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o o o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Cverytody in Soutbcrn Orefea Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-ll pnnrftT w IITTTTL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN ).. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER, Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class l"r Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sunday Three moi 3 jo Sunday Only One vear 3.50 By Carrier In Advance - Medtm. Ashland. Central Point . f1 Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill .Phoenix. Shady dSve Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: im Daily an Sunday One year Dailv an? Sunday One month 1JS Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy Ail TjMMtirash in Advance OffWaTPaper of the City of Medfor Official Paper of JacMson County iTnit,dPres Fuil Leased Wire. TffiMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU AH0Ll?DAYnC0ANY INC. O'fices In New York De troit. San Francisco D8s Angeles. S'atUa. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. " Vaneoover B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCHTIrON J -J V NIWSPAMt PUBllSMItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iQ years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1945 (It was Wednesday) Sixty-one building permits is sued in September, greatest monthly total since July, 1943. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Repub lican party has been advised to lay out a labor relations pro gram, that will not lay out the Republican party. 20 YEARS AGO ' Oct. 3, 1935 (It was Thursday) Community Chest campaign to get underway Oct. 9, Gener al Chairman M. N. Hogan and Chest Manager Frank Hull an nounce. Annual Jackson county Tea chers institute for more than 300 teachers to start tomorrow. ' 30 YEARS AGO Oct 3. 1925 (It was Saturday) - California Oregon Power com pany and Eagle Point assure peo ple Medford has all the water rights of Big Butte Springs. Jackson county sheriff's dep uty indicted by grand jurypn charges of malfeasance and neg lect in office and receiving and delaying service of arrest war rant, i .... 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 3. 1915 (It was' Monday) Medford loses suit with Call (Smia Oregon Power company in Portland federal district court; company granted right to purchase city's power plant for $20,000. s Jackson county, district ajtorn ey, E. E. Kelly, warns hunters shooting from highways. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lit 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Rasa area lUtarl 1. Are delinq'encies . in pay ments relatively high, low or av erage in this period of record high installment credit? 2. Community Chests and sim ilar Funds plan to raise this year a total of 50, 100, 200 or 300 million dollars? 3. Largest U.S. food chain, is the A&P. Second largest is First National, Safeway, Giant, Kro ger or Food Fair? a. 4. Babe Ruth played in 10 isifferent World Series, averag ing one home run to a series, or less or more than one? 5. Which one of these states is perfectly rectangular: Massa chusetts, Tennessee, Oklahoma, South Dafcota, Colorado. 6. Less than half, about half, or more than half of all Ameri cans belong to some church? 7. "Love apples" is an old term for Grimes Golders, mistle toe, sweet potatoes, grape fruit, tomatoes or persimmons? The Answers: 1. Relatively low. 2. $300,000,000. 3. Safeway. 4. More than one (15 in 10). 5. Colorado. 6. More than half. 7. Tomatoes. FUTURE FARMERS LEAVE Portland gr- (U.R) Some 95 schoolboys from Oregon and Washington will leave here Fri day for the 28th annual national convention of Future Farmers of America. The meet will be held in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 10-13. ....... MAIL TRIBUNE 0 i4 Broader Base Medford is no longer a little town. With a popu lation estimated at' about 20,000, it is now a small city. , . g This growth is being reflected in many ways, but the one we wish to speak of today is in "municipal ad ministration." That rather pompous phrase simply means the things that city officials do to get along, and to meet the changing problems posed by the growth of a city. THERE have been several progressive periods dur- ing the history of Medford (the far-sightedness of earlier public servants in providing us with -what is probably the best city water supply in the nation is an example), and we would judge the past half-dozen or so years to be another similar period of progress. During that time a new water pipeline has been provided to insure our continued supply of water; the fire and police departments have been expanded and modernized ; a library annex has been placed in service: traffic. and street surveys have been made Land a long-range program the airport has been vastly improved and a beautilul administration building constructed ; the city admin istration itself has been revised, and the old mayor council form of government has been supplanted by the council-manager type. . . : THESE changes have not been without municipal . aches and pains. There have been occasional bat tles and disagreements, with