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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordJTribune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Head The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MJLJJtUKL) PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. 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 MedtOTd. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ftv Mail In Advance: Per CODV 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Ttailv anri Runrtav Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Snnriav Onlv One vear 13 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: Dailv and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers oc per copjr All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Taper ol jacKson loumy "United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL iP'lP11 AS'SpCl-ATIlN Zf 7" NIWtPAPlt PUSlIf NIRf "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 2p. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 3, 194S (It was Sunday) Weather bureau officials re port total rainfall for May of 4.58 inches, the wettest May ever recorded here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A news item from Canyon City, in the heart of the cow country, reads: "Though there are thousands of cattle in the hills of Grant coun try, there is an acute shortage of beef here." Add that up and see if it makes sense. 20 YEARS AGO June 3. 1935 (It was Monday) Osteopathic clinic and hospital on East Jackson st. to open in three weeks. Eleven Medford youths receive diplomas at Oregon State college at Corvallis. 30 YEARS AGO June 3. 1925 (It was Wednesday) State teachers examinations to be held at court house in Jack sonville June 10-13. California places quarantines of Oregon cherries and potatoes. 40 YEARS AGO June 3 1915 (It was Thursday) Jackson county sheriffs offi cers find burglar's cache on Bear creek near McAndrews rd. believed to belong to robbers of Rogue River bank and Grants Pass depot. Organization of Water Users' league to be considered at meet ing of Rogue valley residents. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Reeerl 1. The Salk polio vaccine is made from live or killed virus? 2. There are now five, four, three, two, one or no Negro members of the U.S. Senate? 3. The engine in a German- made Volkswagen car is cooled by air or water? 4. Evangelist Billy Graham held revival meetings the last week of May in London, New York, Edinburgh, Paris or Chi cago? 5. The right not to incriminate oneself is guaranteed in the orig inal Constitution or in an amend ment? 6. Hudson seal fur comes from seals; right or wrong? 7. Gerrymanders are animals, political maneuvers, fixed horse races. British army officers, or South American dances? The Answers: 1. Killed virus. 2. No Negro members. 3. Br air. 4. London. 5. In the 5th amend ment. 6. Wrong (from muskrats). 7. Political maneuvers. Tape Recorder Used To Boosf Record Sales Mountain View, Calif. U.R) Jake Buhler, who sells records and recording machines, has come up with a neat advertising gimmick that whets the appetite of music-lovers. Each week Buhler makes a master tape recording of musi cal and religious programs and then invites owners of tape re corders for a re-recording ses sion free of charge. Through a "patch" system, Buhler can handle six recorders working off his master tap. MAIL TRIBUNE Glimpses of the Future One of mankind's chief preoccupations is at tempting to foretell the future. Soothsayers, star gazers, fortune tellers all have catered to man's in satiable curiosity about what is to be. The best of the prophets of the future have been those who base their predictions on the present and the past, constructing an extension of things as they now are. These extensions can be logical, as in the case of the economists (who are, after all, cast in the role of prophets), and statisticians, or intuitional, as in the case of the poets. . R EMBER, for instance, what Tennyson had to say in "Locksley Hall" ? For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see: Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales; Heard the heavens filled with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue; Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm, With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunderstorm; Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle lags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law. TENNYSON'S predictions, made during the last centuiy, have about 50 per cent come to pass. It is to be hoped the rest of his vision, too, will come about. The prophecies of the economists and statisti cians, while phrased in more prosaic form and usual ly covering a shorter period of itme, have more cur rency these days than do those of the poets. But still they are often looked upon with sus picion. OOW can they know, for instance, that the popula tion of the United States in 1975, 20 years from now, will be 220,982,000, as has been predicted by the U.S. bureau of the census? They can't, of