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O 0 o 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfo: Tribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Trihuno" Published Daily Except Saturday by n&uiunu ills L tU. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraoh Editor Ki(iAKJJ 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 of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and aunday bix months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 o Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. o Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville,' Gold tim. Fhoenut, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: o Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers oc per copy All Term Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full teased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. unices in .New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Aneeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassoctiIon NEWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1945 (It was Sunday) High scorers i Medford pistol shoot include Gene Thomas, 236; Jimmie Bolton, 222; Bren Starcher, 211; Capt. S. M. Tuttle, 207, and Clyde Richmond, 196. From Arthur Perry's Ye o Smudge Pot column: Collection of dog taxes has started by the 0 county. It is estimated there are more than 4,000 dogs in this re gion, most of which do their barking at night 2(PYEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1935 (It was Monday) Nick Kime, valley's champion old time fiddler, who cut off the first finger of his left hand while chopping wood, will still be able 0to play his violin. City police records show that 84 persons were lodged in the city jail during 1934. 30 YEARS AGO" -Jan. 14, 1925 0 (It was Wednesday) More teachers needed in Med ford city schools, Superintendent Aubrey Smith reports. o . County construction records oshow that new building in Ash , land during 1924 amounted to $364,954. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 14, 1915 (It was Thursday) Gold Hill schools closed be cause of smallpox epidemic, ac ocording to Dr. R. E. Golden, county health officer, who esti mates that 50 per cent of the Gold Hill school children have a mild form of the disease. From the Local and Personal column: A gange of wanderers camped on the southern limits of the 'city yesterday, and had a hilarious time singing and howl- ing. They came to the city to complete their celebration, and while making an effort to secure alcohol were ordered out of town by the police. What's fhe Answer?- (an You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Federal government pay scales have been raised more re cently than Congressional salar ies; right or wrong? 2. y. S. cigarette consumption was much or slightly higher in 1954 than in 1953, much or slightly lower, or about the same? 3. The most typical new house o built today in U.S. metropolitan ereas sells for about $10,000, $J3,000, $16,000 or $19,000? 4. House committee hearings this year will or will not be televised, if Speaker Rayburn has his way? 5. Movie actor of most box office appeal is now, say theatre operators, Marlon D Brando, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Stewart or John Wayne? 6. Which two of these states lie east of the Mississippi: Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Wisconsin? 7. Antoine's is a famous res taurant in Paris, Buenos Aires, Montreal, San Francisco, Rome, or New Orleans? The Answers: 1. Right. 2. Slightly lower. 3. For about $13. 000. 4. Will not be televised. 5. John Wayne. 6. Mississippi and Wisconsin. 7. New Orleans. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. MAIL TRIBUNE Fruit Men Move To Cut Smoke ! T" The Fruit Growers League of Jackson County and the Kogue River Valley Traffic association, which largely represent the fruit industry in this area, de serve a word of commendation. A joint committee named from' the two groups has recommended that return stack heaters be used in the annual spring bat tle with frost in order to keep the objectionable smoke to a minimum. IN A LETTER sent to all growers the committee urged the replacement of existing smoke-producing pots with the return stack type, or the conversion of their open pots to the smokeless type. The committee stated that it realized that imme diate supplanting of old pots with the new type may be too costly an undertaking for some orchard owners because of the loss of crops in last year's severe frost. It recommended, however, to buy at least some of the only the latter be used during periods when it is not necessary to light all their, Adoption of this program by the growers, it is pointed out, will indicate their desire to cooperate in reducing the smoke nuisance. . Orchardists have already spent around $44,800 for return stack heaters and ual purchase program may tion of the old heaters. ADDITIONAL hope for laboratory at Oregon State periments in an effort to develop a satisfactory substi tute for oil heating. Use of 'waste wood for this pur pose, if a burner can be perfected, would prove a great boon not only to the orchard men who would no longer be forced to use the expensive oil, but to lumber concerns which are now shoving most of their off -fall into incinerators, a completely profitless dis posal method and one which