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Newspaper Page TextrOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFOBDiltJTRIBUirc "Everybody In Southern Oregon Rftada TYim Mail Tnhim" fcuhlihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. KT-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor JCRIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor KltflAKD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Entered ai second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance: Per copy IQe. Daly and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moi 3 SO Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3. 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 lJ Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASSOdl-ATIION 7 0" 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 March 13, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Jack Matlack, former Med ford resident now with J. J. Parker Theaters in Portland, wins national Quigley War Showmanship award for third consecutive year. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spade han dles and male backs creaked last week, as Victory garden projects started in many backyards, to be menaced later by the neighbor's dog and chickens. Spring is offi cially to arrive Wednesday. 20 YEARS AGO March 13, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Rogue River Valley Irrigation district bondholders get Recon struction Finance corp oration loans at Medford bank. Forty five boys turn out for spring football practice at Med ford high school. 30 YEARS AGO March 13, 1925 (It was Friday) Franklin high school basket ball team defeats Medford high, 32 to 16, in first round game at state basketball tournament in Salem. Afternoon rally conducted by Salvation Army attended by 400 Medford area children. 40 YEARS AGO March 13, 1915 (It was Saturday) Charlie Chaplin to appear at Medford's Page theater in mov ing picture "The Champion." George R. Hammersly, 74, a resident of Jackson county since 1888 and founder of The Gold Hill News, dies at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. P. Chis holm. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Thomas Jefferson did or didn't help draft the federal Con stitution in 1787? 2. About 30, 40, 50, 60 or 70 per cent of all coffee imported into the U.S. comes from Brazil? 3. The President of the United States does or doesn't have an official flag of his office? 4. Is more of the total road mileage in the U.S. under state or local control? 5. An American spending some weeks abroad may bring back duty-free up to $100, S200, S300, $400, or $500 worth of articles? 6. Which of these has the largest assets: Carnegie Corpora tion, Duke Endowment, Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foun dation? 7. On shipboard 11 o'clock, a.m. or p.m.., is signalized by two, four, six or eight bells? The Answers: 1. Didn't (he was abroad. 2. About 40 per cent. 3. Does. 4. Much more under local control. 5. Up lo S500 worth. 6. Ford Foundation. 7. Six bells. WRONG MAN Norwich, Conn. (U.R) Po lice Chief Joseph L. Gendron re ported that during a raid on a gaming house a woman ap proached him to place a bet, took a closer look and fainted. California has a greater vari ety of valuable mineral deposits in workable form than any area of equal size in the world. MAIL TRIBUNE Congratulations Medford and Oregon are making up in basketball what they failed to do last year in football. Medford High is rated No. 1, in her class in the state, while Oregon State won the coast conference title in two straight, from UCLA. What the final outcome will be is not known as this is written, but it is a safe bet both teams will give good accounts of themselves in the final stanzas; win, lose or draw. THHE people of Medford, naturally, are proud of their High School team, not only for skill, aggres siveness and excellence in team-play but their con stant and consistent good sportsmanship. Basketball is a great game, and while football still ranks tops in this department, basketball can boast greater na tional attendance, broader public interest and far few er casualties. "XTE take this occasion to congratulate both Med " ford Hi and Oregon State, and wish them both the best of luck in their remaining contests. R.W.R. Was There a Deal? CCORDING to the Oregonian there is no conflict between England and the United States regard ing Formosa they are sides of the same street. In fact the Oregonian ned that way." The west, in short, is playing two hands in the international poker-game, the aim of both being for peace, but England by conciliation and a cease-fire deal, and the United States by calling the Chinese "bluff," and risking war. "IXE hope this is true for any serious split between this country and England over Formosa, or any other important international issue, would be cata strophic. This is a time for the English-speaking na tions to stand shoulder to shoulder in opposing com munist aggression, regardless of minor differences. ior it is once more a question ot nanging together or hanging separately, with what might be termed "Reverse English." DUT it is hard to believe it was "PLANNED this way." England wants a cease-fire, with Chiang Kai-shek abandoning Quemoy and the Matsus, while Red China, as a result of this concession would abandon any immediate designs on Formosa. If Red China should agree then England thinks she would be admits ted to the United Nations. If such a program should be