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C O ) FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORmSSrTlUBimi "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clasa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three mo 3.50 Sundav Only One vear SSO By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. wand on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month l-a Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All 1 ermi iajn m Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County UnTvd Press Full Leased Wire . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUKiAU OF f TRCIJ LATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angles. J Seattla. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ! A;c. OLH-AIIIW N J 'UJIIHIfJIH'lUH NIWIPAPEt PUkUUHIM Flight o' Time Medford nd Jackton County History from the filei of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 5. 194S (It was Sunday) q Final approval for filming of picture "Canyon Passage" pend ing according to Chamber of Commerce. (from Arthur Perry 's's Ye Smudge Pot column: The na tio nalchaairm He-y( tional chairman of the GOP visited Oregon the past week. He sees victory in 1946, due to Republicans returning to their old trick of voting for Republi can candidates in elections. 20 YEARS AGO August 5, 1935 (It was Monday) Medford Corporation an nounces plans to build a mill starting Sept. 1. Two fishermen send dog after jack-rabbit spied swim ming in the Rogue. Dog first on record to catch a swimming rab bit (it was undisclosed as to whether he was doing the Aus (Tjralian crawl). 30 YEARS AGO August 5, 1925 (It Was Wednesday) Bedingfield Confectionery on corner of Main and Bartlett sts has fire in back room, quickly extinguished. From the Local and Personal column: The names of the par ties who stole articles from the IOOF building last Sunday eve- wning are known and if restitu tion is not made immediately, arrests will follow. 40 YEARS AGO August 5. 1315 (It was Thursday) "Warsaw falls to German in vaders. Chris Natwick of Eagle Point given contract to pave Pacific Highway from Tolo to the Jose phine county line. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The present Congress is the SOth, 81st, 82d, 83d, 84th or 85th? 2. Hose made of nylon have been available for about 10, 15, U 20 or 25 years? 3. Which one of these first Omade his fortune in furs: John J. Astor, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Joha D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt? 1. Knignts lempiar are or aren't members of the Masonic Order? 5. The Model A Ford, succes sor to Model T, had four, six or eight cylinders? 6. Ankara is the capital of Greece, Red China, Nationalist China, Turkey, Iceland, or Para guay? 7. The Courier-Journal, wide ly known U.S. paper, is pub lished in Boston, Louisville, Fort Worth, Denver, Philadelphia or San Francisco? ' The Answers: 1. 84th; 2. About 15 years; 3. Astor; 4. Are; 5. Four; 6. Turkey; 7. Louisville. . COOL JOBS OPEN New York (U.R) The State Employment Service reminded sweltering construction engi neers today that it still has some choice positions open in Iceland, Grgenland and Labrador where thflE temperature ranged from 45 Ef 50 degrees yesterday. MAIL. TRIBUNE Mi ore It has only been within siderable amounts of leisure time, and the problem of how to fill them, have age" American family. But with the almost 40-hour week, the growing length of vacations and more days off, and with the increasing number of retired people, a whole new concept of living is gradually growing up. f"NE phase of it life cussed recently. But that is only one small aspect of a phenomenon which really has come into its own since the war. During the war period, limitations of time, gasoline and consumer goods held down the development of leisure-time living; before that there was the depression. But look at the advertisements today, and what do we see? Barbecue grills, plain air mattresses and other leisure-time clothing, from man equipment to the clothes. And, very possibly dwarfing all of these, are the do-it-yourself implements; own-home kits, looms, sewing machines, garden tools, tractors, mechanics' gear of all sorts. THE automobile, which has changed America prob " ably more than any other single development, has itself changed over the years. It is now possible to get cars in which one can sleep, as well as drive. Extra equipment, for one model or another, outfits the auto mobile to do practically anything from digging post holes to sweeping up to an operatic premier. There are big, swanky cars; tiny, fast cars, and every variation in between. Boats, too, are now available in a range of prices and facilities to permit anyone with extra cash to get almost anything he wants, from an ocean-going lux ury yacht to a put-together-at-home six-foot punt. THE backyard, the workshop and the far - away places have probably had as much to do with the decline of organized amusements (and perhaps of reading) as has television. For they have offered a whole new set of experiences, many of them highly rewarding. One result of this change in living modes is re flected in headlines of today the inevitable stories of accidents involving those who are preoccupied in filling their leisure time. OERE are a few of the type we had in mind, picked n at random from recent issues of the Mail Trib une: Wreck Kills Four Near