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o 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Orefoo ttcaoa zap jmm inpune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. tt-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-gll ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor' HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sportt Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a second class matter at lledford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mot 350 Sunday Only One vear S3-50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Pot. Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,.,, Daily and Sunday One year 15 00 G Daily and Sunday One month 1-23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Ttrmi casn in advance Official Paper of the City of Medlord Official Paper of Jackson County " United Press Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAI'"" Advertising rv mr WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta, Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION ,..... i NIWSPAMt ASSOCIAHOW 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 Sept. 8, 1945 (It was Saturday) Local Sheriff's posse members to ride in Canyon Passage mo tion picture. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Congress men are warning the nation "not to put all its eggs in one basket." After more than 12 years of put ting all the nuts under the tree, this makes sense. 20 YEARS AGO e Sept. 8.1935 (It was Sunday) AP wire increases speed of transmission to 60 words in state. Ray Henderson, formerly jun ior highPcoach, promoted to phys ical education director for all grade schools. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1925 , at was Tuesday) Medford schools open, record freshman class of 130. Portland firm given bid for construction of new high school with low bid of $160,000. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 8, 1915 (It was Wednesday) City fire department to use coal from Roxy Ann mines for heating ttiis winter. Experiment al load purchased. Soecial election move to re- bond city for $1,020,000 for pav ing indebtedness tabled at fiery city council session. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Rsseaich Report 1. About 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9,000,000 more jobs are now filled in the CtJ.S. than at the end of World War II? 2. World War 1 arose out of the assassination of a roval duke in what is now East Germany, Po- 1 a n d, Yugoslavia. Czechoslo vakia, Hungary, or the Soviet Union? 3. About one-fifth, one-fourth. one-third, one-half or two-thirds of all plane travel is by air each? 4. The Hall of Fame is connect ed with a ereat university: New York, Harvard, Notre Dame, Chi cago, California or City College of N.Y.? 5. The death rate in summer is higher or lower than in win ter, or about the same? B. The skin surface on the av erage adultcomes to about 6, 13, 20, 27 or 34 square feet? 7. F a t h e r of psychoanalysis was Sigmund Freud: a Swiss, German, Austrian, Englishman, Czech. American or Belgian? ' The Answers: 1. Nine million more. 2. Yugoslavia. 3. About one-third (1954). 4. New York TJ. 5. Lower. 6. 20 square feet. 7. Austrian. JUICY REPORT Bismarck, N. D. (U.R) Police made a quick investiga tion after receiving a phone call from a woman reporting a bloody leg dangling from the trunk of a car. They found three teea-agers hiding in the trunk eating hot dogs dripping with catsup. They were trying to save the price of admission into a drive-in theater. ' - -- MAIL TRIBUNE Do Papers There was a radio broadcast the other night which treated .the question of newspapers and their treat ment of news. " This particular panel of experts included an editor of a fairly popular magazine and a high-up represent ative of a News Weekly something about the subject from an impartial stand point. Their conclusion, however as far as there was any was to the effect that most newspapers do slant their news according to their political prejudices, but most of them unintentionally. In other words the newspaper, reporters of the U.S.A. slant their news reports, according to their own or their newspapers political leanings but do so un consciously. HTHIS is surely something for the book! We wish the radio commentators had named a few of the reporters who color their news articles while they are unconscious. There would, we are sure, be many representatives of the press looking for a job. It is bad enough to slant the news in any way, at any time, on any paper, but if a newspaper reporter, doesn't know when he is slanting it or not slanting it then the profession as far as he is concerned is in a mess. Such a reporter would be a greater public menace than "Typhoid Mary." DUT, of course, such an indictment of the American press is absurd. Some papers, particularly in the metropolitan areas, have and still do slant their news reports. But outside of the Chicago Tribune during the McCormick regime, and the Hearst chain under the late William Randolph, they have been and still are few and far between. THE mistake the experts on this panel made, we believe, was