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FOTTH MEDT01 (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reeds The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PsSfTDtG CO. worth fir St. phono 2-911 ROBERT W. RITHL. Editor itERB GREY, Advrtisin Manager : X. C. JTBGUSON, Manadnc Editor r.ma ALLEJi Jft Citv Editor ; HARRY CHTPMAN, Telegraph Editor ; jiwett, sports sailor : OLIVE STAR CHER. 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. 1887 . SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Pee coot 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six month .50 .. Daily and Sunday Three moa 3-50 Daily and Sunday One month U3 Sunday Only One year $3.50. ' By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. - Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. : : Shady Cove. Rogue Kiver. Talent. and on motor routes: .-. . Daily and Sunday On year $15.00 - Daily and Sunday On month 1J25 1 ' Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy Ail Term cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford - otneiai yaper t JacKson couMy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Office in New York. Chicago. De : troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. - NATIONAL EDITOtlAl lASVOCfATtteN 3UJ NEWSPAPER PU11UHIKS XsSOCIATlbN Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. rlO YEARS "AGO Jan. 21. 1955 . (It was Sunday) . Medford DeMolay installs new officers, Including Elmer Kyle, larrv Warren. Bob Borer. Fer- ney McKibben, Bob Leavitt, Bud Nutting, Gene Neff,. Don Wal dron, and Alan Kircher. . : ' From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Tot column: Wlnteri of which it was feared there would be nose," came in mid-week" and blew its icy breath upon bare feminine shins, windshields, and hatless males. Snow fell in the higher levels, and it was over the top of women folk's galoshes in the Prosp$'iareaW.:W'(,rt 20 YEARS AGO. V ' Juk-21, 1935 ,:. . ,. .,; . . r v (It was Monday) Dead " Indian district sawmill operator bound over to grand jury on charge he failed to main tain a monthly payroll date.; Mayor George Porter reports plans for President's ball, to be held at Oriental Gardens, are progressing rapidly. SO YEARS AGO 1 Jan. 21. 1925 at was Wednesday) Southern Pacific railroad wa ter tank to be moved from pres ent site just south of Haymarket square to point north of Jack son st. ' . '. . H. U. Lumsden of Hutchinson and Lumsden announces - plans for construction St business building at corner of Sixth and Bartlett sts. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 21. 1915 , at was Thursday) -.. Review of "September Morn,' play at Page theater, says the best song was "What is the Pleasure in Wine and Song, if .it tit i t.i am " t. At- me woman is noi inere ; ouv erwise "the play is not a start ling affair. N . , , Medford High school basket ball team defeats Etna Mills by score of 39 to 19 in game played at Natatorium. Whai'r fho Ancvmr? IIIIUI J IIIV MllJtfWIi (Can You Get 4 of the 7f) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rtport 1. Radio-TV manufacturers say they expect to sell about 250,000, 500,000, 750,000 or 1,- 000,000 color TV sets this year? 2. Of every retail dollar spent for food, about half, or some what more or less than half goes for handling, packaging and transporting? . 3. Mothers on- farms average more or fewer .children than mothers in cities, or about the same number? i J - 'i ' . v : 4. Which one of these stocks had fewest sales on the N. Y. Stock Exchange in 1954: Chrys ler, General Electric, N. Y. Cen tral, Pepsi Cola, U. S. Steel? 5. Psoriasis is a disease of the ears, eyes, feet, lower back or skin? ' 6. Taipeh is the - capital of which area of the world much in the news, these days? i 7. Billy 2 the Kid, notorious desperado of the Southwest, was born in Arizona," Italy; Mexico, Missouri, New Mexico or New York City?. . ' ; f Th answers: 1. About 250 000. 2. Somewhat men shut -half. 3. More. 4. Pepsi Cola. 5. Slria disease..'!. Formosa.' 7. Hew-York Ciiy.