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o o 0 O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) eMEBFORDWTRIBUNI "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRJLNTU.G CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBEHT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor fbic ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraoh Editor RICHARD JEWETT Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor jatk JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES T3 Moil In Arivanpn: Ppr CODV lDC. Daily antf Sunday One year S1200 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 rii nrt Sundav Three mos 3JU Sundav Onlv One vear S3 50 t in Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: ..... 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Federal bureaus are gradualy changing from0 letters of the alphabet to numerals to designate orders, agencies, directives, etc., etc. It was a great little alphabet while (It lasted. 20 YEARS AGO oAugust 8, 1935 (It was Thursday) O League of Western Writers (holds convention here. Contracts to be awarded for (gjew sewage disposal plant. 80 YEARS AGO August 8, 1925 (It was Saturday) George Howard, owner of Diamond Lake resort, wants piano player who can wash (Jishesoon the side. From the Local and Personal column: "The heaviest market of the season," was the declara tion of the many who did their morning shopping at the public market today. An extra variety of fruit and vegetables in sea son was on sale. Over 1500 pounds cf home grown water melons were sold and still the demand svas greater than the supply. 40 YEARS AGO August 8, 1915 (It was Sunday) Flowers wanted for Greater Medford club exhibit at club building tomorrow. Knights of Pythias to hold state convention at Crater Lake in one week. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Russia accepts, opposes, or takes no stand on the North At lantic Treaty Organization (Nato) 2. Wives who drive are more apt or less apt than their hus bands to doze at the wheel, says the Automobile Club of Ameri ca, or is it about 50-50? 3. The" Tariff commission calls our duty on imported bicycles too high, too low, or just about right? 4. The great UN conference on atomic energy is being held in New York, Moscow, Paris, Geneva, or London? 5. At least one no-hit game has been pitched in the major base ball leagues every year since ld20; right or wrong? "6. Mizrachi is a Catholic, Ar abian, Jewish, Masonic or medi cal organization? o 7. The detective character, hilo Vance, was created by au thor S. S. Van Dine; right or wrong? , The answers: 1. Opposes. 2. Wives less apt to doze. 3. Too low. 4. Geneva. 5. Wrong. 6. (Jewish. 7. Right. KECORD RICE CROP Tokyo (U.R) Reports from the nation's rice farmers indi cate that this year's rice crop (will reach an all-time high, min istry of agriculture sources said today. The long heat spell during (iuly was said to have been the (Contributing factor to bumper crops. MAIL TRIBUNE Billion Dollar Business Three travel writers from metropolitan news papers visited southern Oregon last week. Their com ments indicated that they were favorably impressed with what we have to offer tourists, and that they- would write about our attractions, as well as those of other areas, for their considerable circulations. The tour was sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Travel Association, in cooperation with local cham bers of commerce. It is' easier to understand why the writers are in vited each year, in the hope they will describe the areas they visit, when it is considered how important tourist trade is to our state and to the Pacific North west. HE July edition of the Oregon Business Review, vhich is published by the bureau of business re search, school of business administration, University of Oregon, has an article entitled "Tourism in Pacific Northwest A Billion Dollar Business." One quotation from it explains who benefits, and why: The impact of tourist expenditures is felt directly by the retail and service trades. Indirectly, its influence is felt in the wholesale, manufacturing and agricultural sectors of our economy. In many areas, it is a leading source of em ployment. Sales and gasoline taxes aid state and local gov ernments, as do the real and personal property taxes paid by retailers. Rural areas benefit as the tourist passes through. The tourist is a potential new resident and a potential investor. This is particularly true for a young, growing area such as the Pacific Northwest. It has been effectively pointed out how important are climate, mountains, beaches, hunting, fishing and other amenities to decision-making regarding migration to a new area, plant location, and so on. THE article breaks down lars from Northwest tourists this way : $290,000,000 to restaurants, $210,000,000 ses, $200,000,000 to hotels, motels and tourist homes, $180,000,000 to retail stores, $70,000,0000 to theaters and other amusements, and $50,000,000 for miscel laneous purchases. While the tourists come from all over the world, it is estimated that 4 out of 10 are from the Northwest, who know better than anyone else what good vaca tion spots there are here. IT IS to reach the others, and to increase their