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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "i'verytjody ta Soutnern Orel on Heads me Mauinoune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 onnrDT U7 DTTTT1 FHitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oreaon under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily and Sunday One vear S12 .00 . . i r" : . . A fl Daily ana aunaay o' i""""" X .A Daily and Sunday Three mot SJQ bunaav uniy wire --r. . . By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, central ri. "v Jacksonville. Gold Hi.. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue P v, Talent ana on mvwi i"1" Dailv and Sunday 0 . .. T $13 00 Dailv and Sunday One mo.ith lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms aan in nonmt 6fflal Paper of the City of Medford Official paper o; United Press Full leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF LlHHJlrtl '' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY D.C Office In New York Chicago De troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocPatiIn NfWSPAMt ruiiHii XSSOCIATIOH Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 26. 1945 (It was Wednesday) G Southern Pacific announces plans to reinstate passenger service between southern Ore gon and San Francisco, first since 1942. From Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Re publican party is now accused of "beating the bush," by ad ministration leaders. It's the only thing they have beat since 1932. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 26. 1935 (It was Thursday) Manuel Quezon elected first president of Philippine Islands. City fireman goes away on hunting trip, friend leaves three porcupines at his home after hearing him say he'd like to raise some in captivity. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 26, 1925 (It was Saturday) Residents protest placing of 8 foot high fence around propos ed high school athletic field. C. E. Cook of Prospect suf fered the loss of an overcoat by theft last evening from his tour ing car, which was parked on Main st. near the Shasta confec tionery. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 26. 1915 (It was Sunday) Grizzlies club spends half day picnicking on Barneburg hill. Ashland hunter kills 500 pound cinnamon bear while hunting in Red mountain dis trict south of Ashland. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research teeert 1. In which one of these coun tries are the people predomi nantly Protestant: Austria. Bra zil, France, Portugal. Sweden? 2. Average Veterans adminis tration loan to veterans for busi ness is around $700, $1700, $2700, S3700 or $4700? 3. All 14 Original States were or weren't represented at the Convention in Philadelphia that drew ud the Constitution in 1787?' 4. The percentage of TV own ership is higher for families with children or for childless ones, or is it about 50-50? 5. About one-fourth, one-third, one-half, two-thirds, or three fourths cf all U.S. adults use eyeglasses? 6. Most U.S. lawyers are mem bers of the American Bar asso ciation: right or wrong? 7. Gertrude Ederle was or wasn't the first woman to swim the English Channel? The Answers: 1. Sweden. 2. Average around S2700. 3. Weren't (Rhode Island tent no delegates). 4. Higher for families with children. 5. About two thirds. 6. Wrong. 7. Was. MAY RECLAIM ARCTIC London vUR) Radio Moscow said today that "engineers with imagination" are considering a project to reclaim Arctic waste lands by damming up the Bering strait and pumping warm Pacific water into the Arctic ocean. The broadcast said North America and Europe would share in the benefits as well as the Soviet Union. MAIL TRIBUNE A-Plane We have watched the "Buz Sawyer" with a special interest the last few days. The strip's originator with the Navy, and on past occasions the first the public has known about velopment which the Navy been through the medium ink sketches. THE "Black Widow" plane developed during the war was shown first "VTO" (vertical take off) as soon as it was pictured sooner. The same was true of the "Seadart. With this background, we are watching with curi- osity the current adventure with the "Spook" for we have a pious hunch that we might well be seeing a preview of an atomic-powered airplane. The "Spook" in the comic strip, while so far un identified, could hardly be anything else but, and we are waiting with interest to see whether it's only the artist's imagination, or whether we really are getting a glimpse of a real atomic-powered plane, so iar Kept secret. E.A. Litterbugs, Drivers And Cars Bill Jenkins, manarinsr editor of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, writes an informal and chatty col umn for that paper. In a recent issue he commented about a p-ood new idea which the state highway com mission came up with recently, and which seems to be catching on in a highly Bill was just back from an auto tnp, and said : Interesting to note all through the valley and over on the coast the number of highway signs posted along the road that read "deposit litter bags one quarter mile." At almost every turnout and wide place in the road there are the fa miliar green barrels painted with the litterbug legend. And, hopefully, the highways seem to be a little less littered than they are in those areas where the