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Newspaper Page TextrOTJR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. July 31. 19SS MEDF0RIv21&TRreUKE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO , 17-29 North Fir St. Phone jjil41 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor r.rRAin LATHAM. CirculationMgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ot Marcn o. SUBSCRIPTION RATES t i pr mnv IOC Dailv and SundayOne veai . $12 .00 Da.lv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mos. 50 J r. In Advance Medford. "'.rr.' .j f-trI Point Eaffle Point. V.iii. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent. Dna?.y and Sunday-On. year $1 J 00 . Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and De alers-5c per copy All Terms t-agii " " : . . - . ia Jt tr v A 6Wlal PP of lie JLy . ' Official Paper oi ac "United-Press FuUJedJ.V.re. SSIBEROF AUDIT BUREAU MEMBtry yTPr17, AT;oN Adyertjing Represenw.-. wtsi-n-'""'rk- chicaI!o. De- ..-,1. cn Francisco. Los Angeies Seattle Portland. St. Loui. Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL lOITORIAL AS SO CHAT HON tSAssociATioii S.P. Propaganda Fails As a postscript to the above the Oregonian has even changed its tune a bit regarding the Southern Pacific railroad, and its effort to abandon all pas senger service in Southern Oregon. In the same issue of the paper in which the Talbott editorial appears, there is an editorial in which it is admitted the Oregonian would "not care to De in tne shoes of the unhappy members of the SP public rela tions department" of that billion dollar corporation at this time. This is also a new departure for our favorite morning daily. For in previous comments of tne Ure- gonian on this issue tne paper very iaitniuiiy ionu weu Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. Oregonian Agrees With Morse With "anything to beat Morse" already the Re publican battle cry in this state, the issue of the Ore gonian of Friday July 29th must have come as some thing of a shock to some of tne LrUf iaitniui. t or what did tne reader una in inai large, excel lent and news-worthy issue? Just this: The always 100 loyal Republican newspaper, supporting Oregon's senior Senator not only on an im portant national issue, but one which may well be vital m the presidential campaign oi nexi year. A m . . ' ' .. . nntaA faf. the SP public relations line and regarded the saving THAT issue is symbolized by the oft-quoted state- &M gp prospective 1955 ment of Secretary of Defense wnson, io-wh. q 000 000 not only inevitable but a part -what is gooa ior uenerai muiui. ;uw Q Tjroeress jn tne realm of modern ana proiiwauie ' . transportation T ixmrAa trio HOP tVlPOrV. thf COITier-StOne of its political faith in fact is "business is not only ""THE Oregonian is still convinced the SP position business, but business should come FIRST." 1 is legally sound, and its prospects of getting its this time as it has in the past are ' fairly good. dent of General Motors when he held his breath, But it grants that m the realm of public relations the pulled out his handkerchief and sold his General railroad has failed and even goes so far as to predict Motors stocks at a profit of only a few score millions, that on the publicity front this giant corporation is where had he done as he wished he would nave netiea quoie : f,irr w trivoo VinnHrpfl TW cent more. "Headed for a shellacking." WpII. well. WELL! w'b ' Ve'rTnee the the Oregoiian, better wager too much on sceess,n . sr tt 1 HC 1- TT golden days of WHin Alexander Hamilton. The only trouble is it is NOT the belief of many other millions of equally good Americans, and, polit ically soeakiner. the latter from time to time have i outnumbered the former, and may 'do so again President Eisenhower to the contrary notwithstanding. Some Farm Wives 'Self-Employed' For Social Security (Editor's note: Following is the third article by W. V. Niisbaum. man ager of the Medford branch, social securitv office, in exolanation of new social security laws in relation to agriculture and farm work.) 10 YEARS AGO July 31. 1945 (It was Tuesday) Some 250 enroll for pear pack ing school conducted by State Vocational bureau. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The OPA is now conducting a survey of the beef shortage in eastern Ore gon areas, where reports have it there are three fat steers in the original package, for every man, woman and child. 20 YEARS AGO July 31. 1935 (It was Wednesday) A 21 per cent gain over 1934 noted in visitors at Crater Lake National park. Medford Active club, along with Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions clubs, support proposal for sign r,par Dunsmuir. Calif., pointing out scenic views in Rogue Val ley. 30 YEARS AGO July 31. 1925 (It was Friday) Promising ledge of gold dis covered near Greenback mine to be known as Gold Wonder Mine. OUT to return to the Oregonian. a fi column sDread in the-issue TV ltU V i of last Friday the demand by Senator Morse that resident Eisenhower fire air force secretary naroiu I. Talbott IMMEDIATELY. And on the editorial page of the same issue we have the lead editorial captioned as follows: Grain threshing starts in Jack son county: wheat averages 25 bushels per acre. 40 YEARS AGO July 31, 1915 (It was Saturday) Construction of Portland Ce ment Plant at Gold Hill to re sume after receiving financial backing from eastern firms. Word received here approves Rogue River Valley Day Aug. 10 at San Francisco exposition. Vhat's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. More U. S. tourists visit France, Great Britain, Italy Spain or Switzerland? 