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rCH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, September 30, 1955 o "Everybody In Southern Oregon BeaojictwaiiinDune CjubLuhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-tlU DAnPTJT or PTTWT. Eriitir HERB GREY. Advertising Manager X. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON "Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u secona ciaw ixuuct m Medford. Oregon, under Act or Marcn Sjieyi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and faunas)? rnre moi. 7 -t - .. Axlo Tkn vMr S3 SO By Carrier In advenes Medford, Asnlancl. i.ffitrai rouii. mk Jacksonville. Gold HilL Phoenix, dhady Cove. o)u River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,. Dally and Sunday One month 12a Carrier and ueaier oc yi Terms uasn in ftv"" olfirltl Paper of the City oi Medford vmciaj raptr m q " Pnited Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBE OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta, Vancouver ax. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfATllON "W1 0V NIWIPAPII PUtllSNItS ASSOCIATION Flight q' Time Medford and Jackson County History frfim the files of The Mail Trihwne 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. If? YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1945 (It was Sunday) Jerry Jerome, general chair man for Shriner's Hillah temple old timers' night at Ashland Fri day. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Former shipyard workers are buying farms. They don't get overtime for milking the cow after grange meeting. i 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1935 (It was Monday) Annual training conference for home extension leaders to be held in courthouse tomorrow. " Frank TouVelle, former coun ty judge and Medford resident, named as possible successor to : Cari G. Washburne on state high way commission. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 30, 1925 (It was Wednesday) Sheriff pledges to bring about peace and dignity at rural dances "If it takes a leg," in new dry campaign. From the Local and Personal , column: To take care of the surplus students of the first grade of the Roosevelt school on the east side, a room is being remodeled in that building to remedy the crowded condition. A new; teacher will also be hired when the room is completed ) sometime next week. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 30. 1915 (It was Thursday) New Orleans virtually cut off from world by hurricane. Winds reach peak of 130 miles per hour. " ' Governor Willis of Ohio to speak at park tonight during band concert. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? .Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Many more oil-heating than gas-heating systems are in use in the U.S. today, or many more gas-heating ones, or about the same number each? 2. The first World Series was played in 1893, 1903, 1913 or 1923? 3. Beef cattle now bring on the farm much more or much less per pound than hogs, or about the same? . 4. Tojo, Japanese premier in World War II, was imprisoned for life or for 15 years, or was executed, or got off scot-free? 5. The seat of the West Ger man Republic is Berlin; right or wrong? 6. TV programs are now avail able to about five, six, seven, eight or nine U.S. families out of every 10? 7. The real name of which movie star is Constance Keane? The" Answers: 1. About the same of each. 2. 1903. 3. About the same. 4. Was executed. 5. Wrong (it's Bonn). 6. Nine of ten. 7. Veronica Lake. STRANGE FISH CATCHES Benton Harbor, Mich. (U.R) Police said a recent theft from a lumber company here appar ently accounted for strange catches made recently by fisher men in the St Joseph river. Anglers reported finding two typewriters, six gallons of paint, an electric-drilL-a large electric fan and a small hand sander. Use Your Head It is hoped the lessons of Red Hat Day will bear fruit during the Oregon hunting season. The message is a simple one of common sense be careful, be thoughtful. This seems obvious enough, but the fact that it was necessary to have a Red Hat day indicates that there are enough fools going into the woods to make a continuing program of education desirable. TF hunters generally will use their heads, everyone will benefit: The hunters themselves (through greater safety in the woods), farmers and ranchers (through less destruction of their property, including stock), and forest agencies (through fewer losses from fire). . Hunting is a dangerous sport. Tragically,- the greatest danger comes from other hunters, not from the forces of nature, although these too are worthy of respect and care. The fact that a baker's dozen of men were killed by bullets while hunting during deer season in 1954 makes it more dangerous even than driving on today's highways. These deaths are usually described as "accidents," and certainly most of them are uninten tional. But they are also unnecessary. AS to the dangers of nature, it is remarkably easy to get lost in Oregon's forests and ranges, as any experienced woodsman can tell you. Not everyone has the aplomb of the legendary Indian who, when found alone in the wilderness, declared, "Me not lost; wig wam lost, squaw lost. Me here." The Indian had the right idea. The first rule of self-preservation in the wilderness is to avoid panic to stop, relax, rest, and think out the situation in as calm a manner as can be mustered. There are a few general rules that can be of help, such as remembering that water runs downhill, that streams get larger and flow into rivers, and rivers usually lead to civilization although sometimes it is quite a distance. A NOTHER rule is to be careful of fire, but to re- member that a carefully watched blaze can be used for signalling. And the man in the