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0 o FOUR MTDFORD (OREGON) UXI Tfcrerybodj In Southern Ortfa Read The Mail Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. T-a North rir St. Phone 2-SM1 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor rRB GREY. Advertialns Manager C FIRGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper "Entered as second daai matter at Medford. Oreapn, under Act ol March 3, 1B97 SUBSCRIPTION RATXi By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. SJO Sunday Only One year 3J0 Br Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Tant. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday One month ja GCarrier and Dealers 6c per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance WBclal Paper of the City of M.dford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIJ&AY COMPANY. INC. Offices tn ew xor. r troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver, p.v.. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION NIWSPAMt pUBlltMllf ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1945 (It was Wednesday) Stores sold out of cords and Jeans, no clothes to wear back to school. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a few are wearing large colored glasses in our midst. Some are from Hollywood, and some are getting ready to go to the Uni versity of Oregon. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1935 (It was Thursday) Ernie Nevers, Stanford coach, (Visiting in Medford. Architect predicts next year to be best for valley building in (long time. 80 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1925 (It was Saturday) Post office lobby to be left open until 4:45 a.m. instead of closing at 9:30 p.m. Local man arrested for posses sing moonshine in Riverside apt. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 12, 1915 Bears reported in hill districts, fat as hogs, getting ready for winter hibernation. Huge crowds attend county fair. . What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Revert 1. The idea for a U. S. Labor Day came in 1882 from a Euro pean Socialist, Chicago tailor, N. Y. carpenter, state governor or the U. S. Labor Department? 2. Donets Basin, great indus trial area, is in Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, West German, or Belgium? 3. Net operating costs of U.N, come to about one, 10, 20, 30 or 40 million dollars a year? 4. The Aramaic tongue spoken by Jesus and His Disciples has or hasn't died out in Asia Minor in every form? v 5. Of all U. S. females over the age of 13, about one-fourth, one-third, one-half, or two-thirds have no cash income of their own? , . ' . 6. Sinn Fein is an active poli tical movement today in South Africa, Argentina, Spain, South Ireland or North Ireland? 7. Rose Louise Hovic is better known as ? The Answers: 1. N. Y. carpen ter (P. J. McGuire). 2. Russia. 3. About S40.000.000 (budget for 1956). 4. Hasn't quite died out. 5. About one-half. 6. North Ire land. 7. Gypsy Rose Lee. Electric 'leaf Insures Plenty of. Plant Water Ithica, N.Y. (U.R5 A Cornell University scientist has devised an electronic "leaf 'to make sure" young greenhouse plants get enough water. Charles Hess.a research fellow 0n the CorneU floriculture de partment, said the leaf is a piece (-of plastic with two small carbon rods attached. , oPlaced among the plants and hooked to an electric circuit, it automatically turns . a "mjst" watering system on and off. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. r K MAIL TRIBUNE How We Stack Up A rather difficult survey job, covering factors im portant to industries deciding on a location for a new plant, recently was completed by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. The job was difficult due to lack of uniformity in reports on water rates, tax rates, electric rates, land prices and wage rates. But the figures, which have been compiled in report form, seem to indicate that Medford compares favorably with other cities which provided information. A questionnaire was mailed to 26 Pacific Coast cities and 18, a remarkably high number, complied with the request for information. The survey was undertaken on the assumption that if several communities were competing for an industry, and were equal in matters of raw material, markets and transportation, the factors covered in the survey might well tip the scales one way or the other. As is pointed out in the report, "The comparison can only be approximate . . . nevertheless it does give us a rough idea of Medford's standing with regard to cost factors involving the location of an industry." see fN water rates, the Medford cost inside the city lim its, both for lower volume and for high - volume use, was the lowest of any of the 18 cities. Rates out side the city limits are about half way between the lowest and highest charged in the low-volume cate gory, and in the high-volume bracket the rate is one of the four lowest Electric rates also show Medford to be in a gener ally favorable position. Only two communities have a lower rate for industries with a high maximum der mand and a substantial monthly use. Six communities have lower rates than Medford for industries with a large monthly usage. The report says the Medford rate compares favorably for industries using average power volumes, but that rates here are among the highest for industries using relatively small amounts of power. IN the survey