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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDtWRIBUNl "veryoody iu ouuuiern Oregon wcaoa ine man -lTiaune" Published Daily Except Saturday by . MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. - Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W; BUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. SporU Editor -OLIVE STARCHES. 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 Sunday Six months 6.50 . ' Daily and Sunday Three mo 3 JO Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3 JO. ' By 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 ueaiers--3c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford omciai paper ei jacason t-oumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New yoric. wucago. ue- rroit. San Francisco, los Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NIWSPAPIt .sssK PUtllSHIRS -'ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSpdATlfeN J 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. 31, 1954 .(It was Wednesday) Arnel ' P. Butler announces plans for formation of Medford Ski Patrol for rescue work in cooperation with Army. . t , From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Some of last spring's babies are now smart enough to wink at com pany, causing proud Paws to puff and strut. ; 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 31, 1935 (It was Thursday) Pauline Rogers tops list of honor roll students announced by Paul M.Menegat, Medford high school principal Others near the ton of: list are Dorothy Hammond, , Betty Thorndike, Betty. Vilm, Wallace Lowry, Edith Whillock, Beverly Moore, Virginia- Hammond, Dorothy Hopkins, and Philip Lowry. David Lowry, Medford, named to sophomore merit and service honorary group at Uni versity of Oregon. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 11925 . (It was Saturday) Construction of Natron rail road cutoff through Klamath Falls area scheduled to start in spring. , W. H: Gore, Medford, urges construction of road from Wil liams creek to Oregon C&ves. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 31. 1915 (It was Sunday) Special "weather man" as signed to Medford area to col lect data on frosts and smudg ing.;' From, the Local and Personal .column; Attorney B. F. Mulkey, A. S. Rosenbaum and Homer Bil lings spend yesterday in Ash land campaigning for sugar beets. It was a fruitful day. Aft er talkine all day, and wading through mud ankle deep, they took an inventory and found they had signed up one acre, with a promise. of 10. Vhat's the Answer? (Can You Gtt 4 of the 7?) Copr.'1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The average number of chil dren in ,U. S- families has been going up or down, or staying about the same, in recent years? 2. A D.D.S. is a medical doc tor, chiropodist, chiropractor, veterinarian, dentist, mortician or beautician? 3. President Eisenhower wants the present road-building pro gram in the U.S. curtailed, great ly expanded for the future, or continued about as-is? . 4. Godthaab is the capital of what part of North America? 5. Did more of the 10 states of the Solid South vote for Hoover (against Al Smith) in 1928 or f orEisenhower in '1952? 6. Karl Marx, patron saint of Communists, spent most of his adult life in Germany, Russia, England,' Poland, or Switzer land? - ; " 7. Lobotomy is a type of sex perversion, brain operation, ag riculture in river valleys,. South ern pine; or pneumonia? The Answers: 1, Going up. 2. Dentist. 3. Greatly expanded for the future. 4. Greenland. 5 More for Hoover (4) than for Eisen hower (3). 6. England. 7. Type of brain operation. - About Schools Again The Oregon Education Association recently pub lished a booklet called fetter. Schools." At the risk of becoming tedious (we wrote about schools last week, too) we'd like to discuss it a bit for the subject itself is far from tedious. : It has a great bearing on our future, on our kids and (emphatically) on our pocketbooks. 1X7ITH this preliminary, let us begin by saying the J. booklet is shocking. Basically it is a propaganda job, to convince the reader that better schools are our best investment in f reedom social values, security, po litical life and high living standards. It does a good job, and is convincing. What is shocking about it is the price tag it puts on our government in general and our schools in par ticular. ' - - V ; The booklet is intended to show why this price tag is so high, and that, as far as the schools are con cerned, we're getting our money's worth. IN OREGON- the total income of all residents in 1 195a was estimated at $2,763,000,000. v Out of this nearly three billion dollars, taxes took nearly one-third $896,500,000. Of this, more than half went to the federal gove ernment. The next largest tax-take went to the state government; the next (and considerably smaller) amount went to the schools, with cities, counties and special districts bringing up the rear with relatively small tax totals. pROM here on, the discussion of governmental rev- enues and expenditures, gets more complicated but is shown clearly and graphically in the OEA pub lication. ; , . ;" ' - l-'f: .