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urge .t;--7gaiyvft'aBjJgf irw c?.. r.: 1 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDF0RD4!iTBIBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon Heads 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 . 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 clas matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of jviarcn j, iovi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dail'v and Sunday Three mos. 3.30 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Bedford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ' Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms uasn m Aovanue Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF C1HCULA1.UIM WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Lo Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. LouU Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS A'SSOdATION 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 IS. 1945 (It was Friday) Workers urgently needed at Camp White because of reacti vation. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A quintet of 1945 fathers met yesterday and compared babies. They all are remarkable. None of them ever cry. 20 YEARS AGO June IS. 1935 (It was Saturday) T. E. Daniels of vMedford re elected president of the Oregon State Trapshooting association. The fifth annual Salvation Army Young Peoples congress held in Medford today and to morrow. ', 30 YEARS AGO June 15, 1925 (It was Monday) Ten Jackson county residents arrested as authorities start cam paign to stop speeding. Oregon National Guard to par ade through Medford tomorrow. 40 YEARS AGO June 15. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Actress Maude Adams to ap pear in "Quality Street" at Page theater tomorrow. From Local and Personal col umn: School elections will be held in the county next Monday. There is little local interest to date, there being but one can didate, B. P. Palmef. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Coar. 1955. editorial Resajrck Retort 1. The state with the most electoral votes after New York and Pennsylvania is: California, Illinois, or Ohio? 2. The U. S. has more churches (buildings) than 25 years ago, or fewer, or about the same number? 3. Speed laws were being violated by drivers in one, two, three, four, five or six of every 10 fatal auto accidents? 4. The U. S. had one, two, or three Presidents, during World War I in 1914-1918? 5. Col. Peron, dictator in Ar gentina, is hostile or friendly to the Catholic church there, or neutral toward it? 6. Some children are born with defective hearts; right or wrong? 7. Chlorophyll is an anesthe tic, additive for gasoline, green coloring matter in plants, the urge to steal, or a woman with dyed hair? The Aswers: 1. California. 2. More. .3. Three out of 10. 4. One (Wilson). 5. Hostile. 6. Right. 7. ..Green., coloring., matter., in plants. NOEL COWARD ILL Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) British playwright - composer Noel Coward was expected to recover fully today from an at tack of flu which sent him to bed with a temperature of 102 degrees. Coward, who has been performing he for more, than a week in his American night club debut, was unable to appear Tuesday night at the Desert Inn hotel. MAIL TRIBUNE A Necessary Decision Those Oregon cities and school districts which in the past two years have voted themselves new tax bases can breathe easier, thanks to the supreme court's recent action in clarifying an earlier decision. That earlier opinion had been read to mean that when a taxing unit had established a new tax base by the vote of its people, then it could not take advantage of the constitutional provision which allows an in crease of 6 per cent per year in budgets, to meet ris ing costs. AT THE time, the Mail Tribune said, "It is to be "hoped that the supreme court will make a speedy end to the confusion, for the well-being of 18 cities and many school districts depend on it. And time's getting short" The court took cognizance of the need, held a re hearing on the matter and last week clarified the earlier decision. A MONG the cities affected are Jacksonville, Gold Hill and Phoenix, and on July 5 Medford voters will cast ballots on a similar proposal. ' It is fortunate that the supreme court was as speedy as it was, for the end of the budgeting period is rapidly approaching. The areas affected can now make plans for current and future budgets without the fear that their income will be arbitrarily "frozen" simply because the voters approve an increase in the taxing base. E. A. The Voters9 Job For a combination of reasons, this spring is seeing a much larger number of elections than usual. Ex ceedingly important local questions will be decided at many of them. Between April 28 and July 15 there will have been 12 elections of major consequence to a large number of people in Jackson county. yHESE INCLUDE: School District 6C bond election, for new schools (approved). Eagle Point school bond election, for new build ings (approved). : Phoenix sewer bond election (approved). Medford school district budget election (approv ed). Ashland school district budget election (ap proved). Central Point Rural Fire Prevention district budg et election (turned down). School District 6C budget election ( approved ) . Elections in 23 school districts of the country, and for rural high and non-high school boards (June 20). , , . Central Point Rural Fire Prevention district budg et election (a revote scheduled after the proposal was first turned down; June 23). Medford city budget election, including increas ing the tax limitation (July 5). Annexation election in two areas adjacent to Med ford (July 5). Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation dis tricts, election on approval of negotiations with fed eral government for repayment contract on rehabili tation work on canal systems of two districts (July 15). . : ,. LL THESE elections can be viewed two ways: 1. A waste of time for the voters. .,' . 2. The democratic process in action. We prefer the second view. While the day-to-day operation of any system of free government can and should be handled by the elected representatives of the people, the people themselves quite properly reserve the right of making the final decision on many questions of importance. This is what is happening in Jackson county this spring. For the continued effective operation of these many units of government depend on the continued understanding and support of the people living in them. ! IT ALL boils down to this: The voter and taxpayer in a free society bears the ultimate responsibility for the well-being of that society. It is not an onerous job, nor a particularly compli cated one. But it does demand an informed public; a public which in large numbers will take the trouble to study issues, come to, intelligent conclusions, and then make their decisions known as the polls. As long as a goodly portion of our . citizens will continue to do this, we have nothing to fear from "for eign isms" nor alien philosophies. E.A. Phoenix Phoenix Phoenix Neighbors of Woodcraft will meet Thurs day, June 16, at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Mabel Bourne on Calhoun rd., for a picnic sup per, with Mrs. Bourne, Mrs. Lil lian Coleman and Mrs. Ora Smith serving. Members and their families attending are ask ed to bring a covered dish, vege table, salad or dessert and their own table service.' ' Miss Izabelle Poling arrived in Phoenix Monday from Mar accaibo, Venezuela, South Am erica, to visit her mother, Mrs. Ida Poling, and her aunt, Mrs. Thomas Mitchell. She is a tea cher in a private school for the children of the employees and executives of an oil company in Maraccaibo. The Thomas Mitchell family motored to Crescent City, Calif., Wednesday, June IS. 19S5 and Coos Bay June 7 and came back Friday. They visited Az alea state park near Brookings, and report that the azaleas are beautiful this year and the wea ther was ideal on the coast. Miss Eunice Blocker from Jo liet, Mont., is visiting this week at the home of Mrs. Thomas Mitchell. Mr. and' Mrs. Martin Seit zinger' and their four youngest sons from Arkansas are visit ing at the Mark Norton home this week. Seitzinger is a bro ther of Mrs. Norton. They stop ped on their way out west at Los Angeles and Pasadena, Cal., to visit another son, Mike, and a daughter, Anne. Anne came with her folks to see the Nor tons, and she will go home the last of this week. The Martin Seitzingers are also visiting another brother and f amily, W. F. Seitzinger. iff ADENAUER WANTS SOLIDARITY President Eisenhower (left) and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer shake hands following their meeting at the White House. In center are James B. Conant, U. S. ambassador to Ger many fleft), and Secy, of State John Foster Dulles. Adenauer pressed for a common Western lineup in the forthcoming Big Four "summit" talks with the Soviets. He also urged a bold disarmament plan to ease the cold war and help unify Germany. Slaying of Publisher In Morocco Reveals New Terrorist Group By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The assassination of a French newspaper publisher in Morocco has brought into the open a new and dangerous aspect of the s i t u a tion in French North Africa P u b 1 i sher Jacques was killed by a machine gun ner last Sat urday as he Charles McCann came oux oi an office builting in Casablanca. Lemaigre-Dubreuil was not murdered by native terrorists, as so many Frenchmen have been in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. There seems to be no doubt that he was shot by a fellow Frenchman an agent of those French settlers who are fighting to the bitter end against in creased home rule for France's North African possessions. Lemaigre-Dubreuil was one of the Frenchmen in North Afri ca who favor home rule. . These Frenchmen say that the natives must be given the great est possible measure of self-government if Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria are not to go the way of Indochina. Threatening Letters Lemaigre-Dubreuil, who only recently had become the princi pal owner of the Casablanca newspaper Maroc-Presse, had re ceived a number of