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FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE frlday. April 1, 19551 MnfowvkTiiBUifi r.vtrDoa in ioutnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager I. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. 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 Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 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. Pnoemx. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 413.00 .Daily and Sunday one montn im Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the Gity of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Comty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WESTJHOLL1DAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl assocTatiIon NEWSPAPFI PUKIISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. Economy Is the Issue Water Bill Opposed To the Editor: Would like to call attention to a bill before the One of-the reasons why Oregon is faced with an estimated $60,000,000 deficit fpr the biennium start- ting July 1 and why our lawmakers and tax experts are casting about m all directions for possible ad ditional revenue sources is the continual demand for Legislature entitled, House bui m6re State Spending. No. 26. This bill concerns the These demands cover many fields and there is no surface ground water, it is very denying that practically all of them have at least ious' dictatorial, and sociai- i tt j . V1 j. .j , istic in principle. If passed it will some merit. However, a state, like an individual, must be a source o discontent among balance spending with income, if solvency is to be au property owners outside of preserved. Neither states nor individuals can go on the municipalities and cause indefinitely putting out money for things it would be a Syer of nice to nave, dm wnicn tney can not anora. salve thinking to smooth over its 1 aims and intentions A MUJMii the many items for wmcn uregon tax 1 noP au property owners money goes are the boards, bureaus, departments, cS commissions, administrations and like agencies set up for a copy and read it over very to arrange for. control or develoD the various services, carefully several times. And facilities and conveniences which the voters have been led to believe are needed. Of course, the complicated and widely ramified business of state government does require many de partments and agencies. There is no question about that. Even a furniture and bedding advisory coun cil," such as we have, may be necessary. But a little thumbing through the Oregon Blue Book will con vince the average taxpayer that one way to cut ad ministrative expenses would be the elimination or COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. please enclose six cents in stamps as Mr. Lowry does not enjoy any franking privilege. ii we are stm living under a free flag, then this bill should never be enacted. M. F. Allen, - Trail Creek Rt., Trail, Oregon. 10 YEARS AGO April 1. 1945 (It was Sunday) Verl G. Walker, Walter D. Jensen, and Oscar Minnick com missioned as second lieutenants in Oregon State Guard. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: This is All Fooled Day. Oregonians have started cussing the joke they played on themselves at the polls last November. 20 YEARS AGO April 1. 1935 (It was Monday) R. A. Work, Olea Arnspiger, tnd Clinton Smith prepare re port stating that the water sup ply situation in Jackson county should cause no alarm. Man charged with transport ing 12 gallons of wine in an auto mobile is arraigned in justice court before William R. Coleman. SO YEARS AGO April 1, 1925 at was Wednesday) Eula Benson, junior mathe matics student, and Edward C. Kelly, first year law student, both of Medford on honor roll at University of Oregon. Ernest L. Scott, formerly of Salem, opens motorcycle and bi cycle shop here and purchases home on Rose ave. She Agrees To the Editor: I wish to agree with Grace Pearson in her an swer. Tnhlishd Marrh 30 in thp Consolidation OI SOme OI OUr mUltltUamOUS depart Mail Tribune, to William Krauss ments. we wou pu ns m practice more, there would be a txtotp An iUi j; .i.; j? at.. i, I lar-reacning enect on sucn miyvxu ux muviiig m uwt uiiecuuii, ui uie things as the increasing problem A of economy, the legislature is presently consider- of juvenile delinquency. inp- addino- still another administrative aoencv this Following are my thoughts on ti -e 4.1, this ever-present problem: uxic iu wac uvci xiuui uie oirtaxe iiigiiwajf cuiiiuiiosivn father stood sadly looking the management and maintenance of the state's parks down upon his son, lying fully and t.n nrmiirp ndrHtinnal lnnrl fnr nark nnrnnsps. dressed across his bed. He had Until a few weeks