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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDfORDwiwTRIBUNI "i-veryuoay in ooume.n Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager C. FERGUSON. Man a (fine Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN". Teleeraoh Editor KICHARD JEWETT. SDorU Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Societv Editor JACK JACKSON. Sundav Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail in Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year S12.00 Daiiy and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moi 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 uunaay KJiuy unc year ij.su. Bv 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 Terra 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 lASSOCfATllON t7 J Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 16. 1945 (It was Friday) Ingrid Bergman, Bing Cros by and "Going My Way" win Academy Award "Oscars." From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Extra gaso line is again to be allocated Vic tory gardeners. This will bring out the m on thy rumor some foxy patriot has planted three rows of roasting ears hard by his fa vorite fishing hole. ' 20 YEARS AGO . March 16, 1935 (It was Saturday) Oregon. Caves and Humbug Mountain camp teams undefeat ed in Madford district CCC bas ketball tournament. Dr. William Brady, in his "Personal Health Service" col umn, advises ". . . Certainly to bacco in any form or quantity is bad medicine for anybody sub ject to hyperchlorhydria, peptic ulcer, gastric ulcer, duodenal ul cer or comlexes thereof." 30 YEARS AGO March 16, 1925 (It was Monday) "Evidence intended to reveal the secrets of the bank accounts of Albert B. Fall, former secre tary of the interior, was barred from the record in the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit here today," press dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyo., states. From news item: "Special Game Warden Patrick Daily and Roy Parr, the Jackson county game warden, ceased searching for peddlers of dried venison, or jerky as it is more commonly known, long enough Sunday to nose around among the many fishermen at the river and de tect violations." & 40 YEARS AGO March 16, 1915 Admission prices of 5, 10 and 15 cents charged at Page theater, where Charles Chaplin, "The World's most Popular Movie Comedian," is playing in "The Champion," with two acts: other features brv -bill are "Her Mar tyrdom," with Arthur Johnson and Lottie Briscoe, and "The Death Train," featuring Helen Holmes. County Commissioners Leever and Madden in Salem to confer with state highway commission in reaching a working arrange ment for completion of the high way over the Siskiyous. What's the Answer? 'Can You Gel 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Taxes by the 48 states total much more or much less than those by all cities and local units or about the same? 2. The present 3c-rate for let ters has been in effect for more or less than 20 years? 3. Members of Congress in the early days were paid on a per diem instead of yearly basis; right or wrong? 4. More Californians are em ployed in agriculture or in man ufacturing? 5. The Channel Islands, part of Great Britain, lie nearest England, France. Ireland. The Netherlands, Scotland or Wales? 6. Auto tires usually last about twice, three times, four times or five times as long now as in 1920? 7. Paul Revere was a farmer, silversmith, sailing captain, lawyer or newspaper publisher? The Answers: 1. About the same. 2. More than 20 years. 3. Right. 4. In manufacturing. 5. France. 6. Five times 7. Silversmith. MAIL TRIBUNE Klamath to Prosper Word that construction of the jet interceptor base at the Klamath airport will probably get under way next month will undoubtedly prove a shot in the eco nomic aim for the sister city over the hill, and to a more or less degree for neighboring cities. An officer representing the Thirteenth Naval District, with head quarters at Seattle, has announced that the first of twenty separate bids will be opened the third week in April. r-ONSTRUCTION projects will be divided up and will range in estimated cost from $20,000 to $1,- 000,000. This arrangement will enable bidding on the various jobs by local contractors. , Items on the construction work program include runway and taxiway extensions, jet fuel storage, multi-purpose recreation facility, navigation aids includ ing a radar ground control approach system and an instrument landing system; base operation building, ready-crew building, alert hangar, flight simulated training building, five dormitories, mess