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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. April 10, 1955 MewwidTribuki "i.ver uoaj hi jouuiein Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily 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 ALT .FN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE 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 630 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. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and S'jnday 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 County 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 EDITOtlAL ASSOCIATION v- "W1 Lf3XN!WSPAMl TO, PUBIISHIRS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. A Poor Showing If the Governors of Oregon and Washington wish to fight public power in favor of private power that is their privilege. But at least they should present arguments that make sense. Up to date their arguments have not, as far as the Hells Canyon hearing is concerned. Governor Langlie, for example, spent half an hour reading his opposing brief but never touching on the main issue, which is : whether a federal project on the Snake River would give more power at less cost to the people of the areas concerned and therefore greater development than the Idaho Power com pany's project, or the reverse. INSTEAD he accused the public-power proponents of playing politics and claimed their proposal "a phoney", when all he did was to play politics himself and present the phoniest arguments this controversial issue has produced to date. He detected the public-power proposal, for exam ple, a conspiracy on the part of California to get water that belonged to Oregon! When asked how California could do this via the bill under consideration, he sidestepped that issue entirely, and gave a long discourse as to the greater cost of the higher dam over the 3-small power com pany dams, and claimed the former would have no value in flood-control or irrigation anyway. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsep 10 YEARS AGO April 10, 1945 (It was Tuesday) Ralph Sweeney Medford, in stalled as grand commander of Oregon Knights Templar at con clave held in Portland. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The April weather continues nothing to brag about. It is hardly worth a civic cussing. 20 YEARS AGO April 10. 1935 (It was Wednesday) Statue, pool and drinking fountain, presented to Medford by late Charles W. Palm and Mrs. Callie Palm, to be unveil ed and dedicated in ceremonies at library park. Norman C. White, assistant superintendent of Rogue River National forest, returns here from Arizona after six - weeks sick leave. 30 YEARS AGO April 10, 1925. (It was Friday) The Rev. F. R. Leach resigns as pastor of Medford Baptist church. "Oregon" Jones, southern Ore gen badman and prison escapee, captured at Sacramento. 40 YEARS AGO April 10. 1915 (It was Saturday) Elmer T. Foss announces plans for formation of rifle club here. Local cigar manufacturing concern announces that, hence forth all Medford - made cigars will sell for five for a quarter instead of six for a quarter. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of in 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Bernard Baruch told a Sen ate body recently that stocks were or weren't too high, or that he didn't know? 2. Which of these nations were not represented at the Yalta con ference in 1945: France, Nation alist China, Italy? 3. The postal deficit in this administration has increased or decreased from that in the last full year under Truman, or stayed about the same? 4. You are more likely to fall a victim to diabetes if you are over weight; right or wrong? 5. Pearls worn next to the skin need cleaning more or less often than those not so worn, or just as often? 6. Jose Ramon Guizado is the ousted president of Costa Rica,' Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua or Panama? 7. Consumption of beer per capita is higher or lower in the South than in the North, or about the same? The Answers: 1. H didn't know; 2. All three; 3. Decreased; 4. Right; 5. Mora often; 6 Pan ama; 7. Lower. TOO EFFICIENT Madison, Wis. (U.R) The board of education, while laying plans for a cornerstone celebra tion at the new Crawford Heights school, was told there would be a hitch in the sched ule. Bricklayers, it seems, filled in the gap where the corner stone was supposed to be inserted. TRRIGATION and flood control are, we grant, minor factors in Hells Canyon. It is essentially a power project. But wnat would the 3-small dams proposed by the Idaho Power company contribute in this direc tion? The answer is absolutely nothing, yet the Gov ernor of Washington is going all out for that proposal. It doesn't make sense. THE total cost, of course, would be greater in the larger project. But so would the service rendered and the area served be greater. And that cost, as neither Governor Langlie nor anyone else can deny, would all be paid back eventually to the people through their government. These federal projects are all self-liquidating as Governor Langlie knows. So why make costs the chief issue? The chief issue as stated is what is best for the country that portion, that is involved. OVERNOR Patterson didn't make such a spectacle of himself, but he certainly failed to make a case. In fact he didn't oppose Hells Canyon on the basis of wicked federal power or "creeping socialism", but evaded that issue entirely. He merely said he was against not federal