ago there were no indications ir ill a i . .1 , 1 .. . I """" mat anyone ieit tne nignway commission was not painful thoughts flashed domff all that could be expected considennp- the across the father's mind as he - x a I . i i . i,j j ...,vi, -f 4.1, i.l rememoerea a small cmia oi aiiiuuni, ui muiy it nau tu uu wiui iui cue pair. nine wnQ Qn &n occasion prOgl'am. and especially on a Sunday Those who have visited any of the narks which morning would say "Daddy, let's the commission has set up and maintained have found gto,nct!ccK toceJa , , ., , j rii i i i . r. not interested, would say I m them uniformly good. True, it would be fine to have t0o busy, you go play," or as more parks. They constitute a recreational asset not his son had now just said "Go rvlir v nnnn n rncirlino i-n thajv inoimlTr hut fnv away. 1 WHIll lO S1CCU. JLJUB 10 i 'A- J' tOUriSlS. Thp fathpr sarllv shook his ' But the decision as to number Size and location head, wiping away a tear and nf cfafo rfivVc clirmlrl ho nvorlipaforl nnnti fVio !imnimf went to Gods house to offer up A.i j l. a prayer: "God forgive me and 01 muiiev uie taApaveis icei uie wii aiiuiu iui suui my son who s0 sureiy is follow purposes. . ing in the path I have made, Speak to his heart, I pray, 'ere it THF. nT?F.nnMTAM nno nf fho nrinninnl nrnnnripnfss be too late. Amen .i-xi-. -T- t jfif it.- iij.. .-;j.i..- Let us not work just to give oi tne ciiange, Drusnes oxi uie laiter cunsiuei auun, those we love the things that however; With the Observation that "To argue OVer can so easily be taken away. But dollars and cents, or the pros and cons of removing fmd time to strive ana pray a function of the highway department, is to thresh about futilely on the fringe of the real issue. The real issue,- as we see it, is not whether we should have more parks and a new and undoubtedly more expensive set-up for park administration and maintenance but whether the state of Oregon can afford such a change at this time. MTU . ro iow mtv 4- 10O11A vinrVi- Attr tfl AtswtYrviYr T.- il ?2 1- .1 I & wnetner it De our pants program or in any otner state Oakland Tribune reader. function. E.C.F. to give them the precious things that cannot be taken from them, that their lives may be full of peace, happiness and hope and not just empty cisterns to be fill ed with doubts, fears and world ly lusts. Lillian Wallace Box 227E Rt. 2 . Medford, Ore. Witnesses Supported To the Editor: Just a few lines in regard to the people who are against Jehovah Witnesses, and for barring them from using any public buildings, which is wrong. People pay taxes and these buildings are built by tax money. Jehovah Witnesses pay taxes and their children go to public schools. I am between 75 and 80 years old and have been a member of two churches and was a teacher for years but I gave up as our churches are not teaching the Bible the way they should, and 40 years ago as I got deeper in the study of the Bible, I learned a great many things Jehovah Wit nesses are teaching now. No bet ter Bible students in the world today than Johovah Witnesses. I am not a member of them but some day I may join them. If any one is a real Christian they would not fight them. They are sure living up to trying their best to teach what Christ wants all people to know and they do not ask you or me for one cent. They pay their own way wher ever they go. Christians all over fight these people and if you or anyone think you are a Christian you are not, because Christians do not fight another Christian. Just get in and study the most won derful book in the world. As to the flag it is an emblem not God, or anything that repre sents such, and I know they re spect it, and so do I as my peo- pie have all died in aU these American wars. I am 100 per cent an American, ancestors go back 275 years. I have been a Bible student since old enough to read. Jehovah Witnesses are not a cult bunch either. There are 250 or more churches teaching too many things not Christlike. hope all church people as weU as others study the Bible ana they all will love Jehovah Wit nesses instead of hate. William Ross Sharp 26 Portland ave. Medford, Ore. In the Day's News Is That So? MAN WENT FISHING 4.000 YEARS AGO 'With the angling season bear ing down on us, can't you put us straight on the origins of our 40 YEARS AGO AprU 1, 1915 (It was -Thursday) Reports from Medford weather bureau shows seasonal deficiency of rain at 11.51 inches. From the Local and Personal column: The street department is regrading dirt streets in the residential districts. Work is now under way on East Ninth. The ground is plowed and leveled a process that kiUs the weeds. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The guaranteed annual wage is now an issue, in auto, coal, railroad, ' textile or steel wage negotiations? 