their attendant bitter ness and recrimination. But in the main, Medford has developed and grown with relatively little fuss and bother compared to some other cities we could name. That it has done so is to the credit of those who have accepted the re sponsibilities of city government, and of those voters who have had the (foresight to "go along" with the improvements, some of which have been expensive. COME of the difficulties which underlie the prob- lems themselves were pointed out in a recent issue of the American Municipal News : , Local governments are smack up against construction needs more urgent than those facing the federal government or the states. It is the counties, school districts and munici palities that bear the brunt of population shifts and that mirror the results of the nation's rapid urbanization and expanding population. The capacity of local government to finance the needed improvements is adequate from an economic point of view.. Hampering tax rate limits, outmoded 'debt limits and re strictive state control of local finances gum up the works in preventing local government from utilizing its basic fiscal ' ability. Needed are new thoughts and concepts on local fi nancing and a broadening of the market for local bond issues. - ' ' . . ' ' But the problems are not all financial (although it must be pointed out that none of them can be solved without adequate supplies of that veiy necessary in gredient money). COME of the problems lie simply in the mechanisms r upon which we depend to get the work done. The change to the city manager form; of government in Medford, for instance, is a step forward. But that in itself does not guarantee good government. In making the change, all those involved must unr derstand the new lines of responsibility and authority. There are signs that "this is being done in Medford. At the same time, as the executive authority is cen tralized, it is to the advantage of the city to broaden the base of participation and understanding. As the city council becomes more acquainted with its role as a policy-making body only, It finds an increasedneed for advice from a broader range of the citizenry than can serve in an elected capacity. - j , - - THE growth in stature of the city planning commis sion, which more and more is assuming an import ant role not only in technical matters of zoning but also in long-range planning and research, is an ex ample of this broadened base, and a healthy one. The same applies to the move which has resulted in the citizens'-budget committee deciding; to ; hold monthly meetings throughout the year not just a few meetings at 'budget-making time. By doing this, the members can gain a greater understanding of the needs of each city department; they can fini out if there is any surplus "fat" being appropriated,; and, conversly, they can find out in what areas, if any, the city is suffering for lack of appropriations. It appears obvious, for instance, that the city, to keep up with the physical needs of. growth, is going to have to ask the people for a tax increase next year. It will be up to the people to decide whether or not they are willing to pay for the continuation of pro gress which has marked the city in the past few years. THE budget committee, in dealing with the prob lems of finance on a monthly basis, and with "nothing to lose," so to speak, except their hours of service, will be in a better posjtion than the elected members of the council to assess these needs, to inter pret them to the voters, and to make recommenda tions based upon a solid acquaintanceship of the ac tual problems. We have a healthy respect for the basic horse0 sense of the voters of Medford, and would be willing to stake a lot on their ability and willingness to as sume the responsibilities of citizenship, provided only they have adeqate inf ormation. By widening participation in the affairs of the city, we are hopeful that everyone will be able to gain a keener awareness of what is needed, and the sacri fices which will be required to fulfill the needs. E.A. Monday, Oetober 3, I9S5 of improvements begun; Matter of Fact By HAS THE KREMLIN MELLOWED? j Washington ?If there is one sentence which describes the basic underlying assumption of American pol icy throughout the Cold War, it is this: "The United States has it in its power to in crease enor mously5 the strains under w h i cth Soviet policy must operate and in this way to Stewart KUmp promote tendencies which must eventually find their outlet in either the break-up or the grad ual mellowing of Soviet power." The sentence comes from the famous "Mr. X" article by for mer policy planner and Ambas sador to Russia George F. Ken nan. The article, which first out lined the "policy of contain ment," was written in 1947. Ever since, with some twistings and turning, containment of So viet power has been the policy of the United States. This seems a good time to ask, therefore, whether trie contain ment policy is actually working whether the "gradual mellow ing of Soviet power" foreseen by Kennan has actually begun to happen. And a good man to ask seems Knnan himself, the au thor' of the containment policy. This reporter accordingly