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FOUR -MEDFORD (OREGON) MedporivKwTribune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Scads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-3S 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 CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHES. 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 In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mot 3.30 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 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ot Jackson Connty 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 EDITORIAL ASSOCTIrON J NIWSrArlt .ruausn.i. ''ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and (0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 24. 1945 (It was Sunday) Jackson county voters approve tax levy for state building fund and cigarette tax for public school funds. v wsssasasasasw From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The world . security parley at Frisco, in ses sion longer than the Oregon legislature, is expected to con clude the coming week. The demobilization of the horde of committees will not take long. 20 YEARS AGO June 24. 1935 (It was Monday) ' Medford National Guard units receive satisfactory rating in inspections at Camp Murray, Wash. Jackson county to have large turkey crop .this year according to County Agent Robert G. Fow ler. - .. SO YEARS AGO June 24. 1925 (It was Wednesday) Activities of Oregon National Guard modified because of in tense heat; mercury climbs to 104 degrees at l:30p.m. ; Cooperative irrigation experi ments being conducted between U.S. Office of Irrigation investi gation and soil department of O.A.C. experiment station in Rogue valley. 40 YEARS AGO June 24, 1915 (It was Thursday) State Highway engineers sur vey proposed Pacific Highway i route from Central Pcint to Tolo. Between 300 and 350 cars of apples and 250 to 400 cars of pears .expected to be shipped xrom Rogue River valley. What's the Answer? (Can You Get 4 of the 7?) Coer. 1955. Editorial Research It opart 1. June 21 has more daylight than any other day; a little over (a) 12, (b) 13, (c) 14, (d) 15 or (e) 16 hrs.? 2. Chairman of the Un-Ameri can Activities committee in Con gress is Sen. Jenner'(Ind.), Rep. Walter (Pa.),' Sen. McCarthy (Wise), Rep. Velde (HI.) or Sen, Mundt (S.D.)? . 3. A typical air conditioning unit in a 1955 car weighs about as much as a child, an adult, an adult and a child, or two adults? 4. More than half the states in U.N. have given diplomatic rec ognition to Red China; right or wrong? 5. A small business may now get a loan from the federal Small Business Administration up' to 9 lau.uuu or for more? 6. Texas and Alaska are about the same size, or Texas is much larger, or Alaska is much larger? 7. A strabismic person is cross eyed, pigeon-toed, bigoted, with out a sense of humor, illegiti mate, or deaf? The Answers: 1. A little over 15 hrs. 2. Rep. Walter. 3. About as much as one adult. 4. Wrong. 5. S150.000 is present limit. 6. Alaska is much larger. 7. Cross eyed. DEATH DRIVERS Chicago About 24 percent of all drivers involved in fatal auto accidents during 1954 were under the age of 25 years . MAIL TRIBUNE Solar Recent items in the news indicate that scientists are not .relaxing in their constant pursuit of knowl edge, ranging through the whole field of the physical sciences. But the one which particularly caught our eye was the story about experiments now under way with the tiny, newly-developed "solar batteries" which take energy directly from the sun and convert it into electricity. THE little gadgets carry with them a significance far out of proportion to their present effectiveness, for they are only the first step in a development of energy use which must come, sooner or later, if our mechanized civilization is to survive. . Our oil and coal reserves, which are the mainstay energy sources of today, are being depleted at a tre mendous rate. This is not to say that we're going to run out next year, or 10 years from now. But within the foreseeable future, even the immense reserves we now have will be dwindling rapidly to nothingness. Even nuclear "energy is not inexhaustible, for, at least in its present stage of development, it is depend ent upon fissionable materials. And while exploration is turning up more and more of these all the time, the supply is not limitless. WATER power, too, with which our northwest country has been plentifully blessed, can be de veloped only up to a point and no further. Experiments with vegetable wastes can undoubt edly bring forth extra supplies of energy-creating fuel. But here too there is a limit. The solar battery, on the other hand, is the first attempt to tap directly the source of all these other types of energy, the sun. THE sun is the fount of almost limitless power. The energy which -it pours down each day upon the earth, as heat and light and other rays, has been meas ured and is unimaginably great. If it can be made useful to man, his worries about energy sources will be gone for many, many years to come. It could drive , his vehicles over land, across water and through the air; it could heat his homes, power his industries, cook his