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INC. , Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San rrandseo. Loa Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. muia. Auanw. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL- EOlTOtlAl lAtgt5-5 . - rusutHitf 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 July 11. 194S (It was Wednesday) Robert Rucker installed as president of Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Reports from the hills and lakes state the mosquitoes are as big as pan thers, and four times as hungry. tO YEARS AGO - jir li. ins at was Thursday) Harvesting Bartlett pear crop in , Rogue valley to start about Aug. 19, a month later than last year. Temperature reaches 80 In Medford; monthly average be low normal with unusually cold weather for this late In summer. 0 YEARS AGO July 11. 1925 (It was Saturday) - Dayton, Tenn., July 11 (AP) Prosecution counsel in the " Scopes case hold that admission f expert testimony of scientists and theologians would convert the trial of the Dayton biology instructor into a joint debate on ' science and religion. Stephen A. Mather, director of National Park service, outlines enlargement program for Crater Lake National Park Including paving of roads. 40 YEARS AGO July 11, MIS Qt was Sunday) City council calls hearing on subject Of rebonding Medford for $759,290. - J July folder of Southern Pa cific's Shasta route includes ad vertisement on visiting Crater Lake. .' What's th3 Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cop. 1955, Ufterial tUaaarch Repait 1. The new agreements in the auto industry for guaranteed wages for 26 weeks do or don't require changes in many state un employment pay laws? 2. . Most infants taken for adop tion through the "black market for babies" are illegitimate; right or wrong? 3. Number of movie theatres over 1953, or decreased, or stay ed the same? decreased, or stayed the same? 4. The first President to live in the White House was Wash ington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison or Jackson? 5. More persons of Jewish stock live in the U.S. than in any other single country; right or wrong? 6. Chop suey originated in North China, South China, Hong Kong, Japan, India or the U.S.? 7. A "spritzer," in current slang, is a jallopy, unfaithful wife, heavy bettor, heavy drink er, swindler, or drug addict? The answers: 1. Do. 2. Right. 3. Increased. 4. John Adams. 5. Right. S. The UJ. 7. Swindler. French Legionnaires Desert in Suez Canal Cairo. Eevnt-(U.R) Police re ported today that 64 French For eign Legionnaires deserted ship in the Suez Canal. They were en route to Morocco from Indo china. This was the second such de sertion. Last week 71 Legion naires left a troop ship from St Valery. mail tribune A chorus of editorial voices in Oregon has welled up in the last week, expressing a variety of responses to the news that Davy Crockett was a bum.. This outburst has been motivated by an article in the current Harper's magazine which engaged in the grand old American tradition of debunking folk heroes. X7E can't resist joining the chorus, for, though we " have enjoyed Walt Disney's creation of a hero named D. Crockett, we've had a sneaky hunch all along that that's just what Disney. The overwhelming juvenile response to this syn thetic hero has been a fad, similar to the. Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, and spaceman fads, and will wane, we presume, as quickly. Meantime it has filled the resounding, air with the strains of a catchy tune, has filled the neighborhoods with the sharp crack of plastic "Old Betsy" long rifles, and caused a spate of bad jokes. (One columnist insists fie thought the song said, not "Killed him a bar when he was only three," but, "Killed IN a bar when he was only three." He was sort of wistful when he learned the truth); OERE are significant portions of the Harper's arti cle. Read 'em and weep (or rejoice) : The historic truth is that Davy Crockett was a juvenile delinquent who ran away from home at the age of thirteen, to dodge a well-deserved licking by his father, a country saloon keeper. For three years he bummed around Balti more, scratching a living in various ways he never cared to talk about. At eighteen he went to school for six months while making a pass at a girl who preferred a boy friend ' who could read, but he gave it up as soon as he found that even the ABCs wouldn't get him to first base. (Later he mar ried a less intellectual woman, whom he deserted after she produced a small herd of children). He proved himself according to accepted historical authority :"a poor farmer, indolent and shiftless." He also was an unenthusiastic soldier; during the Creek War he weasled his way out of ' , the army by hiring a substitute to fill out his term of service. Since work was distasteful to Davy, he became, in turn, a backwoods justice of the peace who boasted about his , ignorance of law; an unsuccessful .politician; a hack writer, heavily dependent on some unidentified ghost; and hear ... this, Junior a violinist. Whenever a steady job threatened, he took to the woods.