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O O O CD o O FOtni MEDFORD (OREGON) UKI "Iverybody tn Southern Oregon Keada Tne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor , HERB GREY Advertising Manager Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AULEN JR City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Rv Mull In Advance: Per CODV 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, central foini. r-ajjie runii. Jsrknnvillp Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent. nnri nn motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 i i n 1 trnnv learner ana irrciici n w-. j All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Faper or daemon Uniled Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: - uF5T.Hni.IJDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. L.os Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. itHiONAt KDITOD.a. (AsgoclwTlfoN NIWSPAPIt PUtllf Hilt ASSOCIATION Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 19, 1845 (It was Sunday) County millage rate set at S.6 mills. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Fishing is now reported so poor in Rogue River it akes an FBI man to catch one. 20 YEARS AGO August 19, 1935 (It was Monday) Nearly 3,000 people gather at airport to see 31 large bombers of 31st squadron land here. Local group forms light opera company here. Capital stock . listed as $5,000. 30 YEARS AGO August 19, 1925 (It was Wednesday) There will be a horseshoe tournament the last two days of the county fair coming up. Burglars enter Lamport's and steal three pistols. 40 YEARS AGO August 19, 1915 (It was Thursday) O Fire destroys 10 acres of bar ley in Applegate area. Greater Medford club to beau tify park at city reservoir. What's the Answer? CaioYou Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The U.S. is one of the coun tries subscribing to the interna tional) treaty banning gas and germ warfare; right or wrong? 2. Which prominent Washing ton hostess has "Geneva" for a middle name? 3. The Lewis and Clark expe dition explored the U.S. South west, South Polar regions, U.S. Northwest, interior of Africa, or Upper Amazon? 4. "The California Comet" was an outstanding golf, baseball, (ipotball, horse-racing, bowling, or tennis star? 5. Kabul is the capital of which country in the Middle East? 6. The Casey Jones immortal ized by a famous ballad was or wasn't a baseball player? 7. Is the word (1) "predilec tion," (2) "pridelection," (3) "pre deliction," (4) "prediliction," or (5) "prideliction"? " The Answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Mrs. Eisenhower. 3. U.S. North west. 4. Tennis (M. McLoughlin) 5. Afghanistan. 6. Wasn't. 7. (1) Predilection. Oregon May Escape Real Properly Levy Km Portland (U.R) State Sen. Rudie Willielm says Oregon may be able to escape a state levy on O real property next year even though the three-cent per pack tax on cigarettes was referred and may be defeated in the next general election. The reason, Wilhelm told the Oregon Building Congress yes terday, is that income tax rev enues are coming in much better than had been expected. In July, he said, income tax receipts were $5,000,000 above the year before, andfn the six months to June 30 they were up more than O $2,000,000. MAIL TRIBUNE Why Not Get the Facts? Excursions for newspaper men and women to Europe have become quite fashionable-of late, and according to reports have been successful both for the promoters and the patrons. But why go so far away and at such great expense? Why not have a newspaper excursion nearer home say to Knoxville, Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley authonty? Perhaps if there were would be less fiction published in the newspapers about TVA and its alleged demonstration of un-Amer ican "creeping socialism. "IITE NOTE in the Oregonian of the 18th inst, for example, a communication from D." F. Taft of Portland who says he the recurring audits of the United States and they all clearly indicate, quote "The Tennessee Valley set-up does not pay' its own way, that claims of benefits of flood control, navigation, etc., etc., are without basis of fact, and that the overall operation is heavily subsidized by the general taxpayers." I F MR. TAFT no relation of William Howard we .imagine would visit records, while he talked of the valley, he would, nonsense further. For regardless of what Comptroller General may HAS paid its way, and does floods in the Tennessee Valley, and it HAS not only transf ormed water transportation along the Tennessee river, but thereby has reduced railroad freight rates in the state. TVA has not only lowered electric light and power rates also but has paid back 000,000 to date, and eventually will pay the govern ment loan all back, the average annual payments into the US Treasury will, it is believed, soon exceed $50,000,000 a year! IT IS true the "Authority" tax and for a very simple reason, to-wit: its net income goes back to the profit. But it does make payments in lieu of taxes to state and local governments in Tennessee, many millions of dollars throughout the years m fact. As a TVA official report declared a year or two ago, quote:. "If you want a measure of what the consumer of TVA electricty pays toward the cost of running the US govern ment that is a tax-equivalent ponder" this fact: "In the past 12 years (since TVA started