threatening letters. Other Frenchmen who favor home rule have received similar letters. A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On By HARMAN United Pran Washington (U.R) Some odd things about Washington. For one thing, some 2,000 rented dress suits, dinner coats, and cut aways are in constant circu lation in the capital. This business is better in the winter. But in the summer some senators and congress- Human Nicbolm " men, who are not used to dressing for an eve ning out, rent the summer suits. A white coat, black pants, and a soft shirt with studs, and shoes and even a phony carnation for the buttonhole if necessary. The price per coat, shoes or collar runs for whatever the traffic will bear. A coat, may be $5 for the evening, returned in the a.m. A whole suit double that price. With flower pitched in if you return it in the morning with coat, pants and studs. Do It Yourself Time was around town when three outfits rented evening dresses for government gals, and also the ladies of Congress. All three went out of business. It seems that "the gals would run down to Ihe rent people, try on the pretty gowns, and run home and think it over. A lot of them had been trained in the needle, thread and sewing machine busi ness, and many of them went straight to a drygoods store, bought a bolt of frilly stuff and showed up at a party with a du plicate of whatever looked good at the rental. ; . Back to the mzn. One of the renters has in stock, for instance, pink shorties, like they wear in Britain, with navy blue coats to match and flashy sport shirts. All for $13.50 for a week end. There have been no congression The French government has taken an exceedingly serious view of Lemaigre-Dubreuil's assassination. Some people in Paris hold that, in the long run. the most serious struggle in Morocco at least will not be that between the French and the natives but between Frenchmen themselves. As soon as the news of Le-maigre-D u b r e u i 1 ' s murder reached Paris, the government sent Roger Wybot, chief of the French secret service, to take charge of the investigation into it. Wybot was ordered to investi gate the French police force in Morocco as well as the murder itself. Strong Complaints There have been strong com plaints, some of them by offi cials, that while Moroccan ter rorists are punished drastically by French courts, French counter-terrorists who kill Moroccans escape punishment. French Premier Edgar Faure presided last .night at a cabinet meeting in Paris to consider the counter-terror situation. There are two organized French groups in Morocco. "Presence Francaise" (French Presence) represents the anti home rule settlers. "Conscience Francaise" (French Conscience) represents those elements who believe that home rule is essential. The French government now believes that the anti-home rul ers, or some group of them, have organized a definite terror ist group and that the machine gunner who ambushed Lemaigre-Dubreuil was a member of it. . This and That W. NICHOLS PmHim Writer al takers on this deal so far. I got a lot of other information from Eleanor Early. The lovely Eleanor is an old hand at re search on such business in the capital and other cities. Famous Corsets One of Eleanor's favorite stories is one about the Folger Shakespearean Library, located near the Supreme Court and Li brary of Congress. There rest the corsets of Elizabeth I. Miss Early dug up the fact that Henry Clay Folger, who founded the library, learned that the cor sets of the Queen who served during Shakespeare's time were on sale at auction. Folger dispatched a cable call, made a bid and before he knew it, he had a bunch of rare corsets on his hands. And for a long time, they were right out in the open. As of now, though, they are underground, down in the basement of the li brary with other relics. Every year the capital enter tains some half million kids. AU. of them frisky, but someday to grow to voting age. There is pressure from the hill to be nice to all the young. They have pil low fights in hotels. The Willard Hotel, for one, has started using foam pillows. The same hdtel has started to weld room numbers on the doors. . Some kids bring along their own screwdrivers to take home a souvenir if room numbers aren't welded on. Portland Airman Dies In Marysville Wreck Marysville, Calif. (U.R) An Air Force enlisted man from Portland, Ore., was killed Mon day night in a highway accident one mile south of here. Dead was Airman 1-C Delbert Bond, 23, of Portland. He Was killed when the automobile in which he was riding overturned. A companion was uninjured. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Interesting note from Wash ington in a year when the na tural rainmaking processes in this part of the world seem to be out of kilter: If congress provides the money, the federal government will make an intensive study of rainmaking processes. (Remem ber the ancient gag to the effect that if we had some ham we'd have a ham and egg sandwich if we had an egg?) 1I7ELL, the senate appropria ' tions committee has recom mended that $80,000 be provided for such a study. If both houses of the congress concur in! the committee's action and the Pres ident signs the bill and the money becomes available, the study will be made by a com merce 'department advisory committee on weather control. It will be conducted from an observation point on top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire and will seek an swers to these questions: How much can rainfall be in creased by seeding clouds? And under-what conditions? And at how much cost? fpHE senate committee that - recommended the 880,000 appropriation was influenced to do so by this statement from the department of commerce advis ory committee: "No reasonable person fa miliar with developments in the field can any longer doubt that under certain circumstances rainfall can be produced or in creased with artificial nucleat ing agents." What next? "NE difference between the J older world and the newer world is that when the older world faced a problem that was beyond its ken it shrugged its shoulders and muttered 'e'est? la guerre," and let it go at that. The modern world calls in the re search scientists and tells. them to GET BUSY. QJPEAKING of problems, Ore gon blackberry growers have been worried in the past by their inability to get enough ber ries off an acre of ground to make the operation pay. The researchers have just come with a new hormone spray which, they think, will produce an extra $100 worth of berries from an acre at a cost of $5. California onion producers have been plagued by the fact that onions have a bad habit of arriving at maturity ALL AT THE SAME TIME. The result is a glut on the market in good onion years. Researchers on the Davis campus of the University of California have developed a hy brid that, they claim, makes pos sible onions, that are not only outstanding for size, color and uniformity of shape but are capable of COMING TO MA TURITY AT VARYING TIMES T hate to suggest it, but I sup- x pose the next problem will be how to induce people to eat more onions and blackberries, thus reducing the surplus that will accrue from the . better growing methods developed by the, researchers. AND If people are taught to eat more onions and blackberries Will they cut down on their in take of other foods such as Klamath potatoes and Rogue River pears? i The world, you see, is full of problems. H ERE'S another one: How to get more automobiles over our existing highways with fewer accidents? A Boston gentleman by the name of Thibodeau, who is the general - manager" of the Automobile Legal association, wants MINIMUM speed laws adopted by all the states. He thinks the "loitering" motorist is as much a highway menace as the speeder and the reckless driver. He says the driver whose pace is slower than the normal traffic flow forces cars behind him to take chances out of pure frustration. ' I suppose everyone who has been caught at the back end of a long string of cars piled up be hind a slow-poke driver on a two-lane highway will be in clined to agree with Thibodeau. JN conclusion: If we could solve all our prob lems by the simple process of PASSING A LAW, it would be wonderful, wouldn't it? Swiss Swell Graham Crusade Facilities Zurich, Switzerland (U.R) Swiss sponsors of Billy Gra ham's Zurich crusade said today they had underestimated public interest in the American evan gelist and have been forced to rent additional facilities to ac commodate the crowds fxpect- ed at his Saturday revival meeting. Methodist preacher Eduard Voellmy, president of the Zurich branch of the Graham-sponsoring "Evangelical Alliance," alsa disclosed that the Swiss radio had reversed itself and agreed to broadcast two hours of the Zurich meeting. Good Chance Social Security Br RICHARD AND MAURINE NEUBERGER Washington, D. C. (Special) Lowering of the Social Security retirement age for women from 65 to 60, as proposed in the first bill I introduced in the Senate, may be the major social reform enacted by the 84th Congress. Since Jan. 18, when the Neu berger bill was introduced, sim ilar proposals have been offered by Republican Senators Wiley of Wisconsin and Potter of Michi gan. The reduction in retirement age also recently was endorsed by Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Senate majority leader. Have Mail My office has received more mail approving the lower age for women's Social Security benefits than on any other proposal. The volume of this mail has been so great that there has been some delay in answering it. The change makes sense to people generally. Millions of employed women now must retire at 60 or even younger. Furthermore, the average wife is usually a few years younger than her husband. If both a man and his spouse be came eligible simultaneously for Social Security, it is obvious that elderly couples would enjoy a far higher standard of living. Many families now are forced to live on inadequate benefits for several years until the wife reaches present eligibility age. At present only about 20 per cent of married men who retire at 65 have wives immediately eligible for wives' benefits. If women could qualify at the age of 60, about 60 per cent of the families would draw benefits