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rOUTt MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordITribunb "Everybody iu Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor 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, 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 mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only On 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 5e per copy ' All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INO, Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. -Atjanta. Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassochtiIon Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1945 (It was Sunday) Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini, president of Jackson County Lincoln club, to preside at annual Lincoln day banquet at Holland hotel; speaker to be David B. Simp son of Portland.;' From Arthur Perrv's ; Ye Smudge Pot column: Crows are more plentiful than last year in the rural regions, biologists re port. Defeated. - candidates did not eat as many of them as us ual. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1935 (It was Monday) Ralph Cowgill, County Lin coln club president, to preside , at annual Lincoln day banquet at Lithia hotel in Ashland; speaker to be J. W. Mclnturff, Marshfield. . Fred Colvig, Medford student at University of Oregon school of journalism, , has one of top scores in American Council pf Education test given by Dean Eric W. Allen. SO YEARS AGO . Feb. 11, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Lincoln club president C. E. Gates to preside at annual Lin coln day banquet at Medford hotel with Arthur I. Moulton, Portland, as featured speaker; three Civil war veterans slated -to attend. Medford grocery firm of War ner, Wortman and Gore sold to Klamath Falls man after con ducting business for 30 years in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 11, 1915 v (It . was Thursday) ' " Col. H. H. Sargent, head of local Bull Moosers, and George P Putnam, secretary of Gover nor Withycombe, among speak ers slated for annual Lincoln day banquet at Medford hotel. From the Local and Personal column: A new pianola for the Company Seven club srooms is on the way from the east, and rolls for the last popular music is being secured. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Chairman of - our Joint Chiefs of Staff is Admiral Rad ford," Gen. Ridgway, Admiral Carney, Gen. Twining, Gen. Gruenther or Gen. Collins? 2. Legalization of bingo in N. Y. state is urged by the Re publicans but not by the Demo crats there, by the Democrats but not by the Republicans, by both or by neither? 3. Has there ever been an English-born Pope? '4. Which one of these gets the highest . salary, or do they all get the same: Viee-President Nixon, Defense Secretary Wil son, Chief Justice Warren? 5. Recent immigrants can't get naturalized as U. S. citizens unless they can read and write simple English; right or wrong? 6. Curling, game played on ice,is especially popular in Ire land, Scotland, Wales. Norway or Switzerland? 7. De Benneville Bell is N. Y. Stock Exchange president, head of the Bell telephone system, National Football League com missioner, or publisher of Social Registers? The Answers: 1. Admiral Rad ford. 2. By both. 3. Yes. Adrian IV in the 12th century. 4. The Vice-President. 5. Right. 6. Scot land. 7. National Football Commissioner. Ply Makers to Boom Sales The hip- sales uromotion campaign hems under taken by the Western fir of more than passing interest locally in view ol re ppntlv announced nlans for installation of two more plywood plants here. The sociation representing uregon, wasnmgton and Cal ifornia's 97 fir plywood mills, which produce 75 per cent of the nation's panels, expects to spend at least $2,500,000 in expanding fir plywood markets this year. The campaign will add impetus to an industry which has seen its product zoom to leadership among building materials in the comparatively short time since the war. Per capita consumption of plywood has been boosted from under ten square feet to more than 23 square feet, far outstripping rising population trends. HEART of the promotion will be the offering of ideas for building or remodeling with plywood, with designs prepared by five of the nation's top flight architects. The industry will preview them with all the drama of a new picture "opening" in mid June. The presentation will take place in Portland where the first fir plywood was'produced for exhibit at that city's world fair in 1905 It will be the big gest meeting of plywood business people ever held. Other promotional angles include a test program designed to evaluate' the effectiveness of plywood sales helps at six representative lumber yards strate gically .located across the country. Dealers will be given more promotion support from representatives of the plywood industry than ever before and the force has been more than doubled with a present to tal of 27 field promotion representatives