- He never was king of anything except maybe the Tennessee Tall Tales and Bourbon Samplers' Association. When he claimed that he had shot 105 bear in nine months, his fellow tipplers refused to believe a word of it, on the sensible grounds that Davy couldn't count that high ... 11E suspect that these historically-substantiated " heresies will have little effect on the bear-grin-nin' set. and that the Davy Crockett mania will run its course, to be succeeded in due time by some other folk figure, who will then be pressed into service to sell as many cases of breakfast cereal, sleazy cos tumes and plastic toys as did the juvenile delinquent from Tennessee. '. , ' Let us nofcmourn his passing when it occurs, and we may as well welcome, cessor. It's all part of growing up and smart mer chandising. E.A. William Shakespeare, Author A leap from the illiterate frontiersman to the Bard of Avon may be fantastic, but is a pleasant one-7-particularly in view of the festival pf William Shake speare's plays which is only a few weeks off in Ash land. William, too, has been the' subject of debunking which may or may not be true. The Bard, whose leg end goes further into history than does Davy's, is less susceptible to accurate checking. But this does not deter the theory-makers, who have ground out all sorts of plausible explanations that Shakespeare, the man, was just as literarily limited as Davy Crockett, and that credit for his plays in truth belongs to Fran cis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, or somebody, else. - e e e. a CHQULD this worry us? T Not at all. The fact is that Shakespeare is not re nowned for the legends surrounding him, but for the solid works of his (or someone else's) pen. These can be seen, read and savored, and as far as enjoyment goes, it matters not a whit who did the writing. Unless and until the authorship is proven other wise, the plays will go on being read and performed under the name of William Shakespeare. And "The play's the thing." TTHE secret of Shakespeare's appeal is in his essen- tial timelessnsss, with lessons and morals for to day, as well as for yesterday. Could not this speech (from Much Ado About Nothing) be taken as a com mentary on the Davy Crockett-Hopalohg Cassidy fads?: ; , . ; Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed' thief this fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five- and thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharoah's soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime . like god Bel's priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry...? . . ' ' ! .. . .' . : Sometimes it seems a pity that Shakespeare can t sell cereal and toys, too. But then he'd be a fad more virulent than the annual fever at Ashland, and would soon die. We prefer him as he is, taken in small, per iodic doses; not the mammoth portions served up on radio, TV and in the neighborhood play-yards. English Singer Denies Romance With Abf Khan London (U.R) A husky-voiced English songstress denied reports today of a . romance with Aly Khan, ex-husband of actress Rita Hayworth. Tilda Lee, 25, back in London from a Paris singing engagement, admitted Aly insisted she sing "C'est Magnifique" six times at Monday. Julr II. 13S it was a creation ei Walt with resignation, his suc HOUSING PROBLEM Providence, R. I. (UJ9 Al though this cfty is . one of the oldest in the nation, it boasts no 17th century houses. Roger Wil liams settled Providence in 1636. The oldest house in the city the King farm house was built in 1705. - a Paris party. But she said there is "positively no romance." . Matter of BISON IN A HANGAR Washington One of the most significant and curious pieces of intelligence to come out of the Soviet Un ion in a long time concerns the production of the famous Bison airplane. The Bison, or T-37, is the Russian equiv alent of our own intercon tinental jet bomber, the Joseph Also B52. In brief, the Soviets produced the Bison prototype by gathering aU the persons concerned into a single huge hangar at their Ranens- koye base outside Moscow and keeping them there until blue prints had become aircraft. Air engineers, air force officers in charge of the project, scores of electronic and other specialists, many hundreds of mechanics and workmen all these were held together in a kind of labori ous purdah until they had done their job. United States Air Force au thorities somewhat ruefully ac cord full credence to this side light on Soviet production methods. Furthermore, they esti mate that it took only eight months from the approval of the Bison blueprints to the moment when the first Bison rolled out of Ramenskoye's special con struction hangar in July, 1953. After ground-testing, this Bison prototype is believed to have made its first experimental flight in the autumn of 1953. It was flown over Moscow at low altitude (and dismissed by the Pentagon leadership as of no significance) in May, 1954. By then, the Bison had reach ed the stage of in-line produc tion. Flights of ten Bisons at a time were