litterbag has not been accepted as standard practice. When you drive into a service station over around the coast or in the valley nine times out of ten you'll see a sign in the window that tells you that litterbag service is available. A grand idea and one that we hope will spread all over the state. THE. columnist also noted something which had occurred to us on recent trips. Aside from the con stant minority of darn fools who are willing to risk their own and everyone else's neck by reckless driv ing, it had seemed to us that the general level of driving has been a little less hectic of late Bill confirms this impression, and says: . ... It seems that the cars get bigger and faster with each . year,, but the drivers are beginning to improve a bit, too. This trip we noticed that there were fewer people taking chances on curves, fewer that passed us with that roaring sound of urgency that lets you know the guy is driving way over his head. IIHICH brings us to one of our pet questions why ' do the automobile manufacturers keep making cars longer and longer and still longer? 'The fairly venerable vehicle which transports us to work fits nicely into the garage, with a few inches to spare. But a new model of the same brand would overhang by several inches, according to the ads which boast "Longer than ever, Lower than ever!" Doggone it, it's difficult enough to park as it is. E.A. . More Camps Needed The state highway department has made recent reports to the effect that tourist travel is up this year over last; that here was a slight increase in the num ber of campess-out among the tourists, and that the per capita use of the state's overnight camping facili ties was at a new high in Oregon this year. The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce con firms this, and reports that queries directed to that office ask more and more about overnight camping accommodations. . 1XELL, they're not nearly as numerous in southern " Oregon as they should be. None of the state parks hereabouts permits overnight camping, and the ex cellent camping areas provided by the Forest Service are largely overcrowded as it is and there are not enough of them. This year the tourists will have brought an esti mated $127,000,000 into the state, in the form of vacation expense money, which is of benefit to every one in Oregon. The big drive is to' pursuade him to stay a little longer and thus spend a1 little more money. - If the demand is for overnight camping areas, they should be provided, for if he can't find them here, he's apt to go where he can and take his money with him. The chamber's , tourist committee is studying the problem and is hopeful something can be done. E.A. Elks Eye Clink Will Receive $1200' Ontario (If.R) The Ore gon Elks eye clinic in Portland will receive S1200 as its share of the proceeds of the annual Ontario Elks all star football game played here Aug. 27. Gene Stewart, general chair man of the event, said the game earned a net profit of $2500 with half of it going to the Elks Con valescent Home in Boise and the balance to the Portland clinic. The game pits all-star players from the Snake River Valley against those from the Boise valley. Monday, September 26, 1955 Preview? Mail Tribune's comic strip seems to have a real in some new aeronautical de has kept hush-hush has of Roy Crane's pen and in "Buz Sawyer," and the plane was in the strip just anywhere else perhaps satisiactory manner. Ambassador Sought For European Community London (U.R) Reliable diplomatic sources reported to day that the United States has decided to create a new post of ambassador to the European Coal and Steel Community. They said Washington now is searching for a suitable candi date for the job of U.S. repre sentative to the six-nation heavy industry pool. Nomination of such a special envoy would em phasize continuing American in terest in European unity pro Wllliii ntiMiril .I 6y Smo. ill Hlli list Did you know that ... A male starling's bill turns bright yellow during the mating sea son. While the cones of the spruces hang down, those of all firs grow upright on branchlets. The tow ering Douglas fir of the north west is an exception but then, it's misnamed for a Scot botan ist who was lost in a bull-pit in Hawaii. It is not a member of the "true fir" family. Male and female crows which are all black from head to toe look exactly alike. Oaks grow in all- pleasant lands north of the equator. The nighthawk is no hawk at aU but an insect-eating bird and a first cousin of the whippoor will. It makes no nest. In the country it lays its two eggs on the bare ground and in the cities on flat graveled roofs. The pecan, largest of our hick ories, may grow in the wild to a height of 100 feet. The fine flavored, thin-shelled nuts grow in clusters of 3 to 11. The great blue heron which may stand four feet tall, flies with its neck folded back in a flat S look while its long legs trail out behind. In the dusk it may be mistaken for a crane at the waterside but in flight, the crane flies with its neck fully extended. Surely the best known flow er in the world must be the dan delion it is found in all in habited regions of the earth. The most gorgeously colored wild bird in 'North America is the male wood duck although its mate is a rather plain bird. It perches in a tree like a pig eon. Instead of a quack it has a purring whistle for intimate conversation and a buzzing whine for an alarm note. It nests in holes in trees, sometimes 40 feet off the ground. How the young get into the water within 48 hours is something of a mys tery although some authorit ies insist that the parents carry their young. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure. the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30 volume set of this world - famous ref erence 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 letter to: IS THAT SO! in care of the Medford Mail Trib une, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Communications ' Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is Dermis rible. The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Riparian Rights ' To the Editor: I am sure that many of the residents living ad iacent to the Rogue river will he interested in ah item in the Sep tember issue of the Oregon State Game Commission Bulletin re garding this question: Is there sucn a ming as "riparian rights" which allow fishermen to fish on nrivate nroDertv within . 1 n feet of the water's edge without first getting permission from the property owner? The answer is NO. Property owners adjacent to a non-navigable stream own to the center of the stream, ' hence, one may not walk along the bank or even wade m the stream with out committing a trespass on private property. On naviga ble streams the state nwns the bed and ud to the orrli narv high water mark of the stream. One may walk along the bank beiow sucn nigner water mark without committing a tresnnss on private property. On navi gable streams, however, some caution should be exercised for the reason that the state, hv lesis- lative, act and by state -land board leases or grants, has con veyed, in some instances either title or possession to private indi viduals in tne bed and banks of the stream. In a letter from the assistant attorney general of Oregon, I quote: itie ttogue River is con sidered navigable from its month to a point approximately 30 miles up tne river. The remain der of the river is non-navi gable." - M. H. Williams, Rt. 1, Box 255, ; Eagle Point, Ore. Ike's Illness Raises Question: Who Discharges Official Duties? Washington (UP.) Presi dent Eisenhower's illness has raised an ancient question: who runs the government when the president is ill? The constitution provides that the powers of the presidency "shall devolve" on the vice-president in case of the chief execu tive's death, resignation, or "in ability to discharge" the powers and duties, of his office. But no legal body has ever decided what constitutes "inab ility" to handle the presidency. Nor who shall decide when a president is in such a state. It was disclosed yesterday by White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty that the prob Saarlanders To Vote On Europeanization; Adenauer Appeals By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A tiny pocket of territory nes tled between France and. Ger many is likely to become the hottest spot in Europe soon. It is the Saar land, most pros perous and most thickly peopled area of Europe. Its people are Ger- m a n speaking and of German stock. Into its 990.9 Charles Mcca...i square mues 960,000 people are crowded- 968 to the square mile. Its wealth lies in its coal fields Saarlanders are to vote on Oct. 23 whether to give them selves a "European" status pend ing the final signature of a Ger man peace treaty. If they vote "yes," they will open a new chapter in their his tory; which dates back to Ro man times. Rioutous Meeting1 Campaigning has been under way since July. It has been gel- Partnership Power Development Said Of Long Standing Eueene (U.R) Parternship power devolpment has been the "historical policy" of the United States since reclamation first started under Theodore Roose velt, Clarence A. Davis, under secretary of interior, said here today. ' Davis, addressing Lane coun ty Republicans, said he thought his audience would be surprised to know that "during the per iod of 1906 to 1953 the federal eovernment was not building all the power plants." He said "in many cases it was operating on a partnership basis with states." Davis, for 15 years a private utilities lawyer and for 12 years a public power agency repre sentative, said that during the period 27 partnership projects were constructed in- 13 states wherebv the eovernment built the dam and leased power priv ileges to cities and private cor porations. He said that of the 27 pro jects, 12 were built during Re publican administrations. - Davie claimed that this part nership development added up to the traditional American pol icy regarding power, rather than the Roosevelt-Truman policies ol the past few years. He said that power needs could only be met by federal, state, cities and other public agencies working together. Many Americans Gel Extra Sleep - By UNITED PRESS Ahout 28.880.000 Americans in 11 states got an hour's extra sleep yesterday when their areas switched from daylight to stand ard time, i But people in 12 other states will have to wait until Oct. 30, the last Sunday in October, to get back the hour's sleep they lost when the change from stand ard to daylight time took place last Anril. fl j ' The traditional Sept. 25 change-over came in California in the West. TTeavilv