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Newspaper Page TextrOTJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORIvOTRBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads Tne Utu i n Dune " Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 8-6141 BAOTDT t TITTMT. T.Hi tor HERB GREJf. Advertising- Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAV, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Indeoendent Newspaper Entered as second claaa matter at Madford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. lorfi SUBSCRIPTION' RATES By Mail In Advanca: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday-na year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.30 Daily and Sunday Threa mos. 3.30 Sunday Only Ona year 3.S0 By Carrier fa Advanca Medford, Ashland. Central Point farie Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. .Phoerux. Shady Cove. Rogua River. Talent, and on motor routes: ... Daily and Sunday Ona year $13 .00 Daily and Sunday Ona month Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Ail lenni 6f fidal Paper of the City m Medtori Official Paper of Jackson Coanty " United Press Fun Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Rpprentative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. pic. o. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. All Terms casn in iw""" NATIONAL lOITOIIAt ASTSpCl-ATIIO.N Z NIWSPAPIt 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 23, 1945 (It was Wednesday) . Medford's 1945-46 budget ad opted by council and budget committee. From Arthur Perry's . Ye Smudge Pot column: There is considerable praise of the so- called recent $1,000,000 rains, which have apparently desisted and ceased. Some hold they were not worth their salt, if any. For all the high valuation, they two vttt ka flccaceaJ Vi a v rolls. " 20 YEARS AGO Mar 23, 1935 (It was Thursday) South and west entrances to Crater lake to open Friday for the first time this season. CCC camps start measures of controlling devastating mountain pint beetle. SO YEARS AGO Mar 23, 1925 (It was Saturday) More than 1,500 members of Oregon IOOF attend last session of convention in Ashland. From Local and Personal col umn: The Chamber of Com merce has received announce ments of Rosaria, the Rose and Musical festival to be held by the City of Portland. 40 YEARS AGO May 23, 1915 (It was Sunday) Another eruption of Mt. Las sen destroyed several more thou sand feet of standing timber. Inventory of the estate of the late C. C. Beekman, pioneer banker of Jackson county, plac es total wealth in Jackson and Klamath counties at $318,845.72. What's the Answer? (Can You Car 4 of the 7T) Copr. 1955, Editorial Rssaarch It apart 1. The wheelbase of a car is the distance between front and back axles, bumpers, wind shields, fenders or tires? 2. A candidate for President gets the same proportion of a state's electoral votes as his pro portion of its popular vote; right or wrong? 3. Ho Chi Minn is a Red leader in North Viet Nam, anti-Red leader In South Viet Nam or anti-Red, anti-Government lead ed in South Viet Nam? 4. The average U.S. farm fam ily has cash income of a little over (a) $2000, $2500, $3000, $3500 or $4000 a year? 5. When Michigan in 1952 re elected Democrat G. M. ("Soapy") Williams as governor, it voted for Eisenhower or Stev enson for president? 6. The Carlsbad Caverns are in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, New Mexico, Texas or Utah? 7. Davy Crocket was once a member of the U.S. Congress; right or wrong V The Answers: 1. Axles. 2. Wrong. 3. Red leader in North Viet Nam. 4. A little over S2500. 5. Eisenhower, by a wide mar gin. 6. New Mexico. 7. Right. Excessive speed is the most common cause of traffic acci dents. In 1953, nearly three out of every ten drivers involved in fatal accidents were viola ting the speed law. MAIL TRIBUNE Another As if communities and school districts didn't have enough problems already. Now comes another one. This is a question raised by a deputy district in Multnomah county which fits of new tax bases recently voted by some 18 Ore gon cities and a number of school districts. This-is what happened : TTHE constitution of Oregon provides that govern- mental budgets cannot increase more than 6 per cent each year, unless there is a special election and the increase is approved by the people. In some cases, where rising population and costs made bigger budg ets necessary, cities and other taxing districts had to go to the people year after year simply to get approv al of a minimum budget. Several years ago it was recognized that this was a serious obstacle to efficient government. So a con stitutional amendment was prepared which provided that at one election the people of a taxing unit could approve a new "tax base" so that the governmental unit could, in the future, prepare realistic budgets without the necessity of a special election each year. THE constitutional amendment was approved at the general election of 1952. Since that time a number of cities have created new tax bases through the vote of their people. Among these cities are Gold Hill, Jacksonville, Phoenix and Talent. The city of Med ford