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m .r-S 1 2 : --'iV ss , ' .'1 . til FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in boutbern Oregon Reads Th Mail Tribune" Published Daily facmrt Saturday by MEDFQRD PRINTING CO. lT- North fir tt. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RTJHL. Xditor : jw j . Y. Advertising Manager FERGUSON. Manaflnc Editor AJLLJN JR.. City Editor tYCHIPMA. Teletfraoh Cdttof ICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor UVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor CERAJ.P LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. . An Independent Rcwipaper Entered as second daaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March I, IBS 7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daiy and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot 3.50 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eaxle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 125 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 Advc-tisine 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 EDITORIAL ASSOCfoTllON CeaT NEWSPAPift v PUtllSHIRS "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 22, 1945 (It was Sunday) A six-point $1,000,000 im provement program for Medford outlined by city officials, to be submitted to voters for ap proval. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The pear orchards of the valley are now in full bloom. Natives with both cars and gasoline say they never looked and smelled so beautiful. 20 YEARS AGO April 22, 1935 (It was Monday) . A total of 41 Jackson and Josephine county men, many from Medford, report to Camp Wimer. A moderate frost predicted and all orchards in full bloom. 30 YEARS AGO April 22. 1925 (It was Wednesday) The Medford Chamber of Commerce favors air mail serv ice between Seattle and San Diego. The city council passes ordi nance raising from $50 to $100 a day a license fee for carnivals. 40 YEARS AGO April 22, 1915 1 (It was Thursday) From the Local and Personal column: ' The Bullis ' street car jumped the track near Jayrie's crossing . this morning at seven o'clock. - The car escaped the control of the motorman on a curve and was ' derailed, the trolley wheel dropping off. Equipment , added to Western Union's Ashland office, the only one between Portland and Sacramento. ERIC Jarf 51y What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 71) . Copr. 1955. Editorial Research .serf ;1. Changes in the U.N. char ter can be vetoed by anj one of , frve states; right or wrong? 2. There are three, four, five, six or seven makes of General Motors cars? a Patriots' Day. Apr. 19 in Maine and Massachusetts, cele brates the battle of Bunner wii, Concord, Saratogo, YorKtown, New Orleans, or Bull Run? 4. Which one pf these is not a "basic" commodity , under pres ent farm laws: Corn, cotton, miik, peanutsrice, tobacco, wheat? '. "x ' 5. One, two, three, four, five or no women are now members of the U.S. Senate? 6 Every state imposes some inheritance tax; right or wrong? 7 A zaibatsu is a snake, orien tal dancer, Chinese sailing ves sel Japanese business combina tion, or Italian dessert? The Answers X. Right. 2. Five Chevrolet. Pontiac. Olds uiobile, Buick. Cadillac. 3. Con cord. 4. Milk. 5. One. Mrs. Smith of Maine. (R-). 6. Wrong. Nevada doesn't. T. Japanese business combination DISTAFF COPS Hongkong J9- PoXJwwo man are directing traffic in Hongkong for the first time. The novelty hasn't worn off yet, either Car drivers and pedes trians still wave and smile when passing the skirted constable.- MAIL TRIBUNE Conservation Week It wasn't so many decades ago that Oregon had an abundance of everything, water, fish, wildlife all the good things which nature provides. Oregon was a young state then young that is as the life of states is measured only a few generations removed from and the first settlers knew. by, more and more people coming the need for development of agriculture and industry has grown so that As these activities have gradual depletion of our we still have plenty of almost everything, but not on the generous scale which once prevailed, and the time has. come when only by giving thought to more wise use and careful safeguarding of our remaining natural wealth can we assure for our children and for the generations yet unborn' valuable heritage still ours IHSE leaders, mindful " nation of our wealth laws setting up agencies, signed to the protection resources and the efforts or improvement bodies have been of great value. . Among .such agencies, use and propagation of our ularly successful. By setting up rules for sustained yield and selective harvesting of trees on publicly owned lands and by been cut or destroyed by fire or disease, vast areas are contributing and will continue to contribute their wealth to our economy. - THROUGH these same formerly was wasted