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fOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) i(EtfORlTRIBUNl "Xwerybody to Southern Oregon Read The Mail TnBune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 RZRB GREY Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor JRIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHTPMAN. Telefraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 . ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday-ne year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.5U Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.30 3 Sunday Only One vear $3a0. Bv Carrier In Advance Madford. B3aEE" Central Point Ee Point Jacksonville. - Gold Hill. Phowux. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ,,, Daily and Sunday-Ona year $13 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1J& Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance " Sfflclal Paper of the City or Med'ord Official Paper ot Jackson County UmH-l ""L"LJ Leaaed Wire - "member of audit bureau OF CIRCULATION advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices tn New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco Los Ange"' Seattle Portland. St Louia Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. HAnowAt idito.ia, PUKllSNIIt XSSOCIATIOH Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. M YEARS AGO August 2. 1945 w (It auras Thursday) S?Me hundred German prison--&8 f war and 320 Mexican Nationals to help in pear harvest, According to County Agent Rob (frt C.: fowler. rroM At thur Perry's Ye (fewdg Pot Column: The deer 4iinf eKcm has opened .m (California in certain areas. Re port mar Jnot Oregonians will s (Unfit the season opens at oi$0 4 be erroneously shot for $icgt $ points than they have. MO f AR KGO 4 (If was Friday) eSta Bedford men named to (fasktoo county planning board. gjtt to open at 10 a.m. Satur &f fdP40 tons of hay for use in Jta Jtogue River national forest. SEARS AGO ' August 2. 1925 Records show only three grass i$ falls answered by fire de partment in July, fewest in de nt's July history. Sfifotfi Local Personal col She affiliated trades have Established an office at Smith hall, 123 North Grape st. They have a representative in the filding from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. veraay to handle all business 3haifmay arise. All , card men (fire pasted to register with the (8$ciary. . ' 40 $EARS AGO (August t. 1915 (It was Monday) Strict Dane, dog of local doc tgt fetches self how to .avoid $$9 mizzle law by slipping muz 2& off and putting it back on foe policeman approaches. afer Users' association has sigid up 11,329 acres of land for Irrigation. (jfeS 3 y : What's the Answer? Can 'You Get 4 of the 7? (gppr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 3ou Get 4 of the 7? g. The average U.S. family (gpen more every year on medi cines and drugs, alcoholic bev raf a$ tobacco products, or auto epaife? What highly important business has a high concentra (fflon in Hartford, Conn.? . 411 59 signers of the Dec PaSion of Independence were &orn in this country; right or nfw"tnrs anrl dentists may irafted for the armed forces up So the age of 25, 35, 45 or 5Sf 0 J!; A king now sits on the (hrcfi of Spain; right or wrong? . The thistle, with its prick- leaves, ithe symbol of .Ire land, Canada, England, France, Scotland or , Mexico? 7.Noah's three sons were Ham (lhem. and (Uriah, Enos, Abso m, Methuselah or Japheth? The answers: 1. Alcoholic beverages. 2. Insurance. 3. Wrong; 8 were foreign-born. 4. Up to 45. 5. Wrong. 6. Scotland. 7.GJaphfith. TOUGH RABBIT Princeton, Ind. (U.R) James C. Stevens, Princeton, was treat- ed at a hospital for a bite on the head. He said he was feeding his "tame" rabbits when one jump ed atop him and bit. 15 MAIL TRIBUNE More Double -Talk We are getting a trifle weary of Congressman Ellsworth's self-righteous alibis for voting against every liberal proposal that is offered in the Lower House. His recent approval of removing all government control of natural gas, contrary to the judgment of US Supreme Court, is only one of many examples.. Instead of frankly admitting this action was in favor of the Natural Gas Promoters, and in line with his longest established policy of disregarding the public interest where private interests are concerned, our Representative in congress, maintained that he voted as he did, because he refused to abandon prin ciple, for political expediency. LJAD he been politically motivated he would he claims, have voted for federal regulation of the natural gas business, but being opposed to "govern ment interference' 'in the realm of private enterprise, he voted against it. This may lose him votes, he thinks, for some may claim the absence of federal regulation will increase gas rates to the consumers and profits to the producers unjustly. As usual, however, where private profits are concerned, Mr. Ellsworth can see.no basis for such claims, as again as usual he goes down the line as the GOP business-as-usual command dictates. CONGRESSMAN Ellsworth is only correct in one particular. ' He may lose votes. For