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i n fcr m tut yifiiW aft i5jcait5a 9. rorm MEcroro (orzgoh) UEEFOfflj&TBIB UNI "Xvarybody ta Southern Oregon Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. XI-39 North rir St. Phone 3-6141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY AdTerttainc Manager E. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE STAR CHER, Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newrpaper Entered aa aeeond data matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of aaarca a. imwi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mao In Advance: Per copy JOf Daily and Sunday One year UJJO Daily and Sunday Six montba 30 Daily and Sunday Three moa. a .50 Sunday Only One year 33fll. By Carrier In Advance Ashland. Central M.1pfe,Ff!K: Jacksonville. Gold Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. ana on nwwr -- I(M Daily and Sunday-One iaw S X)aiiy ana aunaij - Carrier and Dealers 5c P- copy. All Terms casn in omeiai raper .- - TTnitwf Press Fun Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WMTHOL1jSaY COMP ANY . INC. Office, in New yc. 1M J JorUandrSLLo aVneat Vancouver. o.i NATIONAL EDITOIIAL TBOM Z7 MIWSPAMt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Hertford and Jackgon County History from the files ol The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 yeara ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 18, 1345 - at wag Wednesday) Jackson County Fruit Grow ers league and Rogue River Traffic association ask State Board of Higher Education to postpone college opening date to Oct. 7 to maintain adequate labor supply. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The forest fire season is now raging up state. Everybody is urged to be careful . and use their heads while scratching match. 20 YEARS AGO July IS' 1933 (It was Thursday) Bell view Grange passes reso lution condemning two state Grange officials for signing par don for convicted slayers and asks both to resign. 30 YEARS AGO July 18, 1925 (It was Saturday) Oregon State Editorial asso ciation, meeting in Grants Pass, declines to consider resolutions favoring or against evolution. . Ashland Chamber of Com merce and Civic clubs hold re ception for Normal school sum mer students. 40 YEARS AGO July 18. 1915 (It was Sunday) Liberty Bell arrives at San Francisco Exposition after more than 5,000 Jackson countians view bell In Medford. From Local and Personal col umn: A number of wanderers who have been bivouadng on Bear creek were ordered out of town Friday afternoon by the police. The police say the outfit came up town in the evening and begged enough money on the streets to keep them in drink and food the next day. Now and then they would make a sortie on a neighboring garden or hen house. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. More TLS. motor vehicles were produced In the first half of this year than in any other six months in history: ..right , or wrong? 2. About half, two-thirds or three-fourths of U.S. wheat farm ers voted recently to accept acre age controls at lower price sup ports? s . . 3. If the President vetoes a bill while Congress is in session, he does or doesn't have to tell it why? I . 4. Of the 21 U.S. prisoners of war in Korea who chose to stay with the Reds, twelve, nine, six, three or none were of Jewish background? 5. Melancholia as a mental dis ease afflicts more older men, older womerv middle-aged men, middle-aged women, or young girls? . 6. The net return on bonds (in view of current prices) has been going up or down, or staying un changed? 7. Vyacheslav Mikhailovitch Skryabin is better known as Bul ganin, Tito, Zhukov, Molotov, Krushchev, or Malenkov? The Answers: 1. Right, . 2. About three-fourths. 3. Must tell it why. 4. None. 5. Middle-aged women. 6. Going up. 7. Molotov. I aa-eaj mail tribune What Water Means The election last Friday, in which water-users of the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation dis tricts approved the signing of a contract with the government, may well serve as a landmark for agri culture in Jackson county. The vote itself was tiny less than 300 voters out of almost 1,200 eligible. But the results were decisive. Only 10 persons in the two districts voted against the proposal. TPHE history of the two districts goes back more than 30 years, and this is the first time that assist ance has been sought from the government in financ ing the job of bringing life-giving water to the valley floor. When completed, the rehabilitation job .will mean more water, better crops, higher