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a rOTTR MTDFORD (OREGON) ltoFORTkTRIBUWl "everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor EHIC AI.LFN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper . Entered as second clan matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Marcn j. 1031 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mot, 330 Sunday Only One year 350. 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 $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers Be per copy. All Te?ms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County " United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Lotus Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. . NATIONAL EDITORIAL AS SO CI AT HON I rii!"B"IJII'JllJ1 NfWtPAPlI ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail TribuneG10,' 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 6, 1945 at was Thursday) Bear bites woman on hand and knocks her down when she tried to scare him away from picnic lunch. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Another sign of fall has appeared. Broad shouldered, long-legged youths wearing sweaters, with an "M" over their solar plexus, have started making yardage through trreate afternoon traffic- 20 YEARS AGO q Sept. 6, 1935 (It was Friday) Nudist wearing nothing but a pair of socks on Peach st. cast Into the city bastile. Butter hits 32 cents per pound with heavy sales. e o 30 YEARS AGO Sept. f , 1I2S Sheep show to be feature of county iair this year. Southern Oregon Older Girls' ' conference opens at Baptist church. 40 YEARS AGO . Y" Sept. 6. 1915 o Secretary of American Road Builders association spends day on roads, reaches Medford by Pacific highway. To take train for San Francisco. Yeggs attempt to blow safe of Medford Lumber company. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Children of elementary school age average about 5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 hours a week watch ing TV? 2. Arthritis (rheumatic) afflicts more men than women, more women than men, or about the same number of each? 3. Eisenhower, Taft or Stassen led on the first ballot at the 1952 Republican convention? 4. Average fares since before the war Save gone up more for planes or for trains? 5. Consumption of beer in the U.S. comes to about 3, for 7V4 pints a week for each person over 19? 6. The race horses Swaps and Nashua are of the same age, or Swaps is older, or Nashua is older? 7. Davy Crockett was born in territory now included in Ken tucky, Tennessee, Ndrth Caro lina, Maryland or Texas? The answers: 1. About 25 a week. 2. Many more women. 3. Eisenhower. 4. For trains. 5. About 3 pints a week. 6. Of the same age (three). 7. Ten nessee. Brain Waves Do Not Tell Which Hand a Man Uses v Orono, Me. (U.R) Two1 Uni versity of ' Maine scientists say that brain waves do not give a clear indication of whether a man is a righthander or a south paw. Psychology Profs. A, Douglas Glanville and Joseph J. Antonitis measured brain-wave records of 50 students to test the theory that the strength of the waves in the right and left halves of the brain would indicate which side a person favors. The professors said their meas urements gave no validity to the theory. MAIL TRIBUNE Baseball Attendance Problems As the major league baseball races settled down for the stretch run of the last 30 days, the suspense was concentrated on the American league, with the top four, contenders separated by fewer than four games. In the senior circuit, the Brooklyn Dodgers appeared likely to win handily, if not exactly going away. Even the Brooks, who lost the National league title to New York in 1951 after enjoying a 13-game advantage on Aug. 11, 1951, seemed unlikely to blow a lead like this one. This late in the season, urban transportation and the pennant races as a source of baseball controversy and speculation. Owner Walter F. .0 Malley of the pennant-bound Brooks set off a chain reaction on Aug. 17 in announcing that his team would play seven regulation games and at least one exhibition game m 1956 in Jersey City. fYM ALLEY wants a new stadium, preferably in Brooklyn. But if New Borough officials can t help the Dodgers get the one site in Brooklyn wanted by O'Malley, he refuses to rule out the possibility of a move to another city in 1958. . The day after O'Malley's Jersey City bombshell, Horace C. Stoneham, owner of the New York Giants, said that he too would like city aid in getting a new stadium. O'Malley had emphasized the need for "ac cessible rapid transit" plus adequate parking facil ities. Said Stoneham: "Milwaukee doesn't have any subways at all and they do pretty well. What a ball park needs now is parking space more than anything else." The Los Angeles City Council on Aug. 22 author ized two of its members to approach both O'Malley and Stoneham with a view toward bringing big-league baseball to the West Coast. Los Angeles officials hope to meet with the baseball Sept. 