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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Ml EDPtJKu "Everybody in boutnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Edhor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editoz 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 lledford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiv and Sunday One vear $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 ' Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Photnix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dailv 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 Adve-tising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New Yorle Chicago. De t'oit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITOIIAl !asVoCAT(oN 37 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 20, 1945 (It was Friday) Government officials inspect ed sites for a new federal buiid ing, which probably will house the post office. - From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spring, slow in showing up this year, has finally arrived. There are two kinds of Spring: The Rogue valley variety, and what the rest of the world, and Califor nia, think is Spring. 20 YEARS AGO April 20, 1935 (It,was Saturday) The first of several defendants facing trial in justice court for failure to procure dog licenses found not guilty yesterday by a jury which deliberated less than five minutes. - The Medford Active club, co operating with the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, will sponsor a May day festival which includes a car show, pa rade and dance. 30 YEARS AGO April 20, 1925 (It was Monday) From Local Mining News col umn; The Oscar Creek placer, known for its large nuggets, came back to true form this year with several large nuggets. The mine produced an $860 nug get several years ago. The rainfall up to this morn ing since last September when the rain year started measures 17.13 inches, and more rain fore cast for the area. 40 YEARS AGO April 20, 1915 (It was Tuesday) From the Local and Personal column: City authorities report that Medford comes nearer be ing a "spotless town" now than at any time in the past five years. People disposed of gar bage themselves rather than having it taken away by the city. The school board authorizes pay increases for five principals and four primary grade teachers. What's the Answer? (Can You Gel 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report Can You Get 4 of the 7? 1. Total employment this spring, says the . U.S. Labor Dep't, will rise or fall slightly, or stay about the same? 2. Iraq has upset the other Arab states by making an al liance with Great Britain, Israel, Russia, Turkey or the U.S.? 3. Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn is from Alabama, Geor gia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Texas, or Virginia? 4. The speed of light is about 186,000 miles an hour, a minute or a second? 5. The capital of Switzerland is Geneva; right or wrong? 6. Ex-President Hoover's son is now a high official in the U. S. diplomatic service, State. Justice or Interior department, or in U.N.? 7. A widow is legally a relic or a relict? The Answers: 1. Rise slightly. 2. With Turkey; 3. Texas. 4. 18S.000 mile a second. 5. Wrong; it's Berne. 6. State Department. 7. Relict, legally. 2&rJ?M,MIM 5ASSOCIATIOM MAIL TRIBUNE Have We Overlooked a Bet? A southern Californian visiting in the Rogue val ley recently wanted to know why, with all the scenic country hereabouts, the comparatively cheap moun tain land available and the numerous other advan tages, there are no public guest ranches or, as they are generally known, dude ranches in the Medford vicinity. , INQUIRY at the Jackson County Chamber of Com "merce, he said, had disclosed the surprising fact that no such recreational facility exists nearer than Wrenn, 11 miles out of Corvallis, where the H Bar H ranch is located. The visitor said his family has spent several sum mers on such ranches in Colorado, Wyoming and Ari zona and that the children, especially, enjoy the op portunity for riding horses, camping out, fishing in the small streams which are available m some of the ranch localities, and otherwise enjoying a type of life completely different from that which the city dweller knows most of the year. HTHE visitor's interest brought to mind a recent item in the Roseburg News-Review which told of plans for establishment near Roseburg of a recreation cen ter along dude ranch lines. The Roseburg ranch, which is to be opened around June 1, will be located six miles south of the city in what is known as Happy Valley. Spread over 3,000 acres, the ranch will include a nine-hole golf course, outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, a lodge to house fifty guests, a lounge and dining room, a rifle range, archery range, landing strip for airplanes, and a rodeo arena seating 3,000 people. Special riding trails will be laid out and a string of 25 saddle