large scale operations) each consumer on the average has paid for the cost of producing the electricity and enough more to cover the government cost of money and in addition has paid about $13 each year through TVA to the Federal govern ment; this is to .be compared with an average of about $10 per consumer paid to the federal government through, private power companies in the form of income taxes." ' V DERHAPS the most illuminating and instructive by-product of such an excursion however would result from conversations and vicinity that an excursionist would naturally meet in the course of a necessarily brief visit. If the TVA is really as democracy as the Private no one in Tennessee seems These citizens moreover certainly can't be dis missed as Communists or Fellow Travelers, they have no more use for "socialism," creeping or galloping, than the Secretary of the US Treasury. But they do have the deepest devotion imaginable to TVA, won't even listen to any candidate for polit ical office who opposes it, and almost unanimously maintain it has transformed their town and state from a "Tobacco Road" area to "Easy Street," from where a large percentage were on them pay an income tax, and take a real cleiignt in doing so. IN OTHER words, the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. Such a visit to Tennessee would certainly remove all doubt, as far as the representa tives of the US press are concerned, that no matter what the public power project may be called for political purposes; as a practical matter, in the state of Tennessee it is there to stay, and woe be to the political candidate, local, state or national, who runs on any platform to destroy it. The people 01 l ennessee want it because it has helped them in a big way and when such help was particularly needed. AS Gordon R. Clapp, marked in a speech before the Kiwanis Club of Memphis, Tennessee, quote : "The world is searching for better and more efficient ways to use natural resources without loss of individual freedom or the destruction of real competitive private enterprise. We are demonstrating in the Tennessee Valley that this can be done; that the people farmers, workers, business-men and citizens in general, can mobilize their energies around the use of a great river and the more pro- ductive development of the forests, minerals and the soil? The people of the Tennessee Valley have proved that as they do these things, agriculture and industry thrive and diversify and the individual finds greater opportunity for his talents. We are successfully demonstrating that this development helps the whole country; it is paying off in a big way." No one can deny the US government made this multiple project possible. And no one willing to study the problem would deny either that had the govern ment not so acted or if in the future it should refuse so to act the good fortune that came to Tennessee will come to no other state. For what is known as "Private Power" will never be willing or able to do in this particular field what the nation can do, and has done in the direction of securing multiple benefits to the people by utilizing the maximum potentialities of our great river systems. R.R.R. Friday, August 19, 1955 a few of these staged, there has over the years read the Comptroller General of the TVA and consult the to some of the inhabitants we believe, not credit such the reports of the U.S. "INDICATE," the TVA today: it HAS eliminated to the government $100,- pays no federal income government, it makes no with people in Knoxville great a threat to American Power proponents claim, to T)e as yet aware of it. relief to where most of chairman of the TVA re In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS A new code of conduct for Am erican servicemen who become prisoners of war became effec tive when President Eisenhower signed an executive order put ting the new program into effect. The new code grows out of the cases of Americans charged with collaborating with the enemy in Korean prison camps. Its details havs not been made public but it is known torepresent a com- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den 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. McKay Resignation Approved To the Editor: As a subscriber, and an habitual reader of your very fine editorials, I feel it is my duty to convey the feelings of a great many people in accord ance with your editorial of this evening, August 16th. On May 14 and 15th this year, the Klamath Basin District Coun cil No. 6 of the I.W.A. (Interna tional Woodworkers of America) C.I.O., held its annual conven tion in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the following resolution was pre sented and was unanimously ap proved. In conclusion, I would like to express the appreciation and the admiration of the people I have the privilege to represent in my organization, for the very fine work you are doing editorially. Bruce McDonald, President I.W.A. Local 6-221 Butte Falls, Oregon -The resolution follows: RESOLUTION SUBJECT: Resignation of Doug' las McKay, Secretary of the Interior. WHEREAS: Secretary of the In terior Douglas McKay used to sell Chevrolets to the State of Oregon while Governor; and WHEREAS: President Eisenhow er's cabinet already has one representative of Gen eral Motors, Charles E "Bird Dog" Wilson on it; and WHEREAS: Secretary McKay seeks to