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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORD TRIBUNE very oody hi oouttiern 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 HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Ediior HARRY CHTPMAN. 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 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 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 Couity United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU.. OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WFST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York, Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, ixre Anseies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfATllQN r? NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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. 19, 1945 (It was Sunday) Mrs. Missouri May McCredie, resident of Jackson county for 52 years, dies at family home on Old Stage rd. after prolonged illness. Survivors include four children, Clatous McCredie, Clell H. McCredie, Mrs. Vetris Enders and Mrs. Velma Lull. ; From A r t h u r-Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The sheriff who has been under the weather is out in it again. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1935 (It was Monday) A. E. Brockway, president of Jackson County Cooperative, and Frank Hull, manager, leave for meeting of cooperatives in Walla Walla. County clerk's office reports that Jackson county finished 1934 with a balance of $1,032 with all major offices remaining within their budgets. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 19, 1925 (If was Wednesday) John C. Mann elected second vice-president of Oregon; State Merchants association, which pledges ''opposition to govern ment meddling in business." Seats at a premium for Med-ford-Ashland basketball series; Jimmy Allen, Mervyn Chastain, Gilbert Knips, Williams and Reichstein to start for Medford; Ashland coach bars girls from gymnasium during practice ses sions. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 19. 1915 at was Thursday) Officials of Medford Asso ciated Charities announce they need $50 to carry on relief work during the balance of February, and to pay Dr. Hill for money out of his own pocket. From the Local and Personal column: Warren Butler, a high school student, was knocked un conscious when he ran into a door while racing out of the Nat last night after a ' basketball 'game. He "rapidly regained his wind and suffered no ill effects. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) ... Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Quemoy island in Formosa Strait is nearer to Formosa or to the China mainland, or about equidistant? 2. The average yield of com mon stocks today is somewhat higher or lower than at their 1929 price peak, or about the same? 3. In which state of the West ern Hemisphere Is-French the official language? ; 4. Wages of trade union mem bers as a whole went up more than living costs in 1954, or less, or about the same degree? 5. More: persons in the six New England states are employ ed in agriculture or in. manu facturing? ' ; 6. The total installment credit outstanding now as against this time last year is up or down, or about the same? 7. Sir Leslie Knox Munro represents Australia, Canada, Great Britain, or New Zealand in the U. N.? The Answers: 1. Near to the mainland. 2. Somewhat higher. 3. Haiti. 4. More. 5. In manufac turing. 6. Up. 7. New Zealand. MAIL TRIBUNE S.R Anniversary The Southern Pacific's observance this month of the 100th anniversary of the start of construction of its first lines in the west has special interest in this part of the company's territory. It was in February, 1855, that work started on that first small segment 23 miles between Sacramento and Folsom from which the great rail system eventually developed. It wasn't until August of 1855 that the first rails were laid and Sacramento's civic dignitaries were escorted onto flat cars for a short ride on the first railroad op erated west of the Rocky mountains. THE stretch of rail was projected to tap the rich mininff redons of the lower Sierra sloDes and link them to shipping on Sacramento's river route to San Francisco. The initial terminal objective was Marysville and it was planned to construct branches later to Coloma and Nevada City, and to San Fran cisco by way of Stockton. Financial problems and . difficulties connected with shipping rolling stock 18,000 miles around Cape Horn from eastern manufacturing centers brought construction to a halt for a time. In 1865 the California and Oregon Railroad was incorporated to build from Marysville to Portland. The project was taken over by the Central Pacific, the parent company of the S.P., in 1870 with the right to build north to the California line. TN the meantime, the Oregon Central Railroad, later - known as the Oregon and California Railroad, had been formed by another group of rail-minded