hall, heating plant, infirmary, cold storage building and paved open storage facilities for equipment, concrete igloo magazine, ready rocket storage balloon, airmen's club, non-commissioned officers' club, post exchange and sales store. Completion date is planned for January 1 and it is expected that by the time all is in readiness for oc cupation naval forces will If LAMATH FALLS business interests have estimat- A" ed that the navy force together with civilian em ployees necessary at the new defense facility will dis tribute a $4,000,000 payroll annually in the region It has also been figured that each dollar of that huge sum will change hands an fore it passes out of circulation. The city is in a position to know how beneficial such showering down of government money can be for a large number of service men occupied the naval air base there for a time during and after the war and later a Marine Corps rehabilitation center was mam tained for some time. E.C.F. The Gardening Urge Spring is knocking at the door, according to the calendar it will enter officially next Monday, and with it comes that annual yen to plant a garden. Despite unfortunate experiences in previous gar dening efforts, the backaches, the battles with blight and bugs these are but dirrny remembered with each new arrival of the vernal season only the com pletely disallusioned or the chronically pessimistic are able to resist the age old pull of the good earth. IN A RECENT edition of our favorite weekly news- paper, the Roberts Road Reporter, the ten-year-old editor, Gerry Auel, advises her readers to obey the gardening urge. Under the caption "Joy in Gar dening," Gerry editorializes as follows: "Gardens are nice to have. They not only give you an opportunity to be out in the fresh air but an opportunity to save money. "It's fun to plant tiny seeds and to watch the tiny green shoots come out of the ground and progress day by day. And then at last you can go out into the garden and get lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, and radishes, clean and toss them together and you have the most delicious salad made from fresh vegetables right out of your own garden." t ERRY didn't go into the favorable aspects of home gardening, the disap pointments wrhen seeds or plants fail to grow proper ly, the inroads of the neighbors' chickens and dogs, the race between gardener, birds, bugs and moles to see who will harvest most of the crop. And the realiz ation in the fall that whatever eatables the gardener may have finally been able to provide for family con sumption could probably have been purchased at the store for much less than the cost of the garden. But don't let anything said here influence" you against starting a garden this year. Editor Gerry is right. There is "joy in gardening," and it isn't neces sarily measured by what or how much may eventual ly reach the table. E.C.F. Abstract Expressionism Through a miscue on the part of the Mail Trib une's mail orderly a booklet from the Portland Art Museum has fallen into the hands of this writer in stead of the Art Editor for whom it was intended. The booklet contains eight reproductions of paintings by a Portland artist whose recent work, it is learned from accompanying textual matter, is in the style "in adequately termed 'abstract expressionism.' " Sneaking an idle glance at the pictures we became completely intrigued for the reason that with excep tion of two it was hard to detect the slightest resem blance to anything ever seen or even imagined in the wildest phantasmagoria of nightmare. 'TURNING to the catalog page, it was learned, for instance, that No. 70, which we had surmised might be an X-ray of someone's sacroiliac, was in fact the artist's conception of a ravine. No. 57, which a wild guess had tabbed as a' badly shattered wind shield, was meant to depict burned land. We didn't come that close with the other four even after examining them upside down and side ways. According to recent news items it is well to look at such art from all angles for even exhibition judges have been fooled. THE artist, according to the catalog page, has also nainted Crater Lake, but unfortunatelv this mint ing was not pictured in the booklet. It would be inter esting to see what a follower of the "abstract expres- sionism scuuui n uuiu iiidive - Wednesday. March 16, 1955 be on hand. average of eight times be too often experienced un- uui ui our scenic wonaer. U.C.F. ''''"' ' ' REPRESENTING EMERALD ISLE as "Miss United Ireland," Elizabeth Kirwin, 19, County Cork, is in New York to lead group froto Auld Sod in St. Patricks Day parade. (International) Indonesia