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e O FOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MnFQG0)2TRZBUfI "Everybody In Southern Orecon Reads Th Mail Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. TT-M North Fir St Phone 2S11 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertilint Manager K C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AXXEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a second claw matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy Wo. DaUy find Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six month 6.50 DaUy and Sunday Three mos 3 JO Sunday Only One year 350 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point p4e Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: .,nn Daily and Sunday One year 15.00 Daily and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance fnrta'Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County iTnltrf Press Full Leased wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU AffiT?W. INC. Offices to New York. Chicaeo De troit. San Francisco. Los Aes. Seattle, Portland. St Louis. Atlanta. Vaneqsrver. B.C. . NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASlpClrATll04N Z7 NIWSPAMt CsOCIATIt 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. 9, 1945 m woe Sunday) TutvAtnrA nicked for 1946 American Legion state conven tion site. From3 Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The morn ings have been quite nippy. The frott is not yet on the pump kins, but they are no longer sweating. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 9,1935 at was Monday) nM.n nlante to run nlChtS rai.iuu6 " - - to clear pears tintil peak of sea si son is passed. Huey Long assassinated in Louisiana state capitol. SO YEARS AGO e Sept. 9, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Owen Oregon Lumber com pany announces plans for $500, OoO expansion of local plant. Pear crop will total 1,600 oars, estimated. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 9, 1915 (It was Wednesday) The street department over watered roads to the county fair, were dusty, now muddy. County fair officially opens this afternoon. What's the Answer? G Can You Gat 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S. Editorial Resaaich Report 1. The U.S. population, at its present rate of increase, will double in 30, w, ou, ou or u years? 2. People are bitten by the male or female mosquito, or by each? 3. The Speaker of the House of Representatives is or isn't one of s regularly elected mem- bers? 4. Did the coronation of the present Duke of Windsor as king of Great Britain ever take place? 5. The present flexibility in farmQ. price supports does or doesnH apply to the tobacco crop? 6. The "City of Magnificent Distance" is Paris, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, Rome, Washing to nor Moscow? 7. What well-known baseball player became more famous as a religious revivalist? The Answers: 1. 40 years. 2, Female. 3. Is. 4. No. 5. Doten't 6. Washington. 7. Billy Sunday Mario Lanza Named In Las Vegas Suit Hollywood (U.R) A Las Vegas resort hotel has accused sineer Mario Lanza in a $124.' 970.56 damaee suit with failure to perform at its reopening last Anril because 'of "stage fright" The New Frontier Hotel charged in its suit filed yester day that Lanza failed to go on even though he was under a $100,000 contract for a two-week stint singing at the refurbished casino-hotel. ' ' " The hotel asked $100,000 for "loss of good will and profits" and the balance for the singer's anri those of his en tourage at the hotel for a week? prior to. the opening. General Motors has 127 plants in the United States. MAIL TRIBUNE Lesson From Fires Some valuable lessons have been learned from the near-disastrous fires of the past week. Lesson No. 1 is that the fire-fighting organiza tions of the area know their job and do it well These include the. state forestry department, the forest service, and the rural departments. Lesson No. 2 is that, when the chips are down in a bad fire situation, the lumber, industry "goes all out into the battle, cooperating magnificently with the agencies charged by law with the responsibility for getting the fires out. , , . Lesson No. 3 is that anxiety to be of help, a praiseworthy trait, can sometimes lead to confusion, wasted energy and embarrassment. THE lines of responsibility for fighting forest and range fires are clearly understood' by the agencies involved. The state forestry department's southwest Oregon district (known locally as the "state forest patrol"), generally speaking has the job of fighting fires in lower elevations, both private and government owned. The forest service, also generally speaking, is re sponsible for fires in higher elevations. With inter mixed ownerships, lines of responsibility have been laid out so that in some cases one agency has re sponsibility for another's land, and vice versa. The rural fire departments, again generally speak ing, have their job on the valley floor, in areas where homes and farms are in