citi zens at Portland and work started in building south. Progress on the latter project dragged along and it wasrft until 1884 that the steel reached Ashland. As a result of a topheavy debt load and stockholder squabbling, the Oregon and ceivership and m 1887 the Southern Pacific under lease. THE California and Oregon had continued to push 17 of 1887. Joining of the north neighboring city to the south was completed with much ceremony and celebration. Portland and inter mediate Oregon cities to the south were at last linked by rails with the Southern Pacific's California lines and the rugged journeys by stage or ocean vessel were a thing of the past E.C.F. N.P. To Try Light Train - Railroad men, from track walkers to company presidents, mostly learn the business the hard way. Besides actually laboring in the various departments and skills, they, come to. know and respect the tradi tions which surround their the principal reasons why augurate or even to accept their work in a long-practiced way or with certain machines and they are loath But red ink can be a powerful persuader and continued heavy loss of passenger patronage to the private automobile and to explain why at least some periment with new and more economical type equipment. THE Northern Pacific railway has purchased two of Philadelphia which it expects to place in service in a short time. 1 Starting March 1, weight and of stainless steel, will run between Spo kane, Wash., and Lewistgn, proximately 100 miles. The passengers, will have a baggage compartment and will be air-conditioned. The other newly purchased unit will operate between starting later in March. Because the initial cost is comparatively low, large tram crews are not re quired, and better time can be made than with the old lumbering and heavy standard equipment, it may be that the railroads will be schedules which will give real competition. THE "Northern Pacific's equipment will be watched with interest here for the Spokane-Lewiston run, particularly, may serve as an example of what could Pacific m transporting Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland, and Dunsmuir, Calif., to, the south, for connection with main line trains to San Francisco. The distance between the Rogue valley towns and Dunsmuir is about the same as that between Spokane At present there is service south from this valley, a peculiar situation for a territory which provides a vast amount of freight traffic, boasts three good sized towns and numerous smaller ones along the right Blizzards Sweep Western Europe London (U.R) Blizzards swept across Western Europe to day from Sweden to Italy and snow whipped by 70-mile an hour winds isolated, villages in Scotland for the second time this year.- : . Y : A whirlwind mixture of snow and rain kept Italian and Amer ican planes from resuming the search for the Belgian airliner with .29 persons aboard missing since Sunday night. Four of the passengers were Americans. : The British Navy alerted heli copters to stand by for-another Friday, February 18, 1955 California went into re line was taken over by the and south rail ends in the calling. Perhaps these are railroaders seem slow to in changes. They learn to do to try something new. the air and bus lines may roads are planning to ex one of the units, light in Idaho, a distance of ap car will accommodate 70 Duluth, and Staples, Minn., ' of this type of equipment able to offer rates and the air and bus lines some - experience with the light be done by the Southern passengers between say and Lewiston.1 no railroad passenger train of way. E.C.F. mercy airlift to areas of Scot land where food supplies were already low as a result of . last month's five-day assault by the elements. Winds of 70 miles an hour piled up 20-foot drifts and cut road, rail and : telephone links in hundreds of square miles of Scotland. . Atlanta ' (U.R) Alderman Ed A: Gilliam was fined $4 on the first offense of speeding. Gill iam is chairman of the City Po lice Committee British Announcement Of Bomb Development Heads News off Week B7 CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: THE GOOD 1. Great Britain, America's closest aUy, announced that it intends to start production of hydrogen bombs. It was a mo mentous development in the nu clear weapons race. The British government, in announcing the H-bomb program, said that the terrible power of this weapon would act as a deterrent to War. Before the British . announce ment was made. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson had expressed confidence that the United States was "out ahead" of Russia in the production of nuclear weapons. 