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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) ltaDP0RIvOJ&TRIBUNE "Everybody tn Southern Oregon Heads Th 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. A n Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months B.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sundav Onlv One vear S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold - Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $1300 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Offirlal Paper of ihe City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County jUnitedPress 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. Louia Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSpCIATllO.N r7 s NIWSrAMt rUBUSHIRS 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 13. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Six civic projects costing $825,000 approved by Medford residents in special election. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The coun try is now facing inflation, ex- perts figure, due to shortages. It means more cost and less prod uct. For instance, a ham sand wich will cost more than a hog, and the bread thereof will be cut thinner than the ham. 20 YEARS AGO ' " June 13. 1935 (It was Thursday) Disposal plant bids exceed estimate and amount of funds approved by voters for improve ment. C. D. Bean opens new electric appliance and houseware store In Medford. SO YEARS AGO June 13. 1925 (It was Saturday) Four persons arrested for il legal possession of moonshine near Camp Jackson National Guard encampment. William-Von der Hellen's bid of $27,250 lowest submitted for grading and surfacing portions of highway between Grants Pass and Crescent City. 40 YEARS AGO June 13, 1915 (It was Sunday) Medford opens baseball sea son against Yreka: admission is 40 cents for grandstand; 25 cents bleacher seats. From Local and Personal col umn: The regular mid-month meeting of the city council will be held at the city hall tomor row night. Among the matters to be discussed will be auto and water regulations, and the plan to build a new city hall. Steps towards enforcing a law for the dimming of electric head lights on autos will be taken. What's the Answer? (Caa You Get 4 of tta 7?) Capr. 153. Editorial Rataarch Raaarl 1. Most letters to the F.C.C. on paying a fee for special T.V. programs in the home are for it or against it, or are they about 50-50? 2. Mrs. Oveta C. Hobby on joining the administration was a Wac officer, trained nurse, oil well executive, newspaper edi tor, or housewife? 3. Which one of these states joined the Union before 1900: Arizona. New Mexico, Okla homa, Utah? 4. MoSt unions in the newly combined A.F.L.-C.I.O. will be organized by specific crafts or by whole . industries, or will it be about 50-50? 5. No veto by President Eisen hower of a major bill has yet been overridden by Congress; right or wrong? 6. The Plains of Abraham are in the Holy Land; right or wrong? 7. Sukiyaki is a Chinese, Ital ian, Armenian, Japanese, or Rus sian dish? The Answers: 1. Most for it. 2. Newspaper editor. 3. Utah. 4. Most by crafts. 5. Right. 6. Wrong: they're in Quebec. 7. Japanese. Use Tribune Want Ads MAIL TRIBUNE The 'District' Plan It was in the mind of Col. Del Harvey that the idea for a big sanitary district on the floor of the Bear creek valley came to life a year or so ago. Harvey, a professional engineer with years of ex perience in many phases of his profession, is person ally concerned in the matter, for he has watched the attempts of small, local sanitary districts to meet their problems and fail, for a variety of reasons. UARVEY brought his idea into public view about 1 a year ago with an article in the Mail Tribune. The idea was discussed, debated, and found valid by a variety of citizens who state ben. Fml Lowry, when the legislature convened, spent long hours digging into the Oregon statutes to see if there was ample provision for such an organiza tion, and, finding there was not, spent more hours working out a comprehensive bill to set up the needed permissive machinery. ' . The bill passed, and, early in August, will become law. It gives the people of Jackson county the organ izational framework on which to build a solution to the problem of sewage disposal which is bad, and is rapidly becoming worse. TODAY, on Page 1 of the first of a senes of three articles prepared by Col onel Harvey in which he voices his view on the pros and cons of a "Metropolitan" sanitary district, or authority. The Mail Tribune is glad to publish these articles, for, while there may be disagreement among those interested as to the best way to go about solving the problem, Colonel Harvey has probably done as much as any one man (with the possible exception of Phil Lowry) to make'it possible for it to be solved. Harvey's views, at any rate, are entitled to respect ful consideration, and might