-...''! The gist of it is that state obligations are high, and are getting higher The sources of tax money to sup port these obligations are limited, (and pretty well taken up. There are some inequalities in the tax struc ture. -;..'' - , .- i ; Most observers are well aware of these problems, but the booklet does a good job of laying them on the line. : :: r s After this the booklet moves to the job the schools are doing, and in convincing fashion points out that Oregon, schoolwise, has done and is doing a good job. It compares well with in several different criteria of excellence. THE booklet says '-The next 10 years will be critical fn Hmrrnn oKrftlc " anrl if 'if os five rpasrms whvi 1. New births have been at high levels since 1947. Immi gration continues strong. 2. School plant construction was neglected during the depression, and later during World War. II. It has not v-caught up. -, A . t3.' Teacher supply both in numbers and qualifications ' remains too low. 4. Local districts will be heavily bonded, on the aver age, by I960. : . : ' '' : i 5. Competition for public funds with highways, public ' institutions, city and county governments, is keen and get -ting keener., , . . ,. The booklet, realistically, points out - that "our schools' future remains closely tied to the world situ ation. In the long run, our whopping defense budget is the only possible source of major tax relief-. . . We cannot safely base our actions on any assumed trend in world affairs." It adds "We must decide on the type of schools we want, and plan to provide them with the means at hand, under existing conditions . . . Less we should not attempt. Less we cannot afford to do." The OEA pamphlet outlines specific suggestions as to "What we can do to get better schools." For citizens, it suggests: ; 1. Cooperate with local school boards in finding ; con- structive solutions, to school problems; support the .boards in carrying out the solutions. - 2. Encourage outstanding citizens to run. for school ' boards; work for, their election; support them in office. 3. Join and support local PTAs. . - 4. Understand how schools are financed tax structure,' v salary scales, debt problems, special levies, state-county- local relationships. ' l: 5. Work through civic groups when joint effort is needed. ' . ' . ' ::.:-.V; It also has specific suggestions for the legislature, for school boards and fof school people. All of them are similar to those for citizens; all seek understand ing and support for the schools in facing the problems of the crucial years ahead. " '-',.,'.. eni ; vr MOWHERE in the pamphlet is a specific suggestion 1 , for solution of the financial problem suggested. This is probably -wise, from the OEA's point of view, for the naming of specific forms of taxation (i.e. sales tax, corporation excise tax, income tax, property tax, etc.) often brings on, in certain groups, reactions like those of a fyiU when stung with a bandillero. . n r , v ; Besides, it is not the province of school men to propose taxes at" the state level that's the legisla ture's job, and a tough one it is. ji LL in all, the booklet does a good job of suggesting "just how difficult it is going to be to follow the mandate of the Oregon Constitution: "The legislative assembly shall provide by law for the establishment of a uniform and general system of common schools." ' Summed up the booklet simply says that schools are vitally important to the future of our-state and our nation, but we're going to have to pay for them. And it's going to be expensive. E.A. i - Ifs Wonder This Man Wasn't Scored To Death Jamestown, N.Y. (U.PJ Fred W. Austin, of nearby Frews burg, considers himself a for tunate young man. -r V - He was riding - alone in his car, bowled' over a high tension pole, four mail boxes and a sign. Monday, January 31, 1955 j the other 10 western states demolishing the vehicle. : Police ; said the high tension wires, carrying 2,300 volts, coiled around the car and a thick plank rammed ough the windshield on the di.er's side. But Austin walked away with only two small cuts. - Matter of Fact PAYING FOR FRAUD Rantroon. Burma Here in Burma, which boasts the ablest and most realistic government of post : war Asia, the. price we are paying for the fraud ulence of our Asian policy is a l a r mingly "evident. ? The news from home in dicates a great, sudden stir about the Chi nese Commu Joseph-Alsep nist threat to the offshore is lands of Formosa. But why is this? . . . - In view of the record , of the last two years, why on earth is anyone ruffled by the Commu nist seizure of Yikiangshan? There was-a first Munich in the form of the Korean truce. There was a second Munich in form of the surrender in Indor China. There was a transnarent fake in the form of the toothless Manila treaty And in thetreaty; with Chiang Kai-shek,' specific ally excluding the offshore is lands from American protection,' there was the equivalent of an engraved invitation to the Com munists to seize those islands. In ; the ..face of this record of retreat and appeasement, peo ple at home are surprised by the -natural, the downright in evitable results. , Thev are sur prised because the retreat has been masked by a loud, huckster- ish drumfire about" "unleash ing ' Chiang Kai-shek," "recap tured initiatives," "massive re? taliation," strengthened out posts," and the like.