is form or another. The great waste from example. Withm the last ians have perfected means for extracting valuable tannin and many chemicals from the bark. Plyboard, hardboards, interior finishing and other items are be ing produced from mill marked for the burners. A new and enlarged being fostered through the Oregon s Douglas fir region, lying west of the sum mit of the Cascade range, has 1,757,071 acres, of pri vate forest land under tree farming. Another 1,474, 317 acres of tree farms are growing timber in the state's pine region, lying east of the Cascade summit. Farmers and other owners, of smaller woodlands hold six million acres, nearly two-thirds of the private commercial forest land in estimated four billion board these woodlands. . . ANOTHER important resource which has come under regulatory attention and efforts for lm provement of supply, is. water. Action in this direc tion was becoming increasingly necessary because of expanding use. In western ber of acres under irrigation jumped from 76,000 in 1949 to an estimated 115,000 in 1954. . Many streams in the state are today over appropriated and many cities are in need of increased domestic supplies. COIL preservation has been practiced for some time T through the formation between 30 and 40 of which are in operation m all sections of Oregon. Aid and advice from the Exten sion Service in selection of crops best suited to the various soil types has been an important factor in obtaining good crops and the building up of soil values. IN addition to their primary objectives these agen rMsa haw a wnrVoH fn hrinor nhrmr. orrpntpr rvnhlip POTl- " mvwvu """to sciousness of the need for conservation of all our resources. As a means of assisting in this focusing of public attention, Governor Patterson recently designated May 1 to 7 as Conservation Week and asked conserva tion minded men throughout the state to participate in programs calling attention to what has been done and is being done in the way of conservation, and ob jectives which it is hoped may be reached in the future. During Conservation Week pastors will discuss the subject, it will be presented by speakers at service club meetings, school children will be told the values of conservation and newspapers and radio stations will do their part along the same lme. ' ALL Oregonians should take a personal interest " in conservation for it is something which touches practically all of us, one way or another, and only by understanding and practicing it can we continue to have and enjoy the advantages which are now ours. And only by such interest can we hope to pass them on to future generations. E.C.F. Navy Requests Hillsboro Funds Washington U.R) The Navy has told the House Appropria tions committee it needs $8,598, 000 to begin work on a naval air station at . Hillsboro, Ore., airport. Total cost of the project, which would replace facilities now be ing used at Spokane by reserv ists, would be $12,476,000, ac cording to Capt. Warren W. Jones, chief of the bureau of aeronautics' shore station divi sion. The" funds requested in testi mony released yesterday would provide for land acquisition and easements for the new runway, Friday. April 22, 1955 trees, range, soil, minerals. the wilderness the Indians But the years have rolled have come and with their all might make a living. expanded there has been natural resources, -today at least a semblance of the to enjoy. of the need to avoid dissi- have sought and obtained both state and federal, as and preservation of natura of most of these regulatory those dealing with the wise forests have been partic re-plantmg where timber has agencies and the coopera- now being utilized in one unused Douglas fir is an decade laboratory technic residues not long ago ear source, of timber supply is planting, of tree iarms. the state. Last year, an feet of timber came from s--,;. ,.:-'-f Oregon alone the num of conservation districts s " i - sound management and parallel taxiway system, light ing and drainage; a reserve training hangar; supply facilities and utilities; roads and services; fuel storage; aircraft parking apron and an access taxiway. , The new station would handle 367 officers and 1055 enlisted men. . , f.