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rorm mtotorb (orasoom "'r.verDoay in sout&ern 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 HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHAHD JEWETT. Sporta 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 $12 00 Daiiy and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Courty 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 ASSOCfATllQN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 6, 1945 (It was Friday) Maj. George E. Andrews, for mer Medford resident stationed with the Air Corps in Kansas City, plans visit here. From Arthur Perry's ye Smudge Pot column: Horticult urists report that "wooly aphis" is late in making his annual ap pearance. It is suspected the "wooly aphis" is not wooly en ough for the current weather. 20 YEARS AGO April 6. 1935 (It was Saturday) Jerome T. Boshears, 51, well known Medford man, dies while working at local market. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Upton Sin clair of California, plans a new political party, and is figuring on the Jackson county folks, who will join anything once. SO YEARS AGO April 6, 1925 (It was Monday) Ashland first, Medford third, in state auto registrations since Jan. 1. New building scheduled to be constructed at Main st. and Riv erside ave. 40 YEARS AGO April 6, 1915 (It was Tuesday) Chinese woman from Yreka, wearing a blouse and floppy ki mono trousers, attracts wide at tention on Main st. near Nash hotel. George W. Dunn, Ashland, named president of Southern Oregon Stockmen's association. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Easter this year comes very late or very early or at about the usual time? 2. The U. S. this year is spend ing more on the Air Force than on the Army and Navy combined; right or wrong? 3. Do more or less than half of all Americans now live in the states where they were born? 4. The federal deficit estimat ed for this fiscal year is much higher ;or much lower than in the last full fiscal year under Truman, or about the same? 5. The Girl Scouts of America was founded in the North, South, Middle West or West? 6. About half, more than half, or less than half of all U. S. hos pital beds are now occupied by the mentally ill? 7. Margarita C. Cansino was originally the name of which prominent screen star? The Answers: 1. At about the usual time; 2. Wrong; 3. More than half; 4. About the same; 5. In the South (Savanah, Ga.; 6. More than half; 7. Rita Hay worth. Baseball-Size Hailstones Reported Newport, Ark. (U.R) Hail stones "as big as baseballs" hit Newport during the night, but authorities said today most of the damage reported was to win dows and signs. The sheriffs office said today total damage had not been esti mated, but most of it was brok en glass. There were no injuries. faff mail tribune School Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers apparent ly do not see eye to eye on the nation's need for addi tional school classrooms. 'THE secretary, testifying last week before the House Education and Labor committee on President Eis enhower's school program and' other proposals for federal aid to education, said an estimate of the pros pective classroom shortage by 1960 has been revised downward from 407,000 to 176,000 as a result of studies by the states. She added that the president's program could eliminate any shortage by 1960. Mrs. Hobby contended that the rate of classroom construction has been stepped up since 1953 from 50,000 to 60,000 classrooms a year. fN the other hand, the PTA regards most of the school construction aid bills introduced in the 84th Congress including S.968, the plan proposed by President Eisenhower in February as inadequate to meet the requirements for a "realistic program that can, and will, aid the critical situation facing the country as a whole." Mrs. Newton P. Leonard, national president of the PTA, has called upon local chapters of the organ ization to press their representatives in Washington for immediate preparation and passage of an emer gency school construction bill. The situation, she told the nearly 9,000,000 members of the PTA, "has gone far beyond meager measures; the classroom shortage is critical in nature and national in scope." E.C.F. Passing of the Crank The folks out Central Point, Table Rock, Old Stage road and Blackwell new dial telephones more won't find them half as mate-like as were the old crank-em-yourselt instru ments they have used so long. . TELEPHONES first came to Central Point back around 1900 when one Table Rock road, and another out the Willow Springs road. There wras no switchboard to connect the two lines at first. The nearest the wires came together was the telephone on the town end of one in the drygoods department of Kobnette's store and the phone on the end of the other in the grocery department of the same emporium. If a subscriber