itself helps to contribute to the smoke nuisance. . . Another series of experiments which may produce benefits is planned for this year by O.S.C. and the Experiment station. This, work, underwritten by the Fruit Growers league, has mining of temperature ceilings which could form the basis for new developments in protecting orchards from frost. ; . T'HE joint announcement A Vi TVo-f-fi occoM'iHnn industry is making an effort relief, a move which the will watch with interest. E.C.F. The Jackson County Delegation Although only one member of Jackson county's delegation in the Oregon legislature could boast prior service m the law-making committee assignments announced this week. Rep. E. H. (Ed) Mann his third term, was named and reapportionment committee and will also have a place on the forestry and mining, medical affairs and social welfare committees. Rep. E. A. ( Al) Littrell, one of the most coveted appointments on the im portant highways committee. He was also named to committees on commerce and utilities, labor and in dustries. . Sen. Philip B. Lowry, Medford attorney making his initial appearance in the legislature, was assigned to the judiciary, taxation, elections and privileges and alcohol committees. THE Medford men are all given a favorable size-up 1 in the Oregon Voter's "Who's Who in the 1955 Legislature." . "Mann," says the Voter in part, "always has been a loyal supporter of civic, patriotic and community projects.. Is an attentive, earnest legislator . . . sound as to basic problems and voting record excellent." "Jackson county has been noted for sending able men to the legislature and apparently will maintain that repu tation by this time sending E. A. (Al) Littrell as its new house member," declares the Voter and adds some details concerning his outstanding business and civic attainments. Lowry is mentioned as . . . "a fairly youthful but high ly regarded lawyer . . . member of the Oregon Bar since 1943, following an LLB from the University of Oregon law school and a BS in political science. . . After citing the . senator's war- service and other details the Voter observes, that Sen. Lowry was "so well regarded he had nomina tions of both parties," and that "those who know him well forecast he will be a high-class legislator." E.C.F. Timberline Lodge 'In Good Standing' Portland (U.R) Timberline Lodge, Inc., has been reinstated in good standing as a corpora tion and a liquor license re granted, according to lodge at torney Reuben Lenske. - Lenske said the reinstatement was made by the Oregon corpor ation commission following pay ment of a SI 00 license fee. Lenske said the corporation also expects to be reinstated as operator of the lodge. The for est service recenUy announced the corporation's permit to op erate the lodge would be termi nated April 11. PRISONER CONFINED Brantford, Ont. U.R) A grand jury reported Thursday that farm animals had it better than prisoners in the county jail. The grand jury found that the prisoners . had . less - space than the average animal stall on a farm. ' Friday, January 14, 1935 that all growers attempt smokeless units and that heaters. continuance of this grad see the eventual elimina smoke relief is given in the College is conducting ex as its objective the deter . by the Growers league and inrlifatic! tlnaf V a Frnif in the direction of smoke general public hereabouts body, all fared well in the of Medford, who is serving chairman of the elections a first tenner, received Teenagers Request Safe Driving Contest Ontario (U.R) Teenagers of Malheur county, Ore., and Pay ette county, Ida., have challeng ed adults of the two areas to a safe driving contest. The challenge was issued in the form of a written statement by several "hot rod" clubs, sug gesting that comparative safety records be compiled between Jan. 17 and March 17. The youthful chairman of the challenging committee, said the teenagers were out to prove "that while we might be nuts, we're not irresponsible." Weekly accident reports, brok en down into age groups, wUl be filed by local safe-driving agencies. ; WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Fair ex cept considerable fog from Sac ramento to Bakersfield; local morning fog elsewhere. 4 Hope of Success in Hammarskjold Talks Tops News for Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. United Nations Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold, on his mission to Peiping, failed to .gain the outright release of 11 American airmen jailed as spies. But there was hope that his talks with Chinese Red Pre mier Chou En-lai might lead to diplomatic negotiations which would result in the release of the fliers provided that the Com munists did not. set too high a price. Hammarskjoldhimself , was not empoweredto negotiate with the Reds, but simply to seek the release of the fliers and all other U. N. military personnel still held in violation of the Korean armistice. Soviet Russia, after freeing two Americans long held as slave laborers, announced it would release a third. It is be lieved Russia may be giving the Chinese Reds a hint that it would be smart to free the airmen. 