horses will be available for guests. Riding trips will include chuck wagon dinners and break fasts. The owner stated they are planning to make the ranch the most outstanding recreational and enter tainment center in the state as they believe the setting is ideal for such an enterprise. Expenditure of $500,000 is planned at the outset and more may be invested as improvements and at tractions are added. PPARENTLY the Happy Valley owners are get-tine- a head start on the rest of southern Oreeron in a type of enterprise which, for some reason or other has been overlooked up to now, but which should show a good profit once its attractions become widely enough known. ; E.C.F. Please, Folks, No More For several weeks past The Mail Tribune has been deluged with letters for publicationattacking or de fending various religious groups and beliefs. At first, it was hoped that the flurry would soon run its course, as such things usually do. But, instead of tapering off, the debate seems to be rolling right along with no end presently in sight. THEOLOGICAL arguments are seldom if ever con- elusive or decisive. If they do anything they prob ably make for bitterness. For that reason it has been decided that, all sides having had sufficient opportu nity and space to cite chapter and verse and to air their views, it is time to call a halt on publication of such letters to the editor. So, please, folks no more, for this time at least. E.C.F. Parking Proves Value Receipts from parking meters in McMinnville are helping to provide off-street parking areas in the city's business section. A full block of free off street parking was established there some time ago and the McMinnville chamber of commerce recently recommended that the city council spend some of the accumulated meter receipts for additional space. A CCORDING to the McMinnville Daily News Register the need for parking meters has been amply demonstrated since their installation. When bags have been put over the meters, on special com munity shopping days, immediate return of crowded conditions has been noted in the main business area. Persons wishing to park on the streets for short per iods of shopping have found it difficult. "It has been proved again and again," said the newspaper, "that the meters accomplish the job for which they were intended to keep the street parking places available for ready use by the general public." AT THE time meters were installed at McMinnville the city officials emphasized that the devices were not looked upon' as revenue producers but rather to help solve the parking problem. Construction of the big city lot for free parking for all was the first fruit of the program. The city now feels that the free off-street parking has been one of the most valuable public relations moves the commu nity has ever made toward people of the trade area and expansion of the convenience is being urged. E.C.F. Portland Sheriff Suspends Deputies Portland (U.R) Multnomah county sheriff Terry D. Schrunk suspended two deputies yester day in connection with the seven-man jail break at Rocky Butte county jail last Saturday. Deputy Roy Cunningham was suspended for 10 days on charges of violation of jail and depart Wednesday, April 20, I9S3 ment rules and conduct unbe coming an officer. Deputy Wil liam Travis Jr. was suspended for two days for failure to make a head count when prisoners were released from a cell block to go to lunch Saturday noon. The escapees all were recap tured. ' HOLDING SPRAT OF FLOWERS presented by Indochlnese Premier All Sastrpamldjojo (right). Red Chinese Prime Minister Chou En-lal is greeted at Bandung on arrival for Afro-Asian con ference. Sastroamldjojo was elected president as momentous parley began. (International) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Oregon's lawmakers are fac ing a tax problem that accord ing to Paul Harvey, AP's legis lative correspondent at Salem will keep them in session at least two weeks more. That would make the present session the second longest in history. This is the problem: How to pluck the most feathers from the goose with the least squawking. rPHE present plan is to hold a - special election next fall at which both a sales tax and heavi ly increased income taxes will be submitted to a vote of the people. That, it is believed, will give a fairly accurate idea of which plan will involve the most squawking from the plucked taxpayers. T ET'S state it this way: ' "Whatever we feel we HAVE to spend, in order to provide the services we want from our state government, will HAVE to come out of the pockets of the people. There is nowhere" else for it to come from. 1 JNFORTUNATELY, a fsdlacy has arisen in our country over the past three decades. The fallacy is that money provided by government is manna from heaven, falling alike on the just and the unjust and COSTING NOBODY ANYTHING. If and when the fallacy of that idea is exploded, we may be able to stop the constant rise of taxes that is presenting so