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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordwTribui "iveryooay ui souuiern 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 KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Manasring Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Ediior HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three raw 3.50 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.23 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Photnix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and cn motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month li5 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of JacKson iouiiy ITnitcd Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advenlsing Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vaneouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAl ASTbch-ATllON O fcjzznnzs 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 18. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Mayor Clarence A. Meeker will discuss post-war develop ments with the city planning commission tonight. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Some con cern is expressed over "the post war place of the OPA!" Among the majority of housewives, out of red stamps, it is figured the place has not yet been. dug. 20 YEARS AGO April 18, 1935 (It was Thursday) Howard Hobson, head coach and physical director at South ern Oregon Normal school at Ashland, has been appointed head basketball and baseball coach at the University of Ore gon. The city council Tuesday night authorized public dances in Med ford to remain open until 2 a.m. 30 YEARS AGO April 18, 1925 . (It was Saturday) Construction plans for a 40 bed general hospital costing about $25,000 has been authoriz ed by the interior department for the Klamath reservation. Jackson county got its first conviction under a new law per taining to driving a car while intoxicated. 40 YEARS AGO April 18, 1915 (It was Sunday) From the Local and Personal column: There was a general exodus of Medford people to the hills and country under the lure of the bright sunshine and 85 degree temperatures. The Southern Pacific railroad installed electric signals at the Jackson 11th st. crossings today. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The U.S. is generally be lieved to be behind Great Brit ain in developing atomic power for peace time industry? 2. Gen. Eisenhower said in 1948 he was willing or unwill ing to run for president then, or was silent on the subject? 3. Federal antitrust laws to day apply in general to both la bor and farm groups, to labor but not farm ones, to farm but not labor ones, or to neither? 4. Most geologists put the age of the earth at about 4 million, 400 million or 4 billion years? 5. Average production cost of electric power in the U. S. is somewhat more or less than lc per kilowatt hour, or about lc? 6. The Bundesrat is the upper or lower house of the West Ger man parliament? 7. Betty June Thorneburg is the real name of which screen star? The Answers: 1. Behind. 2. Said he was unwilling. 3. In gen eral to neither. 4. About 4 bil lion. 5. Somewhat less, on the average. 6. Upper (lower is the Bundestag). 7. Betty Hutton. NO SECRET Denver U.R) Retired police man Carl W. Baker celebrated his 9Sth birthday Sunday. His secret for a long life: "Just keep breathing." Dead line for Sunday Classified is at coon Saturday. rffft" XNIWSPAPEI MAIL TRIBUNE The Polio Victory A week from today, if all goes well, second and third graders in Jackson county will begin the process of having needles shoved m a vast majority of cases, from the ravages of mf an tile paralysis. We are on the threshhold of an era when polio myelitis will join smallpox mankind as virtually extinct dangers. THIS is a cause for rejoicing. It may also be a time to consider that since polio, the once-mysterious crippler, is on the verge of being conquered, there medical science cannot go on to greater discoveries. Still ahead lies victory over cancer, over cardio vascular disease, over mental illnesses, over the de generative diseases. If Americans, through their con tributions of money and through the genius and work of their scientists, can wipe out polio, there is no rea son to believe the same miracle cannot be wrought for other killers." IUDGED on the basis of sis has loomed larger in the rogue's gallery of dis ease than statistics would indicate, for it has never been one of the most numerous diseases, nor even the most frequently fatal. But the tragic after-effects of the paralysis on children, and the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt was a sufferer and founder of the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis, furnished the motivation for the campaign which is now reaching success. ., TN the physical sciences, A possible. For today a million things are accom plished facts which only a few years ago would have been unimaginable. Pneumonia, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, malaria, bubonic plague all of these have been conquered to a greater or lesser degree. The marvels of the cures from penicillin began within the memory of every adult. The flight of man through the air is only a half- century old, and already and the stars. XN the basis of the evidence at hand, man can con w quer threats to man from everything