observed over Mos cow this May. The Air Force officially estimates that the So viets are now each month pro ducing from fifteen to twenty of these bombers which can strike from Russian bases, with out refuelling, at the industrial heartland of the United States. a a a r CONTRAST, work on the American intercontinental jet bomber, the B-52, began in 1947. Blueprints were, approved and the first experimental contracts were let to the Boeing company in 1949 the moment crudely comparable with the first really in the Ramenskoye hangar. Con struction proceeded thereafter, with the air staff in the Penta gon, the Air Materiel Command at' Wright Field and the Air Research and Development Com mand which was then in Wash ington, all intervening at fre quent intervals. . - ; Two years later, this majestic but dispersed process produced its grand result. The first proto type, the XB-52, which was used only for , ground-testing, rolled out of the Boeing plant in Seat tle in November, 1951. And nearly three years had passed from the letting of the experi mental contract to the comple tion of the first prototype to take the air, the YB-52, in March, 1952. i The YB-52 was flown that April. Thereafter, two further years elapsed before the B-52 went into line production in August, . 1954. By , May, 1955, when the Soviets showed their ten Bisons over Moscow, the Air Force had approximately 30 B-52s. In sum, planning of the B-52 began eight years, ago and actual construction began six years ago. Planning of the Bison probably began four years ago and actual construction began less than three years ago. The B-52 entered squadron service in June and the Bison entered squadron service this month.' a a NOR is this the only melan cholv contrast that needs careful thinking about. By this spring, our B-52 production had reached the planned peak of ten nlanes tier month. Then the Mos cow overflights aroused public opinion and secretary of, De fense Charles E. Wilson reluc tantly asked for funds to finance an increase of B-52 output. Sec retary Wilson's request will taxe some time to get results. Our B-52 production will rise to 13 planes per month, as against the - estimated Soviet monthly production of 15 to 20 Bisons. In other words, Soviet air craft "lead time" the all-important interval between the nlantinf of the seed and the final harvest of finished aircraft is about half or our ieaa urne in America. Even in the category of aircraft on which aU Ameri can strategy, depends, and even after the American effort nas been intensified under severe nuhlic nressure. the experts think that the Soviets are now out-producing this country by a narrow margin. The arrim efficiency of the rough and ready methods is typi fied by that hangar at Kamens koye, and by our habit of pour in p our resources into ermine- lined Cadillacs while the Soviets concentrate the world s second industrial economy almost fully nn war nrodiiction. These ex plain the fact that the Soviets are now seizing the lead in the air that used to belong to the United States. This both a 3&.jajM' Fact y joPh major scandal and a bleak threat to the survival of the nation, It demands more detailed 'con sideration. (Copyright. 1953, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) BySbfev&efteV. laiam Hamallat With all today's talk about rockets, space ships and super- jets, isn't it about time to check up on the worlds beyond us? So here goes for a short quiz on our solar system. Get 80 per cent and you're ready for sky rocketing; if 60, you'd better dust off some outer space lit erature; if less than 40, brother, you'd better stay at home. 1. What star is nearest our earth? 2. When you arrive at the moon, will there be earthlight as we have moonlight here? 3. Which planet has the hot- 741-55 test temperature? 4. When does the earth come nearest the sun? 5. Where was atomic energy used long before World War II? Answers: 1. Our sun is the nearest star, by far. The next one is some 25 trillion miles away. As for size, it's around average although there are many stars thousands of times larger and thousands of times brighter. - 2. Yes, there is earthlight on the moon. The sun's light, strik ing the earth and its atmosphere is reflected back into space and part of this reflection hits the moon. You can proye this when you look at a brand new moon besides the bright crescent the rest of the moon can be seen dimly. That dim part is caused by earthlight. '3. Mercury. The temperature of the side which faces the sun is about 700 degrees fahrenheit, 4. ' Surprisingly enough, in January. Early - in this month the earth is about 3,000,000 miles closer to the sun than in July. As for our seasons,, these are not. due too much to the nearness to the sun but rather to the tilt of -the earth on its axis..