- MAIL TRIBUNE The Magazine . "Hello," says the young man at the door with an ingratiating smiler "I'm- John Smith (or whatever name he chooses for the occasion) and Fd like to talk to you for. a few minutes will be a program, plan, scholarship, or such like) I'm interested in. - ?. - ' r 9 w THAT is the opening pitch of the pestiferous, per- suasive, brassy and too i j ' -' i ii azme suDsenpuon peaaier. many people, as tne pea dler knows, are kindhearted, do not wish to be dis courteous and will let him Once in, and several hundred words later words pour out of a magazine peddler like water from a hose the incautious host finally, learns that his gabby guest is not the neighborhood lad he pretended to be, and that the-line about needing "only 50 more points to win a scnoiarsnip," or Honolulu," etc, etc., was up the prospect for the real purpose of the call to seu magazine suDscnpaons. . . f: Uut by .this time, if about hurting the caller's blunt "no," -the chances more or less hypnotized like a rabbit facing a snake will hand over cash or a check for some magazines he. or she doesn't want and will probably seldom read if they actually start coming. One elderly and nearly to the north recently agreed to buv a few maeazines while under the peddlePs spell. The trusting soul even let the peddler write the check. Come to find out the check was made out for much more than it should have been enough to keep the buyer reading day and night, if he had been T'HE persistence, deceit and sometimes downright crooked practices of some of the itinerants aren't the only things wrong with the magazine peddling crew system. Young people, both boys and girls, are lured into the business by promises of big earnings and opportunity for travel. Once away from their home town they are given ble talk, how to camouflage their sales pitch, how to be brassy, pushing and tne wora no. ; Ana ponce the youngsters gam an education; in more sinister ways. At the mercy of the do as he says, take his abuse, home or mends.. :. , v v..x The police are unable azine crews, exceptvhen actual crime has been committed. cThe magazine busi ness is interstate commerce the high courts have ield and the itinerant crew managers know all the loopnoies tms gives ana now auiicuit it is ior cities to adopt control or prohibitory ordinances .which will noia up in court. -r - - - - TWfAGAZINE publishing is, of course, a completely legitimate and reputable 'business. So is tie sel ling of magazine subscnptions; there, are; agents in Medford who have followed the work for years and enjoy the best of. relations is the itinerant, fast talking, are bringing disrepute on publishers should take steps to clean up these opera tors or abolish theml E.C.F. Crazy Mixed Robins are supposed time between Alaska and as far south as Mexico, according to the season," but there's a lot of crazy, mixed up red-breasts staying in our part of town which are beginnmg to make the neighbors nervous. APPARENTLY driven to lower levels by snow and " wintry weather, the robin colony showed up in the city over a week ago, i 11 1 i ! jecteaiy in tne low trees an out for insulation against hunched up like hens m a A robin's life can't be why any of the birds would wish to waste their preci ous time away from sun warmed lands. .Maybe they are afraid to leave the comparatively salubrious Med ford climate for the flight over the towering and snowcapped Siskiyous. Maybe -too, they have for gotten which way is south, what with the fog and alL 1X7HATEVER the reason for their unseasonal stay f with us they aren't as In that season they arrive and eager to be about nest building.1 Now they just perch, cold and hungry looking, to stare sort of accus ingly into the windows of the. nearby homes. One kindhearted lady became so upset looking out at the pitiable pilgrims she's how keeping her blinds down all day. Shooo, robins! E.C.F., British MP Slates SOC Talk Monday Ashland Fenner ; Brockway, British member of Parliament, is to speak on problems of India and Africa at a special assem bly at Southern Oregon coUege on Monday,-Jan. 24, at 10 ajn. President Elmo N. Stevenson of SOC extended an invitation to townspeople .to attend the speech, by Brockway,' one of Parliament's foremost authori ties on colonial problems. The son and grandson of mis sionaries to "India and -Africa, and himself .born in India, Brockway has spent most of his life in close" contact with colo nial peoples. Since 1950 he has visited Africa three times, going twice , to Kenya to learn : the causes of the MarrMau -uprising. .Friday, January 21, 1935 Crew Nuisance about a contest (maybe , - .w 9 9 r often tricky itinerant mag- -.. -a . -i i enter . their home. zu more to win a rirpio merely intended to soften the prospect is sull hesitan feelings with a direct and are the poor householder t blind gentleman in a city able to read. an intensive course m don completely unimpressed by recoras snow mat some oi crew manager, they must or be cast adrift far from to do anything about mag- 'someone complains that an i . 