2. Secretary of Slate John In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Washington, the dispatches inform us, major Capitol Hill attention is centered on a bill to hike the salaries of senators and representatives from $15, 000 a year to $25,000 a year. The bill was passed by -the house of representatives, and you can bet your bottom dollar that every senator and every representative was watching it with close attention. I would be watching it with close attention if I were a sen ator or a representative. ; So would you. We're all interested in the emoluments of our jobs. That's what we pay our bills with. rPHE big question: Should they get the raise? Or shouldn't they? T ET'S put it this way: It would be a great bargain for the taxpayers (in these days everybody is a taxpayer in one way or another) if we could get in the congress enough men WHO ARE WORTH $25,000 A YEAR TO THEIR EMPLOYERS who are the people. . rpHAT raises another question - How can we get that kind of men into the U.S. congress? This, I think, is the answer: BY BEING MORE DISCRIM INATING IN OUR VOTING AT ELECTION TIME. QJUPPOSE you were . hiring a man to mnw vour vard. In looking over his qualifications, what would interest you most His ability to get up on a slump and convince you by the power of his oratory that black is white? Or his ability to run a lawn mower? ' . PERSONALLY, I'm in favor of men who can run our nation wisely, efficiently and econom ically rather than men who can make me believe that black . is white. I don't WANT to believe .that black is white. rTHAT brings up an interesting situation much closer home. We pay- the members of our Oregon legislature $600 . a year. or $1200 per biennium (the leg islature meets every two years ) Out of this sum, they must pay their expenses in Salem while the legislature is in session. Everything considered, it's pretty small pay. It's a tribute to me quality of citizenship in Oregon that we don't get more small caliber legislators. As a matter of fact, the quality of the membership of the Oregon legis lature is VERY high. T1HE members of the U.S. con 1 gress have the power to set their own. salaries. The members of the Oregon . legislature do not. We voted heavily against such a proposal at the last elec tion. (As a matter of fact, I voted against it myself, partly as matter of principle and partly because I didn't think the mem bers of our legislature should be put in the embarrassing posi tion of saying how much money they should take out of the tax payers' pockets to PAY THEM SELVES WITH.) TJAVING said to the legislature L that we .don't think it should say how much its members are to be paid, I think we should now take steps to pay our legis lators a fair and reasonable stipend. . We shouldn't be niggardly on that point. It just doesn't pay. We need good men in our legis lature, and we should pay them at least enough to meet their living expenses during the time they. work for us. I'm pretty sure that an initia tive measure to pay our legisla tors a fair and reasonable salary for their services would be ap proved by a substantial majority of our voters. PICKLE TO MALENKOV Chicago (U.R) The National Pickle Packers "Association has voted to award a hand carved wooden pickle to former Russian Premier Georgi Malenkov. He's been named "Man In The Big- jgest Pickle." - Foster Dulles invited Commu nist-China and Soviet Russia to renounce the use of force in their international relations. Ad dressing the Foreign Policy As sociation in v New York City, Dulles expressed hope that the Chinese Reds would give up their idea of taking Formosa by force. He implied that if the Reds attacked the ' Nationalist- held island groups of Quemoy and Matsu off the China coast, the United States might regard the action as. preparation for a direct attack on Formosa, which it is pledged to defend. As re gards Russia, Dulles called the downfall of Premier Georgi M. Malenkov "an extraordinary demonstration of despotic disar ray. He said the time may come when "Russians of stature" will come to the front and make pos sible "worthwhile negotiations and practical agreements" with the United States. 3. Communism in Latin Amer ica received a blow when the People's Progressive Party of British Guiana demoted B. Ched di Jagan and his Chicago-born wife Janet, its extreme leftist leaders. Forbes Burnham. an anti-Communist, was made party leader. Citizens groups are now circulating petitions asking, the deportation of Mrs. Jagan. THE BAD 1. France seemed doomed to go through a further period of political instability. Socialist leader Christian Pineau organ ized a cabinet to , succeed that of Pierre Mendes-France, which fell on Feb. 5. But there was no indication that Pineau could stay in office long, or that he could exert any authority as pre mier. 2. Spain, which has granted the United States defense bases on its territory, complained that it was not getting sufficient American aid. As one of the strongest anti-Communist coun tries in the world, Spain feels that it ought to be given a big ger share of United States aid. There have been hints that Span ish cooperation with the Ameri can defense program may be endangered unless the aid allott- ment is increased. 