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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORBtTRIBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads Hie Mail Tribune" Publiahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor 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 ax second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES W jril In AMnM' Par Cnfllf 1 A Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only one year aj.ou. n .. r in Arivinni Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold mil. i-noerax Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent Daily nd Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday one monw Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. . ah Trrn Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ot jacKson t-oumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATiun wreT.nnr I TTIAV COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De ' troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, portiana. i. iouis. uinn . Vancouver. B.C. ' NATIONAL EDITOIIAl ASVOCWVTIrQN "mum 7" NIWSFAMt UiLIIHEIf "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 6. 1945 (It was Sunday) A brief showing why High ' way 99 should remain Oregon's . inter-regional highway prepared . to-submit to state highway com- mission. ' " From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An eco nomic advisor reports the war cost the American people enough to build an $8,000 home for eve ry family in; the country, or a new auto with a luxurious trailer attached. 20 YEARS AGO May 6, 1935 - (It was Monday) ; Four rural Jackson county schools close for summer vaca tion. Irrigation water reservoirs of Jackson county are rising from spring run-off water. 30 YEARS AGO May 6. 1925 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council decides to enforce dog ordinance, and draft new measure requiring dogs be tied during summer months. An 85-signature "petition sub mitted to city council for crea tion of post of "city policewom an to give attention to the morals and welfare of the minors of the city." 40 YEARS AGO May 6, 1915 (It was Thursday) . Seven buildings destroyed by Gold Hill fire, doing about $15, 000 damage. At least one Medford resident aboard the Lueitania, sunk by German submarine torpedo. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7T) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Ksiart 1. Number of nations in, the : U.N. is 30, 40, 50, 60, or 70? 2. Every large Southern city has more whites than negroes in its population: right or wrong? 3. Which two of these were not among the 13 original states: Maine, Georgia, Rhode Island, Kentucky?. 4. Has any of the baseball teams in the " present National League failed to win the pennant at least once? 5. Ethiopia is ' north, east, south or west of Abyssinia, or are the two the same? 6. Oysters are unhealthful or simply less tasty during the four months without the letter "r"? 7. Dr. John P. Peters was fired in 1953 from his federal job as ambassador, medical con sultant. F.B.I. under-cover agent, or Agriculture Dept. specialist? The Answers: 1. SO. 2. Right. 3. Maine and Kentucky. 4. No. 5. The same. 8. Simply less tasty. 7. Medical consultant. . Oregoncms Follow Party Lines on Parity Ballot , Washington (U.R) Oregon Congresmen followed party lines yesterday in voting on a Demo cratic-sponsored measure to re store rigid high farm supports at 90 per cent of parity. The meas ' ure cleared the house 206-201. Rep. Edith Green, Democrat, voted for the bill while GOP Reps. Sam Coon, Harris Ells worth and Walter Norblad op posed it. - '. I MAIL TRIBUNE Goodbye, Pole Lines? The granting by the F e d e r a 1 Communications Commission of permission for the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company to build a $4,812,000 radio relay system between Portland and San Francisco may be the first step in a development which will see the eventual complete disappearance of the'long lines of poles and crossarms which have carried telephone and telegraph wires ever since Messrs Morse and Bell invented their instruments of communication. a rIE P. T. and T. company's new radio system will kaira nini T-aloir CTOTirkYIC VlOTWOttTl PfWlanfl OTTtA tr1i California border. Located on promontories in the vicinity of Carver, Silverton, Albany, Eugene, Cottage Grove, Roseburg, Wolf Creek, Medford and Siskiyou summit, these stations will permit the projection and reception of microwave beams which will carry chan nels for three network television stations and one standby channel. The San Francisco-Portland system will be hook ed up at the latter city with microwave systems al ready existing between Portland and Seattle and Portland and Pasco, Wash. I TSE of the microwave system enables transmission of long distance conversations, radio and tele vision chains without the use of poles and wires. "The system is already in fairly general use in some of the nation's more mountainous regions where maintaining the long pole and wire lines is an expensive and haz ardous undertaking. Erection of microwave relay stations is not par ticularly costly and once located on their mountain tops upkeep is nominal, as compared with the old style wire line installations. IT would seem entirely possible that the microwave nrineinle mav be adaDted before too manv years to short line use in ways i ence of the unsigntiy pole ana wire lines aiong roaas and highways no longer necessary. Tt mio-ht even be in the realm of nossibilitv that central telephone stations in towns and cities will be connected with subscribers' homes or business places by microwave, at least to a certain extent, thus doing awav with the objectionable pole lines in residential and downtown areas. Such latter developments are probably still quite a while off but it would