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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDviTRIBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 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 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 aiarcn j. iesi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dally and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday 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: ..... Daily and Sunday One year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of, Medford Official raper oi jacxson United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATE W WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL LP'IP811 I A. V O CH-A T II N v : Tr w ' -- s Rll ZJ 0 NIWIPAPII PUIMIHItS lXA$$OCIATIOIi 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 27. 1945 (It was Sunday) Marine band from Klamath Falls to parade here Memorial day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The sen iors of Old Medford, get their sheepskins this week, and step forth into the cold, cruel, and some say, crazy world. 20 YEARS AGO May 27. 1935 (It was Monday) Development of co-ordinated horticultural research and ex tension service planned in Jack son county. Jackson county farmers vote continuance of wheat adjust ment program. 30 YEARS AGO May 27. 1925 (It was Wednesday) Oregon State Motor associa tion recomemnds Pacific high way along west side of Rogue River, cutting off Gold Hill. fYmntv natholnffist nrpdicts 1500 cars of pears will be hipped from Rogue valley in 1925. 40 YEARS AGO May 27, 1915 (It was Thursday) Sixteen high school seniors pull weeds as penalty for tearing down and hiding business signs here. - From Local and Personal col umn: Farmers of the Talent and Phoenix district report that dur ing the last week their chicken coops have been visited by thieves, and the roosts raided. The crimes are laid to hungry tramps, who are camped in the "jungles" along the railroad tracks. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Raft 1. About one-fourth, one -half, or three-fourths of U. S. tariff duties have been lowered under reciprocal trade agreements? 2. More older men remarry than older women, or more cider women than older men, or is it about 50-50? 3. Japan now has a peace trea ty with the U.S. Does she also have one with Russia? 4. About one-fifth, one-fourth, cne-third or one-half of all young persons of college age are en rolled in colleges? 5. A person who has fainted should have his head placed higher or lower than the rest of bis body, or level with it? 6rOne-third, one - half, two thirds or all the British House of Commons was elected yester day. 7. Chief Justice Earl Warren was once or never the Republican-nominee for Vice President? The Answers: 1. About three fourth. 2. More older men re marry. 3. No. 4. About one-third. 5. Lower. 6. All of it. 7. Was (in 1948). SHOWN TO QUARTERS Peru, Ind. (U.PJ John H. Harrison, 58, found in the may or's office at an unlikely hour, said he was trying to get to his room to go to bed. Police book ed him on an intoxication charge and showed him to his quarters. i - MAIL TRIBUNE - Mr. Nyun and Mr. Oo Two pleasant and friendly Burmese gentlemen have created minor havoc in the newsroom of The Mail Tribune the past weeks. It is a matter of spelling and pronunciation. We, who are familiar with Oriental names, have been guilty of misspelling their names (at least three different ways, we are told) in one news story or an other. The matter of pronunciation applies to those of us who occasionally make radio broadcasts. I ET us hasten to assure Mr. Nyun and Mr. Oo that we are sorry if we have been thus inaccurate. For the record, the gentlemen in question are Ko Tun Oo and Maung Thein Nyun. They are in Jackson county visiting under the International Farm Youth Exchange Program, one of a number of exchange believe are among the most effective efforts now be ing put forth on behalf of world peace and under standing. 1VIR. Oo is the older of our two guests. He is a farmer in his own country, and has a 20-acre farm, raising rice and poultry. He has been active in youth organizations, and his major hobbies include outdoor sports, among them tennis. He is a Buddhist. Mr. Nyun is an accountant, but has had farming experience, and also has had some organizational work. He too is a Buddhist. Both men speak English and Mr. Nyun also speaks Japanese. Both are married. 1VIR. NYUN is living at the home of the Don Minears and Mr. Oo with the John Ousterhouts. We have a strong suspicion that the Minears and the Ouster houts are getting about as much fun, and as much education, out of the visit as their guests". They have learned, for instance, that their guests do not have "family" names, but each child bears its own name which is not the same as that of its father or mother. Their titles of respect change from time to time, as their age and social status varies. As for the visitors, they must have had many startling experiences in our young civilization. Per haps some of our customs seem barbaric, perhaps some of them crude. Certainly the majority of them are different. DUT it is our hope that after their extended visit to the "western world" they will have a better under standing of us and our motivations. This, after all, is what the exchange programs are for, basically. You have a hard time being mad at .a person if you can understand him, and see his point of view. We wish for Mr. Oo and Mr. Nyun a highly satis factory and pleasant time in our country, and in their later journeys to the world Boy Scout Jamboree, which they will attend late in June. We hope they carry back with them to Burma an impression of America which is not all gangsters and Hollywood and automobile accidents and politics. We know that if