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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordwTrib UNI "Everybody in Southern Oregon Beads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except - Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO. Xl-M North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 D flDrDT wr UTTXTT. ViHrsr - " r until, nuvciuauiii n f B-ranTramz Manasins Editor SIC ALLEN JB City Editor issv rmPMAN Tsloffranh Editor Kit HAH L jfcwe.il aporu vajiur OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor ' GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Indaiiendent Newspaper Entered aa second elasa matter at Medford. - Oregon, under , Act or Subscription rates By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Lmuy ana aunaay nw i-i Ashland. Central Pomt. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold HUL Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: vauy ana sunw , 5 Daily and Sunday One month l- tamer ana umii-mv . All Terma t-asn in fmv.p Official Paper of the City of Mediord " United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU umciaj raptr oi '-"JU ' Advertising nepreenwiuvc. WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in new ion. uuuwv. . V I n. Annus Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.- NATIONAL EDITORIAL ZMCT ASSpcfATlloN rr NIWSPAPII USllfHItS ''ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 8, 1945 (It was Sunday) Establishment of plant to freeze and dehydrate fruit, vege tables a'nd berries in Rogue Val ley almost assured, Chamber of Commerce officials say. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudget Pot column: There will be an eclipse of the sun at 5:28 ajn. tomorrow. 'Outside of farm ers who have turned in a half day's work by that time, few will see the event, if not too busy to look towards the east. SO YEARS AGO July 8. 1935 (It was Monday), ;, , . Portland fire chief demon strates first aid car used there to Medford city council. . Eagle Point files application for $16,000 PWA loan to con struct water system. SO YEARS AGO . July 8. 1925 (It was Wednesday) Gold Hill News publishes final edition and Editor Howard E. Wharton retires because of health. Placards on telephone poles, stickers on automobiles, and questions scattered throughout newspapers in Medford ask: Do You Love Your Wife? 40 YEARS AGO July 8. 1915 (It was Thursday) Blue Ledge mine owners may use trucks for shipping ore, ac cording to superintendent - who recently returned from east. Repairs being made to f ishway at Ament dam to provide large flow during low water period. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1 955, Editorial Research Report 1. Which spent most on news paper advertising last year: Ford, General Foods, National Distill- . ers. General Motors, American Tobacco Co.? . " ' 2. U.N., its agencies and pro grams cost the U.S. about 15c, 55c, $1.50, or S5 a year for each American? 3. More or less than half of all auto thefts are committed by youngsters under 18? 4. An ancester of British Min ister Eden was once royal gov ernor of which U.S. state? 5. Is the Atlantic or the Pa cific entrance to the Panama farther west? . 6. No state has elected mem bers to the Electoral College of Congressional Districts in the last 100 years; right or wrong? 7. About one-third, one-half or two-thirds of the total U.S. orange crop goes into frozen orange juice? The Answers: 1. General Mo tors. 2. About 55c. 3. More than half. 4. Maryland. 5. Atlantic entrance. 6. Wrong; Michigan did it in 1892. 7. About one-half. COMMUNIST VICTORY SEEN Tokyo (U.E) ''Communist Viet Minn Leader Ho Chi Minn predicted Thursday night, that , Communism would Twin com plete victory 'over all of Indo china with the aid of Soviet Rus sia and Red China. The Red .leader, now visiting Communist China, spoke to the Chinese peo ple on a special radio broadcast which was reported by Peiping Radio. Z? MAIL TRIBUNE Maps Maps are fascinating. On the wall of the office there are maps of Ore gon and Washington, a large one of Jackson county, another large one ' of Medford, and another of the area surrounding Medford. Tucked away in the closet are a half-dozen others, which are hidden, only because of the lack of wall space. ' . ' CINCE this is the beginning of the tourist seosan, the most frequently consulted maps are the use ful, simplified ones put out by the major oil com panies. We know several families which can spend a pleasant evening doing nothing but poring over these handy maps plotting alternative routes, spot ting places they want particularly to see, measuring distances, and so on. One oil company recently brought out a mag nificent map of Hawaii, which shows the islands in colorful contrast to the surrounding ocean. The mountains, the forests, the rivers are shown in pic torial form, and it's enough to give the stogiest stay-at-home a severe case of wander lust. THERE are a zillion or so kinds of maps, and half- again as many uses for them. A quick check with the encyclopedia shows a list of nine kinds of "projections," or ways of view ing a territory for mapping purposes. The most com- .1 1 1 H ST I 1 1 1 mon is tne standard mercator projection, wmcn shows the earth flattened and squared out, with the lines of longitude parallel. This is' the one which shows Greenland as a huge blob near the top of the Atlantic almost as big as the rest of North America. Other projections, each cific purpose