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All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Presa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION . Advertising 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 EDITOIIAl ASSOCI-ATnON ZJ -s yMg& PUitllMIt VJ'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Construction of a 10-mile sec tion of Highway 99 as strategic highway approved by War Pro duction board. From Arthur Perry' Ye Smudge Pot column: The abbre viation for the full name of the San Francisco conference is "UNCOIN" to the average Am erican, it looks too much like what's been going on the last decade, and the nation can't stand much more uncoining. 20 YEARS AGO Mar 2. 1935 (It was Thursday) Articles of incorporation filed by Applegate Valley Protective Stock association in effort to stop cattle rustling. Unexpected cold causes orch ard heating in lower sections of valley. 30 YEARS AGO May 2. 1925 (It was Saturday) From the Local and Personal column: Fishermen in the Rogue report that trout are taking the fly to good advantage now and that they are able to make some good catches. The trout are ris ing readily. Grants Pass Courier. The Eads brothers start con struction of a business block on South Fir st. 40 YEARS AGO May 2, 1915 (It was Sunday) The Ministerial association votes to favor a police matron for Medford. Oregon Fruit company of Port land contracts to operate Med ford Warehouse company. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of lha 7?) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Rtsaarch Report 1. Job chances are better or worse for skilled workers over 40 in this era of high employ ment than in similar eras of the past, or about the same? 2. President Eisenhower sup ports statehood for Alaska, for Hawaii, for both, or for neith er? 3. Stocks of wheat in the U.S. are now enough for about six, twelve. 18 or 24 months' dom estic needs? 1 4. Women dietitians and ther apists are or aren't eligible for commissions in the U. S. Armed forces? 5. U. S. Sureme Court jus tices must, like, the President, have been born in the U.S., right or wrong? 6. Some life insurance is car ried in more than half or less than half of all U.S. families? 7. Dorothy Bailey was the cen ter of a big court case recently as a federal employee, alleged murderer. Government witness, dress designer, or friend of play boy Jelke? The answers: 1. Worse. 2. Only for Hawaii. 3. 24 months. 4. Are. 5. Wrong. 8 In more than half. 7. Federal employee. The Dra Valley in French Morocco grows more than 300 varieties of dates. The average resident of the valley eats three pounds of dried dates a day. MAIL TRIBUNE What's In a Name? -4 Does America have a "capitalist" economy? A writer in the current issue of Harper's magazine claims, and with logic on his side, that we need a new phrase to describe the way things are done in this country. In Europe, he claims, the word "capitalist" is a dirty word, having connotations and meanings which it has lost in America. It IS thus, he says, when Americans talk affection- ately of our "capitalist, free-enterprise economy," that Europeans react with a startling lack "of enthus iasm. The word still connotes, to them, economic roy alism, sweat shops, underpaid and oppressed work ers, the privileges of wealth, and so on. In America it means something different. The writer believes we should do something to counteract this impression, and he is convinced that what we need is a new word to describe what we have been calling "capitalism." ' - LIOW do we describe our system which has, he says, progressed "past Socialism?" "Planning," he declares, is a word which has pleasant connotations to Europeans, but unpleasant ones to Americans. And yet, he maintains, it is plan ning which has created something unique, something new, something wholesome in America, although it is seldom called just that. What big corporation ning forward for the ensuing year and decade? he asks. And what businessman or farmer can make plans without taking into account the plans of local, state and federal government for taxes, for reclam ation, for crop controls, for sustained yield, for buil ding programs, for manpower (military and other) needs? AMERICA has succeeded a biau ouwiai cwivi j U0iviv,c kJj planning and by controls, but without calling them by those names, he maintains. The semantic difficulty can be understood better, he said, when it is con sidered that American businessmen, farmers, tax payers practically everyone is subject to laws, universally accepted, which Europeans know nothing about. They don't know about security and exchange commission regulations, the federal communications commission rules, the wage and hour laws, social security laws, and the multi tude of federal and state laws and regulations de signed to curb the abuses of "capitalism," a system now all but gone in actuality through these regula tions, and which has been no one has bothered to give DERHAPS it would even add to our own under- standing of ourselves if we acknowledged that capitalism (as