'r' with their customers. It fast working crews which the business and magazine Up Robins to migrate, spending their the members perching de- t i " - . ai mm 1 aay long, leathers iiuiiea the chill and shoulders ramstorm. very long and its a mystery welcome as in the spring. chipper, tuneful, romantic His booklet "Why .Mau Mau?" is a report and analysis of his findings. LONG STROLL -; Oklahoma City, Okla.---(U.R)--Two firemen -beat the clock Thursday by walking 20 miles from Norman, Okla., to Okla homa City in 5 hours and 45 minutes. The exhausted "fire men, Aubrejr Jenkins and Mer vin Sheppard, said they made the trek to win a wager. '-; San Francisco (U.F9---Sbip tease, artist Tempest Storm took out articles of incorporation on Tempest Storm today. She said she would retain 398 of the 400 shares of capitalized stock. .The other two '.shares went to two unidentified persons. Cease Fire Proposal To End China Eluckys Dist-i ncS- Possibility By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the ; international balance sheet: .. -'-i ' -:-'''-' THE GOOD 1. A suggestion for fire" agreement to end the small but dangerous war between the Chinese Nationalists and the Chinese Communists suddenly hardened into a distinct possi bility. President Eisenhower said at a press conference that he would like to see the United Na tions work out such , an agree ment. It was disclosed . that the United States and Great Britain already ' had consulted on the possibly of U. N. action. Under the suggested ; agreement, .: the Chinese Reds would agree not to attack the Nationalist strong hold "of " Formosa" and the Na tionalists would be kept from attacking ; the Red-held main land.. The difficulty of reaching an.' agreement would be great but if one were reached, the grave danger that the present Nationalist - Communist fighting might explode into a major war would be ended. 2. Scientists of seven nations including Soviet Russia met at U.N. headquarters in New. York to start preparations for. a world technical conference next sum mer on President Eisenhower's plan , to utilize nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.: The scien tists decided the conference should be held in Geneva, Switz erland, and drafted a tentative program for it. ::,'- ". '" 3.. Soviet Hussia zreea an American Army private, Wil liam A.-Verdine, after holding him as a slave laborer for nearly six years. Verdine had disap peared from ; his unit ;in . West Germany Feb. 3, 1949. The Rus sians had- released previously two other Americans whom they had held. It was indicated that stiU other Americans . whom .the Russians kept prisoner might be freed also. THE BAD . 1. The revolt In Costa Rica continued. . In : a - new develop ment, President Anastasio Somo- za asserted that two F-51 fighter planes which the United States sold' to . Costa Rica foi$l 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. Give. Neuberger a Chance To the Editor: The voters Of Oregon, , by a slender ' majority, elected Mr. : Neuberger to the United States senate, and he has been sworn in. ,. Why don't we accept that, maintaining a careful scrutiny of all his acts? Why not cease our wailing and recriminations, and let the man develop into whatever he is destined to be come? If, by the end of his term, he has hot' shown himself to be the; merchandise the voters thought they were buying, they can turn him - back for ; credit. In the meantime certainly he is entitled to: his v chance; and if he accomplishes that which we oeiieve ot value, our sup port. : .: .