or approach, gnomonic, homolographic, dal and interrupted homolosme. - ? These many projections, for different uses, are needed because the world is round and not easily reproduced with entire accuracy on a flat map. THE first maps were believed made by the Egyp fiona oontnn'oc! Kofrtro trio Vnrh ttf flhrisr TVlPV apparently were used to mines. TTip Greeks later used first that had any pretense to accuracy on any large scale, showing the coastline of the Aegean sea. The Egyptian geographer Ptolemy drew a number nf mans which later exDerts have called "remarkable" for their portrayal of the then-known world. The Romans were great map-makers, and theirs were used for both engineering and military purposes. Maps under the Romans were "military secrets," and penalties were prescribed ror tnose possessing mem without proper authorization. MAP-MAKING entered its modern phase with the geographical school of the Portuguese Prince Henrv the Navigator, although during the Middle Ao-es bnth Europeans and know which way was east for their daily prayers to ward Mecca) were also fairly expert at the skill. ' . a, ja - 1 3 Cartography, today s science or maKing maps ana charts, is a precise and exact art, which is steadily developing. , OVER tiie years conventions have grown up using svmrtnls as representations of various natural and man-made features oi the landscape. Many of these appear on the familiar highway maps, but oth ers are fairly specialized. No man is nerfect make this impossible. But the world in wnich we live, attraction and fascination. In The Day's ; By FRANK JENKINS Today's hardest hard luck story: . The city of Atlanta, which ad vertises itself as the peach cap ital of the world, is peachless this summer, and in order to sat isfy the tourists who demand "those matchless Georgia peach es" for breakfast it is having to import peaches from California. A refrigerated truck, loaded to the eyebrows with them, left Fresno county the other day, des tination Atlanta. A spokesman for the packer that is supplying the fruit declines to give out figures but adds with a trace of smugness that the price is the highest ever paid for peaches from the Fresno area. rr'S ANOTHER example of the working out of the proverb: "What s one man s meat is an other man's poison." WHAT happened to the Georgia " peach crop? It's another casualty of this freak weather year. It was wiped out, along with the peach crop of the entire South, by a bad freeze at the wrong time. ON THE Fourth of July which is an odd date for a Commu nist big shot to be speaking up on such a subject Nikita Khrus chev made a crack in Moscow to the effect that nothing good can come froir the Geneva con ference unless the West treats the Soviet Union "as an equal." What's the matter? ' Is Khruschev suffering from an inferiority complex? PRESIDENT Eisenhower comes right back at Khruschev. He tells his press conference, in Washington that the United States will negotiate in good Friday, July 8. 1955 designed for some spe are Lambert's conformal, conic, polyconic, sinusoi show the location of gold mans, and these were the Moslems (who needed to . The technical difficulties as a tiny representation of eacn nas lis own special E.A. News faith at the Big Four conference in Geneva this summer, "and the Russians can be sure of it." . He adds that no member of the U. S. government has ever said that the Russians will be negotiating from weakness at the Geneva parley. " TF WE could be as sure of good faith on the part of the Rus sians at Geneva this summer as the Russians can be of good faith on our part, it would be possible to wind up all the cold war trou bles and set the world's feet on the path that leads to peace. THERE is bad trouble up at Walla Walla, where armed convicts have revolted and were in virtual control of the Wash ington state penitentiary and its 1784 prisoners. I don't know what the real root of the trouble is, but I can't help believing that if the inmates of the prison had been kept CON STRUCTIVELY BUSY in the past the revolt wouldn't have happened. WHAT is "const r ulc t i v e 1 y" " busy? , It's doing REAL work, not "made" work. Everybody rebels instinctively at being compelled to do work that isn't getting any body anywhere. As long as we keep convicts herded together .in what amounts to idleness in our prisons we'll have prison troubles. , PROPOSE EUROPE COUNCIL Strasbourg, France (U.R) The Council of Europe proposed Thursday that a joint session of the European parliament be held with delegations from the U.S. Congressmen met in Strasbourg with the European parliament in 1951. r ' - - Good Atmosphere for Geneva Conference Tops News b. PHABI.PS M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on -the ..international., balance sheet: ' ' THE GOOD A. A dent Eisenhower and Russia's - S! '-.A J Nikita S. Krushchev inaicaveu tnai ine xs Four "summit" conference will start in Geneva July 18 in a good atmos phere, what ever may hap pen later. Speaking at a 3press confer ence in Wash- ington, the charies Mccano ...President said the United States will go to Gen eva "to present our case in a con ciliatory, friendly, attitude." Krushchev, who as head of the Russian Communist Party is gen erally regarded as the Kremlin's head man, spoke in a similar vein. He and other Soviet lead ers caused a sensation by at tending a July 4 reception at the American embassy in Moscow. "We are going to Geneva ... to meet worthy partners," Krus chev said to American Charge d' Affaires Walter N. Walmsley Jr. " . . . If we talk on an equal basis . . . and if you talk to us honestly and sincerely as equal to equal, something will come of it." 2. Antonio Segni ended a two- week Italian political crisis by forming a new coalition cabinet led by his Christian Democratic Party. He retained Gaetano Mar tino as foreign minister. This strengthened belief that Italv will continue its pro-Western policy and resist "neutralist" lures. Martino rejects any idea of Italian neutrality. 