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e roim MroroRD (Oregon) UNI "Xrerybody in Southern Oregon Heads mi Jim Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by HEDFORO PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-811 HERB GREY Advertisinc; Manager X. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor EHIC l Jit- tiry tmior HARRT CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of Biarcn a. io SUBSCRIPTION RATES ft . -11 T Dm Anw Irt Daily and Sunday One year f 12.00 J c.nv Civ mrnilhl flJSO J aiiu Duuuaj " - Daily and Sunday Three mot. 3.30 c Sunday only one year By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, central iouii. ugic rouu, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 juaiiy ana sunasy vne wuuw. ? Carrier and Dealers 5o per copy. e Ail Terms i.asn in Mva CfflcUl Paper of the City of Medford wnciai raper pi " United Press "Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. trolt. San Francisco. Los Argeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. 0, Vaneenver NATIONAL EDITORIAL Iassocu'on r7 v- NIWSPAPIl ASIOCIATIO Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1945 (It was Sunday) Medford ice arena to open Nov. 1. From Arthur Perry'. Ye Smudge Pot column: Reports continue to come in, Herr Hitler of Germany is still alive. He has been rumored as Riding every place on earth, except in the timber east of Butte Falls. si 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1935 (It was Monday) . William (Bill) Hanley, the "Sage of Harney County" and 0 well known cattle baron, dies in Pendleton. Local inventors may enter Northwest Inventor's show at Portland. , 90 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Bob LaFollefte Jr. wins Wis consin Republican senatorial nomination. . From the Local and Personal column: A part of the Holland Hotel lobby is being remodeled Into two large sample rooms on the northeast corner of the build ing, and are now in the last steps of completion. . 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 16, 1915 (It was Thursday) Watches stolen from express car found in ditch thief had to jump in. to get away. From the Local and Personal column: W. E. (Dad) Dunlap pent Wednesday afternoon in a, Jacksonville before the board of equalization. Mr. Dunlap discov ered that he was being assessed for his house that burned down last spring. The correction- was made on the rolls. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. General Motors made many more than half, about half, or many fewer than half of all new cars in the first eight months of 1955? 2. First state university to give a comprehensive course in agriculture was Texas A&M, Michigan State, Massachusetts U. Maryland U., or Penn State? 3. Deaths on U. S. air lines (scheduled) have gone up or down in the past 15 years per passenger miles traveled, or stayed about the same? 4. The Southern States At torneys General association is on record for or against reviv ing the Ku Klux Klan? 5. At the worst of the depres sion in 1929-33, about 5, 15, 25, 85 or 45 per cent of the labor force was unemployed. . 6. The Istiqlal is a movement for independence in Cyprus, Morocco, Puerto Rico, northern Ireland, or the Sudan? 7. Chisteras are used in the game of polo, table tennis, bad minton, lacrosse, croquet, or pa lota? Answers 1. About half. 2. Michigan State (present name). 3. Gone down. 4. Against. 5. About 25 per "cent. 6. Morocco. 7. Palota. o New York (U.R) Mima Thom ason, vice-president in charge of UJP. Newspictures since 1952, was today Earned general busi ness manager of the United Press Association. mail tribune The Red Cross' Needs The Red Cross is in a peculiar position. It is entirely dependent on public support both for funds with which to operate and for the general good will which makes it possible to do the job-it must do. It is also dependent on the public for the vol unteers who do the work. Yet, dependent as it is cannot always tell the full much of its work is in the problems and needs, and the Red Cross is reluctant to tell of many of its accomplishments, other than in a general way, for fear that publicity would bring an unhappy reaction from those it aids. - ' THIS is the dilemma. It that during the war there were some unpleasant incidents involving Red Cross personnel, which were blown up out of all proportion and left an unsavory memory with many servicemen. Yet the fact remains do a good job in most situations: that it is the official ly-chartered agency with human suffering in times does far, far outweighs the absurdities which always THE reason for this djscussion is the fact that this is the season when the Red Cross is seeking volun teer workers. A training day, designed to give volun teers preparation for the tasks they will undertake, will be held Sept. 27, and those interested in this type of public and community service' are urged to call the Red Cross ofiice terviews before that date. Needed particularly are work in the blind assistance program in the county, and