meals. And, if devel oped soon enough, it could permit our reserves of petroleum to be used for lubrication and fabrication, not burned for power. ALL this takes for granted a vast change in our "business and industrial community. But this com munity is changing so rapidly now, and has been doing so for more than half a century, that the switch over to new sources of energy will cause little more flurry, if s much, as did the advent of the automo bile or the airplane. So don't laugh off the solar batteries as mere gadgetry. They may be the forerunners of a new in dustry, a new energy, and a whole new way of life which may come within a lifetime. E;A. : Plywood's Growth Speaking of changes in industry, the develop ment of the plywood business, which originated in Portland just 50 years ago, is a good example of how research', development and imagination can create new products and new methods. ; In the half-century since the first veneers were glued together for the 1905 Lewis and Clark exposi tion in Portland, plywood has come to be a major seg ment of the lumber business. It is now used in ; all types of construction, in furniture, in interior and ex terior finishing, and for multiple industrial uses. THE plywood industry this week staged a Golden Jubilee event in Portland, with much whoop-te-do and press agentry. But there was some solid and serious talk about plywood and its future. A bright future it appears to be. In Jackson county we these proceedings, for we watch the first major plywood production hereabouts begin, with two big plants under construction in the White City area, and others planned. ' Dresent processes in plywood can do fantastic and wonderful things. Rare veneers can be bonded with cheaper woods, to put exotic panelling within the reach of practically every homeowner. New glues and plastics can make it structurally strong and virtually weatherproof. And the end is not yet, for research and experi mentation are continuing, and we will continue to see new ideas, new processes and new methods put to work to make plywood an even more versatile product. E.A. Jaycees Schedule Work parties to prepare the . Salvation Army's Summer Camp for children, which will open Aug. 2, are being organired by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, according to Bill Kramer, chairman of the camp committee. Maintenance of the Camp is one of the major civic projects of the Jaycees, Kramer said. The camp provides outdoor activity for three weeks for children of this area who might otherwise be unable to attend a summer camp. Providing this ' opportunity will better the community by lessening juvenile problems and creating better future citizens, Kramer said. The first Jaycee work party, composed' of Jaycees and their wives, will go to the Lake O' Friday. June 24. 1955 Energy might take special note of are now getting ready to Camp Preparation Woods June 25 to repair build- ings and clean the campsite. Work will continue each week end until the camp opens. Other members- of . the Jaycee camp committee are Larry Allen and Charles Jones. Adenauer To Answer Soviet Invitation Bonn, Germany (U.PJ Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer's reply to the Soviet invitation to visit Moscow will be dispatched in the "near future," a Bonn For eign Office spokesman said to day. The spokesman said an answer has been drafted by the Foreign Office but awaits approval by Adenauer and the cabinet Today and By Walter THE SNEAK ATTACK Those who make it their busi ness to read Soviet newspapers and magazines, among them no tably Mr. Harry Schmartz, have been struck by some recent articles written by important military men, all of them em phasizing that with nuclear wea pons the decisive consideration is surprise. This is something new in the Soviet Union. In Washngton it has, of course, long been the accepted assumption, and the two leading strategical doctrines are "founded upon it. The minority school, who be lieves 'in preventive war, say: Let us strike first or we shall be struck down. Those who believe, in the "deterrent" defense, which is in fact the official doc trine, hold that a sneak attack will not be delivered provided the retaliatory striking power of the Strategic Air Force can be protected against the sneak at tack: That the Russians will not destroy, as in Operation Alert, sixty-orie American cities if the next day the United States Stra tegic Air Force will destroy sixty-one Russian cities. But the two schools agree that a sneak attack could be decisive, and that it must either be fore stalled or deterred. The question of the sneak at tack, thanks to Pearl Harbor, is very much in our minds, and in our uninhibited way we discuss publicly and freely its possibil ity, its probability, and what can be done about it. But the Rus sians have ' not until recently talked publicly about surprise attacks. Yet it might fairly be called the crux of the crux of the modern problem of arma ments and security. MR. SCHMARTZ points out that these military articles in the Soviet press have come after the public demonstration in the air over Moscow that the Soviet Union now has inter-continental bombers. He believes, the articles are meant to "re