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rOOT ME0TORD (OREGON) l!EDF03Ij&TBBUn "I very body is Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. SJ7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor HERB GREY. Advertista Manager S. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor XRIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHES. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn 3. m SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year 912.00 VIU7 MICW , Daily and Sunday Three mos. J0 Sunday Only one year -au. . Br Carrier In Advance MedfOrd. t-l 1 Dnin 'Vla Point. AUlianu, "... . . i Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady tove. noma uvi. and on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year SIS .00 Daily and Sunday One month lja Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Laaa in nqi Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. H.K. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 3f I IASSOCMTK.N JiJ I zj s NIWSPAPII PUBlltNIRt "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles ol The MaU Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 19. 1945 Civil Aeronautics administra tion recommends to Ashland city council that Class 1 airport be constructed on site two miles northwest of Ashland. From Arthr Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Internation al welfare -workers report "six basic causes of poverty" exist in Europe. That is too many. In this country there is but one basic1 cause, viz: running out of money. 20 TEARS AGO July 19, 1935 , Harold D. Grey of Medford appointed director of division of labor and management of the central office Works Progress ad ministration. , Petition circulating asking that new Medford High school athletic field on South Oakdale be named Melvin Field in honor of Al Melvin, graduate of school. 30 YEARS AGO July 19, 1925 From Mining News of South west Oreogn: Grants Pass claims the record of the only city in Oregon whose banks carry "gold dust" as part of their assets. Fire in cork surrounding brine tank at Southern Oregon Pre cooling and Storage company on Front st burns more than 18 hours before brought under con trol; damage limited to cork. 40 YEARS AGO July 19, 1915 . Minnesota governor and party of five arrive in Medford for side-tour en route to San Fran cisco fair. From Local and Personal col umn: The regular mid-month meeting of the city council will be held tomorrow night, and. promises to be one of the live liest sessions in months. The matter of granting a franchise to the Rogue River Public Serv ice corporation will be up for second reading, and the question of the Medynski plan for rebond ing of the city will be discussed. Considerable local interest is be ing manifested in the two propo sitions. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 71 Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Resort 1. The United States island closest to a Russian island is 3, 13, 30 or 130 miles from it? 2. Secretary of State Dulles was once or never a U.S. Sen ator? 3. The federal Sherman act is used to break up white slavery, dope peddling, car stealing rings, business monopolies, or espionage? 4. The Huguenot settlers in North America were Catholics, Jews, Quakers, French Protest ants, or Swedish Lutherans? 5. Total U.S. road mileage has increased proportionately about as much as number of U.S. cars, much more or less? 6. A cricket team is composed of nine, ten, eleven or twelve players? 7. A transvestite lives in certain area of South Africa, per forms on a trapeze, sails a boat across the wind, or likes to wear clothes of the opposite sex? The Answers: 1. Three miles. 2. Was (briefly). 3. Business mo nopolies, 4. French Protestants.' 5. Much less. 6. Eleven. 7. Likes to wear clothes of opposite mx. r rrz r MAIL TRIBUNE "Let Them No one would expect the Southern Pacific, or any other public utility, to serve this community or any other at a loss. And no public utility would do so for long. Take Copco, for example. How lone would Copco furnish Medford and Southern Oregon with light and power if it lost money in doing so? But if Copco should make a 10 profit on its total operations in this section of the state, yet its service to Eagle Point on power, for example, showed a loss, would it depnve increase its net revenue? UEDOUBTi v We doubt-if it would allow it. For the responsibility of a monopolistic public utility, does not consist solely of making money. It assumes through its possession of a franchise a, cer tain obligation of public service. And the public utility commissions were originally organized to see that this service is properly rendered, and at a reasonable price. PUT if the S.P. determination to abandon all pas senger service in' Southern Oregon, north