Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 15, 1955, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextrOUK MEDrORD (OREGOIT) IteDFORBkTRIBUIfl 'Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEOFORD PRINTING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor KERB GREY Advertuinl Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sportt Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second dasa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act Marcn 3. iam SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy JOe. DaUy and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 DaUy and Sunday Three mos SAO Sunday Only-One i,S,rH By Carrier In Advance M Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HiU. Phrux. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ,nn DaUy and Sunday One year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers-Sc per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City Official Paper of Jackson County united Press FuU Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU of mw;uww. Advertising KCPr' . WTEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Office, in New York. Chicago troit. San Frsnciiico Los Anjfelea. Seattle. Portland. St. Louia Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL rz niwspami mmWrnW ruiitsMits ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 15' 1945 at was Sunday) Ashland restaurants to ob serve "butteries' Tuesdays, and "meatless Fridays. ' r.Am Arthur Perrv's Ye Smudge Pot column: Cowmen have started driving meir Det steaks in the original package from the low ranges to the high ranges, where the grass Is green er, the weather cooler, and the fishing better. SO YEARS AGO July 15. 1935 (It was Monday) Rains, breezes cool Rogue Valley; lightning sets 11 fires in mountain areas. Chamber of Commerce mem bers hold meeting to discuss de tails of campaign for member ship which starts Tuesday. 10 YEARS AGO July IS. 1925 at was Wednesday) New York, July 15 More legs and less neck will be on view next fall if the conception of autumn modes for women prevails as revealed at the show ing of the National Garment Re tailers' association. San Francisco Elks and wives returning to homes from con vention in Portland stoo in Med- ford and tour Crater Lake Na tional park.. 40 YEARS AGO" July 15. 1915 - ttt was Thursday) state Hiehwav advisory com mission, after touring Jackson Countv hiehwavs. endorses bono issue to finance building trunk highways throughout state. The Liberty Bell, on nation wide tour, to arrive in Medford 1:45 a.m. on special train. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7T Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Reseat 1. About 2Vt, 5, IV. or 10 per cent of all families with incomes between $5,000 and $7,500 have more than one car? 2. Eisenhower did or didn't carry all six New England states in 1952? 3. About 5. 15. 25 or 35 per cent of all domestic servants in the U.S. "live in?" 4. A quorum to do business in ither house of Conzress is 100, a majority or two-thirds of all 5. Most Americans protected against hospital expenses carry protection also against surgical rawncM! right or wrong? 6. Number of American! tak ing pleasure trips to Europe last year was over half a million, riefht or wrone? 7. Brucellosis, affecting dairy rattle is better known as what? The Answers: 1. About 10 per cent. 2. Did. 3. About 15 per cent. 4. A majority. 5. Right. S. Wrong. 7. Bang's disease. 4-HCiublew wrsTsrnE 4-H CLUB We are having our annual weighing of animals July 17. we will start at Dannv Gilmans on Ross Lane between 8 and 8:30 a.m. After weighing of all the stock, parents and members will meet at TouVelle park around 2 p.m. for a picnic and regular 51 meeting. ' - Marie Swearingen,- Reporter. . mail tribuhe Centennial Pros and Cons , It appears evident that a rather grandiose plan to hold a "world's fair" in 1959 in connection with Ore on's 100th anniversary celebration, which has -been under discussion for some time, will not go through. A comprehensive study, conducted by the Stan ford Research Institute, has indicated that it would be neither wise nor feasible to undertake such an ambi tious project in Oregon four years from now. INSTEAD, the Institute recommended that some sort of regional affair be worked out to attract people to the northwest, to broadcast Oregon's virtues and attractions, and to display for the world the advan tages which Oregon offers. Even this more limited endeavor would be a tre mendous job, as is indicated by the estimate that it would cost in the neighborhood of $10,000,000, ex clusive of real estate and allied facilities. THE overall operation would be a $14,000,000 or $15,000,000 undertaking, and the SRI suggests that funds come from the following sources: Multnomah county (where, presumably,-the event would be located) $300,000,; Portland Exposition Recreation