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0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) -everybody In Southern Orel on Reads me Man incline Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PfUNTLNU to. rT-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 nnnrBT w RTTTII. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager K. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ZK1C ALLn jk, city tailor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT sports tenor OLIVE STARCHEH. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION" RATES ' ay nail aii iuv.iww. -- r-r-.-Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos. S-50 SWX-iKL 'M.dford jit carrier - iI Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point . TlrLjii- mil Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. and on motor routes. DaUy and Sunday One year $15 .00 Daily and Sunday One month 12a Carrier ana ueajer. w w ah t in Advance AU Acx iij w. Official Paper of the City oi Medford Official Paper of Jackson County iftrftwl Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising Kepreaeni""- WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices tn New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco, uum Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAl EDITORIAL AS S O Cl-A T IIO.N J -HiwHiiia NIWIPAPlI PUtlltHItl "ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. Si 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 21, 1945 (It was Friday) County assistance- to aged, needy totals $8,097 for August, including help for 204 persons. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A scientific : report reveals 11 billion atoms 'can be placed in the eye of a needle and leave plenty of room for a thread, or "a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven." 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 21. 1935 (It was Saturday) Tests conducted in city schools cut out waste -time in spelling lessons. Northwest Jackson County fair In Gold Hill to. feature grange displays and parade. . 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 21, 1925 (It was Monday) Legal battle raging over dis mantling of Jacksonville-Med- ford railroad. From the Local and Personal column- The rains of the past week . have - brought out , the mushrooms again, in conse auence of which these toothsome dainties were on sale today at some of the . groceries. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 21, 1915 (It was Tuesday) First district's Federation of Women's club to meet at Presby terian church "Wednesday. Judge Kelly to speak at Bap tist church on Juvenile work. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. A defeated candidate for President has been renominated In the past by the Republicans, the Democrats, both or neither? 2. Maximum retirement annu ity for one person under' social security is now more or less than $100 a month? . 3. There was no joy in Mudd- ville because of the result of a football match, gold tournament, horse race, baseball game or prize fight? 4. The Moral Rearmament Movement (M.R.A.) was inspired by Mary Baker Eddy, Cardinal Spellman, Billy Graham,. Albert Einstein, or Dr. Frank Buch- man? 5. Which one of these has its capital on the Mississippi River: Wisconsin, Illinois, " Missouri. Tennessee, Louisiana? . 6. For every person killed in auto accidents today about 10, 25, 40, 55 or 70 persons are in jured? 7. Former Vice President Al- ben W. Barkley is a -federal sjudge, U.S. Senator, U.S. Rep resentative, state governor, in private law practice, or in re tirement. " The answers: I. By both (Cleveland and Bryan by the Democrats, Dewey of the Re publicans.) 2. More. 3. Baseball game ("Casey at the Bat.") 4. Dr. Buchman. 5. Louisiana. 6. About 40. 7. U.S. Senator. , MILL WORKER KILLED Stayton, Ore (U.R) .Mill worker George William Bxacher, 24, Scio, was fatally injured yes terday when his clothing caught in a planer at an Aumsville mill. He was dead on arrival at San tiam memorial hospital." " MAIL TRIBUNE New Schools Soon It won't be long before we're going to have to build another school building (or buildings) -in Medford. Members of the school out loud, anyway. But a casual glance at the Mail Tribune's story on Monday, which recorded the fact that school population was up by 13.3 per cent over last year, makes the conclusion inevitable. "DUT," you might say,' "we just got through build ing two new buildings ! How long is this going to go on?" . ' To which we could reply, "Quite a while, friend quite a while." Medford is growing fast, and the end is not yet in sight. Population forecasts all predict that the growth of the Pacific Coast, which got such an impetus during World War II, will continue at a rapid rate. ' This includes Medford. We can't help it. CCHOOL authorities, in commenting on this year's primary school registration, pointed out that the sixth grade of last year, "which now is in junior high school, is smaller than this year's first grade and the difference is the equivalent to six full classrooms. There have been increases in other grades, too. - Not' only are people moving into the area, but those already here are contributing to the increase in population. THHE conclusion is obvious. If we want to have our children well-housed in schools, and not crowded up into unmanageably large to provide more. classrooms Medford has never, stinted its schools, and we don't think it will begin now. Most of us realize that our best hope for. a solid future for the community and the nation is education. What Kind of State? This business of population increase has other ramifications besides increasing school needs. The Eugene Register-Guard, m a thoughtful edi torial, points out that there is a basic dilemma in watching the growth of the state. On the one hand, we need more