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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UEDFOTDwiwTRIBUNB ; - . ' - ' - "Everybody In Southern Oregon BeacU The Mail Tribune" published Daily Except .Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor -KERB GREY, Advertising Manager ' E. C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor , HARRY CHTPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport Editor OIJVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor : GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper I J Entered as second class matter at ? Medford. Oregon, under. Act, 01 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy lOc. Daiy and Sunday One star $12 .00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 : Daily and Sunday Three mos 3 50 J Daily and Sunday One month 1-29 Sunday Only One year 3 . By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Poi. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Ioen. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routesr ; Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month l-3 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash to Advance Official Paper of the City ! Medford Official Paper of Jacfcson County United Press Full Leased Wire ; " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCUIT uuw 4uvl Lining cwwhm..w WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York; Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. . Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. .t; NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASVOCllATliaN niwspahi m. PUIIISHERS. -"ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson" County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. " 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1945 (It was Thursday) President of Pacific Synod of United Lutheran church arrives .in Medford to install the Rev. Elvin S. Hansen as pastor of Zion Lutheran church.. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot clumn: Intolerance Is rearing its ugly head through out the state,.,. It has not been organized and capitalized as yet, with nightgowns and masks at $16 per set. ' f '" 20 YEARS AGOJ -,. v 7, .-, Jan. 18, 1935 'l-Ciu -at was Friday) ; Ella M. Eaton named post master at Jacksonville. . -Army engineers . report that improvement of harbor at Cres cent City, Calif-, is unjustified. 30 YEARS AGO . Jan. 18, 1925 . (It was Sunday) ' Jacksonville orders former sheriffs bloodhound tQ.be tied up, as he starts fights with other dOgS. Charge that horses are starv ing to death in Eagle Point area brings sharp denials from resi dents of that area. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1915 (It was Monday) Battleship Oregon, refitted and repaired, sails from Seattle for Panama canal where it is scheduled to lead an internation al fleet through the waterway in celebration of its completion. From the Local and Personal column: W. J. Bates left Med ford yesterday on a trip by foot to Hornbrook, Calif., covering part of the distance by snow shoes. Vhaf's the Answer? (Can You Gat 4 of in 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The U.S. occupation troops in Germany are in its northwest ern, mid-western, southwestern or north-central zone? 2. ACTH has been found of es pecial value in treating polio, cancer, heart disease, arthritis, or pneumonia? 3. One. two. three, four. five. six or no members of the present Senate are entirely oi jewisn blood? : 4. "Enosis" is a hot issue in Cvorus. Esynt. French North Af rica, India, Israel or South Afri ca? ': r J-: 'X ' 5. "Ask the man who owns one" was an advertising slogan for the Pierce Arrow, Rolls tiovpp. Cadillac. Packard or Fnrrt car? 6. What two large-selling Am erican cigarettes are named lor outstanding Englishmen? 7. A toxophilite is interested, in poisons, archery, stampscoins pr stuffed animals? The answers: J. Southwestern. 2. Arthritis. 3. Two Lehman (D-N.Y.J, Neuberger (D-Ore.) 4. Cyprus.' 5. Packard. 8. Chester fields and Raleigh. 