and south, because it fails to make, a profit on same is sustained, then the time-honored principle of this obligation "public convenience and necessity" is entirely repudiated and thrown intothe ash-can. '"THE S.P. may make a net profit of a million dollars a year or a month for that matter out of this growing and fertile portion of Oregon from Eugene to the California line. But it will be allowed to in crease that profit by half a million dollars, by de priving this section of all passenger service a service that the district has enjoyed and become accustomed to for over half a century is allowed, and the service discontinued. In short no account is taken by the , SP, and its supporters, of what this community gives the South ern Pacific in profits, only what the large and exceed ingly prosperous railroad fails to get in one operation, of ONE third-rate passenger train to Portland and return. THE fact is noted by the SP that on an average only 20 passengers have been taken north and 18 south, daily. Well that isn't a great number we admit and a profit on that basis may be as impossible, as the SP financiers claim. But it might be noted in passing that the total is 38, every 24 hours every day in the year, so the grand total comes to approximately 14,000 who have been served annually, in the passenger service the railroad wants to abandon. 3 We grant that doesn't represent a high percentage in the books of this "billion dollar corporation," but not so long ago that number of Medford, and probably now exceeds the population of every other town in the area served. It is also reasonable to believe these residents would not have taken the train if they could have or wanted to avail themselves of other means of transportation. So if this service is discontinued how will they get to Portland, or from Portland to Medford if and when they so desire? - . : : That may worry them. But it doesn't worry the S.P., not if they fail to get their desired profit out of it! As Marie Antoinette once observed, they can eat cake" or perhaps some of them can hitch-hike! . . .. .- ; ' R.W.R. Money Isn 't Everything Characteristically the Oregonian, always with its eye on the cash register, goes all out in its praise and defense of the high and mighty Southern Pacific, in this passenger controversy. This cutting off passenger service it says may be regretted by certain whistle-stop communities, but the trend will not be slowed by words, only by "fare money pushed through the windows." Its the dollars that counts! . i : TN FACT passenger service between Eugene and A Ashland, the Oregonian believes, was doomed since the buildincr of the Natron "cut-off " tfio mnth through Medford since then has been not only merely "a hranrh lino V riit if to. "elrvnr knmiur j even modern light-weight Diesel railcars could not provide satisfactory service and "lure Tin seen oror traf fic away from the airlines." That is the S.P. argument dutifully adopted by the Oregonian. WE WONDER if the railway experts on the Ore TT gonian have ever taken the Western Pacific Dome car train "Zephyr" from San Francisco to Chi cago via Denver? That route is, certainly as circuitous and uneven as any in the country, the road bed as a whole can't compare in quality and stability with SP's "branch line." And yet through extensive advertising, promo tion and modernization, including Diesels, this rail road has made a great success of this crack passenger train, and we don't believe even if it showed a deficit now and .then the train would be abandoned. In fact if the SP theory of "let the public be damned" is upheld and should be followed by other railroads there would be wholesale abandonment of service particularly suburban and interurban pas senger service, all over the country for it is doubtful much if any passenger service is profitable per se. The freight and collateral profits however more than make up for the loss, particularly where the railroad leaders think there is a monetary value in good will and good public service, as well as in the almiehty dollar. R.W.R. Tuesday, July 19, 19S5 Eat Cake 99 that town of all power to tried to do so, the P.U.C. if its plea for more profits exceeded the population Casablanca Situation May Be Embarrassing To West at Geneva By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The ugly situation which has developed in French Morocco may prove embarrassing to the Allied negotia tors in Geneva. Premier Edgar Edgar Faure who represents France at the "summit" con ference, is be ing closely ad vised of the sit uation. A represent ative of the Moroccan inde dendence par Cfeaxles McCana ty has cabled President Eisen hower asking him to demand that France stop the "massacres" in Casablanca, the Moroccan capital. Morocco is not on the program for