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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDmiSTRIBUNB "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reada The Mail Tribune" published Daiiv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-23 North Fir St Phone 2-5141 ROBERT W RCHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER Society Ed:tor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MaiNfclr. Advance: Per copy 10c Dailv and Sunday One year $12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months eu Dailv and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3po By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dailv and Sunday One year $13 00 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County " Uni led Press Full LeasedJ ire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Adveriising neprraciiiciL... WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices tn New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL h.u..uiiiM .i nin Tg FUlllSHItS Vj-ASSOCIATIO Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 25. 1945 (It was Wednesday) More than 100 men fight for est fire raging just north of Savage Creek dam. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Ki wanis club got up before break fast this morning to eat break last and were greeted with a lingerie pink dawn. 20 YEARS AGO July 25. 1935 (It was Thursday) Packing plants in Rogue val ley prepare for opening between Aug. 15 and 25. Construction of new gym at Southern Oregon Normal school to start in September, college president announces. 30 YEARS AGO July 25, 1925 (It was Saturday) Three forest fires in Crater Lake park brought under con trol; caused by lightning. From Butte Falls column: The lakes and streams in Blue Can yon at this season of the year are calling not only the fisher men but the swimmer as well. Many tourists are spending their vacation trip at this resort. 40 YEARS AGO July 25, 1915 (It was Sunday) More than 5,000 acres of farm and orchard land signed for ir rigation with Water Users league. State highway department in dicates it will start work on railroad underpass at Ashland at cost of $10,000. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Geneva is the capital of Switzerland, or its largest city, or both, or neither? 2. The machine tools industry has been doing better or worse recently than U. S. industry as a whole, or about the same? 3. In the eight South Atlantic states less or more than half the counties are Dry by local option? 4. The Kastner case is a hot political issue in Italy, New York, Israel, the Pacific North west, or the Tennessee Valley? 5. Hollywood made more or fewer feature-length movies last year than the year before, or about the same number? 6. George Washington moved into the White House in his first or second term as President, or not at all? 7. X-rays were first developed by the Curies. Roentgen. Nobel, Koch, Pasteur or Einstein? The Answers: 1. Neither. 2. Worse. 3. Less than half. 4. Is rael. 5. Fewer. 6. Not at all (it wasn't finished yet). 7. Roent gen. HONESTY PAYS Huntington Park, Calif. (U.R) Lester W. Cedar realized to day what a good policy honesty can be. He was given a $1000 reward for returning to Mrs. Amy M. Weisgerber, Richmond, Calif., a purse containing the $1000 cash and $10,650 worth of jewelry. The teak tree belongs to the verbena plant family. MAIL TRIBUNE Heart Of The City Through the courtesy of Mrs. John J. Patton we have received a clipping of an editorial from an old issue of the Mail Tribune. It was printed "perhaps fifteen or twenty years ago," Mrs. Patton said. It is entitled "The Medford Public Library," and makes interesting reading today. It starts out: "Here is abit of good news," and adds: "THE Medford public library, under the able direc 1 tion of Miss Woolsey, has been going quietly along from year to year, doing its job, without any blare of trumpets or clanking of cymbals. Everyone has known it was a good library. But we didn't sus pect, and believe few others suspected, it was as GOOD as it is." This verdict still stands today. About the only change which it is necessary to point out is that Miss E. Faye Woolsey has retired from the librarianship after 35 years of .dedicated service to the reading pub lic. Her place has been taken by Miss Helen Webster, a veteran of years in various phases of library work. TVIISS Woolsey will probably be a welcome visitor in the Medford library for years to come. But as the responsibility and authority pass into new hands, it might be productive to continue a quotation from the old editorial we mentioned. The quotation is from a pamphlet published by the Manchester Edu cational center, Pittsburgh, Pa., and edited by Samuel Ely Eliot. The article was a report of the meeting of the American Association for Adult Education. The quotation : In one of the general sessions, Dr. Nicholas Murray But ler, president of Columbia University, closed a magnificent address with the following significant personal anecdote. Re ferring to the special interest which library reading