is considering similar action. Many school dis tricts, too, have done this. So far, so good. But a recent "clarifying" decision of the state supreme court, which ruled that the lang uage of the amendment is are entitled to operate with new tax bases in cases where they have been approved, was interpreted last week, by the Multnomah deputy, to mean that once a new tax base is established, the taxing unit could not then increase it by six per cent each year. THIS, if upheld, would mean that Talent, for in- stance, could only levy each year the amount pro vided by the people as a new tax base, and could not make 6 per cent increases each year to meet new ex penses caused by growth and rising costs. The interpretation seems absurd to us, and in direct opposition to the intent of the people when they voted the constitutional amendment. But then we're no lawyer, and it is true that the supreme court decision can be read that way. A petition for a quick rehearing before the high court is being prepared to clarify the matter, for a number of the units which voted' new tax bases are even now in the process of adopting budgets which take advantage of the 6 per cent increase provision. If this possibility is ruled out, they're in trouble. THE Oregonian, in commenting on this situation, says: v ' . The legislature in drawing the amendment to permit establishment of new tax bases and the people in approv ing it clearly intended that such new bases be subject to the annual 6 per cent increase. Else why was the amendment passed? A special tax levy would serve just as well as a new base without authority for annual increment. It is to be hoped that the a speedy end to the confusion, for the well-being of 18 cities and many school districts depend on it. And time s getting short. E.A. Some Character Somewhere in our midst, acter who has a warped sense of decency, or a warped sense ot humor. .Possibly both. He is the individual who made a telephone call the other night "warning" here that it would be bombed. a JEAL brave, this guy. From what he hopes is phone he makes a threat He is of the same unwholesome type who send pois onous letters, and then haven t the courage or the decency to sign their names. He deserves more scorn than fear, always re membering, however, that he can be dangerous, in his own reptilian way. "IXTE sincerely hope the police can trace him down, and make him face the public indignation which he has earned. . , And then we would wish to see him put behind bars, where he belongs. E.A. m OBJECTING TO RUNNING her i : If . t : A ' .f y " Ck fault 0lfLf IVAlO Loretta Day, 53, (right) seeks divorce in contested case in Los Angeles from Charles B. Day (left), retired Lt. Commander Mrs. pay told court she finally objected, after 27 years of marriage to her husband Banding her "orders of the day." (International) Monday, May 23, 1955 Problem throws into doubt the bene clear, and that taxing units supreme court will make fellow citizens, is a char a business establishment the anonimity of a tele against lives and property. hmis nv . v.i-. a ami. w Matter of Fact THE PRO Washington There is always something peculiarly satisfying about watching a genuine proies sional at work whether on the base ball dia mond or on the floor of the United States Sen ate. Any one who wants to see in ac tion the best p r o f e s sional floor leader of our time need Stewart Alsos onlv visit the Senate gallery at a tense legis lative moment, and keep his eye on me tail, lanky, slow, moving form of the Majority Leader, as ne amoies about the floor helnw Like a great nrofessinnai ath. lete, Lyndon Johnson of Tpvsc makes no waste motion. A wnrr here and there, a casual, politi cal arm around a recalcitrant shoulder, a brief. COmnaninnaWo colloquy with his opposite num ber, wiuiam Knowland of Cali fornia and the chances ar that the bill under consideration will slide through the Senate almost wnnout debate. Take a few recent examnlps The reciprocal trade bill which had generated pressures from back 'home, was in very bad trouble. It was being freely predicted that if would pass, if at all, only after weeks of weary wiranelint? and many crippling amendments. It passed after three days of debate, in surprisingly u nm iililatoH form. Traditionally. th A Appropriations Act, touching as it aoes many sensitive farm pock etbooks. is the subiect nt imH long, and angry ' argument. It passea, ail unnoticed, after ex actly an hour of Huhato tv, - ' V-. A W Colorado basin reclamation bill involved one of the hottest politi cal issues in the Far Wpst The bill has often been debated in other sessions, but nevpr nacceri It went through the Senate in this session in three davs. TTip Paris Accords, which could have been expected at the very least to have elicited a lot of oratorv for the folks back home, slipped inrougn in just two hours. AND so on. The fact is that this spscinn nt fnn amcs .