many prob lems aU the way from . the smallest taxing districts clear up to the federal government. But not before. THE problem isn't confined to -- Oregon. Huge California, just like smaller Oregon, is scraping the bottom of the bar rel and looking around for new sources of tax money. California is hoping to raise what is needed out of new or increased taxes on "luxuries" such as tobacco, liquor, horse racing and such. A LBERT Einstein dies in a hospital in Princeton, New Jersey. He ,was one of the GREATS. The late George Ber nard Shaw called him the great est man in the world. He wasn't carried away by a thunderbolt from on high, as the Mediter ranean ancients believed was fit ting for exalted ones. He wasn't taken up into Valhalla by the Rhine Maidens, as the Vikings thought proper for men of his sort. The official cause of his death is listed in the hospital records as inflammation of the gall bladder. Death is no respector of per sons. "PINSTEIN'S fame began with the formula in his theory of special relativity, which he pub lished at the age of 26. This was the formula: 'E equals M times C squared." In his formula, E stands for energy, M stands for mass and C stands for the speed of light. In simple terms, this means that mass and energy can be transformed one into the other. This formula came to be known as the symbol of the atomic age and out of it came what we know as the principle of atomic energy. piNSTEIN was a curious char acter. Among other things, he dressed in what he chose to caU "very comfortable" clothes. His idea of "very comfortable" clothes included an old sweat shirt in place of a jacket. He had a legendary disregard for personal money. He is said to have used on one occasion a check for $1500 as a bookmark. It is characteristic of him that he LOST THE BOOK along with the check and was wor ried only by the loss of the book. He never bothered to cram his .mind with KNOWN facts. Asked one time as to the speed of sound, he replied: "I don't know. I don't crowd my memory with facts that I can easily find in an encyclopedia." . He wouldn't have got far in a modern quiz program, would he? BUT he was great. The meas ure of his greatness is that he advanced immeasurably the frontiers of man's KNOWLEDGE. 1 Matter of Fact SHOWDOWN ON SECURITY Washington A showdown fight involving the government's whole loyalty-security sytsem is wnj now chaDine !3 f&i ,,n Tk tirtht will center on a minor official in the 9 Int ernational Monetary Fund, called William Henry Taylor. Taylor was one of those named by Eliz abeth Bentley, Stewart Alsop the famous former Communist espionage courier, as a member of the espionage group in the Treasury Department during the war. The Bentley charge was repeated in substance be fore a Senate committee by At torney General Herbert Brown ell in 1953, when he testified on the case of the late Harry Dexter White. Taylor, who has never taken the Fifth Amendment, has re peatedly and flatly denied under oath that he was ever a Soviet agent or a communist. He has now demanded, in letters to the members of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, that his case be investigated publicly; that he be allowed to confront his chief accuser, Miss Bentley; and that his guilt or innocence be finally determined. At the same time, he has asked the Loyalty Board, which has been hearing his case to call Brownell and FBI Chief J. Ed gaa Hoover to answer questions about what he alleges to be demonstrable falsehoods in Mi?s Bentley's testimony. , In short, Taylor and his lawyer, former Congressman Byron Scott, are now determined to force a pub lic showdown. One result of the showdown could be to prove that Taylor is a former spy, as alleged by Miss Bentley and BrowneU. ' Another result could be to clear his name. But if Taylor's name is cleared, a heavy cloud of doubt will be thrown over all Eliza beth Bentley's testimony, and in deed over the Justice Depart ment's methods and the whole security system. It is easy to see why the Taylor case could start a major row. Taylor's position is extra ordinary. He has, after all, been in effect branded a Soviet spy by the Attorney General of the United States. Yet he still holds a public position, and part of his salary, at least, is paid by the United States Treasury. - HHAYLOR is, in fact, the last of -- those namea oy jyuss .tsenuey who still holds a public posi tion. Very heavy pressure has been broueht to bear on tne Monetary Fund to get rid of him quietly. Among other high offi cials, both former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder and his successor, George Humphrey have written to the Fund urging that Taylor be fired. The Fund managers, however, have quite properly taken the nosition that the charges against Taylor should first be heard- His case was therefore assigned early in 1953 to the International Organization's Employees Loyal ty Board. This board has been holding intermittent hearings for a year and a half. During all