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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDRHlDtrfJTRIBUNB 0 "iiveryoocly iu buutfiern Oregon Published DaUy Except Saturday by 27 5? PRATING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor JJ-5B GREY. Advertising Manager FERGUSON. Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 o SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. cDaiy and Sunday One year $12.00 . Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 ' Sunday Only-v-One year $3.50. 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 Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Courty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: eWEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. s Offices in New York. Chicago. De- troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. 0V NEWSPAPER l PUBLISHERS -"ASSOCIATION NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocIFatiIon sJ 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 Feb. 9. 1945 (It was Friday) - J. M. Spencer, Ashland, named secretary - manager of Medford Irrigation district, and W. D. Steadman, Phoenix, named to same position with Rogue River Irrigation district. Both succeed Ed N. Judd, who served . ixt J. Ji A2A f - - - wim two districts lor xa years. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column:. Schools started last week on the last half of their terms. Many-kids, were vaccinated, at the end of the semester, v 20 YEARS AGO v Feb. 9, 1935 (It was Saturday) Gold Hill cement plant officials announce their firm will operate Grants Pass railroad. - Townsend pension meeting at Medford .High school draws crowd of 1,100, with collection amounting to $103. Telegram re ceived from ; Dr. Townsend, founder of organization. . SO YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1925 (It was Monday) Story in the Mail Tribune re ports that cigarette smoking among women , in Medford is gaining by leaps and bounds, both at home and in public. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 9, 1915 (It was Tuesday) Fire destroys Tavern hotel. owned by James Vogeli, at Eagle Point with damage estimated at between $6,000 and $7,000. Eagle Point fire department and bucket brigade saves surround ing property. From the Local and Personal column: As yet no trace has been found of Chester Nelson, the youthful trapper who disap peared from his cabin in the Evans Creek district a week ago Sunday. The recent heavy rains have swollen Evans creek con siderably and "fears are enter tained that the young, man was drowned while attempting to C cross. Alarmed by his absence searching . parties have been formed and the entire section is being hunted over. What's f he Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report. 1. Ten years ago U.S. forces captured a capital that had been held by the enemy: Berlin, Paris, Rome, Manila, Brussels or War saw? 2. The Last Supper, famous painting by Leonardo de Vinci, is in Rome, New York,' Paris, Milan? London or Venice? 3. Which of these national parks is the largest: Everglades, Glacier, Mt. McKinley,- Yellow stone, Yosemite? 4. The Seventh Commandment deals with adultery, killing, bearing false witness, or honor ing parents? 5. The Kremlin says that of the 200,000,000 people in Russia, about 6, 16, 36 or 60,000,000 are Communist party members. 6. The name "Palestine" does or doesn't come from the Philis tines who once lived there? 7. A man nicknamed "Soapy" Oast name: Williams) is gover nor of Illinois. Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee or Texas? - The Answers: 1. Manila. 2. Milan. 3. Yellowstone. 4. Adul tery. 5. About six out of the 200.000.000. 6. Does. 7. Michi gan. - ; ' " '"' : !: - "' MAIL TRIBUNE Leave The Park Setup Alone The only fault one can find with Oregon's state parks, in this region at least, is that there are not enough of them. Those we have are well located, excellently maintained, the larger ones are delightful places for family picnics and roup gatherings and they and the highway wayside parks are visited by throngs throughout the summer season. At one such place alone, TouVelle park on the Rogue river near Medford, the traffic counting tape registered 26,014 cars last year. Figuring an average of 314 persons to the car, the tape indicates the park accommodated 84,545 visitors, probably a low esti mate as many go to the spot in buses and there are also some who enter on horseback or afoot and these latter would not trip the Total visitation at the during the past year has mately 5,800,000. "llHILE it would be nice to have more such spots for enjoyment by. the public, it must be consid ered that any extensive expansion of the program