it was understood 50 or 75 years ago) is dead in America, and that we have something better. Who can put a name to our economic system which tells the truth, and which accurately describes both the freedoms we enjoy and the regulations to which we submit in the interests of the public wel fare? E.A. The Southern Barrier Ten members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce visited Medford last week, and during a luncheon with the directors of the local chamber, discussion brought out a lot of "gripes" which local businessmen have about relationships with the Bay City. It all boiled down to two things: transportation and communication. I UMBERMEN were concerned about freight rates " which put them at a disadvantage in shipping into San Francisco (even though they can ship to the south or east on a competitive basis with northern Calif ornia lumber firms). Drivers were concerned with the tortuous Sacra mento river canyon highway south of Dunsmuir. Airline passengers were concerned with the fact that there is one flight per day less to the south than there is to the north. Would-be rail passengers were concerned that there is no rail passenger service south from the Rogue valley. TT should be pointed out that the gripes were not particularly bitter (except for those concerning freight rates), but they did animous opinion that traffic and business between this area and the Bay region would be considerably greater and more prosperous if these barriers were eased. The San Francisco delegation, a friendly and in telligent group, promised to take these complaints back with them to see if progress could be made in knocking down the barriers to more extensive trade. It may be that something concrete can be accom plished. But if nothing more, we are sure the visitors were made aware that Medford exists, and has much to offer to California businessmen and vacationists. Dennis Day To Have Rose Festival Role Portland U.R) Dennis Day has been signed for a starring role in the 1955 Rose Festival's musical extravaganzas Thursday and Friday, June 9 and 10, ac cording to an announcement from the Rose Festival associa tion. , '..I Monday, May 1935 could exist without plan in erecting a structure of which bothers Europeans our anti-trust laws, our succeeded by something a name to. represent an almost un E1A. Date for the 47th annual Rose Festival are June 8 to 12. The two night musical shows will be called "Starlight Sere nade," and will include other top-flight entertainers. - Dead line for Sunday Claiaifiod if at Boon Saturday. Matter of Fact ADLAI AND AVERELL Washington The relation ship between Adlai Stevenson and New York's Gov. Averell Harriman is the most interesting Wi personal eaua- tion in Ameri can politics to day. Stevenson and Harriman are at one and the same time close personal 4 friends and po tential political rivals. Harriman made his posi Stewart Alsop tion entirely clear to Stevenson, before Ste venson left for his carefully timed sojourn in Africa. Harri man told Stevenson," in effect, not to worry about the nomina tion if he wanted it, it was in the bag. All he had to do was to pass the word to five or six key men including Harriman and they would get behind him and push. But this time, Harriman said, there could be' no indefinite de lay. This time, in Harriman's view, the -problem is not the nomination but the election. Harriman strongly believes that the notion that Eisenhower is unbeatable is a myth. But he also believes, and has so coun selled Stevenson, that in order to beat Eisenhower, Stevenson has got to start building for elec tion day, not just after the con vention next year, but almost right away. Harriman has also been completely frank with Ste venson about his own role he is a Stevenson man all the way if Stevenson wants the nomination, but if Stevenson does not, he will try for it himself. The implication of all this is plain. At some unspecified point, if Stevenson does not pass the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I suppose you've been reading about the Eisenhower - Zhukov ocrrespondence and, like everybody else, have been. won dering what these two old comrades-in-arms said to each other when they took their pens in hand. Were they conferring official ly on larger affairs of the world, such as finding ways and means whereby Russia and the United States can live in the same world in more or less peaceful coexis tence? Or were they just a couple of old soldiers fighting the war over again, as all old soldiers do when they get together either in person or by correspondence? T WOULDN'T know. " But here's a tale that comes over the wires from Washington one of those don't - quote - me-but-here's what - really-happened affairs that are so common in these days: The correspondence started, the yarn goes, when Zhukov wrote Ike requesting the return of a Russian boy who voluntarily went over to the West in Ber lin in late March,, of this year. Zhukov told Eisenhower that he (Zhukov) recognized him (Ike) as a great humanitarian. Laying it on with a trowel, Zhukov said in his letter that he knew the President would rea lize the anxieties of the Russian boy's family and would do his best to lighten these anxieties. And so on. TKE GOT the letter. Presumably he leaned back in his chair and scratched his head, and possibly said to him self. "What's Grigori (his. full name is Grigori Konstantino- vich Zhukov) up to now?" At any rate .