3. Industrial peace came to Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain , circum stances the. use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis lible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letter submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Appreciate What We Have To the Editor: The most un predictable, versatile oddest act ing creature on earth in my esti mation, is man himself. A year or so back, the opening day-at Fish Lake found the road there under reconstruction, which should have been generally known. But the Hegira was on just the same, in old cars and brand new shiny ones that were forced over rock and depression, mud and whatnot, many , of the drivers hurling invective at the graderman plugging along at his road-building. All this for a few little old fish, or none at all. Early this spring, we strayed up Long Branch road, beautiful in its smooth winding length into the greening hills. Built of on-the-spot material, a Jackson county official told of the diffi culty in its building late fall, mud and freezing weather. And the belly-aching, some of it brought to county headquarters, of how the whole blankety blank road7 was being everlastingly ruined. But no reports are com ing in now to county dads of its near approach to a paved road way. All of which proves pretty well why we should appreciate what we've got. Credit both county and state for the good roads we have, despite the pounding they get from heavily- loaded logging trucks for which the early, roads were never in tended. It is beyond belief the distances they are hauling logs, up long adverse grades where at the top they stop to rest weary legs, kick the tires .before the long braking drive down the mountain to the welcome log dump. One thing is rare, where there's a want, be it logs, TV, rocket travel into space or what have you, unpredictable man wUl supply it. -: " F. J. Clifford, " 1211 W. Main. Old Pictures To the Editor: This is an open letter to the Chamber of Com merce and local photographers. Yesterday I was in the Med ford hotel and by the cashier's counter I noticed some what I thought were new aerial photo graphs of Medford. Imagine my surprise when on looking at the photos more closely, I discover ed them to be almost antiques. The original films for these prints couldn't be a day under 20 years. In the photographs were such old landmarks as the Railroad bldg. at Main and Front, a large home on West Sixth, between Fir and Grape, and many -more. Another view showed the old school at Fifth and Bartlett, empty - fields around Lincoln school and on North, Riverside and Hawthorne park a farm. Surely Medford can get more up-to-date pictures to advertise itself.; To top this all off the postcards were printed in San Jose, Calif.- . (Name on File) (I of Week Great Britain when the last of 19,500 striking dock workers re turned to their jobs. Their six week strike tied up shipping in seven ports. Prime Minister An thony Eden told the House of Commons that the dock strike, the recent railroad strike and a coal mine strike cost 2,000,000 working days. THE BAD 1. Chile, one of the key coun tries of Latin America, faced an increasingly serious labor crisis. First 42,000 employees of the government . owned - railroads, postal and telegraph services struck. Then the labor , unions staged a 24-hour general strike which lasted throughout the country yesterday. The govern ment concentrated 15,000 troops and marines in Santiago, the capital, in precaution against riots. 2. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was compelled by parliamentary opposition to slow up his rearmament legisla tion. Members of aU parties had complained that he was trying to keep too much power in his own hands. As the result Ade nauer had to agree to rewrite a bill to authorize recruiting of volunteers who will be the first men in tne new defense forces. 3. Premier Ngo Dinh Diem of the state of Southern Viet Nam in Indochina continued to get the better of the fighting against the rebels of the Hoa Hao sect in a small scale civil war. But there was no sign that stability would come to Viet Nam. Bicker ing continued among political factions. It. was reported also that Communist rebels were active in Laos, another ofrthe three states of Indochina Here's a' helping of natural bloopers. Some I received irom teacher-readers, others I picked up while a ranger in the national parks. If you like them, we u pome hack with others. ' Ranger, at what time in the morning do you turn on the fails in the Grand Canyon (of the Yellowstone)? . Te it true, ran eer. that a virgin forest is a forest in which the hand of man has never set foot? When an ostrich sticks his head in the sand is that when he's ostricized? Define adult It's a man who has stopped growing at both ends but not in the middle. An octopus always hopes for the best. A ruminant chews its own cub. What are the four seasons? Salt, pepper, mustard