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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford3&Tmbuwi "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by m MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-25 North Fir St Phone 2-oll nuoijvi " nun I HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC Ai-LEN JB City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation MgT An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act oi n ." n TT" n T" IIT OTTOT PHitnr Marcn 6. ioi ftTBCnjTDTTnU RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday-ne year 13 .00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos 8.50 Sunday Only One year 3,m.. By Carrier In Advance - Medford. Ashland Central Po.p Jacksonville. Gold Hill. phoeniJt Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes: ,m Daily and Sunday One year 1150 Daily and Sunday One month lia Carrier and Dealers-Sc pe :eow All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper 01 the City of Medloid Official Paper ot Jackson County i7rT r"" ljfad Wir - "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU CIV ClKt-Ul-fH Advertising Representative. , WEST-HOLLJDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancoovar B.C. ...riAUll EDITORIAL & AKp CATKIN rUtMSMIIS ASIOCtATlOW Flight o' Time MeSford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 19. 1945 (It was Wednesday) First women's suffrage in Japan approved by American military government on Okin awa. . - From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Pasa dena preacher predicts the end of the world will be Friday. As yet no California promoters hve started, selling grandstand seats for the colossal event 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1935 at was Thursday) Rattlesnake coiled on door step gives Sardine Creek wo man severe shock. Ashland Normal (SOO gym no to be completed this year. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1925 (It was Saturday) National fire chiefs . pass through city on special train and are given 350 pounds of watermelons by Fire Chief El liott. From the Local and Personal column: C. G. Hedges, of the contracting firm of Hedges and Hulls of Portland, applied yes terday for the permit to erect the new city high school at a cost of $116,000 on West Sec ond st. near Vermont st. The city council will probably first take action before the permit is actually granted. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 19, 1915 Gt was Sunday) Eight selections listed for Sunday Ashland park band con cert. "Fallen couple," a woman who is a confirmed alcoholic, and her husband, finally leave town after being found guilty of vagrancy. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 71 Cepr. 1955. Editorial ReMwch Report Mwhat's the answer stdg head 1. West German Chancellor Adenauer recently made an all important state visit- to Wash ington, Moscow, London, Paris, or East Germany? 2. Average earnings in U. S. factories are now around $1.75, $1.90, $2.05, $2.20 or $2.35 an hour? 3. President Eisenhower will be 66 an Jan. 20, 195?. Has any President been inaugurated at a greater age? 4. The present British parlia ment contains some, several or no Communists? 5. Women are legally barred. from jury duty in almost all; about half, or very few of the states? 6. A very large or very small proportion of all stolen cars are recovered or about half of them? 7. More persons of Jewish de scent now live in New York City than in all Europe; right or wrong? The answers: 1. Moscow. 2. Around $1.90. 3. One (WJi. Har rison). 4. None. 5. Very few. 6. Very large proportion. 7. Wrong, Hartford, Conn. (U.R) The marriage of Ethel Flitt and Wil liam N. Frank wasn't just an other wedding to Rabbi Morris Silverman. She was the ninth Flitt sister he had married in 21 years. I-:Sl I 7 V I agNIWSFAPlI I 1 MMWf .ssssK MAIL TRIBUNE Lets Cut ' The only thing certain about the location of the proposed new freeway past Medford is this: No mat ter which way it goes, it will not please everyone. There are advantages and disadvantages to each of the routes proposed. Some advocate the highway department's original plan to put an elevated freeway down the middle of town, over Bear creek'. But this is opposed by those who maintain that it would destroy much of the value of Hawthorne park, which would be overshadowed by the viaduct a view now shared by Highway En gineer R.' H. Baldock. Costs are also said to be some $1,000,000 more here than elsewhere. THEN there are those who like the most recently proposed route, down Genessee st. north of Main st., and between Cottage and Tripp sts. south of Main. Opponents, however, declare this would destroy property values in that section of town, and that it would create dust and npise in a residential area. There are those who support a complete by-pass of Medford, either to the east (along Foothills and Phoenix roads), or to the west. But opponents to these proposals object that they would channel tourist travel completely away from Medford and not give businesses within the city an adequate chance at the tourists' money. It is also said that costs would be higher, and that valuable agri cultural land would be taken out of production. THERE are a few who think that an elevated high-j-tvTsw V.1-. C!nfV.