would entail heavy spending, and the park expense is already fairly large, $1,195,000 having been budg eted for development, maintenance and operation this year. . IN view of the fact that the State Highway Commis .sion has done a good job in selecting such park sites as we now have, and in developing and main taining them, and that the state's financial condition does not warrant large outlays, for expansion of the system at this time, we cannot see what benefit might be expected from the bill now before the legislature seeking to take the parks from the jurisdiction of the highway commission and place them under a new and separate commission to be set up. Creation of any new commission would be certain to mean additional overhead expenses. This is par ticularly true with reference to this situation as the State Highway Department now, does many things for the State Parks Department at actual cost. Among these are services of various kinds, including special ties in soil analysis, pavement construction, geological determinations, right of way acquisition, legal coun sel and advice, design of buildings, roads, and other facilities, specification writing, laboratory techni cians and the availability of a comprehensive engi neering laboratory. While it might be said that the State Highway Department could do the same things for a special park commission, the history of such relations points to the fact that every commission wants to control its operations in full and sooner or later they will dupli cate many of these facilities and services. Many of the present state parks are, in reality, highway waysides and should be so classed, because they are intimately a part of the highway system simply a widened right of park commission take them tion is bound to arise. The highway commission maintains a far-flung crew of workers' with the skills' and machinery re quired to maintain the roadways. These men are able to give a certain amount of time and attention to park maintenance with much less expense than would be the case should a new commission set up an en tirely different crew. TT is proposed to finance the parks entirely with' road user funds. The proponents of a separate com mission favor the spending of around three times the amount now being laid out. Since the road user, funds are insufficient to care for current deprecia tion of highway facilities with current revenues, thereby causing an increase" each year in critical high way deficiencies, the diversion of more funds to park purposes would have an extremely adverse effect upon the state's economy. The highway commission has tentatively ap proved a five-year development and budgetary pro gram for the state parks.' - The plan calte for, among other things, acquisition of some 720 additional acres to take care of increasing use. The present operation and the planning for the future of Oregon's park system appear to be well in hand under the State' Highway commission. We can not see now more, efficiency or economy would be obtained through a change of administration at this time. E.C.F. ' -..-" Mexican Labor As a result of recommendations developed at the Mexican farm labor meeting held recently in Dal las, Texas, the American Farm Bureau Federation's board of directors has voted to support changes and additions to the Mexican farm labor program which are expected to benefit both employer and employee. The AFBF directors have announced tnat they favor the principle that individual employers should not be responsible for determining the citizenship or legal entry of workers. And the board also feels that present penalties for transporting aliens not properly admitted to the United States are adequate. In the . matter of wages the board favors the re quirement -that Mexican workers receive the same pay as domestic workers at the same time, for the same work; under the same conditions and in the same area. ... ' " - "NE recommendation of special interest in this area would help farmers when hail or other disaster ends the need for the number of workers contracted. In such cases the board believes, the law should re-i quire only that the unneeded workers be returned to Mexico or to other eligible employers. E.C.F. Wednesday, February 9, 19 55 counter. state's 156 separate parks been reported at approxi way. Should a separate over, conflict of jurisdic - ... Recommendations i I- Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den 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. The Electronic Oracle To the Editor: Editor Ruhl's query (Feb. 6) "What Is Cooking. Anyway?" aptly -illustrates the bewilderment of most of us when we contemplate Washing ton, D. C. We can all agree it has been too long