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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordSIJTribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon neaas ing man inuune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. 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 moi. 3.50 Sundav 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: Dailv and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier'and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms casn in avance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOtlAl ASSOCIATION 37 NIWSPAPEI PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 16. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Medford city council sets spe cial election for June 12 on an $825,000 bond issue for six mu nicipal improvements. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Fall fashion shows are now underway in San Francisco before it is hot enough for the fair sex to wear their summer furs. 20 YEARS AGO May 16, 1935 (It was Thursday) Oregon state fish commission ers close Rogue River to commer cial fishing as of June 12 to con duct five-year study. Merchants are urged to dis play flowers for those attending two-day meet of State Federation of Garden clubs. 10 YEARS AGO May 16, 1?25 (It was Saturday) Medford residents vote for Holly st. site for new high school building. The first Delphian society ma terial study club in Oregon or ganized in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO May 16, 1915 (It was Sunday) Southern Pacific railroad ex pects to run through trains to San Francisco today after repair ing Kennett Washout. From Local and Personal col umn: A wagonload of gypsies going north passed through Med ford Friday night, but did not stop, they being in a hurry to catch up with friends in Douglas county. " What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7T) Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research tUpert 1. The cost of housing makes up about one-fourth, one-third or one-half of a typical U. S. fam ily's expenditures? 2. Proportionately to popula tion the U. S. does or doesn't pay more of the expenses of UN than any other nation does? 3. Buggies for use behind horses are still made in U.S. fac tories: right or wrong? 4. Americans eat more cheese per capita than Frenchmen and Italians; right or wrong? 5. Of every 10 Americans who work, five, six, seven, eight, nine or ten are eligible for federal retirement or survivors annui ties? 6. Digitalis is prescribed pri marily to strengthen eyesight, hearing, heart action, digestion, or mental repose? 7. Nicosia is the capital of a Mediterranean island: Corsica, Crete, Malta, Sardinia or Cyprus? The answers: 1. About one- Ihird. 2. Doesn't (several others pay more per capita). 3. Right. 4. Wrong. 5. Nine out of tan. 6. Heart action. 7. Cyprus. American Supply in Korea To Be Deactivated Tokyo (U.R) The U.S. Army announced yesterday that the huge American supply command in Korea will be deactivated about June 30 as a result of the redeployment of U.S. troops to other areas in the Far East. The Korean Communication zone has provided logistical sup port to all United Nations and Republic of Korea forces on the 'peninsula for nearly three years. MAIL TRIBUNE . End of Min ing A buses? There is rseason to hope that this year, at long last, Congress will do something about the laws which have permitted abuses of the mining laws. The situation is of particular interest in Jackson county, for it was here that a number of mining claims filed on high grade timber property have tied up the orderly management of the timber and recreational land involved. Most of these dubious claims have been in the northeastern A NUMBER of attempts new legislation which claimant to tie up lumber simply with the filing of a fore, all such efforts have been blocked because of the fact that the various groups who have a legitimate interest m the situation And Congress has been was the possibility of some groups being unjustly harmed. But recent months have seen a development which may solve the problem. There have been a number of conferences held m attempts to iron out the differ ences, and gradually they began to meet with sue cess. TTHIS agreement is reflected in the support which is being given to a number of identical bills which have been introduced into oi members, one of them Ellsworth of this district. The measure has the endorsement of the Ameri can Mining Congress as well as the American Forest ry Association. Its sponsorship is widespread in both houses of Congress, and to to it has been voiced. THE Denver Post, which 1 the problem, hails the "The proposed legislation would ban the location of min ing claims for common varieties of sand, stone, gravel, pum ice, pumicite and cinders. It would limit the use of claims to prospecting, mining, processing and related activities, and protect the federal government's right to continued management of timber and forage on them. It would bar the removal or use of timber on such claims, except for actual mining and related activities. And it would expedite the resolution of title uncertainties resulting from