2. The famous Japanese cherry trees in Washington were planted by Lincoln, or were there when the city was found ed, or were a gift from Japan, or were raised from seed by Mrs. Coolidge. 3. The 1956 Democratic na tional convention will be in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia or Atlantic ?-CityX 4. Less or more obscene mat ter is now going through the mails than usual, or about as much as usual? 5. A conference committee on a bill in dispute between the Senate and the House usually has more Senators, more Repre sentatives, or the same number of each? 6. More than half, about half, or less than half of all American men drink at least six glasses of beer a week? 7. Harry Lillis Crosby is bet ter known as ? The Answers: I. Auto negotia tions. 2. A gift from Japan. , 3. Chicago. 4. Much more, say pos tal officials. 5. Same number of each. 6. Less than half. 7. Bing Crosby. , Of the . nation's 18 to 21 year old youths, more than 21 per cent attend "some college or un iversity courses. Frankly, J. O. B., there are few things I would rather dis cuss. As you perhaps know, angling as a sport reaches into antiquity. In fact the oldest rep resentation of an angler with a rod goes back almost 4,000 years Hunting, Fishing Big Business , When the Oregon state legislature, back in 1905, passed the first law requiring residents of the state to have a license to hunt game, probably few if any of the lawmakers had any idea how greatly the work of licensing sportsmen and the carrying on of con trol and propagation of game and fish would expand m the years to come. THE first fishing licenses were issued in 1909.- As 1, tucic was iiu game uiiiiiiiiNMUii aii uie time uie laws were passed, both fishing and hunting permits were handled bv individual counties of the state which forwarded fees collected to the te treasuw to De put m tne game protective iuno. it was not e-footrod until 1912 that such fees were collected directly by The first mention of fishing the state a y may' ve been . ... , ., , , a natural fly impaled upon a Although license sales figures are not available hook is right around the time for those early years, it mav.be presumed that the of Christ fot-ilo nioro nnt lavrra Tf ia o rHPnro cfn r1oir Tw0 centuries later, Aelian V " " vv'. " V-l wrote, telling exactly how arti- xiie game coniixiissiun s laiesi uieniuum repurt snows ficial flies, were tied by the receipts totaling $2,552,575 from licenses for angling Macedonians who c a u g h t fish and hunting. ' "with speckled skins not doubt ,? - , . . trout He wrote: "They fasten While the license fees add up to an impressive red wool around the hook and sum. the figures do not tell the whole revenue story, fix on to the wool two feathers Fines. levied for infractions of the game laws add hich fow,.und.er a1cock'8 ?at . - . .. o I tips, and whirh in rnlnr a lilrn ..n;....k .. u 1.1.. a i. i. ik. M 1 - cuiismci auiy iu uie utile. Accuruiiig lu uie annual wax." report Of the State police, Violators Were assessed a The next mention of artificial total of $102,650.75 in fines last year alone. Of the Srbookt2myuedbater " and 2,483 arrests recorded the most, 460 to be exact, were Dame0JuiS Bemers ithp lor minting m prombited areas, during illegal Hours, Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Or by illegal methods. lowing this, in 1653 Izaak OUNTING and fishing haven't become big business K SSS 3 whiles xx in Oregon alone, however. According to the gone into some 250 editions (of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there were 32,654,199 ree and f i , v v ,1 . . . .1 1 nun iui me ouuiu anniversary IS ucvuicco ui uiic vi uuui ui we opui w ui uiic naixuxi perhaps the last). during the last fiscal year. Although sixteen states in these early days, the rod issued a total of 347,070 free hunting and fishing wag made of cane or on "8t licenses enough other sportsmen paid for permits to bring the total up to $84,975,516 for the period. E.C.F. By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist elastic wood, and only about 6-8 feet long. The line was made of the bristly hairs of animals main ly horsehairs. Usually the braid ed line was fastened to the top of the rod. The hook was made of bone, thorns, iron or bronze The principle of the loose run ning line was iiot evolved until the middle of the 17th century, Hence the playing of big fish was a difficult matter the cus tom being to throw the rod into the water immediately and let ting the big fish fight the rod and tire out after which the ex hausted fish was retrieved still attached to the rod. (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 read 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 questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SO! care this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif.) Construction Started On Residential Unit Construction was started this week on a $14,000 three-unit res idential property off East Main st., back of the new Park bar bershop and Rogue Camera shop building, according to Jack Bickler, one of the builders T. C. Florey, the other builder, and Bickler, are in charge of con struction. They expect it to be completed in about six months. Bickler designed the building and Bob Hinman drew the plans. The structure will be of pu mice blocK and will be faced similarly to the barber shop and camera shop building. Street ad dress numbers which have been assigned to the units are 52-522- 524 East Main st. Because the : building faces onto the city park parking lot, no drivein or garage space is available. By FRANK JENKINS That city is fortunate that has a hotel that is the center of the life of the town, that is rooted in the soil of the country in which both the hotel and the city are located, where everybody goes for every civic purpose, that is a showplace for the community and for the entire area in which the community is located. SUCH a hotel is La Fonda, in Sante Fe, New Mexico. It is located at a. corner of the an cient plaza that is overlooked by the three and a half centuries old Governor's Palace that was built in, 1610. Its architecture is the characteristic architecture of Spanish New Mexico. Its fur nishings are the characteristic furnishings of that glamorous period of the American South west. The pictures on its walls are by local artists Santa Fe has a very considerable art colony of its own. On the walls of a cov ered patio that is one of its main entrances is - a map of the old Santa Fe trail. Its kitchens pro duce and serve the native foods of the region. In one corner of the lobby is a store where au thentic handicrafts of the South west Indian jewelry, Indian blankets, Indian dolls, the new casual clothes that are being pro duced by gifted designers who have settled in the Santa Fe country and other native prod ucts of the region are sold at reasonable prices by people who are intimately familiar with the products and with their histori cal background. . LA FONDA is an authentic and charming Sante Fe country and its rich heritage of romance and adventure and old world flavor. rriHERE is a proverb to the ef feet that no rose is without its thorn. WeU, La Fonda has its thorn The thorn is its parking lot. The lot is located at the hotel's rear, It is courteously staffed. Your feelings are never ruffled. Your wants are pleasantly taken care of. But you never, NEVER have the faintest idea what your bUl at the lot is going to De. It all depends on the number of tunes you go in and out with your car. The price schedule caUs for a fairly stiff charge for the first hour, and a smaller charge for the hours thereafter, Every time you go out and come back in, a new first hour starts. And you're apt to be coming in and going out rather often, for there are many fascinating things to be seen in the country roundabout. It isn't that the charges are exhorbitant. They aren't. They average right along with the charges at storage garages in the average city. It's just that you wear your fingers out counting up on them what your parking charge is going to be, and never hit it on the nose. A Nichol's Worth of... Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Featur Writer see liar man Nichols gUT- -You may say Why not park on the street if you're too tight to pay. the charges in the hotel's parking lot or too short on mathemati cal ability to properly compute what your biU is going to be? THEREIN if you should ask KlirVl a rmpctinn vnn urmilH betray your lack of understand ing of the backgrounds of this oldest city in America. When Santa Fe was founded, in the declining years of the 16th century (some two or three generations before the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock) there were three kinds of transport in the upper valley of the Rio Grande. 1. By Shank's ponies. 