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TOTTR MEDrORD (OREGON) soman UlfS "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFOR& PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 - ROBERT W. RUHLt Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Menafer Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Ir. Advance: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo. ZSO 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 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 3c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased. Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF cmcuL-ftt'"" awest-hollTday"company. inc. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL SD'TORIM. ASSpCliiw NIWIPAPIt k puauiHiis "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 June 6. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Use of water in Fish lake and Four Mile lake will not be neces sary before July because of heavy May rains. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The weath er is now talked about more than Herr Hitler, suspected of being swallowed by the earth, or Argentina. The weather is always wrong. It tries to make the valley a suburb of the Flor ida swamps, or the Great Amer ican Desert. Things are always right for it to float away, or dry up or blow away. 20 YEARS AGO June 6, 1935 (It was Thursday) . Bill Bowerman named new Medford High school coach, coming here from Franklin High in Portland. K. V. Hill, Chicago engineer, arrives to supervise work on new Medford sewage disposal plant. 30 YEARS AGO June 6, 1925 t (It was Saturday) Ashland and Medford register greatest number of out-of-state tourists in first five months of 1925. New fire department pumper shoots stream of water over Medford hotel in test. 40 YEARS AGO June 6. 1915 (It was Sunday) Rumors indicate sale of Bar- num line to Southern Oregon Traction company (Bullis line) for about $60,000. The Kell fish screen, invented by Charles Kell of Gold Hill, adopted by state game and fish commission to prevent fish from entering irrigation ditches. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rart 1. Patents are now granted, on average, about one-half, one, l'.-s, two years, or more than two years after application? 2. The longest U. S. railroad is the Sante Fe, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, N.Y. Central or Northern Pacific? 3. The Roman system of nu merals used seven, eight, nine, 10 or 11 different letters? 4. The baseball team once call ed the Gashouse Gang was Brooklyn, N.Y. Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, old Baltimore Orioles, or Chicago Cubs? 5. Iraq and Iran are two dif ferent states in the Middle East, or different names for the same one? 6. President Eisenhower is" or isn't the first President banned by a Constitutional amendment from more than two terms? 7. Izaak Walton was a famous preacher, general, political lead er, highwayman or fisherman? The Answers: 1. More than two years. 2. Sante Fe. 3. Seven. 4. St. Louis Cardinals. 5. Differ ent states. 6. Is. 7. Fisherman. Washington (U.R) Demo cratic House leaders who plan to launch a drive this year for legislation to liberalize social security benefits were prodded Saturday by a Republican Congressman. MAIL TRIBUNE Graduation Thoughts . We know a man who doesn't count the seasons by the calendar. He uses his own system, based on child hood impressions. Winter, for instance, always starts Dec. 1, simply because it is after Thanksgiving and before Christ mas. Autumn starts Labor day, no matter what the calendar says. Spring is less definite, and depends on how the air smells in the early morning. Summer starts with high school graduation. THERE'S something special about graduation. There's the excitement felt by the students and their parents. There are the solemn thoughts voiced by the speakers. There are the high jinks preceding and following the formal ceremony. Most of all, perhaps, there is the feeling of ac complishment and satisfaction of the graduating sen iors: "Well, THAT'S over with." Despite the fact that it is called "commencement," there is something final about the last days in high school. A chapter is closed and the new one has yet to start. HOW much high school seniors listen to advice is ing graduation ceremonies. But we'd like to pass along a hint that Edward R. Murrow gave the other day. We can't quote him exactly, but his suggestion was to the effect that faith is a fine and important quality, but that it doesn't contribute nearly as much as do curiosity and doubt in stimulating education. We think he has a point, a good one. There are, naturally, some things that have to be taken on faith. But where would this country be if the Founding Fathers hadn't brought themselves to doubt that the divine right of kings was the natural and proper ord er of things? 