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0 gPCKfife-fttgOHD fgRgGON) 9varybxl7 tn Southern1 Oregon Head Tha Mail Tribune Vubliahed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. U-aNorth Fir St Phone 2-C141 ROBERT W. RUHU Editor GREY Advertising Manager C. FERGUSON Manaeine Editor RIC ALLFN JR. Ciry Editor ICHAHD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Altered as second clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of I March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES mr Mail In Advance: Per codv 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sundd Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S3. 50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. nd on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 113.00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford omciai paper oi jacKson vum..y United Press Full Leased Wire , MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: wvcT.Hra.unAV COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vaneoejver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASVoCHTllON 7 J NIWSPAPIt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO August 31, 1945 at was Friday) Klamath Falls to serve as armed forces serration base for "the northwest. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudfe Pot column: H. Flewher, the demon baker, is now a It col. He is overdue getting home and will arrive when he gets here. 20 YEARS AGO August 31. 1935 at was Friday) Medford armory improvement authorized. Federal aid cut in 31 states to end relief doles. SD YEARS AGO August 31, 1925 at was Sunday) Qabe Ruth, "home run king," fined and sent home by Yankee manager. Bids for Ashland normal school to be opened soon. 0 YEARS AGO August 31. 1915 Ot was Tuesday) ' Bullis interests plans exten sion of Jacksonville road up Jackson creek. Cholera cases in Switzerland number 929. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 9. The Locarno nonaggression treaties were signed after World War II, during that war, between It and World War I or during World ar I? 2. Doctors are or aren't under the social security system? 3. The air coach for plane travel in the U. S. has been in operation for five, seven, nine, 11 or 13 years? 4. Largest West Indies city is Havana, Kingston, Port-au- QPrince, San Juan or Trujillo City? -5. Farm value of. tobacco in the average package of cigarettes is about one, three, five, seven 0 or eleven cents? ' 6. Romansch is spdften in Ro mania, The Netherlands, Switzer land, certain areas of Pennsyl vania, or central Italy? 7. Daniel Boone, Davy Crock ett, Kit Carson, Andrew Jackson or Gen. Sam Houston married a girl named Polly Findlay? The Answers: 1. Between the two wars; 2. Aren't; 3. Seven; 4. Havana; 5. About three cents; 6. Switzerland; 7. Davy Crockett. Derelict Vessel Still Unidentified Astoria, Ore. (U.R) The "mystery ship" reported drift ing unmanned some 500 miles off the Oregon coast remained un identified yesterday when heavy weather prevented an aerial check of the derelict. A training plane radioed Mon day that the boat, about 40 feet D long, with gifting in the open sea without wake and that there appeared to be no life aboard. The Coast Guard said no craft was reported missing, but dis i patched the) cutter Yacona from Seattle to the reported location. A plane was sent from Port Angeles, Wash., but the pilot said baj weather prevented his sight ing the mystery ship. The Ya cona was not expected to reach the location before early today., MAIL TRIBUNE On Being- Lonely In a letter which was published on this page yes' terday, an obviously intelligent and sincere woman made a plea for a new column. She asked for what amounted to a "clearing house" of information and ideas about projects, groups, organizations and ideas of a social or constructive Her point was that in Medford, or any city, there are many people who lack important human contacts, whose interests and ambitions are frustrated because there is no one they know IITE hesitate to start such a column for three rea-sons: 1. The Communications column is open to all our readers who have any legitimate purpose in seeking publication of their ideas itself is, or could well be, for those interested in organizing groups, or calling attention to projects. 2. The Local and Personal column is already used by many of the several hundred organizations m the valley, which exist for a multitude of purposes. In this column announcements of meetings, projects and special events are welcome. 3. Any such column as the one proposed would depend entirely for its success on the number of con tributions offered by readers. Past experience leads us to doubt that the number of these would be suf ficient to justify regular publication of such a feature. DUT the problem which our correspondent describes is a real one. Loneliness is not confined to those who are away from people. Perhaps loneliness is most poignant when it is suffered- among people people whose interests are not your interests and whose ideas and ideals are not your ideas and ideals. bolution of the problem matter, although work in ternal groups, m hobby types of mutual activity, is followed. lMANKIND'S essential loneliness in an interde pendent world of people has been the theme of many of our greatest artists and writers. (". . . Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.") , . , : Only kindliness and understanding can overcome the great barrier between people, between their minds and hearts. Every man has his worth, but sometimes the task of finding it overcomes us and we withdraw into ourselves. It is a problem which solved in full. Perhaps it do is try E.A. What Is A VACATION, n. . . . a period of rest and freedom from work, study, etc.; a time of recreation, usually a specific . interval in a year: as, two weeks vacation. (Webster's New World Dictionary.) o There's a saying that it is necessary, to take the first week back at work after a vacation to rest up. And there's some truth in that, for a vacation, while it may mean freedom from work and study, often has, few elements of rest and recreation. Editor Charles A. Sprague of the Salem Statesman says: ' "A vacation . . . ought really to be a period for refreshment of mind and body.' Instead, too many of us put in the full time trying to go as far as we can, seeing as many, of the wonders of nature that we can. We return "exhausted from the strenuous travel, with shallow and often muddled impressions of what we have seen." ... TT IS ever thus.. Watching Mail Tribune staff mem A bers returning from vacations reminds us of a man we know who decided .that the only real vacation would be to pull down the blinds, take the telephone off the hook, and stay in bed for two weeks (presum ably to be waited on by his wife and what of her vacation?) A vacation is what you make it. One office worker used his vacation to paint his house and found, somewhat to his surprise, that the open-air working with his hands, compared to the pressure-filled days at a desk, actually provided "refreshment of mind and body." CHANGE is the important thing, a chance to upset the routine and stand back for reassessment and reorientation. Whether this is done by sleeping or painting or traveling is immaterial and is a matter of choice. What is necessary is to find, somewhere and some how, renewed interest and strength. E.A. Alps Claim 787 Lives During Past 72 Months Salzburg, Austria (U.R) The snow-covered Alps have claimed 181 lives including those of three Americans since last August, a United Press survey showed to day. Some died quickly, smashed against razor-sharp rocks after terrifying falls. The less for tunate died agonizingly, slow freezing deaths on lonely peaks. ADENAUER MEETS Bonn, Germany (U.R) Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer meets with his cabinet today to dis cuss West Germany's contribu tion to NATO next year. Gov ernment sources predicted West Germany would refuse to in crease its contribution above the present figure of $2,142,000,000. Wednesday, August 31, 1955 nature. with whom to share them. and suggestions. This m a sort of clearing house is essentially an individual churches, in civic and fra organizations, and in other one avenue which can be humanity has never really never will be. All we can Vacation? Famed War II Pilot Dies at Enterprise Enterprise (U.R) Col. Gra ham W. West, a flier famous for his World War H exploits, died -unexpectedly Monday night at Wallowa hospital here after a brief illness. He was 43. Col. West, a graduate of Grant high school in Portland and the University of Oregon, was wounded while fighting in Tun-' isia in June, 1943. He lost both legs,' but was fitted with artific ial limbs and flew again with fighting American pilots. The famous Oregon pilot was awarded many medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross from both the United States and Britain. He was highly praised by cor respondent Ernie Pyle. In the Day's News Br FRANK JENKINS Hopeful note in the news: Atomic scientists of six na tions have completed a prelim inary study of methods to pre vent fissionable material in any world atomic pool from being diverted to other than peaceful uses. The presence of the HEAD OF THE SOVIET DELEGATION was taken as an indication that Russia is prepared to collaborate in any such international pooL rnHAT is hopeful because it in. dicates that we are living in a PRACTICAL era. If we contributed fissionable material to a world atoms-for- peace pool and if the Iron Cur tain countries could sequester this material and use it for ATOMS-FOR-WAR, the whole business would be just plain criminal nonsense. QUIRK in human nature note: State police have set up road blocks in central and west ern Massachusetts to bar sight seeing drivers from flood- stricken areas. They warned that only the most necessary trips should be attempted. NOTHING is more natural than the desire to see devastation and distress after a catastrophe and nothing more greatly hampers the work of recon struction. S1 IDELIGHT on the flood dam age: The Connecticut Motor club has this advice for motorists whose cars were submerged and FILLED WITH SILT in the big flood which one writer " de scribes as the "worst since Noah's time." "Don't bother to get it fixed. Just make the best settlement available and .forget it." The club estimates the repair job might run as high as $1,000 and there still would be no guarantee the owner wouldn't have trouble with the car.' Silt- filled flood waters, it says, are car poison. THE Northwest pork industry will hold a conference on Sept. 26 and 27 at the Whitman county fairgrounds in Washing ton. The meeting will be spon sored by Washington State Col lege, the Washington