3. Prime Minister Gamal Ab- del Nasser of Egypt and Prime Mmister Jawaharlal Nehru of India issued a joint statement saying that military alliances do not increase a country s security, Nasser, who is trying to block the Turkish-Iraqi defense agree ment, seemed emerging " like Nehru as a "neutralist" who op poses Western defense argree ments against Red aggression. Is That So? My biology class wants to Know u a chameleon can ac tually turn colors to match a per son's clothes?" writes J.B.S. "How do parent birds keep nests so clean?" asks Mrs. T. R. F. "Our hot stove league wants to know: Can foxes climb trees?" asksB. S. A. That well-entrenched myth about the chameleon' changing its complexion . to match a per son's attire, sad to say, just ain't so. Like a good many other kinds of lizards, however the chame leon can undergo several very quick changes but the colors don't necessarily harmonize with the background. Even on a fresh green leaf, it may change to earth-brown, on a red blossom to sky-green. As for control over- its color changes the chameleon has just about at much control as a hu man has over his blanching or blushing. Essentially, it is due to heat and cold, sunlight and darkness, and, more important to excitement. Carry Droppings Away Nest sanitation: Perhaps so as not disclose the location of its nest to any enemy, or for sani tary purposes, most parent birds carry away their young one ; droppings as scrupulously as they carry away fragments of eggshells. Next time, if you'll watch a nest closely Mrs. T: R, F., you'U see that at almost every parental feeding, one of the youngsters usuauy the one that's just been fed raises it self and voids. Before the drop- nine can touch the nest, the watchful parent catches it in stantly and carries it away.. Climbing foxes: The question about foxes climbing has been making the - hot stove circuit ever since Towser was a pup. Depends on your fox, B.S.A. Now, red foxes seldom if ever climb trees. (I hesitate to use such a positive word as never.) Gray ones do in fact, they will! Babson . An Amazing Story By ROGER W. BABSON . 1 Babson Park, Fla. (Special to Mail Tribune I am back here again for the winter and wish to tell oi a tragedy occur ring during my absence, al though you may have read of it in your local news paper. This story involved: (1) A Boger W. Babson w e 1 1 - known and able law yer living for many years in pur community: (2) Two very re spectable and intelligent well- to-do friends of mine: (3) Two wills prepared by the said law yer; and (4) A "trigger man" al legedly employed to murder one of my above two friends. Now for the tragedy. The law yer had apparently drawn up wills for these . two friends. When he submitted them to the makers, they suggested certain corrections, asking the lawyer to have the wills retyped, and they would come in again short ly thereafter for signing. Fatal mistakes were apparently made by these intelligent people for not again reading the wills be fore the final signing and wit nessing, and for nqt initialing each page. Nor did they take the signed wills with them to a place of deposit, so that they might be reread once each. year. This would have entailed some bother, but this would have been nothing compared to the trou ble which followed. Importance of Executors In Wills Brought Out The lawyer, or someone, al legedly slipped into the wills clause leaving, him a large 'sum of money. This could have been done during the retyping before the parties finally signed; . or, being typewritten wills, a page could have been rewritten and slipped in after the signing. If, however, each will had been read again, finally signed, and taken home, the. tragedy would not have taken place. The lawyer also made himself the executor of. the two wills, This would give him advantage in coUecting the money alleged- ly willed him and for controlling the balance of the money. Yet, to make an attorney executor is a common practice where banks with trust departments .are not easily available. . , Murderer Now Needed ; To Obtain Money As the wills had allegedly been "fixed" to leave the attor ney large sums of money and he was to be fexecutor, he needed only to wait until one of my two friends should die to get his By Eugene Burn Ranger-Naturalist 'climb low. trees almost as read ily as a cat. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week, new questions will be- considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, " Sausalito, Calif. - Ashland JP Court in Remodeled Quarters Ashland Remodeling of of- fices for the Ashland justice of peace headquarters were com pleted this week. Mrs. Nelle W. Burns, the present justice, has moved to the new location at 341 East Main st. The three room suite includes a court room, a room for records , and the front office for general business. Raised platforms have been built in the courtroom for the jury and benches are furnished for witnesses or spectators. DIRTY TRICK South Bend, Ind. ,(U.R) James Barry, 21-year-old . Uni versity of Notre Dame student, was a little late for a court ap pearance so he thumbed a ride. He got to court in time for a $1 fine on a hitchhiking charge by Judge George Farage the man who picked him up. - . INVESTIGATE whether you are earmarking your savings to provide security for later life, extra cash income now, or are just starring to accumulate an emergency fund, it will pay you to investigate hare. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save money. Both were apparently, in good health. Hence, if the law yer were in a hurry for his money, a murderer would seem necessary. To complete the story, I now depend upon wit nesses at the trial just ended. The County Prosecutor claim ed the attorney employed a sup posedly respectable contractor to secure the "trigger man" to mur der one or both of my friends. This .contractor who has been found guilty (although he has appealed, claiming his inno cence) is alleged to have em ployed a Negro to do the killing. This Negro suddenly turned state's evidence. Owing to the above or other reasons, the attorney was found shot, near the door of his home here in Babson Park, on the morning of June 9, 1954. Whether he committed suicide, or was shot by someone who feared exposure, I do not know. At any rate this death elimi nated the attorney from the pic- L ture. Thereupon the able County Prosecutor concentrated upon finding the "trigger man" and any others connected with the deal. This was the status when arrived here recently before the convictions.' Important Questions " Asked of Readers" Apparently my two friends had a very close call. If one had first been killed, without in any way connecting the "attorney therewith, the attorney would have probated the will, collect ed the money, and legauy closed the case. He was supposed to be brilliant lawyer in our com munity and, of course, may have been' innocent. I leave to God the final verdict. ; I tell this story in order that my many readers may ask them selves these five very important niipst.ions - ... ... i (l) isnouia i every sign a paper without reading it before signmg? (2) Should I sign a typewrit ten document without signing or initialing each sheet so that no one sheet can be taken out and changed? j (3) Should I leave my will in possession of any single individ ual, however honest? (4) nouid I let a year pass without rereading my will? ' (5) Should I fail to encourage in every way newspapers, banks, colleges, and information centers to teach about wills and their great importance? (Geo. Marine Says: f p HIHl FULLY AUTOMATIC f - J r sf - - - i "?' ' ' . -; J ; MDIFORE YOU BUY! Hm on washday's most faaous features yours to use and enjoyl e e ONLY See Prices Start Whirlpool 220 West Main $225 mm Communications 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 publication-must not exceed 400 words. Against All The Tax Bills To the Editor: Have just looked over the nine proposals offered by the legislature to bale ance the .budget Each proposal either bears upon the power , ter produce, the power to consume; or money that would be used as capital for the production of wealth. . These proposals remind us of the braintrust of the New Deal days. Not a single proposal would pass the close-up of even second rate economist. They all attack the basic fundamen tals of our economy, and would only temporarily shift the seen? ery around the same old hag gard face. No doubt they all look good on paper to the man of the street, but. they all wage war against the forces of natural law and this cannot be done and escape injury. . , . We . have been trying it for quite a spell now, but we simply cannot tax wealth af er it is pro? duced, nor, can we tax money that is to be used as capital to aid labor and machine in pro ducing more wealth for con- sumption. Last but not least we cannot tax wealth after it is pro hands of the consumer which represents that so much wealth, has been created, and is to be used for, or as a medium to ac quire that wealth. : This country did not become great through the power to pro duce wealth, but its greatness U due. the -power to consume! wealth after . t has been pro duced. If Oregon's ' legislature knew the ' difference betweerj money, capital, and ; wealth, virgin field of potential taxatiorX would be opened up. ; . Let s - face facts. If Oregon. cannot balance its budget in 1955, how will it be -done in 1965. Our present outlook on) taxation will " drive r industry from Oregon, it will extermin ate the middle" class, and we will still be wandering in thd wilderness. " ' ' - , Earl Allen V 176 So. Stage Rd v ; , Medford, Ore. v Rio. ,Grande national forest in Colorado has the highest average elevation of any national for est in the u.s. Soap-and-water saving SucU M!sr. ' - Extra-thorough Seven Rinses, e Total-cleansing Agrflow Action Ckthe-freshening Swn-ccTlzer Step-saving Cycle-Tone Signet. Finger-touch Door Release, Big 9-Pownd Capacity. 5Tear Warranty on Transmission. - o WrsWpoo oVmofuff of foe cbovt FREE HOKE TttlALl at $199.95 Headquarters Phone 2-4922 si i t V i ii I !