woods should be generally familiar with the terrain and acquainted With at least enough of the region's landmarks to give him some hope of orientation if he becomes confused. Minimum necessities in the woods are matches (in a water-proof container), a compass and a knife. Emergency food rations are a good idea, too. THE fact that in several ' recent instances people who were lost have ignored all these rules com pletely, and still come out alive, does not prove the rules are wrong; it just proves how lucky some people can be. If you do become lost, don't depend on luck to get you out. It's failed in too many cases. Use your head, take it easy, and chances are you'll make it out all right or be found. E.A. Highway Hypnosis9 Apropos of "accidental" deaths, we have read two recent articles which pose an interesting theory. It makes sense that "highway hypnosis" is a great con tributing factor to automobile deaths. One of them puts the .problem this way: The road is smooth and straight. The sky is clear; the pavement dry. Your car is new and powerful so smooth it seems to drive itself. The time is noon and you feel fine as you zip along the trouble-free superhighways at 50 or 60 miles an hour. Suddenly, you run into the rear end of a truck. What happened? , A ny person who has driven long distances can at " test to the fact that the monotony of long, straight stretches can have a soporific effect. It is logical, also, conclude that more than sleepiness can be induced under certain conditions. A hypnotist uses several devices to induce a trancelike state, including monotony of sight or sound (the hum of the tires; the quiet, even sliding past of the landscape,) and a focal point of light or attention (the highway's center line). Anyone" who has watched an expert hynotist at work has been amazed at how quickly he can gain control of another's senses. "It is significant that this particular. type of acci dent rarely happens on heavily traveled highways, or where there are curves or signs or other means of breaking the humming monotony. THE CONDITIONS good, open roads are also conducive to speed, and thus to severe accidents, frequently fatal ones. In Connecticut, which has a system of superhigh ways, these facts have been acknowledged, and "attention-getters" are bing built into the highways. Big signs with jolting messages "Radar," 6r "State Police" tend both to caution the driver and snap him back to attention. The driver himself can help avoid the hypnotic tendency by stopping to stretch every so often; by chewing gum or smoking; by varying speed, and by keeping windows open to create a breeze. E.A. King Completes Insurance Course recently was discharged. The training course lasted six days, during which time life insurance . fundamentals, life insurance as good property, sales principles, prospecting and co ordinating income from life insurance with-Social Security benefits were discussed. Babson . . . Financial Debts D. Cleve King, 2119. Capitol ave., Medford, has completed a training school course in Greens boro, N.C., and is now special representative of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance com pany in the Medford area. King is a former naval recruit ing officer in Medford, and , By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., (Special To Mail Tribune) If you're an average American, this last year has been an unusually suc cessful one. You've had good employ ment, have probably "col lected" more money than ever before in your life, and Voter W. Babsos. you've bought a lot of things, including several of the most costly items pur chased on the installment plan. For your own safety, do you owe too many people too much? There is a boom of a new sort which has been shaping up in recent months, a bad debt boom. Collection agencies are having the most business they have had in many months, with increases in their business of from 30 per cent to 100 per cent. This means, of course, that a great many people are not pay ing their bills. As a matter of fact, the American Collectors Association estimates that about 10,000,000 families, or one in every five, are over their heads in debt; Do you realize that Americans today owe more than $12.5 billions on car-installment loans; that mortgage debts are close to the $125,000,000,000 mark? And these are but two items people purchase on time while working shorter hours. Why are people so deeply in debt in such good times? The col lection agency will tell you that the credit delinquent is not us ually unemployed. The difficul ty is that he is' increasing his debt while working fewer hours. He may be earning $4,000 per year, but due to shorter hours prices have gone up and he is spending at the rate of $5,000. He buys $300 items on $5-down bait. He doesn't want to miss a good thing. So, before he knows it he may be overloaded with monthly installment payments, Study Economics Of course, the more you buy, up to your ability to pay, the better business is. But watch out Periodically I make a Babsonpoll of Business Conditions, I ask people like you what they think about different things. My latest poll reveals that 69 percent of those polled express definite con fidence in the future of business, Only 2 percent feel that general business prospects are poor. Now when people have confidence in the future, they spend which should be to the good if they will match it by work. I have found that when all the world begins rushing in one di rection, it is time to start' looking the other way. Ever since World War II, while business has been booming, there has been raised almost constantly one skeptical question, "How long will boom times last?" Every dip in busi ness has been viewed as the pos sible start of a new depression. Since the last dip in 1953-1954, a