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) FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Twybody tn Soutbarn Orcgod Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINT IN Ci CO. rt-29 North Fir St. Phone 3-4141 HHRTDT or DTTrr HXKB GREY Advertising MsnafST E- C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ngtt .r,:i .in., uty tailor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor BU.1WJ1U jtwt i i sports tailor OLTVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALQ) LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newtpaper ntered as aeeond claaa matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES IT MaU-ttln Advanca: Per coot lOe. Daily and Sunday On year sia.oo Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos. J JO Sunday Only One year $3.50. tBt Carrier In AAvsnes- Med ford, Ashland. CentralT'oint. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold H11L . Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Dauy anejssunaay una monia Carrier Sha Dealers oc per copy Ail Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford OfHclal Paper or jacuson vounty United Press Full Leased Wirt. MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIHCULAimr irrCT.unt i iniV rOMPAKV INC, Offices in New York. Chicago. Do troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vaneeatver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL t IasToc-atiIon 9T NIWIrAMt PUilltMIIS "ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the flies of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. a i 10 YEARS AGO August 29, 1945 (It was Wednesday) Twenty-fifth wedding anni- versary of the junior chamber of commerce is today. From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The British disgust at the cutting off of lend lease was quite ungracious, but apt to tame the Briton's ardor for socialistic notions. In this course they are following Russia and should get their money where they get their ideas. . 20 YEARS AGO August 29. 19V5 (It was Thursday)"'" Pear crop of valley cut by windstfrm; trees torn down by junior tornado. Southern Oregon golf tourney to open tomorrow. 30 YEARS AGO August 29. 1925 (It was Saturday) City schools to open Sept. 8. Bumper pear crop in Eden Valley. ' 40 YEARS AGO August 29. 1915 Market prospects for Pacific coast apples look good. "The Runaway Wife" billed at the Page theater. O What's the Answer? Can You Gat 4 of the 7? Cjfpr. 1955, Editorial Reseaich Report 1. Central Motors employees have been averaging about $85, $100, $115, $130 or $140 per week in wages?- 2. More passengers are carried more miles by the N.Y. Central, Pennsylvania, Santa Fe, South ern or Union Pacific railroad? 3. Bulova Watch Co., is buying Into Aluminum Co. of America, Benrus, Tiffany and Co., R.K.O. pictures, or Elgin Watch co? 5. The "Georgia Peach" was a famous baseball, football, ten nis orgolf player? S.Ihe U.S. bought Alaska from Canada, France, Great Brit am, Japan, Mexico, Russia or Spain? 0 6. Wtiich two of these cities has no Hearst newspaper: Cleve land, Detqpit, Milwaukee, Phila delphia, Pittsburgh, San Anton io? . 7. Eugenio Pacelli is better known as ? ' The answers: 1. About $100. or a little over. 2. Pennsylvania (954 figure). 3. Tiffany and Co. 4. Baseball (Ty Cobb). 5. Russia. 6. Cleveland and Philadelphia. 7. Pope Pius XIL Grange Phoenix Grange Phoenix Qrange met in regular session Aug. 23, Master Lattie presiding. H.E.C. chairman Ethel Carr re ported favorably on the recent dinner givfti at TouVelle park. Mr. and Mrs. John Moffitt were elected to become mem bers. Tentative plans were made for a booster night in the near fu ture. Etta Parker was reported ill. During the lecture hour inter esting events and improvements in our valley were reported, after which all participated in a musical guessing game. Refreshments were served by the Sloans and Germers. MAIL TRIBUNE Names For Schools It is a sort of unwritten tradition in much of the United States to name schools after deceased presi dents or heroes of one sort or another. This tradition is "safe" for few can object to honoring most former chief executives of the U.S., nor those who have won fame in service to the coun try. The exceptions to this tradition have been few. But they are refreshing when wisely done. 