(according to "in formants," who are a numerous tribe in Washington) Ike- is said to have replied that he could recognize the anguish of the (Communist) Russian boy's fami ly. But He is said to have added He hoped that Zhukov could realize THE ANXIETY OF AMERICAN FAMILIES OF AMERICAN MEN WHO ARE BEING HELD IN JAILS OF COMMUNIST CHINA. . T HOPE that is exactly what happened. And 1 can't help thinking that maybe it IS what happened. TKE HAS been around a lot. He has had ' a lot of propositions put up to him propositions With a CATCH to them. He has had plenty of expierience in shing people up. He knows a baited hook when he sees one. And When he acts on his own judg ment, in matters in which he has had experience He nearly al ways DOES THE RIGHT THING. TT IS only when he has fancy political propositions put up to him by skilled politicians, and realizing that politics is a field in which he hasn't specialized relics on the advice given to him by the politicians by whom he is surrounded that our President sometimes seems to fumble. In the critically important fields of soldiering and inter national diplomacy in which his life has been spent, his instincts are nearly always sound ' and wholesome. , " j HLJ By Joseph Alsop word, Harriman himself will "go." To "go" in Harriman's case, simply means giving a ta cit green light to Carmine De Sapio, able chieftain of Tammany-Hall and Harriman's prin cipal political backer. JUST when the point of deci- sion will come is uncertain. But it could come rather soon. DeSapio reportedly favors start ing quietly to build a Harriman organization by early autumn, if Stevenson does not pass the word before then. Meanwhile, De Sapio is keeping open his lines of communication to such key figures in the party as May or David Lawrence, of Pitts burgh, and Sen. Earle Clements, of Kentucky, who has the role of honest broker, between the northern and southern wings of the party. Thus provided Stevenson does not let it be known that he is available fairly soon after he returns Harriman must be tak en seriously as a possible con tender. Already, he is certainly being taken a lot more seriously than in 1952, when he first tried for the nomination and did sur prisingly well. The simple fact of being Gov ernor of New York has added a cubit or so to his political sta ture. So has publication of the Yalta papers, which show him in an admirable light there is a certain irony in the fact that the only man to benefit politi cally from the Yalta papers is a New Deal Democrat. Those close to him say that beinz elected governor of the biggest state has also "done something" to Harriman. His old diffidence is gone, he has discovered in him self a natural bent for politics, and he is immensely enjoying his job. Harriman is an essentially un complicated man. When he wants something he goes to work to get it and usually succeeds. Thus his advice to Stevenson, to nail down the nomination and start right away working to win the election, is perfectly in char acter. It is precisely what Harri man would do in Stevenson's position. Indeed, if it were not for Stevenson, his friends be lieve that Harriman would be out beating the bushes for sup port right now. But. Stevenson is a much more complex character. Those who know him well believe that he really wanted the nomination very badly last year or at least that he very badly wanted to be sure that he could have it if he wanted it. Then the election by a smashing majority of his friend and protege. Paul Butler, as chairman of the Democratic Na tional committee, proved to Ste venson that he couid have tha nomination by lifting a finger At that point or so friends of his believe he 'began asking himself, in his introsnective. Wilsonian way. whether he real ly wanted to run after all. TF STEVENSON continues to ask himself this question with out coming up with positive answer, the odds are that Harriman, perhaps even with Stevenson's blessing, will make the try. With New York's huge bloc of delegate votes go ing to Harriman instead of Ste venson, Stevenson might then fail of nomination on the early balloting and a front runner must win early or not at all. Yet there are those who be lieve that a Harriman candidacy is just what Stevenson needs to copper-rivet the nomination. Ao cording to this reasoning, the southerners and conservatives distrust Harriman's views and would therefore flock to Steven son. Obviously it is much too early to predict the effect of a Harriman candidacy. But at least it will be interesting to watch the relationship between these two remarkable men, as it develops in the months to come. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Congress of Freedom Urges UN Withdrawal San Francisco (U.R) Dele gates to the Congress of Freedom were en route home today after adopting a resolution urging the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations. The congress, a coalition of 500 right wing organizations, roundly criticized the United Na tions and its member agencies in the final session of a' six - day convention which ended here Saturday. ' The resolution said that the United Nations and its member agencies were "totally ineffect ual in prompting "the cause of liberty. We respectfully urge the Congress of the United States, the President of the United States and the people of the United States to sever all con nection with the United Nations and oust this foreign, un American, respository of poli tical and potential might." ACCOUNTANTS TO MEET Corvallis (U.R) The 1955 convention of the Oregon As sociation of Public Accountants will be held here June 23 to 25, C. Hoy Briggs, general conven tion chairman, announced over the week end. - Is That So? By Eugana Burnt Hangar-Naturalist Time in for our outdoor quiz. Score five and you are an ex pert; four is mighty good; three fair to middling. Answers fol low questions. 1. As high jumpers go, man isn't so bad with a record of 6 feet 11V4 inches. But several animals do better. Among these mammals lion,, jackrabbit, American elk, African klip- springer and horse, the follow ing records have been recorder: 20 feet, 8Ji feet, nine feet, eight and seven. Link these high jumpers with the appropriate animal. 2. With summer coming on, temperatures of 110 to 130 de grees Fahrenheit will be record ed. But what is the hottest body temperature a' human can with stand and still live? 100 degrees Fahrenheit? 105? 110? 115? 120? 3. No doubt you know the butcher's name for the "desex ed" rooster, but what do you call a sexless hen 4. What male fish attaches himself to the head, side or back of a female and lives off, her predigested food for the rest of his unnatural lifetime? 5. The gestation periods of an imals varies enormously. Natur ally it is impossible to remem ber the exact number of days but an outdoorsman should know approximately. Of these varied groups, which is the shorter? Chipmunk or hamster? Bear or cow? Camel or horse? Hippopot amus or fisher? African ele phant or whale? ANSWER: 1. A jackrabbit has been known to jump seven feet high; ,a lion, eight feet; a horse, 8Vi; an American elk, nine; and an African klipspringer, 20 in fact over 20. 2. The hottest temperature the average human being could sur vive is a little over 105, but a few. humans have survived tem peratures of 110. 3. Capon is the name of the de sexed rooster; poulard, the hen. Incidentally, a desexed rabbit is also called a capon, why I'll never know. 4. The angler fish. 5. The hamster with 16V4 days has a shorter gestation than the chipmunk with 28; bear 180-210 as against the cow's 280-285; horse wita 330 days against the camel's 390-406; the great hip popotamus 240 days as against the little fisher's 338-358; the whale, around 360 days, as against the African elephant's 607-660. (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 wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new ques tions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! care of Medford Mail Tribune, box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Peron Asks ; Decision.. On Church vs. State Buenos Aires, Argentina (U.R) President Juan D. Peron Sun day called for a decision by the Argentine people on whether the Roman Catholic Church and the state should be separated or whether the church "must go." "The problem boils down to a decision which must be taken by the people. And the people and their representatives must have the last word," Peron told a May Day rally. "If they decide that they (the church) must stay, they wiU stay. If they decide thai there must be separation, they will separate. But if the people de cide that they must go, they will go," Peron said. Eisenhower Visits With 'Mother of Year Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower, one of seven children, today wished the "Mother of the Year" who is the mother of eight "many: more years of happiness. P r e s i d ent Eisenhower also talked over big family problems today with Mrs.. Lavina Chris- tensen Fugal, 75, Pleasant Grove, Utah. Mrs. Fugal described her visit with the President "the thrill of a lifetime." PRESIDENT ELECTED Corvallis (U.R) Oregon chanter of the National Council of Teachers met here Saturday and elected Marian Zollinger, language supervisor of Portland schools, president ...... Successful Faces Loss As Italian By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Premier Mario Scelba has been so successful in fighting Italy's Communists that he is likely to lose his job m a couple of weeks. f First as min ister of inter ior, then as prime minis ter, Scelba has been a symbol of m i 1 i t ant anti - Commu nism for eight years. But now the Cbarles McCann Communist Party is on the down grade. It is losing strength in membership. It also is losing its grip on the leadership of the big Italian