a mess, where hu man brains are at a premium or totally absent, while common sense gave place to hysteria and government-by - confusion away back when. Robert Jungk, in his "Tomor- row Is Already Here," has a de lightful tale about what he calls "The Electronic Oracle:" the Washington official calculator or electronic "brain" which Was used to make the final decision to fire General McArthur. Amus ing? Very. And instructive, but not surprising, me electronic oracle is no doubt an -improve ment, as a substitute for human brains, over other and more fa miliar devices; so perhaps it should not be condemned off hand? Formerly it was the custom (so we are informed) among our Washington bigshots - to consult seeresses, fortune-tellers, swamis, omja boards, crystal balls, and suchlike, for their answers. In fact, Baghdad-on -the-Potomac was always a goldmine for priests and priestesses of the occult. Which may explain many of the confusing policies so long extant The electronic calculator was designed as a time-saver in large business and public offices, and to compute problems in higher mathematics: a legitimate use You throw in certain equations and formulas here, the electrodes go round-and-round and come out here with the answer. And there you are. At least you hope so, Because the machine cannot ac tually think as many naive peo ple believe and the answers must depend entirely on the stuff fed into its maw. If the formulas you feed the machine be erroneous, the answers must be just as wrong. When it comes to computing human factors, the machine is of course worthless. No matter what array of statistics or dope-by- guess-or-by-occultism you may feed the monster, the answers can be no better than your premises, and interpretations of tne answers away off base. One may well ask: what's cookin'? Government by oracle is, not new in the world it dates from ancient times. So lone as we un derstand this, we need not fret too much about public para doxes? It ain't good for the ulcers. J. E. F., Ashland, (name on file). Room Needed To the Editor: The Medford Prop Nuts, a model, airplane ciub, is in desperate need of a room to hold their bi-monthlv business meetings. Ages of our present 10 members range from 9 to 39. We were wondering if some business or service organ ization had a room that we could use. -, . Model airplane building, and nying is a. useful hobby in that it not only keeps the boys off the streets and out of trouble, but is educational. Many aeronautical engineers and pilots start, their careers by build in e - mod els. I met an 18-year-old model flyer in Dallas, Texas, in 1951 whose salary from Chance Vaught Aircraft was. $400 per month. His work was building small scale models for wind tunnel tests. . The taxpayers of Jackson county have shown their willing ness to take care of delinquent children , by voting money to build a Juvenile Detention Home. Now if someone in Med ford is interested in helping to prevent juvenile delinquency, we are sure they will open a room for the Medford: Prop Nuts, a responsible group. Please phone Bob Ottoman, 2-7962. Bob Ottoman, Route 2, Box. 358, Medford, Ore. .. ' - ' Footlighters Play Praised To the Editor: While the Foot- lighters are taking Mr. Allen's criticism of the play he didn't see, except for the first act, very nicely, I would like to add my comments about the play which I did see. The play seems to have been written for England in 1933 but the situation might very easily come up here in these . United States today and points up what very unhappy situations can oc cur and presents a situation which demands thought. . Of course we much prefer plays that do not demand thought but amuse. So perhaps the question should ' be . whether we ought fever be asked to do any think ing when we go to the theater. As to the acting of the play it was beautifully done. Each one of the actors stepped out of themselves and became the part he was playing. -This is somethmg that I never saw very well known actors do, such as George Arliss or Maude Adams. They should be ; very heartily congratulated. Florence Dean, 265 Janney Lane, Medford, Ore. ; ':' , Bulganin Respected By NATO Leaders for M i I itary K n Ait fir' Tint- Til fnllnurin znaM.l dispatch is a substitute for Charles M. McCann's foreitn news commentary. By WILBUR G. LANDREY United Press Correspondent Paris U.R) Western military leaders the men who head the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zationhave considerable re spect for the military know how of Russia's new head man, Premier Nikolai Bulganin. They know him as the man who was architect of the Soviet Union's highly trained armed force of jnore than 6,000,000 men streamlined and strength ened since the end of World War II. