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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfobdTrib UNI "'.Everybody in southern Oregon Keadi Tn Mail Tribune published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFUHU PKUiTIXi CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-0141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OUVE 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 Bv Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Cany and Sunday six montns tuu Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3.50. Bv 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 115.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers sc per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford uinciai paper or jacmon i.oui'ty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: utct urn t miV rnMPAIY INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAl assocTatiiqn r-7 - hniirim;u..in tgVwspapi V-ASSOCIATIO RS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 9, 1945 (It Was Friday) Theodore L. Ryall Sr., Ash land, receives word that his son has been released from Japanese prison camp in Philippine islands. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Next Wed nesday, Spring officially starts, end will probably be the worst day of Winter. 20 YEARS AGO March 9, 1935 (It Was Saturday) Jack Hueston, pro at Rogue Valley Gold course, announces plsns for President's Cup tour nament. P. G. (Prink) Callison, head football coach at University of Oregon, arrives In Medford to visit friends. 30 YEARS AGO March 9. 1925 ' at Was Monday) Medford High school basket ball team defeats Merrill, Klam ath county champions, by score og 60 to 12, and wins right to play in state tournament. City police arrest "traveling man" with nine spotlights on his car and order him to remove eight of them or go to jail. 40 YEARS AGO March 9, 1915 at Was Tuesday) A. C. Allen to show moving pictures of fishing in Rogue river at world's fair in San Francisco. ' Residents of Willow Springs and Tolo areas appear before county court and request that Pacific highway be routed through, their sections. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of Iho 71) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Which of these consumes more electricity during the year: U.S. Steel, General Motors, Atomic Energy commission. Aluminum Co. of America? 2. Of every 100 unmarried women in the U.S. now 22 years old' 5, 10, 15, 20, or 25 will mar ry within 12 months? 3. Does the U.S. import more wine or more whiskey from oth er countries? 4. Unemployment compensa tion ends for about half, many more or many fewer than half of recipients before they get a job again? 5. The Jewish festival at this time of year is Rosh Hashanah, Pesach, Yom Kippur or Purim? 6. Virginia McMath was the original name of which movie star? 7. The U. S. bought Alaska frojn Canada, Denmark, France, Hrpat Britain. Mexico or Russia? The Answers: 1. Atomic Ener gy commission. 2. 20. 3. More whiskev. 4. For about half. 5. Purim. 6 Ginger Rogers 7. Rus sia. ' ' SUFFICIENT REASON MemDhis. Tenn. U.R) A Memphis Episcopal church is paying Mrs. Florence Green wood's expenses to accompany her minister husband to an Epis copal convention in Hawaii be cause, it was decided, "Husbands can't' be allowed to go running all over the globe alone.". . ' MAIL TRIBUNE Girl Scout Week In the Rogue Valley area over 2,000 girls and some 400 grownups who work with them are this week joining in the national observance of Girl Scout Week. The Girl Scout organization, founded in 1912 by Mrs. Juliette Low, will be 43 years old next Sat urday. - , , h "THE continuous growth and spread of Girl Scout- ing has been a matter of wonder and amazement since its modest beginning when a handful of girls adopted as their motto "On my .honor Twill try to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people at all. times, and to" obey the Girl Scout laws." Today there are more than a million and a half girl members in every state, territory and possession. There are U.S.A. Girl Scout troops in about forty foreign lands also, made up of youngsters whose par ents have overseas military or business assignments. Belonging to the Girl Scouts means a great deal to these for it is a link with home and a way of preparing themselves for the time when they return to their own country. LJERE at home, as in other parts of the world, there are girls who want to belong but for whom there are not enough leaders and meeting places. Because the Scouts believe in being good citizens, because their organization prepares them well for the import tant job ahead, and because they are building for their own and their country's future they should have the active support, or at least the interest of everyone. . E.C.F. Indians Will Need Wise Guidance Operation of the program to end government su pervision over the Klamath Indian tribe will be watched with interest in southern Oregon because of the many considerations involved in the shift of re sponsibility from federal There are 2070 Klamaths enrolled in the tribe, all except 330 of them living in Oregon. The Indian Service, through a proposed plan of orientation edu cation, will prepare members for the drastic change and adjustments to be faced following the end of the federal trusteeship scheduled for August, 1958. The termination act for minors and their property under Oregon state law and makes provision