of property taxation, an attempt was 1 made to compare property tax rates per $100 of assessed valuation, but the figures are more or less inconclusive due to different systems of computing taxes. . Generally, however, Medford seemed to rate a favorable position in comparison with other coastal communities, the report said. The rate here is about $6.82, with eight of the eighteen reporting cities hav ing somewhat lower rates, and ten higher. In wage rates, Medford was pretty much in the median class, with some cities having higher levels, some lower. As to availability of industrial sites, Med ford has them, but it suffers, in some instances, from the lack of water and sewer facilities. Other commun ities have sites, complete with water, sewer and rail road facilities, available at prices ranging from $500 per acre up to $50,000 per acre. e e a THE survey, while it does not jshow Medford as. a our favorable factors, and is in the process of making thing to go on. The survey has attracted considerable attention, the chamber reports, with other chambers asking for copies, and asking questions about how it was done. It is a good example of what a chamber can do to make us more aware of our own advantages and drawbacks, for without such knowledge, we are somewhat at a loss in the keen competition for new industry. E.A. Miss America Plans To Continue Study For Career in Drama By HARMON W. NICHOLS United Press Correspondent Atlantic City, N. J. (U.R) The new Miss America, a lovely auburn haired 18-year-old from Colorado, says she cooks nice fudge cake and would like to continue the study of drama. And after she gets through the coming strenuous year, that is exactly what she has in mind. The new beauty queen, Sharon May Ritchie, already has a $5,000 scholarship and $7,500 in cash plus the promise of a car and many more prizes. Sharon is devoutly religious. She said a soft prayer on Satur day night of the finals that God would be on her side. The prayer was answered. Sister a Beauty Queen Beauty prizes are nothing new to her family. Her sister, Mrs. Merle Strever of Denver, was a runner-up in the Miss Universe contest this year. Sharon is an Ail-American girL She has poise and she has a sense of humor. At her first press conference, the photographers were wearing her out. Sharon had been up all night at the Queen's Ball. Well, one lensman started to shoot and his speed gun took a bad turn. Sharon looked the photog square in the eye and said: "I'm so homely, I broke that poor guy's camera." Sharon of course was just kid ding. Raised in Nebraska The young lady from Denver, who was born and raised in Monday, September 12. 1953 gives an industry which a location-decision some Nebraska, has what the sponsors to the Miss America ordered. She is five feet six inches tall, and weighs 116 pounds. Her bust is 35, and she has hip measure ments to match. She is 23 around the waist. She wears a size 74 shoe, and the size of the dress is 10. The glove size is six and the color of the eyes are blue. Miss Oregon, Dorothy John son, took second place in the beauty parade and Miss Chicago, Florence Gallagher, was third. Clara Faye Arnold, Miss North Carolina, was fourth and Ann Campbell, Miss Oklahoma, was fifth. The other five finalists were Miss Alabama, Patricia Huddle ston; Miss Arizona, Beth Andre; Miss Florida, Sandra Wirth; Miss Hawaii, Barbara Mamo Vieira, and Miss Massachusetts, Virginia Maffucci. Youth Hurl When Thrown From Cycle Salem -flJ.R) Tom BeiseU, 21, suffered head . injuries and a broken left leg when he was thrown from his mount in a nov ice motorcycle race at the State Fairgrounds here yesterday, and was reported in a semi-conscious condition at Salem General hos pital today. Lloyd Stanton, 25, of Everett, Wash., suffered a broken collar bone when his motorcycle hit Beisell and went out of control. Stanton was released after being treated at the hospital. Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop CAN THE BRITISH KEEP THEIR CAKE? London Since the war the British have developed a habit, by now almost as ingrained as tea or fish and chips, of hav ing an econom ic crisis every odd year. They are having one now. Its out come will de termine wheth er a nation especially a na tion like Brit ain, which is Stewart Alsop absolutely de pendent on exports can have its cake and eat it too. Ever since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the British have been having their cake and eating it and very good it has tasted too, thank you. There is no unemployment here at all. On the contrary, jobs are going begging, in mines, in offices and elsewhere. This in turn has given the labor unions an unchallenge able bargaining position and wages have gone up and up. At the same time, business has In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign problems stuff; West German Chancellor Ad enauer opened talks with Rus sian leaders in Moscow by call ing for the release of German war prisoners still held in the Soviet Union. He declared: . "It is unthinkable to establish normal relations between our states so long as this question remains unsolved." WHEN the war ended TEN " YEARS AGO these Ger man war prisoners of the Rus sians. CIVILIZED warfare calls for the release of prisoners of war when war ends. The Russians kept them. Kept them at forced labor. Kept them, that is, AS SLAVES. A DENAUER is right 'There was a time in the world when