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o TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFO! .Tribune Everybody in Southern Oregon -rgi qi xng wan inpune Published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 DADrnT TXT OTTUI VAitw HERB GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mr- An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under , Act of Marcn -j. io SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Per copy 10e Dailv and Sunday One year S12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months .o Dailv and Sunday Three mo?. 3 a0 Sundav Onlv One year S3.50. Bv 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 $19.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c oer copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of Ihe City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County ITniteriJPress Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF OKLULftllW WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louia. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EOlTOtlAl ASSOOlATtteN 7 ipTSSvryiuHi 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 18. 1945 (It was Friday) About 450 students from Jack son county participating jn an nual music festival at Medford High schooL From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Eugene is aroused by the desecration of a tiny Jewish synagogue, in an outbreak of racial and religious intolerance. There is no evi dence any of the hoodlums wore S16 nightgowns with masks as tached. 20 YEARS AGO May, 18. 193S (It was Saturday) Medford CCC district camp commanders discuss administra tion, welfare and education pro grams for summer in meeting here. Eighth district 20-30 clubs, of which Medford's is one, sched ules annual convention in Med ford. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 18, 1925 (It was- Monday) Third reunion of Siskiyou lodge of Perfection of Scottish Rite Masonry ends with confer ring 32nd degree of Masonry. ' Hundrdes of delegates ex pected in Ashland, scene of the IOOF and Rebekah encamp ment. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 18, 1915 (It was Tuesday) From Applegate column: A large number from this and nearby communities met at the creamery Saturday to get the grounds in order for the annual creamery picnic and field meet. Washington Parent - Teacher association holds last meeting of year. What's Ihe Answer? (Can You Gat 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1935. Editorial Research Raaett 1. Most substitute teachers in U.S. city school systems are or aren't college graduates? 2. The last previous President to wear a beard was Lincoln, Grant. B. Harrison, Cleveland or McKinley? 3. The Johns Hopkins Univer sity is in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, New Orleans, Phila delphia or Washington? 4. Who was the Democratic vice - presidential nominee in 1952? 5. Hell Gate bridge is over Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, San Francisco Bay, the East River in N. Y., or the Mississippi river? 6. There are two, four, six, eight or ten full cups of granu lated sugar in a pound? George Washington was first inaugurated president in Phila delphia, New York, Boston, Washington, Richmond or at Mt. Vernon? The Answers: 1. Most are: 2. B. Harrison; 3. Baltimore; 4. San, John J. Sparkman (Ala.); 5. East River in N. Y.; 8. Two; 7. New York. INJURIES FATAL Portland CU.R) David Van Handel, 20, Oceanlake, died at a local hospital yesterday from injuries suffered May 10 when his car overturned near Kernville. Van Handel was part owner of the Van Handel Lum ber company. MAIL TRIBUNE Welcome, Kids We are looking forward to the visit in Medford tomorrow of eight students school. We hope they thoroughly enjoy their visit, which was undertaken because a majority of them had never seen a "large city" like (ahem) Medford, and the ap purtenances of civilization like elevators, stop lights and so on. FORKS of Salmon is a little old logging community tucked away in the coast range in Siskiyou county. The letter from Mrs. Katherine George, who is sort of organizing the trip, explains that one of the 14 school students, a girl of 10, saw Yreka, the only town of any size within a long distance, for the first time last fall. As we say, we hope they get a lot of fun out of riding in elevators, watching the planes land at the airport, seeting the SP freights go by, and stopping at stop lights. Actually, we're just a tiny bit wistful, thinking about the idea of seeing these commonplace things for the first time. Sometimes (usually about the time of the homeward rush at 5 o'clock, when the traffic piles up for blocks ahead) we think that the kind of life which must be led at Forks of Salmon is for us. ANWYAY, we're glad that it is going to be possible for them to come to Medford on their first visit to a sizeable community. Medford's a pleasant town, and it shouldn't be too overwhelming, even for the girl whose first visit to Yreka was last year. If it were Los Angeles now, which scares most people, they might be tempted to rush back to Forks of Salmon, quickly and for keeps. We hope Medford will exert its famous hospi tality for these kids, and make their trip one they'll long remember with pleasure. E.A. Congratulations, Phoenix The little community of Phoenix to the south is to be congratulated on the overwhelming vote its residents cast Monday to lift the town, almost liter ally, from the filth which had been infiltrating its