well serve as the jump- ing-off point for organization of a sanitary authority. AT one point, Harvey discusses the proposed annex ation of some 3,000 acres into the city of Medford, and how this would affect the sanitary district plan. It is a point which will need further study, before a final decision can be made. The Mail Tribune proposes to support the annexa tion plan, because it believes the benefits to all would outweigh any drawbacks, and at the same time it sees in the sanitary authority proposal the outline of a solution to the sanitary problem in which we all have so vital a stake. We do not see why they need be mutually exclusive, for each has something of benefit to offer the people of this area. And the well-being of the people of Jackson county, all the people, is the thing which is important. E.A. A Welcome Visitor A visitor of more than usual interest, and one who was warmly welcomed here last week, was Werner Baecker, a young German radio man now on tour of the United States. He particularly asked that Medford be included as the only small town on his itinerary because 11 years ago he was a prisoner of war at Camp White. DAECKER talked freely of his wartime experiences how he and his fellow POWs were at first afraid of the Americans', but later came to like and respect them but, naturally enough, his chief inter est these days is in' international events and the fu ture of his young nation. He is confident of that future, barring a war, and if the government of that nation falls into hands such as his, and those of other young Germans we have met in recent years, we have little to fear. Democratic ideals have a strong hold on many, probably a majority, of Germans, and in Baecker's enthusiastic discussions of how democracy is grow ing in Germany, despite many obstacles, one gains a renewed faith and hope. OIS enthusiasm, too, for the exchange programs which permit peoples of different nations to be come acquainted, to understand each others' motives and ideals, is one we share. You can't very well stay mad at a person if you understand, and sympathize with, his point of view. E.A. Bill Thomat It was with a real sense of personal loss that we learned of the death of big Bill Thomas Saturday. The woods boss of the Medford corporation, Bill was a fixture among men who make their living in the tall timber. He was as craggy as the knottiest pine in the hills, as tough as a lumbercamp beefsteak, and as friendly a man as you'll find. AT 56, Bill Thomas was far from an old man and for "this reason it is hard to believe that a heart attack cut short his useful life. For he was one of those for esters who believe that the woods belong to the future as well as the present. He was an up-to-date logger, who mixed the skill for cutting 'em down and dragging 'em out with the long-range view of the dedicated conservationist. And he was one of the nicest guys in the world. E.A. Girl Wants Long Hair; Runs Away From Home Hempstead, N.Y. (U.R) Po lice searched today for a 12-year-old girl who ran away from her Long Island home with her nine-year-old sister because her par ents insisted her hair be cut short. The older girl wanted a "so phisticated" hairdo.' Monday, Juat 13, 1955 have a stake in the problem. Mail Tribune, appears the The two girls had only about S3 between them when they dis appeared Thursday morning on their way to school. They were identified as Diane Eaton, 12, and Carolyn, 9. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 1 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 130 rrtvioua day. Matter of FactBy j The Censorship Syndrome Washington In the langu age of the psychiatrists, the Ei senhower administration is now 51 suffering from a severe cen sorship s y n drome. The worst sufferer seems to be the President himself. The resulting lo s s of contact with democ r a t i c reality is only too easy to prove. Not longago, for instance, the President complained long and loudly at a , National Security Counql meeting because the De fense Department had published pictures of launching sites of the Nike guided missile. Yet any kid with a Brownie camera can go out to Arlington and take the same pictures. Again, the President has told the able Assistant Secretary of Air Force. Trevor Gardner, to go stand in a cor ner because of a speech about the Air Force's Falcon missile. Yet the speech contained n o fact that had not been' pre viously pub lished, a n d it had even been given the most elaborate Joseph Alsop clearance by the new American chief censor, Secretary of De fense Charles E. Wilson. Or, again, the Civil Defense agency was shockingly ob structed and the American peo ple were kept in dangerous ig norance for over a year by Adm. Lewis E. Strauss' suppression of the facts concerning radioactive fall out from the H-bomb. Yet all these facts were fully known to the Soviets even before they were learned by Admiral Strauss. In