industry to support larger payrolls. On he other hand, we face the our recreational and esthetic 'What do we want?" the R-G asks. "Do we want to be like Maine a consciously 'backward' area, the hunting and fishing preserve of an immense indus trial hinterland. . . .' Some people, the Guard adds, want the beauties of the state kept as they are. But, it adds, the prospect of development is ap pealing too," with bigger payrolls, increased land val ues, social and cultural advantages and other attrac tions. THE Guard concludes that it may be possible to "split the difference," and line out a balanced fu ture for ourselves a plan of development carrying with it a plan for the preservation of our present val ues; a plan for conservation carrying with it a plan for use. It adds : ' And these plans should be carried out in the light of what Oregon is likely to be like 100 years from now. We mustn't plan too small. And we mustn't keep our wilderness so wild that only a privileged few of our citizens can. en , Joy.it. X7E think the Guard has something there. ' .We too have been, torn between our desires for increased economic wealth for the region and the state and our love for Oregon as it is and as it has been. "Splitting the difference" will not be an easy job to do. It will take the best and most far-sighted legis lators we can elect; it will require a certain yielding and compromise on the part of various interest groups; it will take an understanding on the part of the people as a whole as to what is needed. The only thing certain about the future is that changes are coming. If we want to badly enough, we can see that the changes are to the good rather than to the bad. E.A. Wouldn't Be The Same Speaking of change, we note with mixed feelings that a serious proposal has been made to admit peei esses of Great Britain to the House of Lords. Our feelings are mixed because, while we have every confidence in the world in the ability and rights of women in general, we have a sneaking worry about what is probably one of the few remaining exclu sively men's organizations in the world. (Did you notice where a woman was admitted to a Veterans Administration domiciliary home in the East recent ly?) ... THE United States Senate, sometimes called with justice the most exclusive club in the world, has had a number of women members. Most of mankind's parliaments have also had women in their ranks. But the House, of Lords? It just wouldn't be the same. E.A. NO INTERRUPTION Elizabethtown, 111. (U.R) A high wind blew down an old maple tree here recently, block ing a street. When workmen started clearing the street, they found a nest of young wood peckers in one of the limbs. The workmen tied the piece onto another tree and the parent woodpeckers resumed rearing their brood. V . " Wednesday, September 21, 1955 board haven't said so yet classes, we'll simply have and more teachers. E. A. possible loss of some of values if this is done. LAKE PEAK Grand Haven, Mich. (U.R) The level of Lake Michigan is expected to reach a peak of about 581.8 feet in July, U. S. Army Engineers report.' The level will be about an inch high er than last year's peak and nine inches below the modern high of 582.69 feet in 1952. The all time high level of 583.68 feet was set Ja JuneT 1886. Is That So? Regarding snaxes, did you know . . . there are some 3,000 species, some of which are found in most parts of the world where the subsoil is not permanently frozen, even within the Arctic circle where a viper inhabits the Scandinavian Peninsula. All snakes are carnivorous. To accommodate the elongat ed, narrow body, snake's inter nal organs have made strange adaptations: while a mammal's heart has four chambers, that of the snake has only three; its two lungs are extremely elongated In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Stark tragedy in the news: ' Mrs. Donald Pullen (aged 28) of Portland was killed the other night on the upper Columbia highway when a rock plunged down a hillside and was struck by the car in which she was rid ing with her husband and two children. The husband who escaped, along with the children, with bad bruises said he and his wife were singing happily as they rode along the highway to the Pendleton Round-up.. The children were asleep in the back seat. He saw the shadow of the rock coming down the hillside. Before he could check his speed his car hit the rock, which was nearly two feet in diameter. It rolled three or four times. When it came to rest, life with all its joys and sorrows was over for the young mother. THERE is probably no way to avoid such hazards of the road. But there are so MANY haz ards that COULD be guarded against by BETTER DRIVING. Because they could be guard ed against, they are perhaps more tragic than this one. rPHE Free Europe Bulletin in Vienna says guns and ammu nition are. being sent by muni tions plants m Communist Czechoslovakia to rebel tribes in French North Africa, where the natives are engaged in a bitter and bloody ruckus with the French. It adds that pistols are being sold to the tribesmen at sharply reduced prices. PASTE this in your hat: Wherever there is trouble in the world, you will find the com mies stirring the pot and putting fuel on the fire. . QPEAKING of pots, there's al- VJ ways a dash of politics (in these days when another big po litical campaign is getting under way) in the mulligan stew that we call the news. Speaking at a . $100-a-plate Democratic party fund-raising dinner in San Francisco the oth er night, Pennsylvania's Demo cratic Governor leader said the Democrats will be VERY HAP PY to take on President Eisen howser in 1956. . . ;. He added: . "President Eisenhower is NOT the best man for the coun try. , "He is NOT the best man to seek and keep the peace. "He is NOT a great President. "He is NOT a leader." ONE can't help being