-iv "Do-P. f vo 'Ira f vrnrrVi fnum would be a logical solution. But the opponents here believe it would mar the business district, and the highway department esti mates that the cost would be several million dollars more than the other suereested routes. Still another proposal, originally advanced by E. M. Tucker, would establish the four-lane route along Bear creek also, but would lower it below the exist ing bridges, rather than over the creek, and-would provide a concrete water channel below the highway level. This too, has its opponents, those who believe that it. wnnlH nnllifv anv advantage in having the route inside Medford, and- those ordinary high water could long-time flood could put the entire route out ot com mission. In a few of Medford's floods, waters have reached far into the residential area of the east side, and through the business district. Such a flood would put the route deep under water. PROPONENTS of each plan can argue long and loudly in support of their ideas, and opponents, if anvthinc. are even louder and more vocal. --OJ ---- - . It is obvious that not when a final decision is made. DUT we'd like to make a suggestion. The state highway interim committee has author ized a study of recent by-passes and other freeway routes in other Oregon cities, to find what economic s i " - l 1 1 . il J? L L T eitecis tney nave naa, ana oiner miormauon wmcn should be valuable in arriving at a logical and soundly-based decision. Its report is due sometime before the end of the year. In addition, the highway department will hold a public hearing on the freeway location shortly after the first of the year. This will be the time for propon ents and opponents of each of the plans to bring forth their arguments. They will have more weight if they are based on facts, rather than on speculation. All will have an attentive hearing and adequate publicity. Our suggestion, then, is this: That nobody cut anybody else's throat in an argument over freeway locations until the study is completed and the hearing is held. There is no hurry, anyway, and the thinking of all of us may be changed as additional facts be come known. E.A. We The two small daughters of this writer went back to school today. Now it so happens that we are mightily fond of these kids. We suspect this feeling, toward their own progeny, is shared by most parents. We have a natur al fear for their safety, venturing forth on bike and on foot along Medford streets. . . THEY have received careful instruction in the rules of the road as have most other school-age chil dren. They have been cautioned of the dangers of traffic as have most other school-age children. Their bikes are licensed as are those of most other school age children. We, as parents, and the school and police author ities, have done what can be done to safeguard them against death or injury on the streets. .. DUT we can't safeguard them against their own sudden impulses and decisions, which may not always be wise ones. Who can expect youngsters al ways to do the exactly right and safe thing in all traf fic situations? And we can't safeguard them against the unthink ing driver. If all drivers were thoughtful and careful around our kids, we'd have no worries. , But this is not the case. We worry. Other parents worry. And their worries are justifiedPlease be care ful! E.A. . Monday, September 19, 1955 No Throats who remember that while be handled, a once-in-a- . everyone can be pleased Worry Today and By Walter BRAGGADOCIO In the absence of Secretary Dulles who was still on vacation, the State Department's talking bureau c r a t s, unable to stop, look and listen pro claimed "the now by the Soviet Un i o n of its brankrupt Ger m a n policy." Walter Uppmann Thjs was an example of massive silliness, in spired by the most wishful kind of thinking. Even if it had been true that the Soviet government has acknoweldged the abandon ment of its German policy, it would have been reckless and silly for the State department to let out a whoop about it, and to point with pride to its own success. If, for example it had been true that Dr. Adenauer was invited to the Soviet capital "over the head of Moscow's satellite government in East Germany," the . State depart ment's boasting and bragging about i its own triumph would have been sufficient to compel Moscow to save its own face and the face of the East Germans by inviting Grotewohl to fol low Adenauer to Moscow. Ac tually.Grotewohl had been in vited to Moscow, last July. There is, as a matter of fact, not a word of truth in the state ment that the Soviet Union has abandoned its German policy. Diplomatic relations have been established with Bonn alongside of, not in place of, the relations which already exist with Pan kow in East Germany. There are oral assurances that pris oners are to be released. But far from "abandoning" its policy, the Soviet Union has reaffirmed categorically that its policy is still to approach reunification through both German govern ments, and that it regards the Potsdam provisional frontier as permanent. m rpHE interesting thing about Adenauer's Moscow visit is that both parties thought it use ful to establish diplomatic re lations and at the same time to declare publicly their posi tions, which are as they knew irreconcilable. There is in this an implicit agreement that for some time to come they can live side by side, they can trade, they can meet and they can talk, even though all the big issues remain unsettled. ' It may be said, therefore, that Bonn and Moscow have nego tiated a modus Vivendi. Though both governments look beyond this