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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medforw,Tribuxe "tverybouy in ioutnern Oregon Reads The Mail TnOune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON, Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiv and Sunday One year S12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month l-3 Sunday Only One year S3.50. Ey 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 lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper OI jacuson ouniy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Adve-tising 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 EDITORIAL ASSOC'lATIION J 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 28. 1945 (It was Wednesday) John Mann, longtime Medford merchant, honored by Medford Kiwanis club on his 80th birth day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Peace ru mors yesterday swept the nation like Gen. Patton sweeping into Bavaria. People who like to be lieve anything once, were given no time to enjoy it, let alone think up rumors of their own, before it was officially quashed. 20 YEARS AGO March 23, 1935 (It was Thursday) New members to be initiated Into Medford Elks lodge include John G. Fowler, Fred B. Swee ney, A. O. Tollefson, H. E. Hurst, Oliver C. Wilder, Jack W. Hughes, 'Milton H. Coulter, Kobert E. Lee, Bernard B. Hughes, William Frohnmayer, John Cupp, W. H. Catey and E. W. Barnum. Prince G. Callison, University of Oregon football coach, rates A; Melvin. former Medford player, as "fastest and slickest basketball player that ever ap peared in a state tournament." 30 YEARS AGO March 28, 1925 (It was Saturday) The T. W. D. A., local eating and dramatics club, holds ban quet at Weasku inn. Medford City council to limit time tourists may stay in free auto camp. 40 YEARS AGO March 28. 1915 (It was Sunday) Trespassing merrymakers en ter an empty house on Kenwood ave. and start a fire in kitchen stove. Fire from defective flue guts the residence. From the Local and Personal column: A cosse of Oakdale resi dents have a skunk corraled under Dr. E. G. Riddell's garage and a stringent blockade has been declared to starve the mem ber of the mephitic family out. The South Oakdale district has been pestered for some time by the unwelcome visitor, now mak ing a last stand. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Many more or many fewer than half, or about half, of all drivers in auto accidents are be tween 25 and 45? 2. Is more gold being mined now in Canada or the U.S.? 3. Unless the present 2c fed eral gasoline is continued by Congress, on April 1 it becomes 3, 2V2. IV2, 1 or V2C a gallon? 4. The number of mentally ill persons in the U.S. is decreas ing, increasing, or staying about the same? 5. Average annual velocity of the wind is highest in Chicago, Denver, Miami, New York, or San Francisco? 6. In this prosperity era, more or fewer fathers are deserting their families than previously, or about the same number? 7. David Kaminsky was the real name of which well known stage, movie and TV star? The answers: 1. About half. 2. In Canada. 3. IV2 cents. 4. Increasing. 5. New York. 6. More. 7. Danny Kay. PypU.U.HEtS VASSOCiATION MAIL TRIBUNE A Need for Morals Oregon's newspapers in recent weeks have carried a number of stories about the high divorce rate in Oregon, the number of broken homes, absconding fathers who fail to support their children and so on and so on. There are many facets to this situation. There is the enforcement problem, for failure to support a family is a crime. There is the tax problem, for public welfare funds must be used to support mothers and children whose fathers fail in their responsibilities. There is the human problem, for broken homes lead to delinquency and crime and heartbreak. DENEATH it all, it seems to us, there is a question which is essentially one of moral values. Our civilization still adheres, on the face of it at least, to a system of morality which is an outgrowth of the puritan era, reinforced by the Victorian age. But in many ways, this moral code is neglected, or abused, or ignored. And if America is slowly, by default, abandoning a code of morals to which it has held for most of its existence, what is to take its place? TTHE two great wars of the past 40 years and the strain resulting from the threat of the atomic and hydrogen bombs, undoubtedly have something to do with this breakdown of the moral fabric of society. These factors have one thing in common they deny, by implication, the dignity of the individual. Perhaps the individual, the little guy, the confus ed, unhappy, bewildered joker who no longer is quite sure what is right and what is wrong, can blame his world for the mixed-up motives which lead him to "run away from it all." Perhaps this confusion, on top of the normal stres ses and strains wrhich beset every family, no matter how rational and well-balanced, causes him to crack. DUT society still owes this little guy something. Some rather interesting, though tentative, exper iments along these lines have been popping up lately. In Portland, the "Pacific Northwest Conference on Family relations," was conducted recently. In Albany, a "Marriage Council," composed of 16 clergy men, lawyer, doctors and businessmen, has been or ganized and is ready to advise those beset by marital problems. HTHEY