kind of "optimism unlimited" has set in. There seems to be a belief that we never can build too many houses or automobiles. Perhaps such a time is " many years ahead, but for the good of your family and your community you should avoid getting into too much debt while working short er. hours. No Immediate Danger Our economy,' both business and industry, has expanded and we have the fullest employment ever. While all this is true, it is not necessarily good in the long run if prices climb correspond ingly. Only 15 short years ago your dollar bought you twice as much as it does now. Remember when you paid $800-$l,000 for a new Ford car- One reason for to day's conditions is that you have worked shorter hours and bor rowed more money. I am not ad vising against more installment purchases; but I do ' appeal to you to work harder and longer to produce enough to match your increased borrowings. The trouble is that too few people really care what is hap pening now. They say that fu ture generations will have to liquidate our present Govern ment Debt. This is true regard ing the big Federal Debt, but it has nothing to do with your per sonal debts. You must pay these up yourself. Let us remember that with the material prosper ity which we inherit there goes a responsibility to our children and our community to leave our country financially strong for them. Let us be fair to those who will follow us, that they may enjoy the standard of living we now know. Let us not fall short of this obligation, but meet our borrowing with increased pro duction so as to hold up the pur chasing power of our dollar. 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 permis lible. 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. Sense of Loss To the Editor: I am" sad at the news of the death of Judge Frank TouVelle. Not having the address of his family, I wish to express through you my deep sense of loss. Oregon has lost a great public servant and the father of Oregon's highway sys tem. Mrs. Morse joins me in an expression of deep sympathy to his family. . Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator From Oregon. Abandoned Cats To the K'tor: Well, school has startec as usual we are getting ou ae-ge of abandoned cats. People that have pets that they don't want make their chil dren take them to school and leave them. As a result the people that live near the schools are over: run with the poor starving crea tures. Why don't the people that raise them run out to the hu mane society with them on their way to their bridge game or the golf course? I wonder if they realize the training they are giv ing their children by making them do their dirty work for them? These same people will cry and moan around when they grow old because their children put them in a home for the aged and apparently forget them. Mrs. H. W. Morrow, 531 N. Bartlett St, Medford,. Ore. Fmf "- "i 1 1 hi M - -llilmriht Mail Bag: "Can birds count?" asks AST. "Are your western cougars cut out of the same cloth as our eastern panthers?" asks. BRC. Cougar, Panther?. Not only are these two the same animals but you might add puma, catamount, mountain 'lion or painter. One and aU are the same. When white man came to this country, the cougar was spread from southeastern Canada down In the Day's News la Patagonia in South America As a result, the different-speak ing whites gave them different local names. The first Spaniards to see him called mm puma, from an Indian word. The Eng lish called him panther which came from Asiatic word mean ing tiger after it was kicked around bv the Greeks, Koman and French. Catamount, meaning cat-of-the-mount, or cat from the mountain, comes from Central Europe. Cougar is French and a misspelling of a South Amer ican Indian word. Take your choice. Bird counting: Brother, this a touchy. Birds lay a certain number of eggs according to the species. Remove the eggs and they will lay another number eauallv laree. or small. Perhaps this is a physical setup over which bird has not control. In laboratory tests' rjieeons parakeets and jackdaws have been trained to choose from a certain number of objects which counted ud to two. three, four, five and six but never above that maximum number. Hence they could distingush up to six. Count? That is another matter. Finally, all this seems refuted by a simple trick which bird photographers employ constant ly and DerhaDs I am giving away a cherished secret. At any rate, if a bird bund is set up within sight of the parent birds near the nest and one photo grapher goes into it and remams there, the . birds will remain warv and wait a lone time to resume their normal nesting ac tivities. But if the photographer takes a companion into the blind with him and then one of them goes away leaving the 'second in the blind the birds will quick ly disregard the intrusion ana co about their activities as though no one were left in the blind. , (Copyright, 1955. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McCluda Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia American, my panel of judges wiU award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol- ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be con sidered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly let ters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausa- lito, Calif. CHAMPION HOG CALLER Pomona, Calif. (U.R) Mrs. Sarah E. ShaffstaU, 76, said Thursday she hadn't tried hog calling since she was a young girl on an Illinois farm but found she still had the touch. She won the old-fashioned hog call ing contest at the Los Angeles County Fair. BY FRANK JENKINS Today's big news: Hospital physicians attending President Eisenhower in Denver reported that he had a very good night. The latest medical advisory says. "He slept almost