Swine Breeders association and the old Union Stockyards. Attention will be centered on current pork problems and possible solutions therefor. Dr. M. E. Ensinger, chairman of the department of husbandry at Washington State, says one trouble with the business is that pork coming on the market in recent years has been too fat. As a result, he claims, modern consumers - who, almost with out exception, want to get slim mer and slimmer and therefore shy away from fatty foods have been eating less and less pork as the years pass. Recent consumer preference studies, he adds, show that high er prices will be paid for leaner pone xnis, ne says,, is con firmed b ythe fact that for the past five years the price of lean er pork has been rising, while the price of fatter pork has been falling. TTERE in the State of Jefferson, -with potato prices scandal ously low and quite a lot of feed grade barley in sight, we need to be giving careful thought to feedipg out more of our live stock. It might be worth while to give some thought to producing more pork. Here in the West, we're HEAVY IMPORTERS of it. That is to say, we don't pro duce anywhere near as much of it as we consume. Therefore, the price structure is relatively favorable for as long as we im port pork from the Midwest we get the Chicago-Omaha price PLUS the freight. If we can learn how to produce pork that will equal the corn belt pork in quality and if we can develop feeds that will com pete in cost and results with the feeds of the Midwest, we .might be able to expand our hog pro duction profitably. We're reaching the point where further diversification of our agriculture is advisable. St. Louis Publisher Succumbs Suddenly Rye Beach, N-H (U.R) E. Lansing Ray, editor and publish er of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, died late Tuesday during a quiet celebration of his 71st birhtday at his summer home here. His body will be returned to St. Louis for burial. Ray, a lifelong newspaperman, had been reported cheerful and in excellent health just before he died. Members of his family said he read birthday greetings with enthusiasm Tuesday mor ning. He suddenly complained of feeling ill while he was open ing gifts at a birthday gathering in the late afternoon. Retired to Bedroom He retired to a bedroom and died before a doctor summoned to attend him could reach the Ray summer home. Death was attributed to coronary thrombos is. ... TUGGING AT MOORING LINES at Newport News Ship building Co. yards in Newport, Va., U.S.S. Forrestal is ready . for six-day sea trials. Note enormous flight deck of America's newest aircraft carrier. ' . (International Soundphoto) Gloria Takes $16,000 In Television Quiz New York U.R) "I'd rather go away Gloria, the undefeated champ, than Gloria the foolish little girl who lost out." With those words, perky Glo ria Lockerman, the 12-year-old Negro spelling champ from Bal timore, explained her bow-out from CBS-TV's "The $64,000 Question" and retired $16,000 richer today. Marine Capt. Richard Sherrill McCutchen, another contestant on the big giveaway show, cor rectly waded through a food-and-cooking query to reach the $16,000 level and earn a possi ble shot next week at $32,000. Gloria, a nlntn grade student, had held TV audiences spell bound for three weeks by threading her way through such orthographic toughies as "bel- Communications ' ""Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. The Radio Wrens Return To the ' Editor: The article printed some weeks ago in the Tribune concerning the wren which had built her nest in the family radio of the senior von Stein home on Long Mountain has caused several to comment to the writer, who was forced, with some embarrassment, to ad mit that both Jenny and Henry Wren had disappeared, leaving a fully constructed nest with but one egg. Since the neighbor's cat had been in evidence, the conclusion was that the tiny pair had. become part of the feline diet. This conclusion, seemed the more valid because Henry never had ceased to warn Jenny that it would happen. All the while the nest was a-building, though he manfully ponied material to the frieze arm of the diningroom chair (beyond which he refused to go), he brought with each beak full of dried grass a cata log of predictions, protests and damaging arguments against bringing up a family in the midst of gadgeted surroundings where they never would learn properly to be afraid of danger ous things. It appeared certain Jenny had finally been convinced of the validity of his argument at the cost of her life, and all summer it has been a matter of tantaliz ing conjecture as to whether or not Henry lived long enough to say: "I told you so!" Mr. von. Stein even went so far as to enclose the story of the wrens as carefully as possible in a moral, which aroused the interest of the Nazarene youth publication, "Standard, in which it is to appear shortly. The untimely passing of the birds was a feature of the story. Then, yesterday, at an early morning hour, a ghostly flutter greeted the householder as he entered the kitchen. There was Jenny! no doubt about it. . She perches with perky familiarity on the dishes, picks crumbs from the drainboard and scrambles among the flowers in the picture-window-box, skittering fearless ly underfoot as no other bird has ever done. Outside a bevy of other wrens scold and twitter undoubtedly Jenny's current family. One