Commission $8,000,000; State of Oregon, $3,000,000; operating profit, $3,500,000. As the Oregon Statesman points out, this plan "will draw fire from several quarters if it proceeds as presently constituted. One objection would sur round the proposal that the state fair, for the year in question, be cancelled out. Another would pertain to the proposed state-government investment of $3, 000,000 in the development of a Portland exposition recreation center toward which Multnomah county already has approved expenditure of $8,000,000 the major part of the $15,000,000 it is estimated the cen tennial would cost." THE benefits cited by the ever. The basic motive economic activity, up to 4,uuu,uuu out-oi-town guests would visit Portland and other portions of the state, (at an averace $6 exDenditure daily per capita.) Total receipts of the exposition itself might go as high as $20,000,000 or more, ana an aaaitionai $ju,uuu,uuu could be expected to be spent in the Portland area. "The state will receive broad national publicity and an exposition $15,000,000 would remain THE effects would be felt for a goodly percentage 01 tne visitors attracted from nnt-nf-statA would come from California. The hotel, motel, restaurant and tries hereabouts would stand to gain consiaeraDiy Dy such an attraction to the north. It. would take a tremendous amount of work to do the job. It would take a whale of a lot of money, frnm rmhlir- coffers, fronr' private capital stock from industrv. mvmwmam. M v to underwrite much of the of exhibit space. THE OREGONIAN isn't clicking its heels in joy nvar the nrrmnsnl Tn an editorial entitled "Prob lems of Centennial Fair," points out: "A great deal of project planning and negotiation with governmental agencies and big advertisers will be required, however, before it can definitely be said that a 1$59 exposi tion, in the size considered feasible by the Stanford research team, will be possible or desirable." We are inclined to agree with the Oregonian's "fat it. asv" armroach. we hope the Centennial the necessary preliminary studies, now mat &ki nas lairl the orouTidwork. for if such a proiect is feasible, it might emulate the Lewis 1905, which sparked two decades 01 unpreceaenieu development for the Oregon country. E.A. Flies The fly season (alas, alas) is hard upon us. One is buzjng around as this is Flies are worse, if possible, than mosquitos, wmcn the county is undertaking " But flies, because of their unpleasant breeding habits, are more difficult for organizations to fight, and are -susceptible only to the mass efforts of the citizenry, which is you and me, neighbor. A RECENT release from the American Medical As "sociation quotes one health educator as saying "there isn't the slightest need to permit this public health menace to continue in American cities and towns. Fly swatters, flypaper, screening even DDT have been tried and found less than perfectly effec tive. The secret, the AM A confides, is in under standing the breeding habits of the nasty, dirty little beasts. OERE are hints on how they may be combatted, always remembering that your own good work may be undermined by your next-door-neighbor, and vice versa: Grass cuttings provide an excellent breeding place for , flies to breed. Spread cuttings thinly for drying. Flies need moisture to breed. Manure is an exceUent fertilizer for lawns, but it should be composted and dried. Dog droppings should be buried or flushed away. v ' ' Clean garbage pails thoroughly after ' each collection. . Make sure covers fit tightly and pails are not corroded. If garbage is buried, it should be at least two feet deep, and dead animals should be buried three feet under. Dishwater and kitchen wastes thrown in the yard create ' ' breeding grounds for flies: Fruit under trees should be raked and disposed of as ' garbage. Friday July 15. "55 SRI are substantial, how- proDaoiy is to stimulate park with a value of about ... even in southern Oregon, automotive service indus- which would be expected cost through guarantees the Oregonian cautiously At the same time, however. Committee will undertake and Clark exposition of written. to fight on our behalf . Matter of Fact ey JoPh am SAC'S ACHILLES HEEL Washington In a previous re port in this space, two grave facts were revealed. First, the American Air Force take twice as long to go from the idea of an aircraft to production of the aircraft, if one can judge by the com parative per form ance in production the B-52 and "Bi son" bombers. Second, cur rent production Joseph Alsop of the Soviet "Bison" is consider ably larger than current produc tion of the American B-52. And the Soviets wiU stiU be turning out a few more intercontinental jet bombers each month than we turn out in America, even after the recently ordered increase of B-52 production finally gets re sults. These are facts so deeply dis quieting that they may properly be called scandalous. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson has tried to make light of these and other facts that indicate America is now losing her lead in the air to the Soviets. The ex isting power of the Strategic Air Command, he has said in effect, gives this country a lead in the air that can never be overcome. Meanwhile, however Soviet air progress has also radically affect ed the power of SAC. Consider, first, the status of SAC's long range groups, which are presently equipped with 350 B-36s. The B-36 and the B-52 are the only American bombers able to do the round trip from Ameri can bases to Soviet targets and home again. EventuaUy, SAC's long range groups are to be wholly reequipped with B-25s but for at least two more years, the lumbering B-36 will continue to be SAC's . intercontinental work horse. . Unfortunately, this slow, heavy, rotary engined bomber was already classed as obsoles cent against a Soviet air defense equipped with Mig 15s and Mig 17s. More unfortunately still, the Moscow overflights have now shown that the Soviets are pro ducing the even speedier "Farm er" dayfighter and a remarkably fast and impressive twin-jet nigbtfighter. Against an air de fense equipped with these new aircraft the chances of the B-36 have to be marked down almost to zero. It is still SAC's inter continental work horse, but the B-36 is now passing from the "obsolescent" into the "obso lete" category. - a rpHAT is bad enough. But the R more honest airplanners fur ther admit that the Moscow over flights have indirectly but im portantly devalued the 1500 B-47s that make up the balance of SAC's offensive power. The Soviets have a very prac tical motive for being so ostenta tious about their new airpower, This wish to intimidate our trans Atlantic allies, who control SAC s most important overseas airbases. Moreover, this tactic of intimidation is plainly work ing only too well. Whatever the treaties may say, the British, the Spaniards, the French and the others will go to almost any lengths to avoid. inviting a visit from "Bisons" and "Badgers" carrying H-bombs in their bel lies. As a practical matter, there fore, the trans-Atlantic airbases are now virtually certain to be denied to SAC, unless the coun tries where those bases are sit uated are already directly threat ened with direct attack by the Soviets.. In any showdown that starts in Asia, for instance, SAC cannot reasonably hope to use bases beyond the line Azores-Iceland-Greenland Alaska Okinawa-Philippines. In these circumstances, all SAC's B-47s will have to be double-refuelled to reach the more important Soviet targets. This means that each B-47 will have to be air-refuelled on the way home.. The tanker fleet that SAC has for this purpose is largely com posed of about 600 KC-97s, a slow, rotary-engined aircraft with pqor altitude characteris tics. The process of refuelling is inordinately inefficient, since the speedy, high-flying B-47 must sacrifice half its cruising alti tude and slow down almost to stalling speed in order to get gas from a KC-97 tanker. And if the tankers maintain the rate of one air-refuelling mission per day, 231 BEEF ROAST they well. will be doing unusually CONSIDER, then, the situation when all B-47s flying to So viet targets have to be double refuelled. With approximately 600 KC-97s capable of flying one refuelling mission daily, and with each B-47 needing two re fuelling missions to complete its round trip, the size of the tank erfleet will place an appallingly low ceiling on B-47 offensive sorties. In any one day, it will only be possible to use about 300 of SAC's great force of 1500 B-47s In other words, General Curtis Lemay either has five times as many B-47s as he needs to do his job, or he has one-fifth oi tne number of tankers he will need to do his job without the overseas airbases which he should no longer count on using, This is one of the central politi cal-strategic facts in the modern world. And it is another proof that the trend of the air bal ance between this country and rtussia ail out amounts to a na tional scandal. Copyright, 195S. N.T. Herald Trlb. Ine. Babson . . .Guaranteed Wage By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Supporting the principle of some form of so-called guar anteed annual wage, or an ex tended form of unemployment compensation, spreads to a large number of companies, will mostwork ers really bene fit? Baser w. Batsea Many work ers think that somehow or other life can be made secure by legis lation or labor union agreement. Higher wages, shorter hours, and unemployment benefits may temporarily raise their standard of living. Most of their victories, however, so increase, their cost of living that the wage earner would have little more left at the end of the year were it not for the inventions of labor-saving devices- Capital (employers) end wage earners are like two tanks of water connected at the bottom I by