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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Trerybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday bj MEDFORD PRINTING CO. S7-39 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of aaarcn a. iowi BTTDCTB I WIMOM RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c c.Mlav fnm v,nr S12. 1.00 Tv.il. i CunitiviT months Daily and Sunday Three moa. 930 Sunday uniy -me -'v. i i i Dnint Far? 1 Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove, ttogue luvci. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15. C Daily and-Sunday One month 1J Carrier and -Dealers 5c per copy All Terms i.asn in rmvqwv" Official Paper of the City of Mediord orncuu raper oi United Press Full Leased Wire . MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU nrccip uni i miV rnMPANY INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco Los AnKeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.c NATIONAL EDITORIAL sThrlus.TuoN r. -r I " - -. t - - NIWtPAPII PUsUltHItt ASSOCIATION Flight o'Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1945 at was Friday) Marilyn Bohnert's steer. Beau, wins.grajid champion honors at county 4-H fair. From Arthum Perry's, Ye Smudge Pot column: A com mentator avers any wholesale and complete abolishment of federal bureaus would cause qpnfusion. Even so, there is al ready so much confusion it would not be noticed. Besides, Washington, D.C., has enjoyed a monopolistic control of con fusion, and competition would do harm. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1935 (It was Saturday) Move to, light Ashland football field receiving widespread sup port. - Opening of fall and winter classes of Medford Study club of the American Savings, Build ing and Loan Institute. - 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 28, 1925 (It was Monday) Two youths arrested at Eagle Point dance for illegal posses sion of moonshine. Plead inno cent. - From the Local and Personal column: Heston tirieve came down to the city yesterday from Prospect to rush back home some medicine for his father, James E., and fresh peanuts and film magazines for his grand father, John, assistant consult ing architect for the new union high school at Prospect. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Mediord hunting apples for exhibit at Oregon building and Rogue River hunting deer for venison feed. May company gives fall style show. . What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The U. S. does or doesn't hold the Ryukyu and Bon islands in the Pacific as a trustee for U. N.? 2. Athletes as a whole live much longer than non-athletics; right or wrong? 3. Secretary of State Dulles has never run for high public office, or has run and been elected, or has run and been de feated? 4. It's easier or harder for 0 Sma9 Business units as a whole than for Big Business units to get long-term credit, or about the same? 5. Macedonia is or isn't a sep arate state in the Balkans? 6. The Congressional Record, telling what happens on the Senate and House floors, costs about $8, $18, $80, $180 or $800 a page to print? . , 7. Which of these Generals served as Army Chief of Staff: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Mar shall, Bradley, Ridgway? The Answers: 1. Doesn't (but does over other Pacific islands). 2. Wrong. 3. Was defeated (1949) for' U.S. Senator from N.Y. 4. . Harder for small business. 5. Isn't. 6. About $180 a page. 7. All of ihem. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday-. 10 a m. Monday for Monday; other day 5 JO previous day. MAIL TRIBUNE .Last of The Whooping Cranes One of the Mail Tribune's readers, we were de lighted to learn not long ago, is a sincere friend of the whooping crane. We have news for her; a critical time for the cranes is fiere. THE fall migration from the newly-discovered breeding grounds in Canada to the winter nesting place in Texas is about ready to begin. And the Na tional Audubon society reports the migration this year will have a new significance. A total of five young whooping cranes, who were hatched in June and who needed until this month to grow to a size for migration, must join the adult birds on the 2,500-mile journey south. The all-important question the Audubon society asks is: How many of them will get through safely? THE long flight is the most dangerous time for the whooping crane population, and only 21 birds re mained last year out of the flocks that once filled the sky. Those that are still alive have been given winter sanctuary at the Aransas National Wildlife refuge near Austwell, Tex. The summer headquarters are in the remote wilderness of northwest Canada so remote that they are relatively safe there. Teams of field biologists working for the U.S. and Canadian governments and . for the Audubon society located these breeding grounds for the first time this year. Since human conservationists are working so