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FOUR iMEDFORD (OREGON) MedforjvOITribune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 DADTDT XT DIUI GMitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper " Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ox Marcn J, iaa SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday S months 6.o0 Dailv and Sunday Three mos 3-50 Sunday Only One year By Carrier In Advance - Medford. Ashland. Cenual Point E aJ"" Jacksonville. Gold HU1. Phoen Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,nn Daily and Sunday-On year 15.00 Daily and Sunday One month lo Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance oTflctai Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County TTnlW iPr F"u Leased wire - SEMBEROF AUDIT BUREAU OF C1K-Ull" Advertising neyicicuwu-'.- WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St. Louw Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocFatiIqn I J J J NIWSPAMt v rUBLIBHItS "ASSOCIATION Z3 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 22. 1945 (It was Sunday) Ninety Jackson bounty ,4-H members attend Lake O Woods camp. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Citizens have started running around in their shirtsleeves. They think they are keeping cool, and give a rustic appearance to this metropolis. 20 YEARS AGO July 22. 193S (It was Monday) Rogue River National forest fire-fighting crews start work on 30 fires caused by lightning. Thieves attempt to blow safe at Southern Pacific office in Gold Hill with nitro-glycerine; two other places robbed in Gold Hill. 30 YEARS AGO July 22. 1925 (It was Wednesday) Two special elections may be held at same time in Medford for a water bond and annexation proposals. Ashes and mud from 8,000 feet up Mt. Shasta causing Sac ramento and McCloud rivers to become thick liquid mud. 40 YEARS AGO July 22, 1915 (It was Thursday) William Jennings Bryan to speak in Medford city park July 29 according to plans announc ed! From Local and Personal col umn: The mercury rose to 100 degrees Wednesday the second hottest day of -the season. At noon today the temperature was 93 degrees. Orchardists without means of irrigation are rapidly being converted to the needs of artificial watering, while those with foresight are content. The second crop of alfalfa is suffer ing from the heat. The heat is making the forests dry as tinder nd sending scores of vacation- its to the hills. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. About 150,000, 500,000, 1,000,000 or 1,500,000 Americans quit smoking cigarettes in the last 18 months? ' . . 2. Pope Pius XII said recently that communism is getting stronger or weaker with Italian workers, or holding its own? 3. An oil well was first de veloped commercially in Cali fornia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, exas, or West Virginia? 4. If you flew due west from Gibraltar, you'd reach Virginia, Bermuda, Florida, Mexico, the Panama Canal, or Brazil? 5. The heavyweight boxing title was lost by Jess Willard to Max Baer, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, or Gene Tunney? 6. Congress is likely or un likely this year to vote for a Constitutional amendment chang ing the presidential election sys tem? . 7. William V. S. Tubman is the president of which independ ent nation? The Answers: 1. 1.500,000 says the Census Bureau. 2. Getting weaker. 3. Pennsylvania. 4. Vir ginia. 5. Dempsey. 6. Unlikely. 7. Libera, in Africa. j MAIL TRIBUNE No Way To Do Business We have said it before and we say it again: A city councilman's lot is not a happy one. But we see no reason for city councilmen to make it tougher on themselves than it is. The bit of foolish ness last Tuesday evening is what brings the subject to mind. Let's review what happened: TF A paving petition is presented to the council, it can pass an ordinance ordering the paving in. If the petition has signatures of those owning 50 per cent or more of the frontage, the cost of the paving can be assessed to all frontage owners on a front-foot basis, and can be paid for over a period of years through the use of Bancroft act bonds. If less than 50 per cent of the frontage is repre sented by signatures on a petition for paving, the city can still order in paving, but it cannot assess the prop erty owners for the work, and must pay for it itself. AT TUESDAY'S council meeting, the question of "paving a street came up. The petition requesting paving was presented. It contained signatures of those who owned 53.8 per cent of the property. But at the same meeting, a petition opposing paving was also brought up for hearing. It contained the name of a woman who had signed the first peti tion, but later changed her mind. A letter from her, explaining this, was presented. With- her property withdrawn from the first (or pro-paving) petition, that left only about 49 per cent of the frontage repre sented. The council voted in the paving. In doing so, it overrode her objection on the grounds that her sig nature on the petition, and on her own letter, might not be hers. This display of undue suspicion and bad temper is unbecoming to any member of the council certainly to one who pretends to be a servant of the people he represents. THE fact that the woman involved later appeared, and fainted in the council chambers, merely added excitement and drama to a rather sad and sordid situation. If the council persists, it may face court action if it attempts to force assessments. And if it decides to pay the cost itself, it picked a bad time to do