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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon Rtadi The Mail Tribune" Jnibliihed 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. Managing Editor rorr ATT W TTJ r4.. HARRY CHIP MAN. 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 of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year" $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 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 Afivrtiinff 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 ASVOCHATIION w iiflgSv VuiUSHUS Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 29. 1945 (It was Sunday) Production of dry ice starts at new gas ice corporation near Ashland. From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Valley poets this spring have produced so far no odes to Spring. Due to the war what was to be a ple thora, Is now a paucity. 20 YEARS AGO April 29. 1935 (It was Monday) California Oregon Power com pany loses to Beaver Portland Cement company of Gold Hill, over use of Rogue river water, in a United States Supreme Court decision. Heavy rains forestalls Irriga tion of commercial and suburban gardens. SO YEARS AGO April 29. 1925 Governor Walter M. Pierce among officials ; who Inspected prospective sites for Southern Oregon Normal school at Ash land. Mrs. R. C. Smith elected pres ident of the Greater Medford club. 40 YEARS AGO April 29. 1915 From the Local and Personal column: May Day will be ob served in the schools Friday by scecial programs and the re citing of Tennyson's May day poem. Showers prevail throughout Rogue River valley with tem peratures in low 40s. What's the Answer? (Can You Oat 4 of the 7f ) Cot. 1955. fdltortal Research Retwrt 1. The refugee relief act gives preferred status to Immigrants who are close relatives of U.S. residents; right or wrong? 2. Deepest U. S. canyon is on the Colorado, Snake, Yellow stone or Columbia river? 3. Are there many more brew eries than distilleries in the U. S., or many more distilleries, or about the same number of each? 4. The proportion of Negroes to Whites in the South these days is decreasing, increasing or staying the same? 5. More or less than half of all members of Congress listing their occupations are lawyers? 6. Present-day Turkey lies en tirely in Asia; right or wrong? 7. A man named Cotton repre sents a Southern state in the U. S. Senate; right or wrong? The Answers: 1. Right. 2. Snake (Hell's Canyon). 3. Many more breweries. 4. Decreasing. 5. More than half. 6. Wrong; a small part lies in Europe. 7. Wrong: Sen. Cotton is from New Hampshire. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE TO CREDITORS No. 9574 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF ' THE STATE OF OREGON FOR JACK- rNSTHECSrXER OF THE ESTATE OF ERICK G. GUSTAFSON. de- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the above court has appointed - the undersigned as administratrix of the above estate. . AU persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same with proper vouchers within six months from this date at the office of Neff. Frohnmayer & Lowry. Cooley Theatre Building. Medford. Oregon. Dated and first published this 29th CHRISTINit OLSON, Administrator MAIL TRIBUNE A Good John Litster, skipper came in from his Sardine Creek stronghold this week with an idea which he thinks might help to take Ore gon out of the confusion nation s timetables. John points out that in and in at least nine states the people are going and coming on Daylight Saving Time In 24 states, some are on D.S.T. through and through while some others permit pockets of Daylight Time. In fifteen states adoption of the sun saving The Mystery House man encounters thousands of tourists from out-of-state points as they flock in to visit his palace of phenomenon in the summer and he has found in previous years that a large majority do not know what the time is even too sure whether D.S.T. prevails in their home states. m m AT LEAST some of the moved, believes John, chambers of commerce, which send out much mail would have the words: "Oregon is on Standard Time" on their outgoing mail. Where postage meters are used this could be done by having the message included in the meter stamp. Many postage meter users now have advertising mat ter or slogans on their meter imprint and the change suggested by Mr. Litster would involve only minor expense. IT HAS been estimated that 43 per cent of the rtofiAn'o TiA-nnloTiAn l'c nnrlm Torl i rrVi f 'Pi-ma -kivtit. o o compared to 37 per cent in 1948. To make the time matter even more confusing some eastern states are planning to extend D.S.T. an extra month this year, until the last Sunday in October. This will put them out of step with the rest of the nation, where D.S.T traditionally ends on the last Sunday of September. The Litster plan, if adopted throughout the' coun try, could Serve at least as good a purpose as most of the imprints currently in use. E.C.F. - ' Billboard Law Approved y The senate has finally approved legislation pro viding for regulation and restriction of billboards vis ible from highways and the licensing of boards by the state labor commissioner. Billboards along throughways would have to be ! at least 1,000 feet apart. On than 130 square feet would be 500 leet apart, while 300 feet would have to separate those of less than that size. No advertiser would be allowed to have more than one board within a half mile. , Operators of existing boards would have five years to. comply with the new law. .'