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o G o O O O o o o o o ) o o Li n Li O O O O O n u a o Uo G tJ G O O O Q o Q O O O O C3 O G FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforwWTribuhi "Everybody In Southern Oregon Keafla Tta Mail inpune Published Dailv Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phcne 2-6141 DADftJT 1X7 DT-XJT V ( . HERB GREY Advertising Manager r-E C. FERGUSON Managing Editor HARR CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor R1CHAKU jr.wr.ll oporcs cuitui OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entted as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn a, ioi SUBSCRIPTION RATES Y a j - Dor r-nnv 10c Daily and Sunday One vear $12.00 t-, . i i c.nrlow months n o 1 J Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.30 Sunday Only une Tear . Ashland. Central Point, Eagle Point. , in. tr-A Will Pnoenix. jaCKSOnVlllC. UUiu i T.l.nt Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes. .i.nn Dairy and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month IM Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms casn in Ofriclal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY Offices in rew ior. r. troit. San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattto. Portland. St. Louia Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCl-ATI!.N 7 vy NIWIPAPII ruiuiHiii ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. EETE3 I o , 10 YEARS AGO O Aumist 25. 1945 at was Saturday) Six new cases of whooping cough in Jackson county this week. c O From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: During the recent peace celebration riots, throughout the land, liquor stores were the favorite targets lor joyous burglaries. No group q broke into a church to praise q the Lord for victory. 20 YEARS AGO G August 25, 1935 . O (It was Sunday) ' New veins struck in gold mining around Jacksonville by Opp mining company. Pacific Airline's giant Ford tri-motored plane to take off for hour and a half tour of Crater Lake today. 30 YEARS AGO August 25, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Thermometer reads 104 at air port. 9 Excitement grows over re ports that 1936 Ford will have new shaped radiator. 40 YEARS AGO cAugust 25, 1915 (It was Wednesday) o Col. F. L. TouVelle named Oregon delegate to Dry Farming Congress in Denver. Mayor Emerick returns from six week" fishing trip to Idaho. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. General Motors was a merg er of different auto companies, arranged chiefly by the Du Ponts, William Durant, J. J. Raskob, Harlow Curtice, Alfred Sloan or Charles E. Wilson? 2. The Russian alphabet has more or fewer letters than the English, or the same number? 3. The rule under which Mo roccans are increasingly restive is French, Italian, Spanish, Brit ish or Portuguese? 4. The amount of Government held butter increased or de creased over the last 12 months, or stayed about the same? 5. Estes Kefauver was the Democratic vice - presidential nominee in 1952; right or wrong? 6. The Sandwich Islands were once a name for Hawaii, Aus tralia and New Zealand, the Ba hamas, Thousand Islands or Vir gin Islands? 7. What well-known movie producer was originally named Goldfish? The Answers: 1. Duranl; 2. More; 3. French; 4. Decreased considerably; 5. Wrong (that was Sen. Sparkman); 6. Hawaii; 7. Samuel Goldwyn. Milwaukee Harvester Parts Men on Strike Milwaukie, Ore. (U.R) Sixty eight employees of the Interna tional Harvester Company plant's parts depot here are on strike to support demands for wage increases and a guaranteed annual wage. Employees in other parts of the plant have remained on the job. United Auto Workers Union representative Harry Whiteside said the union was asking for 10 cents an hour wage increase plus a guaranteed annual wage and other benefits. MAIL TRIBUNE ; Neuberger's First Term The Oregonian's 100 per cent regular Republican ism often disappoints and displeases this department, but we have to hand it to the state's leading morning daily in one direction politically, to wit: It not only refuses to slant its news reports on a partisan basis, as so many metropolitan newspapers do ; but it always gives a fair and square break in its NEWS columns to the opposition. A S AN example, the Oregonian prints an excellent "article regarding Senator Neuberger's return to Oregon in its issue of August 23rd, wrhich gives our Freshman Senator a fine play and all in all a very just objective appraisal of his principles and his politi cal record thus far. Unlike the paper's editorial treatment of Oregon's Democratic Senator No. 2, there is no ridicule or sar casm expressed or implied, no buttering-up