it, just after cutting budgets to In addition, the council bility for its actions. There public servants, for common courtesy and considera tion in its dealing with the people who elect them. We are glad that two councilmen failed to get stampeded into this silly business. We hope the others will acknowledge that they made a mistake, and will rectify it at the next meeting. E.A. The Highway Bills Congress has yet to make a decision on what type of highway construction assistance it will come up with this year. But it is virtually certain that some bill will be passed providing federal funds for high way work. Whatever the final decision, southern Oregon can expect to benefit through Oregon's share of the fed eral allocation. , THERE are two basic plans being considered, the 1 Fallon bill (sponsored by Congressman George H. Fallon, Maryland), which received the approval of the House public works committee last Friday, and the Gore bill (sponsored by Sen. Albert Gore, Tennes see). The House bill calls for a federal contribution of $24,000,000,000, to be matched by $2,500,000,000 by the states. The plan is to complete the "National Sys tem of Interstate and Defense Highways" in the next 12 years. Federal aid to all other roads would be $725,000,000 per year, with the intention of increas ing this total by $25,000,000 each year until 1968. THE Senate bill was passed six weeks ago. It calls 1 for $7,750,000,000 in federal funds for the Na tional System, with $900,000,000 per year for other roads. If the House approves the Fallon bill, a conference committee will have to iron out the differences be tween the two measures. THE Highways for Survival Committee, a non-par-. tisan group devoted to the construction of ade quate highways throughout the nation, has prepared a comparison of the two plans. It is devoted to dis cussing the effects of the two measures, not to the methods of financing, which has been the chief bone of contention regarding the measures. The House act, the committee reports, would pro vide Oregon with $329,000,000, to be matched by $8,600,000, over a five-year period. Under other types of federal highway aid, Oregon would get $11,100,000 under the House plan in 1957, $5,700,000 of it for primary roads, $4,000,000 for sec ondary roads, and $1,500,000 for urban connections and streets. These figures would increase each year. The Senate plan would provide $14,100,000 on the same matching formula, constant for five years, with proportionate allocations to the three categories of federal-aid roads E.A. Suzan Ball Remains In Serious Condition Hollywood (U.R) Doctors at the City of Hope Medical Center reported today that act ress Suzan Ball still was in "ser ious condition" from a recur rence of cancer which caused her leg to be amputated more than a year ago. Friday, July 22, I95S the bone and beyond. bears a moral responsi is an overriding need, in Non-Farm Employment In Oregon Increases Salem (U.PJ Non-farm em ployment in Oregon in mid-June was estimated at 474,900 by the State Unemployment Compensa tion Commission, 16,200 higher than a year ago. About half the increase was in logging and lumber. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS High up on a sun-drenched bench "on the Washington side of the Columbia stands a weath ered concrete structure that catches every roving eye. It is spotted on most of the maps as Maryhill Castle. It has an interesting history. TT was built by Sam Hill. Sam Hill was a son-in-law of Jim Hill, having married the Empire Builder's daughter Mary. Hence the name Maryhill. Sam HiU was an able citizen in his own right, and with the backing of his father-in-law be came a" world-famous character. In his later years he traveled widely over the world and hob nobbed with dukes and princes and kings. With a railroad fortune at his back, he became interested in automobiles and highways for them to travel on. He was one of the earliest of the evangelists of the cult of good roads. WHY did he build Maryhill " Castle? Partly it was a rich man's hobby. He could afford it. All down through history well heeled able men have built castles. Sam Hill was familiar with the castles of Europe. That commanding bluff above the majestic Columbia may have ap pealed to him as a proper place to build a castle. Anyway, he went ahead and did it. He built Maryhill Castle as an architect's dream of what a luxurious home should be in an age dominated by the automo bile which, he foresaw, would change men's lives as no pre ceding human invention had done. As originally constructed,, Maryhill had a long corridor through its second story. This corridor was reached by a ramp. Automobiles could drive up the ramp, through the inside corri dor and could go out at the end and down another ramp into garages at the bottom. On each side of the corridor were living facilities, including a huge liv ing room and game rooms. The idea was to utilize the automobile then in its rudi mentary stages of development to the fullest possible extent for the greater convenience of the great house's occupants. T 'HAT is to say: Back there nearly a half cen tury ago Maryhill Castle was as perfectly designed for ultra modern living in the ultra ultra modern automobile age as if it had been architected by Harold Lloyd Wright, the modern of Moderns in the way of function al houses built for modern liv ing in this modern day. A T Maryhill, Sam Hill, backed by a railroad fortune went much farther than the design of the house itself in his anticipa tion of the automobile age. In the grounds, along