power, but the high dam bill as written for he couldn't see "MUCH benefit" in it to the people of Oregon. Assuming the people of Idaho would benefit more we believe they would does our Governor mean that he would want the federal project defeated, and those benefits to a neighbonng state denied because Oregon would only get the lesser share? It is hard to believe our Governor is serious in taking such a selfish dog-in-the-manger attitude. If he is, then how can he be for the Idaho-Power company proposal? That would not give Oregon ANYTHING? . A LL in all rather a sorry mess, as far as the Gov- ernors of Oregon and Washington were con cerned. . If either of them had come out frankly and clearly against public power and for private power, stating their reasons for such a stand they would at least have been on solid ground and entitled to a respectful hear ing, whether one agreed with them or not. But to straddle the issue as Governor Patterson did, and to misrepresent it as did the Governor of Washington, certainly .reflected no credit upon the chief-executives of 'these two important .northwest states, and can't have helped the Idaho-Power com pany cause before the Senate committee, as appar ently they hoped. R.W.R. A Question of Fact The Oregonian oppose Hells Canyon dam because it claims it would throw a "rpad-block" before the orderly construction of dams on the Columbia, and take too much time to complete. Also an appropria tion would have to be authorized first no funds are available at present. These same arguments were offered in the recent campaign. Apparently the voters did not think much of them. Well, they shouldn't. TO BUILD any federal dam the money has to be voted of course. And to build any high dam a con siderable time must be consumed Defore the switch can be pulled, and the wheels turn. There wouldn't be a federal power dam in the country today if such arguments had prevailed. The point, as has so often been stated, is whether a high dam built by the government utilizing to the full potentialities of the Snake should be built, or the three low dams by the Idaho-Power company, which admittedly would not do the job as well or as completely. 1 i? ti I V TIME is a factor of course, but not a vital one. For these dams, if built, will be built for all time, not for a few years but for generations; not for a party convention or for any one administration. And if the small dams on the Snake are constructed, the high dam of course never can be. So, on the basis that whatever is worth doing is worth doing right, the opponents of the Idaho-Power company project favor the federal program and that is why the recent Senate committee hearings have been held in the northwest to find out how the people THE OLD MAN Washington The dinner at 10 Downing Street the night be fore Sir Winston Churchill re signed as Prime Minister of Britain, must have been a moving occa sion, in a pe culiarly Brit ish way. Ac cording to one of those pres ent, who has described the occasion by overseas tele phone, the high Stewart Alsop point of the evening came just after the old Prime Minister had drunk his toast to the Queen, to "the sacred causes and wise and kindly way of life of which Your Majesty is the young, gleaming champion. When the old man sat down the guests were surprised to see the Queen rise, lift her glass, and in a simple speech, toast "the health of my Prime Minister. The toast had a special, very English meaning. For as the young Queen noted, no reigning British monarch has ever before thus responded to the traditional toast to the occupant of the throne. To the tradition-minded British, the gesture was no doubt more meaningful than the offer of any number of dukedoms. The transfer of power is al ways a sad and moving spectacle, but especially so in the case of the great Churchill. Yet Sir Win ston, it should be said, has no in tention of quietly fading away. it is not in his nature. To be sure, he intends to make a special effort not to seem to overshadow his successor, Sir Anthony Eden, for whom he has a genuine if somewhat puckish affection. After his return from his month's vacation in Sicilv. Churchill may appear on tele vision two or three times, to cam paign for the Conservatives in the election, now believed cer tain to take place in late May. But he will do what he can to make sure that the new Prime Minister, rather than the old. is the central figure in the cam paign. T-l i .me conservatives are ex pected, rightly or wrongly, to win the election by a comfort able margin. This is the main rea son why ChurchiU at length cnose this time to step down. Until recent weeks, he had in tended to stay on until about Oc tober, in the hopes that in the meantime the "meeting at the summit," first proposed by him, might take place. 