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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UEDF(JTRIBUNI "Everybody In Southern Oregon - Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manajier ETC. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor " -HARRY C3IPMAN "Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medf ord, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Sy Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. -' Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 330 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday OnlyOne year $330. Sy Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. ,- Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. ' and on motor routes: ' Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ef the City of Medford - Official Paper ef Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire . .. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLXDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New-York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. . B.C. NtWSrAPlft rUtUSHEKS ASSOCIATION NATION At f OITOIIAl Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 TEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1945 , (It was Sunday)-.. v" ; Engagement of Robe r.t G Davis," Medford, and Miss Jeane Villair, Cave Junction, announc ed at Alpha Delta Pi sorority at University f Oregon. From A" r thur Perry's" Ye Smudge Pot column: The legis lature is still at Salem; and. at the rate 'they; are st ay Ing, soldiers in the Jungles of Burma will beat them home. - . 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 28, 1935 , . (It wai Monday) t Girls Community club honors Mrs. E. Iverson ; and Mrs. Ida Wilson, past presidents of the Medford YWCA. . . Medford west side team de feats east siders in golf match played "in a fog so thick that it was necessary for ; the players to shout ahead before making their shots." SO YEARS AGO .. Jan. 28, 1925 , Bill designed to facilitate moving the county courthouse zrom Jacksonville to Mediord ready for introduction at state legislature.- :-v; - "Ward Beeney, - former Med ford High school basketball star, to play with Oregon frosh in game here Friday. 40 YEARS AGO Jan- 28, 1915 i Court Hall - plans - lnterruban service to Grants Pass as soon as the road will permit. v From the Local and Personal column: Foes of the district ir rigation plan in the Central Point district had a joy ride yes terday in an auto parade, 17 cars participating one -. only being from Medford. The committee in charge of the irrigation plan abandoned the idea two days ago, but . as the signs were all painted, the ride was made. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. No matter how high a man's taxable income, no more than 81, 83, 85, 87,' 89 or 91 per cent of it may be taken by the federal income tax? 2. A "Bull" in the Stock mark et looks for it to rise, fall, or be unusually active with little price change? ...':W j'rf - -V.. .- -;.;.:. 3. The "City of Magnificent Distances" is Buenos Aires, Chi cago, London, Los Angeles, Mos cow, Paris, or Washington? 4. The largest U. S. bank is in New York; right or wrong? 5. Gen. W. Bedell Smith, for. mer Under Secretary of State, is now connected with Reming ton Rand, American Machine and Foundry, General Foods, Bulova Watch, or American Ex press? , 6. There are many more Chin ese than Japanese in the, U. S., or many more Japanese .than Chinese, or about the same num ber, of each? - ' t V . 7. Bebop is a bellboy, railway porter, explosion, from a toy bal loon, ballet solo dance, or form or jazz? V;.--.v ";. , The answers:. 1. No more than 87 per cent. 2. To rise. 3 Wash ington. 4. Wrong; it's the Bank of America in California. r 5." Am erican Machine and Foundry. 6. About the same number of each. 7.Form of jta,r MAIL TRIBUHB' Medfot& Figures obtained in a. survey by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce reveal the growing importance of Medford as a medical center and the large number of persons now coming to this city from outside Jackson ' county - for ; treatment, mostly at the hands of specialists. . . i t r . Although the survey. did not include reports from all the medical men here some of them being too busy to furnish the data requested the chamber was able to gather enough information to gain a pretty good idea of the over-all situation. THE twelve specialists and; seven general prac- titionere who turned in figues showed their out-of-county .patients are coming mostly from Josephine, Klamath, Curry, Douglas, Coos .and Lake counties in Oregon, and Siskiyou, Del Norte and Modoc counties in California; Although many patients ' come from more distant -points, according to hospital; records here, no estimate as to the numb erN was made by the doctors. . : c?