lists have always had for him and incidentally he cast a slur on a great many of them by saying they tend altogether too much to include "Best Sellers" and "Books of the Month" he told about an experience he had when he dropped into the library of the little town of Medford returning from a visit to Crater Lake: "I picked up the reading list, from the library desk, and was delighted to find a well-balanced piece of work. The treatment of a subject from one angle was offset by its treat ment from other angles. It was an inspiration to encounter a genuine example of creative work of this sort in a distant part of the Union." THE old editorial commented : "Not bad, coming from one of the foremost edu cators and publicists in the country today, a man with both a national and international reputation for never indulging in hot air, and never giving credit except where credit is emphatically due." This yellowed editorial expresses better than we can our feelings about the library. It is one in which Medford and Jackson county can take pride. It has had its lean years, certainly, and it does not yet enjoy even the average per capita financial support of the rest of Oregon's public libraries. But that lack of money, which has been somewhat (but only somewhat) eased in recent years, has not prevented the library from growing." It is now housed in the original old Carnegie building, plus a big, mod ern, five-year-old annex provided by Medford tax payers at a cost of about $102,000. "INLY one factor is needed to permit this continued growth and increased service on the part of the Medford Public library. That factor is public support. For even with capable administrators and librarians (and Miss Webster gives every indication of being both of these), the library cannot hope to be all that it should without patronage and financial support. Books, all kinds of books, form a part of the framework on which our civilization is built. The written word is the one that lasts, and the communica tion, from person to person and from generation to generation, which books provide, is the cement which holds our evolving culture together. In a very real way, the library is the center, the heart of any community. As such it deserves the best we can give it. E.A. Utl I lie Olae (Distributed by King Trust no prayer or promise Words are grains of sand To keep your heart unbroken Hold it in your hand. Adelaide Proctor. Sizzling weather made me nearly break a promise I made to Uncle Al when I was gradu ated from high school. That was when, at his request, I promised never to carry a briefcase, play a three horse parlay or ask any body. "Is it hot enough for you?" Highest summer temperature I ever experienced was in Grand Island. Neb., one August after noon. The thermometer had hit 110 and was still climbing. But that wasn't when the heat made me most uncomfortable. One July day in the 34th st. station of the New York subway I be came so overheated I thought I was going to pass out. It was the heat, plus the humidity, plus being pushed around in the sub way rush that made me feel that way. Coldest I ever was in sum mer was one August night in San Francisco when it was so chilly we all had to wear overcoats. Among the Married How are you getting along with your sister-in-law? Accord ing to recent research on life among the married, next to mothers-in-law, the sisters-in-law are the most difficult to get along with. Next in line in that respect are brothers-in-law. He's a nice fellow. Has a very hearty laugh. At one time the owner of Monday, July 25, 1955 By E. V. Durling ftiro Syndicate, Inc.) the neighborhood movie theater gave my brother-in-law a pass every time a comedy was book ed. He laughed so heartily it started the rest of the customers laughing so a good time was had by all. As for my sister-in-law, we always get along together nicely. Only time I ever had any trouble with her was when she claimed I talked her off a long shot at Santa Anita. Briefly It was Euripides who said, "Man's best possession is a sym pathetic wife." . . . Too many people fail to remember what they have read. How about you, sir? Did you read the best seller titled "A Tree Grows in Brook lyn"? What kind of tree was it. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Which is the older song, "Sweet Marie" or "Sweet Sue"? A. "Sweet Ma rie" is by far the older. It was written in 1893. "Sweet Sue" was written in 1928. . . . Q. Has there ever been a writer of west ern stories who had any actual experience as a cowhand? A. Eu gene Manlove Rhodes, writer of many highly interesting western stories, was a cowboy for 25 years. Passing By Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey. His Excellency, whose age is 47, is a bachelor. His birth day, July 3, is under sign of Can cer. For the benefit of any femi- Matter of Fact EISENHOWER'S ! PERFORMANCE Geneva At the Big Four con ference. President Eisenhower impressed and occasionally irri tated the Brit ish, impressed and astonish ed the French, and deeply im pressed and ob viously mysti fied the Rus sians. Altogeth