ."':....'.. -. ,-. ' t ' : IF Uncle Sam would inaugurate a campaign to edu- cate his nephews i and nieces particularly 3ie young er ones, as to the advisabili of using more, milk and eggs it might be that he would be able to save some of the support money now going into more or less useless storage of these fine foods. Such a nation-wide campaign in behalf of Savings Bonds has been outstandingly successful. Through the use of donated newspaper space, radio time, and other advertising methods people have been made savings conscious arid vast sums have been put into Savings Bonds, insurance against a possible time of need. Surely the American people could He induced to take as much interest in their health, and proper diet as they are in taking carof then financial well being. E.C.F. . 4-H Club Eagle Point Club r -Eagle Point 4-H Dairy club held its Christmas-New Years party at the Mongold residence. Next regular, business meeting will be held Jan. 11 at the Eagle Point Grange hall. , . -Sally Mongold, Friday, January 7,-1955 long before the prison flax could be V- profitably faults in the dtet of older education Uevel rose there percentage of those who there is still a very evi use of eggs, and milk and - :- interest not only to those eggs, but to those govern do with the administering a huge egg surplus. At the to buy two million pounds are also usable in count DETECTIVE PINCHED Montreal (U.R) Red-faced police reported today that a uni formed constable arrested a mor ality squad detective he found loitering to observe the comings and' goings at a suspected house of prostitution The constable thought the detective was a phony. , y r ; - Presidents On State off Tops News By CHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst. The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: THE GOOD " 1. President Eisenhower struck a hopeful note in his State of the Union message to Congress. "In the past year, there has been progress justifying hope, both for continuing peace and for the ultimate rule of freedom and justice in the world," he said. "Free nations are collec tively stronger than at any time in recent years." The President warned : that Soviet Russia re mained a menace. But he said that if Communist rulers under stand that America's response to aggression will be "swift and decisive," they will be "power fully deterred from launching a military venture." , : y 2 . U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold began talks in Peiping in an - attempt to win freedom for 11 American air men jailed as spies and for U.N. war prisoners still held by Red China. An announcement that Russia that it would free two Americans held in. Soviet slave labor camps may have been a hint to the Chinese Communist government. There are indica tions Russia believes the Pei ping regime blundered far con victing uniformed airmen as spies. It was announced the eight nations of the "new Southeast Asia Treaty - Organization wiU meet in Bangkok, Thailand, on Feb. 23 to organize means of meeting any Communist aggres sion; ' - 3. Premier Pierre Mendes- Francer set r out. ; for ; Italy . and Babson: 'Finding Fortunes' ' Br ROGER W. BABSON New York- City, (Special to Mail Tribune) I have just been asked by a WaU Street banker to help him get some so- called "worth less" securities away from the readers of this column for a few cents a cer- tificate (not per share); I hear that for Soger w. Bsbsoaf every 50 certi ficates which this broker buys, he finds that 49 are now :worth- less; but one is' worth perhaps $1,000. This would be A certi ficate which ' some .company needs in order to dissolve or consolidate without any out standing . obligations or -compli cations. ; . . ; , . . Of course, it would be unfair to my readers for me to advise them what to do. .But, I do urge you - to i throw nothing away which looks like a stock certi ficate '. even 'if your father or brother says it is "valueless and just cluttering up his desk or safe deposit box." Please do not send me any certificates to look at, but show them to your, regu lar banker, if you wish. Uranium Is Recovering Values of Some Lands . r Most of these "worthless" cer tificates in- your attic or desk drawers are -of old mining com panies.. They may never have been any good, or are of mines which have completely "petered out." The company did not have the money to dissolve .legally, but some rancher has paid the taxes for the privilege of using the land for pasture. Hence, the company was forgotten after the stockholders were told it was no good. The' land Is still useless for getting gold or silver, copper pr lead; but uranium . . may - have been found! As a result, the land could "increase in value in one week from $5 per. ace to $50,000 per acre! Some old-timer who remembers the old company has found a list of the old stock