22. THREE major league franchises have been trans planted in recent years. The former Boston Braves moved to Milwaukee in 1953. In their first year in the Beer Belt they played to a paid attendance of 1,826, 397, or more than six times as many people as had paid to see the Braves in Boston in 1952. In 1954 Milwaukee led the National league in attendance, with a total of 2,131,388, though finishing only third in league standings. The St. Louis Browns more than tripled their attendance by becoming in 1954 the Baltimore Orioles. The Kansas City Athletics this year are doing better both in attendance and in league standings than they did as the Philadelphia "A's" in 1954. Major league baseball attendance in 1954 was 15,915, 167, more than 1,500,000 larger than that of 1953, but still way below the 1948 peak of 20,972,601. O'Malley points out that the Dodgers, though they've won four pennants and tied for the flag twice since 1946, have faUen off in attend ance from 1,807,526 in 1947 then a National league rec ord to 1,020,531 in 1954. This year, he says, attendance won't go over the million mark for the presumptive Nation al league champions. CO good baseball alone isn't the answer to baseball's attendance problems. Nor is television the chief villain, though big-league baseball television has crip pled the minor leagues. The O'Malley-Jersey City gambit aroused some speculation that big league teams might play more home games away from home that the Yankees, for example, might choose to play the Boston Red Sox, who draw well throughout New England, in Hartford or Bridgeport rather than in New York. And at least one baseball writer has sug gested that not two or three but five major leagues be established, with teams representing the 33 largest U.S. cities plus Montreal and Toronto. E.R.R. Is That So? SHORT VERSION t A quiz it is for quizzical quid nuncs! Score 90 or better and you are an Outdoor Expert, 70 a Woodsman, 60 is stiU plenty good. Answers and their values follow questions. I. Animals are now prepar ing for winter's cold and scarcity of food and water. Concerning these statements, underscore the correct ones: 1. The longest mammalian hi- bernator, perhaps, is the ground squirrel which has been known to sleep for 33 weeks out of the year's 52. 2. As winter sleepers go, bears are light sleepers particularly the Arctice polar bear. 3. To keep warm, nonhiberna- ting birds and mammals always eat much more in winter than in summer. II. The blue whale, also known as the sulphur-bottomed whale, is perhaps the most astonishing of all mammals, past and pres ent. To give him his rightful due, underscore the correct state ments: 1. Although this whale may be come 75 feet long within three years, he started life from an egg which was no larger than that which produced a one-ounce mouse. 2. At birth, the whale's calf Tuesday, September 8, 15S however, the economics of television are vying with York City and Brooklyn owners in New York on By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist may be 24 feet long and weigh eight tons. 3. The eye of the 75-foot long adult whale is only slightly larger than a horse's. 4. This whale could easily swallow a fur-bearing seal in one gulp. Answers: I. 1 and 2 are cor rect, 3 is wrong. Birds and mammals put on a heavy coat of fat or blubber and eat much less in winter than in summer, despite the cold. 60 points. II. 1, 2, 3 are correct; 4 is false. Because of the strainers in his mouth, this huge creature would have difficulty in swal lowing anything larger than an orange. Some other whales, however, would have no trouble whatever in swallowing a whole fur-bearing seal. 40 points. To tal your score if you were low, you'll have another chance in two weeks! (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 30-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 you letter to: Is That So! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 am. Monday for Monday; tether dan 5:30 previous day. Today and By Walter THE REVIVAL OF JAPAN Only a remarkable man could have carried himself as did the Japanese Foreign Minister dur ing his visit to Wash i ng t o n last week. For between him and this coun try there are things that men do not forget on our part the treachery at Walter Uppmann Pearl Harbor, on his part Hiroshima and his own imprisonment after the war. Shigemitsu was every inch the Foreign Minister, friendly but not in the least effusive, tactful but unusually candid. He covered much ground in his spech to the National Press Club. But he made it plain that the burden of his mission was that "the time has now come" though "we cannot make changes over night" to "review our defense relationship." Why? Partly, to bring about the with drawal of American forces from Japanese territory to "elimi nate," as he put it, "such fric tions as are bound to arise from the presence of foreign troops on our soil." But there was more to it than that. Shigemitsu was here to tell us that the