er, it was a re markable per formance, and very greatly in the national in terest. Stewart Alsop From beginning to end. the President simply and triumph antly acted himself. When he is being himself, the President is a natural, but decidedly uncon ventional diplomat which ac counts in part for the occasional irritation of the professional British. At one point, for example, Soviet Premier Bulganin pro posed that the question of Ger man rearmament and European security be considered independ ently of each other. This was, of course, flatly contrary to the agreed Western position. But Eisenhower replied that, in the pursuit of peace, nothing should be dependent on anything else. The British, logically, if per haps somewhat stuffily, inter preted the President's remark as supporting Bulganin's position, while the French muttered in amazement. Actually, of course, the remark was a typical Eisen howerism, and simply the Presi dent's way of expressing his ear nestness in the pursuit of peace. But what is really interesting is the Russian reaction to this sort of Eisenhowerism. In this case, for example, the Russians just looked bemused, and none of them thought to take advantage of the remark. Repeatedly there has been evi dence that the President's uncon ventional diplomacy has both bewildered and impressed the Soviet delegation. "PVERY member of the Rus sian delegation quite obvi ously arrived here with instruc tions to "be nice to everybody, but concentrate everything on capturing Eisenhower." They were clearly caught off base when the President, instead of waiting quietly to be captured concentrated his own consider able personal powers on captur ing them. The program started when the President sent his aides scur rying about for a present for Marshal Zhukov's daughter. It continued with such episodes as that described above, which even the Russians could hardly attrib- GRANGE Central Point Grange Central Point Grange officers will practice floor work Monday evening, July 25. The visitation program, as planned by Pomona Grange, is to be presented at Phoenix July 26. All attending from Central Point bring sandwiches or cookies for refreshments. Central Point Grange picnic is planned for Aug. 14 at 1 p.m. at TouVelle park. nine subscribers who might like to marry the Governor, men born under that sign, while ad mirers of feminine pulchritude, are inclined to desire more than physical beauty in their matri monial mates. They have a mark ed preference for intelligent, witty, sophisticated, women who are good conversationalists. The flattery technique doesn't go over well with the Cancer males. They like praise but it must be deserved. They are usually good providers but strongly believe it is smart to be thrifty. They are best handled by a sympa thetic woman of strong charac ter, much patience, a forgiving nature and a highiy developed sense of humor. Or, so say the stargazers. (Note Calvin Cool idge was born under Cancer.) Test An expert on the subject says the only way you can determine the quality of a honey dew mel on is by stroking it with the fin ger and thumb. No doubt he is right. But in some sections you can be arrested for stroking or fingering vegetables and fruit displayed for sale. This brings to mind a sign I once saw over some melons at a market. It read, "Don't stroke me until I am yours." v Sidelights The world's greatest transpor tation bargain continues to be the Staten Island ferry, operat ing on the most beautiful part of New York harbor from the Bat tery to Staten Island. The fare is still 5 cents. . . . Most success ful gamblers have been tall, thin fellows, but Richard Canfield, possibly the most successful of them all, was 5 feet 8 and weigh ed 250. Get It Right Nineteen hundred was not a leap year. That's what I said. Now a New Yorker wants to bet me a box of elegant Havana ci gars that it was. He loses. A leap year is a year of 366 days and is any year whose date is exactly divisible by four except those that are divisible by 100 but not by 400. So 1900 was not a leap year. By Stewart Alsop ute to a secret war plotter. It reached its climax, perhaps, with the President's earnest statement that he had talked to every mem ber of the Soviet delegation, and that he was convinced they were all as sincere in desiring peace as he was. After this sort of thing, the President's remarkable offer of mutual aerial inspection, which might before have been easily dismissed as mere propaganda, took on a color of reality and honesty. It would be both easy and dan gerous, of course, to suppose that the Russians have all fallen vic tim to the fatal Presidential charm, and that they are return ing to Moscow determined to act henceforth like well-brought-up democratic liberals. The mixture of charm and diplomacy can be dangerous, as recent history sug gests. Yet the Russians (with the possible exception of the mechanical Mr. Molotov) are hu man beings too a cliche which becomes startlingly real when you see them at close quarters. TUSSIANS have also always had a special respect for a certain grandeur, especially when it