the road leading up to the castle from the river level, he built sections of the various types of roads then known, starting with macadam and going on through such types as concrete pavement, blacktop pavement and oil mats. These were designed to be guinea pigs for the highway engineers. TlfARYHILL CASTLE, of course, was ahead of its time. But it is interesting to reflect that back in that earlier day, when the automobile was still 4n its more rudimentary stages, a keen intelligence such as Sam Hill's had anticipated the day when this new device would revolutionize human liv ing. Maryhill is now a museum, supported by a trust fund left by its builder. It has been al tered to accommodate it to its present purpose. The corridor through which automobiles were designed to enter the structure and leave their passengers con veniently and comfortably on the inside, has been closed off. Other changes have been made for the same reason. It was never lived in for any extended period. It was basical ly a dream house. T SUPPOSE Maryhill will be remembered best for its ded ication. Among Sam Hill's numerous titled and royal European friends was Queen Marie of Roumania. Because of. this friendship and, I reckon, a cer tain flair for showmanship pos sessed both by Roumania's beau tiful queen and her American host she came over to dedi cate Maryhill Castle. Aa one hears the stories, the dedication must have been a brilliant af fair. Visiting queens in those days were rare even in the more sophisticated eastern part of our country, and out here in the far West they were regarded as glamorous Indeed. In her later years, grief and sorrow and frustration came to Queen Marie in overflowing measure, and there must have been times when she looked back to her carefree visit to Maryhill Castle with nostalgic longing. Dead line Sunday- Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. i Today and By Walter THE SILENT MEMBER In reading the four public statements about Germany we have to keep very much in mind the position of Dr. Adenauer. He is not pres ent and did not have to make a public state ment. Yet no agreement can be made with out him and he has a veto on what the West Walter Lippmann ern p o w e r s may propose the four powers and on what can agree upon. All the four public statements were determined by the knowl edge that although Germany is not speaking publicly in her own behalf at Geneva, she is going to have a principal part in any negotiation which may come out of these talks. Until then Dr. Adenauer does not want any agreement of substance. To this fact there are visible in the four statements three more or less differing reactions. First, there is the British view, as stated by Sir Anthony Eden, and in its essential idea second ed, it would seem, by France. Its essential idea is that a basic agreement should be reached as soon as possible by the four pow ers in order tho contain the com ing negotiations with Germany. The terms offered to the Soviets are German reunification within the Postdam frontiers. The So viet Union would agree to Ger man reunification and would get in return the guarantee of Great Britain, France and the United States against any at tempt to change by force the 1945 frontier. The West would get from such a deal not only a united Ger many within the Western alli ance, but, what is even more important, a guarantee that Ger- flu Sara m saiaiii I Mail call. Because it's thun derstorm season, many letters deal with thunder and lightning. Today's questions are typical. "Thunder and lightning terrify me," writes J.R.N. "What is the safest place in a thunderstorm? "Where in America is the most frequently hit spot?" is part of F.D.G.'s letter. "How many people actually are killed by lightning each year in our country?" asks S.W.B. Crossing Rivers: It sounds like an old guide's tale, I know, but heat thunderstorms do have a healthy respect for large cooled areas. Careful observations show that the intensiveness of heat thunderstorms are moderated when passing over wooded or grassland areas and intensified when going over plowed or built-up areas which give off more heat to the lower atmos phere. However, unless the bodies of t water are large, I doubt if the effect would be no ticeable. But cool areas do cut off the basic need of a thunder storm updrafts of hot air. Frequency: Just which is the most frequently hit spot in America. I cannot determine. But I'll wager that the world's highest structure, the Empire State Building in New York City, would be high on the list. In one summer it was struck 48 times in fact, during one violent thun derstorm it was struck 48 times in fact, during one violent thunderstorm it was struck 15 times in 15 minutes! Yet, being' a steel-concrete structure it is un usually safe. That's because the lightning follows the steel until it is safely grounded. For that matter, all large cities are com paratively safe because of the tall structures most of which are made of steel and concrete. Perhaps the safest place al though visited quite frequently by thunderstorms, is lower Man hattan. Fatalities: In the U.S. lightning kills from 400 to 500, injuring 1500 more. So though the danger is never great one in 80,000 it does always exist. As for safety, the most import- j ant thine to know is that it tends to hit the highest spot, whether ! a rock, a tree, a chimney, a golfer with an upraised steel-shafted club, or the spire of the Empire State building. When indoors, avoid fireplaces because lightning tends to strike the taUest part of the building, the