Conference Expected To Produce Little in Results By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst More than half the people of the world will be represented at that big Asian - African confer ence to be held in I n d o n esia next month. Pot entially, the conference is i m p o rtant. It -could prove to be a major development in world politics. The prime minis ters of the five se ctaries Mccann called Colom bo powers" India, Pakistan, In donesia. Ceylon and Burma have asked the leaders of 25 oth er Asian and African countries to meet with them at Bandung in Indonesia April 18 for a seven day conference. Plans for promoting "good will and cooperation among the nations of Asia and Africa" will be the chief topics for discus sion. Actually, despite denials, there seems to be no doubt that some of the sponsors hope the con ference will lead to the forma tion of an Asian-African bloc of nations. This bloc would be "neutral ist" in the cold war but would oppose what some Asian and African leaders call "Western imperialism" that is, the policy of the United States and its chief allies. But the conference is so big that it may merely turn into a diplomatic talk-feast. Communist countries, neutral ist countries, countries allied with the West and countries which have no ties are to attend the meeting. There will be 'Borrowed' Heart Girl Improving Minneapolis (U.R) Seven- year-old Penny Rae Raymond looked forward to a normal, happy life, thanks to the bor rowed" heart and lungs of a 41-year-old man. Both Penny Rae and the man who "loaned" her his heart and lungs, Ted Goodman, were re covering today from a rare oper ation to close a hole in the little girl's heart. Dr. - C. Walter Lillihei, the University of Minnesota surgeon who directed yesterday s delicate operation, told Penny Rae's par ents that she now has a normal heart. Plastic tubes connected Good man's circulatory system to Penny Rae's. Then Penny Rae's heart was tied off and her lungs were collapsed. The heart and lungs of Good man, aided for only 11 minutes by a mechanical pump, took over the job of keeping Penny Rae alive during the two-hour oDera- tion. Her dark, venous blood flowed into Goodman's body and re turned purified and fresh. New Sales Tax Bill Will Be Introduced Salem (U.R) Ren. W W Chadwick. chairman nf th House Rules Committee, said to day the committee had granted permission for introduction of a new sales tax bill. Rep. Ed R. Cardwpll Home, vice-chairman of the committee, said the bill wo.ilH differ from one sponsored by Kep. Earl Hill of Cushman in that it would give Dart nf th receipts to the general fund Hill's bill called for all receipts to go to school support. Cardwell said he did not want to discuss details of the bill in the absence vesterdav of T?pn Loran Stewart of Cottage Grove, chairman of the taxation committee. Stewart was absent yesterday because of illness. Christian delegations, Moslem delegations, Hindu delegations, Buddhist delegations. Red ' China and the Indochi nese state of North Viet Nam will represent the Communist world. The "neutralist" movement in East Asia will be represented by India, Indonesia and Burma. Egypt Against Ties The eight nations of the Arab bloc will be there. Egypt is try ing to encourage neutralism among the Arab countries. But Iraq has just signed an alliance with Turkey which is allied with the West. . In adidton to Turkey, coun tries at the conference which are allied with the West will be The Philippines, Thailand, Pak istan, Japan, South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Ceylon also may be orientad toward , the West as nay Ethiopia and Li beria. All these countries have one thing in common they do not like "colonialism." But their own interests are so diverse that they are not likely to do any thing world shaking in Bandung Hawaii Lava Flow Slowly Burning Through Jungle Pahoa, Hawaii (U.R) A mas sive flow of fiery lava burned its way slowly through a jungle early today toward the rocky shoreline of Hawaii Island's Puna coast. Volcanologist Gordon Mac- Donald said there was a chance the 100-foot wide flow might plunge over a 25-foot cliff into the Pacific this afternoon. The red lava river was sliding down a steep slope as fast as 40 miles an hour, but as it reached the flat coastal area, it began "puddling," fanning out and building up in thickness. Early today, the flow was 10 to 15 feet thick at its front. 