they come to like us and respect us, for what we are and not for some distorted picture of us, the cause of world peace and understanding will be served, and served well. We're glad to have you with us, gentlemen. E.A. Be Careful Tomorrow starts the first of 1955's four "long week ends." The Memorial day week end will offer the city bound a chance to head for the wide open spaces, and throngs of motorists are expected on the high ways. ; The other long week ends are Independence day (July 4 is Monday this year), Labor day, and Christ mas (which falls on Sunday so that Monday will be observed as a holiday.) fLi AY those who are heading for the beaches or the mountains or away to visit friends and relatives return home safely. Hundreds of autoists will be killed this week end. We hope it's not you. If you're careful, it probably won't be. E.A. Little Green Tents The late Arthur Perry, for many years identified with The Mail Tribune, each year at this time pub lished in his column, "Ye Smudge Pot," the famous verse commemorating Memorial day by the late Walt Mason, whose column appeared in this paper for many years. Because it tells the story so well, it is republish ed here without further comment. THE LITTLE GREEN TENTS, WHERE THE SOLDIERS SLEEP; AND THE SUNBEAMS PLAY, AND THE WOMEN WEEP, ARE COVERED WITH FLOWERS TODAY; AND BETWEEN THE TENTS WALK THE WEARY FEW, WHO WERE YOUNG AND STALWART IN SIXTY-TWO, WHEN THEY WENT TO THE WAR AWAY. THE LITTLE GREEN TENTS ARE BUILT OF SOD, AND THEY ARE NOT LONG, AND THEY ARE NOT BROAD, BUT THE SOLDIERS HAVE LOTS OF ROOM; AND THE SOD IS PART OF THE LAND THEY SAVED, WHEN THE FLAG OF THE. ENEMY DARKLY WAVED, THE SYMBOL OF DOLE AND DOOM. THE LITTLE GREEN TENT IS A THING DIVINE; THE LITTLE GREEN TENT IS A COUNTRY'S SHRINE, WHERE THE PATRIOTS KNEEL AND PRAY; AND THE BRAVE MEN LEFT, SO OLD, SO FEW, WERE YOUNG AND STALWART IN SIXTY-TWO, WHEN THEY WENT TO THE WAR AWAY. Friday, May 27. 1955 programs which we firmly Russian Acceptance Of Big 4 Proposal Tops News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. Soviet Russian formally ac cepted the proposal of the West ern Aliles for a Big Four meet ing "at the summit." De tails of the meeting, first of its kind in 10 years, will be worked out later. The pos sibility was mentioned that President Eisen howei and the other Big Four chiefs Charles McCann . of government might meet July 18. The United States will insist that the meeting be limited to a few days. The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain,, France and Soviet Russia will be left to negotiate on specific is sues later. 2. There were strong indica tion that any attempt to swing Italy away from loyal coopera tion with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would fail. Considerable anxiety was felt over Italian policy after the elec tion of leftist - tinged Giovanni Gronchi as president. Gronchi favors a policy of "co-existence" with Soviet Russia. But dis patches from Rome suggested that the danger of an Italian swing to the left was now re mote. The Italian Communists continued to lose strength. They have been losing their grip on labor unions in northern and central Italy for several months. This week they lost an import ant union election in southern Babson . . . Agricultural Research By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special To Mail Tribune) Industrial and Chemical Research not federal aid is the farm er's best bet. Although-most Amer ican farm ers ap pear to be do ing pretty well, I am keenly aware of the drop in Bojer w. Babion farm income which has occurred during the past two years. Despite the best intentioned government price support program or perhaps because of it we still have a farm problem in this country which could easily erupt mto a serious social cancer. I remember well what hap pened to the farmer in the 30s and what happened to the rest of the economy as a result of the decline in the farmer's economic position. In those days, the farm problem was seemingly a more arresting public issue than it is today. At least, it evoked more discussion in business and politi cal circles. How The Chemurgie Movement Began In an effort to improve the de mand of that era, the National Farm Chemurgie Council was organized at an historic confer ence held in 1935 at Dearbqrn, Mich., under the auspices oi Henry Ford and Francis P. Gar van, president of the Chemical Foundation. Another leader in the movement was Wheeler Mc Millen of The Farm Journal. The idea was to encourage research which would lead to an expan sion of markets for American farm products to be used as in dustrial raw materials! From the beginning, I supported the aims of this council. Since then, the whole move ment of allying chemistry with agriculture has grown tremen dously. In March of this year, the old National Farm Chemur gie Council was superseded by a new and larger organization called the Council for Agricul tural and Chemurgie Research. The new organization will con tinue to encourage individual re search projects looking toward the discovery of new crops and new characteristics of old crops. In 'addition, it will set up the machinery to co-ordinate the various agricultural-chemical re search projects which are being undertaken. Farmers' sons should learn of this work before leaving the farm for the city employment. Farmers Must Diversify Their Production I hope that the activities of this scientific farm research will Rugs and Furniture GLEANING WALLS WOODWORK FLOORS WINDOWS VENETIAN BLINDS Randy's Cleaning Service Italy. 