for both husband and wife immed iately when the husband reaches the retirement age. It is my firm belief that Con gress will reduce women's qual ifying age either this - year or some time during the session Is That So? London. With SAS To get the final facts about the mega pode a misrepresented bird, if ever there was one took me on an almbst halfway round the world flieht bv Scandinavian Airlines System to the London zoo. And now, for the first time this newspaper's readers will get the facts in some detail about this strange bird. ( . Except for its disproportion ately large, clawed feet really No. 16s the megapode looks like a small but handsome brown and yellow turkey. In fact, he may be called "brush turkey" or "mound builder." When the male is a year old, he begins to work industriously and by himself rakes together tons of forest litter to build an enormous mound, at least five feet high and 15 feet across a future nest for the bride he has not yet met. After a year's work, he is joined by a female the union lasts for life. A week apart the four-pound female lays half-pound, pale coffee-colored eggs, a clutch of 12 to 14 eggs in a matter of about three months' laying. For each egg, the solicitous male scratches open the great mound of vege table matter a compost heap really and closes it promptly so the eggs are deposited at the same level, about three feet be low the surface. Only the male takes care of the nest zealously, day and night, taking time out only to hasten off for short feedings of berries, fallen fruits, insects and small crabs. Generates Heat Meanwhile, the rotting com post generates heat a heat warm enough to incubate the thin shelled eggs artificially. - During the incubation, there is the ever-present danger that the rotting compost might gen erate too much heat. To meet this, he opens the huge nest each day to take its temperature. ' Perhaps the built-in thermo stat is in his nose it is not known. At any rate, when he finds the nest too ; warm, he opens it and exposes it partially to the cool evening air; but when it is too cold, he leaves it open Father's Day June 19, 1955 MEDFORD'S FINEST MEN'S STORE MAIN AT CENTRAL Seen for Lower Age Limit which starts in January, 1956. X hope it will be this year. Bipartisanship on Diamond Oregon was the only state who contributed more than one player to the Congressional Odd Sox team which lost its annual softball game to the National Press Club. This year the score was 13 to 9 for the newspaper men. The two Oregon players were Congressman Sam Coon and I. Coon caught for the Con gressional! and I played first base. In four trips to the plate, Sam struck out and flied out, got a base on balls and a single. In four trips, I walked once and', singled three times. Sam made several spectacular catches of high fly balls directly in front of home plate. My unused muscles have been aching ever since the workout! -. Hells Canyon Bill Morn As a sponsor of the Hells Can yon Dam bill, I rejoice that it has been reported favorably by the subcommittee. Of course, it is regrettable that two Senators from . the Rocky Mountain states, who are promoting a $1,659,000,000 pow er and reclamation project in that region, have seen fit to op pose a $356,000,000 undertaking in the Pacific Northwest. Is it to be the policy of these Republi can Senators to insist that Fed eral projects shall be built in their own area but denied to the Columbia River Basin? The Western states can pro gress together only as a unit. Yet Secretary of the Interior McKay, and now leading Sena tors from Colorado and Utah, have taken the position that the Federal treasury contains funds for development in the Rocky Mountains but not in the Pacific Northwest. We must try to save the West from such a Jekyll-and- I Hyde policy.- - ' ly EnfM luras -. tanewNateralirt during . the day ' to allow the noonday sun to warm it A con stanfc 94 degrees is maintained The large eggs take some 50 days to hatch and to this must be added the three months' lay ing intervalmaking a total of almost five months' vigilant care by the male. . j ' Comes now a yet stranger fact. When the young hatch, this father doesn't recognize them. If they get in the way of his great, raking feet, he kicks them out behind him unceremonious ly. But the young arc equal to the occasion. They have strength enough to work up through the three-foot thick covering. They can feed independently. And more, too. Fully feathered, they can run on their first day and if occasion calls, flutter up to a six-foot high perch. (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 letter!. Please address your questions to: IS THAT SO; co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sau salito, Calif. , THE SOFTER GENERATION Hartford, Conn. U.R) W a 1 ter G. Davis said on his 100th birthday anniversary that his children don't visit him too often in his third-floor apartment. "I can climb the stairs," explained Davis; "but they can't." t ttOIlEY GR017S quickly when invested here . . . where INSURED SAFETY and "LIBERAL EARNINGS await your savings. 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