1UT CHURCHILL is nothing if not a loyal party man, and he was persuaded at length that the split in the Labor party presented tne Conservatives with a golden opportunity which they could not afford to miss. He had al ready agreed that he should step down before the election, to give Eden a chance for a clear popu lar mandate. So at last, with the infinite reluctance of a man who loves power, he let it be known that the time of departure had come. The departure is real in the sense that Churchill will never again participate in a British government. Moveover, contrary to some reports, he has no intent tion of taking part in a meeting at the summit, which now looks very much more probable than when he first proposed it. He knows that Eden's position, to put it mildly, would be almost impossibly difficult if he were to participate in such a confer ence. Moreover, to go to such a meeting as a mere adviser and secondary figure would be a weak anti-climax to his career, and Churchill is not fond of anti climaxes. For a time, Churchill will spend most of his days at Chart well, painting, building things (he is the original exponent of the do-it-yourself cult), feeding his beloved goldfish, and com plete writing a three or four vol ume history of the English-speaking peoples. The history project might be enough to occupy the time of most eighty year old men. But not Churchill. As he himself is said to have pointed out with some asperity in recent days, he may have said farewell to the Premiership but he has most de cidedly not said farewell to Parl iament or public life. TN SHORT, the last has by no means been heard from the great old man. His beloved Parl iament will give him the plat form from which to speak on the subject which now almost ob sesses him to the exclusion of all others the quest for peace in the nuclear age. It will be well worth waiting to hear the results of Churchill's musings on this subject, in the intervals between goldfish-feeding and history-writing. Five or six years ago, when the atomic age was young, Churchill was heard to remark half to himself at a small luncheon that he had known war was coming from the moment Hitler took power he felt it in his heart. "But," he con tinued, " I do not feel it in my heart now." So far, he has been right again and again the spectre of world war has loomed up over the world, and then receded. And it is a little reassuring, at least, to learn that even now, in the infinitely more menacing shadow of the hydrogen bomb, the old man still doe not "feel war in his heart." At any rate, citizens of the civilized world he helped to save will join in the hope that his brave old heart will continue to beat for a very long time. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News 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. B7 FRANK JENKINS Among the minor items of a roundabout excursion through the Southwest are the frequent stops at California and Arizona bug stations to have your bag gage frisked for noxious pests. If by chance your route leads you down Highway 395 through Reno and Las Vegas and thence south to Phoenix, you seem to be crossing a border of California or Arizona about every ten min utes. Each time, you stop and go through a routine that soon be comes as familiar as lighting a cigarette. "VTOU pass the sign in the road A instructing all cars to Btop You pull over into the station, most of which have been made over into quite attractive places, well- supplied with rest rooms and other facilities of the road. A neatly uniformed and prac tically without exception pleas ant and courteous representative of the state department of agri culture steps up, pad and pencil in hand. You soon learn to stop the engine, .throw wide the doors of your car and unlock the baggage compartment and raise the lid, Grateful Patient To the Editor: Recently I spent several weeks at the Community Hospital and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the nurses and staff members who were so kind in caring for me, also for the many visits and love ly cards and letters from my friends and neighbors. May I say thanks to each and every one of them again. Orin W. Train, Trail. Ore. Complete Bible Used To the Editor: In reply to Mr. Santo's letter: Mr. Santo is de liberately giving a distorted viewpoint about what Jehovah's witnesses believe. The Bibles that Jehovah's wit nesses use on the doorsteps of the peoples homes are 99 King James and 1 American Stand ard. The complete Bible is used and studied and all are encour7 aged to do the same. Anyone believing in a new birth puts himself in a mighty responsible Dosition before Je hovah God. His feet must con stantly be kept in a Christian course of action, which means to show forth the fruits of the Spirit. (Gal. 5:22,23) Anyone la boring in the works of the flesh which is 4'hate of brother" then John's words apply to him. '"If anyone says I love God and hate his brother he is a liar and a liar does not .have eternal life abiding in him." (1 John 4:20,21; John 2:4; 1 John 3:15). The Watchtower publications defi nitely support a new birth for those that inherit Jehovah's hea venly Kingdom. As for proselyting: The evi dence is set before each indi vidual to make up his own mind. Christ Jesus is separating the sheep from the goats. He knows the heart-condition of each one and when this "good news of the Kingdom" has been preached world-wide for a witness then the end of this system of things will come. Whether one is a goat or a sheep is an individual choice. Jesus did not preach a "rock ing chair" salvation. Who ever won a fight sitting down? Paul said to "put up a hard fight for the faith." If one lived at the time of Christ and wanted to be a Christian would he sit in a pew of a synagogue and listen to a Pharasee or clergyman expound or would he preach at the ex pense of being hated, persecuted and imprisoned because he up held true worship of Jehovah at the cost of his life? Yes, " indeed, America offers freedom of worship even though some have tried to stifle for some individuals, what Old Glory stands for. But freedom even in America has had to be fought for otherwise Jehovah's witnesses would not have had to take 47 cases to the Supreme Court of the United