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rOXm MEDFORD (OREGON) MewoCJJTrib urn "Everybody in boutcern Oregon Read 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. Manajrin Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Edhor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts 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. Daiy and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. 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 $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford uinciai yaper oi daemon vui-tj United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAl ASVOCIATllON 37 J NIWSPAFEt 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 8, 1945 ( It was Sunday) Mrs. Ella Gore Wortman, whose parents came to Jackson county in 1852, dies after brief Illness." From Arthur Perry's Ye t Smudge Pot column: The na tion's press, in its war head lines, continues to refer to Gen. Eisenhower as "Ike." No kraut editor ever called Adolf Hitler "Ad." 20 YEARS AGO April 8, 1935 (It was Monday) Deah and Golda Higdon, for mer Medford residents, now ap pearing with Al G. Barnes cir cus as equestriennes. Jackson County bank build ing at corner of Main st. and Central ave. sold to Al Littrell. 80 YEARS AGO April 8, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Special Easter services to be held in all Medford churches, with Easter band concert at Cra terian theater under direction of F. Wilson Wait. J. R. Crews catches 47-pound almon at Savage Rapids dam. 40 YEARS AGO April 8, 1915 (It was Thursday) Grizzly Hiking club, under leadership of Cole Holmes, to climb Table Rock in effort to "toughen up" for climb to top of Mt. Ashland. Band of Gypsies, traveling In "prairie schooner," camps along Bear creek and city police for bid any fortune telling. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Business conditions today have been found better or less good in rural districts than in urban areas, or about the same? 2. More auto deaths occur in daytime, with tits relatively heavy traffic, or at night, with its relatively light traffic? 3. Aneurin Bevan, British la bor leftist, was or wasn't once a Cabinet member of a Labor Government? 4. Aphasia is loss of speech or of memory? 5. About half the population of New York has a Roman Cath olic, a Jewish or a Protestant background? 6. Lions today inhabit Asia as well as Africa, or only Africa? 7. Sarah Fulks is the real name of Judy Garland, Judy Hol iday, Ethel Merman, Jane Wy man or Grace Kelly? The answers: 1. Less good. 2. At night- 3. Was (minister of health, then of Labor). 4. Loss of speech. 5. Roman Catholic. 6. Asia also (in n. w. India). 7. Jane Vyman. HOLD YOUR HORSES Waynesburg, Pa. OJ.R) Maurice Helphenstine filed a claim for $139.89 in damages he contended was caused to his cr when a horse ran into it. He said the horse, grazing along side the highway, became fright ened as he drove past and leap ed cnton the hood of his car. 7h2 ccrr.pl-int charged that the c 'rnt horse should have been uucier control of the owner. MAIL TRIBUNE Surplus Solution Offered At least some farm merit in the plan advanced by the Izaak Walton League of America to conserve and improve some 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres of land and at the same time do away with the farm commodity surplus problem. The league contends that we have enormous and growing surpluses of basic commodities because -"we are using our land resources as if we were faced with imminent starvation." In the race between population growth and food production, says the league, the Am erican farmer is far in the he is cultivating some acres of which perhaps 20 cultivation. 'J'HE league sizes up the We have 70,000,000 acres of class 1 land (USDA classifi cation system) not subject to wind and water erosion; 170, 000,000 acres of class 2, capable of protection by simple measures; -232,000,000 acres of class 3 land that requires cautious handling if kept in constant production; 95,000, 000 acres of class 4 land capable of only intermittent culti vation; and 224,000,000 acres of classes 5 and 6 land that should be kept under permanent vegetative cover. Unfor tunately, we are farming considerable acreages of land in classes 4, 5 and 6. Land of classes 7 and 8 are suited only to forestry and wildlife. The Department of Agriculture has estimated that sur plus production represents the output of 40,000,000 acres. If this means acres of average productivity, it is roughly equivalent to the output of 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres of classes 3 to 6 land. Thus, we are using too much of our production potential, and misusing and degrading a sub stantial share of our total land resources. The Izaak Walton League figures that if a workable method can be found to remove 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres of class 3 and up land from cultivation, and put it in a self-restoring land reserve, the balance between produc