and vine gar. What is anatomy? The study of heavenly bodies. An eavesdropper is a kind of a swallow. From where do we get caviar? From the eggs of a surgeon. A blizzard grows inside a chicken. ' What is unusual about the cowbird? It does not lay its own eggs it depends on others. Use whelp in a sentence. The dog came bounding down' the path emitting whelps at every bound. A sure-footed animal like a mule, when it kicks', doesn't miss. What is a quadruped? It is an animal with legs at the four cor ners. - Will milk turn sour when it is kept inside the cow? What is a skeleton? It is an animal with his outside off and his inside out. A goblet is a small male tur key. , What is an artichoke? It is an instrument of torture for the middle aged. What is an octogenarian? An animal that has- eight young at birth. '."-;; . What is a pedagogue? A large eared animaL Name the three kinds of blood vessels. Arteries, veins and cater pillars. - . What is the process of turning steam back into water? Conver sation... . , .-. - . (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana my panel of the reader who sends me the best judges will award each week to true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature' and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- tf-n"1i.a.ssr'-- - t,i it I ByChak&At Babson .. Handicapped By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Since return ing from my winter in Florida, I have . often been asked how I used my time while there. Unfortu nately, I do not play golf or in door games, in cluding cards. My exercise consists of Xetar W. Babsaa walk ing and working in my garden. I, how ever, have made a practice of selecting some one subject to study each winter as a sort of post-graduate course. . It has been interesting and helpful to myself and others. As heretofore indicated, I have been studying this past winter the problem of the physically handicapped, but not the prob lem of the mentally retarded. This latter is, in a class by it self. Only trained psychologists, therapists, and others engaged in mental rehabilitation should attempt to help with this mental problem. My studies have been devoted to those physically han dicapped through faulty birth, accidents, war, polio, and other diseases, but who have good brains and the ability to rise to the top in almost any business or profession. I once assumed that being physically handicapped often re tarded memory or judgment; but scientists, psychologists, and the medical profession tell me that I am wrong in this. They insist that those "born with" ambition, persistence, and talent still have them after any accident; while those who apparently lack these qualities before an accident sel dom have them after one. This is true in the case of blindness, which I am discussing . this week. ,: Two Phases of -Blindness Compared There are two kinds of blind ness namely legal blindness and total blindness. A person with legal blindness can see at a distance of only 20 feet what the normal person can see at 200 feet. So-called blind people who you see feeling their way along with a cane, or holding certain jobs with the aid of pow erful eyeglasses, are often able to see somewhat, although they are legally blind. I, of course, am interested in these, but I am especially interested in the to tally blind, believing that they may have the best opportuni ties. - When I was in college, most of the totally blind learned Braille that is, reading with their fin gers. Babson Park, with its In stitute and Research plants, is within a few miles of the Per kins Institution, which is one of the best schools for the blind in America. Since the development of the radio, phonograph, and especially the "talking books," fewer, blind people have been interested in learning Braille. Let me say, however, that every blind person should at least be able to use the Braille alphabet and numbering system, in order to be able to keep records of names and telephone numbers and short memos.. This enables one to serve as a secretary, or a sales clerk, or even an execu tive. Much Being Done To Assist Blind . . Much is being dpne by the fed eral government, state govern ments and private organizations toward helping the. blind. Some times I think that a blind person has better prospects than those of us with eyesight, because we do not appreciate our eyesight and use it as we should. .Those who are interested in this sub ject should write the U. S. De partment of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation, Washing ton 25, D.C., for a copy of their pamphlet entitled Opportunities for the Blind. This ; pamphlet lists agencies in each of the 48 states and the territories of the U.S. which specialize in such vo cational rehabilitation. Job op portunities are often available for the blind in the various pro fessions, trades, retail establish ments, factory occupations, and clerical and personal service po craft binding. EACH week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your ; many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SOI co Medford Mail Tribune,- Box 875, Sausallto, Calif. .. . 