accepted by Red China, and such a deal has been made, as the Oregon ian suggests, then the United States would have to acquiesce. DUT the Eisenhower administration has declared L time after time, it does not and will not favor the admission of Red China to the UN. And it does not favor any deal whereby the off-shore Nationalist is lands would be handed over to the Reds, for any con cessions from them. Would Uncle Sam eat his words and for the sake of a temporary truce go along with John Bull? It seems highly unlikely. QN THE other hand, if the Chinese should meet the U.S. challenge and launch an all-out attack on these islands, thereby causing an outbreak of hostil ities in the Formosa straits, would England join with the United States, with men and ships? " j There would, if such an agreement HAS been reached, seem to be an inescapable moral obligation. Yet leaders of both parties in England have stat ed repeatedly, that if the United States should en gage in a war with Red China over Formosa and Chiang Kai-sTiek, she will have to go it alone, as far as British aid is concerned. CO WE can't believe there has been any such agree- ment reached. There is no doubt of the countries fundamental friendship ; no doubt of their mutual de sire to avoid war at "ALMOST any cost;" but it ap peal's to this department that to attain such an end England has adopted one course, and the United States another, and conflicting one. We believe the people of neither country, how ever, would strongly object to adoption of either pol icy, or any other SELF-RESPECTING policy, that would prevent war and bring to them and to the world a decent period of peace. That is the big, over-all objective, not precisely how it may be obtained. R.W.R. More Foolish Business How silly can we get? A few weeks ago the state department barred Russians visiting this country from enjoying tourist priveleges, and put them in bounds an absurd and childish performance. Now they have barred the circulation of the Mos cow newspapers, including Pravda, in the U.S.A. In other words, Soviet Russia is setting the pace on silly iron-curtain exclusions, and "the land of the free and the home of the brave," is sheep-like follow ing her example. THERE is some sense to Russia's "iron-curtain," for Russia has something in fact a great deal to hide. The less the free democratic world knows about the true conditions over there the better for Russia. But there is, as we see it, no sense at all in exclusion of foreign visitors to this country, including the Rus sians. The more they come over here and look around, the more they will know of free democracy, and the Sunday, March 13, 1955 merely working different is convinced it was "plan less they will think of their own form of government when they return home. In other words it is pro-American propaganda of the most effective type. As for "Pravda," the more the people in this country read that paper, assuming they can read Russian the more they will know about what is really going on over there, what the temper of the country really is, what its current problems are, etc, etc. The state department apparently acts upon the principle that the less you know about your enemy, potential enemy at least the better you are off. In other words they have come to such a pitiful pass that they have to fall back upon the antiquated and dis credited ostrich policy in foreign relations. If, as some claim unreasoning fear is a sure sign of weakness, then our state department must have had its morale so undermined by the Russian scare, that it is close to collapse! R.W.R. Too Much Peress So they are going to hold more hearings on the Peress case. We are tired of the Peress case and be lieve most Americans are. It was blown-up for political and personal rea sons only by Senator McCarthy, far beyond its worth and should have been dropped and forgotten long ago. However, as the hearing-time has been set there i is no way of stopping it now, so the whole tiresome affair will have to be hashed over again, at a cost of many thousands of dollars. There is one consolation. Perhaps this time the entire matter will be cleared up, so even the man who runs can read and understand it. If so then proper action can be taken, and the curtain pulled down on a controversy that was little more than a personal fued between "head-line hunter" McCarthy and cer tain officials of the U.S. army, in the first place. R.W.R. Matter of Fact SNARK AND NAVAHO Washington Within the last year there have been vitally im portant technological break throughs in the art of the long range missile. These break throughs have made possible a sudden spurt of progress in the missile art progress described as "fabulous'' by one authority not given to exaggeration. As a result, there are now serious plans for launching an artificial earth satellite, if pos sible in two years. But the break - throughs have also brought nearer the time of the true push-botton war the time when one continent can inflict a murderous hail of nuclear de struction on another. Clearly, the whole national future is bound up in our pro gress in the missile art. This re port and another to follow will therefore be devoted to the basic facts about our long-range mis sile program. What follows has, incidentally, been vested by competent authority to make sure that it contains nothing useful to Soviet intelligence. The long-range missiles fall conveniently into three cate gories the jet-powered pilot- less aircraft, the ram