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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) -Everybody in Southern Oregon Beads Th Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7- North Fir St. Phone 2-611 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertisine Manager B C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC A I.I, FN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor iinr lArifVIN Sundav Editor CERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at lledlord, Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. ioi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year f 13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moi. 3.30 Sunday Only One year 3J0 By Carrier In Advance Medford, 3 Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent nH An mntnr routes: Dai and Sunday One year S15.00 Dairy and Sunday une montn iua Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy. All Terms Cash in Aavance Official Pper ol the City of Medford Official Paper or jacason tmut? United Press Full Leased Wire ""MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: T.nni.UDAV COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De- .! Can tmiHiM Los Anaeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL iNIWSPAMI USUSHIM 'ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune X0, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1945 (It was Sunday) -One of earliest heavy snow falls blocks Crater Lake park entrances, about 16 to 20 inches on rim road Saturday. From Arthur Perry'i Ye Smudge Pot column: Statistics show in the Oregon field of ro mance, the lawyers are busy dis solving what the preachers weld ad together. o YEARS AGO Sept. 23, 1935 (It was Monday) - -Max Baer-Joe Louis to fight at 7 p.m. in New York, Yankee stadium, today. Mall Tribune bargain days subscriptions up 29 per cent over last year. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1925 Two local men granted $2,500 permit to construct building on corner of 8th and Front. ' From the Local and Personal column: A medicine show is hold ing forth at the corner of Sixth and Holly streets, giving free hows every night. Harold Fields is the leading man of the cast, who is said to have formerly been with the Keith's vaudeville cir cuit. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 23. 1915 New $60,000 Elks club house dedicated today. County assessor, members of state fish and game commission leave for Butte Falls to inspect site for proposed fish hatchery on Big Butte. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rape 1. Chrysler Corp. units made a larger or smaller proportion of all cars so far this year than in the same period last year, or about the same? ; 2. 750 Lafayette st. is the resi dence of ex-President Truman, ex-President Hoover, Mrs. F. D, Roosevelt, Mrs. Woodrow Wil son, or President Eisenhower's mother-in-law? 3. A typical U. S. city spends more every year on its streets, hospitals, police force, fire de partment, or schools? .? 4. About 50, 55, 60, 65 or 70,000,000 paying jobs are now filled in the U. S.? 5. Very few, about half, or al most all state legislatures met 31 Qthis year? 6. Home ownership has in creased more or less than the number of families in the last seven years, or stayed the same? 7. "America" ("My . country 'tis of thee") was composed by Stephen Foster or John Howard Payne or neither? The Answers: 1. Larger pro portion. 2. President Eisenhow er' mother-in-law in Denver. 3. Schools; 4. About 65.000.000. 5. Almost all. 6.- Increased 'more than families. 7. Neither, but by Samuel F. Smith. , DADS REBEL Hartford, Vt. OJ.R) Fathers nere charged that their wives had too big a voice in the af fairs of the Parent Teachers association and decided to do something about it. At the last election they mustered' enough votes to put males into all of the PTA offices. MAIL TRIBUNE One Mans Influence On contemplation, it is astounding how the actions and thoughts and decisions of one man sometimes can change the way of life of an entire nation. Most of us recognize this up to a point in acknowl edging that the United States would be different than it is today were, it not for the influence of such men as Abraham Lincoln, for instance, or Franklin Roose velt. (Even FDR's detractors will admit that he did much to change the tenor of American life whether for good or ill is still being debated.) see THIS week we have had our attention called to the fact that tomorrow is the 200th birthday anniver sary of one such man a man who had a profound influence on the life of America for generations to come. His name was John Marshall. Ever hear of him? He was Chief Justice of the United States Su preme Court during the years 1801 to 1835, when the young nation was slowly feeling its way along, test ing its