2,000 Feet From Shore The rate of flow actually was almost impossible to determine in the dark. At sunset yesterday, the flow was estimated to be 2,0D0 feet from the shore. The source of the lava was a fountain three miles distant. The cone gushed lava as high as 300 feet at times. The flow pushed through a thick coastal forest, destroying some of the most beautiful and primitive land on Hawaii Island. So far, tie flow endangered no homes. Officials estimated that if it kept to its present course, it would bypass the evac uated coastal village of Opihikao by 1V4 miles. ' AWARD JUST IN TIME St. Albans,- Vt. 4U.R) Truck driver Alfred Bean received a 20-year safe driving award from the National Safety council Tuesday just a few hours before a Municipal court jury found him guilty of drunken driving. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den name or initial for publication is oermis 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. YMCA Appreciative To the Editor: The directors of the YMCA wish to express their appreciation for the coop eration and support received at the annual auction, plant and rummage sale, and smorgasbord. A community project depends upon the united effort and gen erosity of a great many people, and we wish to thank the don ors and the many willing work ers who contributed so much to its success. Darell Huson, Pres. Medford YMCA v In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS A husky Russian gunman Bhot and seriously wounded a SOVI ET police guard in a one-man in vasion of the British embassy in Moscow. The intruder then forced his way to the upstairs living quar ters of the British ambassador before being overpowered and disarmed by two British embassy attaches. (The ambassador and his lady were out skiing when the ruckus started and didn't get back until it was over.) No motive for the incident has been learned. The gunman was described as "incoherent." ????? I wouldn't know. But I'm glad to learn that in Russia they have screwballs who go off their rockers and run amuck. The bad world situation precipitated by Russian commu nism would be worse for us if everybody in Russia were solid and sensible and able-minded. Russia would be a formidable opponent in that case. fNE more on Russia. " Last week the Kremlin an nounced that it would like to fol low through on the idea of send ing Soviet farmers to Iowa to learn how to grow tall corn. That (if you get the full im pact of it) didn't look too good. It pointed toward the conclusion that the rulers of Russia are smart and WILLING TO LEARN. One must never underesti mate an enemy of that sort. BUT Today The Moscow radio picks up the subject of corn once more. It says the Russians are already growing corn on the cob IN BUNCHES. That is to say, it describes the Russians as having produced a type of corn that reaches about six feet in height and then produces ears that hang in buches like bananas. THIS conclusion is inevitable: Some SENSIBLE Russian figured it out that when it comes to growing corn, which is the world's most valuable feed grain, the Americans have something. Maybe, he reasoned, Russians better learn from them how to grow corn. Whereupon The screwballs went into ac tion and began to BRAG. Russia, they proclaimed via the Moscow radio, is ahead of EVERYBODY in corn growing, as in everything else. Why, they said, Russian corn produces ears IN BIG BUNCHES. That boast has all the ear marks of an inferiority complex. IfHEN the stock market opened ' the other morning, it re sumed the decline which last week carried it into the most severe break of the last 15 years. Losses ran from $1 to $4 a share. All sections of the market par ticipated. At noon today, the Associated Press 60-stock average was down Z.2 points. TS THAT bad? I'm inclined to doubt it. The primary purpose- of the stock market is to provide capital for industry. Capital values, of course, are an important part of that function. When one invests money, one wants to know that he has a fair chance of getting a capital value increase in his in vestment. But When neonle hpenmo UTORF. INTERESTED IN THE SPECU LATIVE SIDE OF INVEST MENT than in safety and a rea sonable return on investor! savings the whole business of ouying shares in American in dustry becomes influenced by speculation. That's what happened in 1929. We don't want it to happen again. Court Records DISTRICT COI7KT William L. Saylor. overload. $93. William Tt R urt rn OC rrn.Hi reckless driving, S30. Carl F. Mark nn 11 $6. " Horace E. Owens, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. CIRCUIT COURT Nina R. Miller vs. Sterling r Mil ler, divorce decree. Gene Gysbers vs. Donald L. Gys, bers. divorce decree. Erma Ruth McCoy vs. John Daniel McCoy, divorce decree. Opal V. Note vs. Harry S. Note, divorce decree. Elizabeth Luella Potter