captives were re garded as war booty and were forced into slavery. That time is past. I hope Adenauer stands pat TTOME front stuff: Confidential Magazine has been barred from the mails. This was disclosed when the publi cation asked a federal district court for an order requiring the post office department to lift the ban. The magazine, which pur ports to give the inside story on events and persons of prom inence or notoriety, says in its suit that the post office depart ment order was sent out with out Informing the magazine of its issuance, without giving any grounds for holding up its mail ing without" any hearing. COMMENT? Well, I don't think much of government censorship. BUT I DON'T THINK MUCH OF THESE KEYHOLE-PEEPING SCANDAL SHEETS. They cater to the worst in hu man nature. fN the business front, Dun and Bradstreet reports that shop pers increased their spending in the nation's retail stores. ' Gains were registered in both down town and suburban shopping centers. Total dollar volume of retail trade across the country ranged up to seven per cent higher than a year ago for the week that ended on September 7. npHE New York stock market turned higher - again after backing and filling in early trading. Rails led the advance ranging up to a point and more, with plus signs showing in most other sections and losses scat tered. ALSO on the business front, six'additional federal reserve banks boost their discount rates from' 2 per cent to 2V per cent. (The discount rate is the rate at which the federal reserve banks lend money to commercial banks, which in turn lend to bus iness men and others.) The federal reserve board ap proved theincreased rates in its effort to head off possible infla tion. . . . VlfHAT does that mean? It means that the Fed (meaning the federal reserve board) is SCARED OF TOO MUCH BOOM and is trying to hold things down. rriHE power of the federal re serve board to raise and lower the discount rate is part of our modern effort to bring about a mildly managed econ omy. A (mildly) managed economy works somewhat like driving a car. When more speed is needed, you push down on the throttle. When LESS speed is called for, you push down on the brake. When you see bad traffic or dangerous curves ahead, you slow down. On a - long, open straightway, with no dangers visible, you .speed up again. In that way, you AVOID WRECKS. ' been booming merrily, while the state has been spending immense sums, for defense and the social services. The result has, of course, been inflation of the pound; the real value of the pound has dropped about 30 per cent since the devaluation in 1949. In theory, all this should have led long since to the loss of Brit ain's competitive position in world markets, and to another great economic crisis. In fact, the current crisis is very weak tea indeed, at least for the pres ent, compared to the tremen dous, and world-shaking crises of 1947, 1949 and 1951. Chancel lor of the Exchequer R. A. But ler denies, indeed, that it is a crisis at all it is only a diffi culty which will soon be over come. The most important out ward and visible sign, of the cri sis or difficulty is the loss of something like $500,000,000 from the British gold and dol lar reserves in the last nine months. At the same time, small sinister whispers of a second de valuation have begun to be heard and the pound has shown signs of weakening on the world market. The crisis or difficulty is absolutely invisible, of course, to the ordinary British worker, enjoying a second glass of beer in iiis pub, on the best wages he has ever had; or even to the stockbroker, mulling over fu ture opportunities for profit over a gin and tonic in his club. But the crisis is very real to the responsible men in both par ties, and they are worrying more than they care to admit. TNDEED, it began worrying the - able Chancellor of the Ex chequer as early at last Febru ary, when he sharply raised the bank interest rate. This was sup posed to have the effect of rein ing in the current boom. Insteadj the boom broke into an excited gallop. At the end of July, But ler tightened the reins further by clamping down sharply on consumer credit. It remains to be -seen whether this will slow down the boom. What amazes the foreign visitor is the unanim ity of opinion here about the eco nomic problem. Butler is blamed by the Socialists not for clamp ing down, but for not clamping down hard enough or soon enough. It is remarkable, more over, to hear left wing Labor politicians echoing, in private, the equally private view of most Conservatives that the root of the trouble lies in over-employ ment. As long as jobs are going begging, there is no incentive for higher production; coal mines are left idle (Britain will soon stop all export of coal, caus ing consternation on the conti nent), and prices pace wages in in an unending spiral. Yet both Socialists and Con servatives are also amazingly optimistic for the long pull. La bor men repeat, almost like a litany, that the Labor Party is going to have to adjust its poli cies to the fact that mass unem ployment and mass poverty are things of the past. An able Con servative politician remarked that he was not really worried about the present economic trou bles because the last 10 years had proved that catastrophe could always be avoided by in telligent economic management by the state. This view, which is how very widely shared here, amounts