hard to protect the cranes, it is a bit ironic to know that the increasing' population of human beings is the greatest threat, to the big, almost-extinct birds. " . THE Audubon society says: . Last fall, for the first time since protection efforts began;: the whooping cranes (21 of them) came back to Texas with out a single young bird to add to their dwindling numbers. Will the five young that have been raised this season be spared, or are they to be thoughtlessly and needlessly de stroyed as they attempt to cross western Canada and Central United States to their ancestral winter home on the coast of Texas? ' - i ' It takes the awkward birds almost two months to fly the long trip, and the appeals to hunters and others all along the route. We won't see any in Medford. But we can hope, with the Audubon society, once-great flock can survive and prosper, and not go the way of the carrier pigeon and other species that lost out to man. E.A. . Hugh Pruett It was with a sense of personal loss that we read of the death, at 69, of J. Hugh Pruett, the Northwest's best-known astronomer, in Eugene this week. We had met Mr. Pruett only once; but on that oc casion, and in reading his appeared in the Mail Tribune for many years, we had been impressed with this man,: with, his philosophy of life, and with his dedication to the cause of science tempered with a broad humanitarianism and a spirit ual awareness. - AT his home on the bills Observatory," a small area protected from conflicting laurel hedge. ".' ."" There, night after night, and youngsters who had the mysteries of the heavens. . - His reward was not paid in coin, but in the know ledge that he was contributing to a knowledge of the universe around us, in a broadening of the conceptions of eager young people. He was, in:a sense, a dedicated man. : 'C ' . UIS best-known work in recent years was as an officer of the American Meteor society, and in the newspapers on the days following the appearance of some particularly spectacular -night-time visitor from the skies, it was usual formation about the height, direction, speed and ap nearahce of the "falling stars." His contribution to the of meteorites was a considerable one, covering as it did much of the Pacific coast. We-shall miss his friendly column in the Mail Tribune. One copy arrived this week for publication in next Sunday's paper. We believe writing it was one 11 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 ITTil.'L. !L- 1-1- 4-? w oi me last uungs ne aia. vviui ius puuucauuii aume thing satisfying and friendly and understanding, the work of a man at home in the world and at peace with his God, will be gone. E.A. ; Plan Suggested To Chicago U.R) A leading farm official has suggested a plan similar-to the old Agricul tural Adjustment act to help cut surplus farm products. The plan was offered Tuesday by E- Howard Hill, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau federa tion to the American Farm Bu reau federation's national com modity advisory committee. Under it, the federal govern ment would pay farmers from 5 to 7 per cent of their land pro ducing value as estimated by a township agricultural stabliza tion and conservation commit tee. , The government would also pay farmers an amount equal to taxes on the land. In return, the government would get a lease on the land for 5 to 25 year periods, and farmers would be able to plant suca land only In fertility ratt Wednesday, September 28, 1955 Audubon society is making that this last remnant of a weekly column which has e in eastern Eugene, he did in his yard which was lights by a tall English .'--v? he would talk to students come to him to learn about to see his request for in recording of the pattern Curb Surplus er than consumer crops. HiU said that the program might cut 40,000,000 acres year ly from U.S. farm production. Judge's Questions Lead to fine or Jail New Orleans (U.R) Charlie Jenkins claimed in court Tues day he failed to answer ques tions at the scene of An accident because he Is hard of hearing and was not drunk. "How old are you?" Judge Howard Taylor asked in an or dinary voice. "Twenty -eight, your , honor, Jenkins said. "How much do you weigh?" the judge whispered. "One hundred sixty-five, your honor," Jenkins replied without hesitation. "Seventy-five dollars or two days," the judge said. i i f : v h COMPLETING 10 years of im prisonment as war criminal, ex-Grand Admiral Erich Rae der la released from Berlin's Spandau PrisonYntemationaZJ Average Earnings Increase in Oregon Salem (U.R) Longer working hours during August increased average earnings of Oregon's 140,000 production workers to $91.53, highest since employers' reports have been processed by the State Unemployment Com pensation in co-operation with the U. S. Bureau of Labor Sta tistics. Average hourly pay declined 3 cents from the $2.27 figured for July, but the work week jumped 2.1 hours to 40.9, about 1.2. hours higher than a year ago. The