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o rOUB MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordS&IsTrib UNI "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 r. t . w-i . bUllUI HERB GREY Advertising Manager Z. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN -JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegrdii Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor LIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr DADTOT ITT DTTT( r;A An inqepenoent newsptmci Entered as second class matter at Medford. OreRon. under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear S12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear S3o0 toy Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: -,. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month l- Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County S Uniwd Press Full LeasedJWire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or t.im-uin"-'- AOVerusinK rii:i;icremu.-- WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL ksSOC'IATllON LLH NEWSPAMt PUtllSNIRt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time. Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 1. 1945 - fTt was Wednesday) 0Bears reported plentiful in Union Creek-Prospect area; !rest service says several have Sjroken into homes and cars in jearch of food. From Arthur Perry's Ye SmuHse Pot column: Henry J. Kaiser, the shipbuilding wizard and industrial go-getter, plans to riioneer a low-priced auto, in the post-war era. The Kaiser go- cart promises to be better than the Ford, in its youth, and time alone will determine if the stories about it are any worse. 20 YEARS AGO August 1, 1935 (It was Thursday) Evahs Creek dog "Ring" gets bit by a ratfle snake and lives to bark about it. Postal receipts at Medford post office total $7,431.63 for July, an increase of $313.92 above the previous July. 30 YEARS AGO August 1. 1925 (It was Saturday) Four Medford boys runaway from home, caught in Roseburg. From Local and Personal column: Fruit growers get in touch with government free em ployment bureau, Medford Chamber of Commerce, for pickers. 40 YEARS AGO August 1, 1915 (It was Sunday) Adams, club favorite, and Egan, downtown favorite, to meet in finals of Southern Ore gon Tennis tournament at the Country club this afternoon. Jackson county divided into eight districts with eight regis trars to carry out recent law passed by legislature for com pulsory registration of births and deaths. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the' 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Which group of nations has more people, the Communist or the free-world bloc, or have they about the same number? 2. Most men who smoke cig garettes at all smoke less than a pack a day; right or wrong? 3. Half, more than half, or less than half of all feature mov ies made in Hollywood last year were in color? 4. Which state extends furth er north: Maine, Vermont, Mich igan, Minnesota or Washington? 5. Relatively many or few new stock issues were floated in the first part of this year, or about the average number? 6. In this week's elections in Israel the Mapai candidates are pro-governemeni or in the Op position? 7. U. S. ambassador to Great Britain is Walter Sifford, Jo seph Kennedy, James Conant, Winthrop Aldrich, or William Howard Taft III? The answers: 1. Communist bloc has more. 2. Right. 3. More than half. 4. Minnesota. 5. Rela tively many. 6. Pro-Government. 7. Aldrich. Kelso, Wash. (U.R) The body of Lester Holbom, 55, Kelso, was found early yesterday after he was struck by a northbound train on Northern Pacific tracks here. MAIL TRIBUNE Something Better O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend Q The brightest heaven of invention, A Kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! It was thus that William Shakespeare invoked supernatural assistance as he wrote the prologue to "Henry V." . ' - We wish he could be in the Elizabethan theater in Ashland this evening, when "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is presented to open the 20th year of "our" Shakespearean festival. THE "Muse of Fire" was Shakespeare's own, and has indeed ascended the brightest heaven of in vention. But the stage is new, and while it is a reproduction of the .type of Elizabethan theater used in Shakes peare's day, it has advantages of which he could hardly have dreamed. '. The lighting, for one thing, makes an evening fairyland of the colorful costumes and stage effects which were impossible in Elizabethan England. Tech nical improvements (smoke, fire, lightning, wind, thunder) produced by the mechanics and chemists of the 20th century would fill Shakespeare's audiences with awe. MAYBE we don't have "princes to act," but we do have some of the most highly competent young actors in the United States which is probably bet ter. These young people are devoted to their art, and make a way of life ofQmaking the plays come alive. We could not expect more nor demand less wrere they real princes. S for "monarchs to behold the swelling . scene," we have better than year after year, come back devotion to the "Muse of of new devotees from all over the western world. In Shakespeare's day, the audiences, standing in the orchestra, were