abandoned, invalid, dormant or unidentifiable mining claims located before the passage of the new law." TTHB Post adds that the provisions embodied in the measure "have been accepted as timely, fair and necessary by the departments of agriculture and in terior, by thejureau of the budget, by conservation ist groups, by the public lands committee of the min ing congress and by the Eisenhower administration." If the bill is all it is said to be (and such- unani mous support could hardly have been engendered by an inadequate proposal), it is to be hoped that it will get swift passage. It would certainly make Jife simpler and easier for our own local forest administrators. E.A. The Lowdown on Taxes Anyone who is puzzled by the ins and outs of pro perty taxation (as we often have been) would do well to write to the state tax commission to ask for a little pamphlet recently put out by that agency. In simple words, it describes the processes by which taxes are levied on property for local purposes, and it gives as clear a picture of the entire procedure as we have yet seen. IT points out why taxes vary widely according to lo 1 cation. (There are two reasons: 1. Value of prop erty varies according to location, and 2. Amounts of taxes are different in different taxing districts). It describes how appraisals are made to find the market value, and how the value is then reduced to "true cash value," and then to "assessed value." It continues to show how budgets are made up, and the amount of tax levies in each taxing district are applied to the assessed valuation to get the rate of taxation in mills. THE booklet outlines the factthat most property- owners know, that real property taxes have been going up and up. And it adds that only you and your neighbor can do anything about it. It proceeds to give the information needed for intelligent consideration of taxes and tax needs. It won't answer all the questions you may have, but it will do much to disperse an all-too-prevailing ignorance of how taxes affect the pocketbook of any one who owns property. E.A. 1 f If! 1 FACING charges of "murder without premeditation of fellow American prisoners" in Korea, Sgt.J. C. Gallagher, 23, Brook lyn, awaits trial (International Monday, May 16, I95S corner of the county. have been made to write would not allow a mineral and recreational values, mineral claim. But hereto have been unable to agree. reluctant to act when there the Congress by a number being Congressman Hams date-no serious opposition has long paid attention to measure, and says : Yeggs Spend Unneeded Time on Safe Cracking Whitesboro, Tex. (U.R) Bur glars entered the Strong Truck and Tractor Co. by forcing the door, moved a heavy office safe to the rear of the building and battered it open. Deputy Sheriff John Evridge said the effort must have taken two men about two hours. Their loot was only S12. And the safe didn't need to be battered open the properietor had left it unlocked so burglars wouldn't damage it trying to get in. JAPAN FRIENDLY Minneapolis (U.R) Ten years after World War II, a poll shows 41 per cent of all Min nesota consider former - enemy Japan friendly to the United States. The Minneapolis Tribune poll also revealed that 59 per cent $f Minnesotans consider West Germany a friendly nation. Matter of Fact WILL IKE RUN? Washington Whether Presi dent Eisenhower will run again in 1956 is sure to be debated end lessly, until the President him self gives the deciding word. Pending that time, this re porter has at tempted to put the debate on a slightly very slightly more scientific basis, by making a Stewart Alsop one-man poll. In a long day on the telephone, 20 Senators and 20, newspaper reporters were reached an ade quate sampling, according to polling theory. There seemed to be more Republicans than Demo crats with their noses to the grindstone, so the final propor tion among Senators was 12 Re- publcans to eight Democrats. All interviews were "not for attribu tion," to promote candor. The answers to the question "Will Ike run?" broke down as follows: Flat, confident no: Two Demo crats, two newspapermen, no Re publicans. Hesitant no: One Democrat, four newspapermen, still no Re publcans. Flat, confdent yes: Seven Re publicans, four Democrats, eight newspapermen. Unupsettable fence-sitter: One Republican. Stern refusal to participate: One newspaperman. This works out to 72.5 per cent "yes," 22.5 per cent "no," and 5 per cent no answer. The heavy majorty view that the President will run was perhaps not very surprising. Yet the pulse-feeling did develop some features worth remarking. Except for one cynical news paperman who thought the Presi dent s supposed reluctance was an act, everybody assumed that the President really did not want to run. Why should more than seven out of ten think he would run, despite his own genuine in clinations? TJART of the answer is found in another very general belief. Two Democratic Senators and a couple of reporters thought that the President might be beaten. But almost everyone else agreed in substance with a Democratic Senator who has himself been spoken of as a White House pos sibility: "For the first time, just in