7. Arcnery, THORNTON TO CONFER : Salem (U.PJ r- Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton leaves tonight to confer with district attorneys and law en forcement officers of three east ern Oregon counties W?ll9W?i Union and Umatilla. , . rfr i MAR, TRIBUNE What Price Tax Cuts? There have been a number of explanations of the present administration's failure to balance the budget. The main one advanced has been the cold war and the necessity of increasing TFHE budget message, however, removes any such misconceptions.' There is one; cef reason why President JSisenhqwer faijed to carry out his state ments of February 2nd, 1053, when he stated, quote: 'Reduction of taxes wiU, be justified only as we can ' succeed in bringing the budget under, control." v Whereupon the administration proceeded a year later, to reduce taxes to the'total tune of over $7,000, 000,000. If thi$ had nob been done and taxes had re mained as they were, the budget as of today would be balanced! R.W.R. V ; : The Mail Tribune has for many years opposed a sales tax on the ground of its plaeing the tax burden too heavily on those least able to pay. However most of the western states have adopted some form of sales tax to surmount their increasing financial difficulties, and: Oregon after a thorough study of the situation may have to do the same, if it CAN," '.''' ")NE thing for sure:; The objection voiced by Gqv pernor Patterson that because a sales tax has been defeated many times, there should not be any more effort in that direction as far as the Legislatui'e is con cerned, does not hold water. It took a couple of decades to get a federal income tax on the books, even the Supreme Court outlawed it two or three times. There: are some fanatics who .want it outlawed now, but they represent a hopeless minority. CO the old saying: "If you don't at first succeed, try 'try again" has a direct application as far as this propol is concemed. . ' v :;, v We still hope such a tax can be avoided. -But if, in the judgment of our representatives at Salem it is the only practical solution of our financial difficulties, we see no reason why the be given another opportunity to vote it down! K.W..K. : ? rTJ - The Church Census The query of a national magazine -What does the increase in church attendance, mean?" has been answered by one observer, says and nothing mpre,rthere -has been such an increase. There . has ajso been a similar increase in population. There is no significance in either other than the country is growing. 1X7E can't agree with our cynical commentator. Any T more than we can agree with the orthodox com munists that, "religion is the a sort of anodyne for the uncultured and the un thinking, something people with brains especially communist brams do not T There was another anti religion as a "crutch' needed only by the crippled, ang wasn't crippled! THE sensational increase vfc see 4b, u a, uucyn tcouib .yi kuc vxxx caiiiiixg emu confusing world situation. The people of this country are more fortunate than those of any other, but still the future is distress ing and uncertain and more Americans than ever before, are worried about the future of their country and particularly the fate of the next generation, and the one after. ' - . As a result they (Jo feel the need of help, the aid of some force greater than themselves, they want re assurance, greater security, and most of them find it in their religion. ALL it an anodyne : or a crutch, few people go V through life without at times feeding the need of one or both. Even in Soviet Russia, the pld ban against church going has been modified and more and more of the common people there are returning' to thepeace and comfort of their "spiritual home.T v -: It is, in other words, pretty much a universal hu man craving, and this need naturally is increased when conditions become unusually trying and in some cases even tragedy looms. ? - : 3 It is a natural reaction and a desireable and whole some. one, shp wing once more the law of compensa tion at work.-R.W.R. - : Quo Vadis? According to Joseph Alspp. the situation in East ern Asia is critical. " Reports fron .Korea are ialso disquieting. Th e communists in both areas are gaining ground day by day, and preparing to gain more. Unless somethmg is done and done quicjdy. Cor respondent Alsop fears all will be lost as far as sav ing Asia from communism is concerned. In Korea there would the North Koreans should attack as they did before and thus break the truce then tWUNwoyld be bound tq send military aid, as soon, and fn as great a force, as possible. In Indo China and its environs the solution is not so clear. Just another one of those knotty problems that the present administration sooner pr later will prob? stfly have to Us&md 86meh6wsolve!JLW. Tuesday, January II, 19SS national defense. es people should at least not as meaning just what