eventual with drawal of American troops would be only an outward sym bol of a radical change in the status of Japan a change from being a protected nation, a client and dependent nation, to being once again a principal power in East Asia. We have agreed that as Ja pan's own military forces are built up, the American forces on Japanese soil are to be with drawn. We have recognized that the time is coming for us, as it came not long ago to Great Bri tain in Suez, when our strategi cal planning must be based on the evacuation of our strongest military position in the western Pacific. Shigemitsu did not ask us to leave now..He asked us to get ready to leave, to begin thinking and talking about our leaving and, by implication, not to make the kind of mistake which France made . in Indo china. THE Washington talks it seems to have been assumed that a satisfactory build-up of Japan's forces would take about six years. This tnen wouia mean that the American withdrawal would probably be carried out gradually within a period of six years. But long before that, in deed beginning at once, it will be necessary, and ' indeed most wise and very useful, to begin treating Japan as a principal power in east Asia. The real ques tion raised by Shigemitsu is not the mechanical question of how many Japanese military units are needed to replace the Ameri can military units- The real ques tion, which is implied rather than stated in his speech, is whether we are going to begin recognizing Japan 'as a principal power which has interests, which needs to be consulted, when we form our policies for the future of Korea, for our relation with the two Chinas, for Southeast Asia. The joint statement issued, in Washington says that Japan should "assume primary respon sibility for the defense of its homeland and be able to con tribute to the preservation of in ternational peace and security in the western Pacific." Against what is Japan herself to assume primary responsibility? The an swer must be for defense against' internal subversion and insurrection. Japan, no matter how well armed, cannot defend herself against nuclear weapons. She could, when armed, defend herself against a sea-borne and air-borne invasion from Siberia or Manchuria. But as no such in vasion could be attempted with out precipitating a world war, it is not really against invasion that Japan is arming. Primarily she is arming against conquest from within. The joint statement speaks also of "contributing to the pre servation of peace and security in the western Pacific." We may read this, I should suppose, bear ing in mind that we intend to withdraw our own ground forces immediately available and not those that could be sent there across the big ocean. We shall have no ground forces near at hand as we had, for example, when the Korean war broke out in 1950. Therefore, when we withdraw from Japan, the only allied forces capable of inter vening inside Korea would be the new Japanese forces that are now being raised. The protection of South Korea against aggression from the north would be the American guarantee of massive retaliation. But the defense of South Korea against an internal revolution win come to depend upon the intervention of Japanese forces. VfTE ARE used to thinking of " Japan as a defeated, occu pied, and controlled country that it is a bit startling to begin thinking of Japan as an inde pendent power with interests which have to be taken into ac count, whatever we do in the Far East. Between the lines of his speech Shigemitsu was telling us Tomorrow Lippmann that Japan is concerned with Korea, with Formosa, with Southeast Asia, and as our ally, with -our relations with the Chi nese mainland and Soviet Si beria. He was telling us that the role we have played since he signed the surrender papers on the deck of the battleship Mis souri has been abnormal, and cannot last. For we have not only been occupying Japan. In foreign re lations we have, as it were, acted in the place of Japan. That Korea should not be Chinese or Russian is an ancient vital in terest of Japan. But Korea was never until we occupied Japan and were in fact the government of Japan an American vital in terest. Formosa was for more than half a century a Japanese colony, and before that it was a Japanese interest that Formosa should be in friendly hands. As the power which defeated, occu pied, and governed Japan, we have been standing in Japan's shoes. The time is now coming, said Shigemitsu, when we should act with Japan, not in place of Ja pan, in dealing with Korea and East Asia. It is good advice. For no settlement in East Asia can be permanent in which Japan does not participate as a princi pal power. Copyright, 1955 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Laconia, N.H. (U.R) There's an island for every day in the year at Lake Winnepesaukee. Of its 365 islands, 274 are habit able. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Business note from Korea: A Kentucky congressman (his name is Chelf) has just register ed a vigorous complaint about the taxes South Korea levies on U.S. business men operating in that nation. In a letter to Presi dent Syngman Rhee, Chelf says South Korea's tax structure is highly discriminatory. The American chamber of commerce in Seoul (South Ko rea's capital) says that as of now some 41 Americans are being denied EXIT PERMITS which means that they are being held in the country against their will because of a dispute over taxes. TI7ELL, that's war for you. About the only rule that can be deduced from modern war is that when it's over your allies will turn out to be your enemies and your enemies, as like as not. will become your buddies. I7TTH a few outstanding ex ceptions, war always has been foolish and unprofitable, but MODERN war is beginning to border on the absurd. TJEADS of the big stock changes at New York, Chi cago, Los Angeles, San Ffancis co and Montreal, meeting at Vancouver, Wash., offer some good advice FOR FREE to the average investor. They say: "The man of average means with some money to invest should concentrate on INVEST MENT and not on speculation. They add: "Such an investor should for get all about the fast killings, because there Is no easy way to riches on the stock market." Their general advice to the average man seeking a short cut to a fortune on a $5,000 Invest ment can be boiled down into two words WATCH OUT! rpHE stock exchange heads are - talking to us little people. Thev could RAISE THEIR SIGHTS and still be within the facts. FTHE gambling city of Monte Carlo, capital of the tiny gam bling principality of Monaco, down on the French Riviera, the biggest bank in town closed its doors the other day, throwing the whole postage-stamp-size na tion into a financial crisis. It happened like this: A little while back the bank's upper brass, seeking a short cut to wealth, PLUNGED on televi sion stocks. When the stocks slumped instead of soaring, cagy depositors hastened to the bank and withdrew their money. That stopped the clock. - THERE'S an odd little lesson in this particular incident: This bank that gambled heav ily on long shot stocks (and guessed wrong) is located in an area that lives on gambling. Its upper brass caught the fever. In the end, they were taken for a ride just like the veriest suck- SUN LIFE ASSURANCE , . FLYING into office of Ber nard H. Moran, Navy Depart ment, Wash., this pigeon de cided to make desk his home, will not leave. (International) Stolen Bandit's Gun Found by Teen-Age Boys Oshkosh, Wis. (U.R) Two teen-age boys found an 1851 Colt revolver recently and returned it to the Oshkosh Public Museum from where it was stolen last February. It was wrapped in a plastic bag when the boys found it on a river bank and was in as good condition as when it was stolen. The Navy model Colt had been the property of Thomas Coleman ("Cole") Younger ,a member of Quantrill's Civil War guerUla band. Younger later was an asso ciate of Jesse James. James E. Lunsted, curator at the museum, said the gun would not be placed on display for some time. News er who goes to Monte Carlo (or Las Vegas) with the idea of get ting rich quick with little effort. rTHAT'S the trouble with gam- A bling as a short cut to riches, You can play penny ante and nickel limit FOR FUN and get away with it as long as it is pure fun and stays penny ante. But when you get to thinking of gambling as REAL MONEY you're headed for trouble. Whenever some gambler wins, some other gambler loses. It's different in the case of legiti mate business. In legitimate business, BOTH SIDES profit from a sound deal. can rpHAT'S what the heads of the big stock exchanges, gath. ered up in Vancouver, are try ing to tell us. A Nichol's Worth of . . Comment On By HARMAN United Press Atlantic City, N.J. (U.R) Like I said once before, you can have the young cuties in the Miss America busi ness I'll take Lily Mae. It still goes. Miss Lily Mae Caldwell of the Birmingham, Ala., News has been covering the Miss A pag eant for 20 years or more. Harmon Nichols She won't say how long, real ly. More important she has been escorting pretty young girls up here for many moons. If you can add it up, you know by now that Lily Mae is no young chick herself. But she knows a pretty girl when she sees one. Chaperons the Girls One gal she brought up was Yolande Betbeze, who became Miss America. Yolande later, un der the thumb of our little gal Lily Mae, became a judge here at Atlantic City and I loved that gal dearly because she thought Neva Jane Langley of Georgia had better than a fair chance to win in 1953. Yolande was kidding, of course, but I went out on the twig and who won? Miss Geor gia. Well, anyhow, my Lily Mae CaldweU may have 'another comer. She is Patricia Byrd Hud dleston, a 21-year-old brownette from Clanton, Ala. Pat has what it takes plus Lily Mae, which should put the young lady up there where she belongs. Close to the top. Pat is a serious musician, soprano, who would like to continue the study