may help. Other more extensive, may do ing marriages, or, better, being contracted. But until America can values either those of which may develop 'in response to society's need for moral guideposts it seems to us we will have the confused and bewildered, like the poor, always with us. E.A. Mental Hospital Delayed A dispatch from Salem reveals that the Ways and Means committee (which handles all appropriation measures for the state legislature) has tabled a bill calling for the expenditure of $3,000,000 for a start on a new mental hospital in the Portland area. IT wouldn't be strictly accurate to say that this action A runs counter to the mandate of the people when, last November, a vote of the people on the question wras taken, the proposal was modified by a "wThen-the-money-is-available" provision. But it would be well to the people approved the proposal. It was 397,625 to 128,685. That s more than HE committee, in voting to table the proposal (thus putting it on ice as far as this session is concerned, unless members reverse themselves), pointed out that the money simply is not available. It s available, all right payers, who are also the voters who approved the hospital. Extracting it is the thing that's causing all tne aniicuuy. Vote Due on Emergency Clause If you are a registered voter, you'll get a chance to vote on an important constitutional amendment at the general election in November, 1956. Senate Joint Resolution 4 passed the last hurdle in the Oregon legislature last week, and will go on the ballot next year. AT present, the legislature is prohibited from put ting an "emergency clause" on tax legislation. This means that any tax measure cannot go into effect immediately. It also means that any group can sign a referendum petition, and uphold the measure until the following general election. The proposed constitutional amendment would permit the legislature to put the emergency clause on tax legislation, putting it into effect immediately. QPPONENTS of the measure say it deprives Ore- gon voters of a chance to vote on tax legislation. It doesn't. They can still vote on it, at the same time as before. But in the meantime the law would be in effect raising needed revenue .and showing citizens whether or not they like it. The present system allows a small minority (5 per cent of those who voted for supreme court judge in the previous election, or actually about 1 per cent of the voters, accordiner to some estimates to hnlrl legislation which the majority might well approve. And they thus deprive the state of needed revenue in the meantime. SDonsors sav it will Dermit the lefrislature to Wis- late taxes, which it cannot Monday, March 28. 1955 . -experiments, similar and much to patch up dissolv to prevent bad ones from find its way to a set of basic our forefathers, or those recall the vote by which three to one. in the pockets of the tax now do. E.A. Matter of Fact WHO DID PROMOTE PERESS? Washington There was something strange ly ghostly about the recent hearings, be fore what used to be the Mc Carthy Committee, on that earth shaking question: "Who pro moted Peress? A visitor to the hearing sud denly found himself transported back in time to a year ago, to endless, ramb ling, often boring but strangely f a s c i n ating Army - Mo Carthy hear ings. The cast of characters was very much the came. There was Stewart Alsop Sen. McClel lan, and the handsome Stuart Symington, looking bored; and Mundt, looking as much as ever like a melting mushroom; and Irwin, of South Carolina, every inch the judge. And of course there was McCarthy himself, mangier and fatter than last year, and somehow at the same time visibly deflated. And there were the familiar witnesses Gen. Zwicker, and Army coun sel John Adams, and Army Sec retary Stevens. rpHERE WERE moments of - rather nostaligic drama, especially when McCarthy asked one of his brilliantly loaded questions, in his ponderous, threatening, oddly halting voice Jtsut somehow the show never really got off the ground. There was even a sort of sadness about it, as there is about most dramatic failures perhaps especially because this was so surprisingly pale an imitation of what had gone before, and every body is a year older so surpris ingly quickly. And yet there were certain lessons to be learned from these hearings. Take the case of Army counsel John Adams. A year ago, the Adams face at least the upper half of it, as it appeared in the famous picture of him leaning his nose on a chair was one of the most famous in the country. Yet at the Peress hearings Adams looked even more ghostly than the rest of the cast almost disembodied And with good reason. rpHE PERESS hearing is the -- Adams swan song. As of April 1, he will no longer be counsel of the Army. It is not certain whether he resigned or was fired at any rate, it was made clear to him that he was "too controversial," and that his de parture would be welcomed. Adams will merit a footnote in history. The detailed record which he kept of the pressures brought to bear on the Army by McCarthy, Cohn & Company, started McCarthy down the long road he has travelled since. But for present and practical pur poses, Adams is "a poor player, who struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more." The poor player is worried. He has been in military or government service since 1942, and in