11THAT would be the status of our civilization if Sir Isaac Newton, James Watt, Benjamin Frank lin and a host of others had not had an overwhelm ing curiosity? Where would be our prized freedom of religion and our healthy diversity of religious belief if spiritual leaders had not doubted, thought, and then preached the truth as they saw it? ' Faith is important. But to be valid for the indi vidual, it must be based on that individual's personal convictions. And it is stronger if those convictions are derived from experience and thought and curios ity; from a healthy, youthful questioning of the es tablished, and a willingness to experiment. Progress is change and change, ideally, is a rejec tion of the outmoded old and acceptance of the new for testing and experimentation. E.A. The Mercy Flights Plan An advertisement in Sunday's Mail Tribune point ed out that more thn 360 patients have been carried by planes operated by Mercy Flights, Inc., in the past 52 years. It also was an indication as to how the organiza tion, which is wholly non-profit, can continue to as sume the considerable expense of flying and main taining its planes. The answer is in what Mercy Flights calls its "pre-paid subscriber" system. I JNDER this system a family may subscribe to the service for one year for $4. Single-person sub scriptions are $2. The family subscription1 entitles any member of the househld to free air ambulance trans portation to medical centers within a radius of 400 miles in cases of medical emergency. It also entitles subscribing families to a reduced rate for air ambulance service in non-emergency cas es. Non-subscribers are asked to pay for the service (although no emergency case has ever been turned away for lack of ability to pay). TTHE pre-paid subscriber plan is the only thing that . saved Mercy Flights from going broke and end ing its service four years ago. It is a way in which subscribers,' even though they may never need the service, can make sure that the Mercy Flights planes will continue to operate, saving lives and easing pain for those friends and neighbors who need it. It's pretty cheap "insurance," not only for our selves, but for the valley as a whole. By purchasing or renewing an expiring subscription, we can help in sure the continued service of the planes with the big red crosses on them. E.A. 'Best Suspect Yet' Sought in Slaying Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) Po lice sought a sandy haired man today as the "best suspect yet" in the rape-slaying of eight-year-old Jeanie Singleton. Authorities said at least one of the crippled girl's classmates positively could identify the man, who tried several times to entice schoolgirls into his car the day Jeanie was kidnaped, May 23. Police said the children told them the man accosted them only a few blocks away from the Sin gleton home on the day Jeanie disappeared. Her ravished body was found beneath a pine tree a long side a country road nine days later by farm children. Lima, Peru (U.R) Chile, Peru and Ecuador have rejected a U.S. suggestion that they let the world court decide the legal ity of their arbitrarily-proclaimed "200-mile limit," it was announced Saturday. Monday June 8, 1953 v"' 1 ft TURNING undeveloped alkali land into highly productive truck farm wins honor of "out standing young farmer" for Jack G. Thomson, 32, of But tonwillow, CaL Thomson is one of four men selected at Minne apolis' meeting, (lnt&rnatumal) Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other days 9:30 previous day. India's Diplomatic Activity Shifts from Red China to Russia United Press Staff Writer Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India is shifting his diplomatic activity, for the mo ment, from Peping to Moscow. Nehru's ace diplomatist, V. K. Krishna Menon, has just ended a visit to Peiping, the Chinese Communist capital. Now Nehru is due tomorrow in Moscow for a 16-day visit to Soviet Russia. The visit naturally will be watched closely by the govern ments of the United States, Great Britain, France, and oth er Western countries. Nehru, from the western viewpoint, is a little too friend ly with the leaders of the two big Communist countries, Russia and China. But perhaps it may be suggest ed as it was of Krishna Men on's visit to Peiping, that even if Nehru can do no good in Mos cow, it is most unlikely that he will do any harm. Reds Free Fliers Krishna Menon was able, at the end of his visit to Peiping, to announce that the Chinese Reds would free four American fliers. How much Krishna Menon and Nehru contributed to the Communist decision to free the four men is not known. United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold has been working on the prisoner situation for five months, in sec ret correspondence with the Red government. Hammarskjold may well feel that Krishna Menon has grab bed credit undeserverly But certainly Krishna Menon urged the Chinese to free the four Americans, and other UN pris oners whom they hold in viola tion of the Korean armistice. There can be no doubt that Nehru, in Moscow,' will try to reduce tension between Soviet Russia and the Western Allies. The trouble is that Nehru's ideas of relieving tensions al ways involve concessions by the Western Allies to the Reds. Nehru is a puzzling figure. He regards himself as a man of peace. But he fought the Brit ish for years for fndian inde pendence. Since India attained its freedom