reminded of the faU of 1935, when the GOP politicians who were OUT and wanted very much to get back IN were laying plans to take FDR to the cleaners in 1936. History tells us they didn't get very far. T ET'S close this hodgepodge with a tale about a boy and his dog and a porcupine. The boy and his dog were en joying an. autumn ramble in the wooded hills near his home town. Suddenly a porcupine ap peared in the trail ahead, wad dling along in the what-the-heck manner that porcupines have. TJEING a very small boy, and A having been well brought up as to guns in the immediate vi cinity of towns, he didn't have a .22 along. But he had been hearing about Porky's depreda tions in the growing timber that will some day provide raw ma terial for great' pulp and paper factories in Southern Oregon (along with large and very ac ceptable payrolls)," and ' he felt that something ought to be done. Lacking Other' weapons, he picked up a rock and bounced it off Porky's frame. But porcu pines are durable. This one wad dled right on. Another . rock brought no better results. - ; OIHAT nettled our hero. He was wearing a pair of heavy new boots, with stocky soles studded with hobnails, and he waded in to kick the stuffing out of Porky. The result? The net of it was that he RUINED a pair of new boots. The porcupine's quills penetrat ed the heavy leather, leaving the inside of them feeling just like interior of a well-stocked pin-cushion. V , " AT- that moment, the dog urariorl in - You know the' rest. The upshot of the affair was a pair of ruined boots and a prac tically ruined dog. , The porcupine waddled off. Porky is a rugged character.- - By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist the right one being much more developed than the left. All snakes lack movable eye lids, external ear openings, and breast bones. Some have up to 435 vertebrae.- A snake's teeth are not for chewing. They swallow their food whole. The teeth are used primarily for catching their prey and for pushing it into the stomach which can be greaUy distended to meet the occasions. Snakes may be born either alive or hatch from eggs. In the great majority of species, the mother take no interest what ever in her offspring. - A snake lives a comparatively short life: in captivity, only one snake has been known to live more than 29 years that was an anaconda. Others have lived 20 years or slightly longer. In the wild, it is highly improbable that they live that long what with predatory by birds, animals and diseases. One snake a relative of the Cobra and highly venomous has adopted itself to a marine life. To facilitate its progress in water its body is compressed from side to side and the. tail is flattened to form a most effic ient oar-like appendage. Valves close throat " and nostrils com pletely for submersion. These sea snakes, -which are confined to the Pacific and In dian oceans, go ashore only for egg laying, managing to climb about on slippery rocks. As soon as the baby snakes are hatched, they drop into the sea to begin their marine existence feeding entirely on fish. (Released by The McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the encyclo pedia "Americana, my panel of judges wiU 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 letters to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Cal. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although- under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is Dermis rible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Letter Said Unfair To the Editor: It aU depends what we are used to. That letter in the Mail Tribune by a tourist from Illinois condemning log ging truck drivers is most unfair. It is true they drive hard and load all the law allows. But that is necessary if the loggers are to have any take-home pay to mam- tain their way of life. In my six years covering the logging and sawmill scene over the six west ern states, "only one og-trucker was found who had his truck and trailer paid for and still in shape to haul logs. - Farther south and earliest logging was down old Santa Cruz way where logs were skidded to the ocean by ox-team and boomed onto sailing vessels for -delivery tA the Golden Gate for '49 gold rushers. No drivers on our highways are more conscious of other driv ers than the log-trucker. Often they wiU drive dangerously near the shoulder to wave following cars by. One went too far over at the Butte Fals intersection when an elderly couple came wheeling into Crater Lake high way, right in front of the speed ing log truck. Its driver did the usual thing, went way out, too far out and over the grade, sav ing the elderly couple from in jury or Joss of life. He survived and his rig was not too badly damaged. The telephone people had a new pole to install and a picture I got proves it alL Peo ple may not realize it but such action of log-truckers is common. I know it to be a fact, seen too much of it. Also, we must remember that logging in Oregon is a vital main stay to our economy and the day is not too. far distant when these loads of the "big sticks" will be but a memory. F.J. Clifford, 1211 West Main st, ' Medford, Ore. BLEMISHED RECORD Toledo, O. (U.R) Cars oper ated by David Sipple, 72, and Clinton Watts, 73, collided here, ending a total of 90 years of accident-free driving between them. STEADY WORK . Ellsworth, Mich. U.R) Tracy E. (Ben) Boss, 76, is serving his 47th term as treasurer of Banks Township. Boss was first elected in 1905 and has held the job continuously since then except for a four-year period when he took-time out to operate a farm. McCarthy Attention From Communist Spies By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The na tion's debate on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy aroused so many per sonal and po litical hostili ties on so many fronts that the