sufficient numbers to permit tax support of a fire department. e IN THE anxious hours of last Monday and Tuesday, when an explosively dangerous situation was "blowing up," and new fires were being reported by the minute, there was no confusion as to who was going to do what. Crews were dispatched in an order ly manner, and the available firefighters were appor tioned where they would do the most good. This brings us to Lesson had nothing but praise for the way logging and lum ber firms threw everything they had manpower and equipmentr-at the blazes in cooperation with the directing agencies. The cooperating companies ranged from the small est to the largest. Many of them shut down, and put plant personnel on the fire lines; others curtailed op erations and made the freed workers available to the men directing the fight. Even before the official came from Salem, there were few loggers at work except on the fire lines, and by mid-week more than 1,000 lumber industry workers were cutting snags, building firebreaks, tackling spot' fires, and doing .-a .- i ,n " 1 1 1 1 the thousand ana one otner a raging fire. As for the men themselves, who did the dirty, tough and wearying job their spirit and their cooperation were "tops." As anyone who has fought fire can tell you, it's about the roughest work there is. plainipgly, cheerfully, in helpfulness. e) a) I ESSON No. 3 is a less happy one, but is important " for the future. It arose from a desire to do some thing helpful, combined with a lack of knowledge as to what was needed and how to go about it. It resulted in men and equipment going to the wrong places, in a duplication of effort, of a responsibility for what, and things straightened out. In a situation such as this, the regularly-constituted authorities, who are used to working in emer gency situations, such as the forest patrol, the forest service, the fire departments, the state police, the sheriff's office, know what to do and how to do it. If they need help, they'll ask for it. Volunteered help is welcome if it is channeled where it will do good. Otherwise, however laudable the purpose, it's just a nuisance. E.A. Autumn Is Near Every year about this time we begin to keep a sharp eye on the editorials in Oregon's daily news papers to detect the first mention of approaching autumn, for autumn is one of our favorite seasons. We happily spotted that first mention this week, in the Grants Pass Courier. 'IXT'HILE the Grants Pass paper nods at fall's im minence by mentioning that schools there are in session, that plans are being made for the world series, that youngsters are donning football togs and that the tourist season is waning, its principal subject is the return to regular TV programming, getting away from the summertime repeats. : ...,',.. While we share the Courier's pleasure at the re turn of fresh programs in place of the reruns, our own enthusiasm for fall partakes more of an un ashamed joy in some of the esthetic aspects of au tumn. - 1XE LOOK forward to the end of forest fire danger; to the smell of burning leaves, to the. crisp, cool mornings when frost whitens the lawns and roofs. We like the idea of again being greeted by a blaz ing fire on the hearth when we return from work. Lawns will grow more slowly, and the crabgrass will vanish gradually. And after a summer of sports shirted casualness, it will feel good to wear a jacket again. .- - Judging by the fresh, tangy smell in the early morning, it won't be long, either. E. A. : Friday, September 9, 1955 No. 2-f or those involved order closing the woods tmngs neeaea to contain of manning the firelines, These men did it uncom- a spirit of good will and . doubt about who had the a loss of time in getting Babson ; . . By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) Readers do not need to go to Colorado and hunt for gold or uranium. There is a surer way to make money in your own c o m m u n ity. Let me ex plain how to do so. As readers know, my fam ily is heavily interested i n tt w. Bsbssa. the 450 retail "Dime Stores" controlled by the United Stores, Corporation, the By FRANK JENKINS There's trouble in the Middle East the powderkeg of the an cient world. The Israelis and the Arabs are at each other's throat knifing and ambushing and pot-shotting after the manner of the Hat- fields and the McCoys in their palmiest feuding days. After 30 years of deliberate and determined effort to get along with each other, the Greeks and the. Turks are spat ting like cats and dogs and swapping pot-shots from time to time. In Istanbul (Constanti nople) and Izmir, Turkey's two largest cities, both with big Greek populations, there have been nasty riots in the past week. Property damage in these riots is estimated in the millions of dollars. . The situation is complicated by Britain's big military base island of Cyprus, which sits stra tegically in the very middle of the middle of the Middle East. Britain wants (and apparently proposes) to hang onto it. Both the Greeks and the Turks are prodding Britain to let go of it. The Greeks