- The bad joke that the Bur mese and the Indians, who des perately desire to avoid an un necessary war, have been just as much deceived:' by the1 loud talk as our own people. . The loud ; talk in Washington has made these Asians think Amer-i icah policy warlike when it has really been the. precise reverse.' in Burma we are blamed, not for. appeasement, which can ' be justly charged against us. but for aggressiveness, of which we are conspicuously guiltless. " ' . ' : ; ; TF appeasement was 1 needful, f.we ought at least to have tried to reap, its natural benefits and reinsure it as best we could. In particular, - we ought ; to have told the ' Indians and Burmese, "Well, we are going to follow your ideas about the right con-, duct of affairs in Asia, so let's get together to cope with the re sulting situation.'?' r: ", We have not only failed to do anything like that. W have even virtuaUy ceased communi cation with Rangoon and New Delhi. The mounting concern In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS 1 American air and sea power is being massed in the Formosa area: Swift and . deadly U. S. Saberjets have been roaring to their new Formosa bases from Okinawa and the Philippines. , The. 45,000 ton aircraft carrier Midway has cancelled a sched uled visit to Singapore . . .The cruiser Pittsburgh has cancelled a visit to Hong Kong . . . Four XT, S. destroyers that have been visiting at Singapore have Sailed away f r o m Singapore ... Pre sumably these warships are be ing added to the huge U. S. task force now ... being . concentrated in Formosan waters, v. ELL, I, let's be all set. If the commies tackle us, we MUST be ready and a b 1 e to handle whatever they throw at us. Anything else would be dis astrous. , .And If the commies get the idea they can TAKE us ; They'll TRY! ! ' H ERE'S what we're doing: We're taking a calculated risk. Nothing 'risked, nothing gained. iUf?vS J. : Every time you climb in your car and start to work, you're taking a calculated risk. Some body may bash into you at the first .corner and - put out - your Ught. ' , . -But j . i If you get scared and never leave home, you're done for. JESIDES . If you decide to hole up at home and NEVER TAKE A CHANCE, you may slip in . the bathtub and kill yourself. ; WASHINGTON, the senate foreign relatons and armed services committees - approved the' resolution giving President Eisenhower full war powers to defend Formosa and its outposts. The vote was 26 to 2 with Republican Senator William Langer of N 6 r t h Dakota and Independent (preparing to turn Democrat) Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon voting AGAINST the resolution.' WHY DID Langer and Morse vote as they did? A Tm quite sure this .is the rea son: . -4V. They figured that by VOTING NO they'd get into the headlines. By voting YES they'd be lost in the crowd. - - - r By jostPh auop caused by the loud talk in Wash ington was one cause of this de velopment But there have been other causes. There has been hp American ambassador in Delhi for many, months. There - has been none here in Rangoon since last July. . - The junior diplomats who are holding the fort here are good, hard working men,' who - show all the worst effects of treat ment given to the foreign serv ice in the last two years. The American representation in Ran goon today has the approximate dynamic effectiveness of an old wet washrag. - -And this is true despite a dan ger and an opportunity that should mtensely ;preoccupy the American policy makers.. The danger, can be simply de fined. With no one to speak up for our. side, Burma has slipped" since last year. The big power, China, has begun to convince the little power, Burmay that her sweet words can really be re lied on. Men like Premier U Nu, and his two remarkable chief collaborators, U Ba Swe and U Yyaw Nein, are not really de ceived; but they are beginning to be immobilized. The opportunity can be equal ly simply defined. It' is the op portunity to mobilize . Burma. rThe appeasements of the last two years have produced, a new situation in' Asia. American pow er is no longer sufficient to hold the balance true. The political and moral authority of the free Asian, nations, and in particular Burma . and ;india,:; are ; desper; ately needed to prevent a gen eral? collapse. That is another result of our recent policy which it is high time: to face .squarely. THE opportunity is in Burma; because- here in Burma the leadership sees the position in Asia- more clearly than in. Del hi, : The danger to Burma of a Communist triumph in Thailand can never be forgotten by the government , in Rangoon. Tliere fore it is here, if anywhere, that the ' needed effort can be organ ized to hold Cambodia and Laos, the approaches to Thailand, which how have, for the1 long run, at