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0 o o Q O O O O O o o o o o o Q O G G O 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MECFORDvWTRrBU?(l "Everybody In Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27.J9 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RL'HL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC AXLEN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER 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 Q SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy JOc. Daily and bunaay un year Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3 50 Sunday Onlv One year 3 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,.. Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday One month 13 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance ftfrlclal Paper of "the City of Medford o Official Paper of Jackson County ITnltpdJ Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Bepresentative: lircT.Hnr.i.IDAY COMPANY INC. in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.t-. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCMATllON yj WmilHIHUlUl NIWSPAMl PUIIISHIM ASSOCIATIOtf Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and iO years ago. 55, 10 YEARS AGO August 26, 1945 O (It was Sunday) Chamber of commerce plans to have Palmer Hoyt, Oregonian editor, at forum for speech. G From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The end of lend-lease shocked Britain, and knocked an oration out of q former premier W. Churchill. Putting a stop to it will cure R England of going communistic wand ftazy, as planned on Uncle Sam's gold and beans. 20 YEARS AGO S August 26, 1935 0 (It was Monday) Twenty rural schools of val- j:iley to open next week. y Uncle Sam issues stern warn Glng to Soviet because pledge to curb workers in this country Cviolated. o o 30 YEARS AGO C August 26, 1925 O T lira s W74ts taA n v Nine autoists fined $20 Cspeeding. for H Rotary club tours Medford Precoling and Storage plant re- ncently completed. (J o40 YEARS AGO 0 August 26, 1915 q (It was Thursday) q Ashland defeats plan to pur q chase Copcoequipment and op erate own electricity system ithin city, i-j Jacksonville railroad to be t electrified immediately What's the Answer? y (Can You Get 4 of the, 7? Copr. 1 955, Editorial Research Report $s A widow has her old-age otjocial security annuity increased oijf she has a child under 18 to Sagport; right or wrong? i. The Viking wv a car once (jftit3ut by Studebaker, Oldsmo- bile, Dodge, Pontiac, or Ford? t s, About half, more than half ,-.3r less than half the people in i"j?hf world live in Asia? o 4. Stradivarius, most famous nof violins, was made in Italy, in j iCremona, Florence, Rome, Pisa, p Venice or Verona? 0 5. Which major league base ball team was once known as the Superbas? 6. The famous wall of HadrVm owas built in China; right or t5wrong? 7. An antimacassar is to re Olieve a hangover, protect chair Glkpholstery, destroy poison ivy, prevent forest fires, or make otea? u The Answers: 1. Right; 2. Olds mobile; 3. Mora than half; 4. Cremona; 5. Brooklyn; 6. Wrong; ciS northern England (by the Ro Itnanf; 7. Protect chair uphol-Stery-Q Dulles To Appeal for Arab-Israeli Harmony New York (U.R) Secretary . & State John Foster Dulles will make a dramatic appeal for Arab-Israeli harmony to bring stability to the Near East in a tionwide radio address today. 0 Envoys from all Arab nations and Israel were summoned to the State Dei&rtment yesterday for preview of the speech. All were then sworn to secrecy until after failles delivered the 15-minute asd dress prepared for the Foreign Relations Council of New York. ' MAIL TRIBUNE Auto Credit "Moral suasion" appears to be the Federal Re serve Board's "kicker" in direct controls over consumer credit. Recent FRB moves toward "hard" money have included raising re-discount rates, upping margin requirements for stock purchases, and using its open market operations to pinch off some of the credit stream. Now FRB is "talking turkey" to finance companies and banks about the growing consumer debt. Total consumer credit is at an all-time high o: more than $32.2 billion. Consumer instalment credi stands at a record of $25 some analysts see the greatest danger some $12.6 billion is outstanding on The FRB earlier had to maintain a close check banks. Then on Aug. 9 FRB officials met with finance company officers in Washington. The next day it was the bankers turn to get the "word from the FRB. THE FRB has no direct control over consumer cred it such as it enjoyed mittently up to May 7, Sept. 1, 1941, issued under order of President Roosevelt, prescribed credit con ditions for sales, among Down payments of one-third the retail price were re quired, with full payment in 18 months. The payment period was cut to 15 months m May 1942. The controls lapsed on Nov. 1, 1947, but Regula tion W was reauthorized by Congress in September 1948. One-third down payment was still authorized for automobiles, with full payment in 18 months on credit balances over $1000, The payment period was March, 1949: controls expired the following June Regulation W was reimposed under authority of the Defense Production Act third down payment was with payment in 21 months (reduced to 15 months in October). The payment period later was fixed at 18 months. The FRB suspended Regulation W