the past two or three weeks, I've begun to think he might .not go. But I still just can't see how he can resist the pressure. Hell, any body we put up, he'd knock his head off, and if they put anyone else up, we'd knock his head off. So the Republicans just can't let him go to Gettysburg." Over and over again, in one form or another, came the phrase: "He can't resist the pres sure." The Republicans naturally tended to put the matter on a high plane. "Ike's a soldier," said one Republican who spoke for .the rest, "and he's got a tremen dous sense of duty. He knows he owes it to the country and the Party to run, and he's never shirked a duty yet." The reporters and the Demo crats tended to be more cynical. One literary Democrat compared the President to the reluctant lady in Byron's "Don Juan," who, "whispering 'I will ne'er consent,' consented." A reporter, no admirer of the President, had this to say: "Ike's really a pliant kind of guy, at least about poli tics look at the '52 and '54 cam paigns. They'll really hold his feet to the fire this time, and in the end he 11 go." One of the two Democrats who flatly predicted that the Presi dent would not run had an odd explanation: "Shucks, I like golf too, and I'm up in '56. Suppose I'd already made up my mind not to run again, why, I'd be out on the course half the time. But I want it, and here I am up here running myself ragged. Ike's not running himself ragged, not by a long shot." If women's intuition is worth anything, the majority is wrong. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith has publicly voiced her doubts about the President's running, and one reporter's wife who answered the telephone agreed: "All the women I know say no." VET her husband, a brilliant White House reporter, spoke ACCUSED of slaying long-time friend, Bruce Whitlock, Julian Hammer (above), 26, son of New York millionaire, is in Van Nuys, Cal., jail. (International) f p m ' - - us- By Stewart Alsop for the male majority: "Ike really does love that farm, and he really does hate Washington he says so openly and Mamie really does want him to retire. But what can he possibly say when the men he admires most tell him: 'Mr. President, you've got to run, or everything you've stood for is lost." " The results of this pulse-taking were, obviously, even more inconclusive than usual, since the one person who could give a really authoritative answer was not available for questioning. But the interviews did suggest the amazing extent to which President Eisenhower now domi nates the American political scene. "The man's a great politi cal genius," one repotrer remark ed. "He does what no1 politician in American has been able -to do he makes hardly any ene mies, only friends. And the Re publican party's not going to let its one and only political genius retire." (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, it is expect ed that the long-awaited Aus trian peace treaty will be signed in Vienna. When and IF the treaty is signed the Austrians will be free from military occupation for the first time in 17 long years. Their country was under Nazi occupa tion for seven years, and since Hitler's defeat it has been occu pied by the Western allies and Russia. That period of military occu pation has lasted for ten years. AUSTRIA is described in the dispatches today as ONE GREAT BUNDLE OF JOY over the prospect of regaining her in dependence. Well, who wouldn't be? Not only will the Austrians be able again to run their own local affairs. Among other things, they are required by the treaty to FORSWEAR WAR. They will be allowed only military forces enough to police their country, and -they will not be permitted to enter into offensive and de fensive alliances. The lucky dogs! No wonder they're happy. rpHE California legislature is considering a law to permit California counties to levy a one cent sales tax. The tax would be collected both in the cities and the non-incorporated rural areas. The bill, as so far amended, leaves it up to the cities within the counties as to whether they want to turn over part of their collections to the county or keep all the money collected within their borders for their own use. Everybody, you see, is scraping the bottom of the tax barrel. YjUHY is the sales tax spreading "so rapidly? The answer to that one is easy. The sales tax gets the most feathers from the goose with the least squawking. rWHE rice industry is suffering -"- from what in these modern days is a common ailment. NOT ENOUGH RICE IS BEING EATEN IN THE UNITED STATES. Rice growers and rice proces sors are being urged to take steps to induce people to EAT MORE RICE. The rice surplus, the growers are told, is already HUGE, and if people can't be in duced to eat more rice it will get even HUGER. SO far, so good. But If everybody is talked into eating rice, LESS WHEAT WILL BE EATEN. And the wheat sur plus is even bigger than the rice surplus. And Since prices of both rice and wheat are GUARANTEED TO THE GROWER, it seems prob able that too much rice and too much wheat will continue to be grown. QUESTION: Where will it all end? rpHE stock market at noon Fri- -day was HIGHER after two days of sharp