-fcfcw vuuki caa 1 1 (13 passed a good deal of important ana controversial legislation. But it has been done so quietly, with such a minimum of fuss and pother, that old hands are savin a that this is the least exciting ses sion since the '20s. At anv rate. it is certainly the most effic . , " iently run session in recent mem. ory. It is interesting, therefore. to visit the Majority Leader, and ask him how he does it. Now that the White House has been ruined by the modernizers. I the Capitol is the last place in , aaiiuigiuu wiui a real smell ot the past. Johnson's little office off the' gallery floor, with its handsome chandeliers sent n from the White House by Theo dore Roosevelt, its turn-of-the- century furniture, and its nrirf decorations (an old portrait of "Rebecka, daughter of th mighty . Prince Powhattan, Em peror of Attaboughkomouck," for example) helps to remind the visitor that the Congress of the United States, after all, is one of the world's most ancient legis lative bodies. The Majority Leader fits well into the atmosphere. The Senate is m his bones and in his hlnnd And the same thing is true of the committee chairmen who are Johnson's principal lieutenants and collaborators in the business of running the Senate. When you ask him nnw hp does it, Johnson gives most of the credit to the chairmen. He reels off their names, and apr -penas to eacn a short political biography, going back to the State Leigslature ana tne county judgeships. "Hell," he says, "every damn ed one of 'em's an old pro. They've been 25 years in Con gress, on the average. Ynu wouldn't expect them to get all iiusterea up about nothing, would you?" Getting controversial issues thoroughly settled in committee before they ever reach the floor, and before anyone has a ehanre to get all flustered up about Sugar Refiners To Discuss Strike Crockett, Calif. (UP) An estimated 1700 members of the AFL Sugar Refinery Employees Union, Local 20037, scheduled a meeting tonight to discuss the possibility of a strike aeainst the Calfornia and Hawaiian Su gar Refinery. G. P. Paolo, business agent of the union, said, "it looks like we might have a strike." The union has not called a strike against C&H since the contract was signed in 1935. The union has been unable to reach agreement on the issues of a guaranteed wage and joint trusteeship to handle a comp any-sponsored pension plan." The refinery went into its reg ular four-day shutdown Satur day. It operates 10 davs. then shuts down for four days every two weeks. Operations are not scheduled to resume until Wed nesday. By Stewart Alsop nothing, is the most important part of the Johnson recipe for running the Senate. For the rest, the recipe calls for a large effic ient, experienced staff, capable of finding out how each Senator will vote almost before he knows himself; and a thorough knowl edge of the complicated rules of the Senate. "No slipperies or trickeries," says Johnson (who has an odd turn of phrase), "but you've got to know the rules." FINALLY, the recipe calls for something intangible, a spe cial sort of instinct. "You haven't got any business being in my pro fession," Johnson . says, "if you can't smell things coming." Those who have watched him in action agree that Johnson can certainly smell things coming especially trouble. His critics say, indeed, that Johnson is a great deal better at making the Senate function smoothly and without unnecessary rows, than in making issues which will help the Democrats win back the White House in 1956. Johnson himself firmly be lieves that a well run Congress and a united party are the best possible assets for next year's Democratic presidential candi date, whoever he may be. At any rate, Johnson is the kind of man the American system has always had to have a man who makes the system work. (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) iMwNahinlW Stockholm, With S.A.S. (De layed) Did you know that . . . the Arctic Zone is perhaps the driest of all zones, in fact, per haps the driest region on earth, averaging less than 15 inches of precipitation a year. The American explorer, Rob ert Edwin Peary, accompanied by a Negro, Matthew A. Henson, and four Eskimos, was the first white man to reach the North Pole, April 6, 1909. Birds generally lay their eggs in a nest or in some safe place on the ground but the fairy tern of America lays its solitary egg balanced on the bough of a tree, There are no four-footed ani mals in the Antarctic. Many fish take their sleep in short naps during which they seem to slumber quite soundly. During their annual migration, geese can fly at 60 miles an hour day and night, without letup and they have been encountered by airplanes at a height of nearly five and a half miles. All Arctic birds migrate, al though some pehquins, inhabi tants of the Antarctic, remain throughout the bitterest winter to hatch their eggs in snow and ice. Mammals in the northland ei ther migrate as do the birds or increase the amount of their blubber as a food reserve before winter sets in. In addition to being a food reserve, when forag ing is difficult, it also keeps the animal's heat in and the cold out. That is because bluber is an extremely poor conductor of heat. So poor, in fact, that a dead walrus which has sunk to the bottom of the cold Arctic sea will yet remain very warm after 12 hours.. The toothless whalebone whale, actually, has two sets of teeth. However, both sets are useles since they never cut the gum. In sections of the Arctic, sum mer temperatures may rise above 90 Fahrenheit. (Released by McClura 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 wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your ques tions to: IS THAT SO! c'o Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sau salito, Calif. SWAP New Orleans (U.R) Horace McCarthy of Shreveport, La., was elected president of the Louisiana -Mississippi Association of Postal Supervisors, succeeding Ned F. Montgomery, of Jackson, Miss. Mrs. Montgomery was named president of the associa tions women s auxiliary, suc ceeding Mrs.