on May 7, 1952. Congress in extending the Defense Production Act in 1952 failed to renew Regulation W had been issued. E.R.R. Animals On The Loose Wild animals that break out of circus, pet shop or zoo usually don't prove as wild at first as the human beings they excite by their chance meetings in the open. The inevitable cry of "Call the cops!" fills the animals with an overpowering urge to be off rather than return to their pens." Taxing the Washington lot slipped from a pet shop and stalked for over a week among homes and woods around the Naval Ob servatory, the National Geographic society recalls. The tropical American wildcat nimbly dodged police shotgun blasts, dashed in and out of yards. Woodland traps were baited with halibut fillet; but all the police caught was a strong downwind whiff of fish. Coon dogs were put on the cat's trail. They found only the fish-laden traps. After nine days of tree wisp ocelot, its sleekness back to the pet shop. IG cats on the loose have always worried police. Circus escapees have human lives. Thousands of volunteer searchers, Mar ines, helicopters, planes, and specially trained dogs failed to find a leopard on vacation from the Okla homa City zoo. The staff finally captured it with doped horse meat a meal it did not survive. JACKIE, a young male lion, was a lesser problem. After bolting from New York's Madison Square Garden, it wandered into the basement and went to sleep. It was safely caged in time for the matinee. A kangaroo, fresh from its Baltimore TV debut, proved less docile. It inconsiderately departed the studio and lit out across the city. Sunday drivers snarled traffic at the sight of the animal with such outlandish manner of travel. Once this Australian "Leaping Lena" soared over an auto hood. It bit one pursuer, kicked the wind out of another during its one-hour fling at freedom. For carefree abandon, no creatures outdo monkeys on a spree. They disregard property rights, to say nothing of human rights throw fruit and vegetables; stage barefaced jungle antics on city streets. One even broke up a corporation meeting. A baboon re moved the seat of a policeman's pants while he was chasing another simian miscreant. CEVENTY-FIVE rhesus monkeys in a New York pet store stormed their keeper as he loosened a cage door. Pouring into the Washington Market area, they invaded offices and disrupted a boys' choir practice Five hundred monkeys and 24 parrots fought a battle royal on a plane between Cairo and London. Three hundred monkeys worked loose on an Azores-New York cargo plane which swooped into La Guardia field with chattering faces at the windows and the crew confined forward. Reptiles often slither into the headlines. Several snake charmers' cobras uncoiled oh a bus near Bom bay, India. Panic wrecked the vehicle. "Old Pete," an 18-foot python, was'15 days "on the lam" from the zoo at Fort Worth, Texas. Four timber wolves gave authorities a different problem. Reared in captivity, they refused to go wild in a special preserve on Isle Royal, Michigan, set aside for their vanishing kind by the United States Fish and Wildlife service. Twice liberated, the beasts nonetheless returned. N.G. v , Friday, August 26, 1955 And FRB its gradual tightening of in billion, of which and here automobiles alone. instructed bank examiners on consumer portfolios of in World War II and inter 19o2. Its Regulation W of authority of an executive other items, of automobiles. m 15 months under $1000 extended to 21 months in in September 1950. One required on automobiles, the authority under which police recently, an oce 1 - top freedom, the will-o gone, voluntarily limped mauled people, even taken Knowland Change in Employed Los Angeles (U.R) Sen. William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), in a warning against "Russian smiles," said last night the Rus sians have "merely changed their tactics." In a foreign policy speech be fore 550 members of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club and their guests, the Senate minority leader said some persons "be cause of the smiles of Krushchev and Bulganin," believe "there has been a basic change in Rus sian policy." "I wish I could believe that, but I cannot. There has been no change. They have merely changed their tactics perhaps for the purpose of digesting the advances they have made in the past 10 years." The senator said he feared an Babson . . . By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) How sound is our present prosperity? How long can it last? These are ques tions that many readers have re cently asked. These readers are in some instances peo ple who have been buying a "great many things on cred it, and in other instances small business- Boger w. Babson men who won der how far they should go on expanding. Back in 1929 there were about 10,000,000 radio sets in the U.S.; today there are 125,000,000. That is more radios than are owned by all the rest of the world. To day 90 per cent of our homes have mechanical refrigeration; back in '29 only 4 per cent of our families had mechanical re frigerators. Today 42 per cent of our population are high school graduates; in 1929 only 13 per cent had high school diplomas. Today we are spending $15,000, 000,000 for recreation three times as much as 25 years ago. Today we have 28 passenger cars for every 100 people, compared with 19 per 