Myrtle Creek ; Two Acci dental Deaths Listed at La Grande; Boy Bruised as Boat Plunges Over Spillway; State Mishaps Kill 14; Hollywood Trio Crash Victims ; Train Kills Children Lying Between Rails; Plane Seeking Two Water Skiers Crashes ; San Francisco Girl Sets New Record on World-Circling Trip ; Carelessness Probed in Girls' Drowning; Portland Youngster Saved by Lifeguard; Portland Boys Die in Traffic Mishap ; Airplane Given Ticket for Speeding on Highway;' Car Trips Take Careful Thought, Motor Club Says; Return Trip on Ketch From Tahiti Ends Near LA Harbor; Student Rescued From Crevass on Mt. Baker; Air Crash Near Boise Fatal to Two Men; Eagle Point Youth Escapes When Horse Drowns in River; Tahoe Swimmer Forced to Give Up; Yacht Crew Says Craft Never Lost; Injured Climber Rests in Hospital, and so on and so on. THAT gives the general idea. No one of these stories taken alone would mean much. But since they all appeared within the space of about two weeks, they add up to something. That something would seem to be that restless Americans are doing things,, going places, and have the spare time to do it not always displaying wisdom or achieving safety. THE Eugene Register-Guard, commenting editori- ally recently about the problems of school disci pline, came to this conclusion. It said : This is an age of pleasure. We're living high and hav ing ourselves a fine time and that goes for ma and pa as well as for junior. Today's high school senior, a 5-year-old when the "war boom" hit the American economy, has never known that sometimes people have to work, and that they can't work well unless they behave. All his life he has seen people flitting from better job to better job. He knows that any dumb bunny can get a job. . . Which is one way of making the point that in creased leisure, and the "temper of the times," may be factors in increases in what is known as juvenile delinquency. There are plenty of headlines about this, too. AMERICA is in the midst'of a major revision in its manners and morals. More off-work time is one part of the new and sometimes rather appalling pic ture. In any upheaval of this sort, peaceful and un eventful on the surface, there are undercurrents and the pulling and hauling of old habits and traditions and customs breaking up. It will take time for the new ones to become solidified, and really to know where we are going and just where we have been. E.A. Linda Christian Denies Plan To Marry Purdom 111... Rom Ml mTUnvio star TJnda Christian today toned down re ports that she planned to marry British actor Edmund Purdom. The estranged wifa of Tyrone Power corrected the impression Friday, August 5, 1955 Time the last few years that con entered the life of the "aver universal acceptance of the in mobile homes we dis and fancy; tents, awnings, adjuncts of outdoor life; swimming suits and frog nattiest of spectator sports saws, drills, paint-your- Sen Dy an arucie wriuen over her name in the magazine Eur opeo. She said the article was arranged in haste and the writer "went too far." Linda said she hoped to have a "lasting affec tion" for Purdom. Babson . . Small Businesses By ROGER W. BABSON Gloucester, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) I am here for a short vacation at my birthplace a small city which is now noted as a fish ing port and summer resort, but is gradual ly becoming a t h r i ving sub urb of Greater Boston. With its high land "air-condition ed" streets and Boger w. Babsoa island location, it has a wonderful all-year cli mate, a beautiful harbor, and a bright future. My father had a dry goods and novelty store here fifty years ago. This little store my family has built up to some 450 stores located in 38 states, under the corporate own ership of the United Stores Cor poration. In fact, its stock is now in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Routine news note: The nation's lawmakers are hurrying out of Washington. Barring a special session they will not have to be back in the capital until next January 3, when both houses reconvene. WHY are the nation's lawmak HURRYING out of Wash ington? There are many reasons. One of them is the heat. Wash ington's climate isn't air-conditioned as the climate of the city of San Francisco is claimed to be, and rather generally is. The prevailing winds blow into San Francisco off the cool Paci fic ocean. The winds blow into Washington off the hot, often muggy, interior. At this season, the heat in Washington is SOMETHING (something to be got away from, if possible.) SPHERE are other reasons. In these modern das, when the United States is more or less running the world (and paying for the privilege with large appropriations for foreign aid) there are "junkets." Junket' is a cynical taxpayer term for trips taken by members of congress to various parts of the world (at government ex pense) to study situations that may concern the welfare of the American people. If sincerely undertaken by INTELLIGENT, studious, thoughtful senators and representatives, they are worth every cent they cost the taxpayer. On the part of such men, they involve a lot of hard work. But Unavoidably They are also a lot of fun. It's nice to get away.from the Wash ington heat (and grind) and start around the world. rpHEN, of course, there are po litical fences to be mended. The place to mend fences, as every rancher knows, is where the fences are. Political fences are located