- . v Capt.' Jones . said , three drill units at Salem, Ore., would be discontinued after the project was completed. " '" The House committee has not yet 'completed action on the ap propriations measure. Dull Ua foi Suadu -n- i t. at aooa Saturday 9 (SB NUMBWOF DEATHS -1 953 (pralimiMry) CHKORfN M4 YIAtS V CONGENITAL ' MALFORMATIONS CARDI0 -VASCULAR DISEASES , TUBERCULOSIS GIVE TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY Babson By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special To Mail Tribune): One of the critical problems facing every voter today is how to pay for the mounting a cost of educa tion without taxing prop erty holders into the poor- house. The sharp rise in the birth rate is one source of Borer W. Babioa of our prob lem. To help house the increas ing population, about 9,50,000 housing units have been built In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In the Italian island of Sicily where, I hope, it is sunny and warm and springlike Sir Win ston Churchill arose at a leisure ly hour the other day, ate his breakfast, read the papers smoked a cigar, then got out his easel and his paints and settled down for a good morning s work. At this particular moment, one Salvatore Stella, a Sicilian who emigrated in his early youth to the United States, made his pile and then went back to his native land to enjoy life, went into ac tion on a project that to him seemed a worthy one. In a rich tenor, he broke into the strains of "It's a Long Way to Tipper- ary" his idea being, he said, to do something to enliven Sir Winston's visit, to Sicily. I F you do any creative work such as writing, or painting or thinking up speeches for de livery to the Rotary club or the Kiwanis . club, or reviewing book I imagine you will know just how Churchill felt at the moment. There he was, all steam ed up, the picture he wanted to rjaint clear and sharp in his mind's eye and his fingers fairly itching to get it all down on can vas. At that particular moment an interruption was about as wel come to him as a case of poison oak. fID he display his impatience? J rip AA TJOT. He doffed his hat and listened all the way through the sere nade. Then he thanked the sere- nader and went back to work, Salvatore Stella went away walking on air and feeling that his life had been fittingly round ed. out. He wUl tell the "story to his grandchildren and they wiU teU it to their grandchildren. IR Winston IS a great man, you see. Little things like that are a part of the quality of great ness. UT let's get back to the grind everyday affairs in a per- io'd of cold war between ' two idealogies. In London, allied officials dis close that Russia has called for a Big Four declaration guaran teeing the independence, . inte grity and neutrality of Austria after a. treaty for Austria is signed. TT sounds wonderful, doesn't it? iTsnpfMallv fnr Austria Under the setup that is pro posed, Austria would become an other Switzerland. She would forswear WAR. She would for swear offensive and defensive alliances and would settle down to running her own affairs, un touched by wars and rumors of wars. What a pleasant future to con template. IITHAT is Russia up to? " Well, she isn't just doing a kindly deed for the Austrians. She isn't setting up an area of peace and tranquility in the hope that the rest of the world will be impressed to the extent of giving up the idea of war. The chances are she is saying to West Germany: "See what WE are doing for Austria. We are preparing to make of her a land of peace and plenty, where the dread specter of war will be unknown. These Western nations you are. palling around with want to ARM YOU so that in the future you will be doing THEIR FIGHTING FOR THEM. ' "You're in the wrong com pany. You'd better cut loose from the wicked, warmongering West and corns over with us." Cutting School Taxes Since 1945 1,215,600 in 1954 alone. This building boom has given impetus to our national prosperity, but it has created problems galore at the school level. Most of these new homes have been purchased by good young couples who want decent places in which to raise their families. These families have become so large in proportion to exist ing educational facilities ' that many cities and towns are now losing money on each new house built. Where there is more than one child per family, the loss often amounts, on the education al bill alone, to several hundred dollars. We know there will be a marked demand for more and more educational facilities dur ing the next ten years. ' Since by law we must provide both facilities and teachers, we may well ask for some economies to be made which can help keep costs down. School Construction Costs Too High You cannot afford a custom built automobile. Can you any more afford a custom-built school? It is high time the U. S. Office of Education, as well as the various State Departments of Education, moved in . with some standard basic plans for basic schools, which can readily be expanded with the school population. Unit sections should also be made readily movable to some other section of the com munity should the need arise. There are literally a hundred ways to cut construction costs Standard plans should be used for a given number of children, with the extras that don't reaUy add up to better education for your child being cleared out, Don't build a monument of mor tar that will be outmoded long Deiore it is outworn. Let us con sider the children and tax-pay ers rather than glorify some mayor or