&jtv? ' "7 . Of the Oregon counties, Josephine furnishes the greatest- number,: the total being estimated at 720 annually, while most of the Californians come from Siskiyou i county, the annual estimated total from there being 617. From the nine' counties mentioned the doctors estimate' a total of 2,776 patients receiv ing attention here, 2,344 of the number being treated by specialists. . :.f v , . . r.: i Of course, many of , the patients consult their doctor more than once a year, many find it neces sary to remain in the city at least overnight on each visit and some are hospitalized for indefinite stays. F THE dentists surveyed, five specialists and eight rgeneral practitioners reported 939 patients, esti mated, the majority coming from Josephine and Siskiyou counties. Osteopathic specialists to the number of four and two general practitioners in that branch of healing reported 551 patients coming to them annually from out of the county, the largest percentage from Jose phine county. Of the osteopathic 'patients an esti mated ten per cent remain at least overnight. . ' Four optometrists reported : 6J.4 patients, 258 of them coming from Josepnine county and the remain der being pretty evenly -divided among the eight counties. , , : :''- . " i , ' '.;. t . - ' - . - - 11HEN it is considered that the total number of pa T tients 4,880 accounted for by- the 'compara tively -small number of medical men reporting is only a fraction of the out-of-couhty visitors, it is easy to be lieve that this visitation contributes considerably to our economy, . . . ' 1 Anything Medford can do to further encourage the influx of those in search of good meclical care will be good business.- E.C.F., Wisconsin Knows How In Wisconsin they not only produce huge quanti ties of milk and milk products, they go to great lengths to promote consumption of their output. fVNE of the most elaborate promotional projects to be undertaken recently is a dairy caravan which will visit 22 cities in the state starting February 1. Sponsored b the University of Wisconsin extension service and the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, five truck loads of. exhibits and a crew of twenty dairy specialists will take, to the highways to give consumers the story of milk from, cow to kitchen table. o KTheme of the traveling show will be, "The Great est Food on Earth," and a quarter of a million people are expected to see the displays and hear the special ists. . - .- . . ; Purpose of the caravan is to carry to the consumer all the latest facts on milk and dairy products; mod ern developments on the farm and, in dairy, plants which safeguard the quality of milk ; means ' of . dis tinguishing grades and labels ; methods of merchan dising milk products; and the economic importance of the dairy industry. t - 0 'i 0 0 . 0 . 0 . . , . ' - - - - TOTAL cost of the exhibits, exclusive of the labor L which was donated by sponsors and local volun teers, is between $16,000 and $20,000. The Wisconsin dairy industry, will undoubtedly profit from the project, modest though the cost may be, for it is a sensible means of ecquainting the pub lic with the benefits to be derived from generous use of-dairy products., Too bad the national dairy indust ry doesn't use some of its advertising money as wise ly, instead of spending fabulous sum hiring radio comedians to tell bum jokes. E.C.F. , Siskiyou Stockpile Hope Dampened The hope of northern Calif ornians that a chrome stockpile might be established at Yreka received a setback last week when Congressman Clair Engle in formed the Yreka Chamber of Commerce that offic ials of the government's emergency procurement ser vice are against the plan. THE Siskiyou county board of supervisors and Yre- ka chamber had recommended that the federal government set up a stockpile.in the county because Qie stockpile at Grants Pass is too far away; for con venient useby thernorthern California miners: v ; ; Kep. Engle wrote the ment service had told him pile is doing very well, that it had cost about $125,000 to establish that faciUtjr; and that only fifty per cent of We ore stored there is from" California; instead of 75 per cent, as claimed by the Siskiyou county peti- A . T!l 1"! Friday. January 28, 1855 Yrekans that, the procure that the Grants Pass stock v. : ' -.X Babson Business Worries By ROGER W. BABSON , Babson Park, r Mass. ; (Special To Mail Tribune). An article in Reader's Digest for January by J. D. Rat cliff causes me to ' write on a subject which has tempted me for some time. After 40 years, i during which ' I have studied com pany earnings Soger W. BafeMM I am convinced that a definite relationship exists between the earnings of a corporation and the health of its officials. Most cases which I have studied '-. to ascertain the reason for a com pany's declining business in a growing industry have shown the answer to be in the failing health of the president or of the sales manager or of some other top official. - ; v ; - f j A man may be .able to go to the office each day and put in his eight hours; he may answer his mail and : preside at all Re quired nieetings; ; but he may have no ep or zest lor doing any ' extra work: Companies which do not go ahead by ex tending their; lines or their ter ritories are going backward. This is very likely to be true of a company: whose ; top official is not in A-l health. Stress and Strain -Cause of Poor Health According to the above-mentioned article, the basic cause of most illness is&stress and strain. The doctors talk, about bacteria, viruses, high blood pressure, weak hearts, etc.; but the real cause is worry. The average businessman must drive himself all day and go out with his wife or associates every night. The re sult is that without sleeping pills and : aspirin many " concerns would be obliged to close up. ; Investors ask me ' how r it is that the stock .of one concern listed pri the Big Board hasNbeen constantly , climbing each month the past year, while. that of an other in the same. industry has not moved a point. The answer could probably be" found by any doctor permitted to diagnose the head men. Some day, company directors.. who - now - spend so freely, for financial aduits will be . willing v to submit to their stockholders annual health re ports, on all their ; officials.