nonulated areas in the Midwest and East will remain on daylight savings time for an other month. Osteopaths Report 100 Per Cent in UMC Osteopathic physicians and surgeons of Medford reported inrlav thev completed 100 per cent of their pledges to the Unit ed Medford Crusade last week before the kickoff of the united fund drive. A few of their emnlovees re main to be solicited, they report ed. Several of the pledges shew ed increases from last year, it was stated. it " ' p7 lem of finding someone to make decisions for the President, if it becomes necessary, is under con sideration. Hagerty has asked Deputy Attorney General Wil liam P. Rogers for an opinion on "any action that might be nec essary at any time for any dele gation of powers" by the Presi dent and "if any are permitted." Two Presidents Disabled Hagerty disclosed his action when asked what would happen if Mr. Eisenhower was not able to sign necessary official docu ments, or if his physicians refus ed to let him sign them. . Thus far in American history, only two presidents James A. Garfield and Woodrow Wilson ting steadily more heated. There have been some riotous cam paign meetings and there may be more. Leading the fight for Euro peanization is portly, jovial Jo hannes Hoffman, who is the Saar's prime minister. Hoffman also is foreign minis ter, . minister for European af fairs, public works minister, re construction minister and minis ter of education. Opposing are the leaders of three pro-German parties includ ing Heinrich Schneider, unre constructed Nazi who cherishes a photograph showing him in a brown-shirt uniform in Berlin in 1934. The Saar vote is being held in pursuance of an agreement made between West German Chancel lor Konrad Adenauer and Pierre Mendes-France, then premier of France. Adenauer has appealed to the people of the Saar to vote for Europeanization in the interest of European unity. At the same time he opposes Hoffman per sonally. He says the Saarland ers after accepting the new sta tus can throw Hoffman out and elect a new government. Saar Tied lo Franc The Saar has been tied eco nomically to France since the end of World War II. Its import ance to, France lies in its enor mously, rich coal mines which fit in with the iron mines of French Lorraine. . The French-Saar tie would be maintained if Saarlanders' ac cepted European status. But the Saar would be governed under the auspices of the Western European Union. The WEU is the framework within which West Germany allied itself to the West. If Saarlanders vote "yes" in the plebiscite it' will be a per sonal victory for Hoffman, the onetime newspaper editor who fought the German Nazis bitter ly for years and fled to Brazil during the war to escape the Gestapo. . . ...... Hoffman is a strong believer in complete European economic cooperation. A most unpreten tious man, he plays cards with a group of old friends each Friday night at a hotel in Saarbrueck en. His nickname is "Jomo." He has been threatened with death for his views on the Saar's fu ture. But he does not frighten easily. Young Adventurers End Ill-Fated Trip , Prince Albert, Sask. (U.R) Five of six . young adventurers who set out by canoe on an ill- fated 600-mile northern trip June 29 prepared today to re turn home. They reported that their leader had drowned. The five walked into Beaver Lake, a remote settlement 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle Saturday. A search had been organized as a precaution by Royal Canadian Mounted Police when the group was six days overdue at the Baker Lake Set tlement. Arthur Moffat, 35 - year - old geologist from Norwich, Vt., drowned while the group tried to shoot the rapids at Margue rite Lake. His companions re covered his body but left it be hind to be taken out by the RCMP. The others in the party were Bruce Le Favor, 20, Amsterdam, N.Y.; Peter Franck, 18, San Ma teo, Calif.; Fred Pressele Jr., Grosse Point, Mich.; George Grinnell, New York, and Ed-J ward Lanouette, 21, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Steelworkers To Demand Weefc-E nd Premium Pay Chicago (U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers will de mand premius pay for Saturday and Sunday work in the basic steel industry, USW President David J. McDonald said. McDonald told the annual con ference of USW District 31 yes terday that the demand, apply ing to 600,000 workers in the basic steel industry, will be made when contract negotiations be gin next year. have been unable to discharge their official duties for consid erable periods of time. Garfield was disabled July 2, 1881, when he was shot by an assassin. He died the following Sept. 19. Wilson collapsed Sept. 26, 1919, while on a speaking tour defending the Versailles treaty. He did not recover sufficiently to call his cabinet until the fol lowing April. Wilson's administration mean while "went to pieces," accord ing to the historian David S. Muzzey, Thomas Marshall, the vice president under " Wilson, was urged to call cabinet meetings and try to keep a hand 'on the reins. He refused. But Secretary of State Robert Lansing did call cabinet meet ings to get decisions on pressing matters of state. When Wilson partially recovered, he prompt ly fired Lansing. During recent debate on legis lation that put the speaker of the house next to the vice-president as successor to