those who have had canteen duty experience. Those interested in other fields of Red Cross work also would be welcome. It's worthwhile work, and the rewards of service, as always, are greatest to those providing it. E.A. Women in Business f It wasn't too long ago that a young lady, with long skirts and a high-on-the-head hairdo sat down for the first time in an office at one of those new fangled contraptions, a typewriter. . It wasn't too long ago doctor of medicine for the It wasn't too long ago newsroom of a newspaper, was invaded (is that the proper word?) by femininity. MOW look at it. A Some say it's a woman's world. That's an exag geration, but there's some truth in it. There are women doctors and women lawyers (at least one of each in Medford). There are women clerks and women barbers and beauticians. There are women newspaper writers. Women run their own the concerns of those operated by men. Without wo men typists, stenographers and secretaries, the bus iness and professional world would come to a jolting halt Women are nurses and, occasionally, cab drivers, and service station attendants. (During $he war, these were fairly numerous). There are even women bartenders. DUT what motivated this piece is not "the role of wo men in jobs generally but specifically a request to point out that National Business Women's Week is coming up soon, Sept. 25 to Oct. 1. It is sponsored by the National Federation of Bus iness and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., and. is designed to call attention to the functions in the life of today peformed by women. Slogan for the week is "Aim High" a call for high standards among working women. Some 3,300 com munities throughout the nation have about 175,000 members of this service organization, who are engag ed in some 700 different occupations. E.A. Convenience Costs Money Ten years ago, at the close of World War II, the American farmer was taking in 52 cents of the con sumer's food dollar. Today, with the cost of living slightly on the upgrade and prices of farm commod ities again going down, the farmer's share of the dol lar spent for food at retail has fallen to 42 cents. The steadily increasing spread between what the farmer gets and what the consumer pays is explained in large part by the high costs of processing the frozen and other ready-to-serve "convenience foods" in creasingly demanded by the women of American fam ilies. These make a special appeal to working wives, who may be fully justified in paying the added costs out of their own contributions to the family earnings. A RECENT Department of Agriculture study shows that ready-to-serve foods cost' about one-third more than foods for home cooking but take only one fourth as much time to make ready for the table. Use of partially prepared foods adds one-sixth to the cost but saves half the cooking time. Charles G. Mortimer, president of the General Foods Corporation, reported at this year's meeting of stockholders that there is "an increasing consumer demand for speed and convenience in meal prepara tion" and that the corporation is investing additional millions to meet it. As long as this trend prevails, the farmer can have little hope share of the consumer's food Friday, September 18, 19SS on the public, it feels it story of what it does for delicate area of personal is Aggravated by the fact that the Red Cross DOES the responsibility for aiding of disaster; that the good it occasional stupidities and are remembered. to arrange tor personal in those who would like to that a woman became a first time. that male sanctum, the businesses, and are vital in of regaining his former dollar. E.R.R. Babson . . Brain Factories By ROGER W. BABSON Gloucester, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) I have just again spent Labor Day week at my birthplace. As I was writr ing this, I was looking down at a marvelous new school built by my cousin, the distinguished late Major Elmer Babson. Fifty years ago schoolhouses were built as architectural addi tions to a city, with columns, facades, and fancy stone trimmings My cousin had the courage to make radical change and built only to provide the most efficient teaching con- Bessr W.'Bsbtea d i 1 1 O ns pos sible. The result was a building which the local taxpayers dub bed the "new factory." These critics were more truth- ful than intelligent The time is coming when every schoolhouse will be built as an efficent fac tory, with teachers working and being paid as efficient managers, experts, and foremen deserve. The sooner local school commit tees and taxpayers adopt this "factory" idea, the better off those cities and towns will be, The hope of every community is its children, provided they are propertly taught the right things. I have little use for some in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS How about a hearty pat on the back for the weather man? He came along with his sprinkling can just in time to save a lot of trees that will come in handy when the pulp and paper prod ucts industry realizes the extent and the availability of Southern Oregon's pulp timber resources. A lot of future payrolls are tied up in these growing trees. 