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rOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDwJTRIBUNB "Everybody in Southern Oregon Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor ncaoa ine man iriDune HERB GREY, Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Ediior HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sport 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 niarcn 109 1 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. Photnix. 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 asn in Aavance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or jactcson tom-ty Un ited Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIHCULAXIOJN WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAt ASSOC'l-ATllQN j NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight 0' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20,. 30 and 40 years ago. , 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 24, 1945 o v (It was Saturday) Jerry Ross, leading scorer in Southern : Oregon conference, leads Medford High basketball team to championship, in Dist rict 4 tournament by scoring 17 points in 46 to 33 victory over Ashland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Yesterday was a fine early spring day, even for hereabouts, and caused pangs to autoists with gas tanks dry enough to grow a cactus. 20 YEARS AGO ' Feb. 24, 1935 (It was Sunday) C. E. (Pop). Gates, past presi dent of local Boy Scout council, to be honored guests" at" Medford district father and son banquet; the Rev. E. S. Bartlam 'to be "principal speaker. Telephone company linemen find huge black widow spider; insect to be turned over to Prof. K M. Hussong of Medford, High school biology department. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 24, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Two Medford men fined $75 each for possession of a pint of moonshine whiskey. : . Three men, suspected of be ing DeAutremont brothers want ed for the Siskiyou tunnel mur ders and train robbery, are cleared by police in Mexico and are released. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 24, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Entire state mourns passing of C. C. Beekman, pioneer Jack sonville banker. . Medford's Page theater se cures the services of Prof. J. B. Hunt of Oakland, Calif., "to per form at ' the keyboard of the giant Wurlitzer." ; What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. When and where a politi cal party holds its national con vention' is decided' by its mem bers in" Congress, national com mittee, or state governors? - " 2. The number of tenant farm ers over the last 20 years de creased, : increased, . or; stayed the same relative to whole popu lation? . ; ! f - 3: Most- money in circulation is in Federal Reserve notes; right or wrong? - 4. Coffee., drunk in the U.S. comes to about one, two, three or four cups a day per adult? " 5. More cotton is grown in a normal year in Arkansas, Calif ornia, Georgia, Mississippi or Texas? . " . . 6. A . man named Duryea was a pioneer in developing movie acting, anesthesia, automobiles, aeronautics, or, modern steel making? 7. The Isle of Man is in the English Channel, North " Sea, Irish Sea, St. George's Channel, or Straight of Dover? . '" The Answers: 1. Its national committee.. 2. Decreased consid erably. 3. Right. 4. About two cups a day per adult. 5. Texas. 6. Automobiles. 7. Irish Sea PROBE MATERIAL Stamford, Conn. (U.R) A' few hours after the state legislature launched an investigation of the possible effects of "comic" books on juvenile delinquency, three youths broke into a store and swiped 23 of them. MAIL TRIBUNE $25,000 Is Too Much We realize it can't be done but wish it could be, namely: that salaries in congress could be adjusted to the individuals earning capacity if he had to work for a living, outside. For then there would be more citizens of outstand ing business ability who would be willing to run for the congress and go into politics and fewer cit izens who would become candidates solely because of the benefits, financial, social and otherwise. IF THE present attempt to raise salaries in both 4 houses to $25,000 a year, succeeds, we hope it doesn't then every citizen without a good job, but a good line of talk will be out early to build up fences politically, and somehow, someway, gather in the votes. We have enough of that breed already without offering a bonus to get more. LJOW many members of the House , of Representa tives, for example, could earn $25,000 a year, if they had to compete in the world of business, instead of the world of politics. Off hand we can't think of ONE ! And we could think of a dozen who in business would be