this time, despite the flat statement of tne Attorney General to the Senate committee, the board has been f EoTOciioini We're terrible cads! We should have put you straight ages ago on the easiest, prim 'n' proper, way to take care of your wood floors. We should have told you how in one oh-so-easy operation Bruce Cleaning Wax thoroughly cleans and waxes floors without one drop of harmful soap-and- water touching your precious floors ... or precious you ! And how floors gleam and gleam for months and months. Now that we have told you, try Bruce Cleaning Wax for wood floors, or Bruce Floor Cleaner for linoleum or wood. Well take the blame for the easy results, too. . By Stewart Alsop unable to establish that Taylor is guilty as charged, or even that the "reasonable doubt" re quired for firing as a security risk exists. Accordingly, Taylor still holds his job. Taylor's defense before the board has been , simply to chal lenge the veracity of his ac cuser, Miss Bentley, not only in his own case, but in the case of Harry Dexter White and others. In a public showdown, he wiU make the same defense. Taylor and his lawyer have prepared a dossier of more than 100 pages, which purports to demonstrate that Miss Bentley's testimony is a morass of contra dictions. Some of the contradic tions cited in this remarkable document are trival, the sort of small mistakes any human being makes. But some do not seem trivial. For example, according to the dossier, Miss Bentley at one point testified that Taylor passed her documents, and at another point she testified that she : had never met Taylor. Miss Bentley's testimony may of course prove substantially entirely accurate, and Taylor guilty as charged. There is no doubt that Communist spy nets did indeed operate in .the gov ernment during the war. Be cause ex-Communist informers like Miss Bentley have been useful in establishing 'this fact, there are fierce pressures to sup press all challenges to their veracity. JUSTICE Department officials, including Brownell, .' have come precious close to taking the ridiculous and profoundly un-American position that any one who would cast doubt on the word of an ex-Communist must be part of a Communist plot. The best commentary on this nonsense was supplied by Brownell's own action last week, in firing the Justice Depart ment's whole coUection of pro fessional full-time informers. But just because Miss Bentley's testimony has been so important, and because Brownell himself is committed on Taylor's guilt, the pressures will be particular ly fierce in this case. Yet surely Taylor should have a chance to prove, one way or another, once and for all, whether he .took part in espion age, and thus betrayed his coun try. It is monstrous and intol erable that, in this free country, a man- should be , branded a traitor by the Attorney General of the United States, and then denied a chance to clear his name. (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Drink, Firecrackers Blamed for Defeat Lake Charles, La. U.R) Re search director Mark A. Lower of the Louisiana Moral and Civic Foundation blames the de feat of an anti-gambling bill on liquor and firecrackers.. Lower told a foundation con vention Tuesday that a number of the state legislators had been drinking and five were "dead drunk stiff" when the bUl was defeated and that the popping of firecrackers "made it impos sible to carry on business." In addition, he said, a "num ber of known prostitutes from Baton Rouge and New Orleans were present." clearing Diplomatic 'Sleeper' Possible in Russia's Treaty With Austria By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Russia's strategy, in its offer to sign a treaty restoring Aus trian independence, is still not clear. One thing is certain. The Soviet govern ment has not, after aU these years, sudden ly become eager to free Austria. It is obvious ly trying, by indirect means, to keep Charles McCann Austria's neighbor, West Ger many, from arming and joining 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 fible. 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. Mailmen and Dogs To the Editor: I have been reading a number of communica tions in the Oregonian lately about dogs biting people. And I'm writing this for local reading because I happen to be a local mail carrier. In fact I happen to be a sub, so must deliver mail on a number of routes during a month, and believe me I see my share of dogs all kinds. Of course none of them "ever bit anyone" that is, not till I happened along. And of course, according to the fond owners, I strode down the street tempting their "friendly" dogs to get close, and then attempting to kick h out of them. " ' '.' Now, anyone who bothers to think this out, knows better than that! A mail carrier must be watching his mail sorting it as he goes along, being careful not to put Mr. Jones' mail in with Mrs. Smith's or he'll hear about it if he does. People don't realize that we have little time for mis treating