he has been con stantly embroiled in disputes with Pakistan, India's neighbor. Nehru cannot be laughed off as a world leader. He speaks In the town of Icod in the Can ary Islands off northwest Africa stands the largest dragon tree in the world, reputedly 3,000 years old. It is nearly 50 feet in circumference at the base of the trunk. Dragon trees are native to the Canaries. Gaunches, the islands' aborigines, used the dark-red resin, called dragon's blood, to mummify the bodies of their kings and nobles. The trees have all but disappeared. Survivors now get protection. Hi Devil's Day On Aug. 20, 1910, fiery hell exploded over the Bitter Roots and through the canyons of the Coeur d'Alenes. It was the cli max day of the Northwest's worst forest fire season in which 85 lives were taken and 3,000, 000 acres of forests were burned. The 24 hours of disaster ran on the pattern of every famous forest conflagration. Dry spring, hot dry summer, many smokes, increasing danger, then explo sion the devil's own day in the timber. The "Yacolt Burn" climaxed the fires of 1902 in the douglas fir. It was the force that first drove private timber owners into organizing for protection. The fires of 1910 fortified the lines of these new organizations and stimulated the growth of state forestry in the Pacific Northwest. The "Keep Green" and tree farm programs grew out of the Tillamook and other great fires of the 1920-1940 period. A Man Remembers Col. Bill Greeley was the field general of the fight against fire that was made by 10,000 men with shovels, hoes and axes in 1910. This he does not forget when he tracks around today through the kfresh green growth of West Coast tree farms or the pine tree farms of Idaho. The shapes of old arise above the green, in gray smoke from black snags. . This is the meaning of an in spired work of illustrative art by Fred Ludekens, which pic tures the Bill Greeley of . today in the thick of a tree-farm tim ber crop, looking mighty, migh ty pleased upon it. Probably you have seen the picture, as it is the feature of the current Weyerhaeuser Tim ber company advertisement, runmng in national magazines with many millions of readers. This is one of a series that be gan with an illustrated story on i Gifford Pinchot. for about 360,000,000 Indians who idolize him and he has great influence in Southeast Asia as an enemy of Western "col onialism." At 65, he can look back on a full career. Son of a famous In dian lawyer, Nehru was sent to Harrow Winston Churchill's school in England and to Cam bridge university to be educat ed. He returned to become Mo handas K. Gandhi's chief disciple in the independence movement, and spent a lot of time in Brit ish jails as a result. He has the look of an ascetic but likes good living. He is a tireless worker, who started an 18;hour day by standing on his head for half an hour. "I go. to Russia with an open mind and an open heart,' 'Nehru said before he took off for Mos cow. "India has mucht to learn from the Soviet Union." Southern Negro Leaders Planning Integration Drive Atlanta U.R) The South's Negro leaders met in a closed session here over the week end to plan a South-wide drive for racial integration of schools as ordered by the U.S. Supreme Court. A campaign of petitioning for immediate steps toward desegre gation was already under way as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met with its legal ad visers. Reporters Excluded The NAACP excluded report ers from its meeting but sched uled a press conference after ward. Nine Negro parents filed peti tions on the eve of the session for admission of their 19 child ren to Atlanta schools. The NAACP said similar petitions were being prepared in three other Georgia cities. Meeting with the Southern NAACP officials were Roy Wil- kins, executtive secretary of the NAACP, and Thurgood Marshall, special counsel who had argued on behalf of the Negroes in the Supreme Court cases. Requests Action The Atlanta petition requested that school authorities "take im mediate steps to reorganize the public schools under your juris diction in accordance with the constitutional principals enun iated by the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954. This was the date of the court's ruling that the principal of school segregation is unconsti tutional. This week the court followed up the ruling with an order that schools be integrated as quickly as local problems will permit. 