either close down or sell out to private mo nopoly, the Alaska Rail road in spite of its profit able operating record; and WHEREAS: Secretary McKay has, by his own appoint ment, become an errand boy for the Idaho Power Company, a Maine Corpo ration which masquerades as a locally owned con cern and has sought to give away the finest mul tiple purpose dam site in North America Hells Canyon and the Snake River to this private util ity; and WHEREAS: Secretary McKay has clearly demonstrated by his past and present record that he is not inter ested in the welfare of the people but is interested, at the expense of the citi zenry in the welfare of friends in the utility and transportation field and is thus an official to whom the people can no longer look for the protection of their natural resource her itage: BE IT THEREFORE FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Klamath Basin District Council No. 6 Interna tional Woodworkers of America, C.I.O., petition the President of the Unit ed States to require Sec retary McKay's resigna tion forthwith so as to prevent any further loot ing of the public domain Adopted by the Klamath Basin District Council No. 6 Convention in ses sion May 14th and 15th 1955. Festival Praised People who like good enter tainment are waking up to what devotees of William Shakespeare have known for years. The best legitimate theatre produced in Oregon is being seen every Aug ust at the Shakespearean Festi val in Ashland. Although it will mark its 21st year next season, the festival has long since come "of age." It has been a financial success and it shows it. The once-hard benches have been replaced with more comfortable auditorium type seats. The costuming is splendid, rich in color and done with imagination. The pace of the plays is fast with no intermissions and with scenes blending into one another as they can with the near-absence of scenery on a Shakespearean stage. Let those who say they can't understand Elizabethan Shake speare go and hear for them selves that diction and expres sion put the full meanings of the words into the ears of even the untutored listener. Many people are afraid of The Bard. They shun "culture", fear ing boredom. They forget that human emotions haven't changed in the over-300 years since Shakespeare's time. He wrote of human frailties and strengths such as no one has be fore or since. Salem Statesman. News I promise between the stern atti tude of the army and a somewhat more lenient viewpoint taken by the air force as to men subjected to enemy pressure. 'PHE OLD code had its origins in the age of chivalry when wr was regarded as GENTLE MEN'S business. The Hague Con vention of 1907 and the Geneva Convention of 1929 formalized into international law agree ments for humane treatment of prisoners of war. The nations signing these con ventions agreed, for example. that prisoners could be put to work if they were WILLING but must be paid for their labor. prisoners couia send and re ceive mail subject, of course to reasonable censorship. Torture of prisoners for any reason, but specifically torture to force them to reveal military information was rigidly for bidden by international agree ment. And so on. rTHAT DAY is past. We're now back to barbarism thanks largely to Commun ism. The Communist countries wage war as savages wage war, They use ANY method includ ing torture of prisoners, both physically and mentally to gam their ends. We need a new code of con duct xor tne members of our armed forces. It is no longer fair or decent to send them into battle (which includes the risk of capture as well as the risk of death) under a code that subjects them to TRIAL FOR TREASON if under inhuman tortures, men tal as well as physical, they re veal military information. T1HE LATEST prison ruckus is at Lincoln, Neb., where the iNeorasKa state penitentiary is located. To quell a 12-hour con vict rebellion, national guards men had to be called in with orders to shoot or kill, if nec- essnry. The guardsmen were called in after about 225 rebels had set fire to six prison shops and smashed equipment and furni ture in their cell blocks. For tunately, the show of force ended the uprising and it was not nec essary to do any shooting. Fac ing the rifles of the soldiers, the prisoners returned to their cells. IlfHAT SHALL we do about '"these prison-rebellions which are becoming almost ROUTINE in the news? CONSTRUCTIVE work is all I can think of as a remedy. Keep our convicts busy. At CREATIVE work. Pay them wages. Put their wages away, to be PAID TO THEM if and when they have paid their debt to society and have been released. Someway Let's give them HOPE. When hope is taken away from a man, there isn't much left to build on. fUR MODERN prisons too v nearly approximate the pic ture of hell, as given to us by Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy. Over the gates of hell, as he pictures it in his visionary journey through "Hell, Purga tory and Paradise was this legend: "All hope abandon, ye who enter here. Our prisons are too much like that. Timber Creek Access Road To Be Constructed Grants Pass A timber access road up Timber creek, scheduled to be built here soon, will open for logging approximately 25, 000 acres containing an estimat ed 525,000,000 boad feet of U. S. forest timber, it was announced recently. The virgin area; into which the 5.76 mile road will