his action . will, withoutrany question, open the gates to unrestricted natural gas sneculation and exploitation, and tend to make the sky the limit as far as prices cerned. BUT as in other political directions, this sort of thing can't go on FOREVER. One of these days the worm will turn, General Intertia will be demoted and denounced, and the people a majority of them at least will pay some attention to the voting record of their veteran Representative in the Lower House and decide at the polls that they want no continuation of it. R.W.R. The SP Beats I -Horse-Power The mourning in Roseburg over the defeat of the "Pony Express" by the SP "Night Crawler" is under standable no one likes to lose a race but it is not very logical." For what does Roseburg want, along with Med ford and Ashland? A continuation of SP passenger service, not its discontinuance. , And according to the reliable Oregonian, not only did the "Night Crawler" arrive in Roseburg on time but on the straight stretches the specially pepped up engineer hit it up to "50 miles an hour and went around curves like a "whip-lash." CO WHAT? Well one of the major claims of the SP has been that the Eugene-Ashland section is so circuitous, hilly and out-of-date that no proper passenger service can be rendered anyway. THE race demonstrated the complete falsity of this , claim. "Fifty miles an hour" and making the curves "like a whip-lash," shows what the SP could do if it really wanted to, and with its present equipment and the. same old allegedly impossible road-bed. ' Imagine what it could do if it would spend a small bit of its $70,000,000 annual profit for one of these new single-unit streamlined super Diesel trains, such as are in regular service today in Spain, and have been tried out by the NY, NH & H, between Boston and New York with such outstanding success? The run between Portland and lvieaiora couia oe made easily, in four or five hours, and undoubtedly onthe present road bed, and at greatly reduced over head as well as time. H AD the SP demonstrated it couldn't even beat a type of horse power transportation that has been outmoded since shortly after the Civil War, there might be some basis for. its contention that the old "Shasta Route" as far as passengers are concerned, is out of date. But to Win the battle at "50 miles an hour," and defeat the one-horse power advocates by nine min utes, knocks all that sort of propaganda into the well known cocked-hat. The fact that the SP can give Southern Oregon decent passenger service if it so desires, and far bet ter service if it wishes to spend some of its income, is the lesson the defeat of the pony express clearly brings out. R.W.R-. Democratic Congress, Republican President , a As the first session of the 84th Congress adjourns, no one can say that the national interest has really suffered because the Congress was of one party while the President was of the other. In fact, the two had collaborated more closely on foreign affairs than in 1953-54, when Congress as well as the President was Republican. Q Several days before the Congressional elections of 1954, the President had averred that a Democratic victory would present "innumerable obstacles" to progress, and would replace "certainty and confi dence" with "uncertainty and confusion." Several days after the election, he confessed that he had gone too far in warning the voters against a "cold war of partisan politics" if they elected a Democratic Con gress. 6 He was right the second-time. E.R? Tuesday, August 2, 1953 to the consumer are con Matter of Fact It would be nice to own a fac tory in which the workers never struck; worked very hard for six straight eight- hour days; left the factory only when their work cardswere countersigne d by the man agement, and and earned their minimum s u b s i s tence Dav on a Diece- Stewari Alsop work or speed up, system. These greedy c ap i t a 1 i s t thoughts kept occurring to this reporter as he toured two fac tories, a steel plant in Dneprope trovsk and a tractor factory here in Kharkov. The steel plant was like a scene from Hell, with the terrible heat of the open hearth furnaces and the endless clanging of metal on metal. The tractor plant was a clean and seemingly well run place. But there were more similarities than differ ences. In the first place, the four points listed above applied to both factories, as they do to every factory in the Soviet Un ion. This reporter aksed a mem ager of the tractor factory wheth er the workers might not think about striking for a 40-hour week, for example. . The manager looked genuinely astonished. "But why should they strike?" he asked. "If they have ' any complaints they can always discuss them with the management." Second, there was a marked and visible difference between the newly developed class of managers and the manual work ers. In both factories, the man agers all wore clean white linen smocks but the difference went deeper than that. .The managers were almost all engineers and party members and they were differentiated also By their bear ing and manner of speech. "You see," this reporter's in terpreter