soil. Phoenix was founded as "Gasburg" long before the turn of the century, and is one of the four oldest communities in the valley. But never in its long his tory has it had a sewer system. The first sanitary arrangements were primitive affairs, and later the addition-of septic tanks and cess pools didn't help too much, particularly as the town grew and grew to the point where on man's cess pool was practically in an other man's front yard. "THE city council there has given assurance that the project, which will connect Phoenix with Med ford's sewage disposal system, and which will put in sewer lines to be paid for through property assess ments, will be pushed ahead just as rapidly as possible. The principal threat, of course, was to health. School authorities were rightly concerned, for the san itary facilities of the school were being used at more than their capacity. THE situation is not confined to Phoenix, unf or- tunately. And some areas are in an even worse plight than that of the little community, for it at least had sufficient assessed valuation to permit the issu ing of bonds for the needed construction. Some of the highly-populated semi-urban areas outside of cities have problems 'just as crucial, but don't have the assessed valuation to support the necessary bond .issues. Much thought has been given to this problem, and there is no single "right" answer. For some areas, annexation to existing munipalities will be the solu tion. In other areas, the formation of sanitaiy dis tricts can solve the problem. But m some others, the only long-range solution of the "metropolitan" type of which was made possible by a new law passed at the 1955 legislative session. m w m m m IT IS greatly to be hoped that work and plans on whatever solution seems best for any particular area can be speeded, for the health of the people through out the valley is menaced by inadequate sanitation in any section. . And in the meantime, congratulations, Phoenix. E.A. - v Woman Awaits Sentencing For Hogging Phone Line Poughkeepsie, N. Y. OJ.R) -A housewife convicted of refus ing to let a neighbor break in on her telephone line to report a fire today awaited sentencing as the first person to violate New York's new party line law. A jury of seven men and five women found Mrs . Mary L. Kayes. 43. guilty Tuesday night of willfully delaying the report of a grass fire. The blaze des troyed a shed and a barn before it was finally extinguished. The plump Rhinebeck, N. Y., housewife faces a possible maxi mum penalty of a year in jail and a $500 fine. She will be sen tenced Tuesday. Until then she will remain free on $500 bail. Donald Townsend, a Clinton, N.Y., farmer provided the most damaging testimony against Mrs. Kayes. He said he picked up his telephone to report the fire and heard Mrs. Kayes and another woman talking. He said he recog nized Mrs. Kayes' voice and ask ed her to give up the line so he could report a fire. "Let the damned thine burn," Wednesday, Mar H. 1 ! from the Forks of Salmon ! seems to be the formation of district the creation he quoted her as saying. Mrs. Kayes denied in her testl money that she had made the statement. But she admitted she had a bad temper and that her refusal . to hang : up was "the wrong thing to do." "I wouldn't for the world have kept the line if I'd known there really was a fire," Mrs. Kayes told the jury. But Townsend's wife. Mrs. Sue Townsend, said Mrs. Kayes had refused once before to give up a line so a fire could be reported. She "said a friend asked Airs. Kayes to get off the line so she could report a fire in July, 1954. "Like hell I will," she quoted Mrs. Kayes as saying. "You had the line and now it's my turn." Mrs. Kayes is the wife of a camp caretaker and the mother of an army private-stationed at West Point. She was the first person to be charged under the "model" law signed last year by then Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. The law makes it a misdemea nor to refuse "wilfully" to relin quish a party line in an emergency. COMMUNICATIONS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use sf a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Valley Musical Revival To the Editor: I wish to public ly thank your paper for its fine spirit of co-operation in publiciz ing the efforts of the Philhar monic Society to present the Or chestra in concert with myself as Guest Soloist. I am indeed proud to have been chosen the first soloist with the re-organized group. - Naming the ones who have been inspirational and helpful to me in my attempt to become a singer would require a list as long as my arm. However, my Medford friends will know the one directly responsible for my start, was one of the great Amer ican baritones of his day, James Stevens. It was "Jim" who dis- covered my voice and forced me, literally, into the Atwater-Kent, Contest which started me on my way. His beautiful voice and su perb sense of showmanship filled each lesson with instruction and inspiration which served to pro tect my voice and myself from the pitfalls of the professional field. Not that I did not get caught on occasions, but Jim's memory and the things he taught me helped to pull me out of the quicksands in several instances. The bond of personal friendship which developed between us made the few short years he lived after our first meeting an even greater personal loss. It seemed that the passing of James Stevens brought to an end a particular era in the Musical World of the Rogue River Val ley. It