be hard to think of any indus try in which there has been more marked or more rapid evolution thanhe communications business. HJ.U.r . The Old Prospector Drops In Our friend the old prospector came in for a visit yesterday, sidling in as unconcernedly and casually as if he had only been away a day or two; Matter ot fact we hadn't seen him all one of the interesting things about the old prospector. Without a word of leavetaking, sometimes not even a nod of the head, he takes off with his packroll and rock hammer for some far distant mountainside, may be in the Applegate, maybe in Colorado, where, he is sure, there is gold to be found. Just as casually and unceremoniously he shows up in the office some day, planks himself in a chair and announces that the gold was there, just as he knew it would be vast quantities of it, yes, sir gold beyond the dreams of avarice. . THIS time, though, it wasn't gold alone that had beckoned him as the magnetic pole draws the com pass needle. This time he had found uranium too such vast deposits of the newly desirable metal as to surpass all the stories of other recent finds of the ma trial which some believe is destined to ultimately either wipe man from the face of the earth or to pro vide a new source of power which will practically re lease him from all work harder than putting a finger on a pushbutton. The only trouble with the old prospector's dis covery tales is their indefiniteness, their complete lack of detail as to location. When questions as to di rection or location become too pressing he simply dis misses them with a wave of the hand, a wave in a general direction which might indicate " the already known ore values awaiting development in the Blue Ledge country, or a thousand miles away. . COME day, though, our old friend is going to give us the story of the century. We know we can trust him to do that for he always promises to tell us first that is if he tells anyone at all. Can't trust every body, you know. - He has never failed to find gold on his safaris to far away fields and he has always let us know when he has made a strike yes, sir, its always been there, just as he knew it would be. Maybe some day he might even take us with him to the end of one of his rainbow trails and there we will find the pot of gold, together. THAT would sort of end things for ue oid prospec tor, though, and for us too. There'd be no excuse for further pilgrimages once he found the end of the rainbow. And that story he has been going to give us for so many years. We wouldn't really want to write it once the old prospector reaches the end of his rain bow trail. . E.C.F. Upper Applegate Man Edgar R. Sawyer, of the Up per Applegate, was buried in the Willamette National ceme tery, Portland, with military honors last week. He died Sunday in the Veter ans Administration hospital, Portland. A veteran of World War 1, Friday. May 5. 1955 which will make the pres- i i i i winter, seemed like. That's Dies in VA Hospital Mr. Sawyer had been associated with the U.S. Forest Service. He was a member of the Upper Applegate Grange. He leaves his widow, Edna G. Sawyer, and three sisters, Mrs. Robert McCloud and Mrs. Golda Scott, both Chehalis, Wash., and Mrs. W. A. Jackson, Washougal, Return of Germany To Sovereignty Tops Good News for Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the" international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. The federal republic of Germany became a sovereign na tion, and an ; ally of the free world, as the result of the ratification of the Paris trea ties. It was a momentous de feat for So viet Russia in the cold war. The occupation of West Ger many, with its 50,000,000 peo- it w Charles McCann Pe, Dyxne uni ted States, Britain and France formally ended. The approxi mately 550,000 American, Ca nadian, British, French and Bel gian troops in West Germany will remain as guests and part ners in a common defense against Communist aggression. West Germany became a mem ber of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and prepared to contribute to it a fighting force of 550,000 men. 2. Russia, having lost its des perate fight against West Ger man armament, appeared pre pared to sign a treaty to restore to Austria the sovereignty it lost when Nazi Germany seized it in 1938. In the treaty negotiations in Vienna, the Soviet delegation gave up its insistence on two im portant points. Allied authorities now hoped that the treaty might be signed, after years of Soviet obstruction, about mid-May. Rus sia's motive in its apparent de cision to sign the treaty was to try to sabotage West Germany's rearmament. The Kremlin would hold out hope to West Germans Is That So? Who Am I? I rarely taste what I have not killed, myself; my home may weigh a half ton; when unmo lested I may live near humans; I am plainly dressed in browns and' whites 'with darker trim mings. I live in most lands but never any great distance from water, t. Despite my sturdy legs I can not walk or hop on the ground. ) My eggs usually number three, measuring 2 by 2V& inches, and are endlessly varied in color, splotched irregularly with many shades of brown against dull white. My telescopic vision is far bet ter than man's. My toes are near ly equal and have highly curved claws with spicules underneath for holding my slippery prey. My hooked beak is for tearing flesh. Full-grown, the female may weigh 4V& pounds and be 25 inches long the male being con spicuously smaller. Wing tips are pointed, giving us power and grace in flight. In diving upon a silvery shad ow in the water, I churn up to 80 miles an hour, and I usually some up with my wriggling vic tim in my Immensely powerful talons. .My life is one' of domestic bliss couples pair off and re turn year after year to add more junk to their eyrie. We make no bones about hiding our huge and unsightly nests and you'll fjnd them in broken treetops, on rock ledges, along low shores or sandy beaches; when not molested by man, perhaps in belfries, the roof of a shed, the crossarms of telegraph poles and on a cart wheel fastened on a tall pole. I never pick sticks off the ground to build iteither finding them afloat or breaking off dead limbs from a tree by diving upon them. In most areas I am protected, hence in many regions I am one of the few large birds on the in crease. My diet is exclusively fish. I am: A. Bald eagle. B. Con- W Bk. 