num bers, that Oregon advertises in national magazines, that other promotions are put on, and that the annual travel writers' tour is held. Considering the size of the potential income, and its economic importance, the outlay seems i modest enough. E.A. Space Last week a Page 1 headline in the Mail Tribune said : "Plan Revealed To Launch Small Unmanned Satellites." . With the smug sort of self-satisfaction which ac companies an opportunity to say "I told you so," we recalled that 11 days previously we had discussed the possibilities of space travel, and had remarked : "The first leap upward from the earth will be the big one, and will furnish the lessons needed to put space ships into the void of the solar system." "THE United Press story which announced the plan for the satellite has been followed by a rash of speculative stories, quoting scientists and rocket ex perts, space-medicine experts and anyone who might throw a little more light on the project which, to science-fiction fans and junior spacemen, is old stuff. The first satellite story concluded by saying, "The scientists agreed, too, that information gained in the experiment would be of definite value in the ultimate scientific goal of human travel in outer space." Subsequent stories have quoted authorities as speculating that man may well set foot on the moon before the turn of the century. DUT no matter how fast the progress of space trav el within the solar system (the planets surround ing our sun) , some new and as-yet unguessed-of meth od of propulsion will be needed before man can head for the stars. The nearest star other, than our own sun is Alpha Centauri, which is some 4.3 light years (and not 40 as it was incorrectly listed in the earlier editorial). By even the fastest rocket which men can make under known or even speculative methods, it would take years of constant space travel to reach even the near er stars. Men who were young at the start of the voy age would be greybeards by arrival even if space ships were able to travel at any considerable fraction of the speed of light, which is about 669,600,000 miles per hour. (Our own sun is about 93,000,000 miles away approximately seven light minutes). CPEEDS of this order are far, far. in the future, if they are possible at all. (Some scientists believe that man will never be able to approach the speed of light). But the fact that man can even dream of reach ing the stars is a long step upward from the time man invented the wheel, or first used fire his two great est innovations. The race is young, only some 50,000 or so years, and his material progress has been rapid in recent years even sensational. No one can know wThat would care to place a hard and fast limit on specula tion. E.A. Monday, August 8, ISS5 the estimated billion dol for transportation expen Travel? the future holds, but few Matter of (Editor's Note: This Is the first of a series of reports summing up Stewart Alsop's experiences In the Soviet Union, which he brought out with him from Moscow.) RUSSIA IN RETROSPECT I Moscow Almost as soon as the Westerner arrives in Kussia, he begins to feel an aching thirst to leave it. This is not a purely sub jective r e a c tion. It is uni versal, even among West erners who find in Russia a fascination they can find nowhere else And it is strange that there should Stewart Alsop be this thirst. For there are many wonder ful things in the Soviet Union. There is the juicy Russian bread and the fresh Russian butter, the best butter in the world, served in great dollops, at least to foreign visitors. There is the incomparable ballet; and the hermitage in Leningrad, with its marvelous collection of Rem brandts and French moderns; and the Kremlin itself, gay and beautiful in its coat of yellow paint. There are also, it must be said, the genuine achieve ments of the regime, in rebuild ing a devastated land. Finally, there are Russian people. As long as they are not officials and as long as they are not talking politics, they are as nice a people as you could find anywhere. They are amaz ingly courteous and kind, and at the same time they are a little mad, but mad in an enter taining and un-evil way, like characters in a Russian novel. Altogether, the universal phe nomenon of the thirst to leave Russia is very difficult to under stand. To begin to understand it is to begin to understand something about the Soviet Un ion itself. Partly, of course, the thirst to leave derives from the simple fact that the Soviet Union is a police state. One old Russian hand says that there is not enough oxygen in the air here, which conveys some notion of the sense of suffocation induced by the all-pervading power of the state. VET for the foreigner in the Soviet Union, there is no sense of personal danger at all. In these days, too, the Russian people themselves undoubtedly have a greater sense of personal security than they have had in many years. The fact that Rus sia is a police state is by no means the whole explanation of the thirst to leave this country, There are other bits and pieces of the explanation. There is the simple almost universal ugliness, for example. Private taste, of course, does not exist in the Soviet Union; not in the way we know it. The official taste