'THIS is the case in the naming of Medford's two junior high' schools, the new one on East Jackson st., and the older structure which has long been simply Medford Junior High school. The new one, named E. H. Hedrick Junior High school, honors the man most responsible for its' con struction, and for the forward progress of the Med ford school system for the past 30 years. The older school has been named Dr. John Mc Loughlin Junior High school; in recognition of one of Oregon's besWcnown and worthiest pioneers: (This may tend to give added support to the use of the name "Mt. McLoughlin" for the majestic mountain to the east, rather than the easier "ML. Pitt.") 17E approve the choices of the school board. The names are entirely appropriate, and give honor where honor is due. The time has not yet be named here for some of without a storm of controversy, although the time eventually will come when they could well be so honored. For'the present, we like the names, Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High Praise For Schools Speaking of schools, the current issue of Harp er's . Magazine has an article which claims that much of the current criticism of the nation's. school system overlooks the real progress It points out that school by 90 times during those the schools, which once was to give only a tiny major ity a secondary education, is now to give an educa tional opportunity to EVERY child, and that the cur riculum, once limited pretty much to the "three Ks now has become, through broad and comprehensive. THE article, by Sloan hat many of. the criticisms levelled at the - public schools have a basis in fact, are not universal, and the phenomenal progress, and the phenomenal problems, made and faced by the schocls in recent years. Wilson cites one recent book (he doesn't name it, but leaves no doubt that it Johnny Can t Read ) and declares that such pointed criticisms "have one thing in common : They lead the reader to believe that if one relatively inexpensive step were taken, like the use of more phonics to teach reading, everything : would be, just dandy in the schools" ' .' . v ; X7ILSON suggests two steps be taken to maintain "the present progress people generally realize , the nobility of the goal ; the public has set for the schools, and the enormous amounts of money, time and thought needed to ach ieve it. Second, "for thoughtful people in every state and community to sit down and examine the facts about their schools, hear all relevant opinions, and chart their own course." He adds: The job of figuring out -how righteous indignation - about weaknesses of the schools can be converted into con- ' structive action wiU not be done by people who wave their ' arms while criticizing the schools as though "they were fighting bees. It will be done by serious-minded people calmly appraising the schools in their own community. It . wUl be done by people who have learned to be patient of differing points" of view, and who know how to enlarge areas of agreements, rather than capitalizing on contro- ' versy . , . ' ' '"'. " ; . I certainly agree that many schools are pretty poor now, : as they have been" always, and I believe that they there- fore should be supported doubly. The job of creating schools capable of developing aU the abilities of all American chil dren will never be easy, but without any 'doubt the Ameri- , can people are in their own curious way plodding toward it. There is certainly hope in the fact that fore the past""1 fifty years," they have plodded with the speed of hares. MEDFORD has long been fortunate in strong sup port for its school system, and that school sys tem, while it has been subject to occasional criticisms as to method, has made a record which will stand Up with the best, anywhere. ' 7 : , , - . We will be well-advised to continue that support, criticizing where necessary, but only on the basis of known and observed facts. The educator's who serve us and our children have earned the right to the initial benefit of any doubt. For they have the almost impossibly tough job of answering the public's de mand for what Wilson calls "the ideal of public schools which will do all they possibly can to help each child become as healthy, wealthy artd wise as his native endowments permit." In fulfilling that ideal, they'll need our help. - E.A. DOGS PREFER MEN . Arlington, Va. U.PJ Arling ton dogs prefer to sink teeth into men rather than wom en two-to-one, a county Health Department survey showed to day. The department said local dogs took a nip out of two men for every woman they bit in the last four years. Peak season for dog bites is spring, the re port said. Monday. August 29, 1953 come when a school could our more recent presidents schools. E.A. . made in the past 50 years. enrollment has increased years: that the objective of public- demand, varied, Wilson, is entitled "Public but adds that these facts criticisms overlook' the is Rudolf Flesch's "Why in education. First, that AMERICANS TO KOREA. . Seoul Korea (U.R) Depend