procedures of government and the theories on which they were based. POR an understanding of just how this man's opin r ions influence our lives today, it is necessary to keep in mind two things. The first is the system of checks and balances and separation of powers which holds the three great divisions of government the legislative, the executive and the judicial to be co equal. The second is how law is formed. As to the first, the constitution makes no precise declaration as to the co-equal status of the three divisions of government, and it was through the de cisions of John Marshall that this concept, so vital to our way of ruling ourselves, grew up. . The story is told of how Marshall, in one of these early, crucial decisions, bad occasion to rule on the action of another division of government a decision which might have been protested, and which could have resulted in great confusion. He ruled, however, that the action in question had been proper UNDER THE CONSTITUTION. The de cision was accepted, because it was favorable, and so the implied qualification, that the .Supreme Court had the power to rule whether or not actions of government are -constitutional, also was accepted. It was thus that a pre cedent was established, making future similar decisions easier. "v. TJHE second thing necessary to understanding, how law is formed, we checked with an attorney friend, who explained that there are are : ' Statute, or written law. dinances to enactments of laws enacted by, Congress. which laymen are most familiar. Common, or unwritten only in the sense that it is not enacted by legislative authority. It embodies the decisions of courts, the precendents established in prior decisions, and there are thousands of volumes containing these and re lated legal background. It is a tremendous mass of material, ever changing, ever in flux as new decisions are made, new cases tried, new precedents established. Administrative law. This cretion on the body politic, regulations and decisions commissions and departments which, through delega tion of powers, have the force of law. IT WAS in the second division, the common or un-- written law, that John Marshall made his contribu tion some 500 court decisions he wrote over a period of 34 years which formed the basis for decisions and interpretations in later years covering nearly every phase of the constitution. He gave the Supreme Court an authority he be lieved the founding fathers intended it to have. He clarified the separation of powers, which had before never been clearly defined. He liberally interpreted the implied powers given the federal government in the constitution, and narrowly interpreted the powers given the states permitting the growth "of a strong nation. e CHIEF Justice Earl Warren said recently of Mar shall l "Stone by stone, he built the foundation of our constitutional structure, and he constructed it suf ficiently strong to support everything we have since built upon it." : It was Marshall who' made firm and strong the right of any citizen of the nation to seek redress from the courts for any injury under the law, and whose leadership of the court established it as the most august and powerful in the history of civilized gov ernment, s..' - , TPHE other details of Marshall's careerhis early years as a young lawyer handicapped by the lack of any great education ; his growth to prominence as a Virginia lawyer; his service as an officer in the Revo lutionary Army; his terms in the Virginia legislature and service in the state convention which ratified the Constitution he was later to strengthen and solidify; his service in Congress, and his missions abroad for the state department; his short term as secretary of state these fade into relative unimportance in light of the great contributions he made to our form of government. He was appointed to the high bench by President John Adams, who later said: "My gift of John Marshall to the people of the United States was the proudest act of my life." E. A. Friday, September 23. 1955 three types of law. These This ranges from city or state legislatures to federal This is "the law" with law. This is "unwritten" is a relatively recent ac and represents the rules, of governmental boards, In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Weather note: ' - Communities in eastern North Carolina are'- tackling the big task of rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane 'lone, which left five dead in the area and dam age estimated as high as $100, 000,000. rpHE five dead can't be brought back to life. The physical damage, howev er, wiU be repaired, and after the job is done physical facili ties will be NEWER AND MORE MODERN than before. That's AMERICA A WORD now about Hilda. Mexico has counted at least 183 dead and 100 missing in the Gulf port of Tampico