lucky to draw down a thousand dollars a month. The Senate has a much higher average of ability and earning power. Some of the Senators no doubt could in their professions or established business en terprises, make 4 or 5 times as much, but they repre sent a decided minority. And we could name half a dozen Senators one in particular who at salaries of $15,000 a year, are shockingly overpaid, for the services they render. OOWEVER as stated we realize the proposal is purely academic it can't be done. Salaries must be uniform regardless of competence. And they should be increased particularly in the Upper House. As we see it, however, $25,000 a year is too much our idea would be $20,000 as a maximum for the Senate, and around $16,000 ;..:-:;:' 17E CAN'T be sure however that our instructions T to the Oregon delegation to this effect will be carried out. . : In fact the liklihood is, wealth" in the congress, is is printed, the altitudinous passed, and nothing can add another item to the national debt. K.W.R. . ; Senator Byrd ls Right Why is the effort to lower federal income taxes for the benefit of those in the lower brackets purely political: while the effort to lower the same taxes solely for the benefit of those in the upper-brackets, a combination of high integrity and enlightened statesmanship.. . ; , .... ' We can't see it. , " '; We can-understand those who oppose cutting taxes at all, until the budget is balanced. That makes sense. For tax-cutting of any kind reduces the federal income, and thus puts the date of budget-balancing farther and farther away. .. But to favor reductions at this time for those best able to get by WITHOUT them, and to oppose re ductions for those LEAST able, to do so, .doesn't as we see it make sense, add up to sound finance, or good democratic procedure. . AS FAR as this paper is concerned however we are opposed to this straight $20 income tax reduction, as proposed by the Democrats as we , were opposed to the straight reduction only for those who receive corporate dividends, as advanced by the Republicans. Both procedures would benefit one class, rather, than the people as a whole. : Taxes should be based fundamentally on the abil ity. to pay, and should be fair and uniform for, all. That is why the income tax is so desirable and fair, in spite of the cries of. pain, that always accom pany "payment. The higher the income the higher the taxes, and vice versa. That is as it'sEould be. But be cause' of those cries of pain few politicians have the courage io say so, or act accordingly. AS FAR as the problem of tax reduction in the f ed n eral government at this time, by either party are concerned, we agree 100 with Senator Byrd of Virginia. , v . . .. - Byrd opposes ANY tax reductions, which means any materialreduction in.income for Uncle Sam un 1 the, budget is balanced. Were it not for politics in both parties, that is what would be done. Certainly that is what would be done by any individual citizen of good business judgment, heavily in debt, and with 'expenses exceed ing income.- -, ' The last' thing he would do would be to deliber ately, and needlessly reduce his income and thereby reduce his ability to pay off that debt, and get on his feet again financially. DUT taxes are unpopular. Uncle Sam fought a war because of them. And probably there will be a big fight in next year's campaign for the same reason. So-o-o- The result promises to be a compromise, not based on business principles but political ones one of the prices we have to pay as Walter Lippmann recently pointed out, for the luxury of living in a democracy! R.W.R. ' Thursday February 24, 1955 or $17,000 for the House. the promise of "sudden so popular, that before this salary boost will have been be done about it except Taxpayers Finally Get Relief Through O&C Land Payment By HARRIS ELLSWORTH. MC Washington At long last the taxpayers of the land-grant counties of Oregon have re ceived substantial relief to their local tax load by the distribution to them of the money due the counties from funds impounded in the treasury for more than 12 years. The money is from the sale of timber on O & C lands. It has been held in "suspense" pending the settlement of a dis pute between the departments of Interior and Agriculture. Last year Senator Cordon and I suc ceeded in securing passage of the bill, since known as the Cordon-Ellsworth bill, which set tled the dispute by law. The payment of this money has been delayed several months because of a suit previously filed by one of the counties. This legal action accomplished noth ing and in my opinion was little more than a meaningless gesture after the law was passed. How ever, it had the effect of block ing the payments to the coun ties