231 BEEF ROAST ' sitions. Many of these categories I have personally checked this past winter and. find that blind persons are successfully engaged in these different lines of work. In many positions they are doing better work than those who can see. They have more time to listen, meditate, pray, and plan; they are better able to concentrate and arrive quick ly at a correct decision; they, are more creative and offer, their employer more and better ideas, methods, and . processes. These qualifications some of which are distinctly based upon spir itual power are often possessed by the blind to a degree exceed ing those of the normal person. In fact, the future of a blind person who is given proper op portunities can exceed that of a normal person, provided he or she has natural memory, judg ment, and ambition; but this brings me back to the third para graph of this column. Blind peo ple instinctively learn to sacri fice, which is the basis of suc cess. All of Us Should Appreciate Eyes More I sometimes wonder whether. when Jesus ''restored the sicrht of the -blind and made the lame walk." He chancred them nhvsi- catly. or rather aroused In them a spirit to overcome their handi cap, just a wora, in closing, to my readers who have normal eyesight, hearing, and aruwh. with full use of all limbs. This includes 95 per cent of those who read this column. The principal thing I have learned from my winter studies has been the great value and possibilities of these wonderful machines that we all carry in our heads, technically known as our "brains." As I pass through an office or factory or even down the street, I am im pressed with how little realiza tion people have of their oppor tunities and of the possibilities to be deprived from their most powerful and miraculous brain. We wonder about the marvels of the airplane, the radio, tele vision, telephone, and other "great inventions." We become frightened about atomie enercv. automation, cybernetics, and ro- Dots, wmcn some magazines say will revolutionize emnlovment. production, and sales. None of these things ; upon which the great laboratories are working compare with the machine which eacn one of us has in our heads. Therefore, I forecast that there will develOD thousands of Edl sons, Ketterings, Van Dykes and Rembrandts, Longfellows and Tchaikovskys. The present num ber of Inventors, writers,' scien tists, and musicians should in crease. Many of the "blind are now developing such brains. A few of us who can see are at tempting the same, and my ap peal is that all of us should an- preciate pur eyes more. Let us not waste our. eyesight on non sense, but use it constructively. If we do, I believe that he will not only gain in character and satisfaction but will also tfet In. creased promotions far greater than we ever hoped. , ' Non-Agriclilf ural ' Employment Mounts San Francisco (U.R) The number of persons employed in non-agricultural work on the Pa cific Coast during - May was 5,165,000, an increase of nearly 48,000 over April, it was report ed today. . The Department of Labor's Bureau of Statistics said, "heavi er than usual hirings" in the construction and manufacturing industries accounted for the bulk of the increase. ' California's non-farm employ ment total in May was 3,970,600, an increase of 26,000 oyer April; Oregon's total was 460,000, or 11,500 over April; and Washing ton's total was 734,400, which was 10,400 over April. Elliott L Harlow, M. D. ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF HIS OFFICE FOR THE PRACTICE OF DERMATOLOGY MEDICAL CENTER BUILDING SIXTH AND CENTRAL MEDFORD, OREGON BY APPOINTMENT EAST PORK SIXTH . 5T. FRESH SAUSAGE Side-Pork 3' aO.m TESTIFYING before House probers in Los Angeles, William Kimple, undercover policeman, gives long list of card-carrying Communists he compiled during 11 years. - r (International) Ex-Convicts Quizzed In Holdup of Bank Las Vegas (U.R) A New York assistant district attorney questioned two ex-convicts to day to learn if some. $90,000 found in their possession is part of the loot from a Queens., N.Y. bank robbery. Police said Frank McGlynn Jr. was questioning the men to see if they had any connection with the April 6 holdup of the Woodside branch of the Chase National Bank, the largest all cash bank robbery in the na tion's history. An attorney obtained a release last night for one of the ex-convicts after - the pair had been booked on a technical charge of suspicion of robbery for flash ing crisp $100 bills at .this gambling resort. The pair had $87,000 in their pockets. Frank James Ellsworth, 36, was released on a writ of habeas corpus on $1000 bail. : Still in custody was Raymond Philip Wilson, 33. The two ex convicts wanted on robbery charges,' would not tell police where they obtained the money. Northwest Grain Crop Acre Yield Figured : Spokane (U.R) v The 1955 grain crop in the Pacific North west should nroduce acre vields of 24 to 27 bushels, Northern Pa cific Railway officials said to- Wav A report, based on current conditions, said unfavorable weather conditions have brought about early maturing of; winter grains and late spring grain is extremely backward. Wheat yields ran 34 bushels to the acre last year in wasungion. v - The fruit situation in Yakima, Walla Walla- and Lewiston val leys is extremely favorable, the report indicated. Preliminary es timates place pack of canned and frozen peas in the Walla Walla Lewiston area at 40 to 50 per cent below 1954. . - . . . Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday- for Monday, other days 5:30 orerioiai day. TUNE IN t SATURDAY 6:00 PM. KBES-TV Where the Heart lsv FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS A LOAN ASSIt of Medford 27 North Holly Aa latttartio Mkated Te Those Wfco Save MEDFORD 3-5381 SLICED BACON j8 u.