chimney. I am as suming that there is no light ning rod to lead the current harmlessly to the ground. Actu ally the best thing to do in a house is to carry on with the daily round of work, but observ ing these three exceptions; avoid taking baths in a tub; if possible keep away from overhead wires; do not use your telephone unless necessary. - (Released by McCluxe Newspaper Syndicate) a M i itiM t Tomorrow Lippmann many and the Soviet Union will not make a separate settlement of the frontier question. Under the Eden plan the final settle ment with Germany which must include the frontier ques tion would be made by the five powers. " "DULGANIN has not only re jected the Eden proposal but has put forward Soviet propo sals that NATO itself should be liquidated as part of the agree ment to unify Germany. Bul ganin cannot possibly have sup posed that the three Western governments could or would agree to this. Manifestly, his pro posals were not made to the Western powers. They were ad dressed to Germany. In contrast with the Eden proposals, which are designed to keep the Ger man question within the control of five powers, Bulganin must be taking it for granted that the Soviet Union will eventually ne gotiate directly with Germany. Seen that way, his offer to trade a German settlement for the liquidation of NATO is a serious business. For while Dr. Ade nauer will not make that trade, he is not immortal, and the German opposition to Dr. Ade nauer would certainly consider it seriously. Bulganin's statement is based on the supposition that time is on the side of the Soviet Union that they must wait the pass ing of Adenauer. Now curiously enough, Dr. Adenauer is suppos ing that time is on his side that he should not settle the German peace treaty until there is a German army. THE American statement is es sentially a straddle between the Adenauer policy of waiting until Germany is armed and the Eden-Faure policy of construct ing ar political framework within which the rearmed Germany can be contained. The President went along with Eden in that he offered to recognize that the Potsdam frontier should not be changed by force. But the tone and the emphasis of the Ameri can statements are compatible with the Adenauer view that it is better not to settle until Ger many is ' rearmed. It is, more over, a question whether Eisen hower and Dulles could in view of their domestic political commitments agree to put their names to a pact, requiring rati fication by the Senate, to guar antee against forcible change the territorial status quo in Central Europe. The fact that the Soviet Union has rejected the Eden plan makes it unnecessary for the President to face such a very difficult decision. But the West is left with what is in fact a gi gantic gamble: whether time is on the side of Adenauer or of the opposition to Adenauer. The German chancellor is playing for very high stakes for a German settlement on his own terms, for a Germany reunited within the frontiers that are better than those of Potsdam, reunited un der his government in Bonn and under his party, rearmed within NATO and when rearmed, the leading European power within NATO. 1ITHAT the Atlantic allies very " much need is something that will reinsure their interests in case Dr. - Adenauer's gamble fails, and a successor enters into direct negotiations with Moscow. Dr. Adenauer cannot commit his successor. Moreover, a rearmed Germany will be better able than an unarmed Germany to negotiate with Moscow. There has been some talk that we should not or that we will not go forward with projects for security and for the regula tion of armaments unless the So viets first agree to German uni fication on our terms. This is an unwise position in view of the fact that although Bonn and Moscow are laying opposite bets about the future, both are point ing to a future where they will negotiate directly. If the West is to reinsure it self it must reach some kind of agreement with the Soviet Union be it only on a so-called fire alarm arrangements be fore a rearmed Germany is ready to negotiate with the So viet Union. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. 231 BACON ENDS i iy,k Babson ... Automation Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Not very long a?o I heard a man in the auto mobile busi ness say: "In my lifetime there have been bigger changes in in dustry than took place in all of the years before that." Here in Amer- Boccr w. Babiaa ica, especially, our way of life has changed more within the memory of many of us than in all the gen erations before us. This fast change scares a lot of thinking people. Some feel that they would have had fewer problems to face if they had been born a hundred years ago and they are probably right. Others say they would not want to be around a hundred years from now because "things are changing too fast." Some of the union leaders men you might expect would move fast themselves also ap parently are frightened. They ad mit that the high wages are de veloping a new threat to labor which may throw huge numbers Vermont Couple Wait Sentences By Federal Court Brattleboro, Vt. (UP.) A law-defying justice of the peace and his wife, who urged draft dodging, returned to near nor mal living at their home today while the government pondered what punishment to impose for their separate convictions. Manuel Miller, 27, and his wife, Lucille, 44, were both free in $1000 bail. Miller was con victed yesterday by a federal jury of two counts of assaulting U.S. marshals who came to take Mrs. Miller to a mental