2. Turkey and Iraq agreed to conclude a mutual defense treaty, which will be open to other Middle Eastern countries. The pact is the result of a visit to Iraq by Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes, who is trying to bring the entire Middle East into the network of Western anti-Communist alliances. Men deres will now try to bring Syria and Lebanon "into the Turkish Iraki pact. 3. A feud in the Italian Com munist party broke into the open. The feud is the result of a steady decline in the strength and prestige of the Italian party, which is the largest this side of Is That So? Who am I? When beauty, grace and strength were dished out, I was among the first in line and then got a second helping. No other creature seeks the sun more zealously nor more success fully, some of us live in round the-clock sunshine for eight months every, year. I am equally at home with the penguins of the Antarctic, the puffins of the Arctic and the in habitants of even the remotest island. You cannot go near any large body of water without meeting a close relative. I am pearl-gray above, silver white below, and I wear a black bonnet. My blood-red sharp bill, my deeply-forked tail, my long narrow wings, all come to such tapering points that mortal man cannot tell exactly where I end against the sky but make no mistake, I eat hearty. By the uncounted millions, we draw skeins of flight across the sky from our wintering quarters near the South Polar regions to the Far North in fact, some of our nests have been found with in 450 miles of the North Pole. On these unchartered 20,000- mile rounds, spanning oceans, old birds do not outdistance the young. One youngster landed in Labrador, Canada, was recover ed in Natal, South Africa, a mere 10,000 miles away before he was six months old. Some Drink Salt Water Our bill of fare consists of fatty little candlefish, stickle backs, shrimp and such. Insects, too. Some of our slim-winged kinds, wheeling and crying hun dreds of miles from shore, drink salt water. Others, adapted to fresh water, prefer that. . Our, courtship followsestab lished rules: a bachelor offers a fish .to a responsive female and then they exchange it. often until it is bone-bare. I am: Penguin, Skua, Jaeger. hawk, Arctic Tern, Homing Pigeon. I am an Arctic Tern.' (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana,-my rjanel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife SEE CITY APPLIANCE FOR FUEL and ELECTRIC MONARCH Combination Ranges CITY JlPPLIflnCE, inc. 127 No. Central Opposite Penney's Fh. 3-5743 the Iron Curtain. Party leader Palmiro Togliatti is under heavy fire, and may be eased out. He is accused of being too dicta torial and of taking "bourgeois" elements into the party. THE BAD 1. A revolt exploded in Cosia Rica, one of the politically tur bulent little Central American republic. The Costa Rican gov ernment charged that the rebels entered its territory from Nica ragua, with which it has long been on bad terms. Realizing the seriousness of the situation, the Organization of American States, which includes aU of the Latin American re p u b 1 i c s, acted promptly to try to stop the fight ing. A five-nation commission was sent to Costa Rica to investi gate, and the United States agreed to lend planes to aid the commission in observing the sit uation on the spot. 2. Premier Pierre Mendes France suffered a severe blow to his prestige when the French National Assembly defeated his candidate for fhe important post of Assembly president. It was the first move by the premier's enemies, who have made no secret of their determination to overthrow him now that the is sue of West German armament is out of the way. ' j 3. Chinese Communist planes made their biggest attack in five years on the Tachen Islands, in which the Nationalists hold out posts off the Red-held mainland. The Nationalists retorted with heavy attacks on Communist islands in the same group. Na tionalist authorities expressed be lief that the Communists may be preparing for an attempt to take their Tachen outoosts, and possibly to involve the United States 7th Fleet in the fighting. By Eugene Burnt -Ranger-Naturalist a complete 30-volumeset of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, P.O. Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. As We Live By. ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. Well-Chosen Clothes Mask Figure Faults Every teenage girl should learn how to improve on what nature gave her in the way of looks. It can always be done. (Q) "I am 14 years old and a freshman in high school. I have a very small waist but very large hips. Every time I go on a diet I lose every place but on the hips. Now it has gotten so that I can't buy a straight skirt because my waist is so small and my hips so large. I am only five feet tall, so you can picture how I look. Please help me. I am so depressed seeing all the girls with beautiful figures." (A) I suspect that many of the girls you admire have no better figures than vou have. They, " v. i howpvpr have learned the trick of select ing clothes that makes their figures look beautiful. Fortunately for girls, there are many dif ferent styles Dr. Huxloek from which to choose. For example, you do not have to wear a straight skirt. Relatively few girls, in fact can wear sft-aight skirts without their hips' bulging out behind. Why not wear a circular skirt that covers up te size of your hips and makes your waist ap pear even smaller than it is? Many girls would be only too happy to have a waist as small as yours. Show it off. a circular skirt, or one "with some