sponsibility of adults who in the final settlement of An educational program for those who desire to attend school is planned. I JNDER terms of the law providing for termination of the Klamath Indian Agency and the reserva tion three management specialists have been ap pointed by the Indian Bureau. They are Thomas B. Watters, Klamath Falls; William L. Phillips, Salem, and Eugene Favell, Lakeview. The specialists are to have an appraisal made of the fair market value of tribal properties within a year. Adult members of the tribe will then be given the choice of withdrawing, or will be paid for their interests. The management specialists are also charged with the task of preparing a plan satisfactory to the tribe and the Indian Service for the permanent management of the tribal properties. Under the act individual and corporate income will be subject to state and federal income tax. The Klamath tribesmen are among the more en lightened Indians in the nation and will probably get along as well as any of them following termination of government trusteeship, providing, of course, there is efficient and wise management of the transition details. COME other tribes are not so ready for citizenship. They realize their own limitations and are fully aware of the white man's penchant for taking ad vantage of them. Chiefs of the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes summed up their situation in a statement some time ago protesting the termination of protection : "... By virtue of the treaty of 1855 with the various tribes of Indians in Washington and Oregon, the Indians relinquished their inherent rights to large portions of land in both states and at this time, the Indians agreed to re move to various portions of lands, called reservations, there to live under a beneficent wardship of the Federal Government. At that time, it was clear to the Federal Government that the Indian was not ready for full citizenship, and that he must be protected from the com mercial instinct and sharp practices of the white citizens of the Territory. "Today we are being told that we are now ready for full citizenship; that we are mentally competent to buy and sell lands, buy intoxicants and generally carry on business, and business practices without any restrictions whatsoever. Admittedly the tendencies of the white man to cheat and defraud the Indian have not changed over these last hundred years since the signing of the treaty. If this is so, then how can it be argued with any sincerity that the ability of the Indian to defend himself against these white men tendencies has changed? "We still have today on the Umatilla reservation es sentially the same Indian that inhabited this reservation many years ago. He is just as susceptible to the sharp practices of the white man; just as easily influenced by friendly overtures, aided and abetted by liquid refresh ments, as he was then. The education facilities that have generally been made available to the younger-Indians have largely been superficial. They have been more or less educated in theory, but certainly they have not been educated in fact, so as to be able to cope with a commer cial and selfish world. For 100 years they have been taught that they were not competent to handle their com mercial interests; not competent to buy and sell lands; and not competent to compete with the whites. All this training has instilled in the mind of the Indian a complex of inferiority that will not easily be eradicated, and which certainly has not in any way been diminished by the super ficial education which the youngest element has acquired." . - - . - E.C.F. Wednesday, March 9. 1955 to state hands. provides for guardianship also for determining re are eligible to receive cash tribal affairs. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stance 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 publica tion must not exceed 400 words. He Wants Socialism To the Editor: When driving on Highway 99, one can catch an occasional glimpse of the Southern Pacific tracks near Roseburg, Grants Pass, Ashland and Medford. The railroad goes right up the steep hills and twists and turns around sharp curves. Indeed, if the line had an overhead trolley wire, it could pass for the Toonerville Trolley right of way. For years the cities along the way have urged the railroad to give better passenger service with modern equipment, faster trains, a rebuilt roadbed, and more convenient schedules. This urging has been useless. Simi larly, almost annually, since World War I there has been a freight car shortage. The rail road has not done very much aboutthat either. My belief is that the transpor tation problem of Southern Ore gon (and many other problems, too) can be solved only by the program of the Socialist Labor Party. For now, under capit alism, production and services are employed to further corp orate profits; but, under social ism, production and services will be employed to fulfill human needs. Henry R. Korman, 503 15th Ave., Longview, Wash. The Sawdust Burner Menace To the Editor: We hear so much DroDaeanda about the smog condition in California but after being there for a vacation we found out that we have a worse smog problem right here in the Rogue River Valley that is fast destroying any joy a per son might have in its beauty. It has been eettins steadilv worse in the past five years. California has more thines to combat in their problem of smog but they