1I7HILE we're in a congratula- tory mood, let's say a word for Babe Didrickson Zaharias the world's' greatest woman athlete. She is fighting her second battle with cancer. She won her first fight a couple of years ago, and went out to win new ath letic laurels. Her second cancer as discovered a few weeks ago when she underwent treatment for a slipped spinal disc. Hospital officials in Galves ton, Tex.,, report that . she is greatly . improved and is ex pected to be able to go home some time this 'week. 'Again she is fuU of plans for the future this time for a nationwide fund for the support of tumor clinics and treatment centers in appro priate institutions to detect in cipient cancers and treat "them IN TIME. ' Courage is an admirable thing. QPEAKING of surgery & TV is coming into it. The idea is to mount a special type color television camera above the .oneratint? tahle where world famous specialists are per forming a delicate operation. By means of the miracle of TV sur- g e o n s EVERYWHERE can watch' and learn" its techniques. KNOWLEDGE is POWER There was a time in the world when men with knowl edge KEPT IT SECRET, hoping thus to INCREASE THEIR PER SONAL POWER. There is a growing conviction in the mod ern world that knowledge must be SHARED as widely as pos sible, so that EVERYBODY may benefit from it. The world IS getting, better. lyfEANWHILE There's news from North Carolina, of Vicki. the freedom- loving elephant. She's still out in the free enterprise woods, scorning the buckets of grain that have been put out to temDt her and rustling her own nour ishment. More power to her! TIER "handler" gives forth u- with a typical comment. He says: "We'U have to get her out by the week's end or shoot her. She's MEAN and liable to get meaner." That's the way all these planned-economy boys feel about it. They're sure that anybody who insists . on getting out and RUSTLING FOR HIMSELF, in stead of falling back gratefully on government-guaranteed se curity, is DANGEROUS. ? 2 31 JOWL bacon: V of the silly subjects being taught today. Automation and Electronics During the next few years students will hear much talk about automation. This is a fancy word for "automatic fac tories." These are the factories where the raw . materials are fed into one end and the finish ed products come out the other end. Such factories are very ex pensive to build; but they will turn out the same amount of shoes, clothing, candy, and cloth with 50 people that is now pro duced by 500 people. Automation has become pos sible only with the development of electronics (which I hope every high school is teaching.) As a result the American elec tronics industry has grown from a business of only a few dollars to one of over a $1,000,000,000. Electronics accomplishes two things: (1) It enables a very faint electric current to be turn ed into a strong current, as illustrated by the loud-speakers of radios. (2) It enables an elec tric current to be turned on or off by a change of light and sound, or .by temperature in stead of by hand. This, is illus trated by the "electric eye," which opens and closes doors for you. . Tubes To Become Obsolete One reason for the coming great increase in automation is that tubes such as are used in your radio and TV sets will soon become obsolete. These tubes are being replaced by tiny "transistors." - These transis tors are so small that hearing aids are now being made with them, being built into the frames of eyeglasses so that no one will have a hint that the person is deaf and uses a hearing aid. Now, let me come to the real important point of -this column. I' refer to the great opportunity facing teachers, preachers, and parents of impressing upon young people that the already possess the most wonderful "automatic facory,'" far more marvelous than any other in existence. With a good working knowledge of "reading, writing, and arithmetic" and a fuU recognition that they own and control such an efficient factory, every student should become healthy, prosperous, and happy Your Automatic Factory For raw materials, you feed in water, air, and certain foods These pass through pipes and cooKers m a process not uniuce that used by the most modern electronic factory. s These raw materials are automatically changed into muscle, brains, and cultural "gifts." But this is not all. In addition, students can turn an "electric knob" and de termine whether his or her auto matic factory will produce physi cal force, used by common labor, or brain power, used by execu tives, or a cultural product, such as music, painting, poetry, etc. But wake up! Automation as illustrated by television is fast catching up with you. I no ticed an advertisement of a prominent TV manufacturer whereby with a flash of light a person sitting in any chair in a room (with no wires, no 'cords) can turn a TV set on, off, or change the channel while re maining in his easy chair. It even enables one to shut off an noying "commercials" without changing the picture. This power of remote control students have had since babyhood; but how many are using it? To teach stu dents to use it should be an im portant work of the public schools. Court Records DISTRICT COURT Louise Mae Gunter. no operator s license. S17.50. William Dean Kramer, failure to stop at stop sign, $10. Virgil Leonard Brown, overload, $89 and $56 (two offenses). umy Arnold koss, possession oi un tagged vension, $80. JacK Wesley tsropny jr.. trucic speeding, $10. ..