is surrounded by the aroma of great powers. The President has the grandeur and the power, and a curious brand of earnestness as well, which makes him a man remarkably difficult to disbelieve. Perhaps Messrs. Bulganin and Khrushchev are returning to Moscow with at least a seed of private doubt that the President is really the creature of profit hungry Wall Street warmongers, with no will of his own. But even if they harbor no such doubts, the President has scored a signal victory here at Geneva. Simply by being him self, he has smashed into smith ereens the deeply-rooted image of America as an inflexible and bent on war. This is achievement enough for one week. (Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) By SLfcAfewavUM. For armchair travelers, here's a see-worthy travel quiz. Get five out of the five and you're an expert sight-seer; four a trav eler of parts; three calls for a more intensive study, cf your travel guides; and two means you've been sticking altogether too close to home base in your travel and reading. 1. Do the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence river act- 7-25-5 ually consist of that many is lands? 2. Is it possible to see the highest mountain and the deep est valley in the U. S. at the same time? 3. Where can you find a wa terfalls in America 11 times the height of Niagara Falls? 4. Where can you catch a mountain trout in a lake over a mile high and then cook it with out moving a dozen paces? 5. Which city in America is considered to be the most "Eng lish" town in both atmosphere and custom? 6. Which American sight is best-known to the world at large? ANSWERS: 1. Actually, there are 1,692 islands in the Thousand Islands Archipelago of the St. Lawrence river. 2. Yes. Go to Dante's View, Death Valley, California. 3. This waterfall is in Yose mite National Park. 4. I've done this while a ranger naturalist at Yellowstone Lake, in Yellowstone National Park. 5. It is the city at the end of the slogan, "Follow the Birds to Victoria," British, Columbia. 6. This is a toughy, but Hammond's Pictorial Travel At las of Scenic America says: Grand Canyon and the New York Skyline. I would add, Ni agara Falls and Old Faithful geyser, Yellowstone National Park. Any one of these is right. Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week, new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune. P. O. Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, they're tell ing an anecdote in Geneva. It goes like this: As President Eisenhower fin ished outlining his epochal pro posal to exchange military blue prints with the Soviet Union to permit the Russians to fly over our military installations all over the world if they'll per mit us to fly over their military installations all over their part of the world the electric cur rent in Geneva faltered for an instant, leaving the great hall where the conference is in ses sion in momentary darkness. Ike grinned in his inimitable way and remarked: "I didn't mean to blow out the lights." rpHERE can be no doubt that Europe's imagination has been sparked by our President's offer. European newspapers are describing the plan with such words as GRATIFYING . . . GRAND . . . ASTONISHING... and somewhat BIZARRE. It isn't bizarre. It is a brilliant, dramatic move on the chessboard of the cold war. It is an adaptation to diplomacy of the sound military maxim that a good offensive is the best defense. Hitherto the Communists have sprung all the new stuff all the surprises leaving us con stantly on the defensive, like the small boy who is outmaneuvered in a dispute and can say nothing better than "It ain't so." Ike has turned the tables. He has put the bee on the Russians instead of permitting thera to put the bee on us. npHIS question, of course, arises: Is our President's proposal DANGEROUS? Would it be turning our mili tary secrets over to our ene mies? JET'S be realistic about it. We KNOW that if we ex changed actual blueprints those the commies sent us would be phonies. We have no confidence in them. Their record has been such that we CAN'T have any confidence in them. But With their fabulous spy sys tem, the Communists probably know plenty about our military system. Witness their success in getting our secrets of the atom bomb, our great strength lies in the ability of our industrial system to outproduce the Com munist industrial system and they know it. Even if the Communists ac cepted Ike's proposal which is doubtful we wouldn't be giv ing away much. MORE jottings from the note- A?A book: The Highway 30 route up the Columbia passes Celilo Falls the ancestral fishing grounds of all the Indian tribes of - this Northwestern country. The mighty dams that are slacking the Great River's waters from Bonneville to Lewiston and pouring a constantly swelling stream of kilowatts into the in dustrial economy of the Colum bia Basin are doing something else. They are DROWNING OUT these ancient fishing spots where the original inhabitants came at the season of the salmon runs to get their traditional ra tion of fish to tide them over the winter season. Honoring