on one line wished to get a mes sage to someone on the other circuit he called the store and whatever clerk answered would trot back and forth between the phones in the two departments to relay the word. The first switchboard came into use in 1909, a year after formation of the Central Point Mutual Tele phone company. The latter concern carried on throughout the ensuing years until it sold out to the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company recently. The parent company was mutually owned, each subscriber holding a share of stock. The subscribers, being the owners, didn't kick too much when the somewhat shaky wires went down or other troubles interrupted service. llIO ST everyone had known everyone else on the line for years and years and if a caller couldn't raise the number he wanted there was usually some one on the wire to tell him the neighbor had gone to town, was out in the lower forty, or to offer to deliv er a message when the family returned. The fact that a caller succeeded in getting through to a distant number sometimes took on the importance of high emprise. First there would be the rapid twirl ing of the generator handle, then the loudly-voiced instructions to the operator and finally the yelling directed at the party on the other end. 'The switchboard operators, most all of them un believably patient and long suffering, knew better than anyone else in the neighborhood what was going on and often were able to give advice or be helpful in ways which the impersonal, strictly-business little dials can never duplicate. Now the PTT company says it won't be long be fore a Central Point subscriber can pick up his receiv er, dial Uncle Elmer in New York, or wherever, and get the connection in a matter of seconds without the aid of an operator. Wonder what those Robnette store line patrons would think of that? ONLY those whose acquaintance with the telephone dates back to the earlier models of Mr. Bell's in vention can realize how many interesting though sometimes frustrating experiences the old instruments provided. Subscribers of the Central Point area will undoubtedly have more efficient service but they will find that the coming of the dials has taken some of the zest out of telephone use. E.C.F. Japanese Stunned By Tokyo (U.R) Japanese of ficials were stunned today by Russia's refusal to hold peace talks in New York. Prime Minister Ichiro Hato yama said the latest Soviet note proposed the talks be held eith er here or in Moscow. This was a reversal of the previous Soviet willingness to meet with Japan any place the Japanese wanted. As a result of a previous Soviet note express ing this attitude Japanese offic ials had almost taken it for granted the negotiations would be held in New York. The Prime Minister said Jap- an will not send its answer until Wednesday, April 8. 1935 Needs Hill way may find their effecient but we bet they neighborly and sort of inti line was Strang out along Soviet Refusal it gives the Russian note care ful study. Mapping Program Salem U.R) The House yes terday passed a Senate memorial urging Congress to set up a topo graphical mapping program on a priority basis. Rep. C. Allen Tom (R.-Rufus) said that only 30 per cent of the land area of Oregon has been mapped topographically and that at the present rate it would take until the year 2008 to finish the job. He said principal benefit of complete mapping would be in the field of property appraisal for taxation purposes. Britain Will Have Period of Collective Leadership With Eden By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Great Britain will have period of collective leadership with Sir Anthony Eden as Prime Minister. There is doubt tha Eden win be the boss, he is a much more forceful man than he appeared dur ing the years when he was overshadowed by Churchill Eden may be Charles Mr.C:ann eXDeCiea aiSO to maintain personal direction of foreign policy. The foreign affairs field is Eden's specialty, and in these tense days the head man of any government has to keep a close watch on world developments, But Richard Austen Butler as Chancellor of the Exchequer and Harold MacMillan as For eien Secretary will be fellow members of a directing team. Churchill was a one man show. He was expert on practi cally everything. He had held every important post in the cab met but that of Foreign Secre tary. He was a combat veteran of four wars and a Nobel prize winning historian. Enraged Colleagues Also, in the years before he was Prime Minister, Churchill used to enrage his colleagues 'by making helpful suggestions on how to run their departments The fact that the suggestions al most always were valuable did not mak him more popular. Eden is not like that. Like Churchill, he is a man of cour age and competence. He knows how to xight. He risked his en tire career when in 1938 he re signed the foreign ministry be cause he felt the government was knuckling under to Hitler, But he knows how to compro mise. Eden played a big part in bringing East and West together in the Geneva Conference which ended the Indochina war. It was he who toured European capitals after France killed the European Defense Community plan, and played the major part in prepar ing the way for the Paris treaties under which Western Germany will be armed. Impeccable and Tough Eden is 57, handsome, impec cably dressed and suave. But he can be tough in an argument. He flies into blind, fuming rages. Butler is 52. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, which corre sponds to Secretary of the Treas ury, he has brought Britain out of austerity and into solid pros perity. "Rab," as he is called from his initials, is a pale, frosty looking intellectual. In debate he is quick and sharp. He is Eden's No. 2 man and political heir. MacMillan is 60. He is a hard headed Scotsman with a near walrus mustache. He became well known to President Eisen hower during World War II when he was minister-resident at Allied headquarters in North west Africa. Before he became Defense Minister under Church ill, MacMillan was Housing Minister. He took the housing program ball away from the Laborites and made his name by building 300,000 homes a year. With MacMillan in the gov ernment, tne United States is Churchill, Eden Backed for Prizes Oslo, Norway (U.R) In nuentiai persons in various countries are actively support ing Sir Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden for Nobel Peace Prizes, informed sources said to day. The Nobel Prize committee has two peace awards to bestow this year because it postponed the 1954 prize. Until recently Eden and form er French Premier Pierre Men-des-France were considered the most likely choices for their ef forts at the Geneva conference which brought the Indochina peace. But Churchill's chances improved with his resignation, Now He'll Have Good Story for Little Woman Downey, Calif. (U.R) Police finally stopped salesman James Munro Sowell's speeding car Tuesday by blocking the road with a hay truck. Police estimated that during the wild chase, in which the salesman left a patrol car far behind, Sowell traveled 13 miles in eight minutes, averaging al most 100 miles per hour. Sowell, described as a "model citizen," explained to officers who booked him for evading ar rest: "I told my wife I'd be home at 2 a.m. and I was two minutes late." Water-sport enthusiasts are now offered a 200-pound plas tic boat, half the weight of con ventional boats of similar size and with 10 times their impact strength. still represented in the cabinet. Like Churchill, he had an Amer ican mother, Helen Artie Belles, daughter of Dr. J. Tarleton Belles, of Spencer, Ind. He is a member of the great MacMillan publishing family. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I'd like to bounce back today to New Mexico. It can be de scribed with reasonable accur acy as America's oldest white settled area. Seen first by white men in the latter 1500s, it slum bered in the sun for nearly four centuries. It is stirring in its sleep stretching and yawning and coming awake. Albuquerque, claiming a population in excess of 150,000, calls itself the fastest growing city in America. I reckon that isn't far from the truth. Albuquerque gives every appearance of bursting out at the seams. Santa Fe, old, quaint, artistic and literary, is perking up and beginning to feel growing pains. It has been a capital city since the beginning of the 17th cen tury, and for the most of these 350 years it has been content to remain a capital city. B' UT Of late- Santa Fe is beginning to talk of becoming the financial and industrial center of New Mex ico's burgeoning' uranium in dustry. W THAT makes' New Mexico tick? Well, in its earlier centuries as a country dominated by white men, the cattle industry was the big motivating influence in its economy. The Spanish have al ways leaned toward the cattle business. Those years when the cowbrute was king were glam orous years, and they left their glamorous mark on the region. The big ranches, operated by Spanish dons up at the top and by Mexican vaqueros down at the bottom, must have been fabu lous affairs. There was some copper. There was some silver. More recently, oil and gas have been brought into the picture. There never was much commercial agricul ture. There is very little as yet. It is probable that there never will be much, for agriculture re quires water and New Mexico is water-short. THERE is, of course, the fed eral government, which is a big item in New Mexico's econ omy especially since the atom bomb was first conceived in the minds of the physicists.. New Mexico's wide-open spaces have lent themselves admirably to atomic experimentation, and that, has meant the spending of a LOT gf money. But let's leave