was the closing of the book on a group of showpeople of a type which is just not de veloped in this age. Everything represents growth and it is my sincere hope that the Philharmonic Society and its associated working groups will mean the beginning of a new and even greater musical interest and development in Southern Oregon. Mrs. Richard D. Werner and - Mr. Bruno Pellegrini are certainly fine musicians and wonderfully co-operative. The Rogue River Valley is to be con gratulated on having .'them, as well as all the other fine, music ally talented and artistic people, as residents. To the Members of the Philharmonic Society, on whom will fall the responsibil ity of organizational work, I say "Bravo" and mean it whole heartedly! So see an area the size of the Rogue River Valley putting aside individual and group problems with real Com munity Spirit and Teamwork to make Musical Harmony is one of the most heart-warming as pects of my recent visit. I believe that community interests in musical activities and the avid support of local Talent and Art ists is as vital to growth as any enterprise I can think of. A musical community is a happy one. My heartfelt wish for the co operative effort of the entire valley to support all forms of musical and artistic endeavor and may the fame of the Rogue River Valley be extended as far in the musical field as it has by the wonderful Shakespearian Festival in the Dramatic Field. George Peckham, 704 Bellevue Avenue N., Seattle 2, Wash. Chetco Project Needs Help To the Editor: I am writing this letter to you as the chairman of a committee of citizens of Southern Curry county. I believe we are a group of people over here who, if you asked us for assistance, would be pleased to give it to you. 'We are people who are trying to make a living and doing the best we can. Some fifteen years ago a de velopment at the mouth of the Chetco river at Brookings was recommended and approved by the Corps of U. S. Army Engin eers. This proposition was pre sented to Congress but during the intervening years nothing was done about it. The matter is now before Congress to secure an appropriation to construct the Chetco Project. This project calls for the build ing of a jetty at the mouth of the river. Therefrom it is pro posed that a haven for commer cial and sports fishing boats and other small ocean going craft be constructed in the river basin. If this can be accomplished, it means a great deal to us who live in this area and to every citizen in the State of Oregon. It will create a recreational area which may be enjoyed by all of us and it will open up offshore ocean fishing upon the best fish ing waters along the west coast. This development is proposed to be constructed and then turned over to the people for their free use. Will you please permit us to ask that you give us a helping hand by publicizing our efforts and what we are trying to ac complish therefrom, as above stated. If your readers will write a letter to me endorsing and ap proving the Chetco development, we who live in Southern Curry county shall be most grateful to you. Wilson Freeman, Chairman, Citizens Committee, Brookings, Oregon. More than 90 per cent of the pulp and paper manufactured in the United States is made from wood. Denies Morse Is Honest To the Editor: It's difficult, almost impossible, to believe that your paper could be as political ly naive as would be indicated by the Sunday editorial prattle about the honesty of Senator Morse. As a matter of record, Morse hasn't an ounce of political in tegrity or honesty in his make up. No matter how you twist them, the facts don't change. Your protege, Senator Neu berger, seems to have a firm grasp of the important issues of the day. After all, what more important issues face us than keeping squirrels on -the White House lawn and making it a crime for politicians to use make up for TV appearances? Carl E. Wimberly Jr. PO Box 28 Medford i Praises Morse and Neuberger To" the Editor: After reading Robert Smith's article in the Sun day, May 15 issue of the Medford ; Mail Tribune concerning William Costello's decision on Hells Can yon; I realized that it is only too obvious that the philosophy of the greatest good for the great est number has been outmoded! Here is a man who after examining all the facts present ed in this case gathered during FPC hearings that began nearly two years ago states that a government high dam at Hells Canyon offers the superior plan for development of the water resources for the middle Snake river. He continues by saying that the high dam would be dol lar for dollar the better invest ment and the more nearly ideal development for the middle Snake river. BUT he recom mends that the Idaho Power Co. be granted a license for one dam without prejudice to later approval for' the other two proj ects! His excuse is what he terms "the curent political cli mate which is unfavorable to Federal power development!" J l might say at this point that the political climate which he speaks of is the responsibility of the people of this Northwest. Af ter all we did elect to office the Langlies, the Pattersons, the Ellsworths and the McKays. Mr. Costello's decision was very frank and I admire him for that. It seems that the old tirade about the Republican party being the party of Big Business isn't as hackneyed as it sounds. Idaho Power Co.'s ten largest stock holders are Powerful Eastern in vestment houses and affiliates. When our Secretary of Interior Doug. McKay was asked who the Idaho