100 in '29; and the number of cars per family is rapidly increasing. Perhaps most significant of all is the fact that 25 years ago there was some $84,000,000,000 of life insurance in force; today the amount has climbed to $285, 000,000,000! It is estimated the total income of all Americans exceeds the total combined in come of all the 600,000,000 peo ple in Europe and Russia. With less than 7 per cent of the land area of the globe and little more than '6 per cent of the earth's population, we now manufacture about half the world's goods. It looks as if we never had it so good. What Causes Prosperity? Our prosperity started from the tremendous pent-up demand for goods and services that fol lowed World War II. Our pros perity could never have since ballooned to its present size had not our government so greatly expanded our national debt by releasing enormous supplies of money. This keeps the economic machine running smoothly, but in turn taxes us all to the teeth. Some economists have said that if we do not want our heaw debt, with both hish orices and high wages, then we cannot have full employment and so-called prosperity. The thing that makes us ap pear so prosperous is that we are all livme off our rich Uncle," who, in order to keep up appearances and not let us down, has borrowed so heavily. Some day, however, all of us relatives" will have to chiD in to bail Uncle out. Bv his heavy borrowing, Uncle made it pos sible for us to buy homes with little or no down payment and with installments running 30 years; to stockpile agricultural surpluses which the farmer can't sell; to build vast new road sys tems and other public works projects; to provide military ex penditures beyond the compre hension of man. Uncle Sam has done all this by borrowing from the future money which he can never repay. He borrows; he spends; he taxes; and then spends it over again. It's a wild merry-go-round. Will Prosperity Continue? In 1953, Joseph Dodge, then the Director of the National Bud get, said that our national pros perity could be likened to the status of a family that had for years lived well beyond its means; had only three times in 20 years provided itself with more receipts than it had spent; had acquired a debt four times its yearly income; and owed more than a year s income on C.O.D.'s that will have to be paid for on delivery. How good would you consider your own fi nancial condition if yours were such a family? This is the con dition of the national family of which we are a part. There is nothing dishonest about this, it can continue to go on for many years more: but Sees No Policy by Russia atmosphere of "belief" has grown out of the summit con ference. But Knowland said there has "not been a single instance" of the loosening of Soviet Inspired tensions "that were present prior to the Geneva conference." He cited as his proof: 1. Failure to unify Germany. 2. No agreement yet on a for mula for control of nuclear war fare. 3. No change in the Russian control of their satellites. 4. No change in the use by the Communist government of sub versive techniques to disrupt and overthrow free governments. Knowland warned against a "Far Eastern Munich" which would give Formosa to the Chi nese Communist government. Prosperity some day there can be a col lapse. Our prosperity is in part an artificial prosperity, artific ial because it is fed by enormous government expenditures. Should the government with draw the fantastic amounts spent for stockpiling, subsidies, public works, and the like, we can be sure our prosperity would wane. On the other hand, if we choose to continue to live on borrowed money, money which our chil dren some day must pay back, we can continue for a while long er to have good times at our children's expense. Some day, sometime, somehow, someone must "go through the wringer." I repeat, this day may be years ahead; but once in a while I do like to remind my readers that this prosperity game cannot last forever. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As these words are written, the American Bar association is concluding the last session of its 78th annual meeting. This fi nal session is a luncheon. It is being held in five tents erected on the mall in front of historic Independence Hall in Phila delphia. Independence Hall can be ac curately described as the birth place of the American Republic, for it was there that the Decla ration of Independence was signed on July 4 of 1776. It was in Independence Hall that the Constitution of the United States was adopted on May 14, 1787. It is a historic spot. . AS IS FITTING in a in a GOV IX. ERNMENT OF LAWS, the annual convention of the Amer ican Bar association is an im portant event in our country. More than 4,000 lawyers are in attendance at Philadelphia. The association's guests of honor are President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren. President Eisenhower declared that today America is engaged in a crusade for peace and has expressed his confidence that the Geneva conference of chiefs of state means an opportunity to advance toward a peace based on justice and SECURITY. RUT- He added This country can never accept Russian wrongs to men and na tions in our eagerness to avoid war. fFHAT, I think, -is a statement -- to whffch we can all sub scribe unhesitatingly. We want peace. But it must be peace with