and even now, until the case is finally disposed of, $800,000 of the money, due the coun ties is withheld. The reason for that is the - fact that the attorney handling the litigation have demanded a fee of $600,000. Assuming the money is worth 3 per cent inter est to the counties, they are still paying $24,000 per year or $2, 000 per month because of these suits. That money could be saved and the remaining $800,000 dis tributed if the suits were now withdrawn and the record cleared. Checks sent to the counties in our Congressional district were as follows: Curry county $ 157,217.36 Coos county 307,711.60 1,311,523.74 815,047.88 630,938.08 794,878.55 137,048.03 Douglas county Jackson county Josephine county Lane ' county Linn county Some people may recall that during the election campaign last fall, I was suffering from severe pains in my knee and ankle. .The trouble started last August ' and has continued. Al though I had the opinion" of good orthopedic doctors that the cndition was due to a severe sprain or strain and with care and treatment would clear up. I thought it was not getting well fast enough and that there might be something seriously wrong. I decided to have a thorough going over and another opinion on my trouble by the famous - Mayo Clinic. . It took some valuable time, and some money but was well worth it. Their opinion was about the same as given me by other doc tors. What pleased me about the experience, though, ' was that they went over me from head to toe, took numerous x-rays and made every conveivable test and then reported their findings. The result was that I was re ported to be a much healthier specimen of humanity than I thought I was and haven't a health worry in the world. That is really worth knowing, isn't it? - - .-; . . Wage Discrimination Bill Passes Senate Salem (U.R) The Oregon Senate yesterday passed and sent to the House a bill to pro hibit wage discriminations based on sex. It upholds the principle of equal pay for equal work for both men and women. But it does allow higher wages to men for. work that cannot be per formed as well by women. Sen! S. Eugene Allen (R-Port-land) said women frequently are paid less money, than men for doing the same work. He said it would also , benefit men be cause it would assure a man that a woman working for lower pay wouldn't take his job. Violation by an employer would-make him liable to col lection of damages equal to the difference between the proper pay. and pay received. It also would be a misdemeanor. Low operating cosfs, conservative ad vertising expense, and no employee payroll result in savings for YOU. CHAPEL MORTUARY Frank Morgan . . Harold Snodgrass Funeral Directors Phone 2-8030 LegSslatflve letter By ERIC ALLEN JR. Mail Tribune City Editor Salem The past few days has been for me a time of renewing eld acquaintances. For instance, Bill Force, Uni ted Press correspondent here. and son of H. D. (Bud) Force. Gold Hill t-ostmaster. is a close friend and co-worker. A former Mail Tribune reporter. Bill's bv- line is frequently seen on legis lative stories, on which he con tinues to do an outstandingly successful job as he did on the Mail Tribune. Don Lane, former secretary and manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, now executive secretary of the state. Water Resources commit tee, another old friend, was an other legislative visitor today. Visits Lee Bown In the afternoon I had a few moments to drop in on Lee Bown, deputy superintendent of state police, who is well known in Medford from the days he headed the state police detach ment there, in the early 30s. He is the brother-in-law of Mr. and In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Public power item: " Congress will be asked this veek ,to authorize FEDERAL construction of Hells Canyon dam. Supporters are expected to make their pitch for the contro versial Snake rive project. A senate bill will be intro duced by Oregon's (now) Demo cratic senator Wayne Morse and a number of other senators ad vocating the measure will be listed as co-sponsors. Co-spon sorship of bills is against the rules in the house of represen tatives, and there at least four Democratic representatives from the Pacific Northwest are ex pected to offer identical Hells Canyon proposals. T ET'S put it this way: If the rest of the country is willing to put up the money for big government dams in the Pa cific Northwest, we of the Pa cific Northwest certainly shouldn't object. - The effect of. these federally financed dams has been- and will continue to be to provide cheap tax-subsidized power with which to ATTRACT INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT AWAY FROM THE REST OF THE COUNTRY AND TO THE PA CIFIC NORTHWEST. If therest