continuously from 8. o'clock last night until 6:15 this morning." The dispatch adds: The latest announcement, fol lowing previous hospital bullet ins reporting the President's sat isfactory progress from a heart. attack, are bolstering hopes for his full recovery. In that hope, everybody in the world joins prayerfully. BECAUSE the behavior of the security markets is influenc ed primarily by HOW PEOPLE FEEL, it is interestinc to trace the reaction of the world's great stock exchange to the news of president's lismhower's illness. ; When the New York exchange opened on Monday morning, the scene was reminiscent of that black day in the autumn of 1829 which no one then old enough to grasp the significance of what was happening will ever forget. Again on Monday morning, as on that day in 1929. the bottom tell out from 'unHpr nrir-oc Bo.1 fore the decline that started at! the opening minute was checked, tne value of all securities listed on the New York Stock Excange naa s n r u n k an estimated $13,000,000,000. The London exchanse reacted similarly, although not so sharo- iy. -'... .- Guarantee To Russia Against West German Aggression Tops News (t Charles McCann Read and Use Classified Ads. . . The Community's Biggest Marketplace TUESDAY morning, when the New York exchange opened, the news had turned better, and a spirited rally , developed with the opening of trading. Within the first hour, gains ran to be tween $1 and $4 a share. Trad ing hit a fast pace on the rising side, and the tape dumped eight minutes behind. As this is writ ten, approximately a couple of hours after the market opened, the recovery is continuing. Stocks- on the London market opened low, but rallied as news of President Eisenhower's fav orable night developed. IlfHY THE break in the great " stock markets of the world which are influenced primar ily financial rather than senti mental considerations? This is my guess: Throughout the world of to day people have come to be lieve that peace is synonymous with prosperity and happiness and general welfare. They had come to believe that President Eisenhower's leadership CAN BRING PEACE ' TO THE WORLD. ; . These rosy hopes for the fu ture were rudely shaken by the shocking news of the President's heart attack. The rush of this selling broke the markets yes terday, " With the better news of Tues day hopes rose again and people began to buy instead of sell. That broke the decline. 'THERE is nothing in the news, of 'course, to indicate that President Eisenhower will accept a second term. (I think that everyone will agree that his ac ceptance is all that ; would be required to insure his nomina tion and election.) Indeed, it is probable that By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, British Foreign Secretary Har old MacMillan French For eign Minister Antoine Pinay announced that their govern ments are will ing to guaran tee Soviet Rus sia against any West German aggression. The guarantee would be given in return for a Russian agreement to unify Germany. The "Big Three' for eign ministers also warned the Kremlin that they will not rec ognize the East German agree ments that might interfere with free Allied access to Berlin, they said. 2. The United States and other governments recognized the pro visional government formed in Argentina after, the overthrow of dictator Juan D. Peron. Pro Visional President Eduard Lo nardi ordered the release of po litical prisoners jailed by Peron. Argentine police uncovered nearly $30,000,000 in gold coins and United States and Argentine currency which Peron, "friend of the worker," had cached. 3. In token of the continued relaxation of West-East tension, the leaders of Soviet Russia sent unusually warm messages of symoathy to President Eisen hower on his Illness. Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev Mexican Laborer Killed in Portland Portland (U.R) A tavern brawl among itinerant Mexican farm laborers resulted early today in the stabbing of one and the jailing of two others. Police identified the dead man as Jesus Avalos, 24.' Held in connection with his death was Arnold Y. Valencia, 34. A third man, John Auss Castillo, 32, was held as a material witness. Detective Sgt. Dan Mitola said witnesses . told him Avalos and Valencia . had engaged in a struggle inside the tavern, and that Valencia had been struck with a bar stool. The bartender, Jay Hale, said he pushed both men outside. . The two engaged in a struggle, then re-entered the tavern, where Avalos collapsed. everyone realizes that Imposi tion of a second term, upon him would be too much to ask even if his recovery from this present attack seems to be complete. But realization that our President may be able to finish his present term, calmed people's fears. A lot can be done in a year. said he learned with grief of Mr. Eisenhower's heart attack and whole-heartedly Wished him a speedy recovery. THE BAD 1. The United States and Great Britain learned with open alarm that Egypt planned to buy arms from Soviet Russia and Commu nist Czechoslovakia. Assistant Secretary of State George V. Al len was sent on . an urgent mis sion to Cairo. Allen will try to get Premier Gamal Abdel Nas ser to change his mind, and. not to start the Middle East on a dangerous arms race between the Arab nations and Israel. But Nasser appeared determined to go through with his plan wi les he can get arms from the United States on good terms. It was reported that some arms already had been shipped from the Red countries from Odessa, Russia, and through Antwerp, Belgium. 2. Serious riots broke ou In the Mediterranean island of Cy prus, now under British rule, where a factiorof the people want to be joined to Greece. Troops and commandos used tear gas to break up mobs. 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