jet, and the intercontinental ballistics mis sile, respectively known as SNARK, NAVAHO, and AT LAS. With SNARK we have put at least a big toe over the thresh hold of the age of the push-button war. SNARK has interconr tinental range 5,000 miles. And SNARK exists. The "bird" to use the word of art of the missile men has flown. The trouble is that it is not really a very useful war bird, although it is an impressive technical achievement. SNARK 30-odd feet long, built by Northrup Aircraft flies just under the speed of sound, which is barely lumber ing along in the missile range. It flies high, over 50,000 feet, but not too high for the best Soviet fighters. A machine fly ing under the speed of sound on an undeviating, trackable course over hundreds of miles of heavi ly defended enemy territory is hardly a sure thing to reach the target even assuming that it could be guided to the target with absolute accuracy. T70R such reasons, there is a " minority view in the Pentagon that the attempt to develop SNARK as a war weapon should be abandoned. This view has been over-ruled. But it is clear that, even if SNARK were fully operational and in quantity production which it is not the main striking job would still have to be done by Gen. Curtis LeMay's Strategic Air Command. SAC's job will soon be made easier, incidentally, by RASCAL another missile name worth re membering. RASCAL is the short-range air-to-ground missile which will greatly complicate the task of the Soviet air de fense. With NAVAHO, we will step right over the threshold, into the age of the push-button war. NAVAHO is a ram jet and true guided missile unlike its big brother ATLAS, it is guided aU the way to the target, by the stars. Also unlike its big brother it cannot leave the earth's sur rounding envelope of air. It flies, or will fly, at 6,000 to 80,000 feet, and at slightly under three times the speed of sound. By Stewart Alsop This bird, too, has flown. At least, the air frame of NAVAHO has been air-tested. But there is a long way between testing an air frame and fitting the frame with ram jet engines capable of pushing both frame and war head from one continent to an other. Moreover, although there have been big break-throughs in the guidance problem the toughest in the missile art the problem of bringing NAVAHO roaring down precisely on a tar get half a world away has by no means been solved. Even so, an informed private guess is that NAVAHO could be made operational, given a major effort, within three years this is not, it should be said, the official scheduling, which would, of course, interest Soviet intelligence. When NAVAHO is operational and in quantity pro duction we will have taken a huge step forward in the missile art. But NAVAHO will, not be the final step. Even at three times the speed of sound, such a mis sile will give some warning of its approach. And a missile which travels within the atmos phere on an undeviating course can be tracked, and it can very probably be brought down, if not with existing weapons, with weapons of the future. iLmfcOVEK, since every U pound of weight in the war head sharply reduces the range of a ram jet, there is some doubt that NAVAHO will be able to carry a bulky hydrogen bomb for the distance required. For such reasons, NAVAHO is not the final, decisive weapon. The decisive weapon is AT LAS, the intercontinental bal- istics missile, simply because there is no known defense what soever against intercontinental ballistics missile. This is why the I.B.M., which will be de scribed in another report on the long-range missiles, will finally determine the balance of power in the age of the push-button war, which is now almost upon us. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Guaranteed Wage Attack Dismissed Detroit (U.R) Walter Reu ther, preparing to open his drive to win a guaranteed annual wage for his United Auto Work ers CIO next week, shrugged off the latest attack on the plan Sat urday as the "purely academic' remarks of a "paid propagan dist." Reuther said the attack on the union's wage plan by Frank Ri sing, general manager of the Automotive Parts Manufactur ers Association, was "a reflec tion of an antequated and irre sponsible social philosophy which fortunately on the whole is a part of the dark past of labor management relations." Rising, in a speech at a con ference on the guaranteed annual wage sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of Manage ment in New York City, said the union was attempting to destroy the belief that a man working for a living should ex pect and get more than a man who is not working for a living. Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other daya 5:30 orcvious day. Is That So? By Eugene Burn Ranger-Naturalist Every other family has at least a dog or a cat. To help you avoid needless heartache and perhaps save the life of your pet, a piece on recognizing the symptoms of a sick cat or dog and what to do, particularly in an emergency, seems in order. To recognize a warning symp torn is quite simple there nothing mysterious about know your pet when it healthy and the chances are you will spot any danger signals. A dog's best barometer is his tail. If it is full of vigorous wagging, he's usually up to par. If it droops dejectedly, he's not up to snuff. Should he remain huddled in a corner when he usually bounds at your approach suspect illness. Ill health is us ually further confirmed by loss of weight and lack of appetite for a second day. Sometimes too, his