discussion in Geneva, nor are French North Africa and the "colonial" situation in general. . But when President Eisen hower suggests that Soviet Rus sia permit its satellites to choose their own forms of government, it seems logical to believe that Premier Nikolai ' R. Bulganin would think even if he did not say "why not Morocco, too?" It seems logical, too, that lead ers in Arab countries, other Mos lem countries and all those who denounce "Western colonialism" would think that Morocco is in creasing world tension. The situation in Morocco start ed to get really hot on June 11, when the French editor of a Casablanca newspaper was as sassinated by fellow. French men because he favored Mo roccan home rule. Things started to get explosive last Thursday. Then French peo ple in Casablanca were celebrat ing. Bastille day, the French na tional holiday, when native ter Matter of IKE AT THE SUMMIT ? Washington If all eoes well. history will probably record the summit meeting at ueneva as tne moment when President Eis enhower first strongly assert ed his personal leadership in foreign pohcjf m a king. The question is simply whether the President wiU follow his own creative Joseph Alsop inclinations or will stick to the official adminis tration line. Until the verv moment when the American delegation left for ueneva, the official approach to the summit meeting continued to be extremely negative at least every level below the White Hous level. Immense numbers of position papers" were labor iously prepared. But essentiallv. the aim was to prevent anything awiul happening at the summit, rather than to make something gooa Happen there. Most of -the position papers took the form: "If the Soviets make move A concerning Ger many, then we must make move a to secure a checkmate." Fur thermore the decision was taken to try to avoid talking about one of the two vast problems that are the real keys to any true interna tional settlement, and to avoid taking any solid American posi tion whatever on the other. On an honest assessment, all European and all economic ques tions pale into perfect insignifi cance when compared with the question in the Far East and the question of disarmament. The Far East is the dace where inter national Communism is on the march today, and there can be no real world settlement until it is known where this onward march will be finally halted. Disarma ment aoove au demands decis ions about the absolute weapons; and there can be no end of the fear that haunts the world until the world knows what is to be done about the H-bomb. Yet the aim of Secretarv nt State John Foster Dulles and the other "official policy makers is not to discuss the Far Eastern question at Geneva if it is pos sible to dodge doing so. In the preparatory meetings, the Brit ish and French were requested to cooperate in this Dolicv of si lence. They agreed, somewhat re luctantly, to do their best to keep the topic of the Far East out of the Geneva talks. ' BY the same token, for weeks before the President's depar ture for Geneva,, the Administra tion was riven by a first-class row about the right approach to the disarmament question. The Pentagon (which means the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson has not interested himself in the mat ter) is undyingly opposed to a serious disarmament effort. The- disarmament talks .that have taken place to date have aroused no Pentagon opposition because they were thought to be mean ingless. But the Pentagon is up 4 rorists exploded a bomb on the terrace of a Casablanca cafe. Six persons were killed and 35 wounded. The next day the French turned out. They had watched with growing resentment the at temnts of Gilbert Grandval. the new resident general of Moroc co, to start a program 01 in creased home rule. Now they ran riot. They looted, burned and lynched in the Medina, the na tive quarter of Casablanca. Dailv Riotina Since then there has been rioting each day involving Frenchmen and Moroccans. Grandval has imposed martial law. Tanks have fired on mobs. French authorities estimate that up to 200 persons . have been killed. firandval took two . drastic steps yesterday in hope of stop ping the rioting. First he started a purge of the police force, accusing it of inef ficiency in combatting, riots, es pecially of failing to check the French mobs. He fired the Casa blanca police chief, a French man. Second, Grandval put two leading French politicians on a plane and sent them to Paris. They are Marcel Mattei and Jean Cambiazo. Mattei is secretary general of , the "Union for the French Presence in Morocco." This powerful organization, which has important parliamen tary support in France, is fight ing home rule. Cambiazo was accused of complicity in foment ing riots. Grandval arrived in Morocco as the new