price declines. Good? Or bad? Well, at least the two days of declining prices caused people to stop and remember that what goes up CAN come down. That's a healthy thought. If everybody came to the con clusion that stock prices are al ways going to GO UP and are never going to COME DOWN, then everybody would quit work ing and saving and would devote all his efforts to getting rich quick by speculating on the stock market. Something like that happened just prior to 1929. SCREWBALL though: What if stock speculators became so numerous that they could go to congress (which al ways pays attention to large blocks of voters) and GET A F L.O O R UNDER STOCK PRICES? Then all of us could speculate happily on the stock market, se cure in the knowledge that we couldn't lose. r "l fmt tt i r- tt luii Copenhagen, with SAS (De layed) During the past fort night, we ve been discussing the Arctic. Many false notions are extant about it. To check your knowledge of this exciting land, here's a noggin duster! Score over 85 and you are an outdoor expert; over 70 is mighty gopd; below 65 fair to middling. 1. Which of these animals is native to the Arctic? Which N to the Antarctic? Which to both? Arctic tern, narwhal, walrus, seal, polar bear, penguin, puffin, ptarmigan, salmon. Score: 18. 2. Which of these statements is true? A. Parts of the Arctic have a lower rainfall (or snow fall) than the Death Valley des ert. B. It gets colder in Wyom ing and North Dakota than on the North Pole. C. Most of the Arctic mainland consists of plains supporting a heavy vege tation. D. About 20 per cent of the Arctic is permanently snow covered, and this is most con fined to Greenland. Score: 24. 3. Which of these wolf state ments is true? A. Wolves often times run in packs exceeding 20. B. In season, wolves howl at the same time every night. C. Unlike the bear, raccoon and squirrel, the wolf is a mean tempered fa ther who destroys his own young at the slightest provocation. D. There are many authenticated instances of wolves attacking humans in Canada and the U.S. during the past 50 years. Score: 24. 4. In the wild, which is the world s most prolonged nurs ling? Why? Score: 16. 5. Which of these animals is highly gregarious that is, pre fers to live in a group: Lemming, weasel, rabbit, fox, musk ox, caribou. Score: 18. Answers: 1. The narwhal, wal rus, polar bear, puffin, ptarmi gan, and salmon belong in the Arctic; the penguin to the Ant arctic; in both regions, the Arc tic tern and seal. 2. All are true. Arctic annual rainfall (or snowfall) is exceed ingly scarce in most areas weU below 20 inches. Experts state that the temperature at the north pole never drops below -50 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes, there is an abundance of low-growing vegetation. Yes, and most of the permanent snow-covered Arctic is confined to Greenland's pla teau. 3. Not one of these is true: wolf packs seldom exceed 10 and then consist of one family and close relatives; their howl ing time is erratic, regardless of season; the father is perhaps the kindest and best provider in the mammalian kingdom and helps train his young; and, no, there is not one authenticated case of a wolf killing a human in Can ada or the U.S. . 4. The walrus's calf is the most prolonged nursling, nursing un til two or more. That is neces sary because until then its tusks are too short to scrape its own food off the ocean floor. 5. The lemming, musk ox and caribou are gregarious. (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. Organized Search Ends for School Girl Berkeley, Calif. U.R) Police said today they plan no further mass searches for btepnanie Bryan, 14-year-old school girl who disappeared on April 28. Police Capt. Laurence H. Laird said a search yesterday by 30 volunteers will probably -be the last and that from now on police will check out reports and clues as they are received. The search yesterday included 25 to 30 square miles of south west Contra Costa county and northern Alameda county in the San Leandro hills. Taking part were the Alameda county sher if's patrol and reserve, Oakland police foot and mounted patrols and Alaneda Naval Air Station reserve volunteers. . ELUSIVE GUNMAN Chicago (U.R) A young gun man escaped unnoticed alter taking $900 from a shop a few steps away from "the world's busiest-corner" State and Madi son. - . . Ho Chi Minh Enjoys Big Day as Last of French Leave Delta By- CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst This is a big day for the frail, wispy-bearded Indochinese Com munist leader who calls himself Ho Chi Minh. The last French troops are pulling out of the Red Riv er Delta under the 1954 ge neva treaty which ended the Indochi nese war. Ho, as presi dent of the Red "Democr a t i c Charles McCann Republic of Viet Nam," thus be comes the undisputed ruler of 12,000,000 people and 77,000 square miles of territory in Northeastern Indochina. Now Ho has only to sit back and wait to see whether South ern Viet Nam, with its 10,500, 000 people and 50,000 square miles of territory, is going to fall into his hands like a ripe peach. As of now, it would be a bold man who would bet even money that Southern Viet