remarked, "nobody bows or scrapes before the man agers" as though this lack of servility would astonish the visi tor from the land of capitalism. HHHIRD, in both factories . the average pay was about the same 800 to 900 rubles a month, according to the management, which is a universal average for Soviet factory workers. Put this pay in dollar terms, and you get some surprises. The official ex change rate is four rubles to the dollar. (The rate is wholly arti ficial but accept it for purposes of argument.) You then have an average monthly wage of $225 not high for an American work er, but not impossibly low. But consider the prices the Soviet worker has to pay. Suppose, for example, an American worker, living on $225 a month had to pay $250. for a second hand suit, or, $80 for a pair of boots, or $2.50 for a pound of fatty meat (when he could get it), or $850 for a tele vision set, or $1.50 for a single cucumber. In short, when you consider the real purchasing power of his wages, it is astonishing that the Soviet worker manages to live at all. It is true, of course, that the Soviet worker pays very low rent and no doctor bills. It is also true that he is not expected to support a family -his wife is just as important an earner as he is. Even so, it is clear on the face of it that the Russian worker lives below what would be re garded in the United States as the minimum subsistence level. Yet it would be the worst sort of folly to conclude from this that the Soviet worker is ripe for revolt, or that the Soviet in dustrial system is on the verge of collapse. It is reasonable to assume that the factories this reporter saw were the best in their area. But they were clearly not built just to impress foreigners. And they were clearly turning out a lot of steel and a lot of tractors. As for the workers, they were certainly husky and healthy, and they; were certainly working hard. Those whom this reporter chose at random to talk to seem ed just as eager as everybody else to propagandize the stranger on the peculiar glories of Soviet life. Propaganda is, in fact, an important part of the Soviet in dustrial system. Both factories were festooned with vast white-on-red banners, bearing quotations from the Marxist great and slogans like "WEN YOU HAVE PROMISED TO EXCEED YOUR NORM, YOU MUST DO IT." " rkNE official explained the the " ory behind these exhorta tions. He agreed that the work ers simply disregarded them. "But," he said, "the words are present in their minds, although they do not know.it." It is ap parently no accident that Dr. Pavlov, who invented the theory of the conditioned reflex, was a Russian. At any rate, whether thanks to Dr. Pavlov or not, the ruthlessly exploited Russian worker is unquestionably pro ducing more and more. His rate of production is, to be 'sure, still statistically far be low the American or even the By Stewart AIsop European rate. But it is also sta tistically true that the rate of Soviet industrial production has risen rapidly since the war and continues to rise. The sight of these two factories with their thousands of hard-working, low paid, propaganda-ridden, totally disciplined workers, served for this reporter to turn a meaning less statistic into a vivid reality. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) This is the third of a series of reports which Stewart Alsop brought out of Russia when he left Moscow before the Geneva conference. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Early the other morning the teletype -threw all its watchers into something of a tizzy by spitting out the news that later in the day President Eisenhower would make a VERY IMPOR TANT ANNOUNCEMENT. W OW! ! ! Was that something! It gave us all the shivers. Be ing professionals, we knew that according to all the accepted rules "very important" .news would have to be BAD hews. T1HE politically minded among us promptly jumped to the conclusion that the announce ment would have to do with Ike's plans for next year that is to say, will he or won't he run. , ' But That conclusion didn't jibe with the more or less accepted rule that "very important" news (the kind of news that gets spread all over the front pages under horsy headlines) has to be very bad news. . Among the professional Re publicans, of course, a statement from Ike that he WON'T RUN would be bad news of the first magnitude. But among the pro fessional Democrats it would be hailed with joy almost uncon trolable. Sb that was out. TT THEN occurred to us that - maybe the Russians had ac cepted without reservation Ike's dramatic Geneva proposal. But the teletpye spiked that a little later with a bulletin to the effect that the "very important news" would not concern anything that took place at the Big Four ses sion. , WH EN it came, this was it: "President Eisenhower has ap proved plans for launching plan ned artificial earth satellites These satellites will be unman ned globes designed for purely scientific purposes. A LITTLE later the teletype came across with the word that the satellites will be about the size of basketballs. They will circle the earth once everv 90- minutes at a speed of 18,000 mph. They will carry ONLY instruments tor collecting sci entific information. No guns or bombs YET. They might re main up for days or weeks, then disintegrate and fall back down. They are still in the planning stage, out government scientists say they think the first of the satellites can be launched in TWO years. Oh, yes. The project is expected to cost two billion dollars. 