ents of American servicemen and officials will be allowed to live in Korea beginning next year for the first time since the war started, it was learned to day. Korean, engineers already have started building the first 100 homes in a $1,500,000 hous ing project for the families of Americans. '. .. Matter of WHAT DISARMAMENT? Washington The practical value of the Geneva conference is now to be "tested for the first time, at the meeting of the United Nations D i s armament commission on Aug. 29. The best guide to the tests is an incident that took place here in Washington shortly before the President left, for the Summit. Joseph Also In those pre Geneva weeks, no subject divid ed the highest echelon of policy makers more violently than the subject of disarmament. Having been named as the. President's disarmament specialist, the al ways ambitious Harold Stassen was now, in effect, running for high office on a disarmament platform. Stassen therefore fa vored bold action on disarma ment at Geneva. For obvious reasons, he was also supported by the President's psychological warfare adviser, Nelson Rocke feller. In all three armed services, in contrast, the mere idea of a se rious discussion of disarmament caused the liveliest alarm. The Pentagon was unanimous in not wanting to offer the rather has- t i 1 y considered disarmament plan then being pressed by Stas sen, and unanimous, too, in not wanting to offer any plan at all. . At the State Department, meanwhile, Secretary John Fos ter Dulles maintained the high ly sceptical attitude that marked his whole approach to the sum mit conference. As the summit meeting grew nearer and near er, the President's hopeful en thusiasm grew warmer and warmer. But Dulles never wav ered, especially on the question of disarmament, from his view point that tangible results were not to be expected. Such, then, were the ap proaches to the problem at the crucial pre-summit meeting which the President called to work out an American disarma ment policy. In its first stages, this historic discussion of dis armament, threatened to deter iorate into a name-caUing match. The Stassen - Rockefeller ap proach and the Pentagon ap proach were diametrically op posed, and "the strongest emo tions were felt on both sides. ; SE C RE TARY OF STATE Dulles acted as the great reconciler. He used the rather simple expedient of shoving the real issue under the rug, or at least off the conference table. He said, in effect: "We know" we are not. going to' attempt any disarmament without adequate safeguards Therefore it is not worth argu ing aboet what kind, of disarma ment we are going to accept and support, until we are sure that the other side will accept the right ;kind. of inspection. Let's concentrate, then, on inspection and safeguards, and let's forget about, disarmament until we have passed the inspection and safeguard hurdles." . This shrewd intervention by Dulles brought agreement out of the intra-governmental wrangle which might otherwise have continued indefinitely. Thus the way was opened to the moral victory achieved by the Presi dent's famous proposal of mu tual aerial inspection. i ' But one vital point must now be grasped above aU others. What the President talked about at Geneva was not disarmament at all. It was inspection. What the newspapers have excitedely described, in their advance no tices of Gov. Stassen's program for the U.NTJisarmament meet ing oh Aug.' 29, is not disarma ment either. It is still inspection. Disarmament is.the end. Inspec tion and safeguards are the means by. which the end is first made possible and, then insured. Moreover, there are still the same wide differences of view about disarmament among the policy-makers as there were be-: fore Geneva.. So far as can be discovered, therefore, American postGeneva policy is only a rer fined and elaborated version of American pre-Geneva policy. A detailed program of inspection and safeguards , has been pre pared for 'presentation on Aug. 29. It will combine the two fea tures: the mutual aerial inspec tion proposed by the President, plus fixed ground inspection teams stationed at key rail junc tions and other points where preparations for aggression may be observed, to reduce the pos sibility of surprise attack. . Other t ideas are also in the air. Stassen has been talking of an arms freeze at existing lev els. This the Pentagon hates, even although an arms freeze might be better than Secretary of Defense . Charles - E. Wilson's system of gradual but continu ous defense cuts. QJTASSEN has also concluded, quite rightly, that there is little use any longer trying to control nuclear weapons. ParUy this is becausethey are now