difficult to play to, to say the least. They were demanding, and raucous in their dis approval. Perhaps, since it was they for whom Shakes peare wrote, they are partly responsible for the last ing, down-to-earth value of his plays. Yes, we think that were Will Shakespeare to join us tonigftt, he would find something better than his hoped-for stage, his princes and his mpnarchs. E.A. Good Luck, "E. H. " In his 30 yetirs of service to the schools and the people of Medford School District 49, E. H. Hedrick has not infrequently been the focal point of heated de bates over the rights and wrongs of one theory of education or other. But he has "worn well," and has steadfastly car ried out his job according to one undisputed criterion, wH&t he thought was right. He has received strong, loyal and continuing support both from his staffs of teachers and administrators and from the majority of people in Medford. I T IS a matter of justifiable, pride to "E. H." that never in his vears of down a proposed budget or bond issue for the schools. We have a strong hunch that this impressive record is due in no small part to the qualities of the man him self, who is so obviously honest and straightforward. And whether or not one agrees with his concept of what constitutes a good primary and secondary ed ucation in these days of raging educational debates, one cannot help but have a monumental respect for the integrity which he has imparted to the school sys tem. AS Mr. Hedrick leaves the system (and w doubt that he'll wander too far away), he is richly de serving of the thanks of all of us for his years of service to the children of the community. Because we are sorry to see "E. H." go does not mean that we do not welcome his successor, Leonard Mayfield, who himself is well-known and highly re spected for his years in the Medford system as high school principal. We are fortunate o have a worthy successor to a worthy superintendent, and we wish both of them all kinds of luck. E.A. Congratulations, Mr. Mayor We would like to extend our congratulations to Mayor Earl Miller for a notably simple and sensible action in vetoing the hasty and unconsidered action of the city council of a few weeks ago. In a succinct message, he cut through the dispute which surrounded the Kenwood avenue paving mat ter, placed it in proper perspective, and removed the council from an embarrassing position. " v. THE council was exasperated at a neighborhood dis " agreement over paving, which has been in and out of the council chambers over a period of months. Be cause of this its action is, "perhaps, understandable. But, understandable or not, it was wrong. The mayor corrected the error. E.A. Police Crack Down on Portland (U.R) A sudden surge of teenage rowdyism prompted Police Cheif Jim Pur cell today to order increased personnel, including- women to help combat delinquency. Purcell said a special patrol detail composed of officers in the city's women protective divi sion -and the police juvenile Monday, August I, 1 955 that, too audiences who, to Ashland to renew their fire," and a constant, supply service have voters turned Juveniles in Portland division would be formed. He said women have been used in this type of work before and have been "most effective." Purcell's announcement came after a series of week end in cidents in which teen-agers were cited for traffic violations, beer partying and disorderly con Matter of Fact By Stewart ON A COLLECTIVE FARM Dnepropetrovsk The feeling that you . don t really under stand, and never could under stand in a mil lion years, is one reason why a visit to the Soviet Union is such an oddly oppressive ex perience for an American. jn ownere is the feeling so strong as on a kholkoz, or col lective farm. Stewart Alsop Take, for example, the pig pen on the Stalin kholkoz near here, wnicn this reporter has just vis ited. Comrade Lepscha, the shy, eager, thin-faced vice-chairman of the collective, could hardly wait to show off his new pig pen. And indeed, it turned out to be a veritable regular Ritz of pigland, a porkers' paradise, every, spotless sow in her own .spotless pen. There were several peasant girls about, acting as solicitous pig valets, scrubbing the pens, or washing and brush ing the sows and the little pig lets. But why? Why this heavy in vestment in effort and woman hours to keep pigs in such a state of unnatural cleanliness? Why was it worth it? One possible answer of course immediately suggested itself that the pig pen was a sort of porcine Potemkin village, erect ed to impress the gullible foreign visitor. But this thesry .could not hold water. The decision to visit the collective farm had been taken at the last minute, when it turned out to be. impossible, for the usual mysterious reasons, to visit the famous Dnepropetro vsk dam. Besides, Dnepro petrovsk is well off the usual route for foreigners there' is nt even an Intourist hotel and it just does not seem likely that the Russians would build a beau tiful pig pen and stock it with beautiful pigs just in case a stray foreigner happened along. Part of the answer was vis ible, instead, in the almost fa natic pride in Comrade Lep sche's eyes, as he surveyed his gleaming pig house and his gleaming pigs. The porcine Ritz was clearly a sort of private hob by, a