fullness around the bottom, will make you look petite and fragile, not all bulges as a straight skirt will. Most important of all, don't despair about your size or your figure. At your age you have plenty of time to grow, and as you grow your figure will change. Until you know what your permanent figure will be, learn to dress according to what is becommg at the mo ment. That is what most girls do, and by doing so they fool others as they have fooled you about their "beautiful" figures. (Copyright 1955, General Features Corp.) Cm Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. In the Day's News . By FRANK JENKINS 5 Hazards of modern "life note: The Oregon state highway de partment will dispatch a crew to bury three sharks that washed up on the beach near Gearhart. The supervisor of the crew said the sharks did not appear to have been injured and what killed them is not known. THE SUPERVISOR EXAMIN ED THE DEAD SHARKS WITH A GEIGER COUNTER TO SEE IF THEY WERE RADIO ACTIVE. He said the results were nega tive. WHEN A mother, in the good " old days, sent her children out to play she cautioned them to look out for sandburs and rattlesnakes. It's besinnins to look like the modern mother wiU have to see to it that her children take their Geiger count ers along when they go . out to play. ; A HIGHWAY advisory commis "sion headed by retired Gen eral Lucius Clay reports its recommendations for a $101,000, 000,000 road buildinff tiroeram (to be spread over 10 years) to President Eisenhower. Among other things, the com mission proposes the setting up ot a new federal agency that would issue bonds to raise money. JUST A thought: BONDS MUST BE PAID. They have to be paid with taxes. 1 OREGON'S Governor Patterson sends to the Oregon legis lature a budget amounting to $219,614,179. The budgetif ac cepted as is by the legislature (with taxes remaining as is), would result in a DEFICIT of $63,870,077. The governor recommends these measures for meeting the deficit: 1. A state property tax to raise $30,000,000. . 2. Remove the federal income tax exemption in figuring state income taxes. This would raise another $30,000,000. 3. Submit a bond issue to the people to carry out most of the building program for colleges and state institutions. (Let's not forget that these bonds, too, would have to be paid with taxes.) . - I NCIDENTAL information: This proposed Oreeon budget is TEN TIMES as much as the Oregon budget for 1941, when World War II was getting start ed. I can't help wondering if we aren't going to have to ADD TAXES to the hazards of mod ern life. WHY HAVE taxes risen so " rapidly? There are two answers: L WAR. 2. The things that government "gives" us. TlHERE ISN'T much we can do about war, because the wars we are paying for now have all ready been fought. We have to irAx tor them. As to the things that govern ment "gives" us, we might well do a little careful thinking. iwerytning the government gives us IT FIRST TAKES OUT OF OUR POCKETS. Before govern ment can give somebody a dollar it must first take a dollar out of somebody's pocket. WE HAVE the comfortable idea that the dollar is tak-en rmt of SOMEBODY ELSE'S pocket. That is a delusion. Tavo hava to be added to the cost of produc tion and therefore have to be added to the prices we pay for everyuung we Duy. bo You see EVERYBODY navs his . full share of the cost of taxes. If we want government to go on giving us things we'll have to go on pungling up for them. ; Night Watchman Chases Intruder -Rochester. N.Y. (U.R) Roy Mallory, a night watchman at a local plant, was making his rounds when he came upon a most unusual intruder. - - As he entered the factory division, he was surprised by a full-grown deer, running up and down the . aisles , and ob viously wondering how to escape. ' Mallory never learned how the animal gained entrance, because the deer dashed past him through the open door,, joined a ' second deer in the factory yard. Both vaulted a fence '..and fled. , 2 31 PORK SAUSAGE 3 Sib. BaKson . PHone Industry By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Most readers of my column look at times for srmfthirir m which to invest. It never occurs to them that there may be good lo cal investments under their own noses. They want to invest in some big eomp any and send their money to Wall L8eser W. Bab, Street With the exception of your lo cal bank and certain chain stores the telephone company which operates in your territory is probably your best investment, considering safety, income, and possibility for growth. The pur pose of this column today is to praise the entire telephone in dustry, which is one of the fast est growing of all industries. If you live in Bell territory, then purchase stock of your lo cal Bell company or of the big American . Telephone and Tele graph company. This latter sup plies the entire nation Bell and Independents with "long-distance" service. If you do not live in Bell territory, then consider the stock of your independent telephone system, provided it is one of the 373 which report an nually to the ' U.S. Independent Telephone association at Mun- sey building, -Washington, D.C. Most Independents Locally Owned With the exception of the big General Telephone company, which is the largest "independ ent," most Of the 373 independ ents are lbcally owned 165 have annual gross earnings of over $250,000; while 