either, but a straightforward, factual news story, giving Neu berger's views of his first session in detail, what he did that he believes worth while, what the congress did that he believes was and wasn't worthwhile . . . THE three major failures of the 84th congress, our Junior Senator believes are to have been failure tn nass a national school bill, a national good-roads bill and anything constructive in the realm of civil rights. Havinp- sunnorted President Eisenhower more strongly on his foreign policy, than most of the Re publicans, it came as no surprise to learn tnat ne oe Upvps this is the taD-root of the wide-spread Eisen hower popularity, just as tion's domestic policy, particularly its Hostility to puD c. nower are not Donular and may prove to be serious political liabilities in the A S far as Senator Morse's reelection is concerned, " his junior colleague maintains if the people of Oregon want a capable, courageous and honest rep resentative in the Upper House they will most cer tainly return our Senior Senator. As far as any opposi tion from Governor Patterson is concerried, Senator Np.nhero-er believes the DODular reaction of the Oregon voters to that can best be summed up in that the pres ent Governor is, quote: "A very nice man but I can't see any difference between him and McKay." THERE is only one surprising feature of this article ; that is the inclusion by Senator Neuberger in the list of his colleagues who most favorably impressed him, of the Republican minority leader Senator Wm. Knowland of California. In explanation our Junior Senator declared, quote : "I don't often agree with him but I am convinced he is sincere and capable. In getting permission for Harry Holt of Creswell to bring eight Korean orphans to his Oregon farm, the immigration service check came so late we had to get the bill in the last day of the session. I went to Senator Knowland and told him the story. He helped give it priority clearance. In the face of a lot of major legislation we were therefore able to take care of an Oregon rancher and eight Korean orphans." p RATITUDE for this help is perfectly understand able, and as a private citizen there has never been any great question of Senator Knowland's ability and essential honesty, but there are scores of Senators whose ability and sincerity can't be questioned, but few who have worked harder against the essentials of President Eisenhower's foreign policy, and done more to bring the threat of World War III closer than the Senior Senator from California. To include him therefore in a "preferred list" with such outstanding anti-isolationist members of the Senate, as Alben Barkley of Kentucky, Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, and Senator Kefauver of Tennessee is somewhat dif ficult for this department to understand. Perhaps the word "impressive" is the proper an swer. At least Senator Knowland IS that very much so! R.W.R. . 'What Price " Nixon? There is one thing about President Eisenhower it has always been hard to understand. That is his in fatuation with his vice-president, former Senator Nix on of California. It is now reported that if "Ike" decides to run for reelection he will again insist that Nixon be his run ning mate, and if anything should happen his suc cessor, of course, in the White House. XE can't believe the President's enthusiasm for the California Senator is shared by the American people as a whole, regardless of party. As far as this department is concerned we agree with former President Truman that VP Nixon is a "phoney" and his alibi when a member of the Senate for accepting a cash subsidy from a group of Califor nia tycoons most of them interested in oil was not only nauseating in its hypocricy, but before any re alistic impartial appraisal added up to nothing less than a confession of guilt. DUT the Nixon alibi was sweetly phrased by Holly wrood's best publicity artists; the picture of the Nixon family life was detailed and touching, and the poetic references to good old "Towser," or was it "Checkers" the family Cocker? did bring tears to many dog-loving eyes, t - ' HOW this scenario however COULD have fooled the hard-bitten military leader of World War II, and led to such fulsome praise and laudatory congratula tions as were tape-recorded at the time, we have never Thursday, August 25, 19SS he believes the administra approaching campaign. Matter of HORROR IN THE BLED Casablanca The story of the sack of Qued Zem has already been told how several thous and Moroccan tribesmen de scended on the small town and slaughter ed 51 French m e n and many more of Arabs but, be cause it sug gests how ter rible is the hatred which Stewart Alsop tortures