course, know, down to the last decimal point, but the actions of large groups of peo ple are predictable, to a high degree (barring unfor seen circumstances such as an atomic war, for in stance). The pattern of age groups within this country's population is revealing, too, of changes which are going to take place in the economy how the work ing force will or will not meet the productive needs of the nation, as an example, or how the schools and universities are going to have to meet a fantastically huge growth in enrollments. IT was only last week that the population of the United States hit the 165,000,000 mark, according to the census bureau's estimates. The forecast of an increase of some 33 per brings up other questions and puzzling, in the long schools and employment. One writer, m a took as a presupposition population of about 2y2 crease at its present rate of about 1.2 per cent each year. At this rate, he says, in 7,000 years the resulting population would total some ten billion trillion-tril-lion-trilion men, women and children. That many bodies, he concludes, would fill all the space in the known universe. FANTASTIC? Surely. But it gives a hint as to that long-range problem. At the present rate of in crease, mankind before too many years will face overcrowding. At the present rate, it will face star vation. The problem is not immediate, to be sure, but barring a reversal of the population trend, or the de cimation of war or disease, it is a problem which will increasingly face our children, and theirs. E.A. The Home Inspections Medford firemen this week are winding up a month-long project which has as its aim the preven tion of future fires, and the resulting loss of property and, possibly, of lives. We refer to the program of home inspections which they have been offering to every resident of the city. It's been a big job, and in our view an im portant one. IT would be pleasant to . mui iuu yci iciib cuupciauuu iium irj.cui.UlU. llUiilc- owners and occupants, but the fact is that a small percentage have refused the firemen admittance to their homes for what reason we have no idea. Other than that, however, the record is good. Many of the homes inspected were free from the most common causes of fire, and in many others one or two hints by firemen caused them to be removed. The program should pay off in fewer fires, and the department has earned compliments on this pre vention job. E.A. Judge Asks Help On Juvenile Problems Chicago (U.R) Judge Har old P. O'Connell of family court has asked 22 prominent persons on university staffs and members of civic organizations to help him with juvenile problems. Friday, June 3. 195S cent in the next 20 years which are even more basic run, than those of the half-serious, half-fanciful vein, the theory that the earth's billion will continue to in report that they have met ine judge said ne wants a committee to work out better ways of handling the cases of youngsters. He also said he hopes that training courses can be giv en hit probation officers. Mill ft.l-, Oslo, With SAS Delayed Who am I? To give life, almost all of us die our bodies providing food for our young. During our most strenuous" months, we fast losing up to 45 per cent of our weight. During our early years, we have a distinctive coat; as we approach the end, females be come plumper while males be come slender, take on a bright hue, and occasionally develop a grotesque jaw. Females build nests. , Our native home is in north ern waters. Our mature weight may run from 4 to 40 pounds, and in rare instances, 80. We are cold-blooded, and have a two chambered heart, many prize us for our flesh. Along my sides I have a set of pores through which my nerves "feel." Except for those confined in lakes, all of us pass our first few months or years in fresh-water streams where we grow slowly; our middle life is spent in the 6-3r5S ocean where we grow tremen dously fast; and we always come back in our old age to our par ent river, in fact to the very spot where we were infants. To do so, we overcome rapids, cata racts, and unbroken falls as high as 12 feet. When the female deposits her comparatively large eggs in the nest by the thousands, the male simultaneously spreads his milt. The embryo bursts out of its elastic shell in early spring. For the next six weeks, it is nourish ed by the yolk sac which it ab sorbs. Although I am among man's most valuable crops, in many areas he has destroyed me with dams which I cannot surmount, by diverting and polluting the water, destroying my spawning grounds, and netting too many of my numbers. Besides there are my natural enemies otters, ospreys, fishers, seals and such. I'm lucky if one adult results from 3,000 eggs. I ami A. Eeel, B. Salmon, C. Porpoise, D. Lamprey, E. Sea Otter. I am B, a salmon. (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 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 questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Communications Letters to the Editor mutt bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis iible. 