of them surely is Henry! And let it not again be said that the persuasiveness of the male as opposed to the vaunted impressiveness , of .the female power of influence is lacking! Even after she had her nest and an egg in it! - She's still a man's world, boys! H. M. von Stein P. O. Box 609 Medford . ligerent, astigmatic and an- tidisestablishmentarianism." Tuesday night, Gloria was of fered the chance of doubling her winnings of last week to $32,- 000. She and her grandmother, Mrs. Bertha Key of Baltimore, who has acted as Gloria's guar dian on the show, turned the chance down. "The Lord has been very, very good to Gloria," said Mrs. Key, "and I've decided we'll stop right here." The producers of the show an nounced that $15,500 of Gloria's winnings would be placed in a trust fund for her education, The other $500 was given to Gloria to spend as she pleased. She also was presented with a TV set, a bicycle, a tape re corder and a subscription to her favorite comic magazine. McCutchen, a career officer, correctly answered a question dealing with the geographical origin and composition of vari ous breads. They were: tortillas (Mexico or Central America, cornmeal); pumpernickel (Ger many, coarse bolted rye); pone (Indian and Southern United States, corn); graham bread (United States, whole wheat) and bannock (Scotland, wheat, barley or oats). Los Angeles Smog Hearing Disaster Br UNITED PRESS Smog threatened to reach the disaster point in Los Angeles to day and an advancing cold front ripped the Northeast with storms. The Sprawling Los Angeles area expected its fifth smog alert in six days and Gov. Good win J. Knight offered to declare a state of disaster if necessary. Knight acted after Francis H. Packard, chairman of the Citi zens Anti-smog Action Commit tee, wired him that causes and remedies of the smog plague must be found "before a dis aster occurs." More smog attacks were ex pected for the next - few days. The smog alerts banned' all com bustible burning in Los Angeles county and- citizens and indus tries were asked to stop any smog-contributing activities. In the East, a vast mass of cool Canadian air pushed into the Gulf States and was approaching the Atlantic Coast. It touched off violent storms across the North ern Appalachians and Lower Great Lakes and an uncon firmed tornado hit Townsend, N.Y. The possible twister swept up garage but left the cars on tha ground at Townsend, tne wea ther Bureau reported. And at Syracuse, N.Y., rains swept away a section of a city street and put other streets under a foot of water. Earlier, a single engine pri vate plane crashed in a fog near Dover Plains, N.Y., killing five persons. ' Rotarians Approve $500 Flood Relief The Medford Rotary Club ap- DroDriated $500 for flood relief of New England states by unani mous vote at its meeting Tues day noon. The regular program featured big game hunt motion pictures taken and narrated by Jonn Day? Day's . movies included shots of . Africa .game, Kodiak bear and moose hunts in the arc tic region, grouse hunting in Scotland and Cougar hunting in southern Oregon. x Weldon Kline, Medford lum berman, introduced Day. y News About Pooks S&m fltia i-irary rerfc&se 4 net J---?eitll "tired" ftuinina, weuU b less fatigue it fee iersk eflven taga of soma of t&e aesistence offered by his put-lie library. In stead f working out hi prob lems during wakeful night hoursj he could spend a few early eve ning hours in reading of the ex perience and solutions of other successful executives as they are outlined in recent books. Two of the newest books for the businessman to be added to your library are produced hy Jacob Kay Lasser, nationally known for his practical manuals on income tax computation. His "Business Management Hand book" is an equaUy practical treatise analyzing the methods and procedures of the nation's outstanding businessmen. Mr. Lasser examines business prac tice department by department: merchandising, credit, taxes, in ventories, etc.; he suggests ways of getting more from records than mere bookkeeping and 0f avoiding frauds and petty dis honesty. In fact, "How to Run Small Business" is an equally valuable handbook for everyone owning or planning to start a small business such as a retail store, manufacturing plant, or commercial office. Conveniently arranged for handy reference use, it explains in very simple terms the management, account ing, financing, insurance, and merchandising of the small bus iness. Other titles on business organ ization and management avail able in your library include Business Organization and Man agement" by James Gemmell, "Systems Analysis for Effective Administration, by Barish, and New Books By Medford Library A list of new books acquired during August by the Medford Public library was announced today by the library. There are 39 volumes on the list, including four of fiction but not counting1 a number of pamphlets and other publications by govern mental agencies. The new books listed with author and title, follow: Fiction Drago, Their Guns Were Fast; Fenisong, Widows' Plight; John son, Return to Ithaca; Lamond, Dingo. . Non-Fiction Ferre, Making Religion Real; McLaughlin, New Life in Old Lands; Eichelberger, UN: the First Ten Years; Fine, 1,000,000 Delinquents; Way, Pi lot in' Comes Natural; Lum, Fabulous Beasts; McKenny, Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest; Hayes, The Ape In Our