- v vs- . .:. , ; E. M.' CrOSS, V .: ' 5830 N.E. 17th avenue, : ;; Portland, Ore. . Room For One Mere -c r " : To. the Editor: I have read several human : interest stories in - the paper lately and would like .to add mine xo them. We have three . children at home and a daughter in college. in spite oi that we feel that we have room' for another child. We V live out in the country where, there . is. plenty of room for. children to run around and play. If anyone knows of a child who needs a home, father and mother, , a brother and . sisters, please call me. Phone Gold Hill 5-9318. . . : - Mrs. E. B. McCaU, Rt 1, Box 413, Central Point, Ore. - Chinchilla Ranchers Set Quarterly Meeting The Southern Oregon Chin chilla Ranchers club unit, part of the Oregon branch of the na tional organization, will meet Sunday, Jan. 23, at Carpenters' hall, 123 West Main st., it was announced today. A po thick luncheon will begin at noon. It will be a quarterly meeting of the i group. Ralph Harrick. Portland, will discuss the high lights of the recent national convention in Washington, D.C, and will give pointers on herd improvement and genetics. Her rick 5 is. a regional director and member of the national board. An "educational pelt kit'! from the national organization will be shown. All chinchilla breed J "ers of the area are welcome.""" apiece had violated Nicaraguan territory. He sent troops to the Costa Rican frontier. He said the situation was "very tense" and could become an "international conflict." - A mission; sent to Costa Rica by the Organization of American States set up a buffer zone on the Costa Rican Nicaraguan border in . an at tempt to prevent clashes which might lead te a war. 1 . i 2. A new obstacle to the rati fication of the treaties to rearm Western Germany arose -when a French proposal for a Western European' armament production pool met a cold reception, from other signatories to the treaties. Dissension over the French plan threatened further delay in rati fication votes by parliaments of the signatory nations. - 3. Virgorous opposition arose in some Arab countries, especial ly Egypt, to . the new Turkish Iraqi i i defense treaty, v which strengthens Western defense against Communist aggression. Egypt summoned a meeting of the eight-nation Arab ' League to consider, the situation.; Iraqi Premier Nouri: El-Said refused an invitation to attend the con ference. He said he was sick. In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS Three members of the Mon tana state legislature are spend ing a couple of days ' in Salem this week, seeing how; Oregon tackles its highway problems. The ; visiting legislators have been meeting with Oregon state highway, officials ; and ' talking with road committees of the Ore gon legislature. . . HOW WILL Oregon handle its highway problems? I HOPE it doesn't tackle them by bonding methodas has been proposed for the federal govern ment. That's just putting off tax troubles. The bonds will have to be paid, along - with interest, SOMEDAY. v Going into debt to ESCAPE PESENTLY HIGHER TAXES, is just postponing the evil day. gPEAKING nationally ; V Democratic Senator . Harry Byrd of - Virginia calls on the Eisenhower I adninistration to cut - planned spending by four per -cent and balance the budget. An overall four per .cent reduce tion in spending, he points out, would cut. the budget by about two and a half billion dollars, which would be enough to en able the federal government to operate in the black for the first time since 1951. He adds: ' "We are enjoying the greatest prosperity in our history. We are not in a war. If we can not bal ance the budget . now, I ask WHEN CAN WE BALANCE IT?" QENATOR BYRD is chairman of the senate finance commit tee of the new Congess. He is a Democat but not a tax-and spend Democrat. CJTATE Secretary Dulles, talk- ing to reporters .in Washing ton, rejects Senator Knowland's contention that United Nations Secretary-General ; Dag Ham- marskjold's - mission to . Red China to try to obtain the release of American airmen held captive there has been a failure... 1 THINK he's right Negotiation whose purpose is to settle a dispute without , a fight, if pos sible, is never . a complete failure. ' . . - . - - At any rate, efforts to settle a dispute by negotiation should always be made, and carried on as long as possible, before resort ing to force. JET'S put it this way: Suppose you have a neighbor who is basically a heeL Suppose his dogs and his cats and his chickens and his brats are pes tering tne life out 01 you. You have . two alternatives: 1. You can shoot him. 2. You can negotiate with him. .... " '':-. A S to the first alternative, it's terriblv daneerous. - Mavbe hell-; shoot you first. Maybe you'll draw and pull at the same time aMd Will BOTH BE SHOT. Shooting is so FINAL. - , It's nearly ALWAYS better to take such ruckuses - mto . the courts which is a form of nego tiation. United Nations is the in ternational negotiating agency. Let's use it as long as we can. , yAR, too is SO FINAL. , , . Once stated, it never can be taken back. , - , jND , ; Looking back over our wars SO FEW OF THEM HAVE BEEN WORTH THEIR COST. ' WORLD WAR I didn't settle IF anything. 