adjust the thinking of Soviet military men" and "to warn the West." That may be. But the So viet Union, being a totalitarian state," it does seem odd that So viet military experts should be indoctrinating Soviet military men PUBLICLY in articles that are mailed to Washington. It is even more odd that the subject of this public - indoctrination should be the importance of sur prising your opponent by not let ting him have warning that you will -attack him. : This is so paradoxical that cannot help wondering whether these articles are not addressed to the . civilian governing class and to' the party hierarchy, as well as to the Col. Blimps of the Red Army. The general purport of the articles is to tell the Rus sians that their ancient security which was based on the vast bases of their country and the enormous masses of their sol- diers has been destroyed by the revolution in the military -art, It is at least plausible that the progressive military men and the civilians who have understood the new warfare feel it neces sary to re-educate the Soviet ruling class and what public there is that has to be taken into account publicly. They may well be trammg their audience to sup port the negotiation of . com promises. TF THIS is the right explana- tion, it would be one more rea son among many others for thinking that the central and de termining reason for the re opening of negotiations between East and West is the over-all stalemate in nuclear armaments. The new weapons are something radically new something al together without precedent in the military situation of the world, and they have 'now be gun to revolutionize also the political relations of states. From the point of view of high policy we are now in the third phase of this epochal military revolution. In the first phase the U.S. A. had a monopoly of the weapons. In the second phase the U.S.SJI. broke the monop oly. In this third phase, which is not technical but psychological, the governing classes of the world have gradually realized that the military revolution has revolutionized also the relations of the powers with one another. Thus, there are now only two great military powers, and un less the one could disarm the other in the first assault which is a technical improbability war between them would be devastation and massacre with out prospect of victory. All the other powers including big powers like Great Britain and Germany and Red China are by the very fact of their own helplessness in nuclear warfare compelled to make the avoid ance of war the ultimate rule of their policy. As a result, the two great military powers : must J under penalty of alienating their allies and the uncommitted-na tions, show and keep on showing that they are seeking an accommodation. IlfHETHER or not it was the " President's deliberate in tention in authorizing Operation Alert at this time, the over-all psychological effect is to destroy all serious opposition to the coming negotiations. The exer Tomorrow Lippmann cise demonstrated not only that there is now no passive defense in the form or shelter and evac uation, but that for all practical purposes there can never be such a defense. It is conceivable that the inhabitants of sixty-one cities could go camping in the country for a few days in June. But the human mind boggles at what they would do for shelter in January, and at any time for water, food , fuel, and sewage disposal during the weeks and weeks on end while the cities were being decontaminated. The lesson of Operation Alert is that when an attack on this scale becomes feasible, which it isn't now, the only course is to see to it that it never takes place. To this end the exercise which should be repeated again and again is the protection against sneak attacks of the bases and facilities of the Stra tegic Air Force. Insofar as they are secure, there exists the most effective defense that it is pos sible to provide. rpHE new public emphasis on the surprise attack in the So viet press opens up interesting possibilities for the coming talks about the regulation of arma ments. For if along with the rest of - us the Russians are now worrying about surprise, : we might all put our minds on de vising arrangements which would in effect make surprise on a massive scale a technical impossibility. Maybe it is less important than we have supposed to in spect the stockpile, the force levels, and the manufacturing facilities, and more important to be able to detect any important redeployment and mobilization of the big bombers. It may be that what we should try for is an international early warning system at the bases from which a surprise attack would have to be launched. I do not pretend to know whether that is technically pos sible, or whether it would be politically acceptable both in the U.S.S.R. and in the U.S.A. But there is no doubt that if the sneak attack could be ruled out effectively, the greatest of all the forces of tension would be eliminated. Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Commy niicatiiioir.s Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of. the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen, name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation, tetters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. " . .. . - Medford Called Unchristian To the Editor: I feel con strained to submit a little known fact. Medford, in its avarice to annex, does not tell of the de vious methods used to influence people to vote for annexation, such as refusing to permit the Griffin Creek area to be an nexed to the Kings Highway Water District, thereby forcing them, if they want Medford wat er,' to become a part of the city of Medford. ' Morally the water that Med ford controls, belongs to aU the Deonle of the valley. Medford cannot possibly use aU the wat er itself. Why be selfish ana use it as a big stick? Is this the Christian way? However there is an abundance of clean, pure water under this area and a well and pumping system could be in stalled and the people couia re tain their indenendence. It could be a monument to Med- ford's refusal of water. As for sanitary sewers, Mr. A. D. Harvey, Medford engineer, recommends a Metropolitan aan itary District. Sen Philip Lowry and Ren. Al Littrell have been instrumental in the passage oi a bill authorizing such a district and their opinions should be re- srjected. Why not wait unui Aumist 3. when the bill becomes law? It is a good sound plan and why should their efforts go ior nothing? By waiting, those who wish for sanitary sewers can move to organize a district. It seems we are being given the rush act. Jerold W. Swanson 798 Garfield St Suspicions are Aroused To the Editor: Meaiorcrs coming attempt to annex certain areas to her south giver rise to speculation. One wonders: u a certain leading and wealthy fruit pack ing firm could wield any in fluence with city planners and thus remain with the bulk of its real estate improvements just outside the new city limits. One also wonders: if one were in the grocery business in a big way and competition threatened just outside the present city limits, could one, in one way or another, cause the city limits to encompass the competitor's land and possibly by so doing discourage his investment. Many months ago the first at tempt was made to organize what . is now the South Bear Creek Sanitary District. The law required that the proposed boundaries ' be publicized and, at a court hearing, aU property owners who wished to be de clared out could so state. (Inci dentally, one large property In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Surgery which RESTORES THE POWER OF GROWTH to legs paralyzed by polio was de scribed today by Dr. Joseph M. Janes of the Mayo clinic at Ro chester, Minnesota. He said the surgery involves the connecting of certain arter ies and veins in the paralyzed limbs. He added: "On the basis of our work so far it would ap pear that surgery should be undertaken before the patient has reached 12 years of age, as after that age bone growth is. likely to be too mature." THE WORLD moves and in general it is moving from good to BETTER, despite the cynics who contend that it moves from bad to worse. IN THE city of Portland, the legality of pinball machines is back in the courts again. It got there by way of a. conten tion that a Portland ordinance outlawing the machines doesn't apply to those which are, not coin-operated. When the ordinance became effective a number of pinball operators plugged the coin slots and took their case to ' court. They got a temporary restrain ing order that prohibits police from seizing machines' that are not operated by coins. The point will be argued at a hearing that opens this after noon. I'D SAY the big question in volved is this: Can you GAMBLE on 'em, or can't you? As . a strictly lay opinion, if you can't gamble on 'em they aren't illegal. I think perhaps we'd better add that if you can't gamble on them nobody will play the things and the issue will settle itself. pROM WASHINGTON: Army Secretary Robert Ste vens has resigned. President Ei senhower has nominated the general counsel of the defense department, Wilbur Brucker, to succeed him. Brucker is a former governor of Michigan, and has been gen eral counsel at the Pentagon since April, 1954. I SUPPOSE that's hot political news and will get a big play in the headlines. The thing that makes politicians tick and the political machine run is WHO GETS WHAT JOB AND WHY. I'll have to confess I'm not owner just south of Medford stopped sanitary progress for a time by conducting a virtual one-man campaign against the improvement. The big reason his land is now to be taken into the city is because the very movement he fought against, be cause of a few paltry dollars, is so far behind its one-time sched ule!) If a hearing was legal and just in the above instance why not extend the privilege to the proposed annex-ees? I do not live in the area to be annexed but I am in a water district and a sewer district, parts of which the City of Med ford wants to claim and at the expense of all of us in the two districts. , G.L. Witte 2914 S. Pacific Hwy. Contract Extended For Sewer Project The city has given W. C. Con rad, contractor, a six-day exten sion on the sewage contract awarded him on May 1, accord ing to Robert Duff, city manager. The contract covers Medford's Eastwood and Capitol Hill sub divisions. The project is behind schedule due