weekly check was $3.30 above the previous month and $6.14 higher than in 1954. Lumbering and food process ing with more than 100,000 em ployees were mainly responsible for the new peak, but gains were recorded in nearly every main industry. Matter of Editor's note: The foilowlnf Is a Sersonal report by Joseph- Alsop to is brother, . Stewart Alsop, who has just returned from a three-month trip abroad. -Washington Dear Stew: There were all sorts of things that I had been saving up to tell you about the state of the na tion in accordance with our family custom, when the news of the President's illness so sudden ly and darkly overshadowed everything else. If isn't necessary to point out to you that despite the natural Eisenhower vigor and courage, this must change every domes tic political prospect. In the American, and indeed in the world political pattern, it is al most as though the keystone of the arch were suddenly re moved; and everything had to be rebuilt on a new design. You will, of course, have sensed all this. I don't want, either, to sound commemorative or obituary, for the country can reasonably hope as the country is no doubt active ly praying, that the President has many active and fruitful years ahead of him. But at this time, when the strongest nation on earth has had its coUective breath knocked out by a few tragically clotted blood cells weighing no more than a seruple of a scruple, it seems to me ap propriate to balance the ac counts, as it were, and to see what debt is owing to Dwight D. Eisenhower. You and I decided long ago, you will remember, to call the turns as we saw them in this Administration, as we have tried to do in the past. Because no administration is ever perfect, and because we have described the imperfections, I suspect that a lot of people think we are hos tile to the Eisenhower adminis tration. But although a great many of his subordinates have claimed it for him, President Eisenhower has never been the sort of man who claims unquali fied adulation. When you add up the balance sheets, however, I think it is very ' clear that the debt this republic owes to Eisenhower to date is a truly gigantic debt. The best way I can sum it up is to say that he has restored our sanity and decency. TTNLIKE a great many others, V I would not for one moment blame President Truman for the loss of sanity and decency which President r Eisenhower cured. I would blame history. Suddenly, after the last war, this country discovered that all the old famil iar circumstances of American life were no longer familiar and had become alarming and even painful. The protecting oceans no long er protected. The external threat which had once been so laugh able was no longer possible to laugh at. The world burden which had been so trivial be came, - almost between two breaths, all but too heavy to carry. In the image Sir Winston Churchill once used to you. America went forward, like a great horse grimly pushing for ward on the coUar, grimly drag ging onward the cart of freedom in the world. Yet there were those among us who not unnaturally rebelled Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Act of Courtesy To the Editor: I want to take this means of commending a truly rare individual one good Christian among the loggers in our area, for if the present haz ardous situation on our roads is ever to change for the better, it is even more necessary to praise the good where it exists, than to condemn the evil. Last Friday we were en route to Squaw lakes for an overnight camping trip with guests from Los Angeles our party travel ing in two cars. As we neared our destinationwe met a loaded log truck traveling down grade at a rate of speed wholly consist ent with safety. The driver didn't just slow down. He stopped! And he waited for us to pass at a point where the road was wide enough to do so. Not only that, he remained there when we told him another car was coming, until our guests had also passed in safety. This unprecedented behavior so overwhelmed me that I failed to get his name. I can only re call that he was driving a red truck with a Medford address, but I want him to know his act of road courtesy was deeply ap preciated by all of us and that our fervent daily prayer is "may his tribe increase", in Jackson county and in aU of southern Oregon. , Grace N. Pearson j , Route 2, Box 50 . Jacksonville SHOWS IDENTIFICATION Ionia, Mich. U.R) Celia Ken nedy, a cashier at the Ionia Na tional bank, said She cashed a check Tuesday for a man who showed his upper plate, en graved with his name, for iden tification. Fact Joseph Alsop at this sudden, heavy task that history had imposed. To these, the demagogues beckoned, say ing as demagogues always do that what history had done was the fault of everyone but history. And so for a time, too many of us were always rushing from one extreme to another, speaking shrilly, acting violently, and be having in a manner unworthy of this