exclusively within the constituencies of the mem bers of the congress that is to say, BACK HOME, where the votes are. T HOPE I haven't permitted any note of irony to creep into this reference to the business of political fence-mending on the part of the members of our con gress. It is SUPREMELY import ant in our American system of government. Unfortunately, the beautiful and glamorous city of Washing ton is not in any manner what ever typical of average Ameri can life. It is a dream world. It is a Shangri-la. I'm sure Presi dent Roosevelt must have been thinking of the city of Washing ton when he coined that word. People who remain too long within the confines of Washing ton become INSULATED against the realities of American life. It is good for them to GET AWAY. To get out and rub elbows with REGULAR people. IlfHY this insulation "this in ' nate dissimilarity to the rest of our country? I think this is why: Elsewhere in America, our problems all more or less re volve around the fundamental problem of WHERE IS THE MONEY TO COME FROM? In Washington (official Wash ington, I mean) there is no such problem. Everybody in (official) Washington KNOWS where the money will come from. It will come from the pockets of the people. All that is necessary, when a money problem arises there, is to reach into the pock ets of the people and TAKE THE MONEY OUT. When one lives long enough in that kind of atmosphere one be comes UNREAL. THAT'S why it's good for the - members of our congress to get out of Washington at more or less regular intervals and get out among the people who earn their living. ANYWAY, I'm glad the con gress has adjourned. I hate to admit it, but when the congress adjourns I always experience a feeling of relief an exhilarating sensation of hav ing escaped from threatened dangers. listed on the big New York Stock Exchange. In those days all industries here were locally owned. Then an ambitious and industrious young man could buy or start a fishing business or granite quarry or small factory of his own. Today the situation is very different. Nearly all the indus tries require much capital and are owned by large corporations outside Gloucester. This is true of most cities; it is not a healthy situation. It is especially notice able when I am helping Babson Institute graduates to a position. They can easily get a position starting at S300 per month; but it will be. with a large company. The smaller and younger busi ness concerns cannot afford to pay such salaries to beginners. Cities Making Great Mistake One reason for writing this column today is the death at Evanston, 111., of the founder of the National Small Business Men's Association, DeWitt M. Emery. He died at the young age of 59, having given his life to the unselfish work of en couraging young persons to start a business for themselves. He claimed that cities are now mak ing a great mistake in depending only upon large manufacturing corporations owned in New York or some other large city. He be lieved it is like a church expect ing to prosper without a Sunday School or even like a family expecting to prosper without children. Also much is owed to Ernest Gaunt. Yet things are happening to day which could benefit the "small businessman." First, the Federal tax laws have been amended to give him a break. The Labor Unions as a rule do not bother the small "inde pendent operator," hoping that their members themselves may some day be one. Increasing the minimum national- wage to one dollar will probably exempt a small operator or storekeeper, This could be an advantage to the small manufacturer with lower overhead and fewer em ployees. Importance of Personal Service I forecast that some people will always want personal at tention from specialists whom they know and trust. I believe in pensions, modern factories and air conditioning, but these things will not take the place of personal attention by inter ested employees. People like at tention; they want to deal with owners of a business whom they know and trust. Most employees are today missing a great op portunity to become truly inter ested in the success of the busi ness in which they are employed, The increasing congestion of automobiles (due to the dumb ness of local city governments in not providing employers with sufficient off-street parking lots), is causing many families to move to other areas to get work. The parking nuisance, however, will give the young businessmen an opportunity to call at homes and take orders for goods. More busi ness will be done in the evenings Wagon-peddlers" will increase in number and usefulness. I fore- cast that the cycle of the past 100 years from family-owned little businesses to big corpora tions will gradually reverse and return to small specialty fac tories. Small-Town Paper Would Be Goal Every time I go to Europe I am impressed by the number of families who live on their business and are thus able to give "24 hour" service. Were I a young man and had a good wife, this is the way I would start, instead of working for a big company. Or, better still, I should try working for, and some day own, a small-town newspaper! I surely would go into some form of merchandising or advertising where I could use new ideas and be an individual, and not get into a labor-union rut. A small manufacturer or shopkeeper, however, willing to work and having a good turn over, need not fear sudden changes and new methods. Many