to the conviction that Britain can have its cake and eat it too, provided the cake is eaten with prudence and intelli gence. There is an intellectual fashion in such matters. In the years immediately after the war it was fashionable here to say, with a very long face, that Brit ain could never again become a great power or even support its population the only solu tion was mass emigration. More recently, it was fashionable to say that even a relatively pain less recession in the United States would knock the whole British economy galley west. - TN FACT, Britain has not only recovered from the war, but carried a major rearmament pro gram as well, meanwhile feeding its population better than ever before. And it was during the American recession that the British boom really began to gather momentum. It is easy to see why optimism, at least for the long pull, has replaced pessimism as the intel lectual fashion here. One can only hope that the optimism is as justified as the pessimism was not. (Copyright, 195S, New York Herald. Tribune Inc.) Eugene Cyclists Injured in Crash Albany (U.R) Doctors at Albany hospital today listed the conditions of a pair of Eugene motorcyclists as "critical" fol lowing their collision with a car two miles north of Shedd, Ore. Pat Jean McKinley, 15, and Raymond Archie Davis, 37, both lost their left legs when the cycle on which they were riding and a car driven by William McDonald Cox of Jacksonville, Fla., sideswiped. State Police Officer Harold Kirby who saw the crash said both victims were hurled 100 feet after the car's fender sev ered their legs. The girl's arm ADA Takes Party Leaders Out To By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) A lively organization called Americans for Democratic : Action has just led some dig nified Demo cratic Party leaders to the woodshed for the customary u n dignified procedures as sociated with that particular outhouse. S omeone is Lyle C. Wilson sure to be embarrassed thereby because ADA is a power in the party. It is the political sparkplug of the radical or leftwing elements which more often than not fix major Democratic strategy. ADA regards itself as the heir and executor of FDR's . New By Sfav.f Did you know that . . . there are fish which can spend a good share of their life out of water. Several of these have air bladders with many thin blood vessels by means of which oxy- 5 gen is obtained from the air, Others such as the anabas, or climbing fish, have eavities in the head near the gills which serve the same purpose of pro viding the necessary quantity of oxygen from the air. All of these fish can climb on to river banks and travel across the country in search of food. There is another, the bommie which belongs to the goby fam ily which can climb trees and may spend as much as half of its time out of water lying on the branches of trees. This bommie, or mud-skipper of West Africa as it is better known, has pector al fins which are jointed like arms with gripping fingers.-. The only wild horse living to day is the Przhevalski s horse found near the Gobi Desert. Although birds have no exter nal ears they do have extremely good hearing. The openings to their internal ears are small holes behind the eyes. In the owl, which has exceptional hear ing, the opening is exceedingly large. Poisonous Snakes . Among the most ' poisonous snakes in the world are the f er- de-lance and the bushmaster both south of the United States in Central and South America. Both are pit vipers and related to the rattlesnake. ' The fer-de-lance is six feet long and will not hesitate to strike when molested. The bushmaster, more aggressive, is said to follow and attack men It reaches a length of 12 feet and its venom is deadly. As far as I know, no zoo has a bush master in captivity; it refuses to eat in captivity and dies quite quickly. It has long been thought that the cougar which is well repre sented in the far west was ex tinct in the Eastern United States. However, they are nowi being seen again in the Carolinas and other seaboard states. It is not known whether they came back from the West or whether a few were able to remain hid den and propagate through two or three generations. (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 ad dress your letter to: IS THAT SO! care of Medford Mail Trib une, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Three Brothers Believe In Doing Same Things Carbondale, Dl U.R The Noeth brothers Fred, Ted and Tom of Granite City, DL, be lieve in doing things together. They all served in the Army, all became coal dealers, all gave up busines sto become school teach ers, and, to become school teach ers, enrolled together at South ern Illinois University. Now they are taking the same courses in SIU's graduate school and all are honor students. . . ' tff I XL WMJi.tHiMeai,!,.,! . E .. - was broken and Davis suffered serious cuts. 1 Some Dignified Demo Deal. Practical politicians know ADA is part of the leftwing coalition which can and does for bid the Democratic Party to nominate for President of the United States any Democrat of so-called conservative inclina tions. Represents Substantial Minority ADA regards itself as organ izational spokesman for inde pendent liberalism in American politics. More precisely, it rep resents substantial minority in terests in vital political states without some of which no man can hope to be elected president. Among