that out. Gov ernmental expenditures AREN'T natural resource. AT this point, I'd like to quote an aVilp vmins 'Mow lWoviV-in a New Mexican by adoption, not by birth. "This state," he says, "is at tracting a surprising number of young men from elsewhere. It isn't the glamor of the past that is bringing them. It is FAITH IN NEW MEXICO'S FUTURE. "They think this is going to be a young man's state that is, state where smart and able young men can carve out careers for themselves. Personally, think they're right. That's why I m here. JD a. ari xiKe to aaa, on my own account, that no state can have a more valuable asset than smart and able young men who are seeking to carve out careers for themselves. S0, far, I've been listing New Mexico's assets. At this point must mention a liability. The liability is LACK OF WATER." This able young man I've been quoting isn't worrying about ag riculture. He shrugs it off on the ground that there never has been much of it and probably never will be much. What he's thinking of is the almost certain lack of sufficient water for LARGE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH. He says flatly: "With out sufficient water for industrial purposes, our future can't be everything we want it to . be. Water is a primary raw material for industry." 'D like to close with this thought: In Southern Oregon and Far Northern Californiavwe have given comparatively little thought to the use of water for industrial purposes. Yet, in ad dition to other possibilities, we have immense resources of fiber upon which to build a great pulp and paper industry. , That will require water and lots of it. It's high time for us to begin to think of our water as a raw material of the UTMOST im portance. I think it can be said with flat certainty that the ex tent of our industrial growth will depend on the amount of water we have available for in dustrial processing. FINAL WORD on the Issuance of passports to Americans is authority of Frances G. Knight, new chief of this State Depart ment division. (International) Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist What's that again! . . . The largest animal that ever lived, past or present, on the face of the earth or in its waters is the sulphur-bottomed whale, still go ing strong today. The longest sulphur - bottom ever measured with a steel tape was 111 feet. Quite likely there have been larger ones. Like all other whales a special nasal passage connects directly from blowhole to lungs this permits it to gulp food beneath the surface without getting water in its lungs. The whale's skin is soft. Tem perature - regulating sweat glandsliave been eliminated and instead there is a very warm thick layer of blubber from eight to 20 inches thick between skin and dark flesh. It has a few hairs usually a cluster of short, brittle chin whiskers numbering around 32 and ocassionally a dozen or two on top of the head. Along the throat, breast and belly it has from 80 to 100 great accordion-like pleats which per mit the great lungs to expand and fill up their entire capacity before sounding, sometimes go ing down where the pressure is 1,400 pounds to the square inch. Ears are two knitting - needle sized openings about a yard be hind the eyes. The brown eyes are about twice the size of a cow's. The largest sulphur-bottomed whale ever to be weighed, in 1947, was an 89-foot female. (Fe males are always larger than males.) She weighed 300,707 pounds more than 150 tons. The heart weighed 950 pounds, almost a half ton; the liver, 2,000 pounds; the flabby tongue, 6,000 pounds three tons! In whales the hind limbs have completely disappeared external ly, and exist only as rudimentary bones, buried deep in the body the longer, the femur, being perhaps four inches in length, the lower leg bone, the tibia, being about the size of a walnut. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrengement 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 wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcrafi binding. Each week, new ques lions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. A new remoistening resin em ulsion instantly seals envelopes on all types of paper stock. A special virtue envelopes will not stick together in humid wea ther. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 1 a.m. Monday for Monday; outer days 5:30 previous day, A MOW ... yae Cfltl i IMCIinK STANDING TIMBER AT REASONABLE RATES Co CoJfec ar Writ, rowilow & ersertsa OIMERAI INSUIAMCI LOSCINS AND 19MIII INSURANCE SPECIALISTS Pwflond Trvrt IviMma, Portland 4. Onsen Mfoaway 1431 9 s COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ef 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. Freedom and Taxes To the Editor: Some real praise to Mr. E. A. on the sub ject "Why Freedom?" A Mr. Sharp wrote about the nasty treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses, barring them from using public buildings." Freedom is getting to be far from what it was 66 years ago in this U.S.A. as I was nearing 12 years of age. And I still say this was a better place to live than today. Of course we did not have things so handy but people were 100 more friendly, money was not the American God. Today, everything is com mercialized and most all types of religion. The man with the money is the one that is looked up to. I have had lots of dealings with people of all kinds, as I have been a master workman and an architectural engineer, and as far away as Panama for the U.S. government. I grew up an orphaa since the age of six years, just so you can see I have learned a lot about people 'and our U. S. government. Our head men in government are butting into all countries and private business trying to run everyone's business. Sixty-six years ago that did not happen. The farmer raised what his land would produce best, other busi nesses likewise. Every time you turn around nowadays, there is a boss at your heels and what burns me up is taxes and no end, then give it away to some other country. If we want highways or bridges or anything for our own people, try and get it. Our U. S. and the different states only find "economy" in the dic tionary. History tells me taxes and militarism have destroyed all nations so we are in line next, and as these conditions. get hard er our freedom will disappear, and at the rate we are going I will yet live to see it. if I live near the 100 mark as some of my people have. Please write more on freedom. I read the editorials each day as I take the Tribune. There is plenty to write about. William Ross Sharp, 26 Portland Ave., Medford, Ore. To Clear Up Confusion To the Editor: I would like to write a few lines that may clear up some of the confusion about the Jehovah Witnesses. I at one time was proselyted into their cult. Theyt forbid you to read the Christian Bible. (Just their new world translation) but in study ing the Holy Bible I found that u one becomes a Christian he must give his heart to the Lord Christ told Nicodemus "except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God." John 3:3. With this new birth "he is a new creature; behold all things are become new." 2 Cor. 5:17. To receive this new birth we must confess our sins and He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:19. We become dead in the things of the world, but seek those things which are above, your life is hid with Christ in God. Col. 3: 1, 2, 3. We are redeemed through His blood, even foregive ness of sin. Col. 1:4. And having made peace through the blood of His cross." Col. 1:20. The Jehovah Witnesses do not believe in this new birth nor the cross (they call it a torture stake). The Bible says we must seek Christ by the way of the Cross and are kept under the blood. How can they call them selves Christians and deny all this? This week, Christians (follow ers of Christ) celebrate the resur ection of a living Christ. The ANOTHER KITCHEN See! Tha handy pal holder is part of year apran peckeH GUARANTEES you better baking or your money back! UMrar a. - w s'sK. m 5, ' y' ' s a ' jjar selfstyled Russell (Jehovah Wit- ness founder) said Christ was dead and forever dead, and arose a spirit. I Couldn't take this false doctrine. Thomas doubted. Jesus told him to put his finger in the nail prints of His hands. John 20-25-29. Another time "behold mT hands and my feet that this is I Myself, handle Me, and see Me, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see Me have." John 24:36-43. America offers freedom of worship. . Jehovah Witnesses do not respect "Old Glory" enough to honor her. Second Tim. 3:5-7 says "from such turn away." 2 John 9, 10, 11 says "if any come and bring not the doctrine of Christ hath not God, receive him not unto your house." Rev. 22. 18-19. Says we can not take away or add to the scriptures." This they have done. The Jehovah of the Watchtower is not the Jehovah of the Bible. Ernest F. Santo, 204 Lozier Lane, Medford, Oregon. Virginian Sympathizes With Tax Collectors Norfolk, Va U.R) L. W. Shafer sympathizes with Inter nal Revenue department officials even though he never worked as a tax collector. His telephone number was list ed by mistake in a published ar ticle on income tax collections. Shafer said he has been plagued by callers, each calling him a different name. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday: other daya 5:30 Drevious day. rAdrienne'sn SPECIAL PURCHASE Lovely Shorty COATS 'Fleeces in White and Pastels. All Sizes $2500 Miss Mayme Wade . Will Be At AdrienneY Mon. & Tues., April 11th & 12th . for SPECIAL FITTINGS of Love Bras Adri lenne s 214 E. Main - Phone 2-7169 CRAFT BARGAIN THIS $200 VALUE ONLY With bk trional. from lep ef any six bag Kitchen Craft Plow. 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