their failure to distinguish clearly be tween the news columns of the American papers, and their editorial and special-comment columns. One of. the first things a reporter is told, on the average American newspaper, is to confine himself to the facts, above all get them straight, and cut out any "editorializing," or bias he may have. If he can't do that then he better give up 'newspaper work and try the street-carnival or press-agent business. Might even go into politics. But he has no proper place in the newspaper field. THE editorial page, including the editor's remarks and the opinions of various and sundry news commentators is, of course, a different kettle of fish. ("Fish" of an ancient variety to some, but fresh rainbow trout, hot from the frying pan, to others) There, and there only, are interpretations of the news permissable and naturally of course such opin ions are colored by the writers convictions and opin ionsalso permissable m THE Portland Oregonian . is a good example of what we mean and we have often commented favorably upon it. It is politically 100 conservative Republican, and its favored commentators, with a few exceptions like Norman Thomas, are of the same general school. But it never allows its political prej udices to seep over into its news columns, and in fact gives the political opposition fair objective treat ment, and practically equal space. This is as it should be. And we believe IS with U.S. newspapers as a whole. The Oregonian, in our judgment, is more representative of the American press therefore than the Los Angeles Times or the San Francisco Examiner, for example. R.W.R. The Nixon Mystery The "Salem Statesman," edited and published by former Governor Sprague is another good example in Oregon of a consistently. Republican newspaper that always gives a fair shake to the political opposi tion. " This "fair deal" is not confined to its news col umns however, but also is true editorially. Unlike the Oregonian, the "Statesman," sees flaws in BOTH parties and never hesitates to express them. TAKE the Vice President Nixon "build-up" for the 1956 campaign, for example. . - s Editor Sprague refuses to swallow it. . He doesn't agree in so many words with former President Truman that Nixon is a phoney, but he does maintain that the photogenic VP won his seat in the Senate on a "false basis" and he has "not been surprised" that this sort of falsity "has been his stock in trade ever since." IN FACT the Statesman Editor agrees with Richard 1 Rovere political writer for "The New Yorker" who says, quote; he, "can't help wondering precisely what it is that his admirers President Eisenhower called him a "great leader of men" and the rank and file Republicans who favored him over so many of their leaders (see to) admire.'' J7DITOR Sprague can't see it either. We doubt, if many Republican editors can. But, as far as our record goes, Editor Sprague alone among them has the courage and candor to admit it R.W.R. .: - . Thursday, September 8, 1955 Color News ' ' men who should know fact mandatory. yi.iL.1 .. i. ..!.,, !, i n. I. nj.il SPEED KING CoL Horace A. Hanes, USAF, holds Thomp son Trophy at Philadelphia he was awarded for shattering world's speed record of 755 m.p.h. He flew record 822.135 m.p.h. in two passes over 11-mile course above Mojave Desert near Paundale, CaL Shigemitsu's Visit To U.S. May Reduce Prison Population By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The population of the Suga- mo Prison in Tokyo may be re duced radicallv soon as the re sult of Japa nese Foreign Minister Mam- oru Shigemit su's visit to the United States. One of the main " reasons for Shigemit su s visit was to ask that the United States cuaries Mccann release the 210 men still held in Its behalf. Shigemitsu says it isn't quite right to ask Japan to rearm for a possible future war while a number of its military and po litical leaders are still confined for taking part in the last one. Both Shigemitsu and his chief. Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, feel strongly about the issue. Served Sentence 7 Shigemitsu served part of a seven-year sentence as a "class A" war prisoner. Hatoyama, who took no part in the war, was not tried. But he was bar red from politics for some years by Gen. Douglas MacArthur be cause of his prewar activities and views. It is part of a confused world situation that Shigemitsu and Hatoyama should have come back to the top in politics, and that both should be cooperating with the United States. Their cooperation will be even closer, and Japanese enthusiasm for rearmament will be strength ened, if the United States makes the gesture of releasing some of the prisoners it still holds in Sugamo. , In addition to the ' 210 still held by the United States, there are 347 others. Australia sen tenced 149 of them, The Nether lands 111, Great Britain 80. The remaining seven, "class A" crim inals, were sentenced by an in ternational court, Japan wants all of them, including the "class A" men. given their freedom. It will not be surprising if the 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 rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted .for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. What Is Big Business? To the Editor: What is Big Business? , . Lately I have heard it re ferred to as some horrible mon ster ready to strip us of all we possess. Is it not true that Big Business is American industry? This in cludes management, employees and stockholders in co-operation. Is it not true that when Amer ican industry is flourishing and prosperous it means greater em ployment,, higher pay for work ers and more tax money for the government? Is a business genius any less entiUed to his salary than a union leader? How could the United States have fought and won the wars with out Big Business? Do we not enjoy the highest level of pros perity among the peoples of the world thanks to Big Business which makes the jobs and pays the salaries? Big Business isn't the old Bogie-Boo that Mr. Truman and others would like us to believe, but it is all of us those who em ploy, those who work and those who invest. It adds up to Amer ican industry. Am I wrong? Voter and Taxpayer, Talent, Ore. (Name on file) United States is first to act. Critics of War Lords Shigemitsu, of course, never should have been tried as a war criminal. Gen. MacArthur dis closed last week, during a friendly talk with Shigemuitsu that he opposed the prosecution but that Russia insisted on' it be cause he had served as foreign minister. A career diplomat, a leading advocate of Japanese cooperation with the United States and Brit ain, Shigemitsu was made for eign minister in 1943. When the news came over Axis radios, there was surprise in Allied cap itals. Shigemitsu was known to be a critic of the war lords. It was suggested that he was ap pointed because Premier Hideki Tojo realized that Germany and Italy faced, defeat, and he want ed to use Shigemitsu in an at tempt to get a negotiated peace when their collapse came. Hatoyama came very near to becaming premier after the war. What tripped him was that he was on record, in a book he wrote before the war. as Drais ing Hitler and Mussolini. When war really came, however, he snowea ms opposition to the nol- icy of the war lords by retiring to his country home and staying mere. U.S. Civil Service Sets Three Exams mi ... . xnree civil service examina tions have' been announced this week by the U.S. Civil Service Commission.' Applications for the position of medical officer with knowl edge over one of several fields of medicine may be filed with tne Director, Eleventh U.S. Civil Service region, 302 Federal of fice building, Seattle 4, Washing ton. The position will pay $7,465 to $10,065 a year, in various fed eral agencies in the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington.. Persons wishing to apply for a carer appointment to a posi tion of wage-hour investigator may contact the board directors by writing Board of U.S. Civil Service Examiners, Wage and Hour and Public Contracts Di visions, U.S. Department of la bor, Region LX, San Francisco, Calif. Persons appointed will contact business firms to deter mine compliance with federal wages and hours laws. The posi tions are located in the Western states. - Applications for the civil serv ice position of supervisory trans portation operations officer (Marine), will be accepted by the Sub-board of U.S. Civil Service Examinations, Beaver Ammuni tion Storage Point, Clatskanie, Ore. Application forms for the test, including instruction on applying may be obtained from the above address. The position is located at the Beaver Ammu nition Storage Point, Clatskanie, Ore. Ashland Council Delays Action Ashland The Ashland city council Tuesday failed to take action on a proposed 10:30 p.m. curfew ordinance and referred two other matters to commit tees. - Two residents protested to the council the widening project on Almond st, between Nob- Hill and Church and the subject was handed over to a committee., For the third time, action or a request of Karl Windbigier for city water for his property just outside the city limits, was de layed pending consultation with the Bell view Water district and the planning commissio. ' j In the Day's Hews By FRANK JENKINS This is the hurricane season along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is the FOREST FIRE SEASON in the timbered Far West. , BOTH hurricanes and forest fires arise out of weather conditions. The hurricanes are born down in the doldrums, where confined hot, humid air forces its way up through a cooler air stratum and starts- a whirlwind that grows and travels. BAD forest fires arise out of heat and LOW humidity. When the air gets tinder dry, a spark is all that is needed to set off a conflagration. NOBODY has yet been able to control the weather. THE teletype tells us: Forest fires continue out of control in Central and Northern California, with a total of some 25,000 acres already burned. Fires in Humboldt county in the north have covered about 18,000 acres and one threatens the VIR GIN stand of redwoods known as Rockefeller grove. The world's tallest tree the General Grant redwood is threatened by a fire in the Se quoia national forest in the Sier ra Nevada. IITE'RE still inclined, you