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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
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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-
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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.
Lincoln's birthday was first,
observed as a legal holiday in
Washington, D.C. in 1866. '
MAKE A
PROFIT,
that's worth while. Have
extra dollars in your billfold
later . .'. by putting savings
to work with us.
FIRST FEDERAL
SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N
of Medford
27 North Holly
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