this country, the story may be worth telling again, as it unfolded be fore this reporter's eyes. Last Saturday evening "The New York Herald Tribune's able correspondent, Barrett McGurn, who had made an expedition into the country side, brought back reports of very bad trouble in the area of the town of Oued Zem. So this renortpr nnr) a friend, Blair Clark of the Colum bia Broadcasting Conroanv. set off in a taxi shortly before dawn on bunday for a look at Qued Zem. Qued Zem is about 90 miles from Casablanca. McGurn had been ambushed by Moroccans on the same road the day before, and had been very lucky to escape. So at first we had a certain tendency to peer anx iously ahead. But as day broke over the low, rolling hills, such anxieties began to seem sillv. and the drive was like a nleas- ant country excursion. -Lhe countryside in Morocco looks ridiculously like a picture postcard depicting the Moroccan countryside. The camels strike appropriate poses against the skyline, and people wander about, among spidery black tents, in more or less Biblical costumes. Clark remarked that it looked like a combination of the Bible, the deep South, and the Far West, which it did. Then the conversation shifted to such subjects as the difficulties of foreign reporting and the fright ful expense of educating chil dren, and before we knew it we were in Qued Zem. As the Arab driver picked his way carefully through the rubble, we fell sil ent. There was an odd smell in the air, half sweet, half bitter. The small houses on both sides of the street were burnt out shells, with a whisp of smoke still rising here and there. On the left was a gas station, built on the American model, with a familiar sign, Mobiloil-Mobilgas, and with the familiar "Red Fly ing Horse" trademark. But the flying horse had been burned till the paint cracked, and through the open doorway of the burnt out gas station four or five corpses were visible in a tangled mass. A LITTLE further down the road, there was another corpse, curled up in a sort of ball, so badly scorched that it was impossible to tell to what race it had once belonged. We passed a company of Foreign Legion troops, and got out of the car. A middle-aged French woman with a huge bruise on her arm came trotting round the corner, carrying a squirrel rifle, and sobbing, her face contorted like a baby's. "Oh, it.was terrible," she said, although we had said nothing to her. "It was terrible to hear the children crying, T do not want to die, I do not want to die'." A white-haired Frenchman came after her, carrying a shot gun, and muttering half to him self "Oh, this day I am ashamed to be a Frenchman. That they could not give us arms, and the troops to come so late. And now! Grandval, come see what you have done!" There were a few scattered shots from somewhere, and a furious young lieutenant ordered us out of Qued Zem on pain of death. We grumbled a little, but we were not really sorry to go. We had seen what there was to be seen, and it was enough. From a French reporter just outside of Qued Zem, and a rail way worker, and a doctor, and others, we learned what had happened how the surrounding country people had descended on the town in the morning, to burn end kill. We learned details which scarcely bear repeating how the Moroccans had cut the throats of all fifteen children they caught, and of the seven patients in the hospital, French and Arab alike. We learned also how they had cut off the noses and tongues of several men they captured. This sounds un likely, but it is true. Later, we flik lkm been able to understand and regarding which we have never heard a convincing or satisfactory explanation. MOW the President is sending the "VP and Family" " to Africa on a good will mission, as he has chosen him to represent the country on many other missions at home and abroad, in the past. ' "It is nice work if you can get it." But why and how ex-Senator Nixon gets it, and from a chief executive enjoying such a high reputa tion for genuiness and freedom from pretense and sham is hard to understand As far as this depart ment is concerned this remains as it has been, ever since the election, one of the major mysteries of the present administration. R.W.R. Fact by stewa aisoP stopped at a hospital on the way to Casablanca, to inquire after two wounded French newspaper men. One of the men of Qued Zem was there, his face all swathed in bandages, and no bump where the nose should have been. . WE LEARNED other details which do not bear repeating at all. But the above sufficient ly suggest how hot and horrible the hatred of the Moroccans for the French must be. There was clearly, an element of pure, prim itive savagery in what happened