2. Goliath in the Bible was of the Jewish race; right or wrong? 3. Who became U. S. Chief Justice some years after leaving the Presidency? 4. Wildcat III is a car for the future now being displayed by Buick, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Ford or Packard. 5. The Oath of Hippocrates binds dentists, doctors. Commu nist agents, court witnesses, or members of a certain fraternal body? 6. Most susceptible to ivy poi soning are the young, middle aged or elderly, or does age make no difference? 7. The Dewey decimal system is used especially in stock prices, insurance tables, logarithms, book cataloging, or shoe sizes? Th Answers: 1. France. ' Wroncj (he was a Philistine). William Howard Taft. 4. Buick 5. Doctors. 6. The elderly. Book cataloging. TO BUILD SCHOOL Vlnmath Falls (U.R) A 2!2,900 contract for construe tinn of a new elementary school at Chiloquin has been awarded Brosterhous Construction com nanv of Klamath Falls. The school board said total cost of 4ha cfhnni inrludme three al ternates, would be S286.330 Completion date is Aug. 1, 1956, POTLUCGC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Fnr tiP SP nnwerful and arrogant as it is, is not more powerful than public opinion not yet and ran't. in the loner ran at least, atiora to aeiy iu o ..... , .-1. For failure in publicity and puDiic relations means foi'iuro in Hpnlino- with the nublic and if present laws deny the people what they want, and regard as their riffht to have in the realm of transportation, men. we 1 ...111 A-,-, s.sMirca fhvrtrra tVlPTYl ' R.W.R. peupie win in uuc luuicic viiit", - - How Poor "is" the S.R? WE ARE .indebted to a reader for a clipping rrom 9R issnp nf the Pacific Coast edition of The Wall Street Journal which is pertinent to the "Talbott should resign." In short 100 per cent Southern Pacific's wails over its claimed operating agreement between Oregon's fading newspaper ana losses ion J-- un Oregon's senior Democratic senator r- . f ' , th southern As usual Oregon's senior senator pulled no punches, toyed with no double-talk but Hit straignt YfiT This compares with $22,603,- )ut from the shoulder, lie declared among outer rEg months of 1954 and $32,733,367 hings Talbott's activities constituted a serious case iS!?0 if "malfeasance in office, an outrageous violation for the like period in 195d. of the spirit and intent of the conflict of interest - 0THER words, the Southern Pacific, for the statutes," and concluded a strong case could be made 1 firgt half of thig year enjoyed its best operating in the courts if the Brownell Justice Department was f .fc of any of thg lagt three years interested in "ferreting out corruption. Tf rQiirn;,H maintains its first six months pace ican and even an anti-Eisenhower stand, man it ever ..... CURRENTLY the railroad complains that it is losing $400,000 a. vear on the operation of its Siskiyou line passenger service. This would not seem an undue burden upon the SP, in view of its very hpalrhv nrnfits: neither would it appear any hardship r- - . , ,, v. for the railroad to acquire some modern iigniweigm, equipment and see what could be done about a faster, mrrp rnnvenient schedule linkine; Dunsmuir with Eu gene and serving the growing intermediate cities of the Rogue river vaney and ivoseDurg. ABiiianu Tidings. By W. V. NUSBAUM There are some family farm enterprises that are agricultural self-employment. For years farm wives, and other members of farm households have engag ed in farm enterprises on the side. If the farm wife or another- member of the family conducts a separate business wholly on her own, pays the expenses in volved and keeps all the income separate from that derived from the other farm operations, she is - self-employed for social se curity purposes. However, merely doing the chores doesn't make the wife or other member either the farmer's employee or a self employed person. It is also possible for a hus band and wife to operate a farm as business partners, in which event both would be self-employed. By the same token, a father and his child may enter into an arrangement whereby they are actually partners or joint venturers in the farm operation. If a farmers son, who engages in some special farm work on a farm otherwise managed and controlled by his parent, undertakes a 4-H or FFA project entirely on his own, keeps separate records, pays the expenses and keeps the profits, he is a self-emloyed farmer. If the son has net earnings of $400 or more in a year from the activity he runs, such earn ings will count toward his social security. Social security to a youngster has two early values. First, as soon as a young farmer has worked for two "crop years" under social security, he is in sured. In case of his untimely death, a modest lump-sum pay ment would be made toward burial expenses. More impor tant, as