be built, will keep an estimated 3,500,000 logs annually flowing into near by sawmills, it has been esti mated. The yield is expected to continue indefinitely under the Forest Service's sustained yield program. The new road is second of two scheduled for the same general area that will be important to Grants Pass timber milling operations. Editorial Comment Helping the Power Trust Sen. Wayne Morse has put his finger on something that was given little notice during the lengthy , hearings on develop ment in the Hells Canyon stretch of the Snake river. Sen. Morse has pointed out that during the proceedings before the Federal Power commission, Idaho Pow er Co. claimed that its proposed three dams would not cost the United States any money. But on August of 1953 the company had filed with the Office of Defense Mobilization accelerat ed amortization applications for two of three dams for which licenses have since been issued. Sen. Morse recalls that Wash ington Water Co. was allowed certificates for 65 per cent of its request for accelerated amor tization on Cabinet Gorge dam. And on that basis Idaho Power would realize a federal tax sav ings in the amount of $31,357, 000 during the first five years of its operation of Brownlee and Oxbow dams. Uncle Sam been giving you any big write-offs lately? East Oregonian I i The day's mail. "From time to time I've heard about it raining frogs, " fish and earthworms. Is there anything to this? asks D.R.B. "My scout son wants to know how the sea becomes salty?" writes C.B. When the earth was first formed, apparently it was sur rounded by a vast and almost im penetrable cloud of fog. Then as the earth's heat lessened, the great mass of vapor surrounding it condensed and fell as rain and must have fallen for cen turies and centuries. This original rain water which now covers about three-fourths of our earth's surface, was prac tically distilled and free of salt. But some of the rain fell on land, first composed mostly of rock. Nearly all of these rocks con tained salt and some of the salt leached out and was drained off to the sea (even today, all fresh water streams contain traces of salt which they carry to the sea). By constant evaporation and precipitation through the mil lions and billions of years, more and more of this salt washed into the sea. In time, the once pure water became saltier and saltier as it is today. Even so, in the tropics where both evaporation and rainfall are much greater than in the arid polar regions, the seas too are much-saltier. About raining fish: Yes, it can rain" them but frogs, and earthworms are another matter. Most of these "frogs" are toads there are many species of small toads which burrow into the earth where they remain in active and unseen during dry spells. Then, when it rains they emerge from their burrows and become conspicuous by their sud den activity. The same goes for earthworms, which are flooded out of their burrows. If they were to remain in the ground they might well drown. - As for the fish, they can be lifted from large bodies of water by waterspouts. In certain areas, waterspouts are not uncommon. In fact, when I was a war cor respondent during World War II, I saw three waterspouts in one afternoon from aboard a navy search plane off the Aircraft Carrier Enterprise. Many authenticated cases . of 'fish" falling from the skies have been reported mostly small ocean fish, but in one instance, in Belfast, Ireland, a seven-inch-er was reported. These fish are lifted from the ocean as tor nadoes lift roofs from buildings and deposit them miles away. Cattle, too, for that matter. (Released by McClure 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 wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new submis sions will be considered. Sorry. simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. ndians in 'Peaceful nvasion' of Goa Bombay, India (U.R) Seventy Indians crossed the border into Goa today in the second round of the"peaceful invasion of the Portuguese enclave by National ist groups bent on its "peaceful liberation." The Indian Information- Serv ice broadcasting from New Delhi said "200 volunteers are crossing the border today to offer saty grapha (passive resistance) for the liberation of the Portuguese colony." 231 I PORK LIVER I 19V -2 New York City (Special to Mail Tribune) What is the truth about the stock market? Is it very high or is it not? Should stocks be sold now? Should invest ments be made now? These are questions which this col umn will try to answer this Soger W. Babua, week. Unfortunately, the stock mar ket is judged by the average daily price of thirty industrial stocks. It is true that this list, after adjustments for "splits," mergers, etc., is near its all-time high. To be specific, these 30 stocks are now at about 450 compared with 350 a year ago, 381 in the Fall of 1929; and 41 at their all-time low of 1932. But when averaging all 1500 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, I find that all are not too high, based upon earnings. I especially want readers to remember the above, when this Industrial Average begins to slide off as it surely will some day. Don't then think that busi ness is going on the rocks and that our prosperous days are over. Just as a high Industrial Stock Average does not now give you more customers and profits, so your business can continue good