modus vivendi to a settlement, neither is acting as if it expected to see a settle ment in the near future. Dr. Ad enauer cannot suppose that the Soviet Union is going . to grant him the terms he has laid down. The terms include not only the surrender of East Germany but also a territorial settlement at the expense of the post-war Po lish state. The Soviet terms are equally outside the limits of a negotiated 'settlement. They call for a reunited Germany in which fthe German Communists from East Germany will be a power, and they call for a Eur opean security arrangement which in effect disestablishes the Wesvern military system. Neither in Bonn or in Moscow are there as yet the makings of a negotiable settlement. WfE all know, of course, that " the existing modus vivendi is provisional, and that in one way or another serious negotia tions for a settlement will event ually be brought about. But wnat will bring about serious negotiations? Most Drobahlv. it. will be the rise of a strong na- uonai ieenng in both parts of Germany. When it arises, it wiU be very difficult for the Soviet government to retain its grip on East Germany. And it will be very difficult for a Western German government to refuse to let its military connections With NATO be Used in harcrain. ing about the withdrawal of the rteas troops irom German soil. There is not as vet a strong national feeling in Germany. Everybody, to be sure, is in fa vor of reunification and the re covery of the lost territory. But not many are in favor of it at the risk of war, of which the Germans have harl mn than enough, and not at any big risk of disturbing then existing pros- Deritv. The reunification nf Germany is the leading political tauung point. But it is a tepid issue, not a hot one. So it is feasible to set terms which are known to be impossible. For there is as yet nothing urgent about a settlement. . . , rpHERE are some signs in Eng land of a wish to find out whether Dr. Adenauer's terms could be modified so as to make them negotiable. For example, it is being suggested that incor poration of an armed Germany in NATO is less important than Germany's political alignment with the West and that the Tomorrow Lippmenn one might be given up in order to gain the second. No one can know whether some such com promise would induce the Sov iet government to negotiate ser iously. The only way to find out is to talk to them privately, and that is something , which will surely be done by the Germans themselves when diplomatic re lations have been established. It is, no doubt, too early for the United States to modify its unqualified endorsement of terms that are known to be not negotiable. There would be ad vantages in waiting to see wheth er an agreement can be reached with the Soviet Union on the early-warning plans. For then the basic accord reached at Ge neva that war cannot be con templated will have been ratified in a concrete agree ment. It wiU then be self-evident that negotiation by give and take is the only way to settle that German question. e "DUT if it is not now expedient to begin trading for a Ger man settlement, let us avoid creating about Germany, a myth-, ology in which we see ourselves so strong that a setUement can be had on our own terms. For the time is coming, perhaps at the Foreign Ministers' meeting in October, when we shall have to choose. We shall have to choose between, on the one hand, negotiating a compromise and, on the other hand, unwarlike co existence within the existing sit uation. It wiU prevent much confu sion, and much disappointment and resentment, if the Adminis tration stopped talking as if the Soviet Union was in retreat and was about to surrender uncondi tionaUy to the public relations experts in the State department For what will be . needed in the time to come is not an exalted and bedazzled mood, but a cool and businesslike one. Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot pen name or initial for publication is Dermis tible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit- all letters with aa eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Red Hat Day To the Editor: Last year 13 persons were killed in Oregon in hunting accidents and 37 were wounded. Carelessness by a few hunters caused more than 200 forest fires in Oregon. This is too terrible a price for the indif ference of a few to common rules of safety while using our incom parable outdoors. Is it any wonder that the pub lic and sportsmen groups wor ried about this terrible toll of human life, destruction and waste of our forests, soil, water, wildlife and fish? It's no wonder farmers and stockmen post "No Trespassing" signs. Could strict er laws improve conditions? Could education of the public do the job? Organized sportsmen and real conservationists liked the latter idea. Under the leader ship, of the Portland Izaak Wal ton League chapter a few months ago the plan was born. The Red Hat, a hunter's and woodsman's symbol, was adopted for this program. You will be hearing more about Red Hat Day through the coming days. It catches the public eye and de serves our every support. Red Hat Day has earned the hearty backing of Gov. Paul Patterson who has given his. of ficial blessing, named a state wide general committee of five outstanding leaders among sportsmen and land groups, and set the machinery in motion for an intensive organization in each of Oregon's 36 counties. The basic idea is education of the general