the bellies of the rabbits which were kept in the hospital garden were slit, and the pigeons in the pigeon coop were decapitated. But primitive savagery cannot be the whole explanation. There must also be a wolfish hatred unimaginable and inexplicable to the Western mind. At any rate, as we rode back to Casablanca through the roll ing, sunny countryside, we agreed that it seemed somehow to have lost its peaceful, picture postcard look. We also agreed that what we had seen might have the most terrible conse quences. It was impossible even for an outsider to walk through the streets of ravaged Qued Zem without feeling an instinctive de sire for revenge. It would be natural for the French to re spond to this instinct, and it may even be inevitable. But, alas, revenge begets revenge begets revenge, in an unending cycle. Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Japanese Envoy Seeks To Cement Relations With US San Francisco (U.R) Jap anese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu leaves for Washing ton today for top level talks which he hope will "wash up any trace" of hostility between the United States and Japan. Shigemitsu and his party of eight, including his . attractive daughter, Hanako, arrived from Japan yesterday. To Plea for Release During his one-day stay in San Francisco, the 68-year-old diplomat told newsmen he would plead for the release of 577 of his countrymen still held in prison for war crimes. Shige mitsu himself served two years in prison as a war criminal. He said that of the 577 prison ers in Sugamo prison, 210 were under U.S. ' jurisdiction, 149 under Australian, 131 Dutch, 80 Great Britain and seven under the jurisdiction of the Interna tional Military Tribunal of the Far East. Shigemitsu will talk with Vice - President Richard M. Nixon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Chairman Arthur Radford of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other top officials. In Washington Monday The official portion of his Washington stay does not begin until next Monday. Tomorrow he will go to Hot Springs, Va., for a brief rest before returning to the Capital Sunday evening. Shigemitsu is reported to want the United States to give him a definite timetable for the grad ual withdrawal of American forces stationed in Japan under the terms of the Mutual Defense Treaty between the two coun tries. In return, he is prepared to promise a specific schedule for increasing Japan's armed forces, a point the U.S. has been insist ing upon before there can be any considerable American with drawal. 15-Year-0ld Boy Admits Killing Girl Saco, Me. (U.R) The nude body of an 11-year-old girl was found in a woodlands gully to day and a teen-age boy alleg edly confessed clubbing her to death. Little Doris Trudeau, missing from her home since yesterday was found dead by police who were led to her body by her alleged killer. Fortunate Michaud, 15, de scribed by police as mentally retarded, signed a police state ment admitting the slaying. An International fair for Peace and Progress will be held in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Re public, from Dec. 20, 1955 to Feb. 27, 1956. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS President Eisenhower says he will call a special session of con gress IF NECESSARY to appro priate money needed to restore to normal the flood - devastated states in the eastern part of our country. He made the statement to newsmen after a conference with the governors of the Northwest ern states and representatives of the governors of North and South Carolina. He had previously flown over the devastated areas for a direct look "from the air at the damage wrought by the ensuing floods. WHAT do you think of it? I think it's SPLENDID. It will spread among all of us the burden of a .disaster that if borne by only a few of us would be trac and awful. That's what government is for. CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINIS TRATOR VAL PETERSON estimates that $75,000,000 will be needed from the President's emergency fund to aid the de vastated areas. Put it like this: Seventy-five . million dollars SPREAD AMONG ALL OF US will amount to a shade better than 50 cents per head. I think that in cases of wide spread and crushing disaster such as this we'll all be willing to put up our share. rpHE forest fire in the Quartz mountain area of the Fre mont national forest in Eastern Oregon it's reported to be the worst fire in the Fremont forest since 1951 started in slash and ran into cutover area and NEW GROWTH. It is pre sumed to have been started by lightning, . As this is written, it is hoped that it has been brought under control and may be