least as much importance as the :. Formosa, approaches - or, indeed, as Formosa itself. v , .. ; The last two years policy; of retreat may weU have been de sirable. Yet the wise command er, when -! he retreats, is . carer ful to organize a new defense line for the new position he has occupied, i Our ; policy. - makers have instead .been too busy pro testing thathey really were noj retreating, and the task of or ganizing One is getting harder by the month. ;-. ' ; ; ; . (Copyright, 1955. New York ; i Herald Tribune Inc.) News Screwballs like Langer - and Morse just HAVE to get into the headlines. Otherwise, they'll be lost in the shuffle. QENATOR Morse was pleased ' w i t h the headlines he got. So he went out to get some more. Dispatches from Washington re port: "It was Morse who first assert ed that the resolution (to give the' President full - war powers to handle the Formosa situation) would AUTHORIZE A PRE VENTIVE WAR. "That phrase has since become the rallying cry for the opposi tion to the President s request.'' ?????? ? ? So far as I am concerned, in this ' grave crisis that concerns the future of pur country and the lives of our. people, I'd rather trust President Eisenhower and the serious and sincere men (in our nation and elsewhere) who are , standing at his side ; and working with, him than screw balls; and headline-hunters like Langer and Morse. , . Espee Locomotive beraisd by Boulder Klamath Falls -4 (U.R) A boulder, loosened by rain, caused. ' the derailment of a Southern Pacific diesei locomo tive pulling the 10-car "Klam ath" passenger train Sunday morning 12 miles north of here. The train was stopped without mishap, however, and there were no injuries. ' The boulder, estimated at 600 pounds, rolled several hundred feet down a steep hillside, jump ed across highway 97, and land ed squarely between the Tails on the main line.' , : The :Klamath was traveling about 60 miles per hour, accord ing to crew members, when it struck the rock shattering it into several pieces.; But r only the front truck of the he ivy en gine went off the tracki. , ' Traffic on the main line was tied up for about three hours. lis That So? - RisNaniralit ' In considering nature's adapta tions to water, did you know that . . . In living things, usually. 65-90 per cent is water and a loss of one-third of this water content is often fatal. , . ; 4 ' With advancing age, animals tend to dry out. At birth, a hu man is about 72.5 per cent water; when adult, only 66 per cent. Rodents and some cud-chew-ers usually ; have .few sweat glands the pronghorn ante lope, for example, lacks nearly all sweat glands. - ; To conserve body moisture during droughts, many animals such as toads, frogs and snails practically . suspend animation and go to sleeps-" It's ' called aestivation. " : ; " Most small r' desert animals have acute hearing and .sight. To improve their ; sight, they habitually feed in a semi-erect position, carrying "their; food to. the mouth" with their short fore paws, thus getting a wider range of vision. , v - ' ; . Sleep Through . Dry Spll Some snails have the ability co sleep through a dry spell last ing several years, without "wak ening, v - . Most desert animals such as the lion, hyena,: desert fox, most insects, scorpions . and - spiders seek shelter during the heat of the day when evaporation is at a maximum, and become active when- the cooler - night air acts as a check, and the .dew gives added moisture. ' Some desert animals never drink t water, depending on the fluid taken in with their food or the dew which covers it. Ani mals which may sometimes go for a lifetime without a drink of water are gazelles . and , various small rodents among the mam mals and .many insects . v Arabian - camels, fitted - for travelling on 'sand, very easily break - their '. legs - on uneven ground. .-' ' f r - ' (Released by McClurei Newspaper Syndicate) ; Free: "By special arrangement with the, editors Of he 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 friendly letters,-? Please address your questions to: IS THAT -SOI care Medford Mail Tribune, box 575, Sausalito Calif. ' - ' Kefauver Feared War Viih Red China -Los Angeles (U.R) . . Sen. stes iieiayver (U-xenn.) says that at one stage of the Formosa defense resolution debate he was "sorely concerned" . that .. the United States .might be drawn into war ' with - Red China and possibly Russia., - v Kefauver, who spoke . : Satur day night at a Roosevelt memor ial dinner, said,r however; that this nation came out of last week "furtifcr away from : war - than we began it." -0, fWe feared that an incident would occur through the forces to Chiang Kai-shek which would drag this nation into direct con flict with Red China and would probably bring in Russia," he said. ' - Sticks Told It GEO. N. TAYLOR - . The one-time travelling - sales man now looks back to the day when his mother spoke the word that brought; him into etern al life." Her word was ' "God had a Son who died ; for your sins." Hearing these-, words, the boy s believed on Christ as hav ing died i for his . sins . and h Vnew him-. self to be sayed. But