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Recommenda tions to be made by the experts, including defense of Thailand and the Indochinese states of Southern Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, will be considered at a higher level meeting to be held in Bangkok, Thailand June 6. THE BAD 1. The political crisis in South ern Viet Nam, which threatens to explode to open civil war, became even more tangled. For the moment, American - support ed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem main tained supremacy over the re ligious political - religious sects. But Diem's own supporters split over a new issue whether to de pose playboy chief of state Bao Dai, who was sitting out the crisis on the French Riviera. 2. It was announced that dele gates of Soviet Russia and its European satellites would meet in Warsaw, Poland, next Wednes day to establish a unified mili tary command." This was Rus sia's first retort to West Ger many's entrance to the North At lantic alliance. The Communists also intensified their threats to WesBerlin, hunting at a block ade. 3. The Himalayan Mountain kingdom of Afganistan announ credit was mobilizing because of a dispute with Pakistan over a big tribal area on their frontier. A conflict between the two coun tries could only benefit Soviet Russia, which adjoins Afganistan on the north. By Eugene Burns Hangar-Naturalist dor. C. Falcon, b. Osprey. E. Skua. I am: D. An osprey, more com monly known as a fish hawk. (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 refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Communications Viaduct Protested To the Editor: The following is a copy of a letter which- was sent to Mr. R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, at Salem, a copy of which was also sent to the Medford City , Council. As this letter, covers a subject which deeply concerns all who appre ciate the beauties of Medford and its vicinity, we are hopeful that you will print it. "Dear Sir. We, the Phoenix Garden Club, wish to protest any re-routing of Highway 99 by way of a viaduct over Hawthorne Park .in Medford. "Although most of the mem bers of our club do not reside in Medford, we tdo our shopping there and our families use the park facilities. Such a viaduct would not enhance the beauty or peacef ulness of the park. "As a Garden Club, we are especially concerned over the certain destruction of the horti cultural beauties in and around the nark which would result from the proposed freeway. "We are certain another route could be found for Highway 99 which v would, not destroy ; the trees and shrubs of Hawthorne Park, and which would preserve its beauty and restful atmos phere. ........ "Very truly yours, (Signed) Dorothy A. - Grocho cki, Secretary, Phoenix Garden Club.": Mrs. W. A. Grochocki Route 1, Box 479D Medford, Oregon Ph. 3-4264 Medford In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Political note: In Washington, the house of representatives is heading as this is written toward a showdown on a bill to scrap the flexible farm support program that was voted by Congress last year. Presum ably, the scrapping of the flexi ble supports program would be followed by a bill to return to the former system of rigid, high suports for the six basic farm crops. The Washington correspon dents report that the bill to do away with the flexible support system is generally backed by house Democrats. House Repre sentatives are reported to be generally opposing it. AND- xx The dispatches continue The senate has indicated it will NOT consider a farm bill this session. Even if both houses should pass a high price support bill, President Eisenhower has indicated quite clearly that he will veto it. IF THAT is the case, why spend the time of the house of repre sentatives in passing a bill that has no chance of becoming a law this year? The answer is rather simple. It is believed to be good poli tics. It MIGHT result in winning over the big wheat states to the Democrats next year. As you may have heard, there will be another Presidential election in 1956. TN THE interest of fairness and accuracy, I'm obliged to add that in a similar situation the Re publicans might act in exactly the same way. I can t help wish ing we had more statesmen and fewer politicians in Congress. CJPEAKING OF surpluses, here is the wheat situation in a nutshell: In mid-1952, the wheat sur plus was about 235,000,000 bush els. A year later, it stood at 562,- 000,000 bushels. In July of last year, it rose to 903,000,000 bush els. It is expected to pass the billion-bushel mark by July of this year. Why we should go on subsi dizing such increases in the wheat surplus is a question that only politicians can answer. 1MORE ON the atom bomb tests and the weather: Dr. Oppenheimer, lecturing in Portland, says he doesn't think the atomic bomb tests that are being held in Nevada have any thing to do with the kind of wea ther we have been having. . He adde:--'" .