to difficult excava tion through a rock formation, Duff said, and because of the closeness of homes next to the proposed sewage line. Studies toward providing sew er facilities to the Verde Hills subdivisions are nearing com pletion, and a report will be made to the city council in the near future, Duff added. The study is the result of a petition presented to the city council recently by residents of the area. to 2 31 I MUTTON I ROAST I WL News much interested in that phase of politics other than in getting good men to run our govern ment If we can get good enough men to run our government, the future will be bright enough to satisfy all of us. - . SIGNIFICANT NEWS: General Motors President Harlow Curtice announces this morning that GM is undertaking a new expansion program call ing for-capital expenditures of a HALF BILLION dollars. The new program, he said, will be substantially completed by the end of next year. He added: "This program is a measure of our company's faith in the country and its future. It will enable us. to make a full con tribution to a strong and ex panding national economy." yjONEY;YOU know, TALKS. . It's easy enough to get up be fore a microphone and allow that IF OUR CROWD IS RE TURNED TO OFFICE every thing will be lovely and the goose will hang high, but 'tis something else again to back one's faith in the future with plenty of hard-earned cash. In the long run, those who back their faith in the future of our country with cash will be better for all. of us than those who back their faith in the fu ture with words alone. Two Hew Officials Appointed at Phoenix Phoenix A councilman and treasurer last night were ap pointed to fill office vacancies at a special council meeting held in , the city hall, according to Dan Adams, mayor. Henry Jensen was appointed councilman to succeed Leo Bolls, and Frances Stevenson was ap pointed treasurer to finish out the term of Ron Robbing. The council seat left vacant by Al Sorenson will be filled during the regular meeting next month, Adams said. CATFISH DERBY THANK Y(U Medford 20-30 Club expresses appreciation to the following Business Firms and Individuals for their con tribution in making the 19th Annual National Catfish Derby such a successful event Acme Hardware.'. 'Mr. Amacker " ... Anderson's Thrift Market Anticipation Shoo Barker's Bateman's Restaurant Morris Boughner Brill Metal Works Brinkley and Roberts Bruce Bauer Lumber Co. Ernie Brooks Buster Brown Shoe Store Mrs. L. C Butterfield Chapman Jewelers Copeland Lumber Co. Crater Lake Motors Daily Courier Frank De Sousa Feldman k Olson Electric Gardner's Shoe Repair Ginn's Flowers Grandview Market Hadley's Hall's Sporting Goods Hillis Refrigeration Co. Home Appliance Co. Colleen Hope Hubbard Bros. Hardware Hudson's Drug Store Johnston Jr. Stewart Franklin Jones KBES-TV KBOY K. F. Herald St News . KMED Al Krause Union Oil Dealer KWIN KYJC Lake 0Woeds Resort Lamport's Sporting Goods Landis-Shangle . Lawrence's Jewelers Leaver Motors Leonard Electric Co. Glenn Linn Mann's Marshall Wells Store EAST -SIXTH ; ST, BEEF FRESH SIDE-FSHLI Five Airmen Die In Two Crashes; Inquiries Slated San Antonio, Tex. (U.R) Air Force officials today investigated two separate Randolph Air Force Base crashes which killed five airmen and critically injured two others yesterday. - A B29 smashed up and burned on takeoff, killing four and in juring two others. The Air Fores identified the dead as: Capt. James S. Crawford Jr., 32, New York City. T-Sgt- Charles M. Hawthorne, 30, instructor-engineer, husband of Mrs. Jean M. Hawthorne of Randolph and son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hawthorne, 539 I Streets, Chula Vista, Calif. Lt. Col. Willie G. Woods Jr., 34, Fort Worth. Second Lt. Bobbie Gene Wykert, 22, Troy, Kan. The injured men, both airmen second class, were identified as Thomas A. Scholleri of Chicago and Robert F. Philipskl of De troit. A second plane, a B57 twin jet bomber from Randolph, crashed and burned 16 miles north of San Antonio. Capt. William P. Brown, 32, of Springfield, HI., the student pilot, was killed. NOW IS THE TIME to start building an insured savings account with us. You will find h pleasant and profitable to Invest here. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicatee' To Those Who Save " McLain's Drug Centre Medford Auto Uoholstery Medford Domestic Laundry Medford Hotel Richfield Serv. Medford Mail Tribune Metronomes - Modern Plbg. St Sheet Metal . Musician's Union - Music Mart Nu-Way Cleaners Downtown O.K. Rubber Weld Orchard Home Builders Sup. Oregonian Oregon Journal Purucker's Piano House Patty Cake Bakery Perl Funeral Home J. C. Penney and Co. Jim Pierce St Orchestra Porter Lumber Co. Eve Prentice Accordion Ted Reaves Mrs. A. E. Reed Richfield Truck fc Auto Serv. Robinson Bros. Rogue Sporting Goods Sam's Sporting Goods F. E. Samson It Co. Saylor's Barber Shop Schade's Jewelry Store. Richard Schuchard Severson's Candies Sim's Cycle Sc Hobby Shop ,: Siskiyou Hardware Standard Oil Co. Swem's Gift Shop Swem's Record Shop H. B. Shaw The Times Toggery Top Notch Cafe Toy House Trowbridge St Flynn Union Club Barber Shop Dr. R. J. Urie, Oct. , Wainscort'a - F. W. Woolworth Walt Young's Stationery 'lb. VEAL