personal maggot of Com rade Lepscha's, built without any of the usual dreary prior calcu lations of the corn-hog ratio which American farmers are forced to make. AND another part of the answer was found in Com rade Lepscha's carefully re hearsed lecture about the Khol koz, which he gave in his tiny office under the inevitable pic ture of Stalin in an agricultural momejit. According to Comrade Lepscha, there are 14,000 acres on the Stalin kholkoz and 1400 people. This works out, of course, to one person per. 10 acres. The comparable ratio on American farming in a good district, is one family to 160 acres with father doing almost all the work. It was obvious to the naked eye that there were plenty of people about on the Stalin kholkoz. And with plenty of people, it is not difficult to keep large numbers Is That So? Although your garden may be drooping for lack of moisture during a hot day in August, strangely enough the air may be full of moisture soggier, actu ally, than when the air is full of rain in winter. And, oh man! can it be humid, even though the weatherman may deflate you by saying: "Why, look, the relative humid- ity today is only 50 per cent! What does this "relative hu midity" mean? Frankly, next to nothing, because its meaning changes from day to day. To explain: when the tempera ture readings are 90, 70, or 50, with a relative humidity of 50, the moisture content differs vast ly. Actually, at 90 it will con tain twice as much moisture than at 70, and four times as much as at 50. Recognizing this ridiculous state of relative humidity, one weatherman called it "the me teorological equivalent of abso lute humbug." 'As for the amount of moisture the air holds, temperature is the deciding factor. Thus it is quite possible for the air to contain iess moisture on a rainy day in midwinter than on a hot 'dry day in midsummer. But should it be a wet day in midsummer, then the ' air may hold almost three times as much moisture.' How does moisture get into the air in the first place? Most likely by evaporation. In the southwest, one can get some idea of how rapid this evaporation can be. There, in a year's time, an exposed body of water may AIsop of pigs unnaturally immaculate, of the local powers that be, like Comrade Lepscha, decide that keeping pigs immaculate is a good thing. This may explain the mystery of the immaculate pigs. But in Russia the explanation of one mystery only leads on to another mystery. For how does this in credible system, in which there are no normal economic incen tives or economic sanctions, man age to work at all? You can see that it works, after a fashion, with your own eyes. To be sure, the corn looks thin, the brown cows seedy, and the pasturage terrible. But the wheat looks fine, the fruit is abundant and delicious, and the people of the kholkoz are certainly healthy and vigorous. Some of the people 'even seem happy. Take 'Ivan, the tractor driver. Comrade Lepscha says that Ivan has piled up a record number of "norms," the norm being the unit of measurement in the speedup system which is universal in the Soviet Union. (Another mystery: how can you measure with any real accuracy the normal output of a tractor driver or a pig trader?) At any rate, Ivan the tractor driver is one of the two or three top earners on the farm. Ivan is a big brawny man with an enormous grin and stainless steel teeth. He proudly invites the for eigner to visit his house. From the outside, it. looks precisely like every other house on the dusty, rutted Kholkoz street, and like every other house, it is surrounded by a couple of acres of carefully tended private land. "EROM the air, you can see V-- the pattern of the Russian land endlessly repeated lush, heavily cultivated private plots around the little houses, giving way td huge, scraggy-looking collective fields). Ivan's wife, .a big cheerful woman who has lost one eye to trachoma, is touchingly proud of her house. It has three tiny rooms, with a front parlor which looks amazingly like a miniature of a front parlor in an old-fashioned American farmhouse. There are prim wedding pictures on the wall, and hand-crocheted antimacassars, and, as befits such a successful, man as Ivan, a new radio. As he says goodby after show ing his house, Ivan smiles, his broadest smile, and repeats a phrase you have been hearing all over the kholkoz: "Our greet ings to the simple peasants of America." Better than anything else, the phrase suggests the vast gulf which separates the Soviet and the American systems. Yet somehow, mysteriously, messily, uneconomically, with little comfort and no priyate val ues at all, this system 'works. The food comes out of the ground, and unless all Russians are consummate actors and this reporter a complete fool, there are Russians, like Comrade Lep scha and Ivan the tractor driver, who take real pride and pleasure in this incomprehensible way of life. ... ' Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. This is the second of a series of reports which Stewart Alsop brought out of Russia when he left Moscow before the Geneva conference. By EUGENE BURNS -Ranger-Naturalist lose 100 inches oi water by evap oration that's over eight feet and almost 10 times as much as the mean annual rainfall. Rate Less in Winter How much per day? On a dry