of them can work to his advan tage if he will attend to his trade. Chile Indians Dance To Appease 'Devil' Valdivia, Chile (U.R) In dians throughout the area strick en by erupting Rininahue Vol cano held ritual dances today to appease the "devil" they believe responsible for the mountain's activity. The eruption entered its 11th day and experts expected it to continue because of the vast sul phur deposits inside the volcano. Portland Rowdyism Campaign Successful Portland (U.R) Portland Police Chief Jim Purcell today said a campaign against juve nile rowdyism had been success ful. Purcell said patrols of police women in plain clothes had been very effective in curbing teen age rowdyism reported recently. He said no arrests had been made, that they had been pre vented instead. " He said the patrols would continue. Is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist A reader of the Oslo, Norway, illustrated family magazine, SOJ, wants to know: "On the average, how many feathers does a bird have?" A scoutmaster from Grand Forks, N.D., writes: "My troop wants to know, what is the hot test official temperature ever recorded?" The number of feathers a bird has are not as many as one might suppose after plucking a duck or partridge. To be sure, the num ber varies with the size of the bird, the time of the year, and the species. As might be expected, smaller birds have fewer feathers. The tiny hummingbird from Cuba, the world's smallest, seems to be the bird with the fewest 940. In contrast, a robbin has around 2,600; a glaucous-winged gull 6,500; a mallard 12,000; and a swan 25,000. To deal with the cold of win ter, birds put on a heavier coat. In one example, the only one I can find, a goldfinch has 1,439 in summer; in winter another had 2,368 almost number. , Because smaller birds have proportionately more surface to keep warm than big birds, we can expect them to have more feathers per gram weight. And that is true. A hummingbird weighing 2.8 grams has 940 feathers, or 335 per gram; a night hawk weighing 67.9 grams had 2,034 feathers, or 29 per gram; while a swan weighing 6,123 grams had 25,216 feathers, or four feathers per gram of body weight. On the basis of existing rec ords, the highest temperature ever recorded on earth and surely even higher temperatures must have existed in areas where there were no thermometers handy or even people to read them was at Tripoli, where it reached 137 degrees Fahrenheit. At the time, the desert floor, which gets much hotter than the air, registered 180 degrees or a mere 32 degrees below the ordinary boiling point of water. As for our North American continent, the hottest spot of all is in sunny California: Death Val ley, where on July 10, 1913, the air temperature reached 134 de greesonly 3 degrees less than the all-time official record at Tripoli. The reader may be inter ested to know that 100 degrees or over have been recorded in each of our states and provinces. In fact, from as far north as the Arctic circle! (Released bv McCIure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement wun tne. editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, mv nar.pl f juages win award each week to the reader who sends mA Desr. irue-life nature adventure or the best nature observation! or the best question on nah and wildlife a complete 30-voI- ume set of this j world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each weelr new submissions will n. sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly let ters. Please address your letter io: it, THAT SO! co Mertfnrrf Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, t-aiii. Jimmy Wakely Accused Of Beating Young Girl rionywood U.R) Cowboy singer Jimmy Wakely was ac cused in a $50,000 damaee suit today of beating an 18-year-old girl in his Beverly Hills home last April 25. The Superior Court suit, filed yesterday by Anita R. Hayes of Beverly Hills, did not list details of the alleged beating. But the girl did say she was "lawfully" at the Wakely home when he physically assaulted her with force and violence." Wakely, now touring Texas, was not immediately available for comment. 231 :4 1 I- BACON ENDS jj(5)c II V lb. Release of 11 Fliers By Communist1 China Tops News for Week By CHARLES McCANN United Press Foreign Analyst The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: THE GOOD 1. The Chinese Communists freed 11 United States Air Force men whom they had held and convicted as "spies" in violation of the Korean armis mistice. The The Reds an nounced their action imme diately before the start of ne gotiations in Geneva for the release of cuaries McLaun American civil ians held in China. In the Gen eva conference the United States was represented by its ambassa dor to Czechoslovakia. The Pei ping government was represent ed by its ambassador to Poland. The Geneva talks were compli cated because the Reds wanted a third country to check up on Communications "Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den oame 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. Pet Rooster Is Saved To the Editor: He weighed all of 2 lbs. He stayed in his own yard, minding his own business, (more than I can say for some PEOPLE), catching the bugs, ear wigs, etc., around the flowers and shrubs. But he made the mis take of crowing once in awhile, out of pure pride for his ONE little wife, (weight 1V4 lbs.). So some old (or young) "busybody" called