holders and has written them a letter offering $10 a share. As the envelope containing these certif icates was marked "valued lessi". the family sold them for $10 per share while today they are really worth $1,000 a share. Always Notify Company Of Your New. Address . When you move, from one house, to another and especially from one city to another, be sure to write the company in which you hold any stock of your new address. Don't ; ever look at a ."valueless" certificate and say it is hot worth a three cent postage stamp and the time required for-writing such a let ter. After too many changes of address, . your - envelope comes back marked -"unknown" and the company marks you "dead." One of the companies m which my-family has very large hold ings (United Stores. ".Common, selling on the. American Stock Exchange for $3 to $4) has near ly . 100 such ;! stockholders who cannot be located. Perhaps you are one of these stockholders. There probably v are. .hundreds of other' companies just like United Stores. This stock could easily double or treble in value. Message Union for Week Germany on a tour which could lead to closer European unity, He planned to propose to Ital ian Premier Mario Scelba and German Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer a French, Italian, German "arms pool" aimed at standard izing weapons and coordinating their production. THE BAD 1. The gunmen who cut down President Jose Antonio . Remon of Panama threw that country into a crisis. The identity of the assassins remained a mystery. The crime pointed up the fact that the elements of crises also exist in the other, five little re publics which lie between Mex ico and the South American continent. ; 2. The Russians and the East German Communists started a campaign of harassment which rouse some fear, of a new Ber lin blockade in retaliation for the . allied Western, European Union Defense Pact. The Reds refused to renew, an agreement which permitted barges to move through the Soviet zone to West Berlin. They also started de manding special passes for West German motorists traveling through the Soviet zone from Berlin to. Western Germany. 3. Britain was threatened with a series ; of - crippling strikes. There was hope the government might succeed in postponing, at least, a nationwide strike by 400,000 railroad employees set for Sunday night by negotiat ing the Wage demands. There still was threat of a strike by engineering workers for the eovernment-owned British Air lines which girdle the world. This dispute stemmed from the dismissal of a union organizer. Price of Defaulted Bonds May Some Day Return When a stock stops paying dividends the price of the stock may gradually decline, but no one gets panicky. The stockhold ers hope for a resumption of dividends. When, however, a bond defaults especially a for eign bond most bondholders think" this, is the' end. The price of the bond then suddenly drops from 'around par to 50 cents on the dollar. . Discouraged bond holders have rushed to sell their bonds and the price has dropped to 20 cents or even less. But, in the course of years, many of these bonds returned in value to $1,000 Some of the hotels in the fam ous Sheraton chain were1 built in the gay 90s. The bonds were sold for $1,000 each. Then they defaulted and kicked about at perhaps $200 for years. Finally, one of Boston's most courageous financiers, Ernest Henderson, had faith in the hotel business and bought up these bonds. They have since bqen paid off at par. Before selling any "worthless stock" or defaulted "bond, you can send $2 to the Information Center at New Boston, N. H. This gives no investment advice but has lists of 40,000 such stocks and will pass along to you what report it has on file. This is a non-profit educational association to help deserving people on business problems. The $2 will cover a full year's in quiry, in other words, you can write again about the same stock or bond anytime within 12 months without further cost to you. . i 6C School Board Site ' 1 Central Point About 15 acres of land on East Pine st., former ly owned by Fred Patterson,' was purchased this week by -the Dis trict 6 school board at Central Point for future construction of an elementary school, according to Supt. H. P. Jewett. " ; The land is located within, the city. About 12 to 13 acres wiU be used ' for school purposes, with the remainder to be sold. The latter includes the Patter son house. Cost of land retained will be about$l,000 an acre. :" The board is considering plans for immediate construction of a unit of a new elementary build ing, which would eventually be expanded to about an 18-room school. , i: Jewett pointed out that the present elementary school popu lation is 955, which is 30 per cent over the state standard for the size of the school grounds now in use. The board is also