a remarkable piece for "The New York Herald Trib une," Walter Kerr has tried hard to explain this "seemingly inex plicable urge to keep from the American people even those facts that the enemy quite surely knows. Explanations were sought from Defense Department infor mation chief Herschel Schooley: from U;S. Information Service chief Theodore Streibcrt; and from R. C. Honaman, the new Assistant Secretary of Defense who has the special task of hiding the lif e-and-death facts of their national situation from the American people. The offi cial rationalization of the Presi dent's desire to keep the people in the dark was summarized as follows by .Kerr: " . . . ' j rpHE President - recognizes (that) many items of. mili tary information . . . become known to the military' tacticians Of other countries of Russia for example. He believes, how ever, that these technicians are unable to influence their coun try's top officials. (Their infor mation) is buried in a report and forgotten. ..... "Then, the reasoning goes, the same information ... is released to the American press. .It is widely published. It is com mented on at length. . . soon the item which was originally tech nical, is no longer technical. It has political significance. It comes to the attention of politi cal leaders. Then, and perhaps only then, the Soviet leader . . . Translates into action a technical proposal that had been safely buried." According to those who have worked intimately with the President on the censorship problem, these interesting state ments genuinely represent the Eisenhower viewpoint. As a de scription of Soviet planning methods, they are of course in accurate to the point of being downright alarming. They are directly refuted, in fact, by the whple history of Soviet military technology from the T-34 tank to the new heavy bomber. In the last twenty years, all out development of all the bril liantly successful Soviet new weapons produced in this period was quite certainly started be fore the readers of the American press or any other press had heard about such weapons. The fact is proved by the develop ment times, unless you preferto assume that . Soviet engineers are ten times quicker than American engineers. On the other hand, the Presi dent's theory of Soviet behavior is highly applicable to the be havior of his own Administra tion. As so often happens when syndromes are serious, there has been a tansference of symptoms. The Eisenhower administration, not the Soviet government, has the habit of ignoring technicians' warnings until they cease to be technical and become political because of publicity. THAT was most recently prov en bv the true story of the Moscow overflights, previously told in this space. Long before the overflights, ihe technicians had been warning that we were lagging behind the Soviets in air development. But the warnings were - ignored until the over flights occurred, the attempted censorship failed, and the facts became known. -After that, our z t Stewart Alsop ee and Stew Alsop lag in air development was a political issue, and corrective action was taken. Such incidents in turn reveal the roots of the censorship syn drome. It is rooted, obviously, in the Administration's eagerness to cut taxes, balance the budget and do other popular things. The people are not to be told the life-and-death facts because the facts would stir up the peo ple to demand necessary Defense Department spending, which would in turn make the Trea sury Department program hard er to carry out. Unfortunately, however, the diagnosis of the disease does not make the symptoms more at tractive or the disease less dangerous. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Let's ..turn ..our ..eyes., today toward London, where as this is written Queen Elizabeth is for mally opening the British par liament with the traditional speech from the throne. This opening of the parliament is a rather unusual one. It got under way FIVE DAYS AHEAD THE TRADITIONAL SCHED ULE so that the lawmakers may act promptly, as is required by law, on the national emergency proclamation issued by the queen because of the railroad strike. THE customary pageantry of a parliamentary opening has been influenced on this occasion by the strike that caused the law making body to assemble five days early. Elizabeth rode from Buckingham palace to the parlia ment buildings which, inci dentally, are an ancient royal palace in an automobile in stead of the traditional slow horse-drawn coach. The reason for that is that the strike has stopped the suburban trains which Londoners normal ly use to get from their homes to their places of business in the city. So those who have automo biles are using them to drive to work. The result has been a ter rific traffic congestion which would have been aggravated if the queen had ridden through the streets, in accordance with custom, in the traditional coach. T'HE British are bound