101 of these have gross of less than $100,000; but nearly all of them show constant growth. More over, each has a monopoly which very few businesses have. Their total exchanges number 4,684, with over 9,000,000 telephones, and 100,000 employees. Let me add that there are 4, 850 other little telephone com' panies in addition to the 373 which I recommend above, plus 60,000 mutually-owned farmers' lines. Altogether the independ' ents have over $1,500,000,000 invested, with total annual gross of about $500,000,000, or 10 per cent of what the Bell System has. But of every six telephones being used in the U.S., one tele phone is an "independent. This insures . complete cooperation from the Bell System with the use of all its connecting lines and facilities. Yes, the independ ents have "one in every six telephones" covering two-thirds the area of the U.S. ' Future Depends on Encouraging Independents I am especially interested in all "independents," believing that the future of America de pends upon encouraging the in dependents in every line of busi ness, loo many Dig companies will lead us to socialism. Invest ors are "cutting their own throats" by buying only the "blue chip" stocks, or the 30 Dow - Jones Industrials. : We should give more encourage ment to smaller companies first, for the good of the nation, and secondly, because most new improvements come through the smaller . companies. The first automatic telephone system was installed by a La Porte. Ind.. independent." The first dial system was introduced bv an "independent." The first hand-set telephone and selective ringing was introduced by the independents." Bigness encour ages smugness and bureaucracy. Had it not been for the fighting "independents" in every line of business, we would not have the many conveniences which we have today. Yes, and prices for everything would be higher and wages lower. , Big Companies Swallowed Market The incandescent lamp, the automobile, fountain pens, hear ing aids,; vacuum cleaners, Ko dak cameras, radios, flashlights, V VICTOR'S HIGHLIGHT The New Year with a PROFESSIONAL PERMANENT Complete with Haircut Shampoo and Hair Style Cold Waving & Machineless - from All our permanent are guaranteed Shampoo . . and . Hair Style $1.75 up; Graleriasi Dotaly Shop 41 SOUTH CENTRAL EAST SIXTH ST. VEAL I PORK ROAST ROAST paper towels, electric heatinj pads, refrigerators, irons, toast ers, ect., zippers, frozen foods, powdered coffee, long - playing records, color movies, penicillin, and many other household bless ings were invented and first marketed by small independent companies. Then the big com panies came along to swallow up the markets. Furthermore," so long as the advertising rates by magazines,, radio, and TV are the same for a small pioneering company as for a great big company, so long will the "independents" be un ' fairly handicapped, both in sell ing and in raising capital. One final thought: Although the big Bell companies operate in most of the big cities, yet the inde pendents serve nearly twice as many communities. I am putting ' my money into "independents." Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under .certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis lible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Blames It All On Drink To the Editor: In reference to the many drivers being picked up for being under the influence of intoxicating liquor, and hop ing this will be read by some one in a position to help do somethng about curbing it in a our city. After all is said and done, where does the blame really lie, with drivers themselves or on society as a whole which allows the liquor traffic to flourish at the rate of several million dol lars annually. I am inclined to believe the real blame should be placed on Our government. Is the revenue we receive from sale of liquor and intoxicating beverages worth the price we are paying in broken laws, broken homes and broken lives to say nothing of all the other evils it causes. Where is it going to end? . . . As I see it, it is going from bad to worse and no one seems to mind. . If half the money used for ' liquor advertising etc. was spent educating . our children and : adults against the evils cf drinking perhaps this would be ' a changed world. Millions are spent every year -enforcing the laws, keeping up ; institutions where a good many.; of those so-called lawbreakers have to be confined because drink has destroyed their abil ity to obey the laws of the land. I have reason to believe that some of our people elected to of fice also like their liquor and therefore are not inclined, to (do" anything to curb it. I see by the paper our liquor commission is granting more li censes to sell liquor over the bar. Is this going to . help our people to do what is right when they can go into any bar or road side tavern or even a grocery store to dfink or buy it to take along, jump into their cars and drive and then get arrested for drunk driving. What justice ia there in this? Let's hear from other reader who are interested. ! Mrs. Irma Gile 1354 Dixie Lane -Medford, Ore. NOW IS THE TIME to start building an insured savings account with us. You will find it pleasant and pro fitable to invest here. FIRST FEDERAL SAYINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Te These Who Save DROP-INS WELCOME 6 50 PHONE 2-4830 SLICED BACON