at least are doing some thing about it. There is only one source here which causes smoke and that is the sawdust burners. Why do we allow this condi tion to exist when it could iust as well be stopped! Sawdust could be disposed of in so many other ways. It is needed badly in feed lots and could be nut in low places. Those responsible should be willing to clean up this condition because the valley belongs to aU whb live here. When we returned to the val ley it was like entering a huge smoldering bonfire and its that way almost all the time. It was not that way anywhere else and I'msure the people on the bus were not impressed with the Rogue River Valley. The smoke causes a very bad situation which is harmful to one's eyes. The glare from un on smoke is terrific. Let's get busv and Hn nm. thing about our smog problem. instead oi taming so much about smog in other places. Mr. and Mrs. C. V. (Name on FileX Gl Polioidii" Flown To Slates Fukuoka, Japan flj.R) A voune armv nnlin Jnt; i - - Z VbUll CtllU his wife, who was flown to Jap an as me iirst "Operation Heart line" case nrill VinfVi t the United States tomorrow, the Army said today. Pfc. Dennis M. Dixon, 18, and his wife, Anna, 19, will travel in separate pianes since he is still confined to a respirator. Dixon was hospitalized Dec. 26 and his wife was flown to Japan from her Ta home Feb. 12 under "Operation quinine wmcn permits the next of kin of servicemen in critical condition to be brought to them overseas. The 24th Infantry Division soldier will be using a newly developed respirator weighing only 165 pounds. It is being used for the first time for evacuating patients from Japan. His Darents. Mr oj V James I. Dixon, live at Tucson, Licjaid Stardi love the way their husbands look in Vano-starched shirts. Vano does perfect starching... saves time.. saves work. BBM - I I I II Saar Coal Region Dispute Threatens Serious Proportions By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst A new dispute between France and Germany over the little Saar coal region is really be- f n m i n a nr. The dispute now threatens to delay the final ratifica tion of the Par is treaties that provide for a West German rearmament. It is even Charles AlcCann possible, though not likely, that the disagreement might prevent the final ratifica tion and thus bring about a new West European defense crisis. The latest complication is that the United States and Brit ain are being drawn into the dispute. The situation is so sensitive that anything they try to do about it might make things worse instead of better. Rich in Coal The Paris treaties have been approved by the French Nation al Assembly and the. West Ger man Bundestag. As part of a legislative pro gram, the two bodies also ap proved a special French - Ger man agreement for administra Is That So? Can you conceive of anything more wonderful in this world than a bird which can fly? Its skeleton is at once a mas terpiece of strength, lightness and flexibility. One, the frigate bird with a wing spread of sev en feet, weighs in all but two pounds and of this the skeleton weighs qjit four ounces some what less than the feathers. The lungs of a flying bird are not just single cavities as with mammals but a whole series of openings extending from the head oftentimes clear down through the hollow leg bones and out to the wingbones. Be sides, some birds have air sacs around the intestines, muscles, and often immediately under the skin. Thus air permeates and aerates the entire bird, expell ing heat from the body quick ly, and providing oxygen and carrying away carbon dioxide quickly. To help keep its balance in the air, on the land and in the water, the flight bird's heavy muscles are kept at the bottom of the bird so that it will not be top heavy. The heaviest, most powerful muscles are those that control the wings in the pig eon they have been found to weigh as much as half of the whole bird. Other low-slung bal lasts, carried deep in the keel, are the heavy gizzard and liver while above are the light lungs and air sacs. Demands Tremendous Energy Flight demands a tremendous expenditure of energy cer tainly more than in any other form of animal locomotion. This calls for a high-combustion en gine. Heart beats may exceed 1,000 a minute in flight, tem peratures well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit a heron's 105 de grees, a duck's 109.1 degrees, a swift, is 111.2 degrees which would kill a human; and a bird's red corpuscle count is more than in any other creature. But this machine is efficient; a golden plover made a 2,400 mile overwater hop on two ounces of fuel. Many birds maintain a V for- BZJ'WB8m ious STAHCH I rCV' W tion of the Saar, the 990.9-square-mile coal area which lies nestled between France and Germany. The Saar is German but it is tied economically to France. France does not want Germany to have it because the Saar turns out 17,000,000 tons of coal a year. The French-German agree ment provides for a special "European" status for the Saar pending the conclusion of a fi nal German peace treaty. The agreement gives France special economic rights in the Saar. Claims Agreement Temporary France forced the Saar agree ment -as part of its price for agreeing to the arming of West Germany. West Germany accept ed it reluctantly. During the ratification debate in the German Bundestag, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fighting to get the Saar agree ment