-" 5. Man wasn't first to discov er atomic energy the sun has been using it right along and we have been benefiting by it. The sun's radiation is the result of the conversion of hydrogen atoms to helium atoms. Needless to say, the amounts of energy released are incredible. (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 true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world - famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft 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 SO care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Stranded Ship Freed By Tugs Astoria (U.R) The freighter Santa Adela, aground since last Thursday in the Youngs Bay mud flats, was pulled free yes terday through the combined ef forts of three tugs and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Yacor-a. The grain-laden vessel was free at 2:43 p.m., and proceeded to dock at Astoria for a damage estimate. If no damage has been done she will continue en route to Central and South American ports. Otherwise she will put back to Portland for repairs. The ship had been wedged in the mud near the mouth of the Columbia river, since she tried to put to sea from Astoria Thurs day. Bunker oil and water were re moved to lighten the ship but she resisted all attempts by the tug Salvage Chief to pall her free until Saturday when she moved slightly and developed a 15 degree starboard list Finally, by a method of scour ing the channel with propellor wash and then pulling with the tugs, the vessel came free. Sev eral hundred spectators had ga thered on the shore to watch the operations. The first Cliff House at San Francisco was erected in 1858. i President Moves Far in Decision To Meet With Soviets a? Geneva By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower has moved far in three months from faint hope to cautious con fidence that s o m ething solid will come of next week's Geneva meet ing at the summit. As recenUy as mid-spring, Mr. Eisenhow er opposed the Lyle C. Wilson meeting. Then Prime Minister Winston Chur chill was pressing for it again with a British general election coming up. The only crackling issue British Socialists could raise against Churchill's Con servatives was a demand that the Big. Four heads of state meet quickly in search of peace. The French . government was under like popular pressure for a spectacular international ef- - I 1 4 -: 3 At? Vicf PAINED EXPRESSION on face of Stanley Reith, 10, is due to concern for 2-week-old fawn as Dr. J. D. Cozzens sets frac tured leg at Big Bear, Cal. Fawn was found by roadside. Per mission was given Stanley to keep it until September when game warden says it must be turned loose. (International) As We Live Don't Make Hasty Decision ; About Marital Breakup -Hasty decisions are usually re gretted as time passes. When the decision affects the happiness of a number of people, it should be made only after careful consid eration of the problem from every possible angle. That is the advice I am giving the wan who wrote: (Q) "My wife and I have been having trouble for the past few years. I think she is overworked because we have two young children and that keeps her tied down to the home. She is fretful and cross when I come home from work and I . Dr. H lock guess , I have gotten pretty sore at her many times because of her martyr at titude. The other night,, when I came home from work, I found the house empty and a note say ing she had taken the children to her mother's home and had no intention of returning. She sug gested that I seu the home and furniture so I could give her money to live on at her mother's. I have worked hard to buy this home and furniture.' but I can't afford to send her money and MM Officials, Union Reach Understanding Portland "(U.R) M and M Plywood company officials said yesterday an understanding had been reached with union repre sentatives -- whereby ' operations would resume at the company's five plants "while strike issues were being settled. Mediator LeRoy Smith, who called the meeting in an '"mpt to settle the 10-day-old strike, said the agreement provided that "the company will operate its plywood plants on - identical terms and working conditions as existed as of June 30, 1955, and that negotiations on disput ed issues continue for the next 30 days." Although union locals must still ratify the accord, it appar ently paves the way for reopen ing of plants at Portland, Al bany, Lyons and Idanha, Ore., and Eureka, Calif. Some 1500 company em ployees struck 'July-1 after M and M refused to renew an old contract without certain modi fications. The baby hippopotamus weighs about 100 pounds - at birth ' and can swim ' before it can walk. . , i ..... l2NJ3CaBsteiHsi fort to ease Western Europe's dread of atomic war. Former President Truman got his fill of summit conferences at Potsdam as the war in the West ended in 1945, Thereafter he cheerfully offered to meet the late Josef Stalin anytime the Cpmmunist boss would come to Washington. Mr. Eisenhower was less severe. , Wanted Deeds. Not Words He always said he was willing to go anywhere anytime in search of peace. But in March and early April, the President thought the time had not come. He wanted deeds, not words, in proof of Russian good faith. Oh March, 23, in response to Chur chill's urgings, the . President said there was no more than "faint hope" that something val uable