by tra- dition in a way that is un familiar to us. But, you see, they are capable of BREAKING WITH TRADITION when ordi nary common sense calls for the break. ITEEP this in mind. Queen Elizabeth presented the Conservative party's pro gram to ihe parliament. She didn't write her speech. It was written for her by the Conserva tive party. If the Labor party had won in the recent elections, she would have presented the Labor party's program to the parlia ment at its ODenine. Her sneech would have been written for her by the Labor party. THAT being the case, you may ask, WHY HAVE A QUEEN? This is the best answer I can think of: Elizabeth is a charming young woman. She has been schooled since her birth, IN THE HARD EST KIND OF SCHOOL, in the principles of winning friends and influencing people. Her job is to keep the British people LIKING THEIR GOVERNMENT and believing that it is the best government on earth. When you come right down to it, that is VERY important. TUT let's get back to her speech. She pledged a British Common wealth struggle for peace. She said the British government will whole-heartedly support the United Nations, the Atlantic al liance and the new Western European Union. She announced government plans to keep Brit ain prosperous. Then she WARNED THE LEG ISLATORS of what she called THE GRAVE SITUATION CRE ATED BY THE RAILROAD STRIKE. . That was her only reference to the strike emergency that caused the parliament to assem ble five days early. LET'S watch very closely these British strikes, of which the railroad strike is the most men acing because it is handicap ping British industry in the midst of an industrial boom that is tremendously heartening to the British people after all these years of austere scarcity. Because in Britain the govern ment OWNS THE RAILROADS, the British government will have to handle the railroad strike. Maybe it will be able to do a good job of it. Washington (U.R) Sen. Walter F. George said Saturday Japan should be allowed to trade with Red China in all no strategic materials to avoid "cut-throat competition" against American producers. Tokyo .U.R) Tibet's first four hydro-electric stations along the Lhasa and Brahmaputra riv ers are expected to begin operat ing by the end of this month, Peiping Radio said today. LtAM f iiii.Hi- ii 1 i,i .a L frz London, With SAS Sharpen your wits, time for another rang er naturalist quiz. This one deals strictly with making friends of small woods' ani mals. Score 80 and you are an outdoor expert; 60 -is mighty good; 40 fair to middling. If you want to make friends with the small animals in your woods, you must observe some basic rules. Select the best an swer in each of the five follow ing groups and score 20 if you are correct. 1. Wait for the animals to come to your tent naturally? Or, go to their natural quiet resting place? Or, go to their gathering places such as waterholes and feeding areas? 2. Let the animals get ac customed to you the day around? Or, don't press matters, meet them only occasionally? Or, go regularly each day, early morn ing and later afternoons? 3. When you go into the woods, stroll very slowly? Or, walk normally? Or, pretend cas ual indifference? 4. When you reach a rendez vous, sit down and whittle? Or, read a magazine. Or, slowly carve a figure? 5. In the animal's presence, re main silent? Or talk baby talk but make it understandable? Or, talk naturally? Answer: 1. To tame wild an! mals it is best to go to their gathering places such as water holes, or a salt lick, or feeding places. 2. It is best to go regularly, each day, and preferably early morning and latek afternoon when most animals are feeding. 3. It is best to stroll slowly. looking carefully. In fact, let's make it stroll very slowly. 4. Sit down and carve a fig ure the flashing of a whittling blade or the turning of magazine pages may frighten them. Easy, slow movements are best. 5. Talk to the animal natural ly, preferably " at the animal's own tone level which sometimes may be higher than your natural voice. With it, bring with you an understanding of wild animals. (Released by McClura 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 ma tht best question on nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world - famous work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new questions will bt considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Nine Small Forest Fires Extinguished Nine small forest fires start ed by Thursday evening's light ning storm were extinguished by forest patrol crews, accord ing to the patrol office. Some 18 men were dispatched to ihe blazes. - The largest, approximately an acre, was in the Thompson creek area, 2Vi miles east of Thompson creek road. Six others in the area were situated in the Burnt Peak lookout, Morine creek, Lewis creek, Hawk creek, Buck Rock and Ash homestead areas. Eugene Peterson, district for ester for the Bureau of Land