tion and demand can be restored and the country would have one of the most effective soil and moisture 'conserva tion programs imaginable. TN order to attain such objectives the league propos es that the USDA lease from the owners, and re move from all agricultural acreage of cultivated land demand in line. It is suggested that leases be for a minimum of five years in humid areas, ten years in areas that are semi-arid or cyclically arid, and twenty years where reforestation use. ' It is estimated that after ports would no longer be have been reduced sufficiently through the with drawal of land from production. Cost of the transfer of 60,000,000 acres from production to restoration would run around $7.50 per acre, or $450,000,000 a year, the league believes. A DMITTEDLY, it is hard to estimate the actual cost "of the present price support program, due in part to the fact that some of the costs are involved m otn ed USDA activities. Last September the magazine Newsweek figured the loss on the 1954 crop would be $450,000,000 and that the Commodity Credit Corporation would have near ly $10,000,000,000 invested that the figure is about $8,000,000,000, it is probable the combined interest, storage costs and deteriora tion losses were near $500,000,000 to $600,000,000 a year, just to hold the surpluses. Any program which would eliminate the surpluses and at the same time give soil conservation benefits to 50,000,000 to 70,000,000 acres most in need of con servation, might well be considered a bargain, even at a cost of $1,000,000,000 a year. "fl". E. HAMILTON, research director for the Am- y erican Farm Bureau Federation, has stated that the Waltonian plan appears to be "sound, practicable and workable," though he saw the possibility of some objection because of its costs. A spokesman for the National Farmers Union commented that he liked the basic plan and its ob jectives, but that he differed with its backers on the suppostion that it would erase price supports. The latter possibility continued price supports would seem to be the main weakness of the plan set forth. Despite the land leasing proviso, as long as support" money remained attainable there would be an incentive to place other marginal land in cultiva tion or to stimulate the productivity of land currently in use. E.C.F. There'll Always Be a Downtown While population growths and other considera tions have brought considerable movement of some types of business to the suburbs, cities and towns will always have their downtown sections. This is the op inion of Henry G. Waltemade, president of the Na tional Association of Real Estate Boards as express ed at a recent meeting of the San Francisco Real Estate Board. THE real estate expert told his hearers that alarm " ist predictions of decentralization should not cause too much worry, that changes are to be expected in the downtown area of any city or town but that the "downtown" is going to stay and is going to grow. Waltemade cited downtown New York City as an example of such growth despite the crowded condi tions which have long prevailed. There, he said, the downtown section is still growing and new air condi tioned office buildings, renting for $7 to $8 per square foot, are under construction. More important than the changes in the business location picture, Waltemade stated, is the boom in home modernization and improvement now sweeping the country. This trend, he declared, considered in all its phases, represents nearly as big a business as new home production. E.C.F. frfday, April 8, 1935 experts agree that there is lead but to attain that lead 360,000,000 to 400,000,000 per cent is not suited for situation this way: production, a sufficient to bring production and would be the required land the third year price sup necessary as crops would at the end of the crop year in surpluses. Assuming Winston Churchill's Semi-Retirement Tops World News for Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. A long-awaited administra tive turnover finally came to pass in Great Britain when Sir Winston Churchill stepped down from the prime ministry in favor of Sir Anthony Eden, who had been his political heir for years. Churchill went into semi-retirement heaped with honors. His in tellectual powers were undim med. But he was an old, tired man. The change' in leadership puts a younger, more vigorous and more resilient team of men, led by Eden, in charge of British policy at this critical time in world affairs. 2. Tension in the Far East les sened suddenly and materially. The Chinese Communists toned down their bellicose threats to start a war by attempting to "lib erate" the Nationalist stronghold of Formosa, which the United States is pledged to defend. At the same time, dire predictions that the Reds planned an attack on the Matsu and Quemoy island groups about mid-April seemed to be without foundation. Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said at a press 'conference in Washington that if there is to be a war, the Reds will have to start it. 3. Great Britain joined the new Turkish-Iraqi alliance and Pakistan was invited to join it. There seemed reason to hope that Iran might join it soon. The alliance promised to - develon into one that would strengthen defense against Communism over the whole area between Egypt Babson and Stock By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Medford Mail Tribune) Al though the Fulbright Investiga tion of the stock market is over probably to the benefit of all concerned I c o n t inue to have questions from readers. Most of these are in regard to the Dow Jones Indus trial Average. This is what seems to trouble read Soger W. Babson ers most. First, they note that the Dow-Jones Industrial Aver age has "gone up" or "gone down" four points for instance and yet not one of the 30 stocks included in this "Aver age" has varied this amount. They say: "Wall Street account ing is worse than Truman ac counting." Another thing bothering stock- minded readers is that from one day to the next this so-called Average will move faster and further than what they claim to be the "honest Average." They write me: "No wonder Bernard N. Baruch is reported to have indicated that readers had better forget following the newspaper accounts of Wall Street, because by the time the market makes the front page all the wise guys have left the premises with the money." Reasons Given for , Wall Street Arithmetic The day-to-day changes in the Dow Averages are magnified. In the case of the Industrials, if on a straight mathematical aver age the market prices of the stocks were up one poinl, the net change shown by the Dow Average release would be up by more than five points. The rea son for the magnification of changes is that the Dow Aver ages are no longer arithmetic averages. That is, instead of taking the aggreate value of the 30 stocks in the series and- then dividing the sum by 30, they now take the aggregate value and use an adjusted divisor which at the present time is 5.76. Thus, the daily change in the average is actually magnified in a ratio of 30 to 5.76, or about 5.2 to 1. This method of computing the daily Average is to save time, yet preserve the historical con tinuity of the Average. Under the old method they adjusted each stock in the series for stock splits before computing the daily Average. Under the present method, no such adjustments are made for the individual stocks the adjustments are made in the divisor. In this way, there is no need to make a great many computations to adjust for the various splits that have taken place over the years. fed i la I f V. and Pakistan, it would weaken the "neutralist" campaign of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. THE BAD 1. United States-Japanese rela tions were somewhat snarled when Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu suggested that he visit Washington at once and Secretary of State Dulles de clined to receive him. As a result, the Japanese government of Pre mier Ichiro Hatoyama Vlost face" prestige and its position in parliament was weaxened. Shige mitsu wanted to seek a reduction in Japan's contribution to the cost of maintaining American troops in Japan. Opinion in Washington seemed to be that Shigemitsu invited the rebuff by suggesting his visit so abruptly. 2. The West Germans decided to ask the help of the United States, Britain and France in forcing the Communists to end what seemed to be a new threat to blockade West Berlin. The Reds had increased ten-fold the tolls charged trucks which move through the Soviet occupation zone with supplies for West Ber lin. They even threatened to make the increase retroactive. 3. The danger of civil war in southern Viet Nam in Indochina increased steadily. The powerful religious-political sects, which maintain - their own armies, threatened to besiege Saigon, the capital, unless Premier Ngo Dinh gave them more power in the government. Gen. J. Lawton Col lins, President Eisenhower's spe cial envoy, managed to arrange a truce which is supposed to last until next Tuesday. But tjhe sit uation threatened to get worse rather than better. Market Reports The present method is satis factory and simple the divisor itself is changed from time to time as splits and stock dividends occur. In fact, when this "di visor" idea was first used, the figure was 12.7, whereas the fig ure now used is 5.76. They first computed the sum of the market prices of the 30 stocks in the series adjusted for splits. The next step was to compute the Average by dividing this adjust ed sum of the prices by the num ber of stocks in the series (i.e., 30). Then the next step was to add together the market prices of the 30 stocks (with no adjust ments), and divide this figure by the adjusted Average. The net result was the divisor. The di visor now used to determine the Average at the various times of the day has been computed in this fashion. Facts Regarding Margin Requirements Letters have also come to