it opium of the masses" need. - religionist who dismissed in church attendance as seem to be no choice; If Parts of Germany and Flooded by OvertanecU Frankfurt, Germany (U.R) The swirling brown waters of the Rhine, Danube and. Seine rivers flooded parts of Germany and France today and threatened even worse devastation. V" : Official and unofficial watch ers mounted anxious guard along the thre great rivers as thaws in the wake of winter's worst storm sent icy water from melting snows into the riverbeds. ' -.. Catastrophe Threatened Germany's two greatest rivers, the Rhine and Danube, were ris ing ominously and catastrophe was threatened for hundreds of thousands, of Rhinelanders and Bavarians..' z.vV: - -r ?( HOPE IN INDONESIA Jakarta, . Indonesia- The news from Indonesia is both negative and unspecific, thus breaking two old news paper rules; but it is still important news. In brief, the Commu nist danger here is ''noth ing like so se rious as it has been painted in the last Joeeph Alsop year- To be sure, Indonesian politics have a qual ity all their own.; Everything happens slowly. Everything is indeterminate. A crisis that would tear another country apart in a week can last a cou ple of months here, and produce no very clear result when it is over. And all this makes an alysis pretty difficult. Yet the fact remains that there is little in the picture here to justify the pessimism about, the Indonesian future that is so often voiced in Washing ton. On the contrary, if world communism is not flabbily per mitted to take over the rest of Asia, there is every reason to feel hopeful about this remark able new . nation of 80,000,000 people, with its beautiful land, its vast untapped resources and its immense future possibilities. Among the Indonesian people, 90 per cent : of them devout Moslems, the Communists have gained no mass base except in the labor unions in the bigges towns, rney are tolerated ana Communist political support is accepted by the government of Prime Minister Ali Sastroamid jojo; but they have-not yet got their hands on the police, the Army, or any other vital lever of power. - When this reporter was in Jakarta a little more than a year ago, the Army seemed to be in danger. The only seriously sus pect character in the present government,.; Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, was .seek ing to get the Army under his personal control. And this at tempt was causing a major crisis that filled all s Jakarata with rumors of violence to come. rpHE crisis ended with the semi A retirement of one of Indon esia's most impressive leaders, the former Chief of Staff of the Armed' Forces,' Gen. Simtu pang. But the way was stUl not opened to Communist . penetra tion of the armed forces. The factions in the Army have drawn together, if anything, because of the potential attempts to play one faction against another. The Army remains a powerful anti- Communist force. ; Meanwhile, P r i m e Minister Ali's government, whose good faith on this point has been un fairly attacked, is now seriously preparing the first national elec tion, Both Ali and President Sukarno are - firmly pledged ; to holding the election this year, and it will probably come in late July or early August. That means that the present artificial situation, in which all politics center in a parliament vi aruiuainy - appuuiieu uepu- ties, win shortly come to a wel come end. The people win have their chance to speak. There will be a chance for a more vigorous and confident, attack on Indon esia's many difficult, problems. among which the economic prob lem bulks particularly ; large. And as the national problems be? gin to be solved, the . Commu nist danger should recede still further. - - There are still very great dif- Transit System Use Urged for Cities Dallas, Tex.-J(U.R) An Amer ican Transit Association official, here for a three day regional meeting opening today, : said large ; towns with traffic jams and parking shortages .. should seek better use of : their ; local transit systems. ' V " , x George W. Anderson . of New York, : executive vice-president of the organization, said the big city downtown' areas can be made more effective by redu& ing. parking of private cars on downtown streets. 