later when these thirty stocks slump. Protect your inven tories, keep your people em ployed, and continue your adver tising, whatever these thirty stocks do. Few Stocks Useless As True Measure Not only are these thirty stocks an unfair measure of the entire market, but an analysis of even these "thirty" is important. For instance, one day recently this thirty stock average went up (the newspapers broadcast "Highest Prices Ever Known"), when actually more stocks made new "lows" for the year than made new "highs." The concen trated buying, by pension funds and investment trusts, of a few stocks like General Motors, Du Pont, and Eastman Kodak, ran this average up so it was useless as a true measure of the stock market or of business. The average of 265 common stocks issued weekly by the S. E. C. is a far better barometer. Be sides, the S.E.C divides its list into six divisions, viz: (l) Dur able Products, (2) Non-durable Products, (3) Transportation, (4) Public Utilities, (5) Trade, Fi nance, and Service, and (6) Min ing. An analysis of these 265 shows also that while the high- priced stocks were gaining in price an average of eight per cent, the low-priced stocks lost one per cent. Probably many readers of this column will say: "All other stocks have gone up but mine." But I reply: "What of it? You seldom take profits when your stocks do go up. Like a 'hog', you always wait for higher prices before selling, and then you wait too long and your profit is lost." Person Said Better Off To Buy for Income One big day when the thirty stocks were jumping, of the 1231 stocks traded, 636 closed lower, while only 361 closed higher. and 234 closed unchanged. Many of these last 234 were "invest ment stocks" which people buy to hold for dividends. Some of these have paid dividends for 50 years. I forecast thdt you would be better off to forget speculating for profit, and to have an estate of sound dividend payers of hon estly operated companies. Re member that money earning 6 per cent will double in 12 years. , Hence, when you ask me if this is a time to sell or buy stocks, I reply that now is the time to do both; in other words, this is a time to switch. Take your profits on the popular "blue chips," which are yielding only four per cent. Invest one half of your money in some of the 234 (mostly dividend payers) if, Wakefield Drapery NEW LOCATION Littrell Parts 321 East PHONE 2 L&S? BRIBES EAST BEEF ROAST SIXTH ST. . PORK ROAST 9V 39V and Stock Market mentioned ' above. Deposit the other half in your local savings bank and wait for the big de cline which will come someday. Merchandising Stocks Investment Favorite One can get 6 percent today by buying good chain-store stocks. Every week I invest some money in the Variety Chains (5 and 10 cent stores), at whatever price the stocks are selling. If you want to know the reason , "why," just go into one of these "dime" stores and note the 10,000 useful items which they have at sale for "cash and carry." They have no credit accounts, no de livery costs, and they sell good merchandise at low prices. The stores fear neither inflation nor depression and have the security of geographical distribution. When they do more advestising, they will make even more money. They set local merchants an example of efficiency. Jackson County Rated Third in Log Harvesting Jackson county ranks third among the 10 top log harvesting counties in the state of Oregon, according to figures released by State Forester George Spaur. Jackson county's production of 669,068 board feet in 1954 top ped neighboring county's log board feet production by 426, 104,000 board feet. Josephine county was 10th on the list. Oregon is now in its 17th consecutive year of maintaining national leadership in timber harvest, Spaur said. Cutting 8. 960,735,000 board feet of logs in 1954. Oregon loggers harvested the second largest volume of timber ever cut in Oregon. Salvage Increase Reasons Spaur cited more intensive manufacturing processes, ex panded production of plywood, pulp and new uses for wood, combined with steady markets, as reasons for the increased sal vage of materials left in the woods by earlier operations. "The forest industries have made outstanding progress in. recovering and utilizing left over wood on previously cut over lands," Spaur stated. He also credited private tree term programs with playing "a major role" in reclaiming great vol umes of usable wood. 108,000 Employed ' "More than 108,000 loggers, millworkers, machinists, truck ers and other skilled persons were employed, to produce the forest products," Spaur added, stating that harvesting and pro cessing of wood was Oregon's top ranking industry. He point ed out that the wood industries garner an annual income of ap proximately $1,000,000,000. His report was compiled from data obtained from inspectors of the state forestry department and field inspections and reports from the U.S. Forest Service and Indian Service. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5 :30 previous day. INVESTIGATE " whether you are earmarking your savings to provide security for later life, extra cash income now, or are just starting to . accumulate an emergency fund, it will pay you to investigate here. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford Q 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save Building 6th - 6010 SLICED BACON 39V Q