me asking how and when margin re quirements have been changed during the past 20 years. Here are the facts regarding these: April 1, 1936, through Oct. 31, 1937, General Rule 55 per cent; Nov. 1, 1937, through Feb. 4, 1945, General Rule 40 per cent; Feb. 5, 1945, through July 4, 1945, General Rule 50 per cent; July 5, 1945, through Jan. 20, 1946, General Rule 75 per cent; Jan. 21, 1946, through Jan. 31, 1947, General Rule 100 per cent; Feb. 1, 1947, through March 20, 1949, General Rule 75 per cent; March 30, 1949, through Jan. 16, 1951, General Rule 50 per cent; Jan. 17, 1951, through Feb. 20, 1953, General Rule 75 per cent; Feb. 20, 1953, to Jan. 4, 1955, General Rule 50 per cent; Jan. 4, 1955, to date, Gen eral Rule 60 per cent. Margin requirements are set by the Federal Reserve Board, and are therefore an instrument of overall control." Changes are made as part of a broad Federal Reserve Policy. ATTEMPTED COUP FAILS Cairo, Egypt (U.R) An at tempted coup against King Ah med of Yemen by army forces favorable to his brother, Prince Abdullah, has failed and order restored throughout the isolated Arab kingdom on the Red Sea, according to reports here. Taste alone proves Sunnybank margarine naturally better! Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Spring Garden Suss To the Editor: It is most dif ficult to stay with traditional ways of life. We've been eating our own home grown radishes the past week and do relish them so much, even though we could have had them from the markets all winter. Ours were sown in what was supposed to be a hot bed. It did generate measurable heat for about ten days, then cooled down very very dead. The fissionable powers of our "manuromic pile," 3 feet wide by 12 feet long must have been, mostly wasted in some barnyard before being hauled here. But we kept the glass-wire frames on them at night, covered with canvas that kept the frost away, though it killed the tender flow ers just starting. But the rugged radishes, a little dark and glassy those 14 degree mornings, sur vived and flourished. So d?d the lettuce and swiss chard soon ready for transplanting. All these will have to make way for melons sprouting in house win dow trays. We do hope and plan to have melons ripe before next frost time, and tomatoes too, decently early. The last of our new potatoes, planted tail end of last August and early September, were dug a month ago. We've also had our own carrots and parsnips fresh from the ground all winter. And the other day, we dug a bunch of horseradish that went grand with hamhocks for dinner (.noon) though there was a deal of weepin' in the grinding of the roots and fixin' with vinegar. Fragranted the house just like it used to do in Michigan, back on the farm when we waited so eagerly for the deep frozen ground to thaw enough to dig for the horseradish and parsnips that grandpa warned not to use too late in the spring for too much sun. would "put pizen in 'em. Here in the west, Indians, especially the old-ones, got their vitamins of spring from pine trees, hacking away the rough bark and scraping up the white life-giving cambium layer. Their very earliest products of the earth were the sun-flowers. Whole families would gather on warm south hillside ' slopes io feed on the tender sprouts. Later on they would gather wild sweet-clover and, placed in a puddle of water, hot rocks rolled in and covered with blankets, they had their steamed greens. F. J. Clifford 1211 W. Main . Darrell Miller Picked for Meeting DarreU MiUer, head of the Darrell Miller Co., 415 South Riverside ave., Oldsmobile deal er here, has been chosen as one of 22 Oldsmobile dealers in the nation to attend a dealer-factory council meeting in Lansing, Mich., later this month. He and Mrs. Miller will leave by plane for the east on April 25. The meeting will be the 26th, 27th and 28th, and afterward they will go on to Washington and New York, returning by way of Los Angeles. The meeting is held to discuss retailing problems from the dealers' viewpoint and produc tion problems from the factory viewpoint, Miller said. He was chosen to represent the Portland zones, which includes Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho. There are 22 such zones in the country. Miller has been associated with Oldsmobile ' for some 18 years. He came to Medford from Klamath Falls about 2V4 years ago, and purchased the Edgerton Motor company, the name of which has been changed. 