0 H, YES again. The White House savs infor mation obtained from the proj ect will be available to all na tions including Russia. VUHY is all this so important? Well, what is little tends in these days to become big and what is big tends to become big ger. These little melon-sized af fairs could grow into balloon- sized affairs. Unmanned now, they might later be MANNED. With tiny instruments now, they mignt later carry big and com plicated instruments. Among other things, they might carry instruments with which atom-bomb-carrying ro bots might be GUIDED ACCU RATELY to pin-point targets the Kremlin, for example. Or Washington. Assuming.that is, that the peo ple of this earth are- nutty enough to go on planning and developing instruments for their own destruction. You see It was quite a bit of news at that. 0 NE minor detail in,conclu- sion. When the teletype first . chat tered out the story, it said the satellites would be UNNAMED. Later, with a very red face, it blurted out a correction. The word should have been UN MANNED, it explained. Even robots make mistakes. Highway Commission Schedules Meeting Salem (U.R) The Oregon State Highway Commission to day announced it will hold its next reeular meeting in Port land Aug. 11 and 12, for the pur pose of receiving bids on 32 proj ects estimated to cost $4,100,000. Government Hits Firms Chiseling On Contract Work Washington (U.R) The government has blacklisted more than 6,000 persons and firms since beginning its drive to eliminate chiseling on gov ernment contracts. - Last "July, the General Serv ices Administration the gov ernment's housekeeping agency began to keep a list of private firms that engaged in - under handed dealings on government contracts. GSA doesn't decide which per sons or firms are trying to make a fast dollar through fraudulent practices, but it gets reports from government agencies hav ing business with private con tractors. From this information it set up a blacklist for the confiden tial use of all government con tracting officers. This master blacklist prevents an unscrupu lous contractor, barred by one agency, from working his wiles on another. Those on the dishonor roll are barred from getting govern ment contracts for definite pe riods of - time, usually three years. Employes Inform The 6,000 names actually rep resent about 2,000 "cases," the spokesman said, since the list includes the' names of the one or more persons who own or operate the business as well as' the firm name. - There alsar is a second list of about 4,200 : names called the "refer" list. These names have been referred for investigation before a contract will be award ed. Baron I. Shacklette, director of GSA's contract compliance branch, said" most of the infor mation about crooked bidding or contract chiseling" comes from employes of the firms involved. "They're scandalized when they see something crooked go ing on," he. said. O , "The way the average citizen looks at his' government is un canny,' Shacklette said. "The employers apparently think it's all right for one commercial firm to outwit another, but they seem to have mother instincts when it comes to the govern ment." " , Shacklette said 60 per cent of the complaints reported in connection with government contracts prove to be unfound ed. He also said very few gov ernment x contracting officers have been found to - be un scrupulous. Vr,-;:' "But when one of them is," he said, "he certainly makes headlines." ' Petition Asks OLCC Files Be Made Public Salem (U.R) Marion county Circuit Judge , George Duncan was expected to rule after 10 days on a petition by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton to force the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to make public its files on an investigation con ducted by Gov. Paul Patterson. The petition was presented yesterday. Judge Duncan sus tained a demurrer by Robert F. McGuire and Howard I. Bobbitt, Portland1 attorneys who con ducted the investigation. They were named defendants in the petition. The investigation centered around allegations that some OLCC employees had accepted gifts from liquor distributors. invest . ? With For Profits ' Your Investment By the Federal Investment made by the 10th of the month earn divi dends at of the First. O' o 27 North Holly Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Thank for Wheel Chair To the Editor: We would like to use this as a way to express our appreciation and simple but heartfelt thanks to our many friends (too numerous to men tion all) who have been so kind to us during my husband's ill ness. They have helped in so many many ways, too numerous to name, but mostly we would like to use this way to thank each and every one of you who so generously gave money, to pur chase this beautiful wheel chair. So will all of you accept our heartfelt thanks and God bless all of you. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Gann 2928 Table Rock Rd. Medford, Ore. Mississippi Voters To Nominate Governor Jackson, Miss. (U.R) Voters in Mississippi are naming their choice, for the governor's office today. There are five candidates in the Democratic primary . . . each one a foe of racial integra tion. Some 400,000 votes are ex pected but only about 20,000 by negroes. Party officials in one county have warned Negroes that any ballots they might cast would prove worthless. The" candidates are four men and one woman. They are seek ing the office now held by Gov ernor Hugh White, who is pre vented by state law from suc ceeding himself. Observers predict the out come will not be decided until a run-off three weeks from today. The nomination is the same as election in Mississippi a one party state. Pine Tree Mariner Docks at Portland 1 Portland (U.R) The Pine Tree Mariner one of. the two vessels to be converted into pas senger liners.for Oceanic Steam ship company by Willamette Iron and Steel company has docked in Portland.. The second vessel in the 26, 000,000 conversion project, the Free Mariner, is scheduled to ar rive later this week. Both ves sels have been docked in Oak land, Calif. The WISCO contract is the first major shipbuilding work to be done in Portland since the end of World War II. Regional Director Daniel Goldy of the U. S. Labor Department's em ployment service, predicts the conversion contract will employ enough men to remove Portland from the federal government's "critical unemployment" list and bring it to the "moderate surplus" classification. New Executive Tains Over Engineer Ooffca Portland (U.R) Lt.' Col. Francis G. McBride has taken over his duties as executive of ficer for the Portland District, Corps of Engineers, the egineers announced today. Col. McBride succeeds Col. David S. Parker, recently named assistant district engineer. He has served with a military ad visory group in Holland for the past three years. O mm Safety 0 O - (St) is SAFE - Insured Safe - to $10,000.00 Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. DIVIDENDS ARE INVESTORS PROFITS, An Insured Savings or Investment Account Will Give You a Nest Egg For Retirement or Vaca tions or things you warrf. Build Your Own Security Safely Profitably. Open a Savings Account NOW! O G FIRST FEDERAL imk Savings & Loan Assn. off Medford . . Telephone Cannibal Insects Aid Cane Crops From Louisiana Washington (U.R) Go easy with the fly swatter in Louisi ana canefields; you may snuff out two bits worth of cannibal istic insect which is aiding the sugarcane crop. In a larva-eat-larva operation, the Agricultural Research Serv ice has introduced $6,000 worth of Caesarean-born parasitic flies at the rate of fie for a dollar to help control infesta tions of the sugarcane borer on plantations near Houma. The flies Amazon Meta gonistylum minense and Cuban Lixophaga diatraeae instinct-, ively deposit their eggs at the entrance of holes the borers make in sugarcane stalks. The eggs hatch almost immediately. Each fly larva moves inJU) a hole, penetrates a borer larva, and feeds on its living tissue until full grown and ready to emerge from its cocoon as an adult fly. The end result is death to the borer and a new generation of parasites ready to lay more eggs to kill more borers. Low-cost Control Entomologists Ralph Matins and L. J. Charpentier of the Sugarcane Field Station at Hou ma said that after two years of research the parasites - hold promise as a partial and low cost means of borer control. A year after a group of parasitic flies had ben released on oneo plantation, they had achieved 75 per cent borer control. New gen erations of the flies had migrat ed as far as two miles from the original release point. Aerial dustings of sugarcane with insecticides costs about S9 an acre. Mathes and Charpentier hope the .parasitic fly method j can give considerable borer con trol for about $1 an acre. The parasites are produced in quantity in a laboratory in Trin idad. The Cuban and Amazon flies are gathered there where technicians perform Caesarean operations on the female flies and take the hatching . larvae from them, one by one, with a small brush. This operation is coordinated with development of laboratory-grown borer larvae to serve as food. Each- fly larva, placed on a borer . hog, begins to feed at once. After seven to nine aN(ys the larvaeoare ready to be "shipped by airmail to buyers. When the adults emerge and mate,, they are released in sugarcane field?, about five to an acre. They're ready for work. s MR. INSURANCE o Fred Brennan Your insurance folder shows per sons hurt in falls on slippery side walks or waxed floors, tripping over garden hoses or toys, being hit by a bicycle, baseball or golf ball, bitten by a dog, etc. Does a mere $10 premium cover an en tire family's liability for all such accidents? For Information Call" ' ( MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 3 Phone 2-4940 mini? 2-9147 r o G