stationed in every major market area in the country. r i THE plywood industry is hopeful that the sales ef- A forts will push sales this year well past the four billion foot mark, an increase of about 10 per cent. Despite a 12-week strike in mid-summer, affect ing 50 per cent of industry production, 1954 sales of fir plywood reached 3,800,000,000 feet, which was four per cent better than 1953, the previous record high. 1 : . - ; ' ;y'.':--r:." At present the plywood makers are well situated in the matter of orders their books showing calls for 536,000,000 feet. With the exception of several temp orary peaks just prior to Christmas, this is the larg est order file on" record. E.C.F.V r . All In Scout Movement Rate Bow 1 It may be doubted that, back in 1908, Sir Robert Baden-Powell had much hope that the Boy Scout mpvement which-he was then founding would ever attain the world-wide growth and importance since witnessed. , This week the Boy Scouts of , America are cele brating the 45th anniversary of the movement in this country. The American was formed in 1910 with Scout commissioner and 22,000,000 boys and adult Scouting. Today 3,660,000 are actively ; enrolled in the various categories, Scouts, Cubs, Explorers and adult leaders. "117HILE the youngsters are taking a bow, this week Y is also a good time for a word of appreciation for those dedicated adults who "since Baden-Powell and Beard have given time and effort to keeping the Scout movement alive and Consider the Scout leaders who invite pneumonia and nervous prostration by accompanying a troop of active bovs on weekend campinsr trips : the den mothers who bake cookies, fice the home furniture to mittee members who take ules to give the endeavor It Can be said, of course, that adults enjoy these contributions to the Scout movement. But their great est pleasure is often more in retrospect than m prac tice. It is4he pleasure of work well done: of a prod uct achieved as a result of training. , These adults rate praise the vision which enables them, to see in their youthful charges material which can give our nation strength. E.C.F. The Coed and the Prince t Unless sne has a rich and indulgent papa, or money of her own to fling around as she pleases, we can't figure out how Jo Ann Stork, the Univer sity of Illinois coed managed that flight to Europe for a tete-a-tete with Prince Rainer III of Monaco. Jo Ann, according to the press associations which duly chronicled her trip with word and picture, didn't know the prince, had never even seen him, in fact It seems she had read a magazine article which said his royal highness enjoyed - discussing youth problems with young people. So, she being a young person, Jo Ann just up and took off for glamorous Monte Carlo where the prince holds forth. THE royal household took a dim view of the pil- primage when the young lady first arrived on the scene, and Jb Ann herself told waiting reporters she was afraid some might think she was husband hunting. - : . r. ; v'-: 'A -'. r . v : - - 0: But a palace seance was later arranged and, pre sumably, she and the prince had a real nice chat. We hope she found it worth the couple of grand it must have cost someone. E.C.F. ' -: - - - 3 Friday, February 11, 1955 plywood manufacturers is Douglas Fir Plywood as branch of the organization Dan Beard as first national since that time more than leaders have taken part in active. plan activities and sacri the pack; and the com time from crowded sched cohesion and purpose. mental, moral and physical ' r? for their labors, and for Restless Fascists in Italy Seeking Strong Man for Leader Role Pg 4 RESTLESS 2col hed .. Editor's note: The following spec ial dispatch is a substitute for Charles m. Mccann's foreign news commen tary. By ALDO FORTE United Press Correspondent Rome j(U.R) Italy's restless, latter-day Fascists are casting about for a strong man. What they want, specifically, is some one with the color and showy personality of a new Mussolini. Ever since the death of Mar shal Rodolfo Graziani, the last hero of the sword-rattling Mus solini era, the MSI the Neo Fascist Italian Party has been in serious need of a new and dramatic figurehead. The specifications are fairly clear. The man for the job must be able to rally the restless die hards of pre-war Fascism, the boisterous youths and the nu merous disgruntled Italians who have no stomach for the present predominantly Catholic democ racy which has been running the country since the end of World War II. r The party itself is a going concern. In the most recent elec tions it elected 29 deputies and nine senators. Spark Missing Trouble is, they're by and large a colorless lot. None has the spark necessary to ignite real enthusiasm. The only man within their ranks who had what it takes was Graziani, and he was so thoughtless of the party as to die last January. The men that remain are not in The Day's By FRANK JENKINS At his news conference this week, President Eisenhower says the shake-up in Russian leadership doesn't necessarily mean , that the Kremlin has em barked on a calculated tougher policy toward the United States. He said the developments in Russia reflect internal dissat isfaction. ASKED by a reporter about "the shooting down of an American plane by Communist anti-aircraft fire. Ike replied that the plane, as he put it, "got a little lost and wandered into a bad area." , REMEMBER Teddy Roosevelt's advice to "speak' softly and carry a big stick?" f ' ; Ike's following it. In his answers to the report ers at his press conference, he was speaking softly. The huge American 7th fleet, deployed in the Formosa straits, is the big stick. . TN Washington, two senators speak up to dispute the Rus sian claims of atomic suprem acy. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington and Senator Roarke Hickenlooper of Iowa both said they believe the U.S. is well out in front in the field of atomic weapons. TN this connection, I'd like to -quote a "bit of valuable advice given to me in my younger and more hair-trigger days by a wise and blunt-spoken old gentle man: "Keep your shirt on, kid. NEVER ENGAGE IN A POLLU TION CONTEST WITH A SKUNK." I commend his.counsel to Sen ators Jackson and Hickenlooper. WHEN Malenkov (he's sup . . posed . to pronounce it Mal-yen-koff) resigned as Soviet pre mier, he said he would be given another job. As it turns out, he has been assigned two jobs deputy premier and minister of power stations. T WOULDN'T be' surprised if the undertaker (if they have such things in Russia) gets an other job soon. People who lose out in a Kremlin ruckus : never seem to live long. OREGON'S Senator Neuberg er, who is a member of the TEETH WENT. TOO New Bedford, Mass. U.R) Louis Xifras of New Bedford discovered too late he had tossed the wrong half of an orange he was eating out a bus window.' Xifras' lower plate had stuck in the discarded half. ' , v 2 31 i t PORK .1 . LIVER I ilk m all newcomers. Many were forced into political retirement after the war and returned only in 1952 when the so-called "Nazi Law' which banned Fas cists from government posts, ex pired. That brought a number of them scurrying home from "diplomatic" vacations abroad and others emerged from the underground. Included in their number were such men as Filippo An fuso, Italy's last Fascist ambas sador to Berlin, Lando Ferretti, a general of the Fascist Militia and a member of Mussolini's Grand Council, and Araldo Crollalanza, Mussolini's minis ter of public works. Big. 'Names' Gone But all lack popularity in Italy and their names had al most been forgotten even by the old-time Fascists. They meant nothing to the .younger hot heads. Many of Fascism's best known and most feared names vanish ed in prisons, before firing squads or came to similar ends soon after the war ended. But the name Mussolini still is; around Vittorio Mussolini the 38-year-old son of the late dictator. But he never was popular and now is a successful import-export manager in Bue nos Aires. The plain fact of the matter would seem to be that Fascism has neither the leaders nor the program to attract any large or enthusiastic following in Italy today. And there are few who grieve over the fact. Mews senate sub-committee on roads, announces in Washington that he opposes the toll road finan cing features of President Eisen hower's $101,000,000,000 high way program. He says the toll road provi sions of the bill discriminate against large, thinly populated states such as Oregon. He adds that Oregon might be tempted to take the economic risk in volved in building a toll road in order to be able to qualify for a federal highway grant to be used elsewhere in the state. WELL: Well: On this point, at least,' I find myself in com plete agreement with Senator Neuberger. 1 In - this world, you never can tell what will happen. Oil Fluoridation To the Editor: We would, ap preciate very much having the attached article, taken from a Los Angeles paper inserted in the Mail Tribune, as we feel it would be of interest to the peo ple of Medford: Fluoridation Ruled Illegal The City Council of Shreve port, La., adopted a resolution authorizing fluoridation of the public water supply. There upon a group of citizens pe titioned the Court to issue a preliminary writ of injunc tion. The plaintiffs contended that the City Council had no authority to fluoridate the public water supply. The Court' upheld this assertion, c-bserving "that there was no specific statute or constitu tional provision conferring upon the City the authority to fluoridate the water sup- ply. Further, the Court con cluded that the matter of per sonal . dental health and hy giene was for each to decide . for themselves and the pow ers of the government did not extend to such jurisdiction. Judge James Galloway ruled that fluoridation of public wa ter supplies is illegal. It is encouraging to know that San Diego, Calif., after using Fluorine in its water -for three years voted it out. "Facts . you should know about Fluoridation" may be obtained by sending ten cents to: Citizens Against Mass . Flu oridation, 4103 Park Blvd., San Diego 3, Calif., U.S.A. C. J. Haas, . 