see, ' to think of fires in VIRGIN timber as the BAD, ones. That isn't really true. Old, ripe trees, with their thick bark, can resist a pretty hot fire. Even if killed, they can usually be salvaged by immediate logging. It's the NEW GROWN that really concerns us most vitally. The new growth has to do with our raw materials of the future. W'E SHUDDER, of course, at the thought of damage to a thrillingly lovely thing like the Rockefeller stand of virgin red woods or the fabulous General Grant tree in the Sequoia na tional forest commonly said to be the oldest living thing on this earth. That appeals to our sense of the dramatic ' But I can't help wondering. One can hardly look at and meditate upon such fantastic marvels of nature without being old boys must have weathered struck by the thought that these many a hot blaze m the long cen turies during which they have remained alive. Maybe they will weather this one. , It seems reasonable that they can. "RUT the new growth-?-; Well, that is a horse of an other color. New growth, when run over by a hot, HOT fire is a goner. It's the new growth we must look to for the maintenance of our timber industries in the long years to come. DOME interesting new thinking U about virgin old growth tim ber is entering the forest pic ture. A recent report on the for est products industry of Oregon, prepared by competent lumber people and sponsored by Lewis and Clark college and Reed College during the current year has this to say: "The capacity of Oregon's for est lands to produce wood fiber will not become evident until a large proportion of the virgin old growth material is RE MOVED. Loss from fire, insects, disease and windthrow may ac tually offset or EXCEED growth within an area of virgin, old- growth timber. "When this mature and over mature timber is used and re placed with young growing trees of sawtimber size, then the an nual growth of wood fiber should EXCEED THE PRESENT CUT of 8.3 billion board feet an nually." The future of our timbered area m Oregon ana , .Northern California will continue bright IF WE CAN KEEP THE NEW GROWTH GROWING. Farmers Find it Hard To Keep Hired Hands Madison, Wis. (U.R) The old question, "How're you going to keep them down on the farm?" is part of no jolly song for farm ers these days. Stan Witzel, a University of Wisconsin farm engineer, points out that the hired man is dis appearing in many places. The only thing that can be done about it is to get along without him. However, he said, the problem isn't just extra manpower. It's finding some time for the farmer to sit down and plan his manage ment. After a farm gets to a cer tain size and productivity, Witzel explained, good management "is a must for survival," but routine chores take up nearly all the time. Witzel said farmers should re ly more heavily on mechanical energy, which is "very cheap compared to human energy." He also recommended such things as self-feeding devices, silo unload ers, bulk milk tanks and other la bor savers. : - By saving himself that labor, Witzel said, the farmer can plan good cropping practices, storage methods and high-producing live stock. , " i Bryan's Crater Visit in '15 (Editor's note: This is another article by George Putnam, editor emeritus of the Salem Capital Journal and former editor and publisher of the Mail Tribune. It is reprinted from the Salem paper by permission.) By GEORGE PUTNAM When a student at the Univer sity of Nebraska in 1891-93 I be came acquainted with William Jennings Bryan, "The Common er," then a member of congress, afterwards three times Demo cratic nominee for the presi dency and some 23 years later U.S. secretary of state unaer Woodrow Wilson, whose nomina tion for the presidency he had engineered. Whenever Bryan visited in Oregon for his Chauauqua speeches at Ashland, he always looked me up at Medford and frequently I drove him to Ash land. I always stressed a visit to Crater Lake. Wire Invitation When Bryan resigned as sec retary of state in 1915, because of lack of sympathy with Wil son's policy, after the sinking of the Luisitania, he wired me that he and Mrs. Bryan were coming west and the Medford Commercial club, at ny request, wired him an invitation to visit Crater Lake. ... Bryan accepted the invitation and asked to be met at Montague the nearest California station on the Southern Pacific. Two autos were volunteered for the trip to avoid delay, for Bryan's time was limited and roads were unpaved, steep, rough and dirty. Bryan's train arrived on schedule in the afternoon in mid-August,: 40 years ago. Two autos were supplied and driven by County Judge Frank L. Tou Velle of Jacksonville and Harry Walthers, manager of the California-Oregon Power Co. Only One Stop Only one stop was made on the trip to the crater. That was at Klamath Hot Springs, where a crowd of summer vacationists welcomed him and offered iced grape juice which the Bryans drank after handshakes in the "pause that refreshes." It was dark long before the lake was reached and the new lodge was darker stilL We final ly aroused the concessionaire Parkhurst and a cold dinner was hastily served. There was no telephone to the lake in those days, and the letters sent notify ing Parkhurst of the Bryan visit, lay unopened on his desk.