republic. There are all sorts of other very great, quite tangible and specific accomplishments of the Eisenhower administration, that must be added to any reckoning of the debt this country owes its President. Yet I would argue that Dwight D. Eisenhower's greatest single contribution has been bringing us all back to a sense of the true American style setting that style, in fact, by his own example, and in the most trying circumstances. Tor nearly three years, in the most literal sense, Eisenhower had represented America at home and abroad. This act 0f representation which has also been an act of leadership, has by no means been easy. For many months," when the discords among us were still clamorous and ugly, it was very difficult in deed. Yet by always presenting to the country and the World this special, personal image of Amer ica, so sane, so genial, so strong in moral feeling, Dwight D. Eis enhower has done things that must have seemed impossible, even to him, in those first rather confused days when he took over the government. , - IIE HAS, first Of all, rather radically re-made this coun try in his own image. The dis cords are stilled. The American style is re-established. The great issues are stiU there, and they are still as dangerous and com plex as ever. Yet the great issues can now be discussed calmly and wisely, which is the essential step to finding the answer. Then h has, too, shown the rest of the world the face of America that America Ought al ways to show. Once again, an American President is looked to, by sophisticates and simple peo ple alike, as the friend of peace and the defender of freedom. So at this time, I think, all wise Americans will acknowledge the debt they owe to Dwight D. Eis enhower, even although it is al ways saddening to acknowledge a debt that cannot be repaid. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with saving. Have the things yon want through sys tematic savings. Don't just dream ... or wish, but have the tilings you want in life by saving for them. Start with any amount. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated Te These Who Save Actions of Animals To the Editor: It surely is sur prising how a simple little idea will prove so effective in dis posing of a problem when a big elaborate affair fails completely. A man down Ashland way was complaminng how the deer could not be kept from his gar den with any fence he could build. It had been grapevined to me that a thin black thread strung along branches of bushes or on stakes some three feet high would do the trick. So he strung the simple thin black thread around his garden. Next morning, he reported deer tracks outside the thread, none inside. It seems that something touching them in the dark will frighten them away. Like ourselves, we fear what we can't understand. A turkey raiser on Missouri Flat told me long ago how he had despaired of raising turkeys due to the coyote depredations. One late fall evening a white bearded wanderer asked sanctu ary for the night. There was a cold wind with threat of rain, so he was taken in. That evening after supper by the crackling fire, the old fellow remarked, bnucks, you can get rid of the coyotes real easy. Get one and chain 'im up. He'll warn the others away." It : sounded too simple but the turkey raiser got a coyote pup next spring from a litter dug out of a den. It Soon began wailing its captivity trou bles to its hill brethren. The tur key raiser declared he never lost another Of his feathered flock. If Bishop Sheen with, all his book-learning had known this, he would hardly have said in a nation-wide broadcast that, "Beasts do not have speech." Failure to understand sounds of other tribes is no sign they do not have speech. Another happening in the hills to the north is harder to under stand. A Canada-honker goose elected to leave a flock resting near a creek, to join a flock of sheep. The goose bosses them around, tweaks at their wool if they fail to go where she wants them to go, takes to the air at times to circle them. Yes, we have motion and still film to prove all this. But what is most difficult, quite beyond our lim ited mentality to figure out, is the declaration of the rancher that he has never lost a sheep m the three years th'e goose has been with : them, in the home low pasture or high summer pas ture. Always before, he lost a sheep or two to the coyotes year ly. F;-J. Clifford 1211 West Main st., Medford, Ore. British Test Pilot Commended by Queen London (U.R) Neville Duke Britain's ace test pilot, was hon ored Tuesday by a special com mendation from Queen Eliza beth H for risking his life to save an airplane. ' Duke was testing a Hawker Hunter last month when the en gine quit high in the air. He brought- the plane in for a glide landing instead of using his para chute. JUNIOK "SLUSH BIT", Aise is Great, GoMea VM,G7fy Brown, Block Tlsrat. f t. mtz" SIZES 4 te 10 te Wednesday ' 4 f