soon as the young man has a family, they will have substantial insurance protection, which would pay monthly cash benefits if he were to die. Things got sort of bogged down in the Mail Tribune com posing room one day last week when J. Richard Morgan, one of the printers, took sudden leave. He got back on the job the next day but he was so up in the clouds that he wasn't much use. The reason: Mrs. Morgan gave birth to a daughter at Com munity hospital that day. Dick reported happily, as he passed out cigars, that she weigh ed 6 pounds 3 ounces, is 18 inch es lone, and "looks just like her dad." It's the Morgans' first child. Obviously. On Page 1 of the San Fran cisco Examiner recently, a story under black, screaming headlines about the California kidnapping-murder case, start ed: "Redding,' July 22 Step hanie Bryan's casket was sec retly opened today . . ." One of our more solemn staff members carefully dip ped it out, pasted It on a piece of paper, and added below it: "And don't you dare tell a soul, either." We should like to complement the Medford street department for both efficiency and fore thought. In the Rogue River Roundup parades Friday afternoon and Saturday the rear was brought up by the department's mechanical street sweepers. During the Friday parade, incidentally, the "friendly" Southern Pacific added to it reputation by bringing one of those long freight train through town Just as the parade was well under way. The front of the parade had to wait while the rear was stalled by the train. We thought for a moment that the same thing was going to happen Saturday, but in stead the train pulled to stop Just short of Main St.. and sat there as the parade went by. We are told about a youngster who was cautioned by his grand mother to stop and look both ways before going along the sidewalk past the mouth of an alley where the view was blocked. He was observed to approach the alley, carefully peek around the corner, dash a quarter- block back to grandmother ad inform her that the way was clear and then high-tail it back again, breezing by the alley in high gear without a glance to the right or left. Radio's first loudspeaker waa almost identical to the phono graph horn of that time except that it was generally secured in almost an upright position in the two earlier models. Bend Area Has Frost Seven Times in July Bend (U.R) Weather observ ers here Saturday reported the Bend area was hit by frost seven times during July, an all-time record for the month. Lowest temperature recorded during July was 27 degrees, coldest tem perature recorded in the 50 years the weather station has been manned. Highest temperature during July was 96 degrees. has before, and than this department in its wildest expectations, ever expected it to. - For example, quote : Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott evidently learned too late that the normal practices of business can not be applied to government service when a government official's own interests are involved. His admission of his mistakes and tardy move to remove himself from a firm for which he helped to obtain clients that were defense con tractors cannot make up for his betrayal, inadvertent or not, of the strict code of morality in government laid down by the president who appointed him. President Eisenhower, in his consideration of the conduct of his old friends, revealed some confusion of thought in his press conference Wednesday. He reiterated his position that a public servant's actions must be impeccable, both in law and ethics. But he strayed from this ethical position when he assumed that the point, with respect to Mr. Tal bott, is: "Was an office used improperly or was a man in an office merely trying to use his own personal innuence completely divorced from his office." . . . The president must recognize, on more mature thought, that a public office and the man who fiUs it are inseparable in the people's mind, so far as ethical or unethical conduct is concerned. But his distinction does not apply, anyway. In writing letters on air force stationery, in making tele phone calls from the Pentagon, in conversations in his of fice, in using the air force general counsel on personal busi ness. Secretary Talbott did use his office improperly in the interests of a firm in which he was a partner. It is not material, from the standpoint of morality in government, that Mr. Talbott, a rich man, sacrificed much more money in separating himself from stocks and other business when appointed than he has received from the en gineering firm he retained. Nor is it satisfactory to say that he has learned his lesson and his valuable services should be continued. Secretary Talbott has violated the code of ethics imposed upon him, in no uncertain terms, by President Eisenhower. We do not see how he can avoid the penalty, which is re tirement from government service. Matter of Fact stewan mmp MISCHA THE POET. IVAN THE FARMER Kiev Political conversation with Russians is like a meaning less litany, repeated over and over again. Non - political c o n v ersation with Russians can be inter esting or funny or sad or and this is by far the most likely just very Russian indeed. Take, for Stewart Alaop example, the long