802 W. 11 Street, Medford, Ore. Frank Howell, 205 Laurel Street, Medford, Ore. - EAST SIXTH ST VEAL ROAST communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Who Has The Answer? To the Editor: The admission of General Douglas MacArthur that peace will not come by war is certainly a change of heart. If we remember correctly it has not been long since he was saying that there was no sub stitute for victory, and victory beyond the Yalu., It took him quite a spell to make up his mind. ' Thirty years ago another Gen eral fessed up. General Billy Mitchell said: "There is no safety in arms. Peace is not possible as long as our enemies can duplicate our weapons. When the atomic bomb be came a reality, then Franklin D. Roosevelt saw the hand writ ing on the wall and threw in the towel. He said: "There is no safety in arms. If we depend upon arms for our safety, every flower of culture will be trampled under -foot." Forty-two years ago, while Mr. Eisenhower was still a ca det at West Point, and while big Bill Knowland and , Admiral Radford were playing ball on the back lot, World War I Pres ident Woodrow Wilson said: "All wars -are for commercial reasons. They are fomented and carried on by a few big indust rialists and a handful of dom inant men. There . will never be peace as long as the power to make war is centered in the hands of so few.'" A noted author and a former member of the British parlia ment Frances Neilsen had his say: "Wars are a result of sec ret diplomacy. The fate of the world is decided behind closed doors, in a room filled with smoke from big black cigars." The sincerity and intelligence of all these men cannot be ques tioned. They point to the hor rors of war but no solution is offered. Who has the answer? Earl Allen, Rt. 1, Medford, Medford, Ore. Again, Fluoridation To the Editor: Again the in sidious fluoridation tries o slip in under the cloak of respecta bility. Within a series of articles by the Mail Tribune publicizing Na tional Children's Dental Health Week, competently outlining the serious dental problem, there is sidious fluoridation tries to slip day, of a phony-sounding sci entists find" type of generalize tion, again leading one to sus pect this article has been planted amidst this series with tones of a much graver implication. "Scientists have repeatedly underscored the fact that not a single objection to the pro gram has withstood the test pf scientific investigation" the report sizes all "up nicely for us. A now well-known saying to the effect that a statement repeated often enough becomes believed, finds a fit here. The fact that fluoridation is not being conducted from the sugar bowl or dispensed from the soft-drink bottles is not be ing sympathized with at present About fluoridation "tests": Why the continual insistence by these proving groups that comparisons be made with nat urally-found fluorine waters (containing calcium fluoride), when it is the artificially pro duced chemical by-product (so dium fluoride) that is the more obnoxious 85 times more so; and it is : the latter compound that is being used in city water systems? An outstanding con fusion for a "scientist" to "in dulge in, for one thing. Then, even, taking the more naturally fluorine type of, water, from the Archives of PMiatrics we have this: ". . . dental condition known as 'mottled teeth' . . . For a dec ade . :. . public health research-1 ers . . . sougni . . . means to de vise ' methods' for - removal of fluorine or mitigation of its toxic effects in domestic water sup plies." Again: ". . . subjects who have been using naturally fluoridated wa ter for several decades . . . found appalling periodontal (gum) dis ease . . . indicating premature aging" of the tooth structure, making extractions very ; diffi cult . . . Many of these cases had . . . premature need for den tures." ' The average reader glimpsing through the paper and at a re port the type which we are talk ing about, will not find the tech nical facts. 'Presentations of SCEPSIS BEEP I MUTTON- STEAK. ROAST careful, patient, impartial in vestigators who have no undue influence pushing them, or as sociations to rain views in a planned campaign across the na tion, seldom are heard. Real facts are not presented for such ready-assimilation; the informed reader will have to arrange for these, this is the real education. As a qualified speaker told a group here just Monday night, to quote from the Tribune: . . . truth is not necessarily what is popular truth is not necessarily supported by the majority . . . it is not necessarily even thought of yet." J. R. W. (Name on File) The Good We Do To the Editor: My wife's fav orite comment is: The good we do will never die. Somewhere, sometime, it will be appreciated. Her prophecy was made good when an old schoo'jnate finally located me. At the supper-table he told how for more than three score years he had hoped and planned to find and thank me for protection given him and his small brother when starting school in a strange neighbor hood. That he and his brother, lived in my shadow." outside the school room. . To me, a bully or hazing-gang are awfully low-down tritters, So, the school bully dared me down to the back yard where such affairs were settled, for interfering with his "fun." We sparred and dared and called names, he having some advan tage by spitting tobacco juice at my bare-feet. This, on call of the school-bell ended in a flurry of fists, mostly coming my way. It ended, as quickly, he scurry ing home across the road.'