too easy to make. Partly it is be cause no amount of inspection could insure the destruction of the other side's existing blocks. And partly it is because nuclear weapons control -would hamper Fact By Joseph Alsop civilian atomic development. But with nuclear weapons control held to be impossible, Stassen naturally inclines to ward limitation of the means of delivering nuclear weapons. That will mean sacrificing the Strategic Air Command, the only real remaining element of American offensive power. And before anything of that sort is attempted, both the Pentagon and the American public will have a good deal to say about it. In short, although Stassen may be ready to offer his own private disarmament program as well as his inspection and safe guards program, this country is not any nearer to having an agreed, nationally supported ap proach to disarmament. Yet we are now plunging into a dis armament conference.- This is the kind of false situa tion that always arises when the attempt is made to decide by fiat the highest questions of na tional policy. And in the present case, it is an enormously dan gerous false situation; for the Soviets most particularly do not want the inspection and safe guards that Stassen is ready to talk about. And if the Soviets want anything at aU, they really want the disarmament that Stas sen cannot possibly talk about with the authority of a national spokesman. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Something to think about: Air Force Secretary Quarles, m an address at scnenectaay, N.Y. says Russia is turning out scientists and engineers at a rate considerably higher than the United States. He adds: This fact presents a REAL challenge to us. WHY? ' ' Well, science is opening up a new world. One has only to read the newspapers and the maga zines and listen to the newscasts to be acutely aware of that fact. Atom bombs, as instruments of destruction, and atomic power as an instrument of peaceful progress on a . vast scale, are ex amples. - Scientists and engineers are the pioneers of this fabulous new era. TF ' In the critical decades to come BETTER scientists and engineers than we do, the challenge of Rus sia will be a REAL challenge to us. " IITHAT can we do.about it? What we call the "younger generation" the generation that is now entering pur high schools and colleges holds the answer If enough of our young people become interested in science and engineering, we can meet the challenge. " ' ' - If not ' . . ' Well, in that event We may FALL BEHIND. That's about the long and the short of it. GETTING closer home: The U.S. census bureau re ports that residents of Washing ton - state pay the highest state taxes in the U.S. an average of $116 per capita,' This figure draws the fire of Washington s Governor Langlie, who says it is misleading because it fails to reflect LOWER LOCAL LEVEL taxes paid by- residents of his state. llHY is Washington's governor " disturbed by the statement that the people of his state pay the highest -state taxes in the country? ... . The answer is quite simple. Washington, along with all ther states (especiaUy our West ern states) is striving for more INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT in order to balance its economy. Taxes are an important item in deciding where new industries will be located, because taxes ENTER INTO THE COST OF GOING BUSINESS and so must enter into the price at. which the products of industry must be sold.. ' ' A state whose taxes are TOO HIGH is severely handicapped in the competition for new indus tries.!. 1 . Most of Nation Feels Continued Heat Wave By UNITED PRESS A late summer heat wave kept August dog days going in much of the nation today. The East Coast was spared the threat of hurricane Edith, which apparently was due to miss the mainland. Instead, the weaken ing storm moved in the general direction of Bermuda. Meanwhile, the third big heat wave of the season droned on in the Midwest and Great Plains.. The 96.8 degrees in Chicago yesterday was two tenths of a degree shy of a record for the date and made it the second hot test summer in the city's history. Weathermen said the Chicago summer heat record was sure to fall next month. Temperatures went into the 100s in parts of Kansas and Iowa and into the 90s elsewhere in i the .Midwest and Great Plains, j saiii Wstwsllsl Did you know that . . . horses and camels first evolved in America: both started some 60 million years ago at jack-rabbit size. The closest living relative to the antelope of America, more if acurately called the pronghorn, is the mountain goat. While it has an antelope's typical horns, it is not a true antelope. Nor is it a true