-.; I forecast that this will be the day when the stocks', of -many so- Clarification of Formosa Defense Line Features News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Fortign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: ' THE GOOD" - I . The Site nhower admini stration clarified the line , along which it is prepared to fight if necessary to defend the Chinese N a t i o n alist stronghold of Formosa from Chinese Communist at tack.. For months there had been a cloudy sort of .in-between area the small . islands which. the Na- Chmrles MeCinn uonaiisu noia immediately off the; mainland. The President intends to protect Formosa and the neighboring Pescadores Islands, and also to use the United States 7th Fleet and United States Air Force planes to cover" the evacuation of Nationalist troops from the off-shore islands. Some concern was expressed in Congress that there was a risk of big-scale war in the President! action in ask ing congressional authority - to use the armed forces against the Reds if necessary. But Mr. Eisen hower feels that the threat of war already existed" because of Communist belligerence and that a firm stand may prevent rather than cause' war. , 2. The revolt f in Costa Rica ended when the remnants of the defeated Tebels fled across the frontier into Nicaragua. It was a small but dangerous outbreak, which could have caused war be tween Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Nicaragua was accused of shel tering and arming the rebels'. President' Anastasio rSomoza of Nicaragua threatened war if Costa Rican troops pursued the rebels across the border. -3. Premier Ichiro Haioyama dissolved the Japanese Parlia ment in preparation for a na tional; election Feb. ; 27. Policy statements by leaders of the principal political parties made it certain that whoever wins the election, Japan wiU keep its ties with the United States and arm itself in defense against Commu nist aggression. ; . :';:---.;-- v , THE BAD 1. The first Chinese : Commu nist reaction to President Eisen hower's move in. defense of For mosa was bellicose. Red Premier Chou En-Lai reaffirmed the de termination p the. Peiping gov ernment to take Formosa; He said also that the Reds win r. ject any proposal to bring about cMsWire between the nation called "sleeping comoanies" will zoom upward. ; Believes in Work of Accountants ' Of course, I believe in the work of accountants; but has not much of this work become so routine and late that neither directors nor stockholders give much thought to adults? As a re sult, accountants are coming to be classed as "morticians." For mal audits can become mere "autopsies." I forecast that a great change is ' coming in this connection. ,' I believe in the importance of studying figures; but:; I am sure that . the . condition of the "two-legged" figures of a man agement are far more important to the , stockholders than? the 'mathematical" figures. Some day there win ; ; be a great awakening" along these ' lines. Men will be retired and: pen sioned according to their, phy sical condition, rather , than sim ply according to their age. In cidentally , I believe President Eisenhower's " interest in better health could ; result in greater earnings for most companies and better wages for many . em ployees. Should Close Useless Bureaus, Commissions ; But the President should not be content to talk about health. Why not go to the root of the difficulty and talk about "stress" as does the author of this Read er's Digest article? Instead : of spending , billions of dollar's opening, new hospitals, the Pres ident could solve, the problem by closing scores of useless Bureaus and Commissions, These are primarily the cause of the stress and worry which are ; bringing about the breakdown of execu tives, foreman, and especiaUy employees being paid by "piece work." . Did you ever think why Jesus has been called "The Great Phy sician?" Have, you noticed how very little is written in the Bible about illnesses? ; Very . few ac counts of Jesus' followers indi cate that they died of any dis ease. Certainly if they were not martyred they lived to a very old age. The answer may be that they followed Jesus' constant teaching not to be too anxious for the things which the world seeks.' Jesus taught that - stress and worry are futile. Even 1500 years before that, Moses , gave some good health advice in the Tenth Commandment. See Exo- dus, Chapter 20, Verse 17. alists and the Communists. Chou called on the United States to get out of Formosa. - - 2. Soviet Russia look a ; big step toward : a return to the tough policy of the .