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, su preme Allied commander in Eu rope, had no comment on Bul ganin's appointment. But other officers acknowledged that he was following developments in Moscow "with the greatest pos sible interest." He's No Soldier . While Bulganin is not himself a professional soldier, he was charged by the late Josef Stalin in 1947 with the post-war build up of Soviet forces. Bulganin became minister of armed forces. Today . Western intelligence sources in Paris credited Bul ganin with doing a good job in that post. In his recent book, "NATO The First Five Years, 1949 1954," Secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS In the critical area of the East China Sea, whose southern bas tion is the island , of Formosa, a powerful American fleet is evacuating 30,000 Chinese Na tionalist soldiers and civilians from the Tachen islands. On the nearby Asian main land, a powerful Communist Chinese army is looking on. This army is reputed to have a fairly considerable air force. These islands are only a few minutes by plane from the Com munist airfields. .Suppose some trigger-happy Communist general should or der an attack on our fleet. The result COULD be World War III. IT'S improbable that such an attack will h ordered. After all, we're EVACUAT ING the Nationalist Chinese from these Tachen islands. When they are evacuated, the Chinese Communists will take them over. But it must irk them to see us getting away with the evacua tion and thus saving 30,000 Na tionalist Chinese from ex tinction. And experience tells us there are trigger-happy Communists,. CHIANG KAI-SHEK isn't be ing any too helpful. In a written statement issued at his Formosa headquarters, he says .the decision to evacuate was a painful one but the latest military developments have made the Tachens lose their military value. He expresses gratitude for the aid given to the evacuation plan by . the United States. But He says in his statement that the evacuation of the Tachens is the positive preparation for the counterattack 'against the Red mainland and he adds that the most important task of the Chin ese Nationalist government and its military forces is to counter attack the Communists and re cover the Chinese mainland. HE'S saving his face, of course. He must know that as of now the comparative handful of For mosa. Chinese can no more sally forth and reconquer the Chinese mainland than they "can ; fly to the moon on the tail of a kite. The ' reconquest of the. Chinese mainland could be accomplish ed now only with the full miU- You've never tasted such won derful ice cream. Think of it!... a smooth delicious vanilla ice cream of bulk-quality richness, generously filled with luscious, tree-ripened cherries . and creamy marshmallow. By all means, try it today! At your ortt Ardtn Oaatr ARDIN FARMS CO IVANILIA Sj CREAM 6 ' X I ow-How tion Lord Ismay- placed Soviet strength, including East Ger many and the East European satellites,, at "over 6,000,000 men." Ismay said: "The USSR has a ready-made spearhead for a rapid advance into Western Germany. This is composed of 22 Soviet divisions in East Germany. The bulk of these are armoured divisions with nearly a complete comple ment of tanks and self-propelled guns. Behind this spearhead there are an additional 60 So viet divisions located in the Eastern European satellites and along the USSR border. These are the forces built up by Bulganin. Allies Outnumbered In Western Europe Gruenther, according to a NATO . spokes man, has "90 to 100 divisions in varying degrees of readiness." The spokesman explained that that number includes re serve divisions and divisions earmarked for, early mobiliza tion. Western military observers here expect a renewed empha sis on the military to be accom panied by a return to emphasis on heavy industry and parma ments production, under Bul ganin's premiership. Now, it is believed here, the Soviet and satellite forces will be seen better supplied and the Russian stockpiles of arms will grow bigger. News tary backing of the United States and all its allies. , We must keep in mind that there is nothing Chiang would like more than to precipitate just such a conflict because it is his only chance to get back into power. His statement is as pro vocative as he dares to make it. THE situation is pretty well summed up in a statement by Australia's foreign minister Richard Casey. He says in- Can berra, Australia's capital: "I believe war in China can be averted as long as each side clearly understands the other's intentions. I have full faith in President Eisenhower's , han dling of the dispute, and I'm sure the American chief execu tive can be relied on to