14 -" r - "Businessmen who find them selves increasingly x at a dis advantage competitively with suburban, and outlying busi ness," he said, should have free access to their firms "by people who buy things, rather than by vehicles which don't." I t AT Paris authorities prepared sandbag defenses as the Seine flapped ; at the concrete parapets of the riverside embankment in the heart of the city. Authorities planned to close an air terminal near the Gare des Invalides if the water rises further; r - . Clear skies and crisp weather replaced the savage gales which killed at least 16 in Germany during the week end and nine in France but he rivers still wee on the rise. Weather Halts Thaws The crisp weather halted the thaws in some areas, but the Rhine was rising three inches an VZ By Joseph Alsop xE!r;- ficulties ahead, of course. : One of the most unpleasing charac teristics of Dutch imperialism, Which was generally unpleasing, was the exfreme restriction of education. When the Indonesian Republic was established,' 93 per cent of the people were illiterate, and the group' of men with full, modern, Western education num bered no more than a few thousand.-;' .. ; ; ;'...'-,;' ; However patriotic they may be, illiterates cannot administer one of the biggest nations of the modern' world. The task of Indonesia's small group of ade quately trained leaders has been back breaking. The wonder is not that progress in Indonesia has been relatively slow. The wonder is, rather, thai the na tion has survived and gone for ward, v; . 'r--: THESE facts mean, in turn, that any judgment of ' this country has ' to be ; sympathetic in order to be realistic. When the beginning was '-$o inordinate ly hard, a bad end ' cannot be predicted , just because there are initial f alterings. Men like Prime Minister: Ali and President Sur karno should not be judged pro Communist, because their pres ent attitude toward Indonesian communism seems - alarmingly amiable to many Americans. ; Every brand new nation al: ways-' has two traits. It is irra tionally touchy and suspicious, as any reader of our own early history wiU surely - have ob served. And it needs time and more time and still more time to develop is own national po? htical forms, it own character istic national life and its own ways of doing world busmess. If these things are remembered,- and Indonesia is given both time and sympathy, this country can7 one day become one of the great powers of the frge world. But whether the time : will', be allowed, directly depends on what the responsible leaders of the free 'world do about the Communist advance in the rest of Asia. (Copyright, 1955, -Nw York Herald Tribune Inc.) GM Giving $2,000,000 Yearly To Education New York-J(U.R)-rGeneral M6-. tors Corp. today announced a new $2,OOQ,0QO-a-year program of financial aid to higher educa tion the biggest plan of its kind ever undertaken by a private company. The bulk of the money would go into scholarships -some , runt ning as high as $2,000 annually for outstanding students. Colleges and universities would receive almost $500,000 a year in "unrestricted grants." President Harlow H. Curtice, in announcing the program, said "the first 350 students under the General Motors scholarship pro gram wiU enroll as freshmen in the academic year starting neat September. :- :(:':- "When the program is in full operation 1,400 students and 306 colleges and universities will be receiving benefits." ; -.. - "-;' Ex-Vafican Envoy Gives Sum To Church New York t- 01.R) Myron C. Taylor, former presidential em voy to the Vatican, and his wife have donated a $1,000,000 to the Episcopal piocese- of New York to build and maintain a diocesan center on Long Island, The ift was announced. Mon day night by the Rt. Rev. Hor ace W. B. Donegan, bishop of New York, Bishop Donegan said the center would be constructed on six acres of the Taylor estate,. "KJllingworth,'- at Locust Val ley. The remainder of the 20-acre estate, ' inchidjng the Taylor mansion, there, .will be .given ; to the church later- . -. ' Take Home HANDY, MONEY-SAVING CARTONS, ' France Clivers hour at Bonn and - floodwaters were lapping at the basements of the German Parliament and American i Headquarters build ings. '::'ypt t;i'.;ii J,s Duisburg, Europe's biggest in land port, was closed to all' ma rine traffic in an effort to keep teh rising Rhine waters from the harbor itself. Rhine river waters also hit France, and in the eastern part of the nation an embankment gave way at Lauterbourg, inun dating the lower quarter of the town. Authorities dynamited a dike. at Erstein.to save the Al satian capital of " Strasbourg. Some bridges were washed out. Record Snow in Britain , Britain suffered from ; record snowfalls! and the Royal Air Force and Navy ordered out hel icopters to' help 17,000 persons cut' off in the northern Scotland counties of Caithness and Suther land by snowdrifts sometimes 20 feet ' deep. Helicopters , dropped 200 pounds of food Monday and new blizzards were predicted. Heavy ' show blanketed the Scandinavian countries and most of Central Europe ? down, to northern Italy. North Sea ship ping was hard bit and airline schedules were disrupted. In the Days News By FRANK JENKINS UN Secretary Dae Hammar- skiold. back from PeiDine. tells newsmen; his talks there were merely, the first sten in contact ing the Communist Chinese in attempting to win . freedom for me ju American xiiers. . He says Premier Chou raised many questions, but that neither side proposed any deals for the release of the airmen . , ; He added that Chou had made no proposals or laid down anv terms.' He says Chou's discus sion of other questions was en tirely apart from . the question oi ine prisoners. TN other words: Old Chou didn't say yes and ne didn't say no. - That's about aU anybody can expect from the opening session of a. conference with a Commu nist outfit. JN Washington, at a national conference on . . highways. former, general, manager of the Oklahoma Turnpike association (H, E. Bailey by name) calls for a network- of TQLL ROADS to coyer the. nation. . r V. '' His proposal was offered as a substitute Y for 1 a : federally fi nanced system of interstate high ways i -: . '" -; -r ' ."'J-:'r; 'f:: HIS ideai of course;; is to avoid the tremendous tax cost in volved in the federally financed system (which : would ' include some : 40,000 miles). The toll roads would be built by private enterprise, ' and would be paid out of toll charges. rP would be nice to avoid the tax burden, but I think maybe we'd ' better recall a little his tory. We went rather lieavily into toll road building in early Oregon including the eld Bar low Road whch ; enabled ;; the Oregon trail emigrants to avoid the dangers of the river passage down the Columbia from The Dalles." One - of the lessons of history is that these toll high ways came to be HATED. AFTER all, the gasoline tax .. which,-' by the way, was in vented in Oregon is about the best system for 'financing high way construction that has ever been devised. It is simple and convenient - You buy yeur high way mileage when you buy your motor fuel. . You use it as you please, wherever . you please. It isn't burdensome, because you pay it a few pennies at a time. .It is FAR more .convenient than the privately financed -turnpike system, as anyone -must realize who has used these fancy toll roads. When you come onto them, you get a ticket and when you leave them you stop at an other tollgate .and pay for the mileage you have used. It's much simpler to pay your toll as you buy your gasoline. FOR years, the federa govern ment has levied a gasoline tax, but over the ' years it has used a lot , of this .money for purposes other tha n highway construction. In the states, there is growing pressure to raid the easily - collected gasoline - tax funds for purposes ether than highway building.' I think if we'll resist this pres sure to "use funds collected, from gasoline taxation for purposes other than roads, and will spend ALL of it on road building,, we can get the highways we need more simply and more satisfact orily than by granting conces sions - for the building of - toll roads by private investors. New Government Tc) Greet MarQa ret ocr j Jaunt To Jamaica ' - By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press " Foreign' Analyst - -Britain's - -Princess --.Margaret will be greeted in Jamaica next month by a new". ' anti - white socialist gov e r n ment, which wants sejf rule. ; j : The chief greeter !will be Norman W a s h ington Manley, lead er of the left- wing . people's Nationa 1 i f t party which has just won Charles McCann the Jamaican general election. Watching from the sidelines will be Manley's first cousin and bitter enemy, William Alexan der. Bustamante, colorful lead er of the Jamaican Labor Party who had been No. 1 man in poli tics for years. . r. Jamaica's general election for the 32 members of a House' of Representatives got little" atten tion abroad.' .; ; i ,c; v But it was bad news for Great Britain and for Queen Elizabeth, who counts the; lush., mountain ous island among her crown colonies. Princess Margaret's .visit will come during the celebration - of the .300th anniversary of. British rue in Jamaica! Lying. 