a pipe. The pipe represents the channels of trade. The water represents income. The Capital tank is big and holds lots of water: The labor .tank is smaller and holds less water. Because, however, both tanks stand at the same level, and because water always seeks its own level, the water in both tanks will reach the same level, no matter' how much is poured into either tank, This applies to the so-called "guaranteed wage." i " Let's Not Fool Ourselves By Labor Tank Increase If a Labor Union "wins' strike for a guaranteed wage, this is like pouring water into the little tank from the big tank, For only a moment does the Labor Union have the increase in its tank. The . benefit soon flows back to the big tank" by way of higher rents, higher prices, and greater interest rates, The "water" is constantly ad justing itself by means, of the connecting pipe, which is trade. So you see the proportion of the money Union Labor retains is not really an increase. There are two ways to get healthy in creases in wages. One is through producing more by .working harder and longer. The other is -through new inventions and products that cut costs and in crease output. The greatest value of Labor Unions to the wage workers is that the Unions force Capital to spend money on re search, inventions, and adver tising which reduces costs and increases production. A healthy economy is dependent upon good business, which is the operation of an enterprise profitably and efficiently. . To do this the employer must be free to buy his raw materials and labor only in the amount needed and at the lowest reason able price. Long-term contracts should be entered into only if they assure the most economical use of resources. In our private enterprise systenvan employer benefits his wageworjeers most when he minimizes his costs and maximizes his returns. We have real prosperity only when there are more jobs and more oppor tunities for more people. . ' EAST SIXTH ST. MUTTON CHOPS 7 FRESH Side-Pork SUCCEEDS' OVETA Marion R. Folsom, above, Undersec retary of Treasury, appointed Secretary of Health, Educa tion and welfare. He succeeds Oveta Culp Hobby. What Does Increase Security and Wages? To say that we shaU stabilize our economy by a guaranteed annual wage, rather than by the operation of business efficiently and profitably, is to misunder stand what makes our private enterprise system work. It is hard-headed business sense and new inventions that have given us more refrigerators, more au tomobiles, and more homes. This is the kind of system which bene fits wageworkers in the long run. The great mass of wagework ers can obtain a greater propor tion of the world's wealth only by . increasing their real effi ciency by means of their heads, hands, or inventions. To go back to my tank illustration, wage workers can get a greater pro portion of the total water in their tank only by increasing the capacity of their tank that its length, breadth, or depth, as zast as sucn an - increase in capacity (or efficiency) takes place, the water wiU flow into the Union Labor's tank auto matically, and no wealth or pow er can prevent it. Only legisla tion which truly increases the efficiency and savings of the wageworkers is sure to make them richer, stronger, and more invincible Days Sell Acreage In Sams Valley To California Man The sale of 640 acres of prop erty in the Sams Valley area, owned by former State Sen. Ben Day and his father, former Coun ty Judge Earl Day, was reported this week.. i Purchaser of the property is Argus G. Brown, Redwood City, Calif. The sale includes three tracts of property. Largest is the "home place" of the ranch, the former Moon property in Sams valley, totaling 360 acres. Another is a 200-acre tract in the Meadows district, and the third is an 80 acre area used for growing hay and seed. Retain Orchard The Days retained 40 acres of orchard property in Sams VaUey. The sale did not include the crops growing on the land, and they will be harvested before the transaction is complete, Ben Day reported. . He has been in Salem the past' year, studying law at Willamette university and is in the valley during summer vaca tion. . - His family will join him in Salem this fall, where .they will remain until Day receives his law degree in 1957. He said he plans to return then to Medford to open an office for the prac tice of law. Medford Man Files Bankruptcy-Petition . Portland (U.PJ Merton Har ry Shook, owner of the OK Mar ket on Merriman road in Med ford, has reported assets of $28, 542 and debts of $59,301. He filed a bankruptcy petition in Federal Court here. SUCED DACON SSfu CommuiTu.ccQttDOiruS Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the us of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. SP Fares Too High To the Editor: Thank you for your editorial regarding the "friendly," or rather 9eedy Southern Pacific, and their deci sion in taking trains 329 and 