made Milan, where Kennan was attending a meeting of the Con gress of Cultural Freedom, his last port of call in a three-month tour of the Soviet Union and Western Europe. The Congress brought to gether 150 or so leading intel lectuals and political thinkers of the non-Communist world. The Congress was worth at tending because, although those present disagreed . strongly and articulately about every other matter, they were almost unani mously agreed on two points.' First, there has been a real change in the Soviet Union. But second, this change confronts the West with a period of very great danger. To understand both points, it is necessary to examine the real nature of the change that has taken place. To use Kennan's phrase, the "morbid and irra tional" aspect of the Soviet re gime have-largely disappeared since the death of Joseph Stalin. THE morbid and irrational as- pects of the regime were in part the products of a quarter century of ruthless one-man rule; in part, of the increasingly neurotic' fears and suspicions' of the aging .Stalin. The results of the sweeping away of these as pects of the regime are obvious, both internally and externally. Internally, the experts at Mi lan agreed, the most striking post-Stalin phenomenon .is the downgrading of. the power of the secret police. The MVD is now headed,byl career man.who re ports to the Presidium as a whole rather than to any individual. To emphasize the dominance of the party over the police, the MVD has been publicly stripped of the power to arrest a Com munist Party member, without the prior approval of the local By FRANK JENKINS . President Eisenhower's condi tion continues to improve which is wonderful. Every day that passes takes another day from the two weeks the doctors say will be the critical period. Hopes are running high. BUT There's always a cloud on the horizon. The dispatches report that Egypt's decision to BUY ARMS from Communist Czechoslovakia has brought grave concern in Washington. The United States is described as having the mak ings of a first class crisis on its hands in the Middle East with the danger of a new Arab-Israeli war in the background. I SUPPOSE things like that just HAVE to go with world lead ership. - It's too bad we can't turn bothiof them over our kneefor a good spanking. THE National Safety Council reports that heavy summer vacation travel has boosted the nation's TOTAL traffic death toll for the first eight months of this year. The figure up to Sept. 1 was 23,470 as compared with 22,430 for .the same period in 1954. But On the basis of mileage the council reported a more favor able figure. cFor the first seven months of 1955, the death rate was 5.8 Jor each 100,000,000 miles, which is the lowest seven month figure on record. rpHAT is to say: 1 MORE PEOPLE have been killed in traffic this year, but MORE PEOPLE have been trav eling' MORE CAR MILES. " IlHAT is the answer to the " traffic hazard? The BEST ANSWER is BET TER DRIVING. That is up to each individual driver. 'hp In the Day's Hews Stewart AIsop Party Committee. : At the same time, there is hard evidence, much discussed at Mi lan, that the whole labor camp system, which used to be a spe cial empire of the secret police, is being reorganized root and branch. Thousands of prisoners have been amnestied and the liv ing conditions of the others ren dered more tolerable. The subordinationOof the se cret police power has in turn led to an easier atmosphere of life for the ordinary Soviet citi zen. But this does not mean for a moment that the Soviet system has been changed in any of its essentials. The Soviet system will-not be abandoned, to use Party Secretary Khruschev's col orful phrase, "until shrimps learn to whistle." The new re gime has merely, shuffled off those ointernal aspects of the Soviet system which were irra tional and therefore unprofit able, o The "new" Soviet foreign pol icy is equally no more than a shuffling off of the irrational and the unprofitable. It was a simple act of reason on the part of the new regime to end the in credibly stupid Stalinist poli cies toward Yugoslavia and Aus tria. In the same way, it is no more' than rational to wish to avoid any major risk of nuclear war and the new Soviet . rulers undoubtedly do want to avoid this risk. IN this sense, there has been a "mellowing of Soviet power," internally and externally; But is a return to reason in the Krem-. lin really an undiluted blessing for the West? Is it not possible that an intelligent and rational Soviet policy will hold far great er dangers for- the West, " and especially for the United States, than a morbid and irrational So viet policy? . ; The majority of those gather ed at Milan believed that the answer to both questions was "Yes." They believed that, un der the new circumstances, to paraphrase the sentence quoted above, "The Soviet Union has it in its power to increase enor mously the strains under which American policy must operate." Among those who so . believed was the author of the famous article on which American pol icy has so long been based. (Copyright, 19,55. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) SP Official Slates Talk on Car Supply Robert H. Holmes, Medford district freight and passenger agent for the Southern Pacific railroad, will speak at a meet ing of the Medford Junior Chamber of Comerce at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, at the Jackson hotel it was announced today. Holmes will discuss the freight car supply situation in southern Oregon. Gordon Klope. a member of the club and an SP employee, will introduce the speaker. Final plans for the Jaycees fall board meeting at Ontario, Ore., on Oct. 6, 7, and 8, will be given by Dick Bowers. Some 50 Jaycees from the state wiU attend. The meeting will serve as a kick-off for a number of Jaycee projects. Tom Reeder, a Medford Jaycee, is state safety chairman. EXPRESSWAY OPENED Portland (U.R) The-14-mile Banfield expressway was opened Saturday from Troutdale to NE 42nd ave. here. When completed the route, designed to speed flow of traffic just east of Portland, will have cost $17,000,000. Brazilian Election May Lead To Period Of Political Turmoil By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Brazil, the largest country in Latin America, may be in for a period of political turmoil. About 10,000,000 of Brazil's j 54.000,000 men and womenpare1 voting for a president to day. But the Army may prove the d e t e r m ining factor. It was . the Army that forced out P r esident Getulio Vargas on Aug. 24, Charles MeCaiin X O 4, ana caused him to shoot himself through the heart. Generals Watching Vole The generals are watching to day's vote closely. If they do not like the way.things go, they may step in. That might mean a mili tary dictatorship and consequent trouble. There are four candidates for the presidency. The leading one is Juscelino Kubitschek, candidate of the Social Democratic, Labor and Republican parties. The Army does not like Kubit schek, though it probably would tolerate him as president a watchful toleration. . . But the Army 'detests the 0 trUiUs 4 ....... Here's an ego-shattering quiz, loaded with catch questions. Fair warnmg: read each one careiuiiy before you embark upon the an swer. Get three right and you're normal; six makes you a wizard. You'll find the bad news after the questions. All Set? Let s go . . . but take it easy. 1. Two fathers and two sons went for a walk in the woods and each saw a squirrel yet none saw the same one. Only three squirrels were seen. Why? 2. What is the smallest num ber of geese that could possibly swim in this formation: two geese in front of a goose; two geese . behind a goose; and a goose between two geese? 3. The number of eggs in a basket doubles every ten min utes. The basket is fuU of eggs in one hour. When was the bask- et half full? 4. If five cats can kill five rats in five minutes, how long wiU it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats? ' .- , 5. Take five oranges from seven oranges and what have you got? 6. A rope ladder seven feet long is hanging over the side of a boat. The rungs are a foot apart and the bottom rung is resting on the surface of the ocean. The tide rises at the rate of six inches an hour. When will the first two rungs be cover ed with water? Answers: 1. They were grandfather, father and son the father being both " a father and a son. 2. Three in a row, one goose behind the other. - 3. In 50 minutes. If the bask et is.full in 60 minutes, it was half fuU ten minutes earlier, or at the end of 50 minutes. 4. It takes each cat five min utes to kill a rat, hence five min utes. J5. Naturally, five oranges. 6. The ladder which is at tached to the ship rises with the tide hence, never. - . Hate me?. Well, I've saved the real monster to spring on your friends. A man lives on the eighth floor of an apartment building which has a self-service elevator. Each night he invar iably rides up to the fourth floor, gets out and walks up the re maining four flights to his apart ment. In the mornings he always rides down all the way. Why? Answer: The man was a midget. He could only reach as high as the fourth floor push button when it came to going up. Com ing down, he could push the first floor button easily. That evens things up, doesn't it? (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 question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-, volume set . of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal- Labor party, which is backing Kubitschek. It is there that the possibil ity of any Army coup exists. The ream storm center in' the election is Kubitschek's vice presidential running mate, Joao Goulart. : . Goulart is president of the Labor party, which Var gas headed. If Goulart is elected, it is quite possible that the generals will intervene - and refuse to permit j him to take office. Goulart Fined The Army forced Vargas to dismiss Goulart as minister of labor in a prelude to the late president's ouster. It was charged, at the time, that Goulart was trying to or ganize the Brazilian Labor party, with Vargas's approval, along the lines of the Argentine labor organization which Dictator Juan D. Peron made his country's po litical power. Gen. Canrobert Pereira da Costa, chairman of the Brazilian Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a speech on Aug. 6 that politicians had brought