'mm A nminm mUiSai William B. Greeley was one of the original "Pinchot Crusad ers." After his fine work as U.S. district forester , in Mon tana and Idaho, he was made assistant chief forester. Through World War I, Gree ley commanded 20,000 forestry troops in France. As U.S.F.S. chief, 1920-1928, he labored with Oregon's great Senator Charles E. McNary, on legisla tion that is now the life blood of cooperation between indus trial forestry and the federal and state agencies. The Greeley career has been in industrial forestry since 1928. There his philosophy and expe rience bore fruit in the "Keep Green" and the tree farms pro grams. The Spokane Meeting When the fall rains came in 1910 U.S. District Forester Bill Greeley had just begun to fight. So had George S. Long, mana ger of the Weyerhaeuser Timber company. They stood shoulder to shoulder in discussions at the 1910 Spokane meeting of the infant Western Forestry and Conservation association to meet the challenge of the forest fire problem. The industrial forest manager ' and the federal forester agreed that localized programs of coop eration and education were a ne cessity in building an effective defense against the enemy. George Long emphasized the bat sic need of enlisting farmers and loggers in the forces of for est fire prevention. Greeley agreed. So the planning went on. The ideas that were seeded at Spokane in 1910 have grown into the 34,000,000 acres of tree farms and other programs of the American Forest Products In dustries today. And so today Bill Greeley can wear a big, broad smile as he stands on a tree, farm hill and remembers the smokes of many fires. 1 European Corn Borer Due. for Trouble; New Strain Will Resist Little Pest Washington (U.R) There's diet trouble brewing for the European Corn Borer. , The Agricultural Research ser vice is developing strains of corn better able to resist the vorac ious little pest which destroyed almost 192 million bushels of corn worth 261-million dollars in 1954. If the strains prove tough enough, it is conceivable the corn borer could starve. Development of these strains is underway at the European Corn Borer research laboratory at Qnkeny, la., in the heart of the corn belt. The entomologist agronomist team of F. F. Dicke and L. H. Penny believe they can meet a target date of 1960 for release of the new strains. At one time, agricultural scientists believed they were on the way to licking the corn bor er with an inbred, line of corn with borer resistance. But the borer, a resourceful insect, cross ed them up by developing a new strain of its own. During the 1940's, this new strain of borer developed into a two-brooded rather than a single-brooded in sect. This gave the borer two shots at destroying corn whereas it had only one chance before. New Findings The change in the borer start ed Dicke and Penny to reevaluat ing resistance-breeding concepts. They found that: 1. Restistance, which prevents the corn borer larvae from feed ing, is essential against the first, or early summer, brood of the in sect. 2. Tolerance to ear-shank and stalk tunneling by toorers is nec essary to save the corn crop from the second, or July to September, brood. The first brood borers, hatch ing from eggs laid on ' corn leaves, tend to concentrate near the stalk, in the leaf whorl. Re- Helsinki, With SAS Did you know that . . . the strongest back in the world, quite likely, be longs to the African hero shrew. Only 9 inches long, this animal can support the full weight of a man without any ill effects re sulting. Its vertebrae have in terlocking prongs. During a violent storm, the door of a lighthouse at Unst, northern most of the Shetland Islands, was broken open by the pounding sea. The door stands 195 feet above sea level. Bane of all lawn growers, the dandelion was introduced to America from Europe. It got its name from the Jagged edges of its leaves which were supposed to look like the teeth of a lion. (The French word for lion's tooth is dent de lion.) . Of the millions of trees with the billions of leaves, no- two leaves are ever exactly alike. Or, of the billions of snowflakes that fall in a snowstorm, no two are exactly alike. Animals living in hard cold countries tend to develop big ger, rounder bodies with shorter legs and tails. The underlying principle, we are told, is that the bigger the sphere, the smal ler proportionately the surface covering and with animals, the bigger they are the less heat- losing surface there is, propor tionately speaking. The largest bat, the flying fox, has a wingspread of five feet. With their wonderful power of resistance to low tempera tures, minute wingless insects have been found in the fresh water ponds of the Arctic and when thawed out of block of ice, in which they were frozen solid ly for months or longer, they sur vived. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30 - volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome" Seal craft binding. Each week, new questions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! eo Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. NEW LOCATION Chris the Tailor 36 N. Bartlett Tel. 2-8473 Tailor Made Suits Alterations Remodeling Repairing r - r4Us, sistance prevents these larvae from feeding in the whorl.'-and they starve. But when the corn has no resistance,' the larvae re duce yields by riddling and cut ting the leaves and finally by burrowing into the stalk and cut ting the plant's food-carrying system. The second, brood usually oc- Mcleod McLeod Mr. and Mrs. Sy mington and family have moved to Yreka, Calif., to live. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Coburn of Shelton, Wash., are the s house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hoeg. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Eldridge at their home in Grants Pass May 31. Mrs. Madeline Halley and daughter, Kathy, have gone to Sierra Madre, Calif., for. a month's visit. David Ritcliey, stationed at Stead" Air Force Base in Reno, Nev., spent the week end of May 30 at his parent's home, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Ritchey. Jack Scott of California accompanied David. Luncheon guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Vaughn on May 29 were Mr. and . Mrs. Arthur Hume and daughters, Jacqueline and Josephine and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding. Mrs. W. Hillman and Doris and Jacky Darrohn have gone to Los Angeles for the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Collier and two daughters of Creswell, Ore., were guests of the former's mother, Mrs. Audrey Collier, the week end of May 29. Mr. and Mrs. Micklely were dinner guests at "Folding Hills" ranch Tuesday, May 31. Steward Ditsworth was a din ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn Thursday, June 2. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Barber will attend the commencement exercises at Oregon State col lege Monday, June 6, when their son, Richard, receives his diploma, also his 2nd lieutenant's bar. ; Benny Collier, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Audrey Collier, for a few days, went to Maryland by plane for fur ther instructions in the army. Mr. and Mrs. Herb Carlton are attending the sessions of State Grange at Klamath Falls and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harding are on the Carlton ranch during their absence. Arthur Hume Injured his foot while at work in the woods Fri day, June 3, which required medical attention. Multnomah Coroner Floyd South Dies Portland (U.R) Multnomah County Coroner Floyd South col lapsed while working, in the yard of his home here Saturday night He died, apparently of a heart attack, before a doctor could ar rive. At one time a clinical profes sor of proctology at the Univer sity of Oregon medical school, Dr. South was elected coroner in 1941 just before being called in to Army medical service. He was defeated for re-election in. 1955, but was elected again in 1948 and served until the time of his death. Ex-Truman Aide Among Speakers in Portland Portland (U.R) A former chief economic adviser to ex president Harry Truman, Edwin Nourse, will head a list of guest consultants at Portland's second annual summer workshop on eco nomic education. . The workshop will be held from June 13 to July 2. It is de signed promarily for educators to bring them up to date on eco nomic problems and assist them in developing instructional ma terials and teaching techniques in economics. isi Frank Perl FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in every curs after the ears are formed. These larvae feed on ears and ear shanks, then move into the stalk. Unless corn is tolerant to this , attack, plants with severe shank injury produce chubby ears, or the ears drop and are missed by the picker. The Problem The Research Service says borer-resistance, like yield or ear length in corn, is considered gen etically as a quantitative charac teristic that is, the more re sistance factors present in a corn strain, the greater is resistance. ' The service says it is fairly easy to establish borer resistance in new inbred lines of corn. The scientists began in 1950 with a few promising lines, and now have 600. But the next job they face is more difficult. They have to introduce this resistance into hybrids that have other desirable characters such as good yield, disease resistance, and stalk strength. If Dicke and Penny are suc cessful, the new strains will benefit corn growers in the 37 states attacked by the corn bor-" er. . Acid Stomach? I never let it spoil my fun: Handy TUMS Neutralize . Excess Add Fast! A handy roll of Turns costs only a dime but it's worth its weight in sold whenever add indigestion strikes. That's why j f,rf t - m- millions always carry inmi wherever they go tor top speed relief from gas, heart burn, acid stomach. Turns re autre no water, no mixing. Take them anywhere. Get a handy roil ot lums today. TUMS FM THI TUMMY Gave Her Blood - GEO. N. TAYLOR A soldier in India was dying of a wound, when the nurse from a heathen tribe gave her . . own blood to save the fellow. The natives in beds about, looked on in wonder since only a fool nriila4 0lra his own blood; his very life . . "I have seen a wife die: be cause her hus band would not give his blood to save her.", So wrote Dr. Wm. E. Dowd, Bun dlehead, India. But the flush of new . life .came back to this lad to whom the nurse had given her blood. And the 'natives in their beds wondered. . New Birth: Later this nurse received Christ as dying for all the sins of her entire life. But 1M .u. . . . kqii. nn in. li. sue UI wc oay nc u .w ful ways or thoughts, we de ceive ourselves. But if we tell God all about it he is sure to tnroivf ns. and we eet back into fellowship, for Christ died lor that sin also. Every born-again soul needs to read the Bible Haiiv and Drav and grow up. So we grow Christ-like. This mes sage sponsored by a Portland family. adv. Since 1900 PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 O V SI ISIZi