except man himself. His science has now reached a point where mankind's greatest and most urgent danger comes from his inability to get along with others of his own breed. If the type of genius, the amounts of money, and the vast concentration of effort which have gone to ward conquering disease, perfecting flight, making communications instantaneous, arid developing all the other appurtenances of sources were devoted to eliminating the basic causes of human unrest and war, be achieved? MEANWHILE we can be the way out. It is evidence that what can be done. Maybe there sooner or later, he will set greatest problem his own The Freeway Proposals We have heard a lot of discussion about the route which the proposed new freeway through or around Medford should take. Most of the discussion has been a bit previous, because mission is now surveying will survey another bet ore The two routes which have been proposed thus far are (1) an elevated highway down the east bank of Bear creek, and (2) a by-pass route to the east of the city. MOT long ago E. M. Tucker proposed a variant of Plan 1, which made sense to a lot of "people. This would have put the highway down the bed of Bear creek, with the creek itself confined to a concrete channel under the highway. This, he suggests, would eliminate some 'of the criticism of the route from those. who are afraid (with some justification, it must be pointed out) that an elevated route there would destroy much of the at- ractiveness and utility of Hawthorne park. Perhaps his suggestion should get a more thorough going-over by engineers to determine its f easibilty. JUST recently, we've heard still another suggestion which at first sight sounds logical. This proposal would put the route right through town (as many mer chants desire), but would do little to detract from any esthetic qualities, and wouldn't touch Hawthorne park. This idea is to make the four-lane throughway an elevated highway placed precisely over the Southern Pacific tracks as they go through Medford. It certainly wouldn't cause any more howls than would the Bear creek route. E.A. April Showers Sprinkle By UNITED PRESS April sprinkled its traditional showers today over a large part of the nation. Showers were forecast for most of the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Rockies and from the Dakotas to the Great Lakes and lower Missouri Valley. Temperatures meanwhile had warmed up from Texas to the Canadian border, pushing the mercury into the 70s early today as far north as Kansas and Mis souri. In the eastern Great Lakes and Far West temperatures dropped Monday, April 18, 1955 into them, to protect them and a host of other ills of is no reason to believe that cold logic, infantile paraly nothing seems entirely im- he is looking to the planets civilization if these re what miracles might then thankful that polio is on man sets himself to do, is reason to hope that, himself -to solve his survival. E.A. the State Highway Com one route, and probably a decision is made. Nation slightly, but they remained steady elsewhere. Motorist Liability Law Up To Governor Salem (U.R) A bill designed to get approximately; 95 per cent of Oregon drivers under liability insurance was before Gov. Patterson today. The mea sure was passed by the House Saturday. At present, about 80 per cent of the state's motorists are covered by liability insurance. Matter of Fact AS PEIPING SEES US . Taipeh, Formosa In order to understand the Formosa cris is, we must try to see ourselves as others see us. And if we make this al ways depress in g attempt, the sad truth comes out that the Chinese Comm u n i s t leaders almost certainly be lieve that America really is a "paper ti Joseph Alao ger." On this highly significant point, all the on-the-spot ex perts encountered by this re porter have been unanimous. The expert opinion is not sur prising, either. For the Chinese theory that America is a paper tiger is rather squarely founded on the facts of the recent rec ord. In the period since the Eisen hower administration took of fice, there Have been two tests of will and purpose between Pei ping and Washington. The first test, whose outcome was the source of all the bristling cur rent dangers in Asia, was the test in Korea. In January, 1953, America was tired of the Korean war, but China was utterly , exhaust ed by it. Since August of the year before,, half the Cabinet of the Chinese Communist government had been in Moscow, to plead for more generous aid which was not forthcoming. In December, the Chinese had even made an independent peace bid through the Indians, only to be slapped down hard by the old tyrant Stalin. In the winter of 1953, in short, the Chinese were visibly hang ing on the ropes. Whatever er rors may have gone before and this reporter thinks there were many such the winter when President Eisenhower took office was the ideal moment to mobilize America's resources and go in to win in Korea. A real victory in Korea would have given the free world at least ten years breathing space in the Far East. But instead, after long hesitations, the Administra tion gave the Chinese Commu nists a truce which both ended the Korean strain on their re gime, and left Communist China as the unchallenged and pre dominant military power in Asia. rpHE Korean truce led directly, - inpvitflhlv and naturallv to the next year's crisis in