honor. It mustn't be the peace of ab ject surrender. That isn't peace. It is slavery. The peace of slav ery is what follows when men are willing to accept an aggres sor's wrongs to men and nations rather than FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. TNDEPENDENCE Hall Is a fit- ting place for such a declara tion by the President of the United States of America. It was in Independence HaU that the Founding Fathers met to - de clare that they would FIGHT rather than submit to the wrongs imposed upon them by an unjust king. They meant what they said. They did fight. But they got what they want ed which was freedom. And they founded this nation which is now the Defender of Freedom throughout the world. I think we can all go along with President Eisenhower's statement made out in front of Independence Hall that the United States will never accept Communist wrongs to men and nations because of eagerness to avoid war. JONES' FLAG Portsmouth, N.H. - (U.R) Some Portsmouth women made the first Stars and Stripes to fly on a ship during the Revolu tionary war. The flag was flown by John Paul Jones when he put out of Portsmouth Nov. 17, 1777 in the sloop Ranger. kft-4.sVM - 1 fl.l ii 1 Ulinl Iwi HnNmUst Who am I? Much of my life is spent bask ing and dozing. Although dis tantly related to camel, antelope, and giraffe, my legs are so short that my ample belly barely miss es scraping the ground. A pow erful swimmer, I take my young 'un for piggyback rides. Most of my hair is concentrated on the end of my foot-long tail. In prehistoric times I frequen ted lakes and rivers throughout the greater part of the Old World . . . even up England's Thames valley. Today, I am confined to one land-mass, Africa. We usually live either in fam ily groups of a few individuals or in herds that seldom exceed 25. What with my barrel-shaped body, stumpy legs, terminated by four toes, short thick neck, small eyes, I'll never win a bath ing beauty contest. I can float like a log or sink like a rock whatever I choose, and I can run along the bottom of a river at eight miles an hour. Although the rest of my body may be submerged, I still keep the top of my flat face above water and therefore see with protuberant eyes, breathe with nostrils on top of my . massive snout, and hear with my small, rounded ears. When hot, excited, or in pain, I exude a thick reddish -brown fluid which keeps my thick hide pliable and safe from drying to the cracking point in the sear ing sun. Head Weighs Quarter-Ton My square head weighs a quar ter ton, and my beUow matches it. The canines of my lower jaw sometimes reach a length of 30 inches about one-third of which protrudes beyond my gums. These "ivories" may weigh from four to seven pounds each and do not tend to yellow but, be cause of their hardness, they may splinter. I can shear through the hide of a crocodile or sever a man with one bite. An enormous feeder, I can devour from five to six bushels in one meal. I get most of my food from the lake or river bot tom or along the banks. When mating, the four-ton, 14 foot long bulls which stand four and a half feet at the shoulder, may turn savage and fight bru tal battles for the possession of females. At birth, the single calf weighs about 100 pounds. I am: Elephant; B. Rhinoceros; C. Hippopotamus; D. Water buf falo; River hog. I am, C. A hippopotamus. 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 wildlife, a complete 3 0-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! care of Medford Mail Tribune, care of Box 575, Sausa- lito, Calif. $50,000 Damage Suit Filed in Siskiyou Yreka Raymond G. Cardi nal has filed suit in superior court for $50,000 damages against the California Theater in Dunsmuir. Cardinal's son, Ray mond E., suffered physical in jury and mental anguish when removed from the Dunsmuir theater last April, the complaint charges. Gerald L. Shannon, Dunsmuir, is attorney for Cardinal. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. 231 PORK LIVER w,. Mobile Telephone Servico Now Available in Medford Mobile telephone service is now available m the Mediora area, it was announced recently by Pacific Telephone Manager J. H. Creager. The new on-the-spot communi cations setup was introduced Aug. 15. Creager said this service per mits both local and long distance telephone conversations be tween any properly equipped vehicle and any other telephone in the Bell system. The' communication-on-wheels arrangement was- first intro duced in Oregon in the Portland area in 1947, and later in Eu gene, Salem, Roseburg, and Bend. 30-Mile Radius The approximate range of the local service is west to Grants Pass, north to near Prospect, East on Klamath Falls highway to Pinehurst, and south on High way 99 to Siskiyou summit a radius of about 30 miles. A transmitter station on Baldy mountain and a control terminal in the main telephone building have been established. Operators handle switching and signalling details of calls. Equipment in each vehicle consists of the proper type two way radio set with antenna and power control switches, a push-to-talk type handset telephone, a small lamp, and a bell for visual and audible signaling. This is how it works: Placing a call from a fixed telephone to a vehicle, the party lifts his receiver, dials "Opera tor," and asks for the mobile service operators. He gives her the assigned