- ' Luther John Redd, angling without a license, $15. Gerald Jsawin Aiurpny, overload. 916. Julius - Sylvester uoDurn. overload, " . .... Frank Bowman, no operators li cense, $7. i - CIRCUIT COURT Kenneth L. McKenzie vs. Bobbie SueMcKenzie, divorce complaint. Marlene sniney uuarte vs. ueorge Edward Duarte, divorce decree. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Howard Rees Baughman. 51. of 2514 Country Club dr.. Medford. and Viola Ellulu Baugham, 59, of S36 Pearl St.. Medford. Daniel Fremont Krotz in. 23, of route 1. box 1, Ashland, and Phyllis Ann Russell, 23. of 469 B St.. Ashland. POLICE COURT Bill H. Williams, failure to stop at stop light, $5 bail. Stewart William Shearin. failure to stop at stop sign. $5 bail. Pearl Lee Kushton, failure to yield right of way to oncoming traffic, $10 bail. EAST SIXTH ST. PORK I FRESH SIDE SAUSAGE PORK 3f i Communications Letters to the Editor must besr the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. 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. Evening Grosbeak To the Editor: High mountain September has a multicolored bird that well illustrates the principle of color camouflage. The evening grosbeak is a splen did example of protective color ation in birds. It is strikingly hued white, yellow, black, olive. It would seem to be one of the most conspicuous of high ' Si erran birds. Yet Mrs. Bailey de clares that its bright yellow, for example, is almost identical with the lemon-colored stag li chens found throughout our high Sierras. Any bird lover seeing the evening grosbeak for the first time is sure to be thrilled. Add it to your list of bird ac quaintances. -: C. M. Goethe, .Seventh and J Sts. Sacramento 14, Calif. To The Scrap Heap To the Editor: I see in the Mail Tribune that Rep. Norblad says they are going to sell the Battleship Oregon for scrap. Don't you think it would be just as well to put the State of Ore gon in witn it, as long - as we let the Southern Pacific run it, and Douglas McKay wreck what resources we have left. The only hopes we have are Senators Morse and Neuberger to keep Oregon from the scrap heap where the Old Battleship Oregon is going. Charles Shaffer, 117 Mistletoe, Medford, Ore. Editorial Comment FIRST RAIN When rain fell in Eugene Tuesday morning for the first time in seven weeks, unpoetic souls among us regarded it as a sign that summer had ended, That is unfortunate. For as ev ery poet. knows", that first rain is really the stuff of which In dian summer is made. That rain, and the rains that are expected to fall through the week, will usher in the pleasantest time of year. There may be warm days ahead, but they should not be the blistering hot days of un tempered summer. Nor will they be the cold . and wet days of winter. They will be the glori ous days of Indian summer. The smell of wood smoke, dreaded in forest communities where fires have been scarring the hillsides, will again become a pleasant smell. It will signify the burning of slashings and the burning of wood in fireplaces. For late September is fireplace tiirfe between the warm eve nings of summer and the months when the furnace is never per mitted to cool.- And remember the smell of burning leaves. ' The mornings and the eve nings will be chilly and there will be a snap in the air. The hillsides, solid green all summer, will grow more beautiful as browns and yellows and oranges mix with the greens. The eve ning fog will make the stars look even brighter when it lifts, and the morning fog will add a new brilliance to the mid-day sun. " Coming upon us is the time for corn on the cob and sweet potatoes and fowl spiced with bits of shot. Already store win dows i are colorful splashes of red hats and shotgun shells. Walk down the street on any Saturday afternoon from now until December and you can hear "the game." And, as every schoolboy knows, five nights of each seven are "school nights." All this is so because sometime before mid September we are treated to a first rain. Eugene Register-Guard. Radford Sees American Lead in Military Power.. Atlantic City, N.J. (U.R) Adm. Arthur W. Radford de clared yesterday that it is "our judgment that we are ahead" of Russia in military power. But the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said this country has too little information to be absolutely sure. He warned there is "always the grave possibility that the So viets could develop radically advanced weapons." Radford made the statements