productivity. At the same time, the news that the $150,000 voted for the Talent project can be used to prepare plans and specifications for bid, rather than for plan ning which is virtually complete already, means that major construction on the bigger project is that much nearer. ; : '. ." There is. indeed, a strone possibility that work will get under way just as the $500,000 appropriation requested, liov. ram ratter-son has told local supporters of the project that plans are being made to make a supplemental request for funds to Congress next January, and if it is ap proved, work can be started next spring. TPHE importance of the Talent project to the Rogue River valley has been discussed time and again, but it does not grow less through discussion. The S22.000.000 it is estimated the job will cost will, much of it, be spent locally, and will furnish a "shot in the arm" to our valley economy. ' But far more significant added irrigation water to our "semi-arid" lands which need only water to make them bloom. TpHE Rogue valley, first opened up by gold miners about a century ago, quickly became an agricult ural community. Later, the demand for timber con verted it into a dual economy. As timber crows short, agricultural lands are developed, we can look forward to a third change to a processing economy, based on a wide variety of agncultural and lumber products. The fantastic growth of cessing concerns, particularly in the White City area, in the past year or two, is a sample of rwhat we can expect, witn new crops added to tne productivity oi the land, a comparable growth in food-processing and distributing facilities can be expected. PMBER is getting scarcer, but a majority of what there is now is under either private or government al plans for harvesting it, as a. crop, and renewing the growth for future years. This, with an expanded agriculture, off ers the possibility for a stable, long-range economy. Jackson county will probably never De a metro politan center, in the usual sense. But in time it will come to be a major processing and distribution area for a vast section of Oregon Steady, solid, well-based "boom" economy. With thought and patience and hard work, that is what we can achieve. Is There a Limit? Science-fiction afficionados may well disagree with frank Jenkins, who in a recent "Days News" column in the Mail Tribune, in discussing man's pro gress in the air, said: ' v "The third step will follow when we can operate outside the gravity field of the earth. Let's leave it there. That's far enough for man to go." should it be? Even today, rocket scientists tell us that we have the technical know-how to build a rocket ship which could reach the moon. All we need is the few billion dollars it would cost to build and send one. This could well come about be fore file turn of the century. We hope we're around toseeit. ' . - . The first leap upward from the earth will be the big one, and will furnish the lessons needed to put space ships into the void of the solar system. 'THE distances in space are almost impossible for . most of us to comprehend, so vast are they The sun, which is some 93,000,000 miles away, is only a hop, skip and jump as these distances go. c The sun's nearest star-neighbor (for the sun itself is a star a small one) is about 40 light years away. (A light year is a measure of distance, not time; it is the distance that light rays travel in one year at a speed of 186,300 miles per second. For the distance to the nearest star, multiply .186,300 limes the number of seconds in a year, then multiply by 40. If our rusty arithmetic serves, the answer is more than 235,000, 000,000,000 miles). ; J J Two hundred and thirty-five trillion miles is a long way. ' ' DUT why put a limit on the distance man can go? The secrets of nature already unlocked, and in a relatively short space of time, are : immense. This technological progress is speeding up, rather than slowing down. . Only 150 years ago, three short lifetimes; a man's fastest means of transportation was by horse, or sail ing vessel. Today he has outstripped the speed of sound. ; "ys 't :u.y':,: V. - No one knows what's ahead,' but watching it come is going to be f aschiating.