goat, but a species more or less between the two. Ounce for ounce, the fuel con sumption of a tiny hummingbird is many times that of a soaring bird. To avoid starvation, the hummingbird must spend most of the. day eating concentrated nectar and insects. It is believed that all birds at one time had some form of hand. One bird, the hoatzin of the Am azon country, is still hatched with a thumb and finger on each wing. As a result, upon hatching, this young hoatzin is an adept climber. While other bird fledg lings are helpless in their nests, this young 'un can climb among the branches by using claws, fingers and thumbs." The 600-pound swordfish, one of the sea's swiftest swimmers, has been known to drive its sword through the wooden hull of ships. Defect in Inner Ear So-called waltzing mice, be lieved to have originated in Ja pan, oftentimes spin for hours. This is ,due to a defect in the inner ear, whence all animals including men get their sense of balance. As a result, it cannot run or walk in a straight line. A male mouth-breeding frog in Chile passes, the female's fer tilized eggs through a slit under his tongue to his vocal pouch where the eggs develop and are hatched. The vocal pounch is the distensible skin at the throat usually employed by a frog in producing its cell. Compared to birds and mam mals, the fish world seems sin gularly devoid of joy, interest, curiosity and play. (Released by McClure Newspaper 1 I Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges wiU 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 sub missions will be considered. Sor ry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please ad dress your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Nixon Lists Five Things Soviet Must Do To Assure Peace Boston flJ.R) Vice-President Richard M. Nixon said to day that the leaders of Russia must remove "five roadblocks" from the path of peace to prove they "honestly want to reduce tensions." . If they do this, he predicted the "beginning of the end of the cold war will be in sight." - But if they do not, he said the smiles the Russians displayed at Geneva "wiU stand exposed as a snam and a delusion. Nixon spoke bluntly in a ma jor-policy address prepared for the . 56th national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was another move in the ad- ministation's campaign to elimi nate the idea that Big Four talks at Geneva somehow ended the cold war. ; Mutt Do Five Things The vice-president said Rus sia has to do at least five things to convert its Geneva words into "cold facts and hard deeds." He said it must free Eastern Ger many, agree to disarmament, lower the Irn Curtain, free the European satellites and end its worldwide campaign of subver sion and espionage. He warned that the United States even in its desire to bal ance the budget and cut taxes, will never reduce its defense un til these things have been elimi nated as a source of "strife and war" and there is a just peace. BLUEPRINTS STOLEN Tokyo (U.R) Blueprints of Japan's first rockets were stolen from a car parked on Tokyo's busiest street Saturday night, it was learned today. The plans were for the bay rockets now being tested by Tokyo Univer sity Professor Hideo Itokawa for the forthcoming Geophysical Year. He told police he missed the blueprints after having din- ner at a Giaza restaurant. GOP Chairman Says Truman Talk Nothing But 'Name - Washington (U.R) : Repub licans flung "hate-monger" charges at Harry S. Truman .to day as the former. President swung into Michigan with his "Give-em-Hell" speaking cam paign. Republican National Chair man Leonard W. Hall said Mr. Truman's attack on President Eisenhower Saturday night was nothing but "name-calling" and "bunk." He called the former presi dent a "bitter, frustrated . ... Reports on Dairy Bills, Conditions Ovreseas, Given Measures designed to benefit the dairy industry in the last session of the Oregon legislature were discussed by Lester Adams, manager of Oregon Milk Produc ers, at the August meeting of the Rogue River Jersey Cattle club. W. D. Pearson farm in Upper The meeting was held at the Applegate. Members and guests totalling more than 50 persons Robert Romeru, MCMinnviue, former field man for the Oregon Jersey Cattle club, spoke brief ly on his recent visit to his old home on the Isle of Jersey, stat ing he was amazed at the new evidences of prosperity he en countered everywhere in the agricultural regions of the Brit ish Isles and France. Imports have been cut and there is a steady demand for everything the farmer can produce, he said. Alaskan Problems Another guest, Lieu Smith, Josephine county technician for Oregon Dairy Breeders, told of dairying in Alaska, -his former home, where au hay ' must , be shipped in from the Yakima val ley and where milk brings $9 per hundred weight 'to the pro ducer, but cost of production and shipping brings profits down to the level prevailing in the states. Frank Schutzwohl, Grants Pass, stated that he also found good crops in both Bavaria and Austria on a recent visit, but that farmers are not enjoying as great a degree of prosperity be cause of weather conditions. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Knight, Grants Pass, were - received as new members, and Mr. and Mrs Neil Mayf ield, who have . been absent for some months due to illness, were welcomed back. Others present included Mrs. Bettie George, x Venice, Calif.; and family, Myrtle Point; John ny .Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mr. and Mrs. William J. ScheU Johnston and daughters, Eagle Point: Mr. and Mrs. Mike Bird and family, and Mrs. Walter Barklow and children, Grants Pass. Hole-In-One Counted 'Skill' By Attorney Rock Island.. HI. U.R) Is it skill or just plain luck when a golfer makes a hole-in-one? , Obviously, Illinois Attorney General Latham Castle ruled, trying to make a hole-in-one "de pends to a large extent upon what is commonly termed luck or chance." . But "the fact is equally obvious and more persuasive" that "considerable skill" is in volved, Castle said. Therefore, Castle said in a for mal opinion that the local Junior Chamber of Commerce could go ahead with its hole-in- one contest without fear of vio lating gambling laws. ' State's Attorney Bernard J. Moran said he agreed in prin ciple, but there were exceptions . to this logic. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 PERL Galling' hate-monger" who is trying to "smear" Mr. Eisenhower out of disgruntled jealousy. Misrepresentation Charged In a no-holds-barred speech at French Lick, Ind., Mr. Truman said Mr. Eisenhower has been guilty of "misrepresentation and demageguery" ever since his election. He also charged that the President never misses a chaace to "befuddle the issues." . The ex - President promised more of the. same tonight when he delivers the main address m the climax of a three-day Demo cratic session, on Mackinac Island, Mich. . It is the second of a series of speeches the former President has scheduled in the beginning of a Democratic drive to recap ture the White House In 1956. At a news conference last night, Mr. Truman made it ctear he thinks tlie Democrats fcan whip Mr. Eisenhower if he runs for reelection in 1956, that "the President should not be immune to criticism for what his admin istration does, and that the present government is dominat ed by big' business "starting with General Motors." Butler Raps Nixon Mr. Truman aimed his first at tack direcUy at his White House successor. And Democratic Na tional .Chairman Paul M. Butler took a swipe at Richard M. Nixon, calling him the "least popular" vice-president in 35 -or 40 years and describing his goodwUl tours as "malarky.'--In- a bristling counterattack last night, Hall called the Tru man and Butler statements "an unfortunate forecast of the type of campaign planned by the Democrats" for next year. Mexican Authorities Scan Fireworks Blast Mexico City U.R) Police to day searched the rubble of a. slum-area apartment house for more victims of a fireworks plant explosion that killed at least seven persons and injured 28 others. Authorities said there Is no way of knowing" the final death toll in the blast until the wreck age is cleared away. Witnesses said' pedestrians were Tblown around like flies" by blast which sent smoke and flames high into the air. a Both Wells Dry GEO. N. TAYLOR There in India, Ramabai had 300 widows and kiddies in her keeping. It was the year of In dia's long dry spell and Miss McDonald, Ra mabai's secre tary, told her that both their wells were dry. At that Ramabai went apart to pray. Miss McDon ald told our women here in America that after Ramabai had prayed, both wells filled with clear sparkling -water. Ramabai was brought to Christ through a street. meetmg where she listened out of curi osity. There she took Christ as her own and was saved. Her heavy heart found peace. Then God put all those widows and . kiddies in her care "Better be a dog than a widow in India." When her Vast wealth was gone. she prayed and God gave her the funds to keep up the work. "Whatsoever you will ask in My name, God will give it to you," said Christ John 16:23. More things are brought through by prayer than we can say. This Message sponsored by an Oregon Breeder oi xugn Grade Dairy Stock. . adv. 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