of music. As Lily Mae told me over a cup of coffee, Pat is a "mature" singer. She even sang soft-like and pretty-like over her iced tea. Three Tests for Crown The contestants will get all nrpttipH iin tnnieht for trip Viiff I parade down the boardwalk. WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE? life assurance will guarantee you a retirement income which you cannot outlive, end also provide for your dependents if you die at an early age. Don't just worry about your family's future or J your own. See me about it today, CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA Russians May Find Adenauer Tough Man During Conference Bt CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Kremlin's team of diplo matic negotiators had better study up some more, in the next few days, how to wi nfriends and influence people. That is, if they really ex pect to get anywhere in their talk with tough old West German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer star ting Friday in Charles atccann Moscow. Premier Nikolai A. Bulgan- m, Communist Farty boss imik ita S. Khrushchev and Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molo- tov did pretty well in the re cent Big Four negotiations . in Geneva. Now they are going to take up directly the biggest issue in Europe. That is the future of the country they fear most next to the United States.o Three Point Program The Russian invitation to Adenauer to visit Moscow was given on June 7. The program, as specified later by the Krem lin, consists of three points. They are the establishment of diplomatic relations, the conclu sion of a trade agreement and the establishment of cultural re lations. But the Russians may find the going tough. Adenauer is deter mined to talk about tne unifica tion -of Germany and the return of thousands of German pris oners stiU held as slave laborers. The Russians will not be able to butter up West Germany's "Grand Old Man" a grand old man who, at 79 years of age works like a man a generation younger. They will not be able to give him the vodka treatment because he drinks only German wines, and those lightly. If Adenauer runs true to form, he will want to know when Russia is going to get out of East Germany, and whether it ever intends to give up the 47,000 miles of rich German territory, east of the Oder-Neisse rivers line, now occupied by Red Po land. There are even hints that Ade nauer may refuse to. establish diplomatic relations unless he gets some satisfactory answers . This and That W. NICHOLS Fester Writer iucicg noinmg nner even in Alabama. The judeinc starts on Wednesday night with the kids squaring off with competing in uuce wiegunes. r.acn girl ap pears eacn night Wednesday through Saturday. One night she win sing, yodel or whatever in the talent division. ComDetition the other two nights is the bath ing suit and evening gown di visions. Saturday night, 10 finalists will be listed . . .. this list will be cut in half and five kids will be on the spot. There is only one big winner, and she will get a $5,000 scholarship and a chance io see the world and pick up a bagful of long green along the trail. LONG TIME NO SEE ' Grand Island. Neb. U.R) When Ernest Frank struck up a conversation with a counle whose table adjoined his in a res taurant, both he and the stran gers decided they had seen each other before. It developed they had sat at adjacent tables five years ago in the Metropolitan hotel in Brussels, Belgium. The couple stopped here en route to government assignment in Vietnam. Since 1 908 o PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-S675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in every price range to his questions. The Western Allies, are not worried over the possibilities of Adenauer's talks. Their only concern is how long, at his age, he can last. For he runs a one- man government, and no suc cessor to him is in sight. At 79, Adenauer is stUl ram rod-straight. He is tall and keeps his figure. He rises at 6 a.m. and works 12 to 14 hours a day. Unlike Winston Churchill, who alone can be compared to him among world leaders, Ade nauer was unknown internation ally until he was made chancel lor in 1949, at 73. He was elect ed by one vote his own in parliament. For years, he had been a provincial politician in his native Cologne. Now he is practically Mr. Germany, and if the-Russians are smart they will keep that in mind. Do You Like Martini Wit Your OiVgs, Sir? Chicago (U.R) A survey conducted at a downtown bar indicates that most martini drinkers, when given a choicer will take two ouVeQser drink. The survey -was conducted by the Green Olive commis sion, which could be biased. Nevertheless, the month long study at a do-it-yourself bar where customer are al lowed to mix their own drinks offered the two-olive evidence, it was claimed. MR INSURANCE Fred Brennan I have Plate Glass Insurance on my store windows, but no Busi ness . Interruption. 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