Indo china. As though astonished by this perfectly foreseeable con sequence of their own decision about Korea, the Washington policy makers at first resolved that a surrender in Indochina "could not be permitted." This decision of the National Securi ty Council was freely publicized, The Vice-President himself in formed the nation's newspaper editors that American divisions might have to be sent to Tonkin, and there was much other big, bold talk by those high in author ity. But in the outcome, the big, bold talk turned out to be mean ingless. Protesting only feebly, the American administration as sented to the Far Eastern Mu nich at Geneva. Chou En-lai en joyed a grandiose international triumph, and the fate of Indo china was sealed. The Geneva Munich, in turn, led directly, inevitably and nat urally to this year's crisis in the Formosa Strait. Once again, the Washington policy makers were visibly taken by surprise by. the perfectly foreseeable consequen ces of their own act. Once again, the first reaction was big, bold talk in Washington. And now we are again entering the period when the big, bold talk is to be put to the test. The Chinese Communist lead ers might be less confident of the result, if the evidence of the two previous tests of will were not confirmed by the evidence of re cent American defense policy. Unfortunately, however, Secre tary of Defense Charles Wilson's alleged defense economies have left. the United States with less strength in the Pacific than at any time since Pearl Harbor. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles could say . at Bangkok that we had more strength in the Pacific than in the moment of victory over Japan, only be cause we have stocks of atomic and hydrogen bombs that we did not have in 1945. But in simple terms of men, guns, planes and ships, the power we can bring to bear in the Far East has now reached its postwar nadir, being weaker by far than on the dark day when the Korean war broke out. THIS state of affairs is given rather lurid importance, moreover, by one of the few wisps of fairly hard informa tion about the Khrushchev-Bul-ganin-Mikoyan visit to Peiping last October. During this visit, when .China's Formosa plan was coordinated with the present leaders of Russia, the Russians are reported to have assured the Chinese that they need not worry about America using atomic weapons in a Far Eastern war. There were, .obviously, two By Joseph Alsop strong arguments behind this re ported Russian assurance. On the one hand, we did not use atomic weapons in Korea, but instead patiently suffered the Chinese intervention there. On the other hand, our pres ent defense design depends very heavily on the overseas air bases of the Strategic Air Com mand. For all out atomic war, we need those bases. No one can be sure that the use of ato mic bombs in the Formosa Strait will not lead to all out war. Our Allies who control our over seas bases will not join a war starting in the Formosa Strait. Hence the risk of using atomic bombs to defend Quemoy and the Matsus is far greater than was the risk in Korea, when we did not use them. This reasoning is all too persuasive. Furthermore. if the Chinese believe we shall not use atomic bombs, they must consequently believe they can at tack Quemoy and the Matsu Is lands with impunity. Even if we fight back, our greatly depleted conventional military power in the Pacific is almost surely in sufficient to hold the virtually indefensible rocks in the For mosa Strait against a determined Chinese assault. , Such is the practical position as it most probably appears in Peiping's eyes. Hence the tactic of "keeping them guessing" is about the worst we could adopt for the Chinese are most likely to guess that we shall back down as we did before. It must be added that if we do back down again as we did before, the Chinese Communist leaders will inevitably regard America, not just as a paper ti ger, but as a paper rabbit. And therefore next year's ugly choice will be as much worse than this year's, as this year's is worse than last year's, and last year's was worse tnan tne cnoice m Korea. (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS After ten years of wrangling and stalling, the terms of an Austrian peace treaty have been agreed upon by Russia and Aus tria. Before the Austrian peace treaty can become effective, it must be agreed to not only by Russia and Austria but also by the Big Three of the Western powers The United States Britain and France. TN THE draft that ; has been OK'd by. Russia's Mplotov and Austria's Raab, Russia agrees to pull its occupation troops out of Austria by the end of this year. Russia' also agrees to release all Austrian prisoners of war and civilians now held in the Soviet Union. In . return for $150,000,- 000 in the form of Austrian goods, Russia agrees to hand back Austrian shipping and oil facilities and to end its drastic restrictions on the Austrian economy. Austria promises that she will not join ANY future military alliances and will not permit establishment of ANY foreign military bases on Austrian soil. She promises also (and the agree ment is conditional upon this promise) that she will NEVER AGAIN merge with Germany, as she did under pressure from Hit ler in 1938. W HY are WE interested in all this? Why take up space with stuff so far away? I T'S LIKE this: One the face of it, this