-Har-rassed financially, he thought it was a dun or a bill he owed. The Bryan party was up at dawn and joined by Will G. Steele, park commissioner who had spent most of his life in hav ing Crater Lake made a national park, and Miss Elizabeth Put nam who was spending the sum mer-with them and a couple of park rangers. Steele guided thed party down the steep,- rough trail, to the lake and the cruise over, the blue waters in a cabin motorboat around "Wizard Is land" and the "Phantom Ship." Then the laborious, slow climb up back to the rim. . Charmed with Beauty The Bryans were charmed with the beauty of Crater Lake and its scenic approach, and its jagged volcanic rim. After an early lunch the party left for Medford where that evening, the "silver' tongued" orator spoke from the bandstand to a vast audience that filled the i city park, expressing his grati tude for the trip and explaining his reasons for resigning as sec retary of state and his dread of war. On the return drive, as a newspaperman I asked Bryan for a story on Crater Lake I could broadcast and he made the following suggestion: .. "Get Oregon congressmen to introduce a bill to construct a tunnel just above lake level, through the rim to a connecting road, so your visitors can reach the lake without the laborious 1000-foot or more steep descent and climb over a slippery and dangerous trail which can only be made for a few months in the year, and is almost impossible for old people. Tourists could reach the lake without undue At no other time would you spend a like amount without considerable investigation first. Before any actual need arises, why not investigate what , is involved in a funeral service? CHAPEL MORTUARY - Across from the Courthouse ,i rranic morgan - FUNERAL Described exertion, even in winter." Bryan's suggestion was never seriously considered and no survey was made to ascertain its location, cost or practicabil ity. Now they are talking of an elevator or escalator, but the chances are that the steen. trail will be the only way tcM-each the spirit lake of the Indians. After all, the chief attractions are the changing colors atfd rugged vistas presented to the eye from the top, not the base of the circuitous rim. My first trip to Crater Lake was made in early August, 1907 and there was plenty of snow in evidence. I was one of a party of six (three men, three women) that drove in two light spring wagons, with tents and camp ing equipment. It took - three days to reach Qtie lake, camping out ftear Trail, at Union Creek nights on the route up, and at Whisky Creek and Trail on the way back, hours less than in the climb. I visited Crater Lieke nearly every year I lived S Medford until I left in 1919 and several times since. - Bryan was still cheerful de spite his political crucifixion, not on a "cross of gold," but on a cross of peace, with a "crown of thorns" pressed down upon his brow. And he later sent each of his three hosts auto graphed copies of his books. New Library Hours Scheduled To Start On September 19 New hours at the Medford Public library will go into effect on Monday, Sept. 19, it was an nounced' today by Miss Helen WetSter, librarian. The changes were ordered by the library board, she sajd, and are' for the purpose of providing staff members with more time to process and put on the shelves books now on hand.' Under the new , hours, the main library will open at 10 ajn. instead of 9 ajn., and the children's department will open at noon. There will be no change in the closing hours. Budget Reduced - Miss Webster pointed out that the library budget was re duced : by $1,000 when voters last July disapproved an in crease in the city's over-all bud get. This cut makes it impos sible to put sufficient personnel on book-processing, she said, un less money set aside for the pur chase of new books were to be used for this purpose. The librarian said she and the board believe patrons of the li brary would prefer the slight curtailment , of hours, rather than any reduction "in the pur chase of new books. The change will free library personnel from desk duty for the period when the library is least used, she said, allowing them to devote full time to catalog and process the books for use. , Plan Endorsed Miss Webster, who attended the Pacific Northwest Library association convention at Gear hart, Ore., last week, stopped in Salem on her way back and con ferred with Miss Eleanor Steph ens, state librarian, and mem bers of the staff, who endorsed the decision to change the. hours. Grandparents of Five i Are Free-Lance Clowns I Columbus City, la. (U.R) Roy and Joy Thomas, grandpar ents 'of five, are ' proof that yotfre never too od - to be a clown. - - . - , - ' The couple has toured the United States, Canada, Mexico and Hawaii in their trailer as free-lance clowns and love their way of life. ". ' ' , Roy and , Joy, who are 59, have been clowns for about 20 years but have been in show joined a tumbling act when fie was nine years old. He trained Joy as a tumbler after they met here and married. V j i Ik naroia onoagrass DIRECTORS ft