-. late Josef Stalin, by removing from office Trade Minister Anastas I. Mi- Koyan. imiEoyan naa been in charge of a drive to increase the production : of consumer goods. The drive has been ' bandoned,', and Russian factories are to be devoted even more to war pre auction. It seemed : likely that Russia would - soon start big scale armament of Communist East Germany. : 3.. Premier P i e r r e Mendes- Frances, still fighting to get the French Parliament to ratify the West ...German - armament treaties faced a determined at tempt by his many enemies to overthrow him. They hope to get him next week jvhen the Na tional : Assembly debates his' North African policy. If he were defeated long delay in the final ratification of the German treatiesrwould be likely. .. . t Adult Typing Class Slated at Rogue River - Rogue River A typing class wiU be held in the' Rogue River High school on Tuesdays from 7 to. 9 p.m. The class will begin Feb. 8 and wiU continue for 12 weeks. The fee will be $10 per pupiL v. Miss Carol Harris, commercial instructor;: in the high school, wiU teach the class. Those inter ested should call the high school. SAVE At Our Terrific o) h BIG PRICE REDUCTIONS IN EVERY DEPAm'-iriTI . . . Giftwar ToiUtriaf Remedies - Hourshrld Item and Toys All Reduced For Quick Sals! ALL Sales, Final v . No Exchanges or Refunds! STORE HOURS: 8 AJA. to 6 PJA. - CLOSED SUNDAYS nnnnnmnfrnoi u mum 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 sible. 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. Nature Cooperative To the Editor: "And They AU Get Along Together." ' A word of appreciation for Eugene Burns and his splendid Mail Tribune;; article on the fallacy that "nature Isjn a con stant state of warfare," and other a bsurdities so long preached by scientists and well nigh universaUy accepted. As an amateur ecologist and conserva tionist, I have often urged the idea that nature is above all else a cooperative affair. Am glad to find at least one profes sional naturalist who subscribes to this belief, and condemns the ancient "law of tooth and claw." Anyone who studies the inter relations between " plants and animals and their environments, with real understanding, cannot fail to see the cooperation exist ing among aU natural species, flora as weU as fauna. : Preop tion? Certainly. ' But ordinary, natural predation is beneficial to aU species. Only when the human, with his unnatural lust for destruction, enters the pic ture. ; do we find wholesale slaughter and killing for the sake of killing itself. with con sequences only now becoming known. Our . education in real appre ciation of nature and its won ders is not only neglected it is almost non-existent, while real understanding of nature among scientists is practicaUy nil in their urge to exploit it. .'. Am reminded of a trip last June to the famous Bear, River Migratory Bird Refuge : about 'twelve miles from Brigham City, Utah.v 64,000 acres one hundred square miles of shal low lakes and marshes impound ed, by dikes where, during mi grations, upwards of a million water, wading and ' shore birds of some forty, or fifty different species and scores of varieties may be seen. Even in June the sight was ' inspiring.; Geese : and ducks by the thousand, hundreds of white pelicans, ibises, cor morants, stilts, avocets. curlews, snowy egrets, gulls, terns, gre bes,7 rails, :gallinules,' and . per haps thirty other' species- (Dur ing faU migration) for, instance, flocks of whistling swans total ing fifteen to twenty thousand are often seen; 100,000 canvas back ducks, and so on.) : ' But to 'get to ;the pointi- My driver was a young fellow who had lived in Brigham City, his whole life, yet this was hisiirst trip to the refuge. I shaU al ways remember this lad's awe ,and delight as he looked out over those bird-inhabited waters with their many thousand repre sentatives of so many species. . "Wen Vern," said I, "what do you think Of .it?" Vern drew a long breath. "Mister," said he, "today I've learned something. And ; I'm c6ming out here often " v Then he became very thought ful, and as we turned to go I heard him say softly as though to himself: . ; "And they all get along to gether." "A lesson for humans?" asks Burns. What do you think? Jim Fuller ' , Ashland, Ore. s Sales Tax Idea. : To the Editor: Here is my idea of a sales tax: Messrs. Mortimer; Mortimer Ickleheimer and Vandergould Investment Bankers, -Faraway Timbuctoo. ' : : Gentlemen: Your, letter addressed to Chisler and Chisle-r Invest ment CounseUors has been hand ed to me for advisement. In view of your vast holdings of timber. mineral and range lands here in Oregon, it is most needless to as sert that you must view our ever mounting tax structure with grave concern. I . have oassed your communie ation along to representatives Eel and Slippery of our Oregon legiskv ture. : These young -men are . up and coming. They are young, am bitious,: have - their eyes upon the ball and are ever mindful of In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS The biggest news in the world as this is written: -: There's no shooting YET in the Formosa straits. 'THE general feeling in Wash- mgton, the dispatches report, is that the Senate of representa- tives will endorse the- Presi dent's Formosa defense program before the day is over.