summer's day the surface level of a lake may be lowered 3A of an inch, which means that in this month alone, loss may be 23 inches. (The winter rate natu rally would be less even in des ert country; it would probably be less than half.) Open water does not alone pro vide evaporation surface; trees and plants do, also. During the peak of the growing season, a single corn plant may lose up to 10 pounds of water in a single day more than a gallon! As a matter of fact, a plant covered area with a damp soil can be almost as effective in moistening the air, in the warm er months of the year at least, as any open body of water. Add it up, and this evapora tion by open water, damp soil, and plants equals millions of tons of water being converted into water vapor daily. And that, even reckoned at the weather man's ambigious 50 per cent rel ative humidity, is a lot of mois ture. (Released by McCIure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, 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 address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, P.O. Box 575, Sausa lito, Calif." In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The other morning our Presi dent had breakfast at the White House with 238 Republican sena tors and representatives. He told them he is interested in unifying the Republican party behind a set of principles the people can accept without mis givings. He added: The GOP can control the fed eral administration FOREVER if it is unified on principles the people can accept with trust and confidence. LET'S TURN that around. -SO COULD THE DEMO CRATS. In our way of life, nothing is truer than this: What's best for our COUNTRY is best for ALL of us. That goes for Republicans and Democrats alike. I'M SUCH a hopeless optimist as to believe" the time will come when the people of our country will discriminate in their voting in favor of construc tive, able candidates who stand on SOUND principles and against glib and glamorous de magogues who will espounse any screwball doctrine that seems to have vote-catching possibili ties. If and when that time comes, candidates will soon learn that the way to be elected and re elected (which, is what states men, as well af mere politicians, want) is to do consistently, even though it calls for great cour age, the things that are best for our country. THERE IS evidence that this hope isn't - utterly futile. There is Senator Byrd of Vir ginia, for example. He has been in the senate for more than 20 years. There is senator George of Georgia, who has been there more than 30 years. There is Russell of Georgia, who has been in the senate more than 20 years. " I These are Democrats, and Southern Democrats at that. But they are sound thinkers. Very often they are against panaceas that are momentarily popular especially Senator Byrd, who has come almost to be known as Mr. Economy. The good Lord krfiws economy hasn't been very popular anywhere in recent years. But Senator Byrd . has been consistently elected and reelect ed, as have his distinguished col leagues from Georgia. - 17XAMPLES of continued pub- lie support of men who guide their political actions' by what they conceive to be best for their country are not lacking among Republicans. There was Senator Taft of Ohio. He was a conservative, but not a reactionary. Very often in deed he was opposed to the pop ular trends of his time. Because he conceived it to be right and in the best interests of his coun try, he was one of the authors of the Taft-Hartley law, which: brought down upon him the ire of organized labor over the country generally and specific ally in his own, state. Yet he was reelected to the senate aft er a bitter campaign and anal ysis of the Ohio voting made it plain that he must have received the support of considerable num bers of labor union members who admired his forthright courage. His untimely death, after suf fering defeat by Dwight D. Ei senhower for Republican nom ination for President and then turning in and giving his loyal and able support to the man who had beaten him, was universal ly mourned. T ET'S turn to the Republican " of a different stripe Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. In the later years of his long service in both houses of the congress (from 1903 until 1942) he diverged increasingly from the strict Republican party line. During many years of the New Deal he was more praised by the Democrats than by the Republi cans. His divergence became so 'sharp that he was defeated for the senate in 1942. Yet for nearly 40 years he commanded the respect of the people of Nebraska. They re spected him (and kept on reelect ing him to the congress, first to the house and then to the senate) because they believed that what he did he did because he conceived it to be for the best interest of his country. AT any rate, I'm sure President Eisenhower was right when he told Republican leaders that the GOP can control, the feder al "administration forever if it is unified on principles the people can accept with trust-and con fidence. Chittagong, the principal port of East Pakistan, is 'a bustling city of 260,000 people. It has trebled its population since 1941. In 1946-47 the port handled only 5,566 tons of jute. In the fiscal year 1950-51 it handled 370, 000 tons. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other Cay 5:30 previous day. Red China Premier Pleased Over Talks With U.S. At Geneva By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst r-Vx-in Fn-lai thp riartfferouslv pleasant premier and foreign - . - - i. -n.:.. jTi!-n,5Te- nr iommumsi ina, is pleased over the talks which started today in Geneva. tey are on the "am bassadorial level," as it is called be tween the United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia and th Chi cuarles Mclaun nese Red ambassador to Poland. The program for discussion is limited "... thp United States civilians detained in v-nina . . . ana settlmnt nf other practical matters now in issue." The State Department, in an nouncing that the talks would be neia, emphasized that they will not involve diplomatic tion. Step Upward But the talks are a sfpn imwarH from 1hose on the "consular level which have been eoint? on in Geneva quietly for months. t-nott wants United States rec ognition of the Peiping govern ment. A major plank in his platform toward that end has been direct talks with the Unit ed States. Chou knows that United States recognition practicaUy would eliminate any chance for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalists ever -tore-take the mainland. President Eisenhower said at his press conference last Wed i i Communications o Letters to the Editor must bear the name and addrefs of the writer, altrgugh 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. OK. Let the Debates Decide To the Editor: Regarding the Coon-Neuberger debate which you mentioned in your editorial of July 28: As of Julv 23. Sam Coon has accepted twenty-one invitations to debate Mr. Neuberger only twelve. Why? . f. From the rate of acceptance, we might assume that it is the Junior Senator, not Mr. Coon, who is reluctant to debate. Or is it that the Junior Sen ator is so engrossed with great National issues, such as squir rels on the White House lawn, that he simply hasn't time .to de bate issues of importance to those whom he supposedly rep resents. Oklahoma Woman sect of Search Oklahoma City (U.R) Okla homa crime bureau chief O. K. Bivins called on peace officers across the nation today to aid him in a search for the widow of a former Oklahoma governor oil millionaire whom he fears may be a victim of amnesia. The whereabouts of Mrs. Lydie Marland, 56, is as much a mys tery to her relatives as to Bivins. It was only after conducting a private search on their own that they called on Bivins to help them find the missing woman. ' After unsuccessfully trying to find her in California and Ore gon, Bivins ordered her physical description broadcast to all 48 states. The order was carried out today. 0 Mrs. Marland was last seen in Lbs Angeles in March, 1953. It was from there that she disappeared. FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 O nesday that the United States government might "eventually" have to agree to a ''conference between Chou and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dul les himself hinted at the same possibility. There have been reports for . three weeks that the big powers are secretly discussing the pos sibility of a Far Eastern confer ence within the next few months. Premier Edgar Faure of France suggested last week that the Western powers get together and recognize Red China. British Recognition France has stuck with the United States in refusing to recognize the Chinese Red gov ernment. Britain recognized it in January, 1950, when the Labor party"was in office. No one can deny Chou En lai's reputation as a smart man. Polished, smiling and attrac tive even to anti-Communists who do business with him, Chou is rated . the No. 3 man in the Chinese Red government. He follows Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Central People's Government Council and chair man of the Communist party, and Liu Shao-chi, chairman of the Standing Committee of Con gress. Fourth man is Gen. Chu Teh, who is vice-chairman of the government council. Though Chou is premier, he is unlikely ever to be the No. 1 leader of the Red government, Peiping now has a sort of com mittee rule, like Russia. If Mao died, Chu Teh probably would succeed him as chairman of the government council and Liu would become Communist party chairman. However, Chou is doing well as he is. a Or perhaps he does not want to hold up his negative, obstruc tionist attitude to public view. His opponent, afer all, has a long record of working for his district and his state. Mr. Neuberger's accomplishments, thus far, have been the very" thorough publi cizing of Mr. Neuberger. May I suggest that you with hold your sympathies until after the debates and let these de bates be decided on their merit? Luella S. Stine, Route 2, Box 424 Medford, Oregon. Jungle Men Also 0 GEO. N. TAYLOR When the folks near-by or the head-hunters, cannibals or any others of the faP-off jungles have faith to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Sav iour, they are saved from eternal death. God commands His people to give the Gos pel to all men everywhere, so that each may know that God had a Son who died for his sins. They who receive Christ Jesus as dying for their sins are the saved. 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