vs. Leo Klondyke Potter, divorce decree. Laurence H. Pemberton vs. Mary Helen Perberton, divorce decree. Carl William ELsenberg .1r. vs. Verda Mae Eisenberg. divorce decree. Lloyd Edwin Larson vs. Willa P. Larson, divorce complaint. Alf Liander Peterson vs. Idella Fav Peterson, divorce complaint. Ardyce Prentiss vs. Roy A. Pren tiss, divorce complaint. MAKE A PROFIT that's worth while. Have extra dollars in your billfold later ... by putting savings to work with us. o FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medfocd 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Te Those Who Save Is That So? With all the spooky prescience ascribed to animals it's high time for a facts vs. fallacy on this subject. Fallacy: Rats have an instinc tive premonition of disaster overtaking a ship or a building which impels them to desert in ample time for their own safety. Fact: This superstition is wide spread, due perhaps to rats having been seen occasionally leaving a ship upon docking. Fact is, rats commonly depart a hip on its reaching port, some times even in daylight. They leave for many reasons parti cularly if it is an old ship. For example, the old ship may have a leaky bottom so that the rats are driven out of their soggy nests in the hold. Or they may not care for the poisonous stench of chemicals used to fumi gate the infested holds. Or they may be seeking more ample quarters. After a long passage, conditions may have become crowded after all, rats like rabbits, multiply and a long division is called for. With it, food supplies have diminished. Or romance beckons. All good valid reasons for jumping an old tub, whether it is going to sink or not. Fallacy: A rider lost in a blinding snowstorm far from home will be brought back safely by old dobbin by simply giving him free rein. Fact: The ability of horses to find home directly and unerring ly from distant points has been greatly exaggerated. However, not to be minimized is the fact that a horse accustomed to a given rpute will usuaUy return to his bats-and-hay station. He has simply learned to recognize landmarks through force of hab it. But .in strange country, it is Highway Spraying Discussion Scheduled A highway spray meeting will be held Thursday at Bigham hall at the county fairgrounds, start ing at 10 a.m., according to County Agent W. B. Tucker. Featured speakers will include Ray Kelso, state department of agriculture; L. R. Chandler,' Ore gon state highway department; Rex Warren, Oregon. State col lege; and Bill Kosesan, of the highway department. Topics for discussion include licensing of commercial applica tors of herbicides, the state high way department's weed control program, methods of reducing spray hazards, and spraying state highways. A license period for herbicide applicators will start at 2:15 p.m., and will be handled by Kelso. Atomic Explosion Again Called Off Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) The big' atomic explosion scheduled for 5:15 a.m. (PST) today was called off by the Atomic Energy Commission an hour before shot time because of unacceptable weather conditions. The decision was announced following a weather briefing at the site. It was the second con secutive day the experiment was put off because of weather. The AEC tentatively sched uled its next weather meeting for tomorrow morning to deter mine if the shot can be fired Friday. ARABELLE JILL-WELL SAYS IIAND-BLEHDEI FLAVOR Lemon PielfV fi means i I ' , -n ALSO " M. Chocolole, Vanilla oni V ' .ndFi.fi.Hn. rffft ; ;.,' cJr Your Tsste Can TELL &4 " ' i j2 It's JELL-WELL! 4 C Hiurd tt By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist another matter. And the proof of the fallacy exists in he large number of horses which become lost and confused in unfamiliar surroundings even at a compara tively short distance from home. In winter storms, many horses freeze. I say nothing of race horses which in good weather have trouble finding their way around the track quickly enough. (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 reference work in a handsome Seaicraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I sinnoly can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! c o Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Adrie nne s Paris Has Nothing On Us . . . Latest Parisan Styles At ienne s cheers an all-time favorite the dressy suit... designs it of color ful confetti print rayon crepe with flashing rhinestone buttons, scalloped jacket, and streamer slim skirt. Multi-color print on black or navy background. Sizes 12& to 26 Vi, 16 to 42. 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