eyes will seem dull. But should he keep his eyes closed with a prolonged, heavy dis charge, suspect a bad scratch or a foreign body in the eye. If he rubs his ears against the ground or furniture or shakes his head continuously, chances are he has ear trouble. Regardless of what you've been told, a cold nose is not an infallable sign of good health in a dog but if his nose or the back of his ears remain hot for more than two hours, the chances are you have a sick dog. But most, important, suspect your normally frisky pooch of being sick if he suddenly be comes listless. Many of Same Signals With your cat many of the same warning signals hold. If its appetite remains poor longer than three days it's usually sick cat but don't forget that some cats are good foragers and supply themselves with food But should its normally sweet breath become offensive and its rough tongue furry, you'll know something is amiss. Another thing: if its fur be comes rough, dull and lifeless and sheds excessively, it's usual ly in poor health. Should your cat's eyes dis charge excessively or be red rimmed, the chances are it is not well. Closing the eyes, which water, may also mean a bad scratch. And, like the dog, if it tries to rub its ears on the car et or furniture, you'll know something is wrong with its ears. In both cat and dog, watch any diarrhea if it persists more than one day. Also suspect any lump larger than a pea if it con tinues to grow. Take Pet To Vet As with a sick child to the doctor, it is best to take the pet to a vet at once when you have recognized a danger signal all too often the pet is brought too late when it is dying. Sometimes emergencies call for immediate first aid: perhaps your pet has been burned, a bone broken, gotten a bad cut, suffered heat exhaustion, or been hit by a car. With a broken bone, if the break is in the leg, apply a splint to keep the jagged bones from tearing the muscle or slashing a main blood vessel. Tie the splint both above and below the break and wrap it in a soft cloth before going to the vet. Should your cat or dog come home wounded from a fight, don't rush to it with bandages. Whenever it can reach the wound with its tongue, it can do the job better than you. But should the wound be in a place it cannot reach, then trim away the matted hair, clean the area, and put on an antiseptic and bandage it but not too tightly. Aspirin Prescribed If the animal is burned, trim the hair around the burn and apply petroleum jelly. Give aspirin twice a day. For cats and toy dogs, the dose should not exceed a quarter tablet; medium sized dogs, a half tab let; a large dog, a whole one. Dogs are subject to heat stroke. During hot weather, feed him lightly and give him plenty of water. When the heat actually bothers him, wash his face and mouth with cold water and let him lick cracked ice. Should he collapse and go un conscious never give him a liquid call the vet. Finally, auto accidents. Lift the cat or dog as gently as pos sible preferably on a warm supporting surface, and put a coat or blanket over it and go at once to an animal hospital. (Copyright. 1955, by Eugene Burns) Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of It POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Harry Nordwick, The Mail Tribune's swan, small-dog, fire department and log pond expert, is leaving us for what he con siders to be greener fields in Golden California, specifically, Madera, which is in the "great, green, greasy" San Joaquin val ley, "aU set about with fever trees." The news staff will miss Harry, So, we assume, will the city of ficials of just about every val ley town, whom he has badgered and bothered at one time or another in his quest for news. Good luck, boy. And we hope you enjoy the cotton fields, the grape orchards and the mos quitos of the San Joaquin. The latter, we learned from personal experience, are in the same class as man-eating sharks. (And don't forget the house cooler for those 114-degree days.) Somebody told somebody else who told us about the couple who arrived here from the east, and who went out to pan gold one day. Somewhere along the creek they met up with an old prospector, who helped them get started, and who put a supply of dirt in the pan. The woman panned and panned and panned, slowly washing the dirt away. At the bottom, she found someone's old tooth. It had a gold filling. We have a proposal to solve the tax problems of the state and federal governments. It's in !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In his nationwide broadcast State Secretary Dulles Told the Chinese Reds that U,S. sea and air forces in the Formosa area are equipped with weapons WHICH CAN DE STROY MILITARY TARGETS WITHOUT ENDANGERING CIVILIAN CENTERS. (That, if true, would remove from us the odium of destroying whole civil ian populations in order to get at military targets.) Told US that the whole defense of free Asia against Communism will fail unless we are willing to USE OUR GREATER FORCE in response to a military chal lenge from Red China. THOSE are flat statements. down is in the wind. "QEFORE the Dulles speech The stock market broke sharply, with losses running from one to SIX points in some areas of the market. How far the recovery movement will go hasn't been disclosed as this is written. rN the Chicago Board of Trade, " grain prices ROSE in what the teletype describes as a "high ly nervous market," with deal ings active in all pits. The market opened strong, propelled by RENEWED APPRE