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. When Jack London Was Here To the Editor: Needless to say we were always an admirer of the late novelist and author of Western and Alaskan gold-rush and dog stories by the famous writer Jack London, who's earth ly abode ended sometime in the year 1916. We suspect there are yet quite a number of people here who remember some of London's ex ploits through the Rogue River valley in 1909, driving four gray horses to a reconstructed stage coach. We" stopped off at Glen Ellen, Sonoma county, Calif., one time to see his much adored Valley of the Moon ranch as he had named his last hideaway and writer's den on the acquired ranch. In Jack's last years he did not find much time for leisure or to relax due to the fact he so enjoyed riding horses around the big farm daily. We had a letter from Mr. London in the early part of 1916, saying he simply "was worked to death." Somehow we lost that much prized letter, but Jack London's name and books will always remain in our memory and live with us. London also wrote some very interesting short stories in Sun set magazine about persons and places he visited in southern Oregon. As some of the best "shorts" were written in 1912 that are referred to, here, we regret now not saving some of those old stories enjoyed in years past in Sunset and others. Per haps aU collectors' items now. Bert Kissinger '520 Boordman Medford, Ore. r i r iteiease or By Red China Tops Good News for Week By CHARLES M. McCANK United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. The Chinese Communists freed four United States Air Force officers whom they had imprisoned for more than two years in flag grant violation of the Korean armistice. The Reds said they took their ac tion in a move toward reduc ing interna national ten sion. There Charles McCann were indica tions that the Communists soon would free 11 more airmen whom they had sentenced as "spies." Encouraged by the new atmosphere, the United States tried to get the release also of 52 additional Americans 41 civil ians and 11 Navy and Coast Guard men believed still held in China. President Eisenhower, however, urged caution in as sessing the motives of the Com munists in their altered attitude. 2. Nikita S. Khrushchev. Rus sian Communist Party boss, and Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin failed in an attempt to get rPes ident Tito of Yugoslavia to re turn to the Soviet bloc of na tions. Tito is now arranging to tell the United States, Britain and France about the visit and, it is understood, to ask addi tional military aid of them. 3. Russia and Japan opened negotiations in London for a On The Side (Distributed by King If one should give me a heart to keep, With love for the golden key. The giver might live at ease . or sleep; It should ne'er know pain, be weary, or weep, The heart watched over by me. . O'Shaughness Shavehness Members of the Lucy Stone League retain their maiden names after marriage. For ex ample Lucy Stone, the founder, was married to Henry Brown Blackwell. She never used the name Mrs. Blackwell. Always adhered to Lucy Stone. Said she retained her maiden name as an indication she had not lost her individuality .by marriage. Now some career women are going even further as to the name angle. Take Dr. Edith Summer skill, celebrated British caree: woman. She is married to Dr Jeffrey Samuel. The couple have two children, Michael and Shir ley. And so what? Well, sir, even though their parents are still living together the children have passed up their father's name and taken that of their mother. That is, they are known as Michael Summerskill and Shirley Summerskill. By the way, Mister, does your wife ever worry about marriage having stifled her individuality? Asking Queries from clients. Q. Is there such a name as Jacque netta? That's what my wife wants to call our first girl baby. A. Jacquenetta is the name of a Shakespearean character in "Love's Labor Lost." Never knew anybody having that name. It's a nice name, but it will make no difference if your daughter is so named every body will call her "Jackie" any how. . . . Q. What major league ball player was known as "The Tabasco Kid"? A. Norman Elber feld. He played shortstop for 'the New York American League team. Sidelights Nina Wilcox Putnam once re duced 56 pounds in seven months and tells how she did it in a book titled "Tomorrow We Diet" . . . U. S. Army en gineers who constructed a two mile highway in Korea named it "Marilyn Monroe Road." It has 23 curves. That Bite In Chile the tax on' pari-mu-tuel race track wagering is 27 per cent. Those Chilean horse players must be gluttons for punishment. Here in the United States it is 15 per cent plus breakage at New York tracks. In Maryland, lowest of all States has to pari-mutuel "bite," it is only 10 per cent. Except at half mile and harness tracks, where it is 12 per cent. Should be 5 per cent and no breakage at all tracks. Which, in fact, it was in Maryland not so many years ago. Among the Married It was Dr. Edmund Bergler, i author of that extremely inter