talk I had last night with Mischa. the poet, and Ivan Ivanovic, the collective farmer. (Cross my heart, those were their real names). The intelligent In- tourist reporter Victor, and I were having a meal in a restaur- TF THAT isn't a change of front that even surpasses EiThS -1- flip rPfont co-ncoHrmal trnrtsfnrmat.iftn in the Krem- Tvan Ivanovic took the two biiv i vwub V4m ha w lin from sulleness and uncompromising hostility to "&J after "sweetness and light" then we must have not been The conversation started, of course, with an offer of a vodka carafe from one side of the table doing our homework properly of late. In fact as far as this department can recall this is to the oth And then- inevit. the first time the Oreeonian has ever agreed 1UU per ably, there came the litany wny ao you ouua air oases latter tOOK Over for a Second term. vou demand that our voung edi- And as remarked the issue involved isn't a trivial ton should be fingerprinted be- 1 tj. n , .1 T i. lore xney can go 10 America: one by any means. It really goes to the heart of one FiriCfirDrintinB uncultivated maior political issues at the present time, and might and for criminals." "Have you . .1 ... . 1 1 reaa xne iamous oook Dy luiuu Roosevelt, son of your great President?" "Why have you been so cruel to the great com edian Charlie Chaplin?" and so on If I had just arrived in Russia, I might have thought Mischa and Ivan Ivanovic were "plants, asking carefully prepared ques tions. But by this time I know well be not only an issue, but issue No. 1 in the next national campaign. THE political importance of this incident will not kC ICUUtCU iAlti latCb AbUlb lJlkl TT OClllllgbUll should prove correct, namely: secretary Talbott re fuses to hand in his resignation and President Eisen hower has refused to demand it! R.W.R. that every Russian quite lit erally every Russian repeats the same litany almost in the same words whenever he has the chance to talk face to face with that strange beast, an American: The entire population of this country cannot possibly consist of intelligence agents, playing an elaborate con game on all foreigners. Alas, the plain fact is that this state needs no plants. On all matters, from American air bases to Elliott Roosevelt's nonsensical book, Russians think alike because they have no op portunity to learn to think other wise. Any serious attempt to explain such matters as the air bases is met with an infuriating, smug obtuseness, and references to such events as the Berlin blockade or the Korean aggres sion are greeted with blank in credulity. rriHE ideological curtain be- A tween' Mischa. Ivan and my self was thicker and more opaque than any mere Iron Cur tain. So. as always in conver sations with Russians, our talk reached a total impasse. Then suddenly, as also often happens in conversations with Russians, Mischa and Ivan Ivanovic for got about political problems and stonned being phonograph re cords, and became Russians. Mischa, the poet, had wild curly black hair and coal black eyes of burning intensity. Ivan Ivanovic had the very high cheek bones and the inflam mable soul of the true Slav, Neither was of a reserved na ture. After the political conversa tion and the second carafe of vodka had simultaneously end ed, Mischa fixed me with his burning eyes and implacably de manded every detail of my per sonal life, starting with my in- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear tha name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. come. I seemed to pass this test. "You have the open face of a simple man," Mischa announced, settling back comfortably with the third carafe. (At least that was the way Victor translated it. Would "simpleton" have been closer?) Then Ivan Ivano vic, the collective farmer, took over. His Slavic soul was be ginning by this time to warm up perceptibly, and from time to time he would beat his breast. "I like you," he said, "be cause you wear tne simpie clothes of a worker." This rather distressed me, since I was wearing an expensive suit which I had always considered rather elegant. But I concealed the wound, as the evening took on a Slavic glow of undying amity, and Ivan Ivanovic began to beat 1 ij breast at ever more frequent intervals. As the evening wore on, poor Victor began to lose track, since both Mischa and Ivan Ivanovic talked very loudly and continu ally at the same time. But I re member that half-way through the evening Ivan offered to take me to his Kolkhoz, or collective farm, to live there as long as liked with his beloved mother and three young orphan daugh ters. The offer interested me but the deal fell through when it turned out that his Kolkhoz was some incredible distance away, across the limitless steppes. TY the end of the evening, Ivan Ivanovic and I. at his sugges tion, were making arrangements to affiance my three sons to his three daughters, while Mischa acted as Ivan's intermediary in the matter of terms. Nd doubt this deal will fall through too, as the -one about tne js.oiKnoz did. No doubt we shall never meet again. At the moment, this prospect saddens me considerably. (Is this a sudden outcropping of the Slavic soul, or only that fourth unwise carafe?) At any rate, I liked Mischa and Ivan