330 off the raiis. The S. P. complains of their losses in revenue. Much of the fault lies in the difference in fares between bus and train over the Portland-Ashland route. Bus fare is $5.85. Train fare is $10.47. That in itself is an inducement to most people to either drive, or take a bus. As for myself, I find great enjoyment in travel ing to Portland by the "Rogue River," and satisfied with the equipment; but as regards the schedule, that, to a railroad of the standing of the S. P., is a disgrace. On my way to Seattle last Sat urday, I was forced to go by bus, because of time convenience. The bus on which I traveled took eight hours and five minutes from Ashland to Portland. The "Rogue River" train takes 12 hours, 55 minutes, which is an other reason why people shun theS. P. On returning to Ashland last Sunday, I traveled by "Rogue River." : We left Portland with seven head-end cars (that is, mail and express) then the usual one chair car, a lounge car, and a sleeper. Three head-end cars were set out at Eugene, leaving seven for the Siskiyou- line. which is a sizable train.. . It is very obvious, even to layman, that i they wanted to make the Portland-Ashland trip more attractive, they could leave these three cars for train 19, which leaves Portland for San Francisco at 10:05 p.m.. and is a purely local run. This would allow the "Rogue River" to make faster time to Eugene, and stop only for passengers. The time table stop at Eugene is 18 minutes. I got out pur posely o watch the loading and unloading of mail -and express, To say it is casual is to put it mildly. Station work through out the whole trip is extremely slow. I think it is a disgrace to leave cities of ' the size of Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and Rose burg without railroad passenger service. Apparently there is much moss on the backs of the officials the S. P. traffic department Given the same young, aggres sive personnel which the bus and airlines have, we would stUl enjoy railroad services, even to the extent of a Budd lightweight. The press is powerful. Can' something be done to make the fnendly(?) line see the light? I bavt made at least fifty journeys by S. P. over the years, between Ashland and Portland, so I feel very strongly on the subject R. A. Barker 92 Church st Rshland. Support .is Appreciated To the Editor: I have learned with great interest and apprecia tion of your radio station's con tribution of effort and broadcast time over the past several months to the Crusade for Free dom. This splendid cooperation by you and your fellow editors is of inestimable value in en listing the support of the Ameri- Nov Is The Time The 317 EAST MAIN 5? mm M M - - PH. 14070 V NO ANSWER PH. 2-9661 . I can people for the operations the Crusade makes possible Raoio Free Europe and its companion balloon operation, the Fret Eu rope Press. The war for men's minds must t won if our nation is to go forward in peace and freedom in the years ahead. - May I, both for myself and for the board of directors, thank you and your staff most warmly for your val ued interest and support Henry Ford II Crusade for Freedom, , 345 E. 46th, N.Y.C Sees Lowry as President To the Editor: Denton G. Bur- dick, who represented the 21st district in the lower house of the Oregon Legislature from 1917 1931 inclusive which com prised the counties of Klamath, Lake, Jefferson, Deschutes and Crook in speaking of Stat Sen ator Philip B. Lowry said: . . Jackson county's state sena tor, young Phil Lowry, made the outstanding record of the 1955 session, and he no doubt will be heard from, and will, in my opin ion, go places in Oregon politics with his first step as President of the State Senate." Linn W. Nesmith, Box 31, . Camp White, Oregon. Crown-Zellerbach Plans Veneer Plant Portland (U.PJ Crown Zel- lerbach announced today it will build a green veneer plant at St Helens, Ore., as the first step in a multi-million-dollar ply wood program. Company Vice President K. P. Stamm said the decision came after months of investigating other sites along the -Columbia river from its mouth to Camas, Wash. Stamm ' said the mill, which will produce 87,000,000 square 'feet of plywood annually. was CZ's first venture into the plywood - field.' Plant- construc tion was scheduled to be com pleted early next year.' The company's expansion pro gram, which is scheduled to cost $160,000,000 by the end of this year, includes plywood presses and other phases of a complete plywood operation. Crown Zellerbach announced it planned to construct a pilot plant - at - Camas, to produce 2,000,000 pounds of dimethyl sulphide annually. vino GETS the nonn? BE AN EARLY BIRD Let us , put your money to work in local opportunities. nnsTFECsiu SAVINGS A LOAN ASSH of Modford 27 North Holly An Intf itvtion D4ioftftaf Te These Who Save 5g05 to U A 5 Q REPAIR W Ssnto A3 MiSem. AUTHORIZE) RCA. .VKJo$avir,;:i; ft7 Happy hunting. E.A.