on the phone and said: "You get rid of that rooster or I'll have you arrested." " She didn't have enough nerve to say who she was, but immed iately hung up the phone when asked. No . doubt if the "busy body" had of been washing her dishes, cleaning her house, tak ing care of her yard or her chil dren, she wouldn't have had -so much time butting into other people's business, instead of minding her own. Well! Mr. "Took, Took" .was lucky, he now has a good home in the country with a little mis tress who happens to love pets (and people) as much as I do. : "Busybodies" bah! Arthur D. Hodgkins, 710 East Main St., . Medford, Oregon. Survivors of Plane Crash Victims Waif Job of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. (U.R) The families of 30 persons kill ed in the flaming crash of an American Airlines twin-engined Convair stood by today, waiting for the bodies of the victims to be identified so they could claim them. At the same time, officials of the Civil Aeronautics Authority and the airline poked among the ashes of the charred wreck age in an effort to learn what caused the plane to crash. All of the bodies were recovered. Attempting Landing The plane crashed Thursday while attempting an emergency landing with an engine in flames on the airstrip of this big Army installation. It lost a wing and fell, a half mile short, into a ravine of hickory and tangled vines. Capt. R. D. Sinex, Army pub lic information officer, said it was the right wing that burned off. He said the pilot,, Capt. Hugh C. Barron, of Macon, Ga., was making a perfect approach. A few. seconds more, he said, and Barron would have made it. Seconds before, the plane had passed, at 200 feet, over an on post housing development where the families of military person nel lived. Sinex said "hundreds" lived along the path and it fell three miles beyond the housing1 EAST BEEF LIVER SIXTH ST. WISCONSIN CHEESE 29k Chinese students now in the Uni ted States. The United States fears that to give In on this point thus recognizing the authority of the Red government over Chinese abroad might be taken as implying diplomatic recognition. 2. Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin said in an address f the Russian parliament that the Big Four "summit" meeting in Geneva was historic. "It marked a turning point in the relation between the Soviet Union ancf the West," Bulganin said. He spoke slghtingly of President Eisenhower's plan for the Uni ted States and Russia to ex change military blueprints. But this had been expected. On the whole, the- speech seemed con ciliatory. 3. The French Parliament fi nally approved an agreement) to give the North African protecto rate of Tunisia home rule. France will keep control of for eign and defense policies. But Tunisians are to control inter ior administration. Approval of the measure was a big step in. the attempt to end North Afri-' can terrorism. THE BAD 1. Russia asked West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to fix a date at the end of this month or the beginning of Sep tember for his visit to Moscow. Prospect of the visit was not pleasant. There was no doubt that the Kremlin would try to get Adenauer away from his present close cooperation with the Western Allies. In Paris, the French cabinet approved a plan for Premier Edgar Faure and Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay to visit Moscow. It may be taken for granted that the Russians will try to weaken France's co operation in the Western alli ance. 2. President Syngman Rhee of South Korea threatened to take "certain action" if the . Commu nists did not give up the slice of territory they hold on his side of the 38th parallel dividing line between South and North Ko rea. Rhee said he would act even if the United States failed to support him. 3. The situation in Portuguese Goa, on the West Coast of the Indian peninsula, came nearer to an explosion. Indian Premier Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru de mands that Portugal give up the tiny colony. Two Indians were killed and three wounded by Portuguese police fire "when they tried to cross the borfer in to Goa in a demonstration- Real trouble was threatened Aug. (15. when it was planned that 100, 000 Indians should stage a "peaceful" invasion of Goa. area. The plane, carrying 27 passen gers and a crew of three, had just taken off a short time before from Springfield, Mo. Twenty one of the passengers had gone aboard. The plane was en route from Tulsa to New York City, at Springfield. Shortly after taking off, Bar ron radioed the Springfield tow er that his No. 2 right wing engine was on fire and he was" unable to extinguish the blaze. Sinex arrived at the scene about 20 minutes after the plane had crashed. He said the plane was "nothing but a bunch of ash and molten metal." "It could hardly be recog nized as a plane," he said. Two or three of the passengers were thrown out 25 or 30 feet from the plane. The others for the most part were "just piled up, Sinex said. "He didn't clip off any trees or anything. The wing fell off. Then the plane just plunged into the ground. The area it covered wasn't any bigger than your living room. When I got there it was burn ing like hades. There wasn't any thing we could do about going into the plane. When we finally , did get things so we could bring fire trucks in, the fire had pretty - well burned itself out," Sinex said. , . PORK STEAK 39k