would come of a meeting with the new men in charge of the Kremlin. - At the most, Mr. Eisenhower was thinking then .in terms of a meeting of foreign ministers which might lead in time to the meeting of the heads of state which - Churchill so much, de- By ELIZABETH HURLOCK, PH.D. live here too; Do - you think I should wait , and' see if she changes her mind or should I go ahead and seU the house as she suggested? She has been talking about leaving for the last year. so I know this is not just a hasty decision on her part Your wife's decision may not be hasty but, after she has had an opportunity to get rested and see matters from a new angle, she may bitterly regret urging you to sell what you and she have worked so hard to build up. . . The chances are that you could not get what you put into the house or the furniture. Then, if your wife changed her mind later, it would mean starting out from scratch and paying more than you received for the pres ent house and furniture. -: Wait for a reasonable time, six months or a year; before sell ing. In the meantime, you might be able to rent the house fur nished to someone and this would enable you to send money to your ; wife without cutting you too short. You will find it expensive to live apart, even for a short time, and you; may not be able to do this on your salary alone. If, after a year, your wife does not change , her mind, that will be plenty of time to decide to sell and divide what you get with her.' '- - : (COPYRIGHT IMS, GENERAL FEATURES CORP.) FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Since 190G Mortuary Phone 2-6675 PERL sired. ' The British in mid-April called their election for May . 26. " By May 10, Mr. Eisenhower had been convinced, and the British-American-French . invite tion went forward to Moscow proposing a Big Four meeting at the summit. There has been a growing sentiment throughout the world that some good might come from such a conference,!' Mr. Eisen hower told his news conference the next day. "Such meeting . would probably result in at least some clarification of the air." Faint Praise At Best That was faint praise, at best There is nothing in that lan-, guage to show that the Presi dent agreed with world senti ment, that the Big Four should . now meet On the contrary, Mr. Eisenhower, made it fair to be lieve he agreed to the meeting more to appease Western Euro pean public sentiment than for any other reason. That was especially true of the British public. Announcement of . the Big Four invitation de stroyed any hope the British Socialists may have had of turn ing the Conservatives out The . President would not weep if his legitimate policy decisions helped his old friend. Sir Win ston Churchill, and tripped up a political party committed, ttv - Socialism, an "ism" for which Mr, Eisenhower does not care. That's how the United States got into the act. The situation has changed. Mr. Eisenhower is optimistic. Now he says "there obviously- has been some change" in the Kremlin's atti tude which could "have a fine effect on the entire situation." Chances Are Better Recentlv he said: "I nersonal. ly believe from what I learned in San Francisco, (at the United Nations anniversary) and through my talks, that the chances were better than- I thought they were three months ago." That is a long way from the -faint hope" of last March. Not all of the State Department ex perts go. along with the Presi dent Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seemed to be mors hopeful than the President was last March, and now to see a somewhat less rosy situation than the . one visioned by his boss. The President and his party take off next Friday for Geneva to learn the hard and only way -what the intentions of the Soviet Union . really are Perhaps 1 in the back of the President's mind is - the awesome thought that here lies a chance to rise even higher than in his wartime cru sade in Europe. If U. S. Sent Yon GEO. N. TAYLOR - If you went to England as our ambassador, you would carry a letter to give you standing with their govern ment Just so, when Christ came to this world. He jnuit bive proof that He for God. His miracles . were proof as when He turned the water into wine at the marriage in This beginning Cana of Galilee, of miracles did jesus ana his disciples believe that He had a message from God. Jesus was right in giving inese miracles as signs 'For , the Jews require a sign." 1st Corin thians 1:22. So for three years Jesus gave ' them miracles signs. And they believed that He had a message from God. It was a message of love and back ed Dy aeeas oi love, uaa cnanges not Todav receive Christ as the Lord and Saviour who died for your sins and God gives you eternal life. Then by Bible and prayer go ahead. This message sponsored by a Scappoose dairy man and family. - - adv. PERL'S every family ; may , make funeral w ; rangements which , arc In keeping with its means. A selection of services In very pries rang Is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to mott all financial circumstances.' Convenient Terms? - - Certainty; Raw
