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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
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Wednesday. March 16, 1955
be on hand.
average of eight times be
too often experienced un-
uui ui our scenic wonaer.
U.C.F.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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