prevented from spreading into virgin tim ber. rNLY a few days ago, we'd " have shrugged our shoulders and said cheerfully: "No harm done." In those days, we looked upon timber as a resource Jo be used up and then forgotten. We thought of the lumber industry as a TEMPORARY industry. It cut out the virgin trees and then moved on or folded up. It's different now. In these more modern days, we know that timber is a CROP. When it is cut, it renews itself by the growth of new trees just as a pasture that has been grazed over by livestock renews itself by growth of the grass. So While we're as anxious as ever to ave the virgin trees FOR THE NEEDS OF THE PRES ENT We're anxious to save the growing trees for the needs of the- future. That's quite a change. rpHIS interesting little tale has ust clicked off the teletype The state of Oregon has pub lished its first livestock brand book in five years. It is being distributed by the state depart ment of agriculture. In its 248 pages it lists some 11,725 brands of which 8,668 are cattle brands. The oldest brand listed in the book is considered to be the first used in Oregon. During the 1849 gold rush a man named RusseU Dement moved to the Myrtle Point, area. He picked up FIVE ELK COWS, tamed them and branded them with the letter D. The brand is still being used by the Dement family in Coos coun ty. LOOK at it this way: The gold of Southern Ore gon was great stuff in its day. It built a town of some 10,000 at Port Orford, where 'the gold supply ships anchored. When Port Orford was destroyed by a great fire, the gold camp supply ships moved on to the Umpqua river and built at the head of tide at Scottsburg another big town that missed by only a few votes being chosen as Oregon's capital. Southern Oregon's gold has been mined out, but the livestock industry that was founded by RusseU Dement STILL GOES ON. GRANGE Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange met in regular session Thursday eve ning Aug. 18 with Herb Carlton presiding. Mr. and Mrs. K. Van Nuys of Lake Creek No. 18 Linn county were visitors. Mr. Van Nuys is the new superintendent of Pros pect high school. Bob Chamberlain reported on a business trip he made to Fal lon, Nev., and called on Mr. and Mrs. Billingsly, former members of our grange. It was reported Mrs. Everett Faber was in an auto accident ' and is now at her home. j Booster night was discussed j and decided we will have it on Thursday evening, Sept. 15 with j a birthday pot luck supper. Any one interested is welcome to at tend. Mrs. Dorothy Tackstein re ported the next HEC meeting would be Thursday, Sept. 8 at the Grange Hall with a dessert lunch at 1 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. George Moore and Mrs. Lillywhite served re freshments after the meeting. News About Books From the Library : "Man, however well behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved." So said W. S. Gilbert. Whether or not we consider Gilbert's judgment fair, most of us feel a great deal of interest -in the curious habits of our animal neighbors and taking delight in noting their resemblance to our own ways. Not many of us have the op portunity to observe the reac tions of a wild creature living under strictly human circum stances, however. One couple who did were Cathy Hayes and her husband, a research psychol ogist, when they adopted a chim panzee and raised her exactly as though she were a human child. Their scientific experiment soon turned in to three-ring circus and provides interesting and of ten hilarious ready for us in Cathy Haye's book, "The Ape in Our House." Most of us know the dog as he shares the life of his human masters, Henry Lamond, on the other hand, writes of the dog as a wild animal in "Dingo, the story of an Outlaw." White Ears was one of the dingoes, the wild dogs that course the vast plains of Australia. He had been cap tured by a hunter who wished to tame and train him, but he was rescued by his mother and became a killer after his kind. Of the many who hunted him only one man understood him, and this is the story of their un derstanding, the admiration of one strong being for another. Heinrich Oberjohann shared the life of ' wild elephants for years'; until he said of himself, "I had myself become an ele phant." A big game catcher, but not a hunter, Oberjohann was interested above all in the big beast's way of life. He trailed the wild elephants- of Central Africa into their remotest re treats; and in his book, "Ko moon!" he commimicates the tremendous excitement of trail and chase. The less exciting, but no less fascinating, lives of such small creatures as foxes, fawns, squir rels,' racoons, and even mosquit oes are described in