'BAD RISK' DIES Winchendon, Mass. (U.R) Edward D. Blackwell, who was refused insurance in 1878 as a "bad risk," died Wednesday at the age of 102. In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS In a previous installment of this series, I spoke of the contrast in ways of life and standards of living when one crosses the line that divides American Nogales in the state of Arizona from Mexi can Nogales in the state of So nora. f The contrast is sharp enough to be instantly apparent, but as a matter of fact Nogales isn't a good example of the point I was seeking to make that in areas identical in climate and soil and natural resources available for development the kind of govern ment that has been enjoyed or disenjoyed over a considerable period of time can make a tre mendous difference. Mexican Nogales is a big tour ist trading pont where Ameri cans come to buy at quite rea sonable prices the interesting Mexican products in the stores on the Mexican side. The stores are clean arid bright and pleas ant, the merchandise is attrac tive and the sales people are courteous and efficient. They all speak excellent English. As a result, shopping there is an agreeable experience. A BETTER example is provided by Mexicali, across the line from Calexico in American Cali fornia. For whatever reason, there is relatively little across-the-border trade at these twin towns, and the bulk of what there is is accounted for by Mexi can people who come over the line to buy American goods. In the block nearest the in ternational boundary in Calexi co, prices on goods displayed in the windows and offered for sale in the stores are quoted both in pesos and in doUars. The signs and price tags are in Spanish and English. In Mexicali, the prices are quoted in pesos only and the signs are.m Spanish only. The rate of exchange is 12Vfc pesos for a dollar, and when you ask what the price is in dollars most of the salespeople have a cur iously roundabout method of ar riving at the quotation. They pick the price in dollars out of their minds arid multiply it by eight. If the resulting computa tion comes out the same as the marked price in pesos they tell you what it is, and if it doesn't come out even they do the prob lem over again. riNE can't help being reminded " of the ancient tale about the tourist who was riding through Nevada in the parlor car with a Nevada cattleman. They 'passed a vast herd of cattle, and the tourist, asked . the native how many animals did he reckon were in sight. The cattleman did a quickie on his fingers and an swered: There are exactly 4, 822, counting a couple of runt calves." "How did you count 'em up so quick?" the tourist asked. . "Oh, that was easy," the cat tleman explained. "I just count ed the feet and divided by four." IN Nogales, they are anxious visiting Americans aren't given any rush acts. I state this as a general rule, but it has its ex ceptions. The exceptions are the' small fry who swarm all over the place with boxes of chewing gum and importune one to buy at anywhere from a penny up to whatever they think the prospect is good for. They have discover er that nine times out of ten the Americans will shell out to get rid of them. So they crowd the Beautifully EASTER1 BREADS ROLLS PIES WEDDING CAKES CAKES for Any Occasion PATTY-CAKE BAKERY 1 1 Almond Street Just off E. Main Plenty of Free Parking ...you can on Sunnybank! News technique hard, sometimes fol lowing you for a block. Other ' small fry join in the game; and one soon has a queue of Mexican children following him like the tail that follows a comet. In Mexicali, it is fairly obvious that the sales people don't like to be bothered by Americans. It is equally obvious that the mer-.'. chandise displayed is for Mexi- .. cans only. In Nogales the streets are full of Americans, but you can walk all over Mexicali and see not over half a dozen for- -eigners. - 1 TN Mexicali, the contrast be- tween the two ways of life are ' sharp and striking. Yet. as in ' Nogales, the soil, the climate and the available natural resources ' are identical. Government, you see. has a lot ' to do with the welfare of the 1 people: If government is cood. ' the plight of the people is good. ' And vice versa. There is every ' reason to believe that the pres-J ent government of Mexico is' good. But there were long cen- turies when it was cruel and un- - feeling and altogether terrible. ; The scars of those centuries still 1 remain. v , SHOT BY CAR Rushville, Neb. U.R) Gene Scott reported to authorities he 1 was "shot" by his car door dur- ing a recent hunting trip. Scott , : j i ... iia ne was getting out of his snowbound car when a gust of wind blew the door shut. The door caught his coat pocket, dis-1 charging a .22 caliber rifle shell. Scott, struck in the abdomen, walked to the nearest farm home. v Milwaukie, Ore. OJ.R). ' Olin. O. Nichols, who recently : retired after 30 years service with the state police, has been appointed Milwaukie chief of' police. J down- Drink SfllDER'S Milk oil never A o 71 fourneei CV Drink Vyf glasses : of Milk everyday SfllDER'S MILK Give your Easter feast the crowning glory of our delic ious cakes, pie's and cookies . . . specially designed and baked for the festive occas ion! Decorated CAKES 1 COOKIES SYr V'Sifcfc litgrotfATV Sunnybank appeals to your sense of taste . . . giving you the flavor difference of wholesome ingredients that are naturally better Make your own taste test! Try Sunnybank over hot foods and as a delicious spread. You'll agree where flavor counts count mm m V Y.U X