want Cyprus to be GREEK and the Turks want it to be TURKISH. All in all, it's a mess. IVHAT'S cooking? IT Well, when there's trouble loose that can's seem to be iso lated and identified and cata logued, the cynical French shrug their shoulders and mutter "Cherchez la femme." In similar situations, we fall back on a pro verb: "Look for the Ethiopian in the woodpile." How about coining a, proverb to fit this particular modern case: ' LOOK FOR THE HIDDEN COMMUNISTS! rfiHERE have been some ugly rumors about the Russians slipping guns to both the Israelis and the Arabs. There, are hints that outbreaks by mobs of Young Turks have been at the bottom of the riots in Istanbul and Iz mir and that thew Young Turks are Communist inspired. In a world filled with happi ness and peace and well being, Communism wouldn't have as much chance of survival as a snowbaU in the Bad Place. Com munism thrives on ruckuses. Where there- are none, it stirs them up. TACK to the U.S.A.: The department of agricul ture is offering special distress PRICE SUPPORT loans orf 1955 crop grain sorghums, similar to the loans offered on wheat. The loans will be on sorghums stored in temporary structures, or on the ground if regular stor age facilities are not available for the record sorghum crop. T'D SAY offhand the idea is OK IF ! ! ! The IF is whether or not the "price support" loans will KEEP THE SURPLUS SORGHUMS FROM BEING. CONSUMED. As I see it, whatever keeps foods and feeds FROM BEING CONSUMED is bound to be bad in the long run. Their job is to be consumed, ' That's what we grow them for. THE grain sorghums are live- -- stock feeds of growing im portance. A new hybrid has just been developed that bids fair to do for grain sorghums ;what Hy brid varieties have done for corn. Department of agriculture scientists say it INCREASES YIELDS by 20 to 40 per cent. The livestock industry, which has stood on its own feet and asked no subsidies, could USE CHEAPER FEEDS in these days. In fact, that is its greatest pres ent need. The livestock industry will get no benefit from grain sor ghums that are stashed away in storage to keep the price up. T ET'S close this piece, on a - lighter note: It was disclosed in Hollywood that Comedian Roscoe Ates was given hospital treatment for cuts, bruises and BITES presum ably inflicted on him during a fight with his fiancee, Sandy Reeves. Police said Ates told them Miss Reeves wielded a SPIKE-HEELED shoe during the battle. Neither she nor Ates would say what effect the fight might have on their wedding plans. TJEOPLE are funny, and you never can tell about 'em. - Maybe Ates and his bride-to- be would just love to look for ward to a long series of battles ft Ms In the Day's Hews Uike last night's. Real Estate stocks of which I like to recom mend. In view thereof, I have been looking at new shopping centers this summer in connec tion with my vacation. These new developments have their usefulness due to "downtown" city parking difficulties. These shopping centers will continue to be patronized by people liv ing in their neighborhoods. Many people who are now driving some miles to reach a new shopping center may soon get tired of it. Too many ac cidents are happening on the way to "and from the shopping center. But this is not. all. Ow ing to the high rents and high wage-scales of the new shopping center stores, they must charge more for their merchandise than do the downtown city stores. Be sides, the stocks of the latter are larger. Therefore, no downtown merchant should sign up for a new shopping center too hastily. Interesting Discovery In every city which I have visited there is pressure to ex pand the areas zoned for busi ness. These local fights are a headache to the city officials. Those outside the areas are anx ious for the "business zones" to be increased; but after getting into such a zone, these same peo ple are selfishly fighting to keep others out. As a result of this pressure, the price of residential property near a business zone gradually rises. It soon becomes so ex pensive that residential building thereon is retarded. This is bad for the city. A growing, city needs active real estate develop ers, who should be encouraged. Some day this "fringe land" will be zoned for business. . Therefore, it is now usually a good real estate speculation. In fact, readers will be interested in comparing . already the "bid prices" for some of this fringe property with the city's assess ment thereof. This shows what developers think of it. Let me add that such a comparison should be especially helpful to present property owners in pre venting their land from being "stolen" from them by speculat ors who do keep posted. How to Speculate - Instead of spending time read' ing the stock market or studying charts, I advise you to read your city's. zoning laws and study its zoning map. If your building inspector cannot give you such a map, -buy a small map of your city and copy thereon the differ ent shaded areas from the big map which the official has on the wall of his office. Watch the official