States to keep religious liberty open. When a minority's freedom is gone so is our Constitution. "... if this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it jjaikLiX satisfactory ap- proach to the situation is this: "No fruits, no roots, no vege tables." The attendant gives your baggage a cursory look, says "Thank you,v scribbles a few cryptic marks on a printed slip, hands it to you with a smile and that's that. Among other things, it pro vides you with the stretch that is so relaxing about every 100 miles or so. SWINGING around through the Southwest, you cross back and forth over the boundaries of California, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico much like an ant strolling around over a checkerboard. Nevada and New Mexico pay you no heed. You roll into them and out of them with as little formality as you go from one room to another in your home. I suppse Nevada being Ne vada and New Mexico being New Mexico they see eye to eye on this business of bug interception, probably shrugging it all off with the casual thought that if a new bug enters into their wide deserts it does so at its own peril. CALIFORNIA and Arizona are something else again. Both have a lot of cotton and a lot of fruit and a lot of vegetables. In that kind of agricultural econ omy; a new bug can raise a lot of Cain. I reckon the bug sta tions must justify themselves. At any rate, the taxpayers of both states go on pungling up the money to keep them going. IF one wanted to smuggle a bug into California or Arizona, it would be a cinch. But I reck on nobody wants to. A few years ago there were dark, suspicions that Florida would just LOVE to smuggle into California the bug that causes Florida grapefruit rust. on the general principle that if Florida has to put up with the grapefruit rust pest California ought to have to go along. There were a lot of cynical cracks about that, including the well known one to the effect that if California grapefruit ontract- ed the Florida rust it might make the darned things fit to eat, Since then, of course, the Texas pinks have come into the market in a big way and are so much better than either Florida's or California's that nobody seems to care much about the grape fruit bug any more. POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) MO fSS jM sSSd E. M. Tucker, president of the Tucker Sno-Cat corporation. is a man of many hobbies and enthusiasms. One of them is old cars. His latest venture into this field it shown above. It is a 1910 model White steamer, which he found jacked up in a Jack son county garage not long ago, and purchased. ("I won't tell how much I had to pay for it I'd be ashamed to admit how much it was," he said.) He wanted it particularly because he had another White 1910 when- he was 18 years old, his first car. He's refurbished . it, repaired it, and got it back in running order again, and takes delight in wheeling through the streets of Medford. Except for repair parts, it's all the original car. Tucker points out that in running the complicated steamer mechanisms, there are 54 separate things which have to be done, and he's as busy as can be when driving around. It takes a book of instructions to operate the vehicle. Maybe he forgot one of the 54 things to do Friday as he drove away from in front of the Mail Tribune office for the car stalled in the middle of the intersection . of Fir and Sixth streets, and Tucker and two volunteer youngsters pushed it away. Department of Information Which Might Come In Handy Some Time: The , Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation dis tricts, between them, own the irrigation waterworks above Little Butte Creek, including the Fish Lake and Fourmile Lake reservoirs. The MID owns 9,57614,500ths of this property, and the RRID owns 4.92414.500ths. A sad commentary on the fashions in women's hats or a good one on the politeness of Medford people was demonstrated Friday by a brave female member of the news staff. She wore her brown hat, with a huge green ribbon pinned on it by one of the office jokesters, throughout her noon hour. The ribbons, originally on a bouquet of flowers and now slightly the worse for wear, had been lying around the office for the past three years collecting dust. She reported getting nothing but compliments on the hat, and one acquaintance asked if she was "going to church" But to the men in the office it looked just plain weird. The return of spring brought' this comment from one well-known Medford resident: "I don't want any more yard work than my wife can handle comfortably." -This is the orchard heating season. It is called the orchard heating season at the urgent request of the orchardists who use heaters and the officials who assist them. They have a prejudice against the word "smudging. A reporter one day asked one of -the aforesaid officials for some information on past orchard heating seasons, and the offi cio! obliging had it looked up in the file. : ' It was filed under "S for smudging. One city official, concerned about the Increasing diffi culty of parking in the downtown area, was overheard to remark that he can remember the day when the only parking problem was getting the girl to agree to it. in the districts concerned feel about it. If the people don't want the public-power project, certainly no one is going to force it on them. If they do, a bill has been drawn, which will pro vide same at the earliest practical moment. All this talk about costs, power precedence and the time factor is merely a smoke