esting book titled "Fashion and the Unconscious," who said for a husband to call his wife "baby" is ridiculous. The hus band, says the good doctor, is always the "baby" of the family. Horses ft Women Suppose a young woman whose height is around five feet two wants to appear much taller. First, of course, she uses three or four inch heels. The second thing to do is to hold the head high. Surprising what an illu sion of height that can give. Airmen Japanese peace treaty. Russia had to seek the negotiations in an attempt to keep Japan from rearming as an airy of the free world. Japan, which needs for eign trade, would establish good relations with Russia. But there was every indication it would re main allied with the west. - THE BAD 1. Queen Elizabeth II pro claimed a state of emergency in Britain because of a strike by 70,000 railroad engineers and firemen. The strike threatened to paralyze British industry and even to endanger the food sup ply. A strike by nearly 20,000 dock workers made the situa tion more serious. 2. France faced a new crisis in North Africa. Seeking to end the terrorism which has swept the protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco since the end of World War II, Premier Edgar Faure negotiated a home rule agree ment for Tunisia. The agreement could be a model for a similar one in Morocco. But Faure may not be able to get the Tunisian agreement through Parliament. He is also confronted by serious terrorism in Algeria, which is a part of France itself politically. 3. The Communists, in a new move in their "baby blockade" of West Berlin, cut the telephone lines which link the stations of the important elevated railroad operating in West and East Ber? lin. Red East Berlin controls the railroad. By cutting the tele phone lines, the Communists en dangered passenger and freight service in West Berlin. The ele vated line serves 15,000,000 West Berlin passengers a month, By E. V. Durling Failures Syndicate, Inc.) ' Quaker mothers always gave their daughters the following advice: "Hold thy head high, thy chin up and thy stomach in." . Costly Pig ' Ten thousand dollars for a pig. That's the price for a prize porker bearing, the fancy name of Landrace Bluegate. Pig breed ing can be a highly, profitable enterprise. The Landrace breed of piglets can bring from $1,000 to $2,800 right after birth. May be I'll breed pigs on my ranch when I get - a ..ranch.. Sir Win ston Churchill goes in for a bit of pig raising at his country place. So does Don Cockell, the heavyweight boxer. Seven Persons Dead In Japanese Storm Tokyo (U.R) At least seven persons were dead and 49 others missing today in a storm which lashed the seas off northern Ja pan the past week. A lone survivor of the vessel Kiyoshi Maru, which sank in the storm, said the six other crewmen went down with the ship. Coast guard officials re ported also that one fisherman was killed and 49 disappeared from a fleet of fishing boats that sank. New Dentistry Method Cuts Down on Drilling 'Chicago (U.R)- A new method of cavity filling that cuts down on drilling was described to the International Association for Dental Research here. Dr. M. G. Buonocore of the Eastman Dental Dispensary, Rochester, N. Y., said that by using a specially developed seal ing material, the filling can be bound i to a flat surface, thus eliminating the drilling involved in making a "dovetail." Ordinarily the dentist must anchor the filling material by preparing a cavity in an inverted cone shape,: Buonocore said. BRITISH SAID DISSATISFIED Moscow (U.R) The Soviet magazine .Literary Gazette charged today that the British rail strike was a direct result of Britain's "unbearable military expenditures." It said it was "a question of the British people's dissatisfaction with their situa tion, a result of the country's economic difficulties." Dead line Sunday Classified to at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day w m m ers v ROAST MirrrriM 1 pork i beef i cimi 11 Eisenhower Given Jewish Honor for Role in War II Washington (U.R) The United Jewish Appeal presented its first Humanitarian. Achieve ment Award to President Eisen hower today "for his help to sur vivors of Nazism" during World War II. The award was an . ancient clay lamp "from the land of the Bible" recovered during arche ological excavations in Israel. William Rosenwald, gene ral chairman, and 11 other na tional officers of the Appeal made the presentation in recog nition of Mr. Eisenhower's "lib eration of the victims of Nazi tyranny." , They cited Mr. Eisenhower for his "inspiring and unforgettable role in that great event." Led Allied Forces A citation read by Rosenwold said in part: "... you led the Allied forces to victory, threw down the gates of the concentration camps and helped to save from extermina tion the remnant of the once great Jewish populations of Europe. By your sympathetic under standing of the problems invol ved and by your effective ac tion, you set a pattern of hu mane and helpful treatment. Your example prevailed in the American zones of occupation and served to revive