their lovable canine friends and specially not if we're late getting around. - My reason for writing is this: I like dogs in fact I plan to get a cocker pup for my kids as soon as it's old enough. But I believe that to have a dog in town, a per son must have a mild mannered, even tempered dog Who can , be and must be taught to leave any one passing their home alone. There are foo many people, who, in their regular duties must approach the house, or pass it by every day of the week. And believe me it's no fun walking block after block with yapping dogs at your heels wondering if or when one will decide to try for a taste of fresh leg! And there are those which j don't yap, but make no secret of the fact they d like to take a piece out of you. Of course these, according to their owners, have been teased, and possibly kicked by some mail carrier. That may be, but I rather expect any dog that gets. kicked was not ignor ing the mail carrier as well as it could be trained to do. The general public fails to re alize that a mail carrier is not required according to postal reg ulations to deliver mail at any house where there is danger from dogs. In fact some have found to their dismay that this is the case. ' So lets take care of our dogs before we join the others who call at the post office for their mail, because of pets they can't or won't control. Steven J. Dodge, 813 Beekman St., Medford. Ore. . Oregon Federal Judge May Be Named in Week Washington ttJ.R) Jess Gard, Republican national committee man for Oregon, said today after conferring with administration officials that a new federal dis trict judge of Oregon probably will be named in a week or so. Circuit Judge William G. East of Eugene has been prominently mentioned for the post. Mark Waddell LIVELY -JOYFUL SINGING, SEARCHING AND ' INSPIRING PREACHING OF GOD'S WORD Mark & Lois Waddell Sherman Moore Evangelists .' Paster . Phone 2-8077 the Western alliance against Communist aggression. On the surface it really does look as if the Kremlin has of fered to sign a reasonable Aus trian independence treaty, and to withdraw its occupation troops from the country by next December 31. That, if it turns out to be true, is a surprising development. The Soviet government does not customarily withdraw its troops voluntarily from any country in which it has man aged to plant them. That is one reason for suspi cion as to the Kremlin's good faith. Another reason, of course, is that the Kremlin seldom acts in good faith in its relations with the West anyway. Hence there well may be a diplomatic "sleeper" in the Rus sian treaty offer. When the time for negotiation comes, the United States, Great Britain and France may find that the Kremlin will welsh on the troop withdrawal offer that it will cite West German armament as a reason why it must keep troops in Austria. Alternatively, it may be that the Russians will demand such drastic guarantees of Austrian neutrality as between East and West that Austrian sovereignty would not be restored. In any event, it is generally agreed that Soviet Foreign Min ister Vyacheslav M. Molotov has made a smart move. Molotov failed in his desper ate attempt to prevent the nego tiation and ratification of the treaties providing for West Ger many's arming. Now he is trying to sabotage the armament program by offer ing Austria its freedom. Immediate suspicion was ex pressed in Washington of the good faith of the Russian offer. But the reaction in Austria was enthusiastic. Austrians are quite willing to guarantee their neutrality if only they can get foreign , troops , out , of their country. The reaction in West Ger many also was what Tlolotov must have hoped. Many Ger mans opposed bitterly, and still oppose, the idea of rearming and , joining the West They would like to keep out of the cold war and of any hot water. These Germans asked at once why, if Austria could get its freedom by promising neutral ity, Germany could not do like wise. - Bomb Scare Chases School Students Lake Stevens, Wash. (U.R) About 470 Lake Stevens high school students promptly left the building yesterday after a man telephoned the school a time bomb was set to go off at 11:30 a.m. in the school cafe teria. ' The students were given the rest of the day off while Snoho mish County Sheriff Bob Twit chell and volunteer firemen made a systematic search of the schooL fit's probably the work of a prankster, but we can't take any chances," Twitchell said. Twitchell said a prankster may have gotten the idea for the call from the bombing of a Port land, Ore., department store last week. NOW IS THE TIME to start building an insured savings account with us. You will find it pleasant and profitable to invest her. O ' , FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicatee1 Te TIiomvWIm Save ' Your Invitation To Attend and Enjoy ' 11 NIGHTS OF GOSPEL MEETINGS Pilgrim Holiness 'Church East Jackson at Bessie APRIL 20 - MAY 1, 1955 Each Evening at 7:30 except Monday Sunday at 9:45 & 11 A.M.