resident general on July 7. He faces a tough job, if not an impossible one. But if he can just get the situation quiet ed down for the duration of the Geneva conference, he will have accomplished something. Fact by joPh ai in arms now, because serious dis armament talks seem to be a pos sibility. On the other side of the battle, Harold Stassen, whom the Presi dent has charged with personal responsibility as the American disarmament policy maker, fought long, hard and obstinately for permission to take his dis armament plan to Geneva as the American government's plan." It is a bold plan, although, it is per haps not sufficiently worked out in detail. At any rate, the State Department took the stand that Stassen's homework was not fin ished, and this tilted the balance against Stassen. As. a result, a British disarma ment plan is being taken to Gen eva and so is a Soviet plan: but A . . . ! no American pian is Deing taken there. It is even doubtful whether Stassen himself will be nec- mitted to play a Geneva role. To his bitter chagrin, he was not included in the official delega tion. He left for Paris as an "un official observer," with the ques tion still open . whether ' Paris would or would not be his final stopping place. All sorts . of indications have been seeping out of the White House, however, that this, ex tremely negative approach by no means suits President Eisen hower's current mood. It is clear, in fact, that the President would like to talk turkey with the Soviets if the Soviet leaders show the slightest sign of wanting to taiK turkey with him. so far, the Soviets have shown all sorts of signs of wanting to taut turkey with Eisenhower. The inclusion of his friend, Mar- snai Zhukov, in their delegation is only one of these signs. Contin ual hints have been dropped in Moscow, in fact, about the ex treme desirability of informal, man-to-man and private contact between the President and the Soviet chiefs. TifEANWHILE, the President's 7 inclination to try to do busi ness with the Russians has also been considerably strengthened by the report of Charles E. Boh len. Bohlen has stated that the Russians really do want some sort of settlement or relaxation of tensions, not so much because of crippling inner weaknesses in the Russian system, but because the Soviet leaders have also look ed down the dark perspective opened by the H-bomb, and have been terrified by what they saw there. Altogether the chances are pretty good that the pettifogging position papers will be torn up; that the negative approach wttl be abandoned; and that the Presi dent will make a bold, honest and creative effort to find the beginning of a basis for agree ment. If the President allows himself to be himself in this man ner, the summit meeting will in deed become a great occasion, whatever its final result may be. (Copyright, 1855, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) SELF PORTRAIT WINS Chicago (U.R) Joseph Simo- netta, 16, Pittsfield, Mass., won an art scholarship contest here with an -oil portrait he painted In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This piece along with others to follow it at intervals is a notebook summary of thoughts, comments" 'and reflections in spired by another of these offi cial inspections of Oregon's high ways and state parks. This one covers northeastern Oregon up the Columbia to Boardman, where Highway 30 leaves the Great River of the West, through Pendleton to La Grande, thence up to remote and beautiful Wallowa lake in re mote and beautiful Wallowa county, back to La Grande, thence along Highway 30 through Baker to Ontaria, on the Snake, back up the canyon of the Malheur to Burns, then in a southwesterly direction to Lakeview and from there back to Portland by way of the Fre mont highway, the Warm Springs cutoff and the Mount Hood loop a round trip dist ance of some 1500 miles. . The -personnel , includes the Oregon highway commission and a staff of engineers, a segment of the state parks advisory com mittee, a quorum of the legisla tive highway interim committee and representatives of the fed eral, bureau of roads and the federal forest service both of which cooperate in the financing of Oregon's highways. THE route from Portland fol lows the new Banfield ex pressway, leading into the new Columbia highway. This express way is 14 miles long and when completed will cost $16,000,000, of which $10,000,000 will be for construction and $6,000,000 - for right-of-way. ; , Pretty stiff for right-of-way? True enough. But it's wide and roomy, en gineered for the future. And the right-of-way included some pret ty valuable real estate. : MORAL for Oregon's smaller cities: Get the plans made now for your FUTURE system of wide, through streets, freeways and expressways to handle the traf fic of the