in an address before the Na tional Petroleum Association. . VEAL ROAST Lb. Results of Adenauer Meeting With Soviets Heads Balance Sheet By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. The results of German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer's visit to Moscow were greeted in Western capitals with official satisfaction. Privately, there were expressions of some anxi ety. Adenauer agreed to estab lish diplomatic relations even though he failed to wm any concessions leading . toward eventual German unification. He did get a promise that remaining German war prisoners would be freed. Adenauer also made two important reservations in a let ter to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. "Bulganin. He said that final de termination of Germany's bor der must be settled by a formal peace treaty. He specified that he would not recognize the East German Communist regime. The State Department saDl German Russian agreements marked "the abandonment ... by the Soviet Union of its bankrupt German policies." Adenauer's alliance with the West remained unshaken. On the whole, the re sults of the conference seemed to be good. . 2 Communist China, after long negotiations in Geneva, promised , to free 29 American civilians whom it had long held prisoner. The first two were re leased in Hong Kong today. Two others are expected scon. Red Chinese delegate Wang Ping- nan made a- bid for high-level talks between Red Premier Chou En-lai and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on other issues. The United States refused even to discuss that question until all Americans have been freed. 3. Thirty.three-y e a r-old , ex King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, campaigning as a pri vate citizen, won all 91 seats in the parliament of his Indo- Chinese state. He gave up his throne to fight for a program of cooperation with the West and internal constitutional reforms, His sensational victory, as leader of the political party he formed Morse's Report on Gas Rates Denounced Portland (U.R) Ray C. Fish, president of the Pacific North west : Pipeline Corporation, yes terday discounted a report by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) that pending legislation might result in higher rates for natural gas when it comes to Portland. Pacific Northwest plans, to start delivering gas from the San Juan basin by next July. Morse, in a talk prepared for radio broadcast, said that a bill up before the Senate next Janu ary would in effect remove pric ing of natural gas at the well from regulation by the Federal Power, Commission. He said if the bill to amend the natural gas act is adopted consumers in Ore gon and Washington are going to pay higher prices for gas. Fish said his firm was under the Federal Power Commission "and will remain so whether the natural gas act amendment bill is passed or not." He said this was because his firm owned both the pipeline and produc tion facilities. The bill would apply, he - said, to companies which produce gas and sell it at the well. 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The campaign of Russia and its Iron curtain satellites to lure refugees home achieved a big victory when Hugon Hanke, premier of the Polish govern ment in exile, suddenly turned up in Warsaw. In a broadcast speech, Hanke urged other refu gees to go home. 3. The angry situation in Pal estine continued despite the ef forts of United Nations Truce Supervisor Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada to stop border clashes between Israel and its Arab neighbors. After serious incidents on the Israeli-Egyptian border, Israel complained of raids by Jordanian and Leba nese groups on its Northern; frontier. Democrats Support Leaden Charges Of 'Undeiwld' Los Angeles (U.R) Demo cratic leaders rallied to the sup-port- of Pennsylvania Gov. "underworld" charges against the Eisenhower administration. Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democratic National com mittee, said he was "pleased" with Leader's San Francisco's speech, "not only in content but for the impact it created." "Any attempt to read into its language any other meaning Is unjustified," Butler declared. He added that the "blast that came out of the White House is evidence that Republicans felt its sting." Paul Ziffren, Democratic na tional committeeman for Cali fornia, termed Leader's speech "inspiring" and said it "should put California ahead of Penn sylvania in Democratic votes for the first time." ; J Congressman James Roosevelt (D.-Calif.) eldest son of the late president, said it was "high time the public was given the truth." "We are not giving them (the Republicans) hell but are giving the public the truth," he added. Even Leader himself ; com mented on the speech. "I think it was pretty low that the Republicans changed one word in my speech There Is No Substitute for an insured savings ac count. Start with any amount. You'll discover friendly, per sonal service. . 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