- McCarthy. HEADS OREGON BPW ' Salem (U.R) Mrs. Cora Pirtle of Eugene was elected president of the Oregon Fed eration of Business and Profes sional Women's clubs at . t h e group's annual convention that closed yesterday. - -w" fi 1 iiiuii Ike's Agreement To Big 4 Talks Help To Eden in British Election By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Sir An thony Eden's vigorous claim that he persuaded the Eisenhower adminis tration to agree to B i g Four talks at the summit haa been afloat now for some days. The- admin istration does not deny it and the claim is accepted as Lyk C. Wilson a political fact. Neither is there any disposition here seriously to challenge another political fact: That the administration was very considerably swayed in agreeing to Big Four talks by the argument that they surely would help Sir Anthony's Con servatives to continue in power in Britain. The British prime minister publicly asserted his persuasive efforts with the Eisenhower ad ministration in response to a campaign heckler. Sir Anthony convinced Secre ary of State John Foster Dulles, then in Britain, and Dulles con vinced President Eisenhower. It seems fair to assume that the President and Dulles were and are far more certain of the ef fect of their Big Four agreement on British politics than on world peace. President Dislikes Socialism Mr. Eisenhower does not like socialism. But he was not med L2& Next Few Days Hold Key To Success of Menon-Chou Meeting By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The next few days, should de termine whether V, K. Krishna Menon of India has established a basis for di rect United States - Chin ese Commun ist negotiations on Formosa. If he has, he surely will be a leading can didate for the title ol . diplo mat of the Charles McCann yecur. It is clear that Krishna Menon himself believes that the talks he held in Peiping with Red Premier Chou En-lai on the For mosa issue were successful. He intimates that the next step is up to the United States Reds Show Optimism This seems quite logical on the basis of week end dispatch es from New Delhi, the Indian capital, and broadcasts by the Red Chinese Peiping Radio. Before he left Peiping Satur day, Krishna Menon sent a re port to Prime Minister Jawah- arlala Nehru, his chief, on the 30 solid hours of talks he held with Chou over a period of 11 days. .This report appears to have been the authority for predic tions by informants in New Delhi that there will be early direct talks between the Amer ican and Chinese Red govern ments. Krishna Menon, before he lift Peiping, quoted Chou as saying: "We can look forward with hope." America Cautious John Sherman Cooper, United States ambassador to India, will send a fuU report to the State Pier Angeli Rests In Hospital Room Hollywood (U.R) Actress Pier. Angeli rested comfortably today at Cedars of Lebanon Hos pital after her physician directed her hospitalized because of pre mature labor pains. The 22-year-old Italian born star, wife of singer Vic Damone, was rushed to the hospital Satur day when " she complained of pains. She had been convalescing at her Bel-Air home following an airplane mishap Feb. 25 in which she was thrown against a wall. Her doctor said the pains had quieted and chances "look very good right now" for a successful birth despite complications fol lowing the plane mishap. Miss Angeli expects her baby in three months. St eelworker Misses Furnace in Tumble San Francisco (U.R) Jack Tatoya, a steelworker, figured today he was pretty lucky to have a broken ankle. Tatoya fell yesterday from a 15-foot platform directly over an open-hearth steel furnace at the. Bethlehem Steel Co. plant in South San Francisco. He man aged to avoid falling into the furnace by twisting his body while falling. dling in British politics when he agreed at a moment most advan tageous for the British Conser vative party to meet with the other principal chiefs of state. He simply was maneuvering in support of announced United State foreign policy. Substitution of a socialist gov ernment in London for the Con servative government of Sir Winston Churchill, and now of Sir Anthony, would be a reverse for basic American foreign pol icy in the Pacific. Here is the British Socialist party's platform plank on the China dispute: "In the Far East the war cris is center in Formosa. Labor (the Socialist party) has constantly urged that this crisis . can only be overcome by the evacuation of the off-shore islands, now held by Chiang Kai-shek's forc es; by the long-overdue admis sion of Communist' China