the presi dency, there was considerable talk about setting up provisions to deal with an incapacitated president. Suggestions included establish ment of some sort of . board of qualified physicians who would rule whether the chief executive was capable of performing his duties. Iowa Youngster Feared Kidnaped Mason City, la. (U.R) Agents of the State Bureau of Investi gation today joined 400 search ers in the hunt for a 8-year-old boy who disappeared Friday night and was feared kidnaped. The boy, Darrell Sherrill, has not been seen since he left a playmate's house to go home for dinner Friday. A search party of 400 Boy Scouts, volunteers, sheriffs dep uties and highway patrolmen scoured Mason City and a five-square-mile surrounding area for tne boy Sunday night. The searchers even dragged a mile of the Winnebago river, but found no clues. Sheriff G. D. Allen asked the state agents - aid on the teory that the boy, son of Dr. and Mrs. Harold Kaler, might have been kidnaped or be the victim Of foul play. National; Guard officers here also received permission to or der guardsmen into the ' search if it becomes necessary. . Another Iowa hoy, 8-year-old Jimmy Bremmer of Sioux City, was the object of a mass search last year. His body was finally found in a ditch and Ernest Triplett of Woodbine, la., is now serving a life term for his mur der, v Harmonica Music Halts; 'Music Thing' Retrieved Portland (U.R) Six-year-old Leslie Dee Johnson's parents didn't think a thing about it when the racket their daughter was making with a tiny toy har monica ceased yesterday. Not until she calmly announc ed, "Daddy-Mummy, I swallow ed that music thing." . Leslie was rushed to Portland General hospital where it took surgery to remove the "music thing" from her stomach. She had apparently sucked too, hard on one note and the tiny instru ment, ' about the size of a lip stick case, was drawn into her stomach. BREW MASTERS MEET San Francisco (U.R) Some 1000 master brewers meet here today in the 48th annual conven tion of the Master Brewers Asso ciation of America, an organiza tion with the avowed purpose of "making good beer and ale even better." FUNERAL SERVICES -"-. In Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 PERL Americans Pray For Recovery of Stricken President By UNITED PRESS Americans turned to God to day ,with prayers for President Eisenhower's recovery. , The prayers went up from practically every church offer ing services. In Jewish syna gogues they, were coupled to day with the observance of the religion's most solemn holy day, Yom Kipper. The prayers were also echoed in the hearts of millions of Am ericans, from political leaders to the man on the street, from the big cities to the quiet farm towns. More prayers and good wish es came frpm overseas, from government heads, statesmen, royalty, and Vatican officials. Stevenson's Message The appeals for Mr. Eisenhow er's complete recovery knew $o political, sectional, or religious boundaries. Adlai E. Stevenson, titular leader of the Democrats and the man president Eisenhower de feated in 1952, called on all Am ericans "regardless of our politi- cal and other differences .... to earnestly pray for his speedy and total recovery." The same message was sent to the Denver White House by state governors and by legisla tors and political leaders in Washington. At church services, the usual prayers for the President took on a new -meaning. Home. Town Church ' Such was the case atbilene', the Kansas town where Mr. Eis enhower grew up. The shocked residents filled churches yester day to offer prayers for the health of Abilene's most famous son. In Washington, President Eis enhower's paster, at the request of Mrs. Eisenhower, led 1800 worshippers yesterday in pray-o 0 ers for the chief executive's re- covery. The Rev. Edward L. R. Elson, paster of the National Presby terian church, said worshippers at the church's two morning ser vices appeared grave and con-. cerned as they joined in the prayers. Dr. Elson said Mrs. Eisenhow er had requested that prayers "be offered for the President in all churches. - For Wool Scheduled Washington (U.R) A big na tional wool promotion campaign financed by producers them selves is tentatively scheduled to be launched next summer. A spokesman for the Agricul ture Department made the state ment ' in discussing recent ap proval by 72 per cent of the growers voting in a referendum of the promotion program. , The program would provide about $3,000,000 a year for pro motion of wool and Iamb by tax ing growers themselves one cent a pound, on payments cn lambs and yearlings. It was part of the overall wool program approv ed by Congress at its last season. AFB Leaders Discuss Slumping Farm Prices Chicago (U.R) Leaders or the American Farm Bureau fed eration from all over the nation met today to study the problem of slumping farm prices. About 150 federation officials, including presidents of state farm bureaus from every state and Puerto Rico, were scheduled to take part in the five-day meet ing. ... Included on the agenda were studies of the administration's price support program and the a federation's "soil bank" plan to aid farmers. JJ PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are In keeping with its means. A selection of services in every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!