its plighted word, given in solemn treaties, our government is BUYING OUT these historic rights. The price is currently said to average out at about $4,000 per remaining Indian. IT'S a lot of money, and it will come out of the taxpayers' pockets. You hear some cynical cracks about it. But Our ancestors took away this land along with its fish and its game from the ancestors of these j Indians whose inherited rights are being paid for by the government of the United States. I'll pay my share of the taxes involved in the transaction with out complaint. I'm glad to live in a country whose government honors its given word. CUSTODY battle looms over Samuel Reese "Chip" Shep pard, 8-year-old son of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Boy's aunt, Mrs. Henrietta Munn, claims child whose mother was violently slain and whose father is serv ing 10-year sentence for that death. (International) " LADIES' DAY AT GENEVA Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower, right, plays hostess to a party of six Western J3ig-Three wives aboard the yacht "L'Elma." At left is Mrs. Edgar Faure, wife of the French premier, while seated left to Mrs. Eisenhower is Lady Eden, wife of the British Prime Minister. Women in background are not identified. Neutralist Reaction To Ike's Proposal At Geneva Awaited By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst It will be interesting to see what effect President Eisenhow er's offer to exchange military inform ation with Soviet Russia may have on the world's "neu tralist" 1 e a ti ers. The Presi dent's .offer to swap military blueprints with the Krem 1 i n and to permit mutual inspec- Charls McCann "on 01 xerri j - r j tory seems unlikely to appeal to the diplomatic fence-striders. The two leading neutralists are Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru of India and U NU of Burma. What will they think if the Kremlin rejects the President's offer or tries to give it the file-and-forget treatment? Fundamental Principles Nehru and Premier Chou En lai of Communist China worked out a series of five "fundamental principles" of international re lations a year ago. The principles are non-aggression, non-interference in each others's internal affairs, mutual respect, mutual benefit and peaceful co-existence. Much was made of these at the conference of 20 Asian and African countries at Bundung, in Indonesia, in April. Nehru incidentally had hoped to form a strong "neutralist" bloc out of some of the countries that took part. But President Eisenhower also emphasized long ago his desire for a diplomatic "modus Viven di" a way of living which is the same as the Russian-neutralist idea of "co-existence." Furthermore, the President has shown his desire for peace ful co-existence Jay such solid proposals as his atoms-for-peace plans. It took Russia a long time to make up its mind about taking part in that plan. It may take the Soviet gov ernment a long time also to make up its mind about the President's new offer. President's Plan Dramatic That Mr. Eisenhower's plan was dramatic nobody disputed. That it also was good was the immediate reaction in Western European capitals. But comment on it was slow in coming from Russia and also from the neutralist governments. Both seemed too startled at FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 O the boldness of President Eisen hower's offer to commit them selves. Whether the Russians ever will be able to accept it seems most doubtful. If they wanted to be frank about their enormous military organization, there would be less need for the Iron Curtain that they have built up to shield them from Western freedom. But it seems logical that the Kremlin will hesitate before it risks antagonizing neutralist as well as allied opinion by reject ing the Eisenhower plan. Chief Justice Granted Passport Washington (U.R) The State department disclosed Sat urday it has granted an unre stricted passport to former Judge William Clark of Princeton, N. J., outspoken critic of U. S. pol icies in Germany who was pre viously barred from visiting Berlin. Clark, in a statement issued at his home in Princeton, hailed the action as a clear-cut "vic tory" in the running battle he has fought with the department since late 1953, when he was fired as chief justice of the Al lied High commission courts in Germany. Clark, heir to the Clark thread fortune, had been granted in June a passport which permitted him to travel freely in West Germany and other areas, but forbade him to visit Berlin. Hearing Ordered He asked a federal court to order the State department to lift the restriction, and the court responded by directing the de partment to give him a hearing. The hearing was held July 8. A department spokesman, in a brief announcement, said that after a review of all the cir cumstances ...the department has decided to amend Judge Clark's passport ... to include Berlin." While chief justice of Allied courts in Germany, Clark feuded publicly with U. S. High Com missioner James B. Conant over the U. 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