--E.A. ; .Monday. July XI. IMS soon as it would have with will be the benefits from and as additional irrigated remanufactunng and pro and northern California. growth is healthier than a E.A. Matter of THE TRUE AIR BALANCE Washington Despite the strickly phoney talk in Wash ington, the Soviet delegation will go to the summit meet ing at Geneva with more military strength be hind them than the So viet Union has ever before possessed. That, no doubt, was the Joseph Asset real fact be hind Nikita Khrushchev's warn ing at the July 4 party in Mos cow, that the Soviets were not going to Geneva to, ' negotiate from weakness. From the straight military viewpoint,: in truth, the .Ameri can negotiators are the ones who should feel a bit nervous. For the one great trump this country has always held since the end of the last war a wide air-atomic lead over the Soviet Union is now being snatched away by a massive Russian effort.. On the one hand, the superior American, stocks of atomic and hydrogen weapons are ceasing to matter very much because the Soviets are now accumulating sufficient stocks of their own to wreak total destruction on the United States. On the other hand, the So viets are now beginning to lead the United States in quality as well as quantity of aircraft pro duction. The change in the bomb bal ance has been going on for a long time. The truly revolution ary development of the last 12 months has been the change in the air balance. A series of re ports in this space in the last week have touched on some as pects of that change. Over-all, it can be summarized as follows: The Soviet air program first began to catch up with the American air program ' in the field of fighter production. Here the United States has been all together outclassed. 'The Soviets have produced about 4,000 supersonic Mig-1 7s, while we have produced, a few scores of the F-100 fighter which is comparable to the Mig-17 in all ways except in its inferior altitude characteristics. The So viets have 'already gone into full production with their still new er, stffl faster "Farmer" fight er, whereas we have produced two ' prototypes of the compar able F-104. The Soviets are now starting production, of a first- class,- Jet-powered all-weather fighter," while- we have' nothing comparable: that is -anywhere near real quantity porduction. QECOND, as far as current out- - put is concerned, the Soviets have now passed the United States in the field of long-range jet bombers. They are now pro ducing their. T-37 bomber at a considerably higher rate than we are producing the compar able B-52 in this country; and their monthly output will still be four or five bombers per month higher than , ours , when the recently ordered increase in B-52 production finally takes effect. . . ; They are also producing their T-39 bomber, comparable, to our B-47, at a rate of 20 to 30 per month, and this rate , is expect ed to rise. And whereas the out put of fast 'tankers suitable to air refuel the B-47 is extremely unsatisfactory, the Soviets have in quantity production a four engine turbo-aircraft weU suited for air-refueling the T-39. j . Third, the Soviet's have achieved ' certain technical suc cesses of a distinctly alarming character. The new Russian air engine, with 18,000 to 20,000 pounds thrust, which powers the T-37 and T-39, was ready for use at least two years before the comparable American jet en gine, the J-75, which is just emerging from the experimental stage.-? - : And Soviet air-lead time the time, from the conception of an aircraft until the beginning of quantity production now ap pears to be only one-half of American air-lead time. Fourth, because of the Soviet air gains already achieved, our one existing advantage is being quite largely neutralized. This advantage is the Strategic Air Command's large force-in-being of B-47 bombers. But the B-47, being a short-range aircraft, de pends on overseas bases to reach Russian targets And the Allies who control these over seas are more and more reluc- ant to -allow" the bases to be used when the chips are down, because they are being more and more intimidated . by the combination of growing Soviet air power and growing Soviet stocks of H-bombs. CQFTH and finally, their are also excellent reasons to be lieve that the Soviet effort to produce the true' ultimate .wea pon, the high-speed guided mis sile of intercontinental range,., is well ahead of the American long-range missile effort, which is on a strictly business-as-usual basis. ' That is the true balance sheet Maybe President Eisenhower and Premier Bulganm will make real progress in the dis armament talks -In Geneva. But Fact By Joseph Atop , until disarmament ia a anlld reality, this kind of air-balance sheet is a national scandal, made all the more shocking by the tre mendous cover-up that is going on at the Pentagon. While the cold war continues, this Soviet carrture of the tradi tional American lead in the air constitutes a national emergency. It should be treated as sucn, in stead of being hidden behind huckstering phrases. copyright, 1885, Hew York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS President- Eisenhower is in Geneva where the Big Four con ference opened today. BEFORE he left, our President gave to the Congress an out line of his views and hopes about the Geneva conference. He says he hopes: v : 1. To identify the outstanding issues in dispute in the world. 