and restore the newly liberated Jews of cen tral Europe and those who sought haven there." UJA will open a two - day na tional conference Saturday to plan its 1955 nationwide drive for funds. It describes itself "the major American agency provid ing funds for distressed Jews overseas and immigrants to Is rael." Four Outstanding Farmers Selected Minneapolis (U.R)' Four young men who made a success of farming against heavy odds were named by the Junior Cham ber of Commerce last night as America's four outstanding young farmers of 1955. They were Homer R. Beedle, 31, Cle Elum, Wash., Alvin H. Hanson, 34, Stanton, Mich., Clin ton J. Harbers, 33, West Point, Tex., and Jack G. Thomson, 32, Buttonwillow, Calif. Beedle was chosen because he developed a top dairy farm in an area classed by loan institutions as "uneconomical." Hanson built up a rundown 560-acre farm worth $40,000 into a $250,000 business. Harbers ran a top-grade 620-acre farm while caring for a family of seven and send ing two brothers and two sisters through college. Thomson achieved an outstanding truck farm on alkaline land in San Joaquin Valley. It was the first time the or ganization has chosen outstand ing young farmers on a national level. Farmers between the ages of 21 and 35 were eligible. Low-Grade Roughages Urged in Sheep Feeding Chicago (U.R) Sheep can be self-fed without danger of en- terotoxemia, or overeating dis ease, if a high ; level of salt, ground corn cobs or low-grade roughages are added to food con centrates, according to a Uni versity of Illinois scientist. C. E. Schoettle of the veter inary medicine college said that, in addition to requiring less workself-feeding did not cause any cases of pregnancy disease. Bred ewes, Schoettle says, should have one pound of con centrate per head per . day in addition to a good quality le gume hay or silage. HOUSE CLEANING Rugs t Furniture Cleaned Walls Woodwork Floor Windows Venetian Blinds . Randy's Cleaning Service ??1 PAST SlttTU ST. ' I - - . e1Uk.CU LIVER ROAST In the Days Hews Br FRANK JENKINS Modern world note. Let's put it a little stronger than that. Let's say ULTRA modern world note: An Eastern industrialist (name of Robert Ferry) addressing the annual meeting of the Institute of Boiler and Radiator Manufac turers in Absecon. N.J.. tells his hearers that a nuclear-powered home heating and cooling system is a practical possibility that may be realized within a few years. rpHAT is to say: The time may come (relatively soon, perhaps) when you can have in your home a jigger into which you can put a piece of uranium or, possibly by then, some other metal about the size of a lead pencil stub and it will heat your house in winter and cool it in summer. JET'S go on from there. If this jigger can heat your house in winter and cool it in summer, it can be adapted to run your washing machine and your j u n j .1.11 uiaiiwuBuci auu yum - :iuiues drier and all your multifold other household gadgets. pANTASTIC? Improbable? Pure dream world stuff? - JET'S not be too sure. There was a time when the possibilities of steam were as little dreamed of as are the pos sibilities of nuclear fission now. But look what steam did. It brought on the Mechanical Re volution, which provided the power to run machines to do the work that hitherto had been done by human arms and backs. Electricity expanded the use of power still farther. The energy released by the splitting of the atom can extend the uses of power farther yet. ' JJOW FAR? Nobody knows. In Sacramento the other day, the California state assembly adopted a resolution asking the federal government to conduct experiments in converting salt wdter into fresh water. If such experiments are under taken, it is practically certain that atomic energy will enter into them. Converting salt water into fresh water is already feas ible on a LABORATORY scale. The trouble is that it costs too much. Under present methods of conversion, the cost of making fresh water out of salt water is about $400 an acre foot. Maybe atomic energy can cheapen the process. IlfHAT of the dams that are ' " being built (and planned) to convert falling water into power? Will they become out dated and useless? I doubt it. As power becomes 1 more abundant and therefore cheaper the USES OF POWER will expand fantastically. I have a notion that we will need, and use, ALL KINDS OF POWER. thought in closing: The bill to ask the federal government to do more research in converting salt water into fresh water was introduced in the California legislature by a woman Assemblywoman San dra Sankary, of San Diego. We're ADDING THE POWER OF WOMEN'S BRAINS, you see. to the power of men's brains. That should mean something. There was a time in the world when women weren't supposed to have brains. DOUBLE JEOPARDY Knoxville, Tenn. : (U.R) Mrs. Mae Rhoden divorced Charles Rhoden twice within three years, both times on the grounds he has another wife. Mrs. Rhoden said he tricked her second time after their first breakup, pretending he had ob tained a divorce. PHONE -4069 BACON II 6(nV 0 B. tOlin H ' ' '