hospital. Mrs. Miller was convicted in the same court last week of urg ing Vermont youths to dodge the draft. Both face sentencing Aug. 8. Miller faces a maximum sen tence of 20 years in prison and fines totaling $20,000. His wife, convicted on 18 counts, could be sentenced to 10 years in pri son and fined $5000 on each count. The charges against Miller stemmed from a 12-hour siege at his Bethel, Vt. home May 3 when U.S. marshals came to pick up Mrs. Miller. The couple was tear-gassed into submission, Walla WaPrison Investigation Starts Walla Walla, Wash. (U.R) Washington state officials are conducting an investigation of operations and conditions at the state prison. The probe is being made at the Walla Walla institution by Adult Corrections Supervisor Clarence Schrac and State Use Industries Director David Sharar. The investigators say they will have nothing to report on the progress of the project until it is completed. One phase involves the ques tioning of inmates about causes of disturbances at the prison, including the one that occurred early this month. Meanwhile, things are report ed "all quiet" in prison cell blocks, where new trouble threatened to break out yester day over results of a settlement of this month's rebellion. Ax Thrown, Gold Pan Contests Slated Jacksonville An ax throwing and a gold panning contest have been added to attractions for the annual Jacksonville Gold Rush Jubilee Aug. 6 and 7, Ike Dun ford, general chairman, has an nounced. Dates and times for the con tests will be announced later. Besides the two just announced, there will be. a log bucking con test. Dunford also said that the Garden club will have a floral display, and that Chuck Young has been named chairman of the Kiddie parade, which will be held at 10 a.m. Aug. 6. Melvin (Doc) Tweedie has been named chairman of the dancing com mittee. EAST PICNIC HAMS SIXTH ST. LUNCH MEATS out of work. This threat is auto mation and they say it may not only throw men out of their jobs, but there just may not be any jobs' Of course, I don't be lieve this. Rather, histofy shows, "the more machinery, the more jobs" but very different jobs. Automation Means Use Of Electronic Machines Automation is a word that is being used a great deal now adays. It means using electronic machines in place of men. Wal ter Reuther and others see this as a real danger to full employ ment. They seem to think that some day" a manufacturer will need only to put -his finger on a few buttons and push! If this were true, or close to it, then we all ought to be afraid be cause our way of life depends on most of us having jobs and working at them. If, however, the future is anything like the past, automation could increase employment and raise the stan dard of living. There have been all kinds of developments in of fice machines in the last ten years, yet the number of office workers has risen from 5,100, 000 to 8,100,000 during this same period. Even new telephone ex changes, oil refineries and elec tric generating plants, for exam ple, now looks like a preview of the automatic world of tomor row. A visitor to a big generat ing plant sees some gigantic pipes, an array of dials, and only one man who seems to be in charge. There is even less to look at in a modern automatic telephone exchange. If you have a chance, look at one of the new "electronic brains" which can do as much computation in ,say. four minutes as a large force of men with pencil and paper could do in months. About all you will see will be a row of machines looking like so many juke boxes and flashing lights, and one or two well-dressed young women pushing buttons. Human Effort Still Necessary As the changeover to auto matic production spreads, it if certain that a lot of workers will have to move to other jobs. But there are more people employed now than there were ten years, ago, with very much more ma chinery. It has been said by ex perts that, without automation, we soon would not have had enough workers to do our jobs, to introduce new products, and to achieve our present prosper ity. Even in industries and offices where the work has been made the most automatic, a good deal of human effort is still neces sary. Supposedly, a factory could be eretced in which every proc ess from raw material to final production could be done by a few people who would only push buttons. Actually, of course, hu man brains have to work out the whole scheme, and human hands have to build the ma chines, set them going, tend, re pair, and maintain them, . and sometimes stop them! Working Conditions, Pay Better in America I don't believe we are moving too fast. We are materially and spiritually better off in this country than are the backward nations which have never had such machines. No workers any where ever had better working conditions or higher pay than Americans are getting today. The machine has brought them prosperity and is bringing them more time and opportunity to do-it-themselves," in their own . homes, with their own families. Perhaps we can all use some of this time and opportunity to cul tivate the spiritual values which we have been neglecting while we have been building up our material prosperity. SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with saving. Have the thine you want through systematic sav ing. Don't just dream . . . or wish, but have the things you went in fife by saving for them. Start with any amount. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS LOAN ASSH of Medford . 27 North Holly Aa Institution Poo'icafoo' To Those Who Save SUCED BACON