advertise ments in your daily newspapers of appeal board hearings on re quests to change any zoning areas. Attend all hearings which are hefd by appeal or planning boards and note their recom mendations. From these hear ings and : the action which the city fathers finally take, you can get a good idea of. what real estate price changes will occur. Above all, read the reports of these hearings and the real estate news in your local newspaper, which can become a gold mine to you. A Safe Forecast The residential section of every, city is growing fastest and best in some one direction. It may be East or West, North or South. Find out for a cer tainty in which direction the best houses of your city are be ing built. Then confine your speculations to this one direction. The shopping area is probably going opt that way too. Aa ex clusive 'industrial area is grow ing in another direction, and this offers some good speculations. But invest no money where the two or more groups are mixed. I forecast that the "best buys" are at the fringe of the different zoning areas, where some resi dential property is -likely to be turned into business property. Remember that business prop erty sells the highest per square foot; residential property second; and industrial last. All of these areas usually sell for more than unzoned property. Land on the fringes of these zones increases in" price" more rapidly than "in side" locations. One more thought: Do not own too much land at any' time." It is as im portant to sell' and take profits as tor"buy right." Author Engstrand Drowns in Lake -Los Angeles (U.R) Author Stuart Engstrand, who wrote the best-selilng novels, "The Sling and the Arrow" and "Beyond the Forest," drowned by walking into MacArthur Lake, police re ported today. Officers said witnesses told them the 60-year-old author waded into the lake yesterday, ignoring the pleas of horrified spectators. Engstrand's body was identified by his wife, Sophia. . The author also wrote the novel "Son of the Giant." Most of his novels were about human abnormalities. He lived in near by Beverly Hills. TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Phone 2-4100 Mf" 'nhiinan iili n - in- Who am I? ' Few mammals are more active than I. Even if my prey be five times as large, I do not hesitate to attack. My young are born with eyes sealed, pink skin, and a silk white -coat. At play, we may turn perfect somersaults. THAT- SO' Leave me but a short time in the hot sun, and I'll go into con vulsions. At 12 weeks, the male offspring may be larger than the mother. In search of food, I may trav el several miles a night but I seldom work an area exceeding 15 acres. I am a good swimmer and climb trees but I live main ly on the ground. My body is slender, my legs short and powerful. My head is small, neck long, eyes beady and ears rounded. I hear phenomen ally well.' Young are wearied shortly after their eyes are open, say from five to six weeks and then eat almost half their owi weight in red meat in a day, I can enter the burrow of a mead ow mouse. Without exception, I am the the most blood thirsty, 'relent less slayer among small mam mals. I have been known to kill a whole colony of rats before eating a bite of my hard-earn- repast. My murdering equipment is superlative; " a coordinated bundle of taut nerves, strong muscles, and sharp teeth backed by fearlessness. In a flash, I can outmaneuver a rat, grabbing at a lethal spot on his throat. I seldom live more than eight years. As days grow shorter, the best known member of my fam ily changes his back color from a summer coat of brown to a pure white coat with the ex ception of the end of the tail which inexplicably remains black. Relentless killer of mice, rats moles, rabbits and occasionally poultry, I seldom eat all that I kill. My favorite drink is warm blood sucked from the base of the skull. My adult length is around eight inches. I am: A. Badger, B. Mink, C. Skunk, D. Weasel, E. Shrew. I am (D) a weasel. (Released by McCIure News paper 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 your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, P.O. Box 575, Sausal ito, Calif. Japan Invites Study By Tuna Survey Team Los Angeles (U.R) A pro posal by representatives of the Japanese tuna industry to send a U.S. survey team representing fish canners and fishermen to Japan to study the surplus tuna problem was considered today by West Coast canners. The proposal was advanced at the second day of conferences between the Japanese delegation and the U.S. tuna operators. It was favored "in principle" by the U.S. spokesmen but they pointed out that permission would have to be obtained from their organizations after costs of such a survey were determined. The U.S. group earlier had recommended a fund be set up to advertise tuna in the Ameri can market and increase the sale sufficiently to take care of both American and Japanese catches. In the past six years, tree planting in the United States has increased 133 per cent. BassssssssssssssBBsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssH '- -2 31 EAST SIXTH 5T. '. : JOWL BEEF SLICED BEEF BACON ROAST BACON STEAK '2'3'u, 1 291 Lt. I Wv. Red China, Russian Decision To Release Yanks Headlines News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD ' 1. The general relaxation of West-East tension bore fruit when Red China and Red Russia decided toree some Ameri cans long held captive. After five weeks of negotiation by United' States and Chinese representatives in Geneva, the Chinese an nounced they would release Charles McCann 12 ABte riCan civilians, including four women and two young girls. The Rus sians freed two American sol diers whom they had held pri soner for more than seven years. Negotiations continued in Ge neva for the release of an addi tional 29 Americans held - in China. . 2. Tough old West German Chancelolr Konrad Adenauer flew to Moscow to discuss, at Russia's invitation, the establish ment of normal diplomatic, trade and cultural relations. "My ob ject is to serve peace, not only in Europe but in the whole world," Adenauer said on his departure, He planned to ask the Russians about the unity of Germany, and the restoration of the rich Ger man territory east of the Oder Neisse rivers line now held by Communist Poland. Allied gov ernments were . confident that whatever happened, Adenauer's close cooperation with the West would not be weakened. '3. The United States, in a new Killer Heat Wave In So. California Appears Ended Los Angeles (U.R) South ern California's "killer" heat wave, blamed for 100 deaths and an estimated $25,000,000 dam age to agriculture, appeared end ed today as temperatures drop ped steadily. - In Los Angeles yesterday, the mercury failed to cross 100 de grees for the first time in nine days of the scorching heat siege, rising to a high of 96. A high of 90 was forecast for the city to day. However, Southern Califor nia's heat-weary millions hardly noticed yesterday's drop In tem perature because ' of relatively high humidity which made it one of the more uncomfortable days of the hot spell. Yesterday's drop below 100 degrees came on the ninth day of the wave of unseasonable heat. The temperature soared to an all-time high of 110 degrees in Los Angeles last Thursday. The heat spell also set a new record for sustained 100-degree or better temperatures which lasted until yesterday's break. The coroner's office reported that some 400 persons have died in the county during the heat wave, about double the normal' death rate for a nine-day period. It was believed that the heat hastened many of these deaths, which were listed as "normal." But even with temperatures dropping, the weather bureau re fused to predict when the heat wave would definitely break. MAKE A PROFIT that's worth while. Have ex tra dollars in your billfold later . . . by putting savings to work with us. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS A LOAN ASSW . of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Ta These Wee Save 0 attempt to put disarmament ne gotiations on a business basis. called in the United Nations for new study of the whole ques tion of inspection and control of both nuclear and conventional weapons. Russia's refusal to per mit real inspection of its nuclear weapons installations has long been an obstacle to agreement. There was some surprise when news came. from Moscow that United States Ambassador Char les E. Bohlen and 10 other for eign envoys had been taken on a visit to a peaceful. Russian atomic installation, a power plant. - THE BAD I. The demand of Greece for the strategically important Med iterranean island of Cyprus re sulted in anti-Greek riots in Tur key. Martial -law was declared in three Turkish cities. Greece wants the island because its peo ple are largely Greeks. But Brit ain has held it since 1878 and Turkey owned it - previously. Greece' itself never possessed it. If Britain gives it up,' Turkey wants it. In London, a British- Greek-Turkish conference on Cyprus broke, up without agree ment. In Paris, the. North At lantic .Treaty Council, of which all three countries are members, met to consider the situation. 2. French Premier Edgar Faure sought urgently to work " out an agreement for limited home rule for the North African protectorate of Morocco -before Monday, the deadline he has set for himself. But he has met vio lent opposition in his own cabi net and his position is dangerous. 3. The explosire situation be tween Egypt and Israel in Pales tine was taken up by the U.N. Security Council. Truce Super visor Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada proposed a demili tarized zone to prevent clashes on the frontier of Israel and the Egyptian-held Gaza area. Israel reported that Jordan was con centrating armored and artillery forces on the Israel-Jordan fron tier. . ' ' . GOLDEN GUERNSEY Homogenized MILK You'll enjoy the " special flavor of . " GOLDEN GUERNSEY . Homogenized Milk. More protein, vitamins. minerals for your family, too and it's ! mere digestible! ORDER COiOENOUEXrtsCY HOMOGENIZED MILK NOW! GOLDEN GUERNSEY llcr.ogcizcd ULK