Power Co. Stockhold ers were, he Replied "THE PEO PLE"! They may.be the people McKay knows but they don't fit the definition of the rest of us! McKay, Ellsworth, Patterson and Langlie arguments against a High dam at Hells Canyon has been refuted time and time again not only by Democrats but by Fellow Republicans as well. But still they persist in sending the Northwest down the river the Middle Snake River! Another example of give away was the -Tidelands Oil question. Oregon is now confronted with a tax problem and a school ex pansion program. When our EX senator Cordon co - sponsored this bill he co-sponsored Ore gon out of l48th share of esti mated BILLIONS of dollars for our educational system. Now we the taxpayers of this state must dig still deeper into our pock ets while one or two oil com panies grow considerably more prosperous. I guess we all don't pay too much attention to these things until it is almost too late to act upon them. It is not too late to act on this Hells Canyon dam issue! We can write our repre senatives and urge them to repre sent us not the Idaho Power Co. We can write Senator Morse and Neuberger and give them added support by congratulating them on the wonderful fight they have been waging against this give away. Ken Coaliss 1564 Meyers Lane False Labelling of Seed Charged To Firm Portland (U.R) E. F. Bur lingham and Sons, a Halsey warehouse firm, was accused yesterday of false labelling of three 600 bag shipments of rye grass seed sent to Alabama. The information was filed by assistant U.S. Attorney James Morrell with Federal Judge Claude McColloch. It charged that the firm failed to state on labels that the rye grass seed also contained seed of sheep sorrel, a noxious weed. Jacksonville Selects Dr. Stephenson to Talk Jacksonville Dr. Elmo Ste venson, president of Southern Oregon college at Ashland, will be principal speaker at Jackson ville High school' commence ment exercises in the school gymnasium June 2. Also speaking will be Sydney Kay Sutherland, valedictorian, and Doris Wall, saluUtorian. In the Day's Hews Br FRANK JENKINS Let's concern ourselves for the day with some of the little news of our country. THERE'S little Ada Hollie, of -- Altadena, who got lost while hiking in the nearby hills. She had quite an adventure. She tripped and fell 60 feet down a slope, but landed on a ledge near a stream. A fisherman spotted her and phoned the sheriff's of fice and a rescue squad reached the ledge where she lay and by means of a basket attached to a rope lowered her to the canyon floor 50 feet below, where she was met by an ambulance. She . was suffering from a broken arm, a sprained ankle and shock and bruises. AT the hospital, after she had been fixed up and made comfortable, she told them: "I wasn't a bit scared. "I just spent all the time sing ing that song about Davy Crock ett!" OACK in 1703, old Andrew "Fletcher of Saltoun, in his "Conversation Concerning a right of Government for the Common Good of Mankind," of fered this sapient thought: "Give me the making of the SONGS of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." He had something, didn't he? T DON'T know what you think of the current crop of song hits. Personally, I don't think much of them. I'd say that by and large they're no better than the "comic" books of which we're hearing so much. Even at their best, they are trash of a very low order. The exception is what little Ada Hollie calls "that song about Davy Crockett." It's good, clean folk music. I can under stand how little Ada. was com forted and sustained by it in the hours of her tribulation. I think . it's a good sign for our country that the Davy Crock ett song soared up from the bot tom to the top of the hit list in record time. Maybe, as a peo ple,, we aren't as shallow as our recent popular songs would in dicate. THE teletype tells us: The career of Oregon's Dem ocratic Senator Richard L. Neu berger will be made into a movie to-be called "The Man From Snake River." Allied Artists Productions reports it already has a screen writer in Oregon gathering material to supple ment Neuberger's recent book "Adventure in Politics." T HAVEN'T read Dick's recent book. I reckon now I'll have to. As a resident of Oregon, I need to know what our junior senator thinks about his "adventure" in politics. T CAN'T help wondering at times what leads people to run for the U.S. senate in these VERY, modern days. Is it to get raw material for books? Or what? v TIfELL, in a democracy, what " the people WANT is what they will get. And who am I to carp and criticize? Maybe Dick will turn out to be one of our GREAT senators. Living in Oregon, I hope so. I if"" --ii limn llalmalhi Copenhagen, With SAS De layed Random thoughts while traveling. Wouldn't you think a seal would drown with a 16-pound load of stones in its stomach? And why? Of course, everyone is familiar with the gravel in a bird's gizzard. It is there be cause birds do not have teeth and the sharp gravel help's f he muscular stomach grind up the whole grains. And like these grain-eating birds, some animals also resort to the use of gravel or rocks in the stomach to help mill their food. Among these are seals, sea lions, and walruses. Lacking broad-crowned molars to crush and grind their food, they gulp their prey down whole for thaf matter, often while it is still kicking. Then the rock crusher begins working. In earlier days, sailors believ ed that the heavy stones were there for ballast, perhaps jok ingly. Others thought that the