future. The right-of-way will cost lot less now than if you wait. It was because Portland wait ed too long that the right-of-way for the Banfield expressway cost so much. OUT Oregon's smaller cities will pay We won't ever get big enough to warrant such fabulous things. LET'S not fool ourselves. GREAT GROWTH lies ahead of the cities of Oregon and Far Northern CaliforniaThe popula tion congestion that , started in Southern California is moving steadily northward along the Pa cific Coast which vis Ameri ca's most favored region. Travel to the East and talk to people. East of the Rockies, two out of four of those you talk to will tell you they're going to live in the West or else. We'd all better start making plans now for growth. Right-of- way for the wide through streets and highways that future traffic will demand is cheaper now than it will ever be again. FINANCIAL note: The new Columbia highway from Troutdale, in the edge of Portland, to The Dalles will cost $37,500,000.- Back in 1917, after a campaign that stirred the state to its bottom dregs, the people of Oregon voted a bond issue of $6)00,000 which we thought then would build all the roads we'd ever need. Time marches on. And as it marches on it calls for more and more and MORE of such modern necessities as roads. It wiU be that 'way as long as America remains a DYNAMIC growing nation. OPTIMISTIC thought: It's easier to find the hun dreds of millions we need now than it was back in 1917 to find $6,000,000. .... , OUR roads get steadily better and safer. You doubt the statement that our highways get steadily safer? Wait a minutes. Try to imagine the traffic of today on the high ways we built with the first $6,000,000. They were narrow and rim of curves. Many of the curves were put in on purpose. The cars of that day wouldn't go much faster than 20 mph, and the en gineers thought (probably with reason) that long straightaways would be so tiresome that driv ers ; would fall asleep out of sheer boredom. So they put in the curves to keep people in terested, and alert and AWAKE, we tried to carry the traffic twisty roads, we'd have to float a big new bond issues to provide money enough? to finance the new cemeteries we'd need. AS is was away back in 1917 manv. neonle claimed the engineers, spending the people's hard-earned dollars lavishly, were EXTRA vauan i wnen they insisted on building two traffic lanes. One lane would be enough, these citizens asserted. Why, they said, if one did meet a car vary now and then aoe-cauld On Tfie Sii (Distribvtsd by Kiltfl No doubt you know what base ball team won the Series last year. But do you know who won the title of world's champion cooks? This .was decided at the International Culinary Fair in Switzerland. It was a dead heat between the Austrians and Ger mans. The Belgians were second. England and Norway tied for third. The French, Italian and United States cooks were also rans. The United States entry finished last. To display its culi nary skiU, the United States en try made a choice that seems very peculiar to me. - It was creamed turkey. How could any body expect to win a world's cooking championship by show ing how they prepared creamed turkey? '. Asking Queries from - clients: Q. I know who "Calamity Jane" was. Also am familiar with the ca reers of Klondike Kate and "Two Ace" Dora, but who was "Dia mond Tooth" Gertie? . A. The lady known as "Diamond Tooth" Gertie was a well known Klon dike character around the turn of the century. . . . Q. What are your television program "musts," if any? A. Walter WincheU, Jack Benny, George Gobel, Jimmy Durante, "Groucho" Marx and the Arnaz-BaU team in "I Love Lucy." That Figure : How much does child bearing permanently affect the form? How many .children can a wo man have and still retain her streamlined figure? I have just heard of a 37 year old mother of seven children whose present measurements are: bust, 33; waist, 24, and hips, 33. Passing By Archie Moore, picturesque pugilist. When Archie retires from the ring he should go in business as weight reduction ex- Communications Latter to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis tible. The Hail Tribune reserves the tight to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letter submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Aid is Solicited To the Editor: Recently par ents in Oregon-had the. problem of sex crimes' against children forcibly brought to thens atten tion when a small boy was miss ing for several days, the victim of a sex deviate. . ' . When a widely publicized crime of this type occurs, there is public indignation and deter mination to "do something about it." Then the matter is often forgotten until, there is another dramaticexample. The fact is that such crimes are occurring every day, hundreds of them