the boy wanted -1 tell God who had ordered his eternal life. So the boy . tied together two sticks into the shape-of a cross and these he pressed into the ground by the : house. God would see this cross and know the boy had laid hold on Christ's death as clearing him. With the passing years, the boy, now a man, has taken Paul's position. Saved people are to open anen's eyes so as to turn them . from darkness to light and- from the power of Satan unto God. Believing in Christ as God the Saviour, men receive forgiveness of sins and entrance into eternal life . . .. Acts 26:18: ThisCMess age sent by an Oregon Dairy man. Paid Adv. Another Cease Fire In Far East Vould Establish Record By CHARLES M. McCANN ' .United Press Foreign Analyst -. Establishment of another cease fire in the Far East certainly would set. some kind, of record. There are creaky armistices now in Korea and Indochina. Neither is working "well from the West ern viewpoint. In Korea, the Chinese Communists have persist ently: "and : openly violat ed the armis- Chulci McC&nn . nee. ever-since it was signed on July 27,. 1953. Hardly had the Indochina cease fire been signed in Geneva last July 21 than complamts started coming in that the Viet Minh ..rebels were- violating it. In neither -"Korea ? nor5: Indo china r has the 50-caUed ' Neutral Nations' Supervision Commission been able. to. do anything about the violations, ( The commissions consist of -four., members . each, two of whom are Communists. Supplying War Material - . . - . The most serious material vio lation , is Red China's action in continuing to send war material to its own and. the: North Korea forces in Korea and to the Viet Minh in Indochihar There is alio, however, the exceedingly grave action of the Chinese Reds in holding Ameri can and other United Nations war prisoners in violation of the armistice: and the v. astonishing action of the Peiping government in imprisoning ill. uniformed American airmen as "spies." At least, the cease 1 fires did stop the fighting in Korea and Indochina. ; " : ': " What would " happen if it proved possible to patch up some kind of cease fire between the Chinese Reds and . the Chinese Nationalists? Mry- That the Reds would try to cheat may be taken for granted. . However, if they agreed to a Formosa eease fire, they-would be .hemmed in at ' three aggres sion - points -for 7 the 'present Korea, on China's northeast; In dochina, on the south; and For mosa on the east insofar as real fighting was concerned., Few people , outside the Bam: boo and Iron Curtains would ex pect Chinese Red . leaders ; Nao LEOHS TOTS ELALF i LOOK at these prices and HURRY to take dyntas of this rare opportunity . to save during our . value packed Half-Yearly Clearance Salel . Shoes A wonderful savings on Shoes. What values! fcr lb prico Dresses Drastic reductions- on all seasonable dres s esAII sizes. snCD Coats Many light weight ( coats included . . . also Snow Suits. i) up Pajamas with f cot Sizes 6-7-8 , Panties V . 3 for $1.69 Sweaters Boys or Girls 02.CO OE23 n BT3E3 .. , 'Sco Uvst.z?gz2 to X2cnfi2cn Ppiccd to cc3 co IOCiS" TOTS 105 EAST MAIN Tse-Tung and Chou En-Lai to A T . . . . J wwwwa. , ' Aggression Is Life Blood ; The Communists talk about "peaceful co-existence" but only if the West wiU give the Reds what they want - Unfortunately aggression, pouueal or military, . is the life blood of a Communist aiciaiorsmp xuce tnose in Russia - and. China.-- . ; : . . .-. ;f Hence Mao and Chou might be expected to turn somewhere else if: the fighting off the China coast stopped. e v ;.j : u r ; It might be Burma, which hat been torn by internal revolt ever v since tne ena oi wona war u. Mao and Chou might decide that in tiie interest of world peace Communist style they ought to help the Burmese rebels. Or they might start stirring up dissention in Thailand, which is sandwiched between' Burma, and Indochina. .-:':. : ;. r Burma has quit the British Commonwealth of nations and has held aloof from Western de- tonco 9 nanPM -mai ann i rirm. ly tied with tb;We8t?-.;tCv-? , Mao and Chou could fimkways I alter Dav t Head in Australia ; Sydney, Australia' (U.R) - David ; O. McKay, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints, arrived today from New Zealand and received a greeting from 300 church mem bers at Svdnev's Mascot Airnort. Some of the well-wishers came from as far as Tasmania to see the leader of their church. McKay told reporters he was "not only surprised ; but truly astonished" by the progress of his church in the South Pacific . He said he was especially, im pressed with Tonga, where the church's school program is rap idly expanding, . and with -a S3, under construction at Hamilton, New Zealand. . ' . . . ELECTION PREDICTED - fnrMinhappn (U.R) - Politi. cal .observers ; predicted v today the Socialist party will elect For. eign Minister H. C. Hensen, 48, to succeed Hans Hedtrft as Pre mier of Denmark. Hedtoft, 51, died of a heart attack Friday ntcrht in Stockholm. Sweden. . -TO - YEAEILY Jeans Heavy weight . . . $1.4? Sizes 6 to 12. 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