stones were indigestible matter picked up by the voracious seals while gulping their food picked off the ocean floor. But today we know that the rocks art Polish Communists Probably Worried Over Soviet Action By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Polish Communist leaders probably are a worried bunch of people right now. Little mention has been made of Poland in the surge of diplomatic ac tivity that has resulted f rom the ratification of the West German arma ment treaties. It is true that the Iron Curtain gov Charles McCann ernment met in Warsaw last week to conclude their new mili tary set-up. That was merely a formality. But Poland may be much more prominent in the news in months to come. There have long been indica tions that Soviet Russia would be willing to betray the Polish Reds in an attempt to prevent the materialization of the Ger man armament program. It would be a most logical move for Russia to hold out hope that if Germany made itself a neutral country, Poland would be forced to give up the rich Ger man territory it now occupies. It is most unlikely in fact, it is incredible that Germany ever will accept neutral status for good. Not Neutral Type Germany is a world power and it is certainly not the neu tral type. Its men are born sol diers. Also, Germans most likely fig ure privately that they will get Dining Wall Streeters Keep Up With Market New York (U.R) Wall Street financiers won't have to worry any more about missing the latest market information while taking their coffee break. Chock Full O'Nuts, a restaur ant chain, said its new cafe open ing today in the financial dis trict would feature a stock tick er to keep bankers and brokers informed. there to aid digestion. And they t may constitute quite a heavy load one sea lion's stomach, for example, yielded 16 pounds of stones, some larger than hen's eggs. : ' '. ; Why the hare's 10-year cycle in the northland? Actually, this is one of the most baffling mysteries of the northern latitudes and it holds for other animals, too. Every ten years or more ex actly, every 9.6 years there is a tremendous upsurge of popu lation, followed inevitably by a dramatic "crash" or decline. This is particularly true of the Arctic- hare. From teeming mil lions, quit suddenly, there is a great shortage and animals once in gret profusion seem to disappear from the face of the earth, before increasing once again as the cycle comes half circle. With the rabbit's upsurge, or decline, all other northland an imals seem affected, even the grouse but particularly foxes, lynxes, and wildcats, because the rabbit plays such an import ant role in their diets. In so many northern animals' lives, the hare is an important food link and whenever the low point occurs, and the chain breaks, a phenominal wave of death sweeps the country. Many theories have been ad vanced to explain this 9.6-year cycle. Weather, hormones, sun spots, vitamins. But just what brings it on, still remains an un solved mystery of the north. (Released by McClure News paper 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 Sealeraty 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 SOI co Medford Mil Tribune, Box 575, Sausalilo, Calif. "Oil THE DOT" twice a year generous earn ings are paid to our inves tors. It's an unfailing thrill, this attractive rate of pay for the use of your hard-earned dollars! FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Thoie Who Save 41 back their territory from Poland sconer or later, one way or an other. ' But there is nothing to keep Russia from trs'ing the neutral ity dodge. It will . be remembered that Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west on Sept. 1, 1939, to open World War II, and that the greedy, Russian Reds invaded it from the east on Sept. 17. Hit ler and Stalin then partitioned the whole country between them. At the Yalta conference in February, 1945, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union agreed that after the war Poland must be given substantial territorial conces sions from Germany. This was decided upon to com pensate Poland for the 70.000 , square miles of territory Russia had grabbed. Potsdam Conference At the Potsdam Conference in July-August, 1945, the Big Three agreed that, subject to a final peace settlement, Poland should administer that part of Germany lying east of a iine drawn from the Baltic Sea near Swinemuen de along the Oder river to the Western Niesse river, and thence along the Western Niesse to Czechoslovakia. This territory to tals 40,000 square miles. There has been no final Ger man "peace settlement." But the Soviet and Polish governments have, treated the Gferman terri tory as if its fate had been settled irrevocably. Its people have been expelled to Germany proper." The German population of the area totaled 8,000,000. Of these, 5,000,000 fled to West Germany before the Soviet advance in the closing days of the war, leaving 3,000,000 to -be expelled from their homes, stripped of their possession, and deported. - Both Premier Josef Cyrankie wicz and party , leader Boleslaw Beirut of Poland are veteran Communists. They know just how good a Communists's word is, and they must b e worried now. rAdrienne's- SPRING ; Clearance 100 SPRING All New Spring Styles Regular and Half Sizes - ALSO - Suits jpii&nciE ONE GROUP OF SUITS 75 SUITS by . . . Lili Ann, Betty Rose - and Kraeler " Values to $60.00 $ 25$2998 i i SPECIAL GROUP Early Spring DRESSES 2 for $16.90 214 E. Main Phone 2-7169 Coats Adrienne