Brazil to tht brink of "revolution and chaos." Pereira da Costa said then that the armed forces might find it necessary to intervene in the presidential campaign. That warning seems still to apply to the post-election period if Kubitschek and- Goulart are elected. i Putnam Mourns Death Of Judge TouVelle; Describes His Career (Editor's Note: This is another in a series of articles by Georfe Put nam, editor emeritus of the Salem Capital-Journal and former editor and publisher of the Mail Tribune, reprinted from the Salem newspaper. Today he recalls some of his mem ories of Judge Frank L. TouVelle, Jacksonville, a long-time personal friend, who died last week.) By GEORGE PUTNAM A distinguished pioneer and builder of good highways in Ore gon, Judge Frank L. TouVelle passed away at his residence in Jacksonville Wednesday evening from a heart attack at the age of 85. Though born in Kansas he spent his early years in Ohio, where at the age of 20 he was elected treasurer of Mercer county, serving from 1892 to 97. TouVelle was a graduate of the Cincinnati Law school when William Howard Taft, after wards president and chief jus tice of the United States, was its dean and a member of the legal fraternity Phi Delta Phi. TouVelle came to Medford in 1905 and invested heavily in apple and pear orchards. During the fruit boom that followed he reaped a small fortune. His shrewdnes and good . judgment won him the nickname of "Lucky TouVelle." He still owns one of the finest cornice pear orchard in Rogue River valley. Elected County Judge TouVelle was elected county judge of Jackson county, 1913 1919 on a good roads platform, after a hot campaign. After pro longed attempts the state consti tution was amended to permit both state and counties to vote bonds for highways and the Jackson county voters author ized a $500,000 .bond issue to construct and pave the first pnit of the Pacific highway between Central Point and Ashland and the grade over the Siskiyou mountains to the California line. Gov. Oswald West and Samuel Hill stumped the county for good roads. - . . TouVelle declined to seek re election. In 193.5 he was appoint ed by Governor Martin as state highway .commissioner,, resign ing when. Martin met defeat in the Democratic primaries. While he was on the commission, High way 99 over the Siskiyous was relocated and constructed on its present route, as was Highway 101 along the Oregon coast. Adopts Youths In 1916 TouVelle married Elizabeth Blosser of Chillocothe, Ohio. She died in 1932. After her death TouVelle's greatest hobby was , in semi - adopting training an educating neglected and underprivileged youths and giving them a chance by their own development and industry and sending those qualified to college. Those so helped justi fied his efforts and are a credit to their benefactor whom they idolize. When the Potter Palmer es tate of Chicago decided to sell their huge ranch and orchard property on the Rogue river near Medford. TouVelle pur chased over a thousand acres, mostly rich river bottom land on both sides of the Rogue above and below Bybee bridge for a mile. TouVelle State Park Some of the land was taken over by the government f6r Camp White during World War H but a 50-acre tract of river point from Bybee bridge to the mouth ef Bear creek, was donat ed to the state as a tourist and dmpers park, a beautiful spot, with swimming and camping fa cilities a fitting memorial for the donor and his wife and named TouVelle State park. The writer has known Judge TouVelle nearly half a century. craft binding. Each. week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many, inenaiy leiiers. Please address your letter to: IS THA TSO! care of the Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausali to, Calif. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 PERL in daily contact with hirSfor the first dozen years and seen him frequently since. He was sincere and generous to a fault Vwith charity to all and malice towards none," true to his friends and will be greatly missed by those who really knew him. He was -a successful orchardist and farm er and knew how to make a profit all along the line. In" poli tics he was a Democrat and in religion a Methodist and his de mise a state and community loss. . Green . be the turf above . thee Friend of my better days, Nonajknew thee but to lovt thee Nor named thee but to praise." Order of Arrow Conference Calls Local Scoufers Ten Medford Bov Scout and Scouters last week end attended the annual conference of the Order of the Arrow, the honor camping organization of the Scouts. The meeting was held at the Eugene council camp ,at Siltcoos lake, near Florence. ': ' ' .Those from here are members of the Mazama lodge of the or der, Craig Philips, Medford, has been state lodge thief of the ordeir for the past year, and pre sided at the session. Jim Boyd, also Medford, was one of the discussion leaders. About 200 boys and men from throughout the state attended. Three Honored Three Medford scouters, Scout Executive Cliff . Hanson,' Field Executive ; Larry Lundin, and volunteer leader Martin John son, were honored by the "vigil" honor, which is national recog nition of outstanding leadership in the