where rampaging Hilda wreaked her fury. Property damage was huge. I'm not so sure about what will 'happen there. Mexico's economy is less stable than ours. A stable economy is a WON DERFUL thing to have. TjiARM problem advice from a dirt farmer: President George Wilson of the California Farm Bureau Fed eration told a Farm Bureau meeting in Fresno: "The solution lies in DISPOS ING of farm surpluses (getting them CONSUMED, he means), aggressive selling of all com modities and research leading to reducing crop production costs." He added: "The farm problem must be approached as an ECONOMIC problem, rather than a political issue in the 1956 election. Agri culture will suffer if the farm income decline becomes a , po litical issue." " FOR the first time (October 4 YlMll U iU A.! . 1 i SOLAR BATTERY which is a jigger to DRAW ENtlRRY FROM THE SUN will be used to power a rural telephone sys tem near Americus, Ga. The vice president in ehareo of research at BeU Laborators, Dr. James Fisk, says the solar battery comrjares in effieienrv with the best steam plants gen erating electricitv from rn1 nr oil and to the nower a ra.cnlina engine derives from burning the nignest octane fuel. THE point: Sunshine COMES FOR FREE when the sun shines. It doesn't even require ura nium. Ttf ORAL for Southern Oregon: ATA We'd better get the power in our great rivers developed WHILE SOMEBODY STILL WANTS TO DEVELOP IT. Here's whv: Southern California fmoanino California south of the Tehacha pi) has 42 per cent of the state's population and ONLY TWO PER CENT of the state's water. Los Angeles exnects within a decade or so to be the world's largest city. Already it is antici pating' a solid city running from oanxa xsamara on the north to San Diego on tho smith ,-. to say, a city .200 MILES LONG. j-.acK or. enough water is re garded as the onlv nrictanlo standing in the way of realiza tion oi xms laouious dream which isn't so fabulous, at that. 1TEEP this in mind: To support a city of the size Los Angeles envisions will re quire every LOOSE drop of wa ter (meaning every drop of water that is uncommitted to beneficial use) in California and Southern Oregon, -if ' A city of that size and im portance will have ALL THE MONEY THAT IS NEEDED to move uncommitted water from where it is to where it is wanted. WE'D better lose no time in 1 ' committing ALL of our wa ter to beneficial use which in cludes agriculture, industry. power and recreation. . . It's better to be safe than sorry. Food Prices Down San Francisco U.R) Food prices in San Francisco and Portland declined more than one per cent from mid-July to mid August, the U.S. Depart ment of Labor's Bureau of Sta tistics announced today. ' The department also said that retail prices in Seattle and Los Angeles had taken a slight dip in August with lower food costs heading the downturn. The major reason for the drop in food prices, the department said, was seasonal with prices of fruits and vegetables declin ing as much as 10.8 per cent be tween July and August in San Francisco. Meats, poultry and fish were down .09 per cent in San Francisco, while dairy prod ucts showed no change. The average decline was 1.5 per cent Food prices in Portland de clined 1.2 per cent with fruits and vegetables taking the big gest drop 6.7 per cent. Meats, poultry and fish were down 1.8 per cent, while dairy products dipped one half per cent. 1 Seatle food prices declined .9 per cent from May to August, but a 12 per cant increase in the AN APPLE A DAY Might keep the doc away but you wouldn't want to stay away from Pat Carter as she offers this apple along with an in vitation to attend the Fair and Apple Show at Boonville, CaL, Sept. 23-25. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi 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. By Magic Carpet? To the Editor: It would seem the man from Moline, 111., trans ported himself to our fair state by magic carpet to have not met any log trucks en route; his in formation about the loggers was possibly passed on to , him by some tourist who was awed by the log trucks that are no more dangerous than the tankers, lum ber or freight trucks met on any highway in the U.S. . . Possibly he doesn't know where the logs come from; 1 wonder if he was told of the log ging roads so twisting and nar row that an empty truck going up the mountain must back down to a wide spot when meeting a loaded truck coming down, of the grades of say 37 per cent, in some places. Does he think a wild and reckless driver would last long there? Does he realize many of these men own their trucks, and are very particular . about them, keeping them in top condition; also that each truck is heavily insured? Does he think these men are so money-mad they will run down anything on the highway just to make an extra load, and run the risk of having their in