2. To develop methods to try to solve them. THAT is an orderly approach. Suppose you and your -neighbors:, have been engaged . for years in a continuing COSTLY ruckus that darkens the future of EVERYBODY living in the neighborhood. Suppose that you agree to get together to try to do something to bring .the ruck us to an end. If you are to get anywhere, your FIRST job will be to agree on just what you've been quar reling about. Your NEXT job will be to see : if you can do something sensible and construc tive about it. It seems to me OUR part in the Geneva con ference is off to a good start. SPEAKING further of the Ge neva conference. It is officially estimated that at least 1500 press, radio and TV reporters, and photographers will be on hand to cover it. BURNING question:; , Is that TOO MANY? 'SCL is an attempted' answer: It won't be IF THEY'RE ALL GOOD ENOUGH. YOU may say: , "What do you mean by GOOD ENOUGH?" Let's put it this way: . If ALL of these 1900 reporters and . photographers are INTEL LIGENT EXPLAINERS If they understand all of the backgrounds of this fateful affair- .. If their sole purpose is to teU the people in simple,, under standable language just what is going, on and why : . Well, in that event, they wiU be good enough and there won't be too many of them. rpHE BIG job of the press J- which includes newspapers, magazines, radio, and television is to tell the people in simple, understandable language J u s t what is. happening. The next most important job of the press is to explain without bias or prejudice just WHY what: is happening is happening. Too many of us of the press, 1 hate to say, fall into the dan gerous idea that we must carp and criticize in order to make it appear that we know more than anybody else. . That is a .dangerous habit. Atomic Weapons -Speedup Said Needed Washington (UB Sen. Henry M. Jackson asserted Satur day, that production , of U. S. atomic weapons and planes must be stepped -up to nullify the threat f Russian air-atomic dom ination by 1980. Even 'more important, he said, is development of 'superior "de livery systems " including both planes and inter-continental mis siles. The Washington Democrat is chairman of the military appli cations - subcommittee of the joint atomic energy, committee. He said the subcommittee's cur rent ' review of the military's atomic requirements, "clearly in dicates" atomic weapons produc tion will have to be increased. "By I960," Jackson said in an interview, "Russia may weU have air-atomic domination, with a more effective delivery system, unless something far more dras tic is undertaken by the United States in the way of atomic pro duction." ; . ; ' "Our . present .air-atomic lead is being shortened every day," he warned. '. -:i -. SUMMIT AT GENEVA Geneva UJ0 Here it i note for lovers dt statistics: The alti tude of the "summit' is 1,237 feet LINEMAN KILLED ; . Seattle U.R) Roy A. Mor row, 58, Seattle, was killed yes terday when he fen from the 40 foot utility pole on which he was working as a City Light lineman.. Ol the 7,083 islandTfiut com prise the Philippines, only 412 of them are more than'' square mile In' area. Did you know that . . . Owls like other birds have good color vision except in the blue bands. Deer on the contrary, like other northern woods' animals, see only in black and white. Dogs, too. are color blind. Between our wild long-legged, lean turkey and our short-legged, plump turkey there is a vast gulf. Just about as great a dif ference as between a draft horse and a racing thoroughbred. Adult - brown bears climb trees; adult grizzlies can't couldn't even if they wanted to. That's because the grizzly has nearly straight claws while the brown has long, curved fore claws, ideal tools for climbing. Hunts in Daytime The beautiful snowy owl of our, northland, which comes down into the states during times of food scarcity, does most of its hunting during the daytime. Also unlike other owls," it flies in wide easy circles, swooping on its. prey much like a hawk. The- largest land bird in Eur ope the male weighing up to 32 pounds, is the bustard, which is . found