public and especial ly hunters to their responsi bilities when in the outdoors. Every user of Oregon's forests or streams should gladly take the Red Hat Day pledge: "I. give my pledge to be law-abiding, re spect the rights and property of others, and be careful with fire and firearms." "And leave a clean, safe camp,". might weU be added. Sept. 23 is Red Hat Day just a week before opening of deer hunting season. Wear a red hat in support of the plan. If no red hat, you may wear a Red Hat button or use the Red Hat windshield .sticker. These may help to save a life now, and Oregon's natural resources for coming young Americans. Be a safer hunter! Jackson County Chapter Izaak Imprinted Wedding Napkins Punch Bowl Rentals Shower and Wedding Thank You Notes . i Matter of Fact By Stewart Atop THE BOURGEOISIZATION OF COMMUNISM Belgrade Yugoslavia is living proof of how far the process of change can go in a Commu nist state, once it gets start ed. All ' quali fied observers agree that some sort of process of change has started also in the Soviet Un ion. And it is therefore tempting to speculate Stewart Alsoa whether the change in Russia might go as far as it has here. Make no mistake about it. Yugoslavia is a Communist state, and a dictatorship. But it is a very different sort of Commu nist dictatorship than it was seven or eight years ago, when Yugoslavia was threatening Tri este, shooting down American planes and actively supporting the Greek Communist guerrillas. In those days, according to reliable witnesses, the Tito re gime was in some ways tougher than Stalin's. The suppression of all vestiges of liberty was as total as in Russia, the secret police was as ruthless, and the life of the people was even more drab. Now, Tito's Yugoslavia presents a startling contrast even to the milder post-Stalin Soviet Union. Some of these contrasts are trivial, like the fact that the Belgrade newspapers print "Donald Duck" and "Jiggs and Maggie." And yet would it not have a certain political signifi cance if Moscow's leading news papers suddenly began , using, and even paying for, American comic strips? Or take, as another example, the party which dictator Tito threw the other night for the Greek King and Queen. If the late King Alexander had been around to haunt the white sugar- candy palace he built himself here in Belgrade, he would have felt right at home. He would have applauded particularly the impeccable full dress of the Yugoslav officials and the red-on-blue dress uniform of the Yugoslav generals. And he would have been impressed too Ashland Physician Dies; Resided in Area Since 1915 Ashland Dr. Gordon Mac- Cracken, 86, a long-time resi dent of Ashland, died Friday night at a local rest home after several years of failing health. Funeral arrangements are in complete pending arrival of his son, Dr. Elliott MacCracken, who has been traveling in Eu rope this summer. C. M. Litwil ler is in charge of services. Dr. MacCracken has lived in Ashland since. 1915, coming here from Winnetka, 111. He was born Oct. 5, 1869, in AUegheny, Pa. During World War I, Dr MacCracken served in the army medical corps. He was instituting president of Ashland American Legion Post 14, and took an active part in civic and patriotic events. He was a member of medical so cieties. Dr. MacCracken's wife, who preceded him in death in 1946, organized the ' Mount Ashland chapter, Daughters of American Revolution. In addition to Dr. Elliott Mac Cracken, he is survived by two other sons, Chester C. Mac Cracken, Burlington, Vt., and Charles Gordon MacCracken, Roseburg, and one grandchild. Walton League endorses this program. John E. Gribbie 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. Musief To The Editor: I sometimes wonder, listening to America's greatest bands and musicians on T.V., if it were possible civil ized people prefer a steady diet of this jungle rythmn they call music. A little of this could bring out the beast in me if I were half-crocked in some honky tonk, and maybe I would enjoy it, but while I'm still sober, "It's driving me crazy." I would like to get other readers opinions on this subject. J. A. Rydberg, 10 Quince St., Medford, Ore. In the past 12 months Amer icans have purchased enough wallpaper to circle the world 25 times at the Equator. Be Sure To List Your Choice of China and Crystal In Our BRIDAL REGISTER . 2nd Floor BjBBJBJBJSJBjJjlSjBiMJriJjJJSSJy by the elegant amiability dis played toward their Royal High nesses by Marshal Tito who, after all, has spent most of his life plotting the downfaU of Royal Highnesses of all sorts. NO SUCH scene could possi bly have occurred in the So viet Union, where even the sim ple dinner jacket is condemned as a symbol of "bourgeois deca dence" and official receptions are about as elegant as a bear hug. What has been happening here and what may yet happen in the Soviet Union is what one astute Western observer calls "the bourgeoisization of communism." The break with Stalin threw the Yugoslav lead ers into close contact with the West, wiUy-nflly. And certain habits and viewpoints of the West were absorbed, by a sort of osmosis, simply because they made life easier and pleasanter. To be sure, there are in Bel grade the same dreariness and drabness which are apparently inseparable from Communism. But, in sharp contrast to Mos cow, there are pretty girls oa the streets, dressed with a cer tain sense1 of style. And what is no doubt more important, there is an