number of the ve hicle he wishes to contact. The mobile operator dials the proper number, sending out a radio car rier wave from the. transmitter station which actuates the lamp and bell signals on the instru ment panel of the desired ve Nixon Says Soviet Peace Sincerity To Be Tested Soon Philadelphia (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon warned last night that the test of Russia's sincerity for peace would be shown by Soviet lead er's action in the next three or four months. Nixon told the 78th annual dinner of the American Bar As sociation that the upcoming for eign ministers' conference may determine whether there is a "real thaw in the cold war, or just a brief warm spell before a big freeze." Nixon said the Geneva meet ing succeeded in establishing a conciliatory atmospnere ' in which there was hope for pro gress towards internati onal agreements. But he warned that the United States must maintain strong defenses and not allow the West to be divided. Policies Said Working "One of the major reasons for the change in Soviet tactics was undoubtedly the strength that the free world had developed. Our policies of strength and firmness were working. Now is the time to continue them, not to change them," Nixon said. He declared that if Russia really wants peace, it should take six steps: Agree to free elections and unification of Germany and Korea, withdraw Chinese Communist troops from Korea, free satellite nations, agree to President Eisenhower's aerial in spection plan, curb Communist organizations in free nations and remove the barbed wire, land mines, watch towers and ma chine guns of the Iron Curtain. Meiring Appointed To Head Committee A special meeting of the Medford American Legion Post 15 was held at the home of Ciff Oullette recently. Oullette, first vice-commander of the post, appointed H. J. Meir ing general chairman of the com mittee. Oullette said the post is plan ning a full schedule of activities in the community this year. He pointed particularly to the Americanism program under John Snider, Frank Van Dyke, and Philip Lowry. The post plans to take part in ceremonies for the Naturaliza tion class in the district court room, Sept. 8. EAST BEEP ROAST SIXTH ST. . BEEF STEAK hicle. The called party lifts His handset, presses the button on the handle, and is clear to tlg. Signal Records Call If no one is in the vehicl t the time the call is placed, the lamp will remain lighted. Wln the driver returns, th lighted lamp will indicate a call has been made in his absenc. He may then signal the mobile operator and be connectei With the calling party. To place a call from a vehiclif to a regular telephone or another vehicle, the procedure ic re versed. The driver lifts his hgnd-O set, presses the button in the handle and listens. If the chan nel is not in use, the radio wave thus activated will be picked up by the receiver station and car ried over telephone wires to the control terminal where t lamp will light at the mobile opera tor's switchboard. The operator will then put up the connection and the call may be completed. A mobile service center or installation of mobile radio-telephone equipment in all typefcof motor vehicles has been et up at 20 South Fir st. Chamber Board Hears Plans for Hospital Campaign Chamber of Commerce board of directors yesterday heard campaign plans for the Rogue Valley Memorial hospital. They were outlined by L. D. Barr. Barr is head of the Barr Meth od of Financing firm, specializ ing in leading fund drives for hotel and hospital projects. He has been hired to head the hos pital campaign here. Medical Center The new 80-bed institution could make Jackson county a "great medical center," Barr stated. Lives are going to be saved here that are lost in trans portation to Portland and other centers under present conditions, he declared. "It will be strictly commu nity owned and controlled," the campaigner stated. During the drive, Barr said, nobody will be "put down" for a donation amount. Subscribers will not pay annual dues: Barr warned the chamber of commerce group to bewafe of propaganda. "If there's ever any question," he urged, "come fip to headquarters. Nothing in this is concealed." In the regular order of busi ness, the chamber board heard a budget report for the first seven months of 1955 by Frank Bash. The organization was well under its's budgeted $24,126.56 (pro-rata or amount provided for the period) having spent only $14,89.10. Water Shortage Study Scheduled Yreka The Yreka Chamber of Commerce Wednesday . ap pointed a committee to work with citizens in conserving the city's dwindling water supply. A city councilman, Jim Cum mings, reported the cemetery reservoir is dry each morning, two other reservoirs are at low water marks, and the city wells are being pumped in a fraction of the normal time. The committee is to find means of getting cooperation of Yreka water users in a tightly united conservation effort. Appointed were: Carl Franson, chairman; Ray Kelly, Alden James, Dom Favero, and C. V. Manney. "OH THE DOT" twice a year generous earn ings are paid to our inves tors. It's an unfailing thrill, this attractive rate of pay for the use of your hard-earrfed dollars. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASST4 of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicates1 To Those Who Save SLICED BACON G3 G