surance canceled? . Mr. Wilkings should have checked the District Court rec ords published in our. paper daily to see how alert our patrol officers are. He paints a word picture of wild men behind the wheel of log trucks running down motorists and pedestrians as though" that were a favorite pastime here. He should have checked statistics, on the per centage of log truck accidents against motor car accidents, be fore writing that biased letter condemning the .logger who holds a very important place in Oregon's greatest industry. - If it were not for the alertness of the logger there would prob ably be less tourists here, when they insist on traveling at a very slow speed to see the seen ery, parking too close to the highway or coming to an abrupt stop to look at some beauty spot, seldom checking to see what might be behind them; but log' gers .expect that year after year, taking it in their stride as they do muddy roads, wandering stock and tickets. All we can say is that some one, perhaps, from Moline will visit our fair city, and undo the wrong this man has done in his ignorance of the situation. Mrs. E. D. Mayberry, . (A Logger's Wife) 2070 Kings Highway, " Medford, Oregon. In Coast Cities cost of wearing apparel offset lower prices on other objects leaving the average price level only .2 per cent below the May level. The average retail price in Los Angeles dropped .3 per cent between July and August with a 1.3 per cent drop in food costs leading the; downward 4 turn. Slight increases in housing and reading and recreation helped offset the decline in food, trans portation, apparel and personal care. SMART DECISION x - Bangor, Me. (U.R) .A patrol man stared suspiciously at a man who was weaving unstead ily toward an automobile. The man was about to get into the car when he noticed the stern look on the patrolman's face. He shrugged his shoulders, turned and hurled the Ignition keys into a nearby stream. "You're right," , he told Patrol man' Neal A. Ryder. "I'm too drunk to drive." Dead line for Sunday Classified la noon Saturday: 10 a an. Monday far Monday; other daja SM previous day. Piwabsoii ... By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special to Mail Tribune) The first White House Conference on Education has been called by President Eis enhower to meet in Wash ington Nov. 28 through Dec. 1. Why will this be such an im portant meet ing? The first rea- w, son is because there is an acute shortage of teachers. Hence, . we must find a' way to attract many more good people into the teach ing profession. There is a shock ing inadequacy of school hous ing. Cities and towns already overburdened by heavy tax loads must also find a way to build many more school build ings much more cheaply than they have in the past. ' Just 24 months ago our popu lation totaled 160,000,000. To day it has passed 165,000,000, and is increasing at a rate of about 2,700,000 a year. This means that for every 100 stu dents now in classrooms there will be 121 by 1960, and 136 by 1965. There will be 476,000 new classrooms needed by 1960, plus the teachers to fill them. It has been estimated that our schools wUl need $10,000,000,000 more annually to operate in 1965 than they do today. It is to cope with this crisis that the White House Conference has been called. Local Preparations Needed , At least 40 state school board associations have already had regional planning meetings. Lo cal citizens' meetings by the thousands will get into full swing this month. At a National bchool Boards Association meet ing scheduled for Sent. 29 to Oct. 1 in Kansas City. Mo., the Ques tion will be discussed as to how business, industry, and the pro fessions can contribute tech niques and ideas that will be useful in the field of education. May I urge readerst o get into these discussions at the grass roots? How many school children must Medford, Ore., accommo date during the next decade? How much of the problem can be solved by remodeling old build ings and how much new build' ing will be needed? Is Medford paying high enough salaries to . Bab-tern Editorial Comment RED HAT DAY TODAY Deer. ,. hunting - season : opens Oct. 1 and, if past experience is a guide, a headline about Oct. 3 will call attention to a . story that says one or two hunters were . killed . by other hunters. Last year, 13 hunters were killed by misplaced : bullets. Scores more were injured. This is seri ous. It is also darned unneces sary. And it's preventable. So comes the Izaak Walton League, Gov. Paul Patterson, and a host of others who have ' at least a partial solution. ' An appeal for driver safety, hunter safety,' etc. must have a gimmick. This gimmick for better use of firearms and better sportsmanship among hunters is "Red Hat Day." Everybody the butcher, the baker, the tee vee repairman, even the house wife is asked