these are New York, California and Michigan, but ADA influence extends more or less through all 48 states and will tend to increase as the vot ing right is more widely granted to Negroes in the South. So long as the present Elec toral College system prevails, ADA and other well-directed minority groups will continue to exert political influence con siderably in excess of anything suggested by the number of dues-contributing members. That is because the current Electoral College system is an all-or-noth ing device, a kind of lifte-or- death verdict with no choice in between. Therefore, ADA is and wiU Visit of King Paul With President Tito Sign of New Times By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It certainly is a sign of new, strange times when a king pays a state visit to a Communist President. That hap pened last week when King Paul I of Greece went to Belgrade to be the guest of President Tito of Yugoslavia. Tall, hand some Paul de scends from a Charles Mccano long line OI monarchs. Tito,, compact and dynamic, was for years a pro fessional revolutionist He was trained in Russia. .. Further, only a few years ego Tito was actively supporting the Greek guerrillas who made a Damage Estimated In Refinery Blast Whiting, Ind. U.R) Standard Oil Co. of Indiana officials to day estimated that a fire touched off by the second explosion in two weeks at the Whiting Refin ery caused $50,000 to $100,000 damage. The second blast and blaze burned itself out Sunday after destroying a block-long, three- story oil filtering plant and dam aging another building. The Aug. 27 explosion and fire killed two persons, injured 44, raged out of control for 36 hours, and damaged more than $10,000,000 worth of property.' Seven persons received minor injuries when Sunday's explo sion blew the roof off the filter ing building and started the fire. The blaze lasted for 15 hours and spread to another three story building in the plant be fore it burned itself out. SECRET OF PINK SKUNK Southport, N. C. (U.R) Zoolo gists gave up a search for a rare pink skunk when a workman revealed ' the animal's beauty secret. The workman said he was accosted by the skunk in a room he was about to paint and used his spray gun loaded with pink paint to chase the animal away. IP Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES o , In every price range Woodshed continue to be a real power by reason of its veto powers within the Democratic Party on ; the presidency and on some other high offices. That is why ADA'S punishment of some Democratic congressional leaders seems im portant as a new presidential year approaches. ADA Slights Leaders In an analysis of the first ses sion of the 84th Congress, ADA has published some facts and findings which sound ap left wing cheers for Congress two top Democrats, Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) and Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, likewise a Texan. Both, by implication, ere ac cused of maneuvering to prevent open discussion and votes on im portant legislation. ADA has kind words for what it terms the Democratic leadership of the House. But ADA defines that to mean Democratic House Lead er John W. McCormack (Mass.) and Rep. Carl Albert (D-Okla.), the Democratic House whip. The report mentions Rayburn only to accuse him of personally ramming through natural gas legislation which wiU severely penalize consumers. Johnson was not named, but he was fin gered as the "pro-oil and gas" leader of Senate Democrats. determined attempt to over throw King Paul. But Paul and Tito are realists. Their countries are now linked in the Greek-Yugoslav-Turkish Balkan Alliance. King and Communist They got along very well to gether, the King and the Com munist Relations between Greece and Yugoslavia were further improved. The wives got along well to gether also Queen Frederika and Mrs. Tito. The queen, pretty, chestnut haired, descends like her hus band from centuries of royalty. Mrs. Tito, tall and handsome, fought as one of Tito's parti sans" against the Germans in World . War. II. At the time of her marriage in 1952 she was Maj. Jovanko Budisavljevis of the Yugoslav regular army. During their stay in Belgrade, King Paul and Queen Frederika stayed at the "Old Palace" in Belgrade, once the home of Yu goslav monarchs. Tito himself uses . the ' "White" palace. That one was occupied by King Peter, whom Tito ousted from the throne. ' - - 1 Tito first crashed the barrier between Communism and royal ty in 1953. Tito in London That was when he visited Lon don at the invitation of Winston Churchill, then prime minister of Britain, and was received by Queen Elizabeth II. But then Tito was the guest of the British government not the Queen. Paul and Frederika were the personal guests of Mar shal and Mrs. Tito. . - , Tito, long at odds with the Kremlin, is now linked with both. West and East. The Yugoslav-Greek-Turkish Alliance, at the time it was con cluded, was' aimed against Rus sian aggression. Now, relations between Tito and the Kremlin have been patched up though not very lirmly sine the re cent visit to Belgrade of Rus sia's Premier Nikolai A. Bul- ganin and Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev. Tito is to visit Moscow soon. But Tito also maintains his ties with the West Just before King Paul and Queen Frederika arrived in Belgrade, he asked the United States for $40,500,000 worth of additional aid. O O