90 miles south of Cuba the island is Britain's chief possession in the West Indies. Its population is about 1,500,000. Its colored peo ple outnumber , the white about 100 to 1. ; . Manley's Nationalists wqn 4 1 8 seats in the general election last week : against 14 for Bustar mente s laboiites. ' Manley, ' the new head man. is; a -brilliant lawyer and an Ox ford University graduate- A left- wing socialist, he has made op position to white supremacy a key plan in his political plat form. Immediately 'after the elec tion, Manley said his first aim would be to seek self-govern ment for Jamaica "He said also that he would not press - a :; nationalization - cam paign. But the big American and Canadian bauxite interests fear trouble. They, include Reynolds Metals Company, Kaiser Alumi num : and ; Cbemcal Corp . and Aluminum '.of Jamaica,' a" Ca nadian firm, -:.. V . n Back in 1938, Bustamehte and Manley f were allies. Jt was - then' Portland U.R) .Washing ton and Multnomah county po? lice today were hunting for two men who fled on foot after they were surprised in the fact of burglarizing a Hillsboro market early this morning. ? The hurglars fled V into the nearby brush when a patrolman came upon' them ' in Tipton's, market shortly, before 2 a-mi One df the pair shot at the officer.- i ! Nearly $2000 taken from the market was found in the . burg-: lars' abandoned car.' Police said the car was registered to a Portland man paroled ; from-' a burglary conviction. . - i ' ; v- BUSTGR DROTO WILL BE CLOSED All Pay Tpmprrov WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ltth - In prssrctlsn hf : thsir" wral-cr- mm I ftf nettAnffllw Dudtor Dreun CIioo 8oro Fluhrar Building that Bustamente endeared him self to the natives by his leader ship, in a bitter dock strike. Later the two men split. They have not spoken for years. Some say Manley was jealous of "Old Busta's" hold on the natives. Whether Bustamente' defeat means the end of the political road for him remains to be seen. tie is now d. ne nas oeen cmei minister'' in Jamaica since 1949. Towering, bushy ; haired. dusky, he has had ' a colorful life He was once a waiter in a Harvard University ' cafeteria. He has ' been a seaman and a Cuban policeman. ' He is bitter in defeat "What have done for the working class of this country in 10 years, nobody else will be able to do in perhaps 100 years, he said when he read the final election returns, '. v" From Wide Area Will Meet Here Chamber of commerce leaderr from throughout southern Ore gon, and perhaps from northern California points) will meet here for an all-day meeting. Sunday, Jan. 30,. it Was announced today. ReDresentatives f r om the chancers in Medford, Klamath IT fill 0 T .filrAiri aw . flranta i T3a mm Cave Junction, ; , Ashland and Possibly Crescent City and Rose burg are expected to attend.. . The meeting is designed to as sist .chamber leaders w officers, board members and committee chairmen in learning opera tional techniques of local cham bers. Panel and'roundllable dis cussions will be- held 'on sub jects such as huilding southern Oregon payrolls, the responsi bilities of board members, suc cessful retail events, experiences in chamber financing, area tour ist promotion, anil ''agricultural gold." ; . ; Experts Slated - :. . . - Among panei ieaaers,wiu ow experts in all fields, including Guy Leonard, manager of the membership department oi the Portland chamber; Harry Lintz, -district manager of the Chamb er of Commerce of the U.S.; V, A. ' McNeil, manager of the touf ist convention department of the Pprtlan'4 ' . chamber, ' and Eric Bergman; ' assistant ; director ef the - travel ; information depart ment of the State Highway com mission. 1 ;'S The meetings will begin at about 9 ajxi and will continue into the early evening. Sessions will be ; at the Jackson hoteL Pjrpgramj will ? : be . available shortly at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce office. - . . ... - - t TEEN-AGE JOBS DECLINE Salem " (U.R) -? Oregon' teenagers held 4600 less indust rial Jobs in 1954 than in 1953, the State Bureau of Labor said today. The figure indicates a 26 per cent employment drop in the 14 to Jthyear age group dur ing the past year but the last six months showed a 10 per cen upswing in the minors', employ ment pattern over the first part of the yean ,. . ' , ) . .3' ' 1 mm mAv - wlt4 thzz v. 15 South Centrd S4