the circumstances it is not easy to find a job. There is no job on the horizon. Adams is intelligent, and no doubt he will land on his feet. Yet his fate should serve as a warning to all government servants under no circumstances to show any imagination or initiative, lest they be labelled "controversial." VIHAT WAS not interesting ' about the Peress hearings, however, was that they were so boring. The caucus room of the Senate Office Building, full to bursting a year ago, was two- thirds empty, and the press tables had yawning gaps. One reason was that the hear ings were a McCarthy show, and the sullied demagogue is not really interesting any more. A year ago most of the Senate fear ed McCarthy most of the country too, it often seemed. Now (thanks in part to the about- to-be-unemployed Adams) Mc Carthy is boring rather than frightening. But there was another reason why the Peress hearings aroused so little real excitement. The hearings had to be held, as in surance against McCarthy's screams of "whitewash." Yet long before the hearings started, everybody concerned knew the real answer to the question, "Who promoted Peress?" The answer lay, of course, in the endless, tedious testimony about how the "form 390" was not in the "201 file" but in three other places where it ought not to have been and so on. NO SINGLE individual, but the army system imper sonal, massive, ponderous, a law unto itself caused the Peress mess. Every army in the world has its bureaucracy. But none can even begin to compare with the American army, in moun tains of paper work, miles of red tape, and rich profusion of type writers and mimeograph ma chines. It might have been a lot more useful to ask, indeed, why it was necessary for as many as 60 high and medium officers and officials to concern themselves with the firing of a left-wing dentist. The answer might re veal a lot about why we must recruit more than 60,000 men for every division in the field, while the Russians need only 22,000. Meanwhile, it is at least re assuring that the Peress hearings By Stewart Alsop were so tedious, in their ghost like way. For the very boring ness of the hearings suggests that the country has recovered a lot oi its sanity in the last year. (CoDvriehL 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In this space Sunday I was dis cussing fabulous Las Vegas. I think I'd like to continue the discussion today. When you come to think of it, Las Vegas is something new in the American scene. TT HAD its beginnings in the A characteristic American way in a boom. The boom arose out of the building of the first big Western dam. They named it Hoover dam, after a great American engineer President. There came then the New Deal, one of whose objec tives was to smear Hoover. So they changed the name and call ed it Boulder dam. Came, after many years, a Republican con gress, and the name was chang ed back to Hoover dam. I think we're all glad by this time that the name was changed back to Hoover, who through the years when his name was made a political by-word and a hissing conducted himself as a patriotic American and in doing so won the respect of everybody. It is quite fitting, I think, that this great engineering achieve ment should bear the name of a chief executive who is one of the world's great engineers. TUT let's get back to Las Vegas - and its beginnings. The build ing of Hoover dam brought a tremendous boom. At the dam site, the Nevada side of the Colo rado was more accessible than the Arizona side. Besides, American booms are raucous affairs and Nevada's somewhat unusual legal climate lent itself nicely to the things that grow up around boom sites where money flows freely. Gam bling, for example. rpHE boom lasted a long time for huge dams in mighty riv ers aren't built in a day. But, in the course of time, it began to fade. Meanwhile, quite a com munity had grown up at Las Vegas and nobody wanted to see it go back to the status of a desert ghost town, such as Tono pah and Goldfield and Rhyolite and so many others. Meanwhile, also, Las Vegas had become a somewhat bawdy rival of older and more digni fied Reno. Instead of wilting with the passing of the construc tion boom it continued to thrive as an entertainment spot. It was about that time that the Vogue of the Desert began to get its start in a big way. Las Vegas had plenty of desert, and it capital lzed this asset shrewdly. As the free and easy spending construc tion workers dwindled, their place was taken by free and easy spending tourists who came seeking thrills. And, as sports clothes began to predominate on the streets over the less glamorous garb of the construction workers, a new era was born in Las Vegas. Fab ulous caravanseries were built to house the thrill-seeking new comers. Whereas, a simple show er-head at the end of a water pipe had sufficed for the con struction stiffs when they need ed a bath, the newcomers clam ored for swimming pools around which they could display them selves in fancy clothes in the desert sun. AND, whereas the hard -rock in on nnH the r.ement hoes and the rest of the dam builders had been content in the way of entertainment with burleycue of the ruggeder sort, these new arrivals wanted something more high toned. "CIURTHERMORE, it was dis- covered that alter tnese dudes had watched a top-flight floor show at the dinner hour they were inclined