Management, and two officials of the U. S. Park service, dis covered a small fife within a few hundred yards of the road to the Lake O' Woods while on an inspection tour in the Griz- j zly-Soda springs area. A forest j patrol crew was called and the j blaze was quickly extinguished. ! Yreka, Calif. (U.R) Light-' ning strikes in unusually dry timber stands along the Calif ornia-Oregon border have set more than 200 forest fires in the past two days, the forest service said Saturday. Fathers Day and Gifts READY FOB SOLO FLIGHT to Havana, Cuba, Mrs. Zaddie Bunker, 67, great grandmother of Palm Springs, Cal., waves from plane in Washington before start of Women's International Air Race. Oldest contestant, she will fly sola (International) Molotov Acts Li Man Expecting To Keep Job for Awhile By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst Soviet Foreign Minister Vy acheslav M. Molotov is acting like a man who expects to keep his job for a while. There were reports early this month, during the Russian pilgri mage to Bel grade, that the veteran Molo tov was on his way out. : But at the a. r Charles McCanb momenx, ivioio- tov is on his way to the United States to attend the 10th anni versary meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. There he will confer infor mally with the foreign ministers of the United States, Great Brit ain and France. The four diplo mats will make preparations for the Big Four -meeting "at the summit" which probably will be held in Geneva, Switzerland July 18. There is no reason' to believe that Molotov will be replaced before the Geneva meeting. After President ' Eisenhower and the other "summit" leaders have finished their talks in Ge neva, the Big Four foreign min isters are to conduct prolonged negotiations on specific issues. In all, the way things are shap ing up this seems to be rather an awkward time for any change in the Soviet foreign ministry. Molotor Getting Old It is true that Molotov is get ting old. He is 65. It is true also that Soviet foreign policy has found the going rough these last months. But Molotov is the brainiest man in the Kremlin hierarchy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said of him: . "I have seen in action all the great international statesmen of this century ... I have never seen such personal diplomatic skill at so high a degree of per fection as Mr.. Molotov's." Molotov is one of the handful of "old Bolsheviks" who were not liquidated by their comrade Josef Stalin. For nearly 30 years since the Bolshevik revolution, Molotov has wriggled his way safely through the countless plots and purges which seem an inescapable part of the Krem lin struggle for power. He is small of stature, seems to have no sense of humor, and is a poor speaker. He has been compared, in his looks,- to a well-dressed bookkeeper. People have referred to him as "Aunty Molotov." Stalin is Frank Pari f J FINER FUNERAL SERVICES said to have called him "the best filing clerk in Russia." btaiin's Right Hand Man But he was Stalin's right hand man, and Stalin always called upon him when there was a hard job to do. Molotov entered the revolu tionary movement when he was 15 years old. At the time of the Kerensky revolution in Febru ary, 1917, Molotov was the chief Bolshevik figure in Petrograd, then the capital. He handled things for the party until Lenin and Trotsky returned from ex ile. He and Stalin played the chief part in organizing the No vember, 1917, Bolshevik revolu tion. The reports that Molotov might soon be pushed into re tirement were based in part on the fact that he was not included in the Soviet delegation which visited President Tito of Yugo slavia. But Molotov's position may have been strengthened when Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Com munist party boss who led the delegation, made a spectacle of himself in Belgrade. Maybe now, Khrushchev will stay home for a while and let ' professionals like Molotov do the visiting. QUICK and FaSYI Use Tribune Want Ads Weak and Scared GEO. N. TAYLOR Hear Peter boast. Even if all the rest deserted Christ, Peter would not. - Hearing his boast, Christ said that before morning, Peter would deny Him three times. And so it was. On thru the night, as the soldiers warmed themselves b y the fire and as the serving maids went about their tasks, Peter de nied having known Christ or that He ever had a part with Him. At the third denial Christ looked over at Peter and their" eyes met. At that, Peter went out and wept bitterly. He knew himself to be a weak and scared nobody. After Christ arose from the grave, He sought out -Peter and what He said to the man is not known. But from that hour, Peter was one of Christ's strong men. And if you would also speak for . Christ who died for your sins and arose from the grave to give you new life, make Bible and Prayer,, your daily diet. Adv. Since 1908 Mortuary Phone 2-6675 in avary ! ranfl. ' - -- PERL