-"'. ' -'. - ;,J "The atomic bomb is impres sive, but it is peanuts as com pared with the force unleashed by a hurricane or a typhoon . . . The weather does appear to be changing, but there is no reason to link the changes to A-bomb tests." II7ELL, that's that. , " But A lot of us know nothing what ever about nuclear physics will snort scornfully at this opinion from one of the foremost author ities in the world, citing the fact that we are having rotten wea ther and at the same time we are having atom bomb tests on a big scale down in the Nevada desert. , So, we will contend, the bomb tests, just HAVE to have some thing to do with it. THAT'S all right, and Im glad it's that way. If the time ever comes when we Americans ac cept obediently the WORD OF AUTHORITY and have no opin ions of our own, this will no longer be America. Prospect Church Dedication Set Prospect The Prospect As sembly of God church congrega tion, plan a dedication service for their new church Monday, May 9, the Rev. Harold C. Cas per, pastor, announces. Members of Assembly of God churches from southern Oregon will par ticipate. In the service at 2:30 p.m. Rev. Julius Jepsen, a former pastor of the church will be the speaker. The Rev. Lester Gibson, a minister from the Oregon dis trict headquarters at Brooks, Ore., will be the speaker for the dedication service at 7:30 p.m. A lunch will be served at 5 p.m. in the Community hall for the visitors. Visitors are invited. 2 31 ' PORK. LIVER 0)c lb. Babson ..Public Enemy By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., (Special To Mail Tribune) We have an enemy in this country eating away at us from within in a way that may be very- destruc tive to our na tional well-being. That ene my is competi tion, which for ces us to put an employee's loy Boger W. Bafcioi alty to the business ahead of his loyalty to his family. When praising the American Way" of free enter prise, let us not forget that it has serious dangers. Big Business is surely contri buting to juvenile delinquency by the high priority it claims on a man's evenings and week ends. When father should be speding time with his wife and children he is entertaining customers or whittling down the paper work on his desk. He is a stranger in his own home. This almost hys terical pursuit of company busi ness at any cost to family life is evidence of the decline in nor mal values that has hit too many business executives. There are . millions of vsad homes across the land, homes where fathers have awakened with a jolt to find sons already grown un. Sons have gotten into serious difficulties because they never received the kind of guid ance and discipline they needed from father. I recall a plaintive cry from a "corporation wife" which appeared in Fortune maga zine a couple of years ago. She particularly condemned the type and amount ol entertainment that she, as a corporation wife, was expected to offer to her hus band's business associates.' In this case, the corporation left little time for either parent to spend with the children. Constant Change Is Dangerous It is a. mistake for companies not to allow sales managers to slay in any one place long enough to become part of their community. They must move every two or three years. Of course, the wives become irri tated; children have a hard time in school; and husbands develop ulcers. Marriage and the family don't have a chance. Graduates of Colleges of Busi ness Administration have been criticized in recent years for be ing unwilling to be away from home five nights a week for their dear old employer; but these graduates may be justified. The present generation of fathers and mothers of teen-agers haven't a very good record. Perhaps the new crop of prospective fathers and mothers will do a better job. oca-oDa BOTTLING CO. 600 North Grape. O Mtdford , 2-2339 EAST SIXTH ST. MUTTON ROAST JOWL . BACON 231. Parental Guidance Lacking la Hearing ox cniidren A father tells about the very good prep school to which he is sending his teen-agers. Says he, "Why I don't have to be bother ed with the kids at all. This winter the school taught my boy how to ski and to skate. Saved me a lot of time and trouble!" School and college guidance of fices are filled with records of ' young people who are emotional ly unstable because their parents never played with them enough, never gave them the understand ing and guidance they needed. A friend recently stated that ' when he suggested a plan for fathers and sons to raise money together by planting and mar keting certain garden crops, he was nearly booed out of the meeting. "Whoever heard of such a ridiculous idea? We re all too busy," vas the reply. Don't blame the schools for all the shortcomings of the younger generation! Responsibility of 'Big Business' How often have you heard business executive say that he doesn't want his children to work as hard as he has had to? So he hands them out fat allow ances, automobiles, expensive .1 education, and perhaps even sub sidies for marriage. This eases his conscience; he can say he has given his children everything, "everything," the children will tell you, except what they really " wanted most ocmpanionship. Such prolonged wet-nursing can - develope a generation of young people who are egocen tric, emotionally immature, anoY who believe the world owes them a living. Who is to blame? I have a hunch that the pace . business sets has something to do with the situation. In fact, when asked as to what will bring on the next depression, I fore cast: . "Employers, - executives, wageworkers, and even custom ers will some day get tired and just quit the struggle. Many par ents are now reaching this stage. Donor of Koyf Cup Bid To Junior Week End - Charles W. Koyl, Ashland, has been invited to attend Junior Week End festivities at the Uni versity of Oregon May 13 to"15. The invitation came from the junior class. . Koyl is donor of the Koyl cup, presented to the outstanding junior student each year, and he was asked to make the pre sentation this year during an in termission at the annual Junior Prom the evening of May 13 in MacArthur court. The event is the 65th annual Junior Week End. VEAL ROAST