HENSION ABOUT THE INTER NATIONAL SITUATION follow ing Secretary Dulles' talk. Gains ranged to nearly four cents in wheat. This rally uncovered a large number of selling orders and prices skidded back quickly al- tnough remaining ABOVE the previous close in most cases. WHY are- these market move ments siffnifirant? The answer is simple. Histor ically, prices of industrial secur ities tend to fall in the face of heightened possibilities of war. Grain prices tend to RISE in the face of such possibilities. THE reason for that is simple. notion that war was good for business (remember it used to be believed that wars. were pro moted by munitions manufact urers who wanted to sell guns and planes and ships and tanks) business men have learned by hard experience that war ISN'T good for business. So thev are inclined to reduce their holdings of industrial stocks when war threatens. On the other hand, war stimu lates tne consumption of foods, including grains. So, in the face of heightened prospects of war, grain prices tend to rise. That's the long and the short of it. IS a showdown coming in the Fnrmnsa area I wouldn't know. But If we back down at Formosa, we might as well crawl in a hole and pull the hole in after us. for the Reds will then think they have us on the run and if they think they have us on the run war will be practically in evitable. 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! do Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausali to, Calif. the nature of a withholding tax. The federal government (un der our plan) will withhold 100 per cent of everybody's income, and will keep what it needs, passing the rest along to the state governments, which "will keep what they need, passing the rest along to the counties and cities nd fire districts and school districts and sanitation districts and water districts and any other districts that need money, which will each keep what they need. The rest, if any, we can get refunded to us every April 15. Simple Leaders in the church cen sus undertaken in Medford last Sunday commented on the "good record" compiled by Medford. Only 135 persons de clined to give the needed church information. Recalling a similar census taken in another city, one of them remembered that one man, when asked to state a preference as to church mem bership, explained: "I am a fifth amendment Christian." - Stopped the census taker cold. Two staff members have dif ferent reasons for remembering the A-bomb explosions last week. One of them, all primed to watch the Friday explosion, set his alarm for 5:15 a.m. It went off, he got up, went to the door, looked out, saw it raining heav ily, went back to the bedroom, reset the alarm, went back to bed and to sleep. The other staff er was less for-' tunate. Her plan was to watch for the Tuesday explosion, which was widely seen in the valley. She arose at 5 a.m., put on a bathrobe, andwent out into the front yard. She waited patiently for 15 long, cold minutes, went into the house to warm up a" bit, and went back outside, only to learn the display had gone off while she was warming up. We understand, unofficially, she was so mad she never did go back to bed. Mrs. Jane Snodgrass, it is reliably reported, lost or mis laid a skiing boot recently while at Union creek. She looked everywhere. She wrote to the resort, asking them, if it was found, to hold it for her and she'd pick it up another week end. Two weeks later, the Snod grass family drove to Crater lake for another skiing ses sion, and stopped at the re sort to inquire about the miss ing boot. The resort was closed, but the boot was there firmly planted on top of a post in front of the store. California Paper Calls M-T Reporter Harry A. Nordwick, 204 Van couver st., who has been a re porter for the Mail Tribune for the past three years, leaves this week to accept a job on the daily News-Tribune at Madera, Calif. He will do combined duties as reporter and photographer. Nordwick, who was born in Medford, is son of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Nordwick, 919 Reddy st. His wife is the former Janet Anderson of Salem. They are parents of a baby son, Brian. While with the Mail Tribune, Nordwick has covered both city and county affairs, and has been a "regular" member of the aud ience at many of the city coun cil meetings of valley commun ities. His last day of work was Saturday. His replacement on the staff will arrive next month. Lonergan Favors Primary Date Change Salem U.R) Sen. Pat Lonergan (R-Portland) said Sat urday he will introduce a sub stitute bill for his measure to change the primary election date from May to August. The substitute proposal is to hold the primary on the fourth Tuesday in June. Leaders of both the Demo cratic and Republican parties op posed the measure. Lonergan already has introduced because it would abolish the presidential preference primary and the el ection of delegates to national party conventions. With the June Primary, Lon ergan said, the people still could elect delegates and express their presidential preferences. State Awards Contract For Applegale Bridge Salem (U.R) A Jackson county bridge contract has been awarded to Frank Watt Con struction Co. and S and D Con struction Co., Portland, on lcw bid of $25,450. The job calls for construction of a 110 foot bridge over the Little Applegate river and a 70 foct span over Star Gulch on the Upper Applegate county road. There were 12 higher bids. Dead line for Sunday Claatified la t noon Saturday.