do all that is possible to avert hostili ties." v That just about sizes it up. We must sit tight and hope that no body rocks the boat. EDITORIAL COMMENT Federal Tax Evasion ' Letting off a self - admitted federal income tax dodger with a year's probation is an inexcus able, miscarriage of justice. Yet that is what a federal judge did at Portland Friday in the case of U. S. Balentine, . a prominent Klamath Falls attor ney who confessed that he did not file federal income tax re turns in 1950, 1951 and 1952. What is even more surprising is the "reason" given by U. S Judge Chase Clark of Idaho in putting Balentine on probation for one year. "I:, haven't the heart to take him away from you," the judge was quoted as telling the family. -. . . News accounts of the court action do not: declare whether Balentine was fined or the judge recommended , that . the attorney be disbarred from practice. .- In other words, Judge Clark let off with a "sentence" of little consequence a man who con fessed that he had violated a law. that applies to most every one in a most direct and per sonal manner. A fair question to ask in con nection, with the Balentine case is whether a self-confessed tax evader who wasn't an attorney would' have been given a mere one year's probation? Even more serious is the atti- WrUeLi' , v'-J m- ,71 Is That So? With Valentine's .Day just around the corner, let's talk about the heart. -.- It weighs a little over 11 ounces and beats on the aver age of about 72 times a minute, pumping each day from 9 to 10 tons of blood through abrut 12,- 000 miles of .vein and artery bloodways. The circulation time required for the six quarts of blood to leave the heart and circulate through the body and return is about 60 seconds. In one year, the heart pumps from 777,000 to more than 1,- 600,000 gallons enough to fill 97 to 200 tank cars of 8,000 gal lons each. From unborn babe to ' late adult, the heart beat changes drastically; the fetal heart trips along around 145 a minute;, at seven years about 90; at adult hood from 70 to 80, give or take some 20 beats per minute.. In wild animals, the heart beat varies tremendously. With in a species, a small individual has a faster heartbeat than a large one; also, as with humans, it beats faster in the young. A mouse, at rest, has a heart beat of around 700 a minute 10 times as fast as man's; a jack rabbit is around 205 (but a do- tude than can be fostered in the public mind when income tax evasion is treated as an indiscre tion not calling for substantial punishment. The honest citizen is tempted to follow in the foot steps of the income tax dodger. Although the Balentine case involves a federal offense, the Oregon Supreme court has dis ciplinary powers over attorneys who practice in this state. It will be interesting to see what the Oregon Supreme court does to uphold the good name of the legal profession. The Dalles Chronicle Adnennes Dteses OUT THEY MUST GO! ... To make room for our New. Spring Merchandise! All prices. All Sizes, All Materials You can't miss this opportunity! Wear them now and right through Spring. ' - v - $00 Values to $12.98 Group Cottons, ' Rayons, and Corduroys. - Value lo $25X3 Crepes, Jerseys and Ginghams o00 Values to $35X3 .Wools, Silk Prints, Taffettas and Failles. , BALANCE OR BETTER $t DRESSES I Values to $49.98 SEE CENTER BLOUSES GOWNS HALF SLJPS PAJAMAS BED JACKETS 214 East Main f98 A 1 By Eugene Burnt - Ranger-Naturalist mesticated rabbit's only 64); a cat's around 129 a minute; a dog's, 85-126 a horse or cow, from 35 to 45; an elephant's has a slow and easy beat of 25 or so, - j while a smaii one-ion wnale thumps along at a leisurely 15 times a minute. Frog's Beat Slow , Cold blooded animals have a slow heartbeat. A frog's, for in stance, ker-thumps . along at about 20 a minute. Birds, like animals, have four chambered hearts and those of small birds beat excessively high, especially when the bird is excited or exercises vigorous 1. Normally, the song sparrow's beats at 350, the chicadee's at 480, the canary's at 514. Under excitement, all of these birds' beats go up well over 1,000 a minute! ; Released by McClure Newsp. per Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends, me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be .considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your notmn fnv TS TTTAT SOI 4UCSUVlli3 ww. c'o Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Financial Independence does not just happen. It is built over a period of time, bit by bit. Your savings or Investment ac count is the place for your fund of the future. - FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Te 'Those Who Save TABLE FOR $198 Rod Buys! nennes v - Phone 2-7169