3. The National assembly, lower house of the French parlia ment, approved by a vote of 404-210 a motion to revise the constitution of the Fourth Re public. It was the first step to ward strengthening the authority of French prime ministers and ending the series of cabinet cri ses which had weakened France ever since the end of World War II. THE BAD 1. Allied leaders were agreed that whatever happened as the result of the visit of Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist Party Leader Niki ta S. Khrushchev to President Tito of Yugoslavia, it would not be favorable to the West. Tito has 'said that he will continue to cooperate with the Allies. But the Allies felt better while Tito was still feuding with the So viet bloc of nations. 2. Terrorism in French North Africa reached the crisis level. The French government sent re inforcements by " air, sea and highway to help combat terror ists in Algeria. It was reported that France might even with draw about 10,000 of the troops it now keeps under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization command in order to strengthen its North African forces. 3. American - supported Pre mier Ngo Dinh Diem of the state of Southern Viet Nam in Indo china delivered an ultimatum to the rebel leaders who threaten to plunge the country into open civil war. Diem demanded that they surrender by Saturday. Whatever , the result of the ulti matum, the situation In Viet Nam continued to get progres sively worse. The danger inten sified that the country might fall into the hands of the North Viet Nam Communists. have the wholehearted support of science, industry, and govern ment. It takes time to expand any research facilities; it es pecially takes time to co-ordinate research activity in so large a field as agriculture. This wider approach to the problem is not being undertaken any too 'soon, for there is now a great need for American farmers to diversify their production and look more to industrial, rather than food, consumption. Such diversif ica tion should lead to more stable economic conditions This need for diversification of farm products is so apparent that the Council chose "New Crops" as the theme of its March meeting in Columbus, O. It may seem odd to be concentrating on new crops when we have such heavy surpluses of old crops, but such research has paid off hand somely before, as in the case of soybeans. There is every reason to believe it will again pay off. New crops now being studied in clude timber bamboo, a good source of paper pulp which has been grown successfully in the Southeast; dioscores, a plant source" of cortisone-like drugs; new varieties of " castorbeans; canaigre, a wild root plant of high vegetable tannin; and acer ola from Porto Rico or phylan thus enblica from the Hawaiian Islands, both of which have miraculous vitamin contents. Marine Research Is Also Needed In addition to their work in the agricultural field, the Coun cil could encourage further studies of the mineral and other wealth cradled in the two great oceans. These flow up to the very doorstep of our land along more than 4,800 miles of coast line. These oceans are a store house of organic and inorganic matter of great actual and po tential importance to industry. As our soil is getting poorer with every hard rain, our oceans, into which the rivers empty, are getting richer. For example, a large number of chemical elements are found in crab meal and fish meal. Fish products contain aluminum, bar ium, calcium, chromium, copper, fluorine, lead, lithium magnes ium, manganese, nickel, phos phorous, potassium, silicon, sil ver, sodium, strontium, and zinc! Truly the resources of the sea provide plenty of opportunity for, the College of Fisheries at Gloucester Mass. THE SHAME OF IT Memphis, Tenn. " (U.R) Lee Bolen Jr., great-great grandson j of Confederate General Nathan i Beford Forrest, has been offered scholarships to attend! three 'Yankee" universities,' Prince ton, Yale and Harvard. PHONE 3-4069 Communications Latter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis lible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Pheasants and Hay Making To The Editor: Hay making time is here again which brings a serious problem to the mother pheasant and her brood of young chicks. If a hen pheasant is kill ed with 'a mower, the young have to take care of themselves and usually never reach maturity. During the hunting season last year l shot a male pheasant which had no feet and the only way I could figure out that this could have happened was by being cut with a mower in a hay field. If the farmer would make some kind of a Hushing bar, that would extend from six to eight feet ahead of the mower, this would flush the birds and save many from being killed or crippled, to later die from star vation or unable to protect them selves from their natural ene mies. Ranchers and farmers in this area who are interested in mak ing a bar of the type mentioned, I will be glad to furnish them with needed information to build one. Sportsmen and Gun clubs in this area may be in terested in building these bars and. furnishing them free to farmers cutting hay. Yours for better relations' be tween farmers and sportsmen. Roy N. McKee Box 85 Eagle Point Missing Mother, Sons Said Cause of Concern Portland (U.R) Police today expressed concern about the dis appearance of Mrs. Paula Naza rian, 31, and her two sons, age 12 and 8. They were reported missing by the husband and father, Harry Nazarian, 39, who said they failed to return from a movie at the Sellwood theater May 16. He said they liad a mi nor argument over money mat ters but that he hardly felt this would be reason for her to leave Police were checking with au thorities in Sacramento where Nazarian said there was a pos sibility his family might have gone. OUTFIT YOUR Boys' Sizes 1 to 6 Seersucker Shirts.. 79c to 98c BOXER SHORTS. 98 Denim, Seersucker and Sailcloth rri i Spring & Summer Dresses Sizes 1 to 3-3 to 6x-7 to Is That So? Stockholm, With S.A.S. 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