labor unions. - Bank Official and Abductor Killed In Getaway Crash Kampsville, 111. (U.R) A kid naped bank official and one of his abductors were killed today when a captured getaway car crashed in an attempt to escape a posse. The early morning melodrama began when two gunmen, plan ning to rob the Kampsville bank, made their way into the home of cashier Harry Waldheuser, 63. ,A neighbor saw lights go off in the home and, when she in vestigated, spotted a strange man in the door of the Waldheuser home. She gave the alarm and 30 Kampsville residents and police men surrounded the house where Waldheusen and his wife were held captive. Getaway Car Demanded The gunmen demanded a get away car. threatening to kill the couple. When the car was pro vided the' gunmen forced Wald heuser and his wife :' :to it. They sped down the highway until the car turned over on a curve: State police said two bullets were found in . Waldheuserm's body, indicating he might have been killed before the crash oc curred. Also killed was Thomas Un derwood, 44, Washington Park, 111. ' " ' ' The other gunman, Clifford Hubbard, 26, St. Louis, end Waldheuser's wife were taken to Carrollton, 111., hospital. Mrs. Waldheuser wasi reported in critical condition. State police said Underwood and Hubbard had originally planned to force Waldheuser to open the bank vault for them. Nuclear Explosion Again Postponed Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) "Ope ration Cue," the nuclear detona tion designed to demonstrate de fenses of American cities against atomic attack, was postponed for the seventh straight day today by unfavorable weather condi tions. Hopes of setting off the device in its tower a few blocks north of Survival Town on Yucca Flat today were dashed Sunday when meteorologists found conditions were adverse, probably due to wind and clouds. Another weather evaluation session was scheduled at tne Atomic Proving Ground late this afternoon but a spokesman warn ed in advance that "it does not look favorable for firing Tuesday morning." The tapir is the largest land animal of the South American jungle.. Frank Perl FINER FUNERAL SERVICES ia every pries rant. Scelba T of Job Premier Hence the Red menace, which loomed so large in Italy -after World War II, has becomt re mote. ' ' Internal Party Trouble The Christian Democratic Party, of which Scelba is a founding member, can afford to wage internal feuds instead of sticking together to fight Communism. Also, it has lost some of its old anti-Red crusad ing appeal to the voters. Amintore Fanfani long been regarded as an aspirant to Scel ba'sjob. But the latest threat to Scelba came on Friday when Giovanni Gronchi, Christian Democratic president of the Chamber of Deputies was elected president of Italy for a seven-year term. Gronchi en Left Gronchi is the leader of what is called the left wing of the party, though he is anti-Communist. There also is a right wing. Scelba is a party middle-of-the-roader. The "left" wing wants to seek the support of the left wing So cialist group of Pietro Nenni, who is a fellow traveler with the Communists. The right wing wants to seek the support of right wing parties, including tha Monarchists. Scelba Must Resign Scelba openly and bitterly fought Gronchi's candidacy for the presidency. Gronchi will take office May 11. Next day, under the Consti tution, Scelba must submit his resignation. Normally this would be merely a formality and he would be asked to form a new government. But Gronchi is expected to ac cept the resignation of his fellow party leader and name somebody else premier. . If that happens, the Chris tian Democratic feud will be em bittered, and the only winners can be the extremists, left or right. Fairies Will Retire As US Stebf Chairman Hoboken, N.J. (U.R)- Ben jamin F. Fairless, whose ' first job was selling newspapers at the age of five, announced to day he is stepping down as chairman of U.S. Steel Corp., the world's biggest steelmaker. Fairless, chairman for the past three years, reaches the retire ment age of 65 tomorrow. , Directors of the $3,348,000,000 company are expected to'::meet tomorrow to name a successor. Fairless will remain as a director and a member of the Finance committee. God Reaches Out Geo. N. Taylor - Peter, the Apostle, is telling Capt. Cornelius, a man of. Cae sar's Army, as to Christ Of a sudden, Cornel ius and his friends there present, break in on .Peter They speak in tongues of Red men and Black; of Browh men men and white. God wants the 3aved to know that he is tak ing out of all races a neoDle for himself. Christ took the sins of all to clear them with God. The one sin now between you and God is whether you . take Christ as the Lord and Saviour who died for vou. Accent" Him and Judgement is out and eter nal life is in. For God so loved you that he gave his Only-Born Son, that if you shpuld believe in Him you would not perish but have eternal life. Having come into God's family, then by Bible and Prayer, Grow Up. This Message sponsored by a Beaverton family. Adv. : Since 1900 Mortuary o Phone 2-6675- o II W PERL