.;r 1 Tt'.! A LTHOUGH the bill has been sent back to the "house for consideration of a minor amendment it is expected, to receive approval of the lower branch. Ml details of the billboard regulation have not been received here as yet but we hope it includes pro vision for removing signs which have long since pass ed their usefulness. Highway signboards are usually not too attractive at their best but the hundreds of old signs seen along most reads, many of tKem far gone in disrepair and dilapidation," constitute eyesores which the state should take steps to remove. E.C.F. A Ncho's Worth of . . Comment On y HARMAN United Prett Washington . OJ.R) Gib Crockett, a hulking hunk of man. got so tired of falling out of little beds that -' ha de cided to build himself a big one. Big Gil is an artist, po- litical car toonist for the Wash ington Star among other artistic bends, so he Harman Nichols did what came , . naturally. -He drew up some plans for a colossal sleep pad. It's finished now. Six feet wide and nine feet six inches long, rolling room enough for a large slumber par ty. .. Called for Help Crockett started from a blue print, as I said, with his dream bed. Next step was to get" lum ber. So he went to Balitmore and bought acres and yards of mahogany, including side rails 6Vi inches wide and 14 inches thick. He got himself some posts, for a four poster, that were five inches square and night ceiling high. Once he got the groundwork done on his vast sack, he had to caU on mama. Mama is Florence, his wife, the mother of Gary, aged 13, and Sandy, a cute little girl who just turned 11. . ' Florence's job was to figure out what to do about the trim mings for a bed that size. She learned it was quite a problem. Springs had to be custom made. And so did the foam rubber mat tress. Between the springs and the mattress, the bill climbed to $260. ' Gib, who is over six feet, and weighs a little under 200, wanted the best. . There cama lor Florence the frlday. April St. 1933 Suggestion of the House of Mystery, which marks the rest of the most of the principal cities schedule is optional. in Oregon and many aren't m m uncertainty could be re- if Oregon state offices, 'business places and others highways, boards of more . This and That W. NICHOLS Futar Writer question of sheets, These were sewed together. Big Laundry Problem There must be a change of those things, you know. And that also goes for such as blankets, and spreads. "I am a little peeved," said the hard working mother of two. "If he is that anxious to keep from falling out of bed, he could sleep on the floor. Take the under sheets and 'the top sheets and you have a bundle that won't fit in mv washing machine. And the blankets anaf, spreads are going to cost us a bundle of green when we send them to the cleaners." , After the bed was finished, how did Gib Crockett get It up stairs? "Well," blushed the big man holdingi a small brush, "I had to take 'the durn thing apart." 'Parade of Parts' Slated by Padgett's A "Parade of Parts," part of a nationwide promotion conduct ed in cooperation with the Na tional Automotive Parts asso ciation, will be held here by Pad gett Auto Parts and Equipment, 345 North Central ave., this month.. Purpose of the event is to ad vertise to automobile owners and repairmen the need for proper maintenance, and to acquaint the repair trade vith the facili ties of NAPA jobbers to supply quality parts for cars, trucks and tractors of all makes and ages. Members' of the automotive repair trade are invited to visit the . Padgett store during the month to view special displays illustrating .' the variety and scope of lines available. . President's Optimism On East-West Tension Heads Mews for Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: THE GOOD 1. President Eisenhower said at an unusually optimistic press conference in Washington that, make for reduced East-West ten sion, "I have the feeling that things are on the upswing." For one thing, the President said, more of the world is "beginning to understand the United States is genuinely devoted to peace Mr. Eisenhower disclosed that he has been in personal and confidential correspondence within the last three weeks with this wartime friend Mar shal Zhukov, new defense min ister of Soviet Russia. The Presi dent indicated that Zhukov start ed the exchange. 2. The President's optimism was explained by developments both in the Far East and in Euro pe. Chinese Communist Premier Chu En-lai announced at the Asia-Africa conference in Indo nesia that he was willing to ne gotiate directly with the United States on Far Eastern tensions in cluding Formosa. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said he was willing to talk to the Communists directly, without be traying the interests of the Chi nese Nationalists. 3. Provincial elections in Ger many, Austria and France all showed a swing away from the extreme left and the extreme right in politics and toward the moderate center. THE BAD . 1. . The distention between American - supported Premier Ngo Dinh Diem and the rebel ling political-religious sects of the State of Southern , Viet Nam in Indochina flared toward open civil war. A bloody battle was fought in the streets of Saigon, the captal, between government troops and those of the Binh Xuyen sect. 2. The Communists inlensi fied the harassing tactics which Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the nam and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Be Kind to Animals Week To the Editor: Animals will have their week Sunday, May 1 to May 7. This is the 41st an nual "Be Kind to Animals Week." During this week we want to concentrate attention on the need of caring for animals throughout the entire year, Kindness to animals is good bus iness, and it is well for all to know that it pays in dollars and cents. Cows well fed and properly sheltered will give more and bet ter milk. Sheep produce more wool. Hogs more meat, chickens more . eggs. Horses will . give more work and live longer. Kindness to animals pays in character values. The testimony of teachers is almost universal that children who are taught kindness and who practice kind ness to the lower animals are kinder to each other. Kindness pays in spiritual values. Spirituality is not some thing for the yonder and here after, but something for the now and here. Kindness to animals is good business. And remember well behaved dogs make for bet ter neighbors. Humane Society Medford, Oregon "D" Bus Need Seen To. the Editor: To a public citizen and a member of the Armed Forces it was truly an educational afternoon to see to what extent our local Fire Fighters of Medford are going to provide this area 'with disas ter equipment. Everyone siemi to agree something should be done to pro vide this community with such equipment. Those who visited the Klamath Falls "D" bus were not only impressed by what they saw but were brought closer to the purpose and need for such a unit here. . One doesn't need much imagi nation to see disasters of all types. .For example, plane wrecks, fires, drownings, sui cides and what provisions are there? Especially in remote areas where necessary equip ment is not obtainable. So far, the efforts of our Med ford Fire Fighters have pro duced the bus necessary to trans port disaster equipment. They wish to have continued support to provide this equipment. Once they have attained the goal of a fully-equipped disaster bus a certain amount of upkeep is re quired. . ' ' Continued support of the Med ford Fire Fighters in helping them, attain that goal is, neces sary for the benefit of all the citizens of the Rogue Valley area. E. V. T&te . 702 Victory Cfc Apt. 2 . - Medford ; - -. - indicated that they might be moving toward a new blockade of Western Berlin. They started by imposing enormously in creased tolls on the trucks which take supplies to Berlin through the Soviet zone. 3. The governments of two countries important to the West were threatened by internal po litical disputes. In Japan, op ponents of Premier Ichiro Hato yama talked of introducing a misconf idence motion. They com plained that Hatoyama failed to get sufficient financial conces sions from the United States. In Italy, Premier Mario Scelba was threatened b y disagreement over the election in parliament of a president for a seven-year term to succeed aged Luigi Ein-audi. Parke-Davis, Union Extend Negotiations Detroit (U.R) Parke, Davis & Co. and union officials today agreed that an extension of their negotiations is necessary because a settlement of their dispute is "unlikely" in the near future. Parke, Davis is one of two ma jor producers of Salk vaccine. The company and the union agreed to extend the negotiations on a day-to-day basis beyond the May 1 deadline after a joint ses sion with federal and state medi ators last night. Company and unioii officials blamed each other for the wide gap which separated them but they both agreed that it was ur gent to postpone possible strike action because the company is a major producer of the vaccine. Is That So? By Eugene Burns ' 1 ' Ranger-Naturalist - Mail bag "Do butterflies grow larger as they become old er?" asks Mrs. S.E.D. "Why do sheep follow the leader?" enquires W.O.T. "Do any birds carry their babies?" John R., age 10, wants to know via the Bangor Patroit, Butterflies: looking at little houseflies and little butterflies and then seeing much bigger ones, one quite naturally con cludes that these insects grow. But, they do not. Once butterflies and ether winged insects reach their final adult phase of devel opment, they do