2. By ox or mule cart. 3. By the prancing steeds of the gay Spanish caballeros. None of these three methods required wide streets. So, when the city was laid out, the streets were made narrow if, for no other reason, to insure that cost of cobblestone pavements would not be too prohibitive. FOR the first two or three miartpr. tf 4 Via ' fitv'm mn than three centuries of history the idea worked wonderfully. . But there came then the auto mobile, which made a mess of things. On most of the old streets there is barely room for two cars to pass, with NO room for parking. So, since no room (or very little room) is available for street parking and since Santa Fe has at least as many automo biles in proportion to its popula tion as any other American city, you can see what a problem parking is. Washington (U.R If you a tau man in a smart gray suit and a pearl - gray .. homburg snif fing through a trash can in an aUey ' in your town it could be Dr. Frank Monaghan. The digni fied professor, historian and editor is per haps Americas No. 1 sworn enemy of un- cleanliness. Dr. Monaghan is director of the National Clean-Up, Paint-Up, Fix-Up bureau. If there is one thing he can't stand it's a house peeling off old paint, or some thing out back that would be on the seamy side, like a gar bage pail with its lid off. . . National Clean-Up week is his annual goal, and always comes in the spring, but the professor has his nose to the stone, or to the wind, the year around. "I run about the country looking for filth," he said in an interview. "If I find any, and most pf the time I do, I try to my. level best to see that some thing is done about it. You can get a lot done by screaming 'For Shame'! " and leaning on civic pride. 'If there is no civic I pride around, stir up some." Townspeople Astounded Folks to whom the graying professor lectures often are as-1 tounded at what he knows about their town. "But doctor," they say,' "you just got here." Odds are that he didn't just get there. Heesneaked in during the black hours and did some prowling around the streets, al leys and by-ways, taking mental notes on neglect and dreaming up a picture" of what could be a lovely town. "If I don't have any luck with the big folks," the clean - up man said, "I work with the kids You can get a lot of leaves raked and trash hauled away with a few loUypops or a dozen hot dogs with onions and mustard.' While teaching, he used to in itiate his new classes with the thought that "Education is the best substitute for intelligence.' Today, he likes to add, "you can ' begin with the youngsters and work up to the adults." Often if he has a free action in a new town, he will gather the neighborhood kids around a fire and organize what he likes to caU "The Happy Digger-Plan ter club." Unfriendly Analysis Of Yalta Papers Available to GOPs Washington (U.R) An analy sis of the Yalta papers which is "highly critical of the Roosevelt administration was available to day for Republicans who want to make the World War II con ference a campaign issue. ' ' . The analysis was prepared by the staff of the Senate GOP Policy Committee headed by Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.)-. But Bridges said that he and other members of the committee do not take responsibility for statements made in the memor andum. Says Disregarded Bomb The memo said Mr. Roosevelt "completely disregarded" at Yal ta information that .the atomic bomb would be ready by the summer of 1945 and made what it termed unnecessary conces sions to get Russia into the war against Japan. The memo also said it is "non sense" to "assert, as New Deal apologists do,", that Alger Hiss was "only a note-taker and had no important role at Yalta." Hiss was an advisor to the U.S. dele gation at Yalta and later was convicted of perjury for lying about his aUeged Communist connections. -, "Before going to Yalta he had been given aU the top secret papers of what the United States intended to do," the report said. Former President Harry S. Truman was accused of "cover ing up" the Yalta papers during his regime, despite efforts by Congress .to obtain the full account. . j "It sometimes keeps the kids so busy cleaning up tin cans and shooing away the Japanese beetles that they don't have time to get ornery." he said. Take Philadelphia for ex ample, he said. "We put on a two year cam paign in Philadelphia and it worked wonders. A little psy chology here, and some plain talk there. We got the kids in terested in planting flower gar dens and painting fences like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. We offered prizes for the nicest gardens and the cleanest alleys. Last year thrre wasn't a 1 m I.l' . A . single case oi vandalism in xne, 169 public schools in Philadel phia. The townspeople, of course, got behind the cleanup business too. Other towns are thinkine of organizing their young for similar projects. "For encouragement, you can do a lot of handing out clean-up, paint-up buttons to members of the Happy Digger-Planter clubi" he said. -Adrienne'sn Taffa-Flair SLIPS By Seamprufe These Lovely Slips . ' with Trim-Away Hem s7 Wear Am 1 r &r4 I To shorten ... Sim ply trim away one of the scalloped "tiers making a neat, com pletely finished hem proportional to your height. ALL FASHION COLORS! Navy White . 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