matter of Com munist spying almost w a s o ver looked from time to time. The debate on Wisconsin's trie C. Wilson junior Repub lican senator has subsided. The Republican Party benched him as an undesirable in the 1954 congressional campaign. That pleased, if it did not entirely content, McCarthy's angry op ponents. The senator's , friends may find some comfort in the fact that with McCarthy on the Russia Not To Weaken Europe Defense Setup By, CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It looks as if Russia will not get far in its new attempt to weaken the Western . defense system. in Eu rope.. . . . On the con trary, there is every indica tion that the United States and its allies wiU continue to strengthen their position. Chancel 1 or Konrad A d e- Cnaxles Mccann . n a u e r a a- nounced emphaticaUy yesterday that despite the agreements he made in Moscow, he will pro ceed with the formation of a 500,000-man West German fight ing force. The Kremlin's smiling "new look," he said, is just a phase of the cold war, and its aim still is to conquer the world for Com munism. In Madrid, Air Force Secre tary Donald Quarles made it known that the United States not only wiU continue building its bases in Spain but may am plify its program. In announcing their intention to give up the Porkkala military base which they compelled little Finland to lease to them, the Russians invited the United States to abandon its foreign bases. Quarles' disclosure seems to constitute at least an interim re- dIv to that invitation. The United States program in Spain is little publicized. But it is important. For one thing. Spain's situa tion, at the southwest corner of the Pyrenees Mountains, is stra tegically strong. For another, while Commu nism might stiU become threat in France and Italy, there is no Communist problem in Spain. , Generalissimo Francisco Fran co agreed in 1953 to give the United States facilities for an ex tensive system of air and naval bases dotted all around the Span ish Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. There was considerable cold ness between the United States and Spain after World War II, in which Franco remained neutral. The United Nations maintained a. diplomatic boycott against him for a time. But Franco never was a threat to any other nation, and the dire threat of Russian aggression al tered the situation radically. Franco may be a dictator but he is considered a valuable ally. Because there is no bombast about him, he gets little publi city. It is little, known that the short, plump, mild-looking Span ish leader; now 62, had a long and brilliant military career. Nor that at a time when there was widespread corruption and inefficiency in the army, he was known nationaUy as a man of in corruptible honesty and of efficiency. Franco was made a captain in the army at 20 for heroism in action against rebels in Spanish Morocco. He rose to be chief of staff. . . - An unusual compliment was paid to him last weekl A French WHO GETS THE V, " BE AN EARLY BIRD Let us put your money to work in local . opportunities. o FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS A LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicatee' To These Whe Save Debate Almost Turned bench, the Republicans lost a congressional election.. However that may be, very recent developments in Great Britain. Australia and the Unit ed States strongly support sus picion that Communist spies are as aggressively active today as they ever were in the days of Alger Hiss. ' British newspapers suddenly are scalding the Foreign Office, the security set-up and official dom, in general, for permitting Guy Burgess and Donald Mac Lean to skip, the country during investigation of evidence that both foreign service officers were Soviet agents. British editors turned Red baiters and on their own offi cials when the evidence of a Soviet master spy, Vladimir M. Petrov, revealed the opportuni ties which MacLean and Burgess had and stiU have to weaken free world defenses. Expected Western Morroccan ; nationalist leader asked that Franco summon an international conference on the Moroccan crisis. He. praised Franco's rule in Spanish Moroc co ' and said real ' progress had been 'made there toward freedom. IIATIOIIAL RADIO & TELEUISI0I1 YJEEIU BUY NOW For Your Fall and Winter Home . Entertainment! 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TERMS ON APPROVED CREDIT (DdDUEY'S ;321 fi. 6TH ST. , in the Littrell Parts Building OPEN WEDNESDAY UNTIL 9:00 Petrov was the Russian MVD (Internal Affairs Department) espionage chief in Australia for some years until April 3, 1954, when he changed sides and be gan confessing alL His all re vealed penetration of the Aus tralian foreign office and con tained particular details of Mac Lean's and Burgess' activities, the latter as a member of the British Embassy in Washington, as well as the Foreign Office. Burgess was secretary In Wash ington of a committee of diplo mats dealing with atomic en ergy, possessed a pass to the United States Atomic Energy Commission office. This pair's activities as spies ceased in 1951 when, it now is established, they" fled to - the Soviet Union. But Petrov's gen eral information was more up to date. An Australian royal commission was set up last year to investigate Petrov's docu ments and his story. The com mission now has reported: . 1. From about 1943 until at least February, 1953, the Soviet Union was operating from its . embassy in Australia an espio- Q nage organization to collect mil- , itary information. 2. From 1943 until Petrov de serted in April, 1954, political espionage was separately being conducted from tfie embassy under . . auspices of Moscow's MVD. . 3. The Soviet also sought to organize spy rings to operate independently of the.embassy. APPLIANCE STORE . i in i n is ina i I i wt m PHONE 3-5433