House; Ford, Audu bon's Butterflies, Moths, and Other Studies; Schorger, Passen ger Pigeon; Dumas, A Psychia tric Primer for the Veteran's Family and Friends; White, Twentieth Century Psychiatry; Hackett, Relax and See; Christo pher, Pruning Manual; Lasser, How to Run a Small Business. Groesbeck, Invitation to Ad Is That So? Many mistaken beliefs exist about the cooperative roles of cocks and hens in selecting nest sites, building the nest, etc. So, let's have another Facts vs. F at- larv Hpssion. Fallacy: Males and females select their nest sites together. Factt With most birds, the female makes the final selection once ' shj; accepts the male's chosen territory. However, in the cedar waxwing, the nest-site selection appears to be a cooper ative project. In the prothono- tary warbler, the male not only selects the nest cavity before the female arrives but also starts carrying moss to it. In the house wren, too, the male may already have started the foundation work of the nest before the female arrives. rallaert Host Kurd take, from five to six days kwill their nest the kogtfc tims it usually takes Urn an c te be formed witfein 'Hie Mvi.. Fact: The time taken to luilfl a nest varies trtflseiwtewsly. The field sparrow usually takes etily three days eat keMvhed stork ia Aire fetes- etout 1M and the feitesta wff'y of Australia any tafce vhole yetr to seratch togetha His tremend ous hot-bed of lefuse. Although a robin may normal ly tabe about sis dsyc a pir Jhae been see ft buiUl oj in Richrd Neufthel's "Streamlin ing Business procedures." Each of these tells you fcow to evalu ate, design, and improve tech niques. "The Art of Administration, by Tead, is a realistic book by a recognized authority in tne neia of personnel leadership. Dimock, in "The Executive in Action" analyzes . the day-by-day work of a top executive; Howard Smith, in "Developing Your Ex ecutive Ability" provides a self, rating scale whereby you can discover things about yourself that will start you on the road towards greater success as an ex ecutive. Personnel administration re ceives the attention it deserves in such books as Alfred Coop, er's "How to Surervise People, Fbl's "Human Relations and the Foreman," and Halseys "Handbook of Personnel Man agement." Recognizing super vision as a profession in itself, these authors tell the reader how to train subordinates, how to develop leadership qualities, and how to improve public rela-. tions. For those who are contemplate ing a venture into business tha library offers "So You Want to Open a Shop" by Alissa Keir and "How to Make a Home Business Pay," by Arthur, with practical suggestions for converting your ideas into cash. Kenneth Groesbeck's "Invita tion to Advertising" shows, step by step, how to produce the kind of advertising that really sells, how and where to spend adver tising money. How recently have you looked over the business shelves of your public library? Take another look; it will be worth your while. Acquired vertising; Pop. Science, .IBS Home Workshop Projects and Ideas; Wright, The Natural House; Yates, The Complete Flower Hobby Book; Hunt, Peter Hunt's Workbook; Yates, An tique Reproduction for the Home Craftsman; Hodges, Baseball Complete; Powers, Baseball Per sonalities; Herbert, On Upland Shooting; Popowski, Hunting Small Game; Young, Great Ne gro Baseball Stars; Powers, Baseball Personalities; Rooks, Light Horses; Prochnow, Speak-, ej-'s Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms; Sitwell, Portugal and Madeira; Vanderbilt, The Living Past in America; Corbett, Cape Cod's Way; Crockett, The Ad ventures of Davy Crockett; Hif gins, News is a Singular Thing; Schacht, My Own Particular Screwball. ; t CHURCHILL TO VISIT London U.R) Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill plans a vacation next 'month on the French Riviera in a villa at Cap d'Ail owned by British newspaper publisher Lord Bea verbrook. It is expected that Churchill and his wife will trav el by plane. The villa, where Churchill has vacationed many times, is a few miles from Nice. By EUGENE BURNS Rsitfar-Nttaralht single day. Working under the pressure of a short breeding sea son, northern birds usually take less 'time than their southern kind, sometimes only half. Nests built early in the season are usually built more slowly' where a goldfinch's may aver age 13 days in July, during August it will seldom exceed' six. i '- With most, the nest is com pleted the day before the first egg is laid; -however, with a few like the mourning dove, nest building and egg-laying overlap. Fallacy: Once nest building starts, it proceeds steadily. Fact: Normally, birds work actively for a few hours in the morning then cease work alto gether in the afternoon. Rainy weather usually halts all nest building work and, if prolonged, may even cause the desertion of a partly or wholly-built nest. Nests made of mud walls often "set" a day or two before the lining is added. (For birds that use saliva in nest construction, the speed of building may -de pend upon the rate of its flow thus a swift may take up to 41 days to produce its small nest.) (Released br " McClude Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyl pedia Americana, my panel ot judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume et "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 Medford Mail Tribune, Box , S75, Sausalito, Calif. r r