screen to divert public attention from the real issue which is this: from the standpoint of the public welfare and the industrial development of the Snake river area, which is best a federal project or the program of the Idaho-Power company. - It isn't a matter of partisan politics, it is a matter of fact what is true and what isn't. . And in the final analysis the people should de cide, and undoubtedly will R.W.R. THERE was a time when the California bug stations were manned by attendants who to put it as mildly as possible were by no stretch of the imag ination Lord Chesterfields. They were nearly all brusque, and some of them were snooty. In the long distant past, there was one at Yuma that took the cake for lack of tact and court esy and what has come to be known as the talent for winning friends and influencing people. He left all comers weak with rage. His method of inspecting a car for bugs was to require the occupant to take all his baggage out and line it up, whereupon this inspector would lift the lid, straddle the bag, and empty it by the process of pawing all the contents out after the manner of a dog digging for a rabbit. He'd then issue the ticket and leave the tourist to repack the stuff. Those were in the bad old days, which are gone where the woodbine twineth. The bug serv ice has been thoroughly over hauled and the process of in spection has been made painless and almost pleasant. The world, you see, IS getting better. 'Rosy-Fingered Dawn' lest ye be found fighting against God" (Acts 5:38:39). Lynn Wisham P O Box 1173 Medford, Ore. CHANGE IN CONCORD Concord, Mass. (U.R) Histo ric Conqord has changed its form of town government for the first time in 320 years. Voters have decided to instaU a town , man ager system beginning in 1956. By J. HUGH PRUETT Astronomer. Extension Division Oregon Higher Education System Early one summer morning a few years ago, I was awakened by the hum of a passing air plane. Shortly afterward in the nearby firs I heard the hesitant twittering of awakening birds, a suggestion that day was break ing. Over the eastern hill-fringed horizon there was the merest hint of the gray blush of early dawn. In this glow one lone star, bright Capella, twinkled lazily. Our little city in the deep blue darkness of the valley, well be low our hillside observation point, was visible only as rows of artificial lights Those of us of indolent incli nations seldom realize the inspir ing beauty of the early dawn, for the lovely "rosy-fingered" god dess "who makes the world young every new morning, ne glects the indifferent. Astronomical Dawn Dawn is the specific name giv en to the twilight of morning Astronomical dawn begins when the sun is 18 degress below the horizon; civil dawn, when six degrees below. The duration of this "herald of day" varies with the date and the latitude. Dur ing the longest days astronom ical dawn at the equator last 1 hour 15 minutes; at San Fran cisco, 1 hour 56 minutes; at Port land, Ore., 2 hours 35 minutes. At about the latitude of Van couver, B.C. and northward there is twilight in June along tne nortnern norizon all night. In northern Alaska, the sun does not even bother to set during the entire 24 hours. The ancients taught that after sunset old Sol was slowly fer ried around the great northern ocean to the place of sunrise. This belief seems reasonable since those living fairly weU north see the summer sun set toward the northwest, and the following twilight move farther northward. Centered in North By midnight, the twilight now ready to become dawn is centered in the north. From there it swings toward the north east. At Seattle the sun at mid night (June 21) is less than 19 degrees below the northern sky line. The dawn light is due to the reflection of sunlight from the higher atmosphere. The air from which the first hints of daybreak come is about 50 miles above the earth's surface. It appears to be right on the horizon, but actual ly comes from very far distant air, so far beyond the sky line that the terrestrial curvature drops the earth's surface 50 miles lower. Were there no atmosphere, there would be no dawn! The sun then would very nearly "come up like thunder" in a blast of sudden light out of a dark sky, that would change night into blazing day. Fortunate indeed are those whose daily tasks take them out under the colorful skies of day break as "the bird awaketh and the shadows flee." There is a poetic grandeur in the advanc ing dawn which is constantly repeated for the one who is favored with clear skies and who knows how to look. 550,000 Suit Filed By Used Car Dealer Portland (U.R) Delbert R. Williams, Portland used - car dealer, Friday filed a $50,000 damage suit for his mistaken ar rest for violating Portland's ban against selling cars on Sunday. Williams named as defendants the Automobile Dealers Associa tion of Portland; Braley & Gra ham, and private investigator L. M. French. The sum asked in cludes $25,000 for general dam ages and $25,000 for embarrass ment and injury to his reputa tion. Municipal Judge John J. Miir. chison dismissed trip rharsaa against WUliams after the arrest ing officer, the private detective, was unable to identify him. The judge ruled it a case of mistaken identity.. Williams and about 20 other dealers also have broken with the Oregon Used Car Dealers As sociation. The split was for the purpose of fighting the Sunday ban against car sales. The Castro House at San Juan Bautista was built about 1825 by Jose Castro, governor of Cal ifornia, 1835-36.