Nam, torn by dissension and threatened with open civil war, can be kept for the free world. Elections Scheduled Elections are to be held next year in both Northern and South ern Viet Nam to determine the future form of government of a unified country. About 800,000 persons includ ing military personnel and civil ians have fled Northern Viet Nam since the Geneva treaty was signed last July 21. Undoubtedly many more would like to go southward to escape Red rule. . v But there are disturbing re ports that some of those who fled to Southern Viet Nam would like to go north again. They would rather take their chance under Communism than risk being caught in a chaotic civil war; In no other country in the world would the West have any reason to fear a free, properly supervised election. But it can hardly be said with certainty that th Viet Namese will vote against Ho unless the situation in the south improves. They call Ho shadowy. A year ago, in fact, some doubt was ex pressed that there was any such person the speculation was that he had died and the Reds were just using his name as a front. Attractive Personality Ho is a tiny man, with a little goatee. He is quiet and ascentic and from the Western view point has a dangerously attrac tive personality. But politically, Ho is a very substantial personality. And he has a long background of cruelty. deceit and betrayal. He was born on Jan. 15, 1892, so he is now 63. His father, a local government official, ' was dismissed for Nationalist activi- Gas Well Blows In Near Payefie, Ida. Payette, Ida. (U.R) An ex ploratory gas well eight miles east of here blew in early Satur day with what H. R. Riddle, president of the Oroco Oil and Gas company, - called "commer cial quantities" of natural gas. Riddle said he tentatively plans to drill four -more wells in the immediate area of Satur day's strike and if sufficient re serves of natural gas were found, a pipeline could be completed to surrounding towns by next win ter. However, Riddle warned that a single well didn't mean too much and that it was not yet time "to throw our hats in the air." Dead line for Sunday Claislfted is at noon Saturday. Frank Perl LSI FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in ty. Ho's name, then was either Nguyen Tat Thanh or Nguyen Van Hanh. But he began using aliases in his 'teens. Ho sailed to France, working his way as a cabin boy, when he was 19. He worked in Paris and London as a kitchen helper, pastry cook and photographer's assistant. He joined the French Socialist Par ty but in 1920 embraced Com-: munism. He later spent two years in Moscow. . Working in Southern China, Ho formed his Viet Minh revo lutionary organization in 1942. He started war against the v French in 1946. His victory in the SIPPP rtf T)ifn Rin Phi, 14 1 MM " .7 v u ... . A . -. DAV Holds District Meet at Klamath; . Graham Honored Four Medford persons were in KlaVnath Falls to attend a dis trict meeting of the Disabled American Veterans. Other towns represented were Coquille, Oak land, Roseburg, Grants Pass, and Klamath Falls. From here were Pat Graham, . local adjutant and DAV service . . officer, James R. Lillie, national VAVS representatives for Camp White, and Mrs. Lillie, and Mrs. Eertha Neff, national VAVS representative for the auxiliary. Receives Certificate Graham was presented a cer tificate of merit for outstanding achievements in service claims work and for meeting member ship quota set by the national organization, in the years 1951 1952, 1952-1953, and 1954-1955. At the meeting a resolution was made calling for dissolve ment of department headquart ers in Portland as permanent headquarters and creating a' "floating headquarters," similar to that used by the DAV auxi liary. Another resolution pro tested the Hoover commission re port on veterans benefits. Re- tiring commander, Robert Fin ton, Klamath Falls, also was., given a certificate of merit. Robinson Elected Baden Robinson. Grants Pass. present, ueparimeni commanaer, , was elected district commander , and will be. installed at a state convention to be held June 15 through 18 at Tillamook. Calvin : Blayney, Grants Pass, was,.elect- : ed vice-commander. A barbecue dinner was served by Murray J. M. Britton, Klamath county sheriff. Korea, Nationalist China Dispute Vote Seoul, Korea U.R) Presi dent Syngman Rhee cancelled the scheduled departure today of the Korean delegation to the Asian People's Anti-Communist league conference at Taipeh be cause of a dispute with Nation alist China over Japanese mem bership. Korea demands that unani mous vote of league members be required to permit entry of new members. Nationalist China wants only a majority vote. - Butte Falls Burglary Investigated; $36 Taken State police today were m 'fstiffatinff a bunzlarv at the Butt Falls Shell Service station. - The burglary was discovered Sunday morning. Annroximately $36 was taken from the station, according to fc investigating officers. They said entry to the building was gained by filing a padlock on the front door. Olives were first grown by the Lssvrians ind later taken to the Holy Land. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 O trjr price range.