Ivanovic very much indeed and I think they at least found me interest ing, as a sort of circus curiosity It's too bad that there was that curtain between us. Copyright, 19S5, New York Herald Tribune Inc Why Not Revive It? To the Editor: Do you remem ber the Northern California, Southern Oregon Development association which was very ac tive in promoting the interests of the Rogue River vaUey during the 20's? I have one of their publications before me now, pro posing the construction of a rail road from Crescent City to Klamath Falls, which would make an outlet for the Rogue River valley and would put an end to the Southern Pacific mon opoly. Whatever happened to that vision? This is the kind of an argument the Southern Pa cific would understand. Is it not possible to build a railroad from Medford t Klamath Falls and divert the freight of Rogue River valley via the Northern and Western Pacific to the east? Passenger service could also be established from Klamath Falls to Medford. Perhaps this is a dream, but why not investigate the possibilities? Byron Coleman, Atty 220 Montgomery St. San Francisco This is the first ot a series of reports which Stewart Alsop brought out of Russia when he left Moscow before the Geneva conference. ' Wants One Good Train To the Editor: I sure hope the P.U.C. and all the other boosters can beg, coax or force the S.P. to give at least one good train a day Frisco to Portland. The present passenger train service out of Medford is a disgrace to civilization. I for one will not ride a bus if I can go by train. And we go either to Portland or Stockton, Calif, on our vacations. Last va cation trip on the return trip we left Kansas City, Mo., 11:40 p.m. Time table and due to storm train was 30 minutes late. "San ta Fe San Frisco Chief" 24 hours later we were in Needles, Calif. Crossing greater parts of five states in 13 hours. The S.P. "Start and Stop" route we could not cross one state. I am betting on any one who can get one good train a day each way, Frisco to Portland. "Without Changes." Paul I. Smith 839 West 13th Medford, Oregon Western Pacific Railroad Continues Train Passenger Service In Spite of Loss To the Editor: Our attention has been called to an article on page 10 of your issue of July ( 24th entitled "Railroad Enthu siast points out Western Pacific Plan, etc."Tt contains a story said to have come deviously from the office of the president of the Western Pacific. It must have come very de viously, for while we are not registering a protest or anything like that, the picture painted of the case. is so. completely inaccurate that we felt we should offer the facts The train evidently referred to was the "Royal (Jorge" oper ating" between San Francisco and Salt Lake City and on other railroads to Chicago. The equip ment was not new but neither was it dirty, tne service was good rather than "impossible" and both the employes and the management were making every effort to increase its patronage, even to -leasing special modern coaches from an eastern road The train was not losing $1,200 a month, as your mlor- mant stated, it was losing almost a million dollars a year. Applica tion was made to the state utility commissions to replace this daily service with tri-weekly Budd diesel car service. These appli cations were approved. No ap plication was made to the I.C.C. because none was required. There was no substitution of daytime for night operation as the Budd cars run on subtsan tially the same schedule as the old conventional trains. There have been no trailers purchased. There has been no need for them and the cars cannot haul trail ers anyway. Finally, far from paying for themselves in less than a year they have operated at a loss of about 43c per mile ever since they were put into service. How ever, the service is necessary to the isolated mountain and desert communities served and it is being rendered for that reaason. Gilbert H. Kneiss Assistant to President Western Pacific R.R. 526 Mission St, San Francisco Morse Says Talbott Should Be Removed Washington (U.R) Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Fri day that Air S e c r e t a r y Har old E. Talbott may nave vioiatea the conflict-of-interest laws by engaging in outside business ac tivities. He also said there is a "strong possibility" the secretary could be convicted of malfeasance in office if the case ever came to court. Morse reopened his attack on Talbott in the wake of Talbott's announcement that be had sev ered his $60,000-a-year partner ship in Paul B. MuUigan & Co., New York management en gineering firm. "Talbott may think he is out of the mulligan, but he ia not Coos Sheriff Solves Summons Problem Coos Bay (U.P.) Coot County Sheriff Charles Strewn, who as tax collector was named a defendant in a tax suit filed by the Bandon Veneer 8c Plywood Co.. was not permitted by law to servo the court summons on himself. Sheriff Strawn, following the law's instructions, took the summons to County Coro ner Brewer Mills, handed him the document and told him: "Here, serve me." Mills did. Out of the stew," Morse told the Gtant. TT 3 J 3 .... rm wiiaic. 11c auueu mat congress should make clear to the admin istration that Talbott should be removed from office "forthwith"