'World i War; n didn't settle anything. Beth of them merely sowed the, teeth of the dragon and from this sowing of the dragon's teeth other wars sprang up. - ; Let s NEuuTiATJS as long as we can. . . - II ( -i V u OPTIMISTIC OUTLOOK President Eisenhower observes the end of his first two yesn in the White House with the first filmed presidential news conference in history and an optimistic outlook for the world. The President said, that the U. S. does not regard the Tachen Islands, where fighting is underway between Communist and Nationalist " China, as vital to the defense of Formosa and Pescadores Islands. Is That So? By Eugene Burnt . - Rangir-Naturalist -. "Say, ranger, if you think you get a lot of questions thrown at you, you ought to have a set of twin boys growing up," writes Mrs. R.E.G. "Here's a sample: "Mommy, how tall can a man grow?' and then his twin pops up with, How short can a. man stay?' Before I can think of an evasive answer, the first comes in with: .'About how skinny can a man get?' but by that time I' am trying to outguess the other twin's question: f 'How fat? Then' they .want to know how far he can jump, how high in comparison to animals." To 'begin with, the best I can find on a man's height is' this from an article in True by James Adams:' Geoffrey H u'd s o n, an Englishman, who .1 ived from 1619 to 1682 was probably the smallest adult .who evert lived. At 30, he measured slightly less than' 18 inches, :. .:Vy" - In contrast, Patrick Cotter, an Irishman who lived more than a century ago, stood 8 feet 4 inches in his socks no elevator shoes as have some of today's modern giants, although his shoes meas ured 18 inches long.' For human ' weight, perhaps the all-time spindleshank was Hopkm Hopkins,- a Welsh lad, who lived to be 17.-; He tipped the scale at 17 pounds at 14, and then fell off to 12 pounds from that time on until his death three years later. . -: His opposite, a North Caro linan of the 1700s, is said to have weighed more than 1,000 pounds. His name is, now lost but there are records to substantiate his size. He stood 7 feet 8 inches and was very likely the heaviest man who ever lived. -. World's Jumping Record As for jumping, the world's record broad jump is 26 feet and 8V inches made by Jesse Owens of the U.S., May 1935, but there are several animals that can jump farther. These include the horse at 27 feet, the elk at 28, the cougar at 38, the impala at 40, and the white 'tailed. deer, also at 40 feet. As for height, Les Steers of the U.S. jumped 6 feet 11 inches in Los Angeles, June 1941. Quite a number of animals can out- jump him handily. In fact, the jackrabbit has cleared . 7 feet, the mule deer, 8, along with the lion, lynx and leopard; the horse has cleared 8 feet 6 inches; the American elk, 9 feet; . but the all-time record goes to the little African klipspringer. This little fellow is credited with a high jump in excess of 20 feet. And, these., wild, animals, of course, 2 31 ROAST &T) lb.- lb. I :j!i:.:i.:.-S.--.: i; :: -wx. (1 Babson . . By ROGER W. BABSON , ! Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Do you hope you will be, able to send your children to college sometime be tween now and 1964? If you ex pect them to get a sound educa tion, and you V to get ? your money's worth;- much ' must be done. Both teachers' salaries and their efficiency (which is now comparatively low) must be in creased. Fifty years ago, only - about four per cent of "the youth of collage, age were able to go to college. Two great events on our . national scene boosted -enrollments sharply - the depression and the g:h BiU. Prewar' about 15 per cent of our youth ,'ot college age at i .Bor w. BafeMSj tended such schools. Between 1945-49 a Udle better than 25 per cent were Enrolled. Then. the