pro posal by Russia looks better than anything yet. What we are look ing for is some SIGN deeds, not words on the part of Rus sia that , she might be willing to try genuine coexistence that is to say, LIVING WITH THE FREE PART OF THE WORLD. This Austrian treaty has been looked upon as something that might provide such a sign. rpHIS, I think, is the biggest A nroblem of our time: CAN COMMUNISM. AND FREEDOM LIVE TOGETHER IN THE SAME WORLD? If they can't Well, in that event, a fight to the finish is inevitable. In these days of atomic warfare, a finish fight is a horrible thing to con template. If it is INEVITABLE, we'll have to face it. But before coming to the conclusion that it IS inevitable we should be very sure indeed that it will never be possible for communism and freedom to live together in the same world. OUR state department people in Washington, while admit ting that the Russian-Austrian agreement is encouraging, think it has catches in it. Of course it has catches in it. In any proposal advanced by communists there would be catches. But what we need to know and we must find it out by putting two and two together, for the commies won't tell us what they have in mind and we wouldn't believe them if they did is whether Russia wants to TRY coexistence. We must find that out of the processes of - deduction and this Russian-Austrian treaty of- Customs Officials Conduct Hunf For Narcotics on Incoming Ships Editor's - note The U.S. Customs Service is the nation's vatrhrinr against illegal imoort of narcotics. This involves a search of every vessel, large or small, which puts in to an American port. A United Prwis cor respondent accompanied Customs in spectors on such an inspection of a well-known cruise ship. By RICHARD JORDAN United Press Correspandent San Francisco (U.R) When the liner S.S. Cleveland steamed through the Golden Gate and past the San Francisco skyline, pasoengers saw a Coast Guard cutter pull alongside and a swarm of uniformed men clam ber aboard. They disappeared below decks. The men were a detail of U. S. Customs inspec tors assigned to search the ship from the topmost regions' of the bridge to the depths of the bilge. The quest narcotics, es pecially heroin which sells for $50 a pound in Hong Kong and brings as much as $30,000 a pound retail on the illicit drug market in tne United States. "We're the only agency which can try to -stop this -flow- of drugs," Chester R. MacPhee ex plained aboard the Cleveland. He is Collector of Customs for San iTancisco. Unique Know-How His men check every ship &v riving here and each member of its crew, regardless of its flag or port of origin. Because man power is short in the Customs Service, the inspectors employ some unique know-how in Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Another quiz coming up. Score five and you are an outdoors ex pert; four is excellent; three mighty good; two only fair to middling. Answers follow ques tions. Help yourself. 1. Give the names of the males, female, and young of the duck, goose and swan. 2. Which tree dwelling para site is used as a Christmas decor ation. -6. Most animals are now through with the long winter sleep. According to the length of their snooze, in which order would - you place these: bears, ground squirrels, badgers, chip munks? . 4. Does the feeding of wild birds in . winter . tend to make them less self-reliant and thus subject them to starvation when human feeding ceases? , 5. The pulse of animals varies tremendously, . but how much? Within 50 heartbeats a second, estimate the pulse of a mouse, cat, horse or cow, ele- 4.18 phant, whale, jackrabbit and dog and list them in the right order. ANSWERS: 1. Duck: drake, duck and duckling (other terms for the young duck are flapper and ducklet); Swan: cob, pen, cygnel; goose: Gander, goose and gosling. 2. Mistletoe. 3. The chipmunk is the light est sleeper; the bear sleeps mod erately light and is not a true hibernator; the badger is quite a heavy sleeper; and the all-time record holder is the ground squirrel. Some have been known to sleep eight months out of a year, or more accurately, 33 weeks out of 52. ' 4. The greatest service you can perform for a wild bird is to feed him properly during the winter months. Never fear, they'll not become spoiled a wild bird will always be able to take care of itself when natural food becomes available outdoors. 5. Approximately, the heart beat of a mose at rest is 700 per minute; of a jackrabbit, 205; a cat, 120; a dog, 85-125; a horse or cow, 35-45; an elephant, 25 or so; a small whale around 15 times a minute. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encylo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. f ers us a good opportunity to WATCH the Russians in action again and draw our own conclu sions as to whether or not they think it might be worth their while to try to live in the same world with the free nations. 