in Spain today. A century ago it was found in Eng land. . The sambar deer of southern Asia shed their antlers every three or four years, while other deer shed them annually. Also, unlike bur deer, the adults have manednecks. Alone among grouse, the sage grouse has no gizzard. That means it does not swallow grav el as many other birds do to help mill its food. Male Broods Eggs Of birds, the palm for father ly devotion surely should go to the male emu of Australia. -Not only does he brood the eggs for 60 days but' he also raises the chicks by himself chasing the hen away whenever she threat ens to meddle. ' - The male : European toad . is mighty helpful .too. When his spouse lays a long string of eggs, he twines them around his body and carried them wherever he goes until they hatch. Ridiculous and monstrous as it may look to anyone but another puffin,-that schnozzle makes a mighty handy creel. In returning from, its fishing trips, the puffin encloses the fish within its beak and thus air-transports it back to the burrow nest for home con sumption. ' ; (Released by McCIure ' Newspaper Syndicate) - Free: By 'special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my. panel; of judges will award each week to the readers who sends me the best true-life . nature adventure, or the best nature observation, br 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 consid ered. Sorry, I simply can't an swer your many friendly let ters.-Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care of the Medford MaU Tribune, P.O. Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. on Seaside U.B Hazel-eyed 18- year-old Dorothy Mae Johnson of Beaverton was named - Miss Oregon here late yesterday in a contest slowed down . by the closeness of the Six finalists.' The beauteous brownette win ner was a graduate of Beaver ton high school. . : Runner-up in the Oregon beauty classic was Jan Markstal ler, Miss Portland - and former Rose Festival queen. Third place went i to . Miss Lincoln county, Patricia L. Kroutwick, 18. of Toledo, Ore. .. Thousands of spectators jammed the resort community to witness the final judging. Wit nesses said the judging was so close" that the announcement of the winner had to be delayed beyond the scheduled time of 4 pjn. . Anne Thompson, Miss Forest Grove, won fourth place. Donna Marie - Davenport, Miss Coos Bay, and Patricia Ann Schu macher,. Miss Eugene, tied for fifth.. - ; Miss Johnson will represent Oregon in the Miss America contest to be held at Atlantic City, N.J. Niw Town Rising From Tornado Ruin ,' UdalL Kan. (UJ9 A new UdalL in the new format of modern suburban America, was rising Saturday from the rubble where about 80 persons died in a soring tornado two months am. - Twenty new "nouses stood at the townsite which boasted near ly 200 less than 80 days ago, and 25 others were under con tract. Two service stations and a bank were In fuU operation. A grocery Store, hardware store- lumber yard combination, and blacksmith shop were back in a . . - A.1 I Business, or reaoy io open ucui doors:. i 1 Named Miss Oreo Tito Expected To Be Frequently in Minds Of Big 4 Conferees Bt CHARLES McCAXH United Press Foreign Analyst President Tito of Yugoslavia probably will be frequentty in the minds of the Big Pour lead ers who met to day in Geneva. . Seven years ago, Tito was just . the .Com munist satel lite ruler' of a little Balkan country of 11, 000,000.. . Today, he is one of. the key key figures of c aulas aucaaa burope. . Tito is being courted by . the Kremlin, whose "summit" men made a humiliating pilgrimage to Belgrade to mend relations with Protest Drafting Miami, .Fla.-J(U) A devout housewife' declaring she intends to fast "unto death", today en tered the third full day of her hunger , strike .protesting the drafting of her only, chUd. Slender, dark haired Mrs. Martha Blumenbach, 52, was re ported weak but stiU determined to f ulfUl a "pact between my self and God" as a result of the induction of her 26-year-old den tist son. r Nothing But Water" - Her husband. Earl Blumen bach,' a well-to-do businessman, said - his wife had; consumed nothing but a little water since 5:30 p.m. Friday, the day their son, Dr. Thomas E. Blumenoacn, was drafted. v She did not feel strong enough to attend church Sunday and snent most of the day resting, he said, but was in good condition under the circumstances. She is member of the Unity church. Asked if a doctor, had been railed. . he said. "That hasn't been necessary, yet" - Mrs. Blumenbach said that she would try to attend to her usual duties about' their large