to the United Nations; and by the neu tralization of Formosa under the United Nations to enable its in habitants to make their own choice." Conservative Plank The Conservative position is about midway between that of the Socialists and that of the Eisenhower administration. Here is the Conservative plank: "In the Formosa straits we should like to see a guarantee on both sides not to resort to force, and the withdrawal of the Chinese Nationalist forces from the coastal islands. This could lead to the reconsidera tion at an appropriate moment both of Chinese representation Department after getting a "fill- in" from Krishna Menon on his Peiping talks. The President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will be able to decide whether they, too, can look for ward with hope. - In any event, it is likely that there will be warnings from Washington against over-optim ism. It is necessary to remember that the United .States is willing to negotiate; directly with the Communists ?on the issue of a cease fire in the Formosa Strait alone not on the future of Formosa. It must be remembered also that Nehru and Krishna Menon believe that Formosa really be longs to the Communists. Hence, the Indian optimism may not be reflected in Washington. Dr. Sheppard Pleads For Another Trial Cleveland, O (U.R) Con victed wife killer Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard pleaded today for an other trial. The appeal in the Court of Ap peals cites alleged judicial er rors in the nine-week trial last year that resulted in conviction and a life sentence for the sur geon convicted of the bludgeon murder of his wife, Marilyn. Another appeal is pending on Cleveland Common Pleas Judge Edward Blythin's decision not to grant a new trial on grounds of alleged new evidence. Should both appeals fail, Shep pard will go to the Ohio peni tentiary in Columbus to begin serving his sentence. Judge Blythin said in turning the first appeal down that the "new evidence" was "still in the realm of theory." Should Sheppard go to prison, he will be eligible for parola in 10 years. The time spent in Cuy ahoga county jail here does not count toward parole. Frank Perl FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in the United Nations and the future status of Formosa." As between the two. Mr. Eis enhower much prefers tha latter plank. Moreover, the Socialists are pledged to reduce the Brit ish period of compulsory mili tary service if they get in, there by weakening tha Western de fense front. Further, the British Socialist party is divided. A considerable minority is led by Aneurin Bev an, a Welsh fireball, who is tha loudest and most influential anti-American voice among tha still supports NATO and West- free nations. The Socialist party ern defense, but not so Bevan. He would -wreck it and as him power in the party grows, ha may some time do that if Brit ish voters return tha Socialists to power. Koo Sees Chance For Formosa Truce Washington (U.R) Chines Nationalist Ambassador Welling ton Koo believes a truce is pos sible in the Formosa area if tha Chinese Communists will just stop shooting. In an interview yesterday, Koo said the critical Formosa prob lem could be settled without war if the "Communist bloc" abandons its "policy of aggres sion." "So far." he said, "it ha been Communist China that has been attacking us from time to time. we are on the defensive. All that is necessary to bring about a truce, or ease the tension in the Formosa Strait is for tha Peiping regime to stop further resort to force." This is believed the first time that any leading Chinese Nation alist official has admitted tha possibility of a truce even an in formal one in the Formosa area. Hitherto Nationalist lead ers have said flatly they would not agree to a cease fire. Pioneer Film Producer Said Apparent Suicide Hollywood (U.R) Police to day listed the death of pioneer motion picture producer - direc tor Fayette Thomas Moore, 70, as an apparent suicide. Officers said Moore was found dead Saturday in his car in the Hollywood hills, a .38 caliber re volver beside his body. It was believed Moorewas despondent because of poor health. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday; other day 5:30 previous day. Old Man Raggedy GEO. N.TAYLOR - Every night, there in the Skid Row Mission, Old Man Raggedy slept until the men lined up for coffee and lunch. But this night was dif ferent. Let the man from Dal las, Tex., tell it "I outlined what God had done to free man from sin ful ways. Then that man with the matted beard and rags for clothing went into a side room with me. In all my life I never heard such vile chapters as that low-down creature gave out. Then we kneeled and he opened his heart to Christ. LATER Who is that well- dressed business man up front? Why that is the one-time Old Man Raggedy. Now he has his business and family back and is telling them what God has done for him. SUM IT UP "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away, behold all things are be come new." 2nd Cor. 5:17. This ' Message sponsored by an Oregon dairyman and family. adv. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 in every erica rtaaa.