architect. Improve Teacher Efficiency With Educational Hookups The suggestion has been made that we could cut teaching costs by doubling classroom size. Then we could hire the brightest teach- ers in r the land to make record ings for radio and TV education al hookups. The children could be tested on what they had seen and heard by being given true- raise, multiple-choice questions, and by having them mark their answers on IBM answer sheets tnat would be corrected by ma chine. However, teacher efficiency cannot be measured in terms of tne number of youngsters tumorl out of our schools each year. From what I have seen of snme of the educational products of recent years, I think nowhere near enough stress ha w placed on the qualitv of educa. tion which our children are re ceiving. Ways Should Be Devised For Extra Earnings Chance What business would "earn its salt" today if its employees worked only from 8:30 to 2:30, vacauoned irom June 25 to Sep tember 5, and its factory or store lay idle as much as the average school does? It is true that teach ers have papers to correct, les sons to prepare, and extracurri cular activities to supervise. But. ways should be devised so that teachers can earn the extra money they need.- One idea would be to extend the school day and the school year so that the first eight years are done in seven, and the last four years in three. Thereby we save two years for the children, as weU as money for increased salaries. We can make our plant more efficient and give teachers a much-needed raise. We might even5 help solve the problem of delinquency by keeping our kids busier. This sort of thing is not a pipe dream. At the coUege level, the students of Babson In stitute, a fuUy accredited CoUege of Business Administration, do four years of college work in three and after graduation make an outstanding mark for themselves. This might be trirl for the lower grades as well. From such, all will benefit. children, teachers, and taxpay ers. House Votes Thanks To Lausmann Brothers Salem (U R) The House yesterday approved a resolution expressing the state's amirecia- tion to Anton and Joseph Laus mann for the tract of land in the Columbia gorge which they gave to the state in memory of their father, the late Vinzeni Lausmann.. Bandung Conference U nexpected Tu rn on Reds Features News Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: . ' 1 THE GOOD 1. The 29-nation Asian-African conference at Bandung in Indonesia took an unexpected -turn - when speaker after speaker de nounced Com munism. It had b e en . feared the meeting might take an anti - Western tone, partly be cause of the p r e s e n ce of clever Chinese Charles MeCann C O m Ttl U nist Premier Chou En-Lai, partly be cause nearly all the countries reDresented have reason to dis. like Western '.'colonialism." But Communism was mit' on the de fensive from the start. Chou walked angrily out of - a meet ing at which Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon con demned "Soviet colonialism." Sir John said Poland. Czechoslo vakia, Hungary, Romania, Bul garia, Lithuania. Latvia. Esto nia and Albania are all Soviet colonies. 2. Some hope was held in Wes tern capitals that Russia might be ready at last to sign a treatv restoring to Austria the sover eignty it lost when Nazi Ger- CAA Installs New Regulations as Result of Ditching Seattle (U.R) Th Aeronautics Administration an nounced new airline safety regu lations it is nuttine into effert. as a result of the ditching of a Pan-American Stratocruiser in the Pacific March 26 as a hear ing on the incident ended here yesterday. Ray Brown, CAA internation al region coordinator, disclosed the new regulations when he testified into the crash which cost the lives of two crewmen and two nassengers in the waters off the Oregon coast. Nineteen persons survived the ditching. Regulations Listed The new CAA' regulations are: 1. An engine alteration to al low one engine to fail without affecting speed control on the otner tnree engines of Strato cruisers went into effect as of midnight last night. 2. There must be ti enter. more thorough inspection of propellers on commercial planes. James Conner, maintenance manager for Pan-American's Pacific-Alaska Division, San Fran cisco, said his company had put the 'engine sneed electrical cir cuit alteration into effect since the ditching. He said Pan-American also had intensified pre flight insDections of nroDelLsrs and was studying the mountings of engines in stratocruisers. TESTIFIES Former Presi dent Herbert Hoover tells a Senate foreign relations sub committee that the 'United Nations "has not fulfiled our hopes" but "I have no notion that we can abandon any or ganization of natinns that; makes for peace." The sub committee is studying propo sals lor uin cnarter revision. k ' '' " '" 1 2 3 1 EAST SittTM jSt: " . ' LARb ROAST ROAST BACON- I 1 ?V 1 gik - aTA I many seized It in 1938. First, Chancellor Julius Raab of Aus tria reached agreement with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyches lav M. Molotov on the terms of a treaty. - Then Russia proposed a conference in Vienna with the United States, Great Britain and France to negotiate a final pact. There was no disposition to credit the Kremlin with good will. The Soviet -government was using an Austrian treaty as bait to rouse sentiment in West Germany against rearmament. 