In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS According to a report issued by the secretary of state's office in Salem, a final count for the first six months of 1955 shows 26 pedestrians killed in Oregon as compared with 23 in the same period a year ago. Of the 26 fatalities, 14 oc curred on roadways outside cities and towns where relative ly high speeds cut down the pedestrian's chances of survival if hit by a car. Twelve of the 26 occurred in urban areas. fORE careless driving? "Not necessarily, the report indicates. Leading causes of these fatal accidents, the record shows, are the mistakes of the pedestrians themselves. Running into a street or roadway into the path of oncoming vehicles took nine of the 26 lives, while walking or standing in the roadway brought death to five more. ' Other pedestrians, the record indicates, literally walked into death by crossing between inter sections, crossing intersections diagonally, and stepping Out from behind parked vehicles. We know that better driving will save many, many lives on our highways. This report points to the con clusion that better walking- wiaER, more cautious walking on and across the streets and highways that carry fast modern traffic will save many pedes trian lives. QVK OLD friend Molotov is '-'back in the picture aeain. He's speaking for Russia at the general assembly of United Na tions, which is now in session. UUl IIAHDLI be is a changed man. Gone are his sneers and his jibes and his nasty cracks. vHe avoids sharps ness and talks softly. His man ner is courteous. Butter wouldn't rhelt in his mouth. - He has schooled himself care fully In Russia's new role of sweetness and light. RUT- ' ' : - powers to reduce their armed forces and GIVE UP THEIR FOREIGN MILITARY BASES AT ONCE if they want to end the World arms race. And- He makes it clear that Presi dent Eisenhower's military infor mation exchange must be tied in witb Soviet demands for a BAN ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS. TlfOLOTOV is a good horse trader, - but the- horse he wants to trade us is pretty badly spavined. He wants us to do away with our foreign bases. That would leave Russia as close as ever to the world's trouble spotsv It would leave her as close as ever to US, in case she should take a notion to pull a Pearl Harbor on us. It would put us THOUSANDS OF MILES farther away from the trouble spots and thousands of miles farther away from Rus sia if she should make a Sneak attack on us and we had to re taliate. TIE IS equally insistent that if uwe want to talk peace and disarmament we must do away with our atom and hydrogen bombs. Let's put that one like this: If you and I were getting pre pared to shoot it out and you had a rifle and I had a bow and ar- BAST Coeorfed designed to fit pecfeett J9C5 21 N. CENTRAL MEDFORD row and we were dickering about maybe calling off the quar rel and living together in peace and happiness, I'D TRY TO DICKER YOU INTO GIVING UP YOUR RIFLE. v rlAT IS what Molotov wants us to do. He wants us to throw away our superiority in modern weap ons. If he could get away with it- it would be a good horse trade. -s ' Editorial Comment JACKSON COUNTY MUSEUM The August monthly report of the Jacksonville, Jackson coun ty, museum, operated under the direction of the Southern Oregon Historical Society, Inc.. reveals that visitor attendance for the month-was 5,731 from 39 states, the territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and eight foreign coun tries. One hundred visitors from 17 . states visited the museum on one day, August 4. A considerable number of his torical items were presented to the museum by Pacific Coast residents. They include two vio lins made by Charles Francis Skeeters, born in 1866, whose hobby was making violins which he used in playing for Southern Oregon social events. ' The Southern Oregon Histori cal Society Inc. and the Jackson ville museum constitute about the only historical agency for the colorful Southern Oregon pioneer days. . It would seem that, if Jose phine county forces cannot estab lish anything of that nature, a laYge quantity of early-day rec ords now scattered through the area should be assembled, cata logued and maintained at the Jacksonville museum at least until the Josephine county sit uation changes. Grants Pass Courier. AFL Sailors Union Approves Contract San Francisco (U.R) Mem bers of the AFL Sailors ifhion Of the Pacific have voted over whelmingly to approve a new contract with' West Coast ship operators providing o $25 monthly raise. Harry Johnson, assistant secre tary of the union, said yesterday that - the contract also fixes as a basic part .of salaries the sum of $96 a month, heretofore con- -sidered "penalty pay." AS a result, the new contract will raise base pay for most sailors from $302 to $423 : a month. The pact affects some 8000 able bodied seamen. Exquisite Form's newest boon to STTlt 321 ... 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