atmosphere of casual human easiness here which is stiU utterly lacking in Russia. You can have a meal alone with a Yugoslav official or news paperman. You can talk with him, argue with him, joke with him, in a way wholly impossible in Russia. The Yugoslavs are even capable of making jokes about the sacred doctrine. One very high official, asked about the Marxist doctrine of "the withering away of the state," roared with laughter and said: "WeU, I'd have to wither away first, and so far I feel all right." Nobody makes that kind of joke in the Soviet Union. Actually, the Yugoslav lead ers take their own special brand of Marxist doctrine very seri ously indeed, even though, un like the Russians, they are capa ble of joking about it. According to the Yugoslav, they discovered in about 1950 that the Russian system of total dictation from the center and ruthless agricul tural collectivization just didn't work. So they have elaborated their own brand of Marxism. Its catchwords are "decentraliza tion" and "economic democ racy." ; Reliable observers claim that workers in Yugoslav enterprises really do have something to say about their conditions of work and the division of the profits, and that control from the center really is much lighter than in the Russian system. At any rate, the Yugoslavs are sure that they have invented a new and better kind of Marxist state. One of the top Yugoslav officials sol emnly told this reporter that "Yugoslav Democratic Socialism will mark as great a crossroads in world history as .the victAry of capitalist democracy over feudalism." ; e THE Yugoslavs, as this remark suggests, are perhaps the cockiest people in the world. And by the same token, they are quite sure that, far from Yugo slavia being attracted back to the Soviet way of doing things, the Soviets will eventually see the wisdom of emulating the Yugoslav, adopting "decentral ization," "economic democracy," dress suits, jokes, arguments among themselves about politics, and aU the other aspects of Yugo slav life. Could the Yugoslavs perhaps be right? Could it be that the "oourgeoisization oi commu nism," which has gone so far here, has really .begun to get under way in the Soviet Union too? Could the doctrinaire irra tionality which has so long threatened the world give away in time to something milder and (mellower, something that could at least be lived with? Here in Belgrade, it looks at least pos sible, though no more than re motely possible. ' Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Since PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES in every price range Russians Seeking U.S. Equipment Washington (U.PJ Russian trade officials have revealed they are trying to buy Ameri can farm equipment ranging from "tractors to hay balers." They said yesterday they are negotiating with American man ufacturers for the equipment Amtorg Trading Corp, New York, official purchasing agency for the Soviet Union, said it has sent out a number of inquiries. It said they involved machines which aroused the.interest of the Russian farm defegation that re cently completed a visit to this country. Amtorg was granted an export license by the Commerce De partment last Thursday to ship to Russia 64 head of Santa Ger trudis cattle it bought from San Antonio, Tex., breeders. An of ficial said mf Soviet request to buy farm machinery also might be considered favorably. The final test, however, will be whether the equipment could be used in any way for military purposes. For instance, a heavy caterpillar-type tractor might be considered a "military" item since it could be used to build airfields as well as for plowing. Power Line Proposed Along Klamath Lake Klamath Falls (U.R) Plan for proposed power line exten sions along theSvest side of up per Klamath lake were initiated Saturday by California Oregon power company. Copco said the project woiftfl cost about $127,000 and would be completed before snowfall this year. " . Some 24 miles of linp win i.. built to -provide service to 83 points including three KlaiSath lake resorts. People 60 to 80 APPLY FOR OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE LIFE INSURANCE Kansas City, Mo. If you are under 80, you can still apply for a $1,000 life insurance policyto help take care of final expense without burdening your family. You handle the entire trans action by mail with OL1? AMERICAN of KANSAS CITY. No obligation. No one will call on you! Write today for free informa tion. Simply mail postcard'or letter (giving age) to Old Ameri can Ins. Co., 3 W. 9th, Dent L936B, Kansas City, Mo. Ate Bowl Of Ants GEO. N. TAYLOR After college and the school for special training, Townsend, football man and scholar went to a far-off tribe. He learn ed their speech, invented them an alphabet; set up a school for the young sters and start ed a church. Being a . big brother and having their confide nee, they bid him Into the tribal council. The initiation included eating a bowl of live ants. This Townsend did that he might the better bring them to know the Lord. Again, Bill, a technical man was brought into the Christian life by his chum, also a univer sity man. Bill soon became a growing Christian. But remem ber that prayer has a prime place. Saved souls are prayed- for souls. Pray and determine to tell some one of Christ dying for their sins. God's word will not return to him void and you will earn eternal reward. This Message sponsored by an Ore gon dairyman. adv. 1908