111 1 cearrhinff a cViir I r' Joseph L, Rasso, 48, and Lee Lawson, 36. led us through a section of the liner's crew quart ers known as "heroin alley.' This is the washrooms and lav atories. "More than half the stuff is hidden in this part of the ship," Rasso said. ' He and Lawson whipped out flashlights . and . mirrors . and poked into every likely hiding place in the companionways and compartments. The mirrors are used to see into areas ordin arily not visible. "The most popular hiding places are the ones least likely to occur to the average person. So those are the places we hit first," Rasso said. "We've found the stuff in fire hoses and show er nozzles, for instance." Eight teams of inspectors roved the Cleveland. Their search even including sampling of sugar in the galley. Finally they agreed that the liner ap peared to be "clean." Eden's Decision To Call Election May 26 Seen as Smart Move By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst British Prime Minister An thony Eden seems to have made a smart move by calling a gen eral parliamentary election for May 26. Lord Woolton, who runs the Conservative Party machinery, says Eden not only will win but w i 1 1 in c r e ase the House of Com mons majority which he in herited from Winston Churchill. If that hap pened it would be a notable achievement. - The Liberals Charles Mccann increased tneir Commons representation by two votes in the general election of December, 1910. But not since 1868 has a British political party succeeded in increasing its parliamentary majority sub stantially at an election held while it was in office. Laborites Unhappy ',:. The best indication that the. Conservative election call was a smart move is that both the Laborites and the Liberals are unhappy about it. Aly Khan To Visit Child in California Hollywood U.R) Prince Aly Kahn said today that he would spend several days in Southern California to visit 'his daughter, Yasmin, and arrange" for her to visit him under terms of his di vorce settlement with actress Rita Hayworth. The Moslem prince, who ar rived here Saturday afternoon by plane from a South American tour, said he would try to see Miss Hayworth before departing for New York and Paris. "I hope I'll be able to take my beloved daughter with me, too," he said. Under the divorce agreement, the prince has visitation rights with his 5-year-old daughter for at least six weeks a year. He said he would like , to arrange for Princess Yasmin to visit her ailing grandfather, the Aga Khan in Egypt this summer. SCHOOL FAVORED Washington (U.R) Rep. Leo W. O'Brien, a New York Demo crat who once was a newspaper man, thinks there ought to be a school for congressmen. He says freshmen lawmakers should be taught how, the procedures of lawmaking go and "I for one would be glad to enroll." Frank Perl INEXPENSIVE FUNERALS 24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE r -' $5.00 A CALL-IN CITY : Seventy-five - blue-coated offi cers, manwhile, were waiting to process the liner's 750 passen gers as they stepped onto the pier. While the first class pas sengers passed through a routine baggage inspection, those in third class were subjected to a much more thorough examina tion, including partial stripping in many cases. MacPhee was quick -' to assert that the third ' class passengers weren's being discriminated against. - "We can't search everyone," t he said. "On the last liner we skipped the third class and hit the first cabin people. We vary the procedure all the time." No drugs were turned up in the search of the Cleveland or its passengers,. But such careful inspection must go on. "We find enough heroin on incoming ships each year to Lring $10,000,000 on the illegal market. That gives you an idea of the problem," MacPhee said. Eden's call found Labor Party leader Clement R. - Attlee in Canada and his No. 2 man, Her- , bert Morrison, in Germany. It also found the Labor Party try- , ing ' to hold itself together against the threat of a wide open split because of its rebellious left winger Aneurin Bevan. The Laborites complain that , Eden called the elections too soon after - his assumption of leadership that the country is , being asked to approve . his ' policies before it knows what they are. They complain that '' they were not consulted about the election date and they hint "' darkly that the conservatives want an election . now because " there might be a recession later in the year. Budget Later , But Eden and his chancellor of the exchequer, R. A. Butler,' will be able to point to a pretty ; sound situation. Butler will introduce the bud get for the current fiscal year in Commons tomorrow. If, as is , hinted, he may be able to offer a little tax reduction it certain- ly ought not to hurt Eden. It may be unfair to sue-ppst that the prospect of a tax reduc-- tion had anything to do with the Conservative decision to issue an election call only 10 days, after Eden assumed the primed ministry. God's New Move Geo. N.Taylor The Apostle Peter was telling Capt. Cornelius of Caesar's Army of the life, death and resurrect 1 1 o n of our Lord, Jesus Christ. As Pe ter was speak ing, the Cap tain a n d. his f r i ends broke in on Peter. They began to speak in the tongues of Black Men and R e d; of Vhite Men and Brown. It was God's command to give the Good News to all the world.. Not to the Holy Land only, but to all the world. Men everywhere must know the Good News of Christ dying for our sins and giving us an open door into eternal life.. God is gathering out a family for himself; a saved people who have eternal life. Recefve Christ as God Son who died for your sins and God writes your name in his Book of Life. And when the day is dark, look to Christ as your elder brother. And byr Bible and Prayer .grow up. adv. : Since 1908 Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 O PERL