no more grow ing or changing. These smaller ones are a different species. Follow - the - Leader: The sheep is a descendent of a wild sheep such as the mouflons of Cyprus and Corsica. When wild, they usually travel in single-file, as do many other wild animals, particularly when traversing dif ficult mountain terrain. The routine then is that the file must follow the leader and do as he does. When . he jumps over a narrow fissure, all the others must do the same without hesitation. This saves - time and trouble. When domestic sheep do it, this seemingly-foolish action is mere ly a survival of an age-old habit, just like a dog 'circling in front of his master's hearth before ly ing down trampling down the grass. Baby Carriers: Yes, I know of two birds which carry their young. No doubt there are oth ers. On . our Atlantic, seaboard there's the woodcock. When alarmed, the mother will gather her chick between her thighs, clamp her legs together, and fly off with the youngster to a new place of safety. The second is our beautiful hooded merganser. Like - the woodcock, it makes its nest in hollow trees. When the nest is some distance from the water, the merganser may take hold of its ducklings, one at a time, with her beak and fly with them to the water. In the water, several of her brood of 8-10 may ride on her back. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free by special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo 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 reference work in handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SOI co Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sau- salito, Calif.- VM Mail Tribune Want Ads In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower tells re porters in Washington the United States is willing to confer with Red China alone regarding a cease fire in the Formosa area BUT NOT ON MATTERS AF FECTING NATIONALIST CHI NA. rPHAT clears the record. Secretary Dulles said this country WILL NOT DEAL ALONE with Red China on ANY matters concerning the Chiang Kai-shek regime. Ike backs up his statement. Between them, they leave it clear that we'll fight if the Reds attack Formosa. A NSWERLNG pointed questions -from the reporters at his press conference, the President says he .feels peace prospects are get ting better. - But . . . He adds It's possible to balance every encouraging development with an ADVERSE development. On the encouraging side, he notes Russia's apparent willingness to agree on an independence treaty for Austria. On the adverse side, he mentions the Red Chinese air buildup on the China mainland opposite Formosa. T ET'S put it this way: If we're tohave peace for ourselves, ' for our children and for our grandchildren we must be ready to fight for it at the drop of a hat providing the hat is dropped in such a manner as to ifiake it unmistakably plain that the commies want war. If the Communists WANT WAR, nothing can prevent war. TyiEANWHILE . Until we're certain the Communists want war We must make every honor able effort to keep shooting war from getting started. PPHE federal goyernment brings an anti-trust action against the Hilton hotel chain, charging that the Hilton interests violated the anti-merger section of the anti-trust law when they t ac quired the Statler hotel proper ties. The suit is , brought in - the federal district court in Wash ington. It asks that. Hilton dis pose of some of his properties in .New York City, Washington, St. Louis and Los Angeles. rFHESE, I'd say, are, the ques- tions that need answering: 1. Is Hilton actually MONO POLIZING THE HOTEL BUSI NESS? ' :r 1 . . ' -:: 2. Or is he merely (in the opin ion oi xnet: government) - UK 1 TING TOO BIG? IS bigness bad in itself ? I doubt it. ? It seems to me that in tluYbig country we need .bigness. Maybe we don't like it. But in the mod ern world, with its swiftly ex panding technology, it seems to be inevitable. There are big problems in these days and big ness (HONEST bigness) appears to be necessary to handle them. The problem is WHEN DOES BIGGNESS - BECOME MONO POLY? TTERE's a thought: 11 When the filing of the suit became public, Hilton stock dropped up to $2 a share on the New York Exchange. Suppose we had dishonest men in our government and before bringing the suit against the Hil ton outfit THEY HAD SOLD HILTON STOCK SHORT. That thought dramatizes our need in these days of bigness in business for ABSOLUTE HON ESTY IN GOVERNMENT. Verdine AWOL Conviction Upset "Frankfurt,. Germany (U.R) The U.S. Army Thursday unset the AWOL conviction of Pvt. William A. Verdine. who snent nearly six years in Soviet slave labor camps. The 28-year-old Starks. La.. soldier who was returned by the Russians in January was found guilty of being absent without leave by an Army court mardal Marcn 30. He was fined $396 but was not sentenced to prison on the grounds that he had suffered enough in Soviet captivity. Maj. Gen. Richard Stephens, the reviewing officer, set aside the conviction on technical 231 BEEF ROAST 331b. L" Babson . . . Revolution in Farming By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., (Spec- lal To Mail Tribune). The small, non-progressive farmer is gradually being forced out of b u s i ness. ness. The trend is toward large meehi nized farms. I fore cast that this trend will con tinue. The stubborn far mer simply cannot com Baser W. Bsbsea pete, over, the long term, .with the low-cost mass-production methods of the modern mechan ized farm. He has not sufficient land and will not buy the nec essary equipment. Farm income has declined on average about 8 per cent since 1951. This decline has been felt by all farmers, but particularly by the smaller operators whose costs are high. Some have had to close up shop. Those in the Dust Bowl area were dealt another severe blow recently when Fed eral Crop Insurance was dis continued in certain sections. Withdrawal of this insurance will be felt especially by the small marginal farmer. Banks which heretofore have been willing to make loans to margi nal farmers with crop insur ance protection are now neither willing nor able to risk their depositors' funds. Someday it may be possible to predict and control the weather. This should be a great help to the farmer, but would apply only to produc tion, not to demand. Government acreage control has helped the small farmer compete against his bigger brother to the extent that the large mechanized operator has been forced to restrict his output. This, however, is only a stop gap measure and is unfair to the mass-production farmer because he cannot make full use of his facilities. This reduces his effi ciency and ups his costs. Some day mechanized farmers will re volt against this artificial restric tion in much the same manner as the discount houses are cur rently overthrowing ther : Fair Trade laws. Push-Bolton Farming Becoming Possible Although the day of wholly- mechanized farms is still in the distant future," some amazing de vices have been developed and are now In use. The farmer can now - push a button to grind, mix, and serve feed to a barn ful of cows. Pushing another but ton changes the feed formula and the machine serves the hogs: pushing a third button prepares and serves feed to the chickens. Talk ; about the big-City auto matic restaurants! Those who have done chores on a farm will readily, appreciate the time and back-breaking labor these ma chines save. I forecast that wom en-will- supersede men. in run ning certain farms. ; Another valuable machine Is grounds. He ruled that Verdine'i rights had been prejudiced by the trial officer's failure to ad mit certain evidence presented by the defense.: "He now has a clean slate as far as the AWOL charges are concerned," CoL G. R. Dougher ty, staff judge advocate, said. Dougherty emphasized that Ver dine was not acquitted of the charges but added "there will just be no further triaL" ' ' Pawnee. Ill U.R) Urnier grade teachers at a local school had time on their hands today. Pupils of the seventh and eighth grades went on strike because their school stayed on standard time while the town observed daylight saving time. WHO GETS THE HI? BE AN EARLY BIRD Let us put your money to work in local opportunities FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Te Those Wke Save SIXTH ST. III EAST PORK SAUSAGE 35k FRESH SIDE PORK 3v the hay and grain dryer, which roughly corresponds to the housewife's "clothes dryer. The dryer makes the farmer less dependent on the weather and lets him harvest at his conven ience. It reduces spoilage and gives him more value from his crop. In addition, there are ma chines for planting, spraying, and harvesting, plus countless practical gadgets that make farm work more pleasant and ef ficient ' i . Mechanisation impact ' Expected To Be Gradual . , I forecast the future is bright for farmers who have well-located farms and will adopt the new equipment, and for the makers of this new farm equip ment, but I fear the days of many stubborn, small marginal farmers are numbered. Fortu nately, the impact of mechaniza tion will be gradual, but this la a problem which should be rec ognized and planned for now by the farmer and his children. Government should get together with inriuctrv an4 4i 4m 1- . J WW this transition as easy as pos sible. Farm workers especially should face up to the situation realistically. , In industry, the man who finds work in his own line diminish ing, turns to another type of business. He frequently does much better in the new en deavor. In this connection, many small farmers and farm work ers have nothing to lose. Most farm people have character, courage, and good health. They, aften have the advantage of being handy with tools. In plan- nincr anil vMmviin they have had valuable admin- :.(..: i - . uuauvr aim supervisory exper ience. What does this all mean? To me it means that one of the farmer's sons or daughters might do well to adopt the new condi tions and remain with the farm; tion had better get jobs else where. 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