. A cut lip, split ear, also a skin ned knuckle were my "injuries." But my opponent, showing up late, had a puffed nose and blood streaks ; on his " shirt front, also a beautiful pancake size black eye of . which, for some odd reason, he seemed to be most proud. . But my- small triumph was short, for his younger brother and a tough kid from "out west,' ganged; up on me when alone, the brother set a pup-dog snap ping at my shanks while the western kid sniik up behind and with one arm in a strangle hold, he worked my face over .with the other to which my broken and deformed nose bears mute testimony. " Later on our old home burned and me adrift in a strange school a hazing-gang was beaten .off with a .baseball bat swinging from my long skinny arms. That got me into more trouble. So my schooling ended there in the 6th grade. Sanctuary . was found in the pine woods of northern Michigan where ham-sized fisted bunk-mate pro tected me from the camp bully, And a half century later as field editor for the Timberman mag azine, in making the , logging camps of the six western states not one camp bully was found showing how the logging fra ternity has progressed in human decency, that certain other in stitutions could well copy. F. J. Clifford 1211 W. Main .Medford, Ore. RICHER IfJSTMTLV ..yet you save 3 ways! 1 WHBf YOU MY IT, you pay leas than for other top quality Instant coffee and much leas than for regular coffee. ; WHEN YOU MAKI IT, you use less because Edwards is 100 pure 2 coffee rich coffee from eboi coffee beans, "Deep Roasted? 3 WHm you fa vi it there's not a drcqs of waste. You make exactly . what you want-when you want it. Featured at SiiPSJAI? Praise For Perry ' To the Editor: This is a conv of a letter sent to the Phoenix City Council: ' We were sorry to read in the Mail Tribune of the suspension of Phoenix Police Chief Jim Perry. We live outside of the city limits, but our Children attend the Phoenix schools, and we are also there frequently for club meetings and other activities. Our boys belonged for two years to the Gun club to which Mr. Perry gave so much of his time and interest, . in order that the young folks . could learn gun safety under supervision in stead of shooting out windows and street lights. Mr. Perry also cooperated in the driver train ing program in the. high school, which all authorities agree is the answer to teen-age reckless ness. It appears to us that Jim Perry is one of the best police officers Phoenix has had in the years we . have been around town, and that he is trying to do a good job for both the young people and the adults. It is to be expected that he would make mistakes and anger some people, but wouldn'tf it be wise to think of his good quali ties as well instead of being so quick to condemn? Can Phoenix be sure of eet- ting a replacement as good on the wnole as Jim Perry for the salary the town is able' to pay? we know nothing about the true facts of the present con troversy, one hears so :many things; but - certainly it is not wise to do anything hasty with out a thorough investigation and weighing the good against the bad. None of us is perfect. . In regard to the bail receipt mentioned in the paper, if you have ever kept office records, you know how easy it is to over look something, or make a mis take.' We would not condone fraud, but one error does not made a person dishonest. If the accountants find evidence of wrongdoing that is something else again, but let's be careful about jumping to conclusions when a man's reputation and livelihood are at stake. ; From outside looking . in, it seems to us that Jim Perry was doing a good job of law enforce ment for the community of Phoenix. -'' : Mr. and Mrs. Lawson Scott Jr. ' Rtl . 3, Box 240-C, --', Medford, Oregon : ALL FOR THE CAUSE Kaiserlautern, Germany JQJ.fi) Opposite musical tastes of. GI units made the local U.S. Army March of Dimes drive $919 rich er. An engineer company con tributed $419 to the polio fund to hear an Army radio disc jock ey play,; "Shake, Rattle and Roll." An anti-aircraft battalion contributed $500- to have him stop playing the number. - - '-. NOW IS THE TIME to start building an insured savings account with us. You will find it pleasant and pro fitable to invest here. ;.- FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford ' 27 North Holly ? 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