---. . Several senators who decline to be named say that they want what they caU the "fuU im port" of the situation to sink in to the .American people - before final acting is taken by both bouses of the congress. WHAT IS the full import of "the' situation? Td say this is it: If the commies WANT war and think they're READY FOR WAR, there will BE WAR. What we're trying to do is to keep them from blundering; into, war Payments Reported On CP Assessments Central . Point : Nineteen property owners have made full or partial payments amounting to $5,319.17 for Central Point assessment for street and side walk improvements, according to the city recorder's office.!,;. Ten owners have not yet made arrangements for payment. The deadline was Jan. 24. There have been 27 applications filed under the Bancroft ; law's "installment"- paying . plan, . and seven applications are out, but not yet returned. . i ' . There are eight street assess ment jobs involved, mostly curb and gutter projects, with some sidewalk - assessments and one block of paving.-". : ': - i ' Officials pointed out that the city council has not yet accepted a gasoline " bid for ; 1955. Bids have been taken under consid- eratioii by the council.' Shell Oil company and Richfield Oil com. pany have submitted the two lowest gasoline bids, and Tide water Associated Oil company, the low bid on tires. It had been previously published .. .that the Shell bid was accepted. s - " : .. - Food Sale Jo Benefit High School Project Jacksonville - A 1 benefit cooked food sale to raise money to: send a Jacksonville . High schcir delegate, to the rtate con ference of the Interhatiohat Ref lations league in Eugene,' Feb. 25-26, will be held tmorrow, starting at 10 arn next to the post office -i;' ; : The sale is sponsored by the Odd Fellows and. Rebekahs, in conjunction with the 1RL group at the high schooL Food dona tions for the sale will be. wel comed, : officials said. The purpose of the Eugene conference will be to discuss the United Nations and prospects for neaee. Hish school students fromVaU over Oregon . will ; t- teno. ?-' , - :, . : ; your- need for tax- reductions upon lands that are being held for investment and speculation. ; It seems to me what is needed most is a sales tax. Messrs. Eel and Slippery at this moment are making a desperate effort to bring the isales tax before 'Ore gon's voters. Should the bill be come Uaw it. would afford you and your clients almct immedi ate relief, and it is quite possible that your properties might be dropped from the tax rolls entirely. :'':v- ' '' "--r ' The. sales tax is a made to order tax relief for investinent and speculation; It fa . merely transaction tax, or a turnover tax levied upon trade, and the consumers pay the bill because it fa so delicately woven into the economic fabric that it fa almost beyond detection and suspicion. If it has a human appeal like "aid for crippled up- old men," the housewife will lay the cash on the line without a whimper and never suspicion the motive behind it. Earl Allen 2577 South Stage Rd. Medford, Ore. i- ; , News in the belief that if they attack Formosa well RUN instead of fighting. WASHINGTON sees EVERY THING through nolitical glasses. ' -- For example: A Washington dispatch says that President Eisenhower's For mosa declaration "may have provided a foreign policy issue for the 1958 Presidential cam paign." riTHIS.fa-the reasoning: Some Republicans, including GOP Senator Capehart of In diana, are saying that the Eisen hower statement ushers in a new era in foreign policy by asking Congress to share responsibility now; for action the President may take in . the future. These Republicans inainuatasthat in the past Democratic Presidents have rushed the . country into situa tions that made war inevitable thus by-passing the congress. Some Democrats are indicat ing that they believe President Eisenhower fa trying to put the Democrats out on a political limb by asking them in advance to share responsibility for what could result in war. 1TTELL, such is the way of the " nnlitlrian He sees politics in everything. B Ur ine politician isn't alone in that attitude. . , He fa joined by the speculator. "CK)R example: - Chicago dispatches report that "a grain market which has shown occasional signs of war jitters in the past ten days looks today as if it might be develop ing into , a first-rate scare. In very active "dealings ALL grains forged ahead. - "Brokers attributed the der mand for grains to the Formosan situation.'7 SO MUCH for the grain mar kets which, historically, tend to RISE on war scares. Let's glance now at stock prices, which tend historically to DE CLINE on war scares. The Wall Street report when this fa writ ten says ;j -'v ''rt' "The stock market turned lower today, some shares losing as much as S3. Selling was so heavy that the tape ran behind several times during the morn ing session of the New York ctiwir rh9n0". - . - rpHE politician looks for votes. A The speculator looks for quick .profits. v - -i'l suppose that's life. Truck To Reakcd Trains in ? - Washington ui. XU.K .; "-' Post master General Arthur E. Sum merfieid . said today that start ing about March 1 trucks will be used instead of trains to carry all mail in parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. : Vr The ; post office department ' r " a - m a now; uses a comomauon ox iraia and truck service in the region. It win set-up new highway service between Spokane, Wash, and Lewiston, Ida., and between Stites and Orangevflle, Ida. Di rect truck service also wui oe provided between Seattle and Walla Wlla, Wash. . v A lake sturgeon, caught ? in 1953, was determined to be 152 years old. J- ' - '- Vse Tribune Vant Ads "OUTIIE Dor' twice a yew MftAifs ( paM f ear iavestsn. 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