considering increased enrollments in the Gold Hill school, where it is ex pected at least four more rooms wiU be needed within two years. Best-Known Home Remedy wrsuffenngof AVapoRob RubpaRe!ieftreatlin 8eltet . Matter of Fact v i Moscow's Great Debate a Washington The American and, Soviet governments appear to have .one thing, at least, in common. Both g o v e rnments are internally divided about the direction their foreign policy should take, now that the basic deci sion to rearm Western" Ger many has "at long last been made. " suggestion, that Stewart Alsop The evident the, Soviet government is di vided on this question is, as al ways, fragmentary and incon clusive. But it is a good deal less so than usual. When Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen returned to Moscow re cently, he : reported back that the sense of tension had mea surably increased there in the few days since he had left. The British Ambassador, Sir William Hayter, who also returned to Moscow at about the same time, reported back to London pre cisely the same thing; . One obvious reason for this tension in Moscow was, - of course, the French voting on the German rearmament issue. But another reason also' appeared, when long editorials about the future of the Soviet policy were published just before Christmas in Pravda and IzvesUa. ,f , Izvestia is the organ' of the Soviet government, and is thus accounted : the mouthpiece of Premier Georgi Malenkov. Prav da is the organ of the Soviet Communist party, and is thus accounted the mouthpiece of N S. Kruschev, Secretary of the Party. The two papers took al most diametricaUy opposite lines. Izvestia caUed for a continu ation of essentiaUy the present policy increased emphasis on production of consumer goods, and a "co-existence" policy abroad. Pravda called, in effect, for a "hard" line abroad, and a return to 1 aU-out priority for heavy industrial , production. which means arms production. The next day, Pravda publish ed another long r editorial, and this time Pravda feU in line with Izvestia. By knowlegeable Russians; as well as foreign ob servers, this episode was univer- saUy taken to mean- that there had been a basic disagreement on policy as : between Malenkov and Krushchev,' and that this disagreement "had f been settled in Malenkov's favor. rriHE episode was further taken -to, mean that the . Russian rulers wished to .make known the existence of the . disagree ment The L.purpdse ,. was ' pre sumably, partiy .remindl the West that- the Soviets .could adopt a tougher line" if they wanted to. But another purpose certainly was . to, give - Krush chev, as it were, - his . day in court ; and to remind ' the . Rus sian people that no one had in herited, aU, the powers of -the dead Stalin. r ; It is quite genuinely true, in the view of Bohlen and all oth er foreign observers, that there is stUl no single absolute ' dic tator in " post-Stalin Russia. Moreover, , the ; extent to which the Soviet rulers though nop ably not the ruled feel free to disagree with each ' other is re markable, l-y V . ; " . -For examplej there was a re cent' meeting between certain "neutrals" and a number: of the Russian leaders, including Mal enkov, Krushchev, and . Foreigndischarge. 4 - Inveshnanrs m a l e by the 10th of the month am divi--dend as of the lit. Minister V. M. Molotov. Malen kov and Krushchev engaged in a lot of free-wheeling about So viet policy. Molotov quite, ob viously felt that his special province was being invaded by amateurs, and made no attempt to conceal his irritation from the foreigners. The meeting very nearly became a sort of . three cornered argument between the Russians. There is a good deal to sug gest, In short, that a "great de bated of sorts is in progress with in the Soviet government; No one, of course, believes that the essential objectives of .the Soviet regime have changed. But it is natural that the Soviet rulers should debate whether, the "soft" policy which achieved a triumph in Asia and t: almost achieved a greater triumph in Europe, has not about played itself out, now that the French have at last agreed to the re armament of West Germany.. Malenkov's recent equivocal remarks about the desirability of a four-power "meeting at the summit further suggests that the issue has notyet been fully de cided. The Soviet rulers, appar ently, simply have not made up their minds whether such a meeting would serve Soviet pur poses, since it is now seemingly impossible further to delay mer man rearmament. . ; -- ". A; GREAT - debate, is also, of course, in nrocress within the American government. This debate also concerns whether it is worth trying to negotiate with the Soviets, now that the Ger man rearmanent issue is pre sumably settled; and if so whether this is the time to try it. On one side are those who believe that the Soviets at least share the West's interests in avoiding . mutual incineration; and that it is worth trying to agree on a set of ground rules to this end. At least to some ex tent, President Eisenhower in clines to this view as doe3 British Prime Minister Sir-Win ston ChurchUl. - On the other side, are those who have strong doubts about the value of any . negotiation with the Russians except on the most limited and specific issues Secretary, of State DuUes enter tains these doubts and British Foreign Secretary Eden shares them. Thus a kind of . global 0rat debate is coins . on, in Washington, in Moscow, in Lon don. No doubt it wil be . settled one way or another before this year ends. - . Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune,; Inc. ; Public Speaking Class Will Be Opened Monday J. N, Tobin wiU open classes In public speaking here Monday, he announced today. The classes will be from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m, each Monday and Thursday. He is associated with the Rob ertson School of Business, 40-42 North Riverside ave.; and the classes wiU be conducted there, They are open to both men and women. : : r ?f- Tobin, who comes here after 28 years of instructing at the Emily Griffith Opportunity school in Denver, Colo., said the public' speaking training is an aid to leadership, poise and self confidence.. . x Washington (U.R) "Rep. Olin E. Teague (D-Tex.), has warned that many, volunteers signing up in the current mili tary enlistment boom may be doing so in the false belief they still can get a free education on MAKE A CONSERVATIVE INVESTMENT WITH ATTRACTIVE- EARNINGS Investment accounts in a Federal Savings and Loan Association represent a desirable security for; any investor who wishes to realize an attractive rate' of; income upon his capital, free from speculative" hazards. " - . r: ' Place your savings here where amounts Vip to $10,000 per person are Insured by the Federal Sav ings and Loan Insurance Corporation, Washington D.C. - - - , , ; Funds invested in this association are loaned to home owners, secured by sound first mortgages on their property. Years of experience have proved that the safety record of conservative first mortgages is hardly surpassed by any other invest- . ment, . , , v . : - . - f . ;.-'PPIiilFF? Savfcss fi Lea flu-s. cf L'cilcrd iIJII? V Klarth llalfv T.Uehft Ttlcphoea In the Day's Hews ; By FRANK JENKINS . Here's a sample of the day'a offerings in the way of news: The wife of the fabulous Aga Khan says he is improving after an. illness in Egypt His spouse who has the title of Begum says the' old gentleman has a high fever, which might . be caused by the flu, but his condir tion isn't serious. THE Aga Khan, by the way, is .77. .. . : : 4 , Britain's Grand Old Man, Win ston Churchill, is 80 and still going strong. Clement Attlee, former Laborite prime minister, and still (by a narrow squeak) leader of the British Labor party, is 72. i West Germany 'a; Aden auer is in his middle 70s. Ike, comparatively, speaking, is still in knee pants: " And Mendes France well, he's hard ly out of diapers. : YOU know the old saying - OT.Ti MTCN FOR P.OTTK. SEL;;YOUNG MEN FOR; WAR. Maybe this is a time for coun sel, rather than a time for war. Anyway, Jet's hope so. GETTING , back - to the Aga Khan, he's the head of a Mod ern sect that has some 20,000,- 000 adherents. -, They have a pleasant little custom of weight mg the old boy. every now and then, and taking up a collection and . paying him - his .weight in gold, or diamonds, :'or whatever precious substance . happens to catch their fancy at the moment At least, he s one person who just can't afford NOT to be fat. SPEAKING of diamonds are saying that diamonds worth about $1,500,000 were lost in the recent crash of a British air liner in Scotland. The diamonds were in registered mail pack ages, and were insured.. When somebody's houiie burns. it's a more or less trajic loss, even if it is insuredy When a factory burns, it's a more tragic loss because in addition to the destruction of the factory itself the jobs of the men who work there are temporarily lost - DIAMONDS used for Jewelry are another, matter. f-r,fi-i) They have no economic .value. ; Their sole use is for adornment. They have no INTRINSIC value their worth being governed py their SCARCITY. If they be came as abundant as sand, their value would be little more than that of sand. .- The shrewd gentlemen :who control the syndicate, that pro duces and markets diamonds are' fuUy aware Of this fact, and so they feed to the markets just enough diamonds to keep them high-priced and' therefore precv iOUS. ' ; In many ways, it's ' a queer world, isn't it?' . .'. ,.v -? ' Dead line Sunday CUKlfled Js'at noon Saturday : 10 ajn. rlonday for Monday: other days y.30 M evlousday. 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