daily detail by Sally Carrighar in three old er titles in the library: "One day on Beetle Rock," "One Day at Teton March," and "Icebound Summer." Her work is accurate Timber Wolf Attacks Woman in Missouri Nebo, Mo. U.R) An animal believed to have been a grey timber wolf attacked an Oxnard Calif., woman near here last night. Mrs. Effie Lou Matthews, 25 visiting at the home of her father-in-law, suffered bites in the face and severe scratches The animal attacked her as she prepared to go into the house from the front porch. Her screams awakened her husband, Dale, who shot the wolf with a 12-gauge shotgun. Pasteur treatment tor rabies was started on the victim im mediately, and the wolf's head was sent to state laboratories at Jefferson City. Nebo is a small community on the Gasconade river in the Mis souri Ozarks. Forestry Group Plans Umatilla County Tour Pendleton, Ore. (U.R) The forestry subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee will tour Umatilla county in northeastern Oregon Sunday and Monday. The five-member subcommit tee will visit the operations of the Pilot Rock Co., the Kerns Company, Ltd., and Oregon Fibre Products Co., all in the Pendleton area. The congresmen, their fam ilies and staff, wiU arrive here from Boise and will go on to The Dalles after their Pendleton visit. Subcommittee members are Reps. George M. Grant, Ala bama; John C. Watts, Kentucky; Harland Hagen, California; Billy Mathews, Florida, and Clifford B. Mclntire, Maine. Yours FREE, Without Obligation "Facts Every Family Should Know About Funerals and Interments" published by the Association of Better Business Bureaus. Phone, write, or ask for your copy! Frank Morgan - Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse in fact, fuU of' keen observa tion, and true in spirit, poetical ly moving at times. Readers who enjoy the little dramas of nature should not overlook these older titles by a writer who can make you feel for an hour that you ARE a bear or a beaver or a chipmunk. Harvest of Early O Peaches Starts In Jackson County Local growers are harvesting early varieties of peaches, most ly Golden Jubilee and Roches ter, with the main harvest to come about Sept. 10, according to County Agricultural Agent Don Berry. Berry said housewives, plan ning to can bartlett pears should get their fruit within the next two weeks as the harvest will end the first week in September. Spray Recommended Berry advised orchardists to spray peaches for brown rot be fore the next rain or about 10 days before harvest. For dusting, the county agent prescribed 60 pounds of sulfur. Ziram, of Captan dust per acre. Six pounds wetable sulfur; one and one half pounds Ziram, or two pounds Captan per 100 gal lons of water were recommended for spraying. Speed Sprayers In speed sprayers, use 24 pounds wettable sulfur, eigh$ pounds Ziram, or 10 pounds Captan per acre. If mites are present, add one-third pint 20 per cent TEPP per 100 gallons, or, in speed sprayers, use 20 per cent TEPP at the rate of one pint per acre. ' Berry said dusting is preferred to spraying as less residue is left on the fruit. Commission Raps Jet Plane Orders Washington (U.R) A Hoov er commission study report charges that millions of dollars worth of British-made jet planes ordered by the United States will be obsolete when delivered. It also said the British jets are inferior to American jets. The commission's task force on overseas economic operations said three British planes which the governnfent has ordered, the Hawker Hunter, Javelin, and the Swift, ". . . have become obsoles cent and unsuited for first line duty in competition with truly supersonic fighters of the latest U. S. and reported Russian de signs." About $200,000,000 were ear marked in fiscal 1954 and 1955 for the purchase or financing of the Javelin and Swift fight ers, the Canberra light bomber and one or more medium bomb ers, the report said. It said any action on the Jav elin has been postponed until the plane could be evaluated by the U.S. Air Force. Siskiyou Planning To Borrow Money Yreka Siskiyou county wiU borrow $200,000 to carry it over the first half of the 1955-56 fis cal year. Auditor Ernest T. John ston recently told the board of supervisors the reserve fund could not sustain the county to December when tax money will be available. The board authorized officials to meet with banking represen tatives and secure a $200,000 loan. Johnson said an $83,000 error in the welfare department book keeping, and a transfer of $150, 000 from the reserve to the gen eral fund last year caused e deficit. California's cash farm re ceipts from poultry production in 1954 totaled $247?000,000, as compared to $302,000,000 in 1953.