to wear a red hat Friday, and to remember to take it along if he goes into the woods. Goal of the campaign is pro motion of better sportsmanship, respect for the rights and prop erty of others, firearms safety, observance of game laws, and prevention of range and forest fires. Safety In the use of firearms is the most important phase of the program. But of only slightly secondary value are the other phases sportsmanship and re spect of rights, property of others. Sportsmen throughout the Northwest are becoming more and more concerned about the decreasing amount of land open to hunting. Everywhere in the land we see "No Trespassing No Hunting" signs. The hunter just isn't welcome on many pri vate lands. , And well he deserves it. Too many times the farmer has found an unpleasant aftermath to hunting season, locks shot off gates, cows killed, signs used for target practice. And too many farmhouse windows are broken by . stray shotgun pellets. As is the case in so many -phases of 'the social scene, a careless mi 231 JOWL BACON 23'u,: T Education keep its good teachers and to attract new teachers? How much will the annual operating budget have to be in creased by 1965?, How will this affect the tax rate? How can we get the most judic ious use of school dollars? These are questions to which, as an intelligent citizen, you should have objective, unprejudiced answers. I hope the White House Conference will move in this di rection. Solution to Shortage One of my readers, William C. Wooten of Greensboro, N.C., has come up with a suggestion for relieving the teacher short age. I hope my readers will give this idea some consideration. He proposes a free college educa tion with a bachelors degree for all qualified students of State Universities who will agree to become teachers for a certain number of years in our public schools upon graduation from such a State University. He says that since most states now have publicly operated universities, it would be a relatively simple matter to arrange for a paid up education. I believe 'that we have scores of intelligent persons of excel lent character not entirely finan cially able to attend college, who would accept such an arrange ment. This plan offers a way to attract and hold within the teaching profession a number of bright young people. Further more, it offers to these prospec tive teachers a post-college train ing in human nature and execu tive experience such as an in tern has at a hospital before get ting his M.D. Any such teacher after successfully completing such additional years of teach ing should perhaps be awarded an M.A. degree. Help in Other Work If any teacher should desire thereafter to change from teach ing into some other work, these years of post-training would help in getting a good position, or in case of an unmarried woman a good husband! Of course, some details would have to be worked out for men becoming eligible for military service. I hope the White House Confer ence will not allow Itself to get bogged down in educational gob- bledegook, but will discuss the above serious problems with dis patch, and in a democratic real istic' manner. - - nority has punished a careful majority. . j . ' Lest something" be done, sportsmen groups believe, hunt ing will become "clubbish" and "socialized." Throughout the East a hunter must buy a spe cial permit and hunt under strict regulation or join a sportsmen's club, paying a large amount for his fun. This regimentation should be prevented. It's a traditional right of Americans to bear arms. It's also a part of the west's free dom. To have this privilege taken away or qualified would be regrettable. : . , So, hunters, we must do as best we can to keep our hunting privilege. "But every . privilege carries a responsibility. Be care ful, be a good sport, respect the landowners position, be cautious with fires. Be a respectable 'and responsible sportsman. We take our red .hats off (or should we may put them on?) to the governor's committee. It's a big step on the right track. Eugene Register-Guard. Chicago U.R) Gilda Berk man, 19, of Havana, Cuba, start ed classes at the Illinois College of Optometry and discovered she was the only girl among a fresh man body of 115. MOHEY GROWS quickly when Invested here . . . where INSURED SAFETY and LIBERAL EARNINGS await your savings. Open an account tomorrow and get these worthwhile s a v i n s from now on. o FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS A LOAN ASSW of Medford 27 North Holh An Institution Dedicatee1 Te These Who Sare ' SIXTH ST. EAST BEEF ROAST W Lb. PORK ROAST Boxcar Lack io Force Coquille Mill Closure Coquille U.R) TheOboxcar shortage on Southern Pacific lines will force closure of the Coquille Plywood Co. tonight. according to President George Ulett. 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