to stay up the rest of the night bucking the tiger in the casinos. That completed the metamor phosis of Las Vegas from a con struction camp honky-tonk to a cornbination of high class Amer ican night spot which outbids Broadway and Hollywood for entertainment talent and the tvDe of European gambling casi nos that line the Italian and French shores of the Mediter ranean. FROM there on out, Las Vegas had it made. For years it has heen building luxury hotels for the big shots and fancy motels for the rest oi us at a dizzy rare, hut it mn't keen uo with the de mand. It's still building them just as fast as ever and no mat ter how fast it builds the crowds keep coming faster. S1 HUCKS! I started out to de- T-iVia T.a Vegas as an eco nomic contradiction a spot to tally lacking in what the econo mists term NATURAL RE SOURCES that goes on booming endlessly while thumbing its nose at economic laws. But I'm running out of space. I'll have to put that off until tomorrow. An average American 50 years old can expect to live to 7o years, according to present life expectancy estimates. Is That So? By Eugena Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Did you know that ... some sea catfish eggs measuring half an ich across are the largest fish eggs in the world? Some birds can change their eating habits drastically during the year. Adult partridges, for example, eat a good number of insects that's meat when the young are born and before; during the summer they subsist largely on grains barley is their favorite; and in winter they are virtually vegetarians, living almost wholly on the tips of weeds and grasses. Some crabs have "breaking joints" where injured legs and claws are normally snapped off to prevent bleeding to death. Then new ones are grown. The barracuda, a fearsome fish, herds its prey. The herded fish may number 150 or more and consist of gray snappers, yellow tails, parrot fish, grunts, angel fish and cockeyed pilots. The rate of a rattlesnake's rattle depends upon the animal's temperature. At 100 degrees Fahrenheit it will rattle six times as fast as when just above freezing. Most snails are both male and female hence, the correct gender is "it." The beak, skull, feet and all other bones of a 25-pound peli can weigh only 23 ounces. The short-tailed shrew is the only warm-blooded mammal with a poisonous bite. Large size in mammals usual ly suggests a long life but . . . an 80-ton whale probably dies of old age when it is about 20. The male whidah bird has such a long tail that on dewv morninings he cannot get off the ground until the sun has evapo rated the extra weight from his trailer. The African catfish has de veloped the remarkable habit of swimming upside down and it's been doing this for so long that the normal coloration has been reversed: the belly (top side) is dark-brown, while the back (downside) is pale silvery gray. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By snecial arrangement with the editors of the Encylo- 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 Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered. Snrrv I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575. Sausalito, Calif. M'Carthy 'Shocked' By Ike's Statement On Yalta Records Washington U.P) seph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) said he is "shocked beyond words" at President Eisenhower's attitude toward the Yalta Conference rec ords. McCarthy's latest attack on the President was provoked by Mr. Eisenhower's news confer ence remarks this week about publication of the 1945 Yalta Conference documents. Mr. Eisenhower had sairt Tip favors making public all perti- Atomic Processes May Allow Conversion of Sacramento (U.R) Conver sion of sea water into fresh water soon may be accomplished in huge quantities through new atomic processes, Assemblyman Harold K. Levering (R-Los An geles) said Saturday. Levering said the University of California was working on the process. He said a university scientist told him the conversion could be made at practical cost, about $13.50 an acre foot. Progressing Fast The university scientists had not explained to him how they would convert the sea water, he said, but added they are "pro gressing fast." He said a new atomic process might well make "the Feather river and other conventional water supply systems obsolete." The university president, Rob ert G. Sproul, has named a com OPPORTUNITY THIS AREA Nationally known company has Immediate opening for ambitious person to own and operate local distributorship. Experience and full time not necessary. Applicant must give three character references before Medford and vi cinity interview can be arranged. Write giving telephone and address to Box 328 ID Medford Mail Tribune. Applicant Must Have $10,000 (Which Is Secured) Our Liberal Financial Assistance Enables Rapid Expansion This is NOT a vending machine operation. Extremely high return for those who are conscientious. Ho high pressure men wanted as no selling is required. Big Four Talks Seen Moving Closer' China Showdown Said Closer By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Things seem moving toward Big Four talks of some kind on European problems and toward iKiyWSa a showdown b e t w e en the United States and Red China on Formosa. The question is whether the talks or the showdown will be first. There would hardly be much