3. Britain, America's chief al ly, ' showed a sound financial position when Chancellor of the Exchequer " R. A. Butler pre sented his budget for the fiscal year which, started April 1 to the House of Commons. Butler was able to announce a substan tial reduction in income taxes and to estimate a surplus for the new year of $414,000,000. THE BAD 1. ' Street fighting broke out in Saigon, capital of Southern Viet Nam in Indochina, between the forces of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and those of the rebellious Binh Xuyen political sect. . The threat of civil war was so great that Gen. J. Lawton Collins, President Eisenhower's special envoy, flew to the United States for conferences. 2. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Walter S. Robertson, assistant secretary of state 'for Far Eastern affairs, were sent suddenly to Formosa "in view of the tense- situation which con tinues in the area," as an official statement put it. The trip was de cided upon after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles report ed to the President a big Com munist air build-up opposite For mosa. The build-up, Dulles said, had' "grave implications." 3. The Communists stubbornly refused ,to reduce the exorbi tant tolls they imposed on trucks which take supplies to West Ber lin along highways through the Soviet occupation zone. There was increasing fear in West Ber lin that the Reds might clamp on a new blockade in revenge for the proposedarming of Western Germany. . . Coast Guard To Probe Collision Of Two Vessels Los Angeles (U.R) The - Coast Guard will conduct a ' special board of inspection hearing to day into the, collision : of .the Swedish freighter Parramatta and the yacht Suomi which took the lives of the five persons aboard the sleek racing craft The 5000-ton freighter, steam ing from San Francisco to -Los Angeles, smashed into the - 49 foot yawl in stormy seas just before dawn yesterday off Point Arguello, a rocky point known to sailors as, "the graveyard of the Pacific." Crewmen Questioned Coast Guard Cmdr. Lionel 'de Santy boarded the Parramatta as she entered Los Angeles Harbor. we said ne questioned crew members "and lined up certain ones to appear as witnesses." Neither Capt. A. C. Ericson or the officers and men of the Par ramatta would discuss the crash with reporters. An insurance in vestigation was also expected to be launched. ' Only one body, that of Ralph Cooper, Burlingame, Calif., was recovered. Others lost were the Suomi's owner, . Henry Meiggs, San .Francisco ' Mortgage and Loan company president; his brother, William L. Meiggs, Bev erly Hills, Calif., an architect; Col. W. S. Conrow, Menlo Park, Calif., and Sandy Wilson, a New Zealand yachtsman and news paperman. The collision occured at 4 a.m. and the Parramatta at :. once put a life boat over the side to search for survivors, but without success. The'Coast Guard, noti fied of the crash by. radio, dis patched two boats to the scene, one of which recovered Cooper's body. . The search was discontinued after 10 hours in the rough seas. About 6,500 Americans drown each year in accidents,' and there are six times as many male victims as female. FAREWELL smile Is flashed by Adlai Stevenson, 1952 candidate -for President, before emplaning from New York for Africa via Italy on combined business sightseeing tour. (InUmatumal) Committee OKs ' Basic School Plan - Salem U.R) The Senate Ed ucation committee has voted out favorably Senate bill 333 which would make considerable change in apportionment of basic school funds. Supporting the bill, one of the major education measures before the 1955 session, were Sens. Hus band, Hatfield, Holmes and Mc Mininee. Opposing it were Sens. Steen. Allen and Merrifield. Proponents say that in recent years increased school costs and changes in assessments and county ratios has destroyed the equalizating formula of the dis tribution formula. They contended that in 1948 a total of 21 per cent of the fund was distributed as formal equali zationand the remainder as flat grants. Now, they say, only 4 per cent is distributed as equali zation. What the bill would do, in ef fect, is to take from the wealth ier districts and give to districts which have a higher proportion of school children to the assessed value of property in the district. 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