each year in Oregon. Only constant study and effort will improve the situation. For that purpose a group of parents or ganized the Children's Protect ive Association of Oregon in 1952 and since that time progress has been made. ' , The interest of our state citi zens is needed in this work. Sex offenders do not confine them selves to any one city or locality. Membership in the association is $1 per year. The money is used for assembling information and making it available to legisla tors, law enforcement officials and the general public Memberships or inquiries can be sent to the association's office, Loyalty Building, Portland. We thank you for making this information available, to your readers. Ove Pearson, Chairman, Children's Protective Association, -Loyalty Building, Portland 4, Ore. get off the paved strip while But the engineers were, stub born. They insisted on two lanes, one to cury traffic going in one direction and another to carry traffic goig in the other direc tion. : ' ' TEIEIR stubbornness turned out all right. Experience taught us that we DID need two lanes. We need four lanes already on vast mileages of our highways, and will need six lanes in the not too distant future. If the war daaj cmM speak they wouM certainly all affrae ee eae pies aa end ta war. On this day, let as. the Hvinp. dedicate r ssKras to pray for. peace, t werfc for peace, to help the aoreraments of mea solve their problems with out raaort re the horror and devas tation) of war. , For Infofmcrtion Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 24940 INSURANCE 3 Fred Brennan . By E. V. Durling Ssshsres S radicate. Inci - pert. He is a genius at weight regulation. Asainst weighed in at about 196. For Olson he weighed 175 at ring, side.. Now he says, "For Marci ano I will weigh exactly 185 at ringside. Briefly In England houses are beinc sold on terms of "nothing down and 40 years to pay." . . . Am asked if there is an "official Scots tie." There is. It is an elegant piece of haberdashery that has a rerjeated design of red unicorn carrying a cross of St. Andrew and a green thistle on a blue ground. Horses and Women The reason manv women an flat chested and lacking in that thing called "oomph" is that they do not get enough of the right kind of exercise. Weight lifting is said to. be an effective method of increasing the bust measure ment So is swimming in cold water. Therefore, if you want your wift to develone something resembling a Marilyn Monroe figure send her to a gymnasium to do a bit of weight lifting. Then have her arise around 6 every morning and go for a swim in tne nearest Dody ox cold wa ter. - . Superior Sex Another indication as to how seriously the females have taken the claim that theirs is the su perior sex is the marked change in film scenes involving oscula tion. Now the woman takes the initiative. The heroine advances on the hero, takes him with kisses. This was started hv Tie. borah Kerr in the film titled From Here to Eternity." Many other featured film females fol lowed her example. Now even ' Katherine Hepburn is handling her kissing scenes that way. Says She . "So you say a . young man should ask a girl how well she can cook before he marries her." writes a feminine subscriber. "I suggest a young woman ask a man, how well he can support her before she risks her happi ness with him. Now about three fourths of married women have to work in offices or factories to even afford the privilege of eating good food. When are these working wives supposed to cook those delicious meals? After they have worked hard eight hours on some lob or on week ends while they are cleaning house, wash ing and ironing so they can go back to 'work, on Monday. Or perhaps you were referring to the lucky -few wives who can stay home and be properly sup ported by, their husbands.". McCormackSeesBid llol in Beg for Adlai Washington (U.R) House Democratic Leader John W. Mc Cormack (Mass.) "wouldn't be -surprised" if somebody other than Adlai E. Stevenson were nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate for 1956. "We" have a number of ex cellent men who would make desirable candidates," McCor mick said last night in an inter view. "The nomination of the Democratic convention is not closed by any means. I think it is wide open," he said. "I respect Governor Steven son very much," be said, - "but I would say it is not in the bag for him, so to speak, and I look to the next Democratic conven tion ... to be an interesting one. And I wouldn't be surprised if somebody other' than Governor ALU i A MJY THE NEWH QUV eV G E AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC Water Heater Wash a Load of Clothes ! EVERY HOUR! -tAII Day Long- ONLY $5.00 A MONTH NOTHING DOWN t tionii APPLinneo - US EAST MAIN f Aoritorixotl Doalor' trttuiOiumii