use of holding chanes Mctann any Big Four negotiations if the Chinese Com munists forced a far eastern cri sis by attacking the Matsu or Quemoy islands. But if the United States, Great Britain and France could ar range what President Eisenhow er called "exploratory talks" with Soviet Russia, the Kremlin might ask the Chinese Reds not to risk a war with the United States. Rising Pressure In allied countries in Europe, pressure is growing for talks with Russia. Talks on easing tension, high level talks on dis armament, any kind of talks that would give hope of removing the H bomb threat. It might seem that Russia would welcome a far eastern crisis, on the theory that Com munists always welcome any thing that causes a free country trouble. But the Kremlin has problems of its own. Its food situation is becoming increasingly serious. Some experts believe it could reach the crisis stage next win ter. The shuffle in the Soviet government which started with the ousting of Georgi M. Malen kov as Premier continues. The position of Foreign Minister Vya cheslav M. Molotov may be shaky. Now the Kremlin is faced with the prospect of imminent West German armament. Finally, it must be remem bered that Russia is closely al lied by treaty with Comumnist China. What would happen if, in the event "of an armed clash between the Red Chinese and the United States, the Reds called on So viet Russia for military aid? nent documents of all wartime secret conferences. But he added that, "There is nothing ... to be gained by going back 10 years and showing that, in the light of after-events, that someone may have been wrong, or someone may have been right. People that are so sure that we could do this, forget one thing: You can never recapture the atmosphere of war." Angry Statement McCarthy lashed out at the President in an angrily-worded statement which said in part: "Yes, someone may have been wrong someone was wrong, he said. "Wrong enough to sell into Communist slavery 600,000,- 000 people; wrong enough to have brought about the Korean War which cost so many Amer ican lives; wrong enough to set the stage for World War III where so many lives will be lost. "But Eisenhower says, oh, let's not talk about that. Don't expose them because the repu tations of those who were wrong might be damaged." Sea Water mittee to coordinate university research on the problem. In cluded on the committee, Lever ing said, was famed nuclear sci entist Edward Teller, who play ed a major part in developing the hydrogen bomb. Seeks Appropriation Levering said he had been asked by Sproul to seek from the state an appropriation "sub stantially less than $1,000,000" to help finance the sea water conversion study. Other members of the commit tee are Prof. Everett D. Howe, of the university's engineering de partment, chairman; L. M. L. Ooelter, dean of engineering at UCLA; F. A. Brooks, professor of agricultural engineering at Davis; M. R. Huberty, chairman of irrigation at UCLA; and C. D. Wheelock. " It looks as if the next few weeks might be- decisive. I Final ratification of the Ger man armament treaties is in sight. Then negotiations could be started for a Big Four confer ence, a conference of Foreign Ministers which would be fol lowed, if things went well, by a conference of heads of state. There will be a chance for a foreign ministers' meeting if Molotov attends the special as sembly to be held in San Fran cisco in June to mark the 10th anniversary of the United Na tions. It all seems to be up to the Red Chinese leaders in Peiping. There was ominous word in Washington Saturday that the Reds might attack Matsu in mid April. If that happened, the United States government would not have much time to spare to think about a European confer ence. All maples yield sweet sap, but only two are significant to syrup producers the sugar maple and the black maple. In New England and neighboring Canada conditions are especial ly favorable 'for the collection of sap. Chief factor is the combin ation of freezing nights and thawing days that encourages the sap's spring flow. rAdrienne'sn LOOK . . and look again . , At What Your Dollars Will Buy Here and Nowl SPORT JACKETS By Chippewa and other Nationally-Known Brands Values to $29.98 1 00 T ' SKIRTS Plaids, Plains, Wools, Nylons and Orlons Values to $12.98 1 r OTHER WONDERFUL VALUES Throughout the Store YOUR DOLLAR NEVER HAD IT SO GOOD! VISIT OUR BRIDAL DEPT. Mezzanine Floor See Our Bridal Consultant For Your Wedding Details Adrienne's 214 E. Main - Phone 2-7169 Onr Top Men Geo. N. Taylor Cabinet Meetings always open with prayer. Pres. Eisenhower has missed church attendance but four times since becoming president. Many senators attend devo tional break fasts. Church membership is said to be 65 of our popula tion. . . "But," says Dr. Elwin R. Elson, the President's pastor "But, what will the masses do when they see that only the cross is at the center?" Mere church membership does not count with God. Only heart ac ceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour counts. Good works are out, so far as our being sav ed has to do. God writes eternal life on our page, only when we accept Jesus Christ as dying for our sins. Accept Christ as your own Lord and Saviour. Then being saved, stay by the Bible and prayer and grow up. This Message is sponsored by an Ore gon family. I'd. Adv. Will 5E00