home in an exclusive, residential area of Coral Gables, Fla., while fulffll ing her "pact" to starve unto death."' ' - v " ; Made Pact in 1840 ' She said her father commit ted suicide in protest against the entry of his eldest son in mili tarv service, during World Wt I and that she made her pact when the draft law of 1940 was .enacted. ; .. . The father and son, both deep ly religious, indicated they sym pathize with her motive but tne elder Blumenbach said , "The whole thing is very upsetting rd rather not talk, about it." Miss United States Judging Under Way Long Beach, CalitU At tention in ' the Miss Universe pageant shifted from foreign to domestic beauties today when judging began in the Miss Unit ed States contest . ; Winner of the Miss United States title wiU be r decided Wednesday and she will partici pate in preliminary judging Which starts Thursday for the honor of the most beautiful girl in the world. ; - ,; Following a'mornfag rehear sal session, the 75 Miss Universe entries visited Universal-Inter national studios where they met several motion picture stars. A crowd estimated at more than 500,000 lined a 15-block parade route yesterday to 'get a look at the entries. , The .parade lasted nearly two hours. ' In Every Since 1900 PERL . Funeral Homo 4 - Phone 2-6675 0 Mother FUNERAL i him. I He' also is being courted, too, by "neutralists" Jawaharlal Nehru of India and U Nu of Burma. ;. King Paul and Queen Fred- erika.of Greece are to pay Tito, a Communist since his youth, a state visit next month. . Stale Visit Planned -. On Tito's list of engagements for the next few months are state visits 'to Russia, France, Egypt, Ethiopia and Lebanon. It was in July, 1948, that Tito broke with the Soviet bloc He refused to subordinate the Inter ests of his own country to those of Russia. - Nothing like that ever had hap pened before in the Communist world. It was predicted that Tito would be overthrown by his own Reds and executed, or assassi nated by Kremlin gunmen. Instead, Tito's men rallied , to him. Ever since, he has been on . the upgrade. In 1948, Tito's relations, with Greece and Turkey were danger, ous. - '- " ' v - . Now he has entered an alii- , ance with Greece and Turkey against Soviet aggression. ' Feud Settlea . Yugoslavia's feud with Italy was ended when the Trieste area was partitioned between the two countries. - ', ; ' Tito's attitude wtil have to be considered in all negotiations in Geneva on a European security organization. . Not only has Yugoslavia one of the best armies in Europe, but its geographical position is import ant. Yugoslavia borders . on ; Italy and Greece, which are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. It borders on Hun gary, Romania, Bulgaria end Al bania, which are members of the Soviet satellite bloc. It borders also on neutral Austria., , , z There is considerable anxiety in allied capitals lest Russia suc ceed too weU in its wooing of Tito. They are .afraid far, one thing that his alliance - with Greece and Turkey may be weak- . ened. - : ;.-; Tito keeps his. own counsel. He has assured the allies that he wiU keep Yugoslavia independ ent He is pretty proud of his po sition. ... , He said In ia speech in May that one of Yugoslavia's greatest suc cesseswhich means one of his own greatest successes is that the big powers have to talk to It "as an equal member .in the. world community." Cripple Healed - GEO. M.. TAYLOR A cripple sat begging at the temple gate. In his forty years of life he had. never walked nor even stood. The Apostle Peter passed by and told him, in the name of Christ, to rise and walk. Instant ly he leaped . up and went into the tem ple walking and leaping . ahd praising ' , , God. This was done in Christ's name even though Christ had ascended back up to glory. Christ's name is all powerful with God. "In Christ's name," said Peter. Just as a rich man's name m akes good the check you present at the bank, so Christ's name makes good tout prayer with God.' Hear Christ's word "Whatsoever yon ask the Father in my name, he wiU give it -to you. John 16:23. Receive ChrCt as your Lord and Saviour who died for your sins. Then you can pray in His name ' and re ceive an answer to your . prayer, i This space sponsored by a Scap poose Dairynuuv Adv. A PERL'S everjr family , mo "make 'funeral " ar: rangemenh which are In keeping with its .neans. A1; selection C of services In very price . range b 'of.?' fared to satisfy Individual ' preferences and. to meotf all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? " v r , " " " CirtalnlyN Price Range F