number shrank1 during 1950- 52. Chiefly responsible for this drop, was the fewer .number of births in the 1930-35 depression. But, 1952 saw a 1.5 per cent increase in college enrollments over, 1951; and 1953 rose 4.8 per cent over 1952, so that again about 25 per, .cent of ..our youth .of eligible age were in college. io 1 ail enroiimenis prooaoiy registered a .6-8 , per cent .in crease.' . ;: , College. Enrollment i : v If you project to 1970 the num ber of children already . born, you will have 'a 16 per. cent in crease in the youth - of college age by 1960, a 46 per cent in crease by 1965, and a 70 per cent increase by 1970. And if an in creasing percentage of our youth of college age go on to college, enrollments could double ' by 1970. ' vi The above is based on the as sumption that we shall continue to make more educational oppor tunities available for. our youth, a we always have.' Educators claim that by 1970 a good third of our' young people o . college age may enroll. This would jnore than double student bodies, and perhaps require double the num ber of teachers and much more classroom space. Personally, I believe this is like forecasting 500 for the Industrial Stock Average. I question such figures. More Teachers "Needed In . Secondary Schools . The teacher 'shortage will not be limited to colleges. Our ele are not specially , trained as are humans. Released by McClure ' , , Newspaper Syndicate) 1 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 wild life a complete 30-volume set-of this world famous reference work in a handsome : Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered.' Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendySletters Pleased address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calit EAST1 'SIXTH ST. . - suco DACON SAUSAGE and Tones mentary and secondary schools may ' need about 140,000 new- teachers each year for the fore seeable future. Yet, it is estimat ed by .the experts that only about half : the number , of teachers needed for the public schools alone will be graduated from col lege. ... , , . .-' But, . someone will, have to teach your little y- Johnny and Susie. ; If -' adequately . trained . teachers are not available, per sons with substandard qualifies.-. tions will have to be pressed into service. Now, - why is there a teacher shortage? The answer. in part, is that teachers are underpaid. Salaries Compared With Other Fields Public-school classroom teach ers salaries averaged about $3,600 for 1953-54. This is less than - many business and - engi- SilS VVMVW a S-,C. VVtf ffWW OsTvtai - a starting salary on their first jobs a year or so ago. And 1953 ; 54 was a good year for the teach ers too, for it represented an average salary rise . of 4.8 per cent over the previous year. -; -Still, 14.1 per cent of ; the 1,028,899 teachers received less than $2,500, and only 14 per cent. $4,500 or m ore. College teachers salaries go very little hltrher. The median- income ofi physicians, on the L other handV was about $11,200; H lawyers, $7,750; dentists, $7,100; but with much higher top figures attain able How can we hope to hold good men in top educational jobs which pay $5,000-$8,500 when their, counterparts in ' industry offer ' ceilings tiinlimited? ' : Society Can Prosper ' ' With Adequate 'Schooling ' If . we want capable teachers, we shall have to pay wages com petitive enough to encourage them to make the tremendous outlay of time and expense need--ed for their education. To hold our able teachers, we shall have to up salaries. This means higb 1-forecast that our democratie society, with full employment. can prosper only as we provide-. adequate : schooling for ' our. youth, with a moderate tax rate. This means that our educational leaders must provide far. more efficient methods of learning by doubling the use of present fa cilities. What industry could sur vive in this competitive era with its factories being iaed only six hours per day? - ' - " 1 K1UESTIGATE whether yon are earmarkfag your savings to provide se curity for later life, extra cash is come new, or. are Just start ing. to accumulate an emer gency fund, it will pay you U uvestifate here. . ... ' ".'".'''' FIRST FEDEPJIL SAV1NSS A LOAN ASSTJ , of Medford 27, North HeSy Aa InstitTrriea DetltcaMl V Te these Wfce Save . '. . ... f. 1 i Mb.. V