of the country is willing to stand for that, we but here can't afford to complain about it.1 - " "PRESIDENT Eisenhower J has designated May 21 as Armed Forces day, and in a proclama tion he says the Armed forces have always served as an instru mentality of a free people who cherish peace and security with honor. He directs the armed forces to give public displays and demon strations on May 21 of their teamwork and technological ad vancements and he calls on the American people to display their flag on Armed Forces Day. IlfHAT are our armed forces? " Thev are the POLICE FORCE that protects our nation against international crime and banditry and disorder. How ' could you run a town without an efficient police force? How can you run a. NATION without efficient armed iorces? A QUESTION: . If the forces of disorder ever come to the conclusion that they can run over the forces of law and order, what will happen? -That one's easy The result wiU be anarchy and confusion. ". ANOTHER question: IF COMMUNISM DECIDES IT CAN SAFELY RUN OVER THE FREE WORLD, WHAT WILL HAPPEN:, THAT one also is easy. In SI ich an event., this will soon become Communist world. Come. May 21, let's show. our honor and our respect-for, the members of our armed forces; They stand between us and those would destroy our iree way w life. ... Mrs. V. Ward Hammond, Med ford. " Last night I got my first glimpse of Ed Branchfield, who's spending a couple of weeks here, and had a good discussion of legislative matters with him. (An announcement of his job here with the Oregon State bar is forthcoming.) Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, was his usual cheerful self this after noon, despite the threat of cuts in his operating budget at SOC. He was accompanied bv Dr. John Richards, chancellor-elect of the state system of higher edu cation. I also caught a elimose of Capt. Irving Larson, who recent ly took over as head of the game enforcement department of the state police, and who is another occasional official visitor to southern Oregon. One of the penalties of the un happy financial situation in which the state finds itself this year is the cutting down of planned expansion of various services which many oeoDle feel to be important. An example: Hal Randall, di rector of the state department of parole and probation, reports that his department's original budget request this year in cluded provision for regional headquarters to be set up. The headquarters of one of these would have been in Medford; the other two in Salem and Port land. . ' - Follows Recommendation The regionalization of the de partment followed the recom mendation of the governor's committee which investigated the operation of the department, and would, it ' was f elt,- have greauy improved tne . service which this over-worked unit of government performs. It would have put three or four men under the supervision of the Medford office, which now is under the charge of Joe Dis penziere. In addition to supervising prisoners paroled from the state penitentiary, or given probation from the bench, the department in recent years has made more and more ''pre-sentence investi gations." These are case-work checks into the background of a prisoner awaiting sentence, to find out about his prior record, his attitudes, his chances for re habilitation, or his chances of staying out of ; more trouble if given a light sentence or a sus pended sentence. Save Money - Circuit judges swear by the value of these reports, and they have saved the state thousands upon thousands of dollars, just by making it unnecessary to send a man to prison if he shows a good chance of staying on the straight-and-narrow otherwise to say nothing of his own dig nity and self respect. One bill in the legislature would extend this service to dis trict courts, and, if passed, this would more than double the load of the department. But, if no money is forthcom ing for such expansion, it will continue on the present basis. Nobody's complaining, particu larly that's just how it, is. . WIN A New G.E. MOBILE MAID CONTEST Now On Ask Us For Full Particulars Authorized Dealer General Electric Appliances Dedicated Com m unisf Picked by France for Nuclear Research Job By CHARLES A. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst France has just appointed Frederic Joliot-Curie, its No. 1 security risk, to a new post in in the field of n clear re search. . Joliot-Curie is a dedicated and even a fa natical Com munist. ' ; .The govern ment was com pelled, as the result of popu lar protest, to Charles McCano lire' mm in 1950 from the position of French high commissioner for . atomic energy. Nevertheless, he has been per mitted since then to occupy po sitions which have kept him act ive m nuclear science. And now,- it is disclosed, Jol iot-Curie has been appointed a French adviser to the European Organization for. Nuclear Re search, a new international cen ter which has been set up in Geneva, Switzerland. The 12-nation organization was sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cul tural Organization. It is to spe cialize in research on the be havior : of high-energy nuclear particles. This, it is hoped, will throw new light on the funda mental nature of matter. Joliot-Curie's appointment was made last month by Premier Mendes-France, who has since been overthrown. The appointment slipped by almost unnoticed. A decree cre ating a scientific consultative committee accredited to the Gen eva center was published in the governmental office Journal. . Members of the committee were identified in the decree, for some reason, not by name but Dy xneir. official, titles. One of the members, it was announced, would be "the presi dent of the, corpuscular atom physics section of the National Scientific Research Center." That's Joliot-Curie. A French government spokes man, asked about the appoint ment, said that the committee's role would be a consultative one. Joliot-Curie's appointment "in no way means we' shall make any secret information avail able to him," the spokesman said. Low Flying Jet Plans Brings Birth of Calf The Dalles (UJ!) A blast from a low flying jet plane caused a cow to give birth to a calf r which died, the sheriff's of fice here said today. Mrs.. W. H. Moore, a farmer's wife, told sheriffs deputies yes teiday the blast from the plane also caused the cattle to stam pede and she thought the world was coming to an end. Manager Larry Moore of The Dalles airport said the blast ap parently was caused when the jel's pilot turned on the after burner to clear a range of hills. WW We Will Wash Your Dishes for NOTHING -the NEW General Electric Automatic Washer Way. We Will Furnish the Dishwasher and Soap You Furnish the Dirty Dishes THEN YOU CAN BUY THE On A Monthly Payment Basis For Only 115 E. MAIN PHONE 2-4585 f. - But nobody seems able to answer the big question. That is why the French government In sists on giving its official bless ing to a man like Joliot-Curie. It is true that he is France's outstanding nuclear energy ex pert. But he has been a card carrying Communist since 1941. 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 Dermis lible. 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 wards. Doesn't Seem To Like Wayne, To the Editor: Looking at the dictionary we find the word "demagogue" defined in part as "an unprincipled and factious mob orator or political leader." WelL our Senator Morse hasn't reached leadership yet, but my, oh my, in his egotistical mind how he thinks he is about there. So finally our oft-called able Senator Wayne L. Morse has now qualified especially as a . turncoat and as a speech making rabble rouser that aspires to po litical leadership where he can tell our Congress just how to run our government, also to at tempt to convert the Democrats so he can instruct them along that line also. ' The thousands of Oregonians wno voxea 10 sena mm 10 j.o. t J A a 1- TTf. Senate were assured he would conscientiously represent' Ore gon's -interest and hardly had the ink on his certificate dried and he took his seat, until he assumed the role of a super iorly intelligent profressor, who was there to teach the other 95 Senators in Congress just how to conduct the affairs of our na tion according ; to his ideas and despite their many years of ex perience as legislators. , So. with his greauy superior brainpower he tried to take over and entirely repudiate the teamwprk by which our Senate has operated since the time of our first President. He seems to think that the other 95 Senators are mostly wrong and if they would just let him exercise his superior knowledge he could show them how things should be done. ' ; Isr there any . Oregon voter who helped send him to the U.S. Senate that can state he has ever, since sworn in for his sec- to perform his Senatorial duties for our state and nation? It would seem that in these last years he has become chagrined because he could not ring the class bell each morning for Sen ate sessions where he could in struct the other 95 Senators what bills to vote for and how to conduct the .government and, of course, the armed forces. . How long must we tolerate such egotism from Wayne? Giv en time, our Democratic friends will get '.'fed up" with him too. E. C. Gaddis, 815 East Jackson st., , Medford, Ore. : AUTOMATIC DISHWASHER 37 a Day After 2 Years Ifs Yours and Your Dishwashing is FREEI No Installation " O King-Size Capacity O Completely Aufematie O Roll-Around Convenience