approved, emphasized that it was only temporary. He said that Saarlanders would be free to campaign for their return to Germany. He said also that the United States and Britain had abandoned a previous promise to support France's claim to the Saar when the German peace treaty is ne gotiated. France disputes these state ments and disputes them so strongly that a critical situtaion is brewing. Ry Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist mation during their migratory flights, including the goose. It is the simplest way of following the leader in the sky while keeping out of his wash and yet retaining good vision. (Released by McClure News paper 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 our questions to: IS THAT SOI care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa lito, Calif. Families Snowbound In Clatsop Counly Astoria (U.R) Some 15 families, living at Camp McGre- Lgor in the southeast corner of Clatsop county, has been snow bound for more than a week but there is no immediate emergen cy, it was reported today The situation became known when a resident came out on a railroad speeder to ask the county court to clear a logging road which connects the camp with the outside world. The fa milies have enough food and fuel, but are tired of being iso lated, he said. There is no snowplow in Clat sop county so the request was turned over to the state high way department. The area has telephone ser vice and the railroad speeder makes essential trips to Vernon ia. i In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS Straw in the world winds: In the state of Andhra, in what is now the Dominion of India, they held an election the other day to choose the mem bers of their state legislature. (As in the British parliament, the memberships are called "seats.") Andhra is probably the POOREST of India's 29 states which means that its people are very poor indeed so the Com munists locked upon it as a plum to be rather easily picked from the tree. They put on a ter rific campaign with the pious idea of winning a smashing vic tory to be used for propoganda purposes throughout the rest of India and tiiroughout the world. Something slipped. They're still counting votes, but with 62 seats remaining to be decided as this is written Prime Minister Nehru's Con gress party has already won 99 out of a total of 196, or an ab solute majority of two. The Commies have won only seven seats. IIHY is a legislative election "in an obscure state of the faraway Dominion of India of interest to US? It's like this: The Communists, who are a windy lot, are long on promises of what they can and wiU do for poor downtrodden people, but when it came to the showdown even the fabulously poor and downtrodden people of this poor est of all the states of India kept I AT - P- 3 a A : 1 meir lingers crssea biiu lumeu the Commies down. rpHEIR decision strengthens the belief that this thing that we call Communism . is so foul - a thing that if we can only stave off shooting war long enough it will fall of the weight of its own foulness. JETTING closer home: The Oregon state forestry department says its work in the woods has been seriously ham pered this winter by vandals. Holes have been shot in its weather equipment. Tags have been removed from trees marked for cutting, and boundary mark ers have been destroyed. One of the problems that has been bothering the department is the eating of tree seed by mice. Trees grow from seed, you know, and if too many seeds are eaten by rodents effective re forestation is hindered. So last fall the foresters put out scores Buster Brown 15 South Central it 1UI News of mouse traps in the hope that by checking the eating and travel habits of field mice they could determine the best meth ods of keeping the tree seeds from being eaten in too great quantities. rVER the winter, the traps! v have ALL been shot up or' stolen! People are funny, aren't they? - fTlHERE are nrnhlam. -11 . X -"v-ii.o V( -sorts in this world. Let's close with this somiroVia 3- unusual one: Mr. and Mrs. Van Dusseldorp of South Bend, Ind., have iden-;. tical twins, Linda and Karen,: aged one year. The. other dav- one of the little girls got hold of an unguarded aspirin bottle: and ate the nice little . whit I tablets contained in it. The parents called the doctor. -The doctor prescribed stomach pumping. It was then that the problem arose. Which twin ate' the tablets? The mother first.: thoughtit was Linda. Then she . got unsure. "No," she said, "it? was Karen." The doctor didn't hesitate. H ' pumped BOTH stomachi. s ' Employment Agency 1 Urged in Multnomah Portland (U.R) Multnomah county commissioners were urg- ed today to set up an employ-" ment agency to help ease the , hardship caused by the recent 45 per cent cut in general as-" sistance money. : J. D. M. CrockwelL repre-i senting old age and welfare re cipients, told the commissioners there was plenty of work in the -area, but no agency to channel it to welfare recipients. 5 SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with saving. Have His thing you want through systematic sav ing. Don't just dream . . . er wish, but have the things you want in life by saving for them. Start with any amount. FIRST FEDERAL SAYINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save V. one of our many . . . all at sweet and lowdown prices I Shoe Store Fluhrer Bldg. Avail' 1 Tll VU 1UU11U mo 1 1 coffee that tastes as good as smells" "Hbtt..,,,, 1)