is both atrocious and end lessly repeated, whether in the corrupt Corinthian style of Rus sian public architecture or in the nightmarish summer prints supplied to the unfortunate Rus sian ladies. Aside from the Ballet and some theater and music, what passes for art or literature in the Soviet Union is as much cut to a government approved pattern as the ladies' prints. It is utterly mysterious that so many Western intellectuals and artists should find, at a dis tance, a peculiar attraction in this uniform and ugly place. . Added to the ugliness, there is also the odd humorless stuffi ness of life here. Take the story of the Austrian Ambassa dor and his dog. The ambassa dor recently applied through the Foreign Office for a suitable mate for his female cocker span iel. There was a long delay, and when the ambassador in quired as to its cause, he was solemnly informed that it was difficult to find a Soviet citizen who owned a cocker spaniel and who had equal rank to an am bassador. Surely there has never been a society more pompously rank-conscious and class-conscious. Then there is the sense of isolation which all foreigners feel here. Foreigners are cut off from normal contact with Russians not only by the state and the language barrier but by the ideological Iron Curtain. It is almost impossible to have a serious political conversation with a Russian. It is only pos sible to listen to a gramophone recording. And the extent to which the gramophone record ing is genuinely believed by the ordinary Russian is greatly un derestimated m the West. "TONALLY, there is the strange- ly oppressive leeiing x n a i there is something here you do not really understand, and can never understand. This feeling is shared by the most experienc ed Westerners, including the able ambassadors who , brilliant ly represent the three major Western powers here. The sense of something utter ly alien and wholly incompre hensible is everywhere in the Soviet Union, whether on a col lective farm or in the pages of "Pravda." But this reporter felt it most strongly on a visit to the tomb of Lenin and Stalin. It is a macabre experience to see the waxy, powerful faces of Fact Stewart Alsop the old revolutionary and the ruthless dictator preserved un der glass in the chilly under ground dampness, while the Russians shuffle by in an unend ing line, staring silently at their dead masters. If you look closely, you can see that the bodies of both men are false- only the heads and hands, sev ered from the bodies, have been preserved. Here, surely, is a phenomenon which is not only macabre but also incomprehen sible to the Western mind. To be sure, corpse-worship is no new thing in this country. In the ancient underground cata combs of Kiev, for example, the mouldering remains of medieval religious leaders are on display, larking only an occasional finger yanked off by the devout. But this same ancient fanati cism wedded to a rigid and vio lent global political doctrine is something new, and something frightening. To the Western mind it may be beyond under standing, but it is to be feared as instinctively as a bird fears a cat. Perhaps that is the most important reason for the aching thirst to leave this country that Westerners feel. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Mrs. Schmidt-Fine Living Alone To Ponder Decision Nevada City, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Una Schmidt-Fine went off to live by herself today until she can decide which husband she would rather live with. Mrs. Schmidt, 20, took her two-year-old son to an undis closed location after talking to her first husband, Daniel Schmidt, 22, in Tokyo. Schmidt is one of 11 American airmen returning home from captivity in Red China. Believed Best She decided to live apart from her secoad husband, Alford Fine, 21, until she can straighten out the marital tangle she got into when she married Fine in the belief Schmidt was killed in Korea. - Her attorney, Harold Berliner said: "Una and Al believe it is best for all concerned that they live separate and apart until such time as their problem is solved. In fairness to airman Schmidt, there will be no further an nouncement until he returns and has had an opportunity to dis cuss the entire matter." Whereabouts Withheld Berliner refused to disclose the whereabouts of Una and her son, nor what she and Schmidt talked about during their trans pacific call. In Tokyo, Schmidt likewise refused to tell what he had said to his wife. He already has made it clear that as far as he is con cerned, the whole affair is no one else's business. I he Kedding, cant., airman talked to his wife from the Air Force hospital at Tachikawa Air Base, where he and his 10 com panions were undergoing medi cal examinations after their re lease from captivity Thursday. Crow Beauty Wins Indian Miss Title Sheridan, Wyo. (U.R) A Slender, raven-haired beauty from the Crow Agency in Mon tana, Miss Rita Ann McLaugh lin, reigned today as Indian Miss America of 1955. The 24-year-old sloe-eyed beauty, a dental technician with the U. S. Public Health service, was crowned Indian Miss Am erica last night at the close of Sheridan's annual All Ameri can Indian Days celebration. Miss McLaughlin, a member of the Hunkpapa Sioux tribe, broke into tears of joy when the judges announced her the win ner while thousands of Indians loosed war whoops of applause Clad in a fringed and beaded white buckskin dress, Miss Mc Laughlin received the crown from last year's Indian Miss Am erica, Miss Mary' Louis Defend er. Former Germans May Regain Citizenship Seattle Former German cit izens who left Germany between 1933 and 1945 may now regain their citizenship, it was announc ed this week by the consulate of the Federal Republic of Ger many here. Werner Oppel, consul, said a new law deals in part with the nationality status of those who relinquished their citizenship for political, racial or religious rea sons, who are now entitled to be reinstated if they so desire, even though they intend to continue living elsewhere. Deadline for re instatement is Dec. 31, 1956. Details of the new law are av ailable from the consulate, locat ed at 905 Securities building, Third and Stewart sts., Seattle 1, Wash. There are more than coal miners in the U.S. 7,000 In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS , The Kremlin mystery deep ens. Russian Premier Bulganin said in Moscow that the aerial in spection phase of President Eis enhower's peaceful coexistence and armament reduction plan was unworkable because of the vast size of Russia and the United States. In a surprise reappearance be fore the Soviet parliament, he said his statement had been mis understood and then added: "Everything will TURN OUT WELL." Whereupon, the dispatches tell us, the members of the Soviet parliament cheered enthusiasti cally. WHAT are we to think of it all? Let's put it this way: Before we can have a peace plan (including armament reduc tion) that will work there will have to be mutual confidence. As of now, because of what has happened in the past, we have no confidence in Commun ist Russia's peaceful intentions. "DUT IF the Russians will in the future, over a sufficient period of time, do the things that will cause us to have confidence in them, we CAN get together on a plan for peace and armament re duction. That's about the size of.it. T ET'S get closer home: The Portland city council has passed by a four to one vote a sweeping ordinance to ban ALL mechanical amusement devices that have an element of GAM BLING. pORTLANDiS councilmen must A have been reading the consti tution of Oregon, which de clares (Article XV; Sec. 4): "LOTTERIES, and the sale of lottery tickets, FOR ANY PUR POSE WHATEVER, are PRO HIBITED, and the legislative as sembly shall PREVENT the same by penal laws." MEMBERS of Oregon city councils (along with a wide range of other public officials) must take an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Oregon. It is a solemn oath, ending with the pledge: "So help me God." One can imagine that a mem ber of an Oregon city council, reading the constitution of our state and recalling the oath he took when he assumed his office, would be considerably disturbed in his conscience every time he looks money-paying (or mer chandise-paying) slot machine of any. description in the eye. VyHAT is a lottery?. weDsrer aetines it as "a scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot; especially such a scheme in which lots, or chances, are sold." Put it to yourself this way: When you put a coin in the slot of a machine that offers a prize (money or merchandise) you BUY A CHANCE. I suppose that when the founding fathers of our state adopted our constitu tion they thought of a "lottery" as putting numbers in a hat. But that was before the machine age. Logical reasoning must lead to the conclusion that when you put a coin in the slot of a ma chine that offers a prize you are BUYING A CHANCE. rpHAT the constitution of Ore gon forbids: The constitution is the SU PREME law of our state. Public officials in Oregon (in cluding city councilmen) take a solemn oath to support Oregon's constitution. President Working Toward Vacation. Gettysburg, Pa. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower worked at home to catch up with Congress today. He will follow the legis lators on vacation next week. Mr. Eisenhower hopes to finish his work on legislation passed in the adjournment rush before he leaves for a work-and-play vacation in Colorado next Sun day or Monday. He came here to his farm home Friday to spend the better part of a week. He will return to Washington before leaving for Colorado. The President attended church services Sunday with Mai. Walter Tkach, assistant White House physician. Mrs. Eisen hower remained at the farm. The Chief Executive was greeted by several hundred tour ists as he emerged from the century-old church where Abra ham Lincoln attended services before he delivered his historic Gettysburg Address. COFFEE PRICES DISCUSSED Rio De Janeiro (U.R) The fi nance ministers of Brazil and Co lombia, the world's two largest coffee producers were to meet today for an important discus sion of the world coffee situa tion. Jose Maria Whitaker of Brazil and Carlos Villaveces of Colombia planned to concentrate on the stabilization of coffee prices and the expansion of markets. Is That So? Here's a noggin duster for your would-be rangers: It certainly is an amazing world, but if you were to meet some of these statements head- on, with which would you be justified in asking for a generous helping of salt? Circle either "True" or "False." Answers follow at the end of the column. 1. True, False: A giant prehis toric animal was rceently un earthed with hide, meat, and bones intact. 2. True, False: Mammals be low man, monkey and ape are color-blind. 3. True, False: A sleeping fe male bear may give birth to a cubs and nurse it for two months before feeding herself. 4. True, False: A king salmon may fight his way to the head waters of a stream where he was born and in doing so go without food for several months. " Same Kind of Plant 5. True, False: Many insects are good botanists they al ways attach their cocoons to the same kind of plant for their young to feed on when they hatch, although some never live to see their offspring. 6. True, False: Although there are nearly 3 million species of creatures in the animal king dom, there are only about 4,000 warm - blooded mammals, of which man is one. 7. True. False: All mammals are milk-sucking, including whales. 8. True, False:. A mammal can not vary its temperature more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit without death resulting. . 9. True, False: While a whale's heartbeat may be around 15 a minute, that of the canary ex ceeds 1,000 a minute. China Junk Due In Golden Gate San Francisco (U.R) The junk "Free China" was due in the Golden Gale today after a 6000 mile journey from Kee lung, Formosa. " -The 70-foot-long junk is man ned by Oalvin Mehlert, 26, of Fresno, Calif., who is American vice-consul in Formosa, and a crew of five young Chinese sail ors, refugees from Communist China. At last report, the 30-ton junk was 30 miles southwest of Point Arena on the Northern Califor nia coast. Her crew hoped that favorable winds would bring her to anchor in San Francisco some time today. The junk left Formosa almost four months ago. Glider Pilot Sets New American Mark Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. (U.R) Paul F. Bikle, civilian chief of flight test research at Edwards' Air Force Base, has set a new American record for soar ing by flying his glider 270 miles before landing. Bikle flew" his Schweizer SGS 1-23 sailplane from El Mirage field here Saturday to Essex, Cal. 135 miles east on U. S. Highway 66 before he flew back.-His flight time was eight hours, 10 minutes. The previous American rec ord for flying to a predetermined point and then returning to the pqint of departure was 260 miles set by William H. Coverdale, of Philadelphia, in 1952. The world record is 296 miles. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 O . y IU6IMI tUINS Kiagtr-Mataralitt 10. True, False: Sweat glands and true hair are unique to mammals. ANSWERS: With the excep tion of No. 8, believe every one, because they are true. No. 8 is an error, because thej tem perature of a mammal may vary much more than 30 de grees. During hibernation, it may vary from a normal of 100 to slightly above freezing, say 35. (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. Editorial Comment FLIER'S REACTION Reports from Hong Kong on the reactions of the eleven American tliers released from Chinese Communist prisons tell how they reveled in the creature comf orts. of the free world after their rugged captivity. They danced gaily in hot showers, jumped and bounced on the beds made of foam rub ber mattresses and white per cale sheets, commented ' on the smell of the good soap with which they lathered their faces. Lustily eating steak, one of them replied to a companion's warning that he didn't care if he did become sick "Nothing can spoil this," he said. These were the material things which most of us take for grant ed and of which the fliers were openly appreciative after long deprivation. One may be sure, they equally appreciate the non material blessings of the free dom to which they have return ed They will become used again in a few days or weeks to soft beds, good food and all the soap and hot water they desire. They are less likely to forget the chains of the mind and the spirit from which they nave been freed. - One cannot stuff oneself with freedom, or bounce on it, or lather one's face with it. But it is a greater possession than steak, soap and a clean bed. This, we believe, the fliers know much better than most of us. Portland Oregonian Unwed Wife GEO. N. TAYLOR " On his journey into Galilee, Jesus rested a bit by Jacob's well, near Sychar. Awoman of the town came to fill her water-jar and Je sus told her to go call her hus band. She said sh e had no husband. You' have had five husbands, said Jesus, and he who you now have ison o t your husband - John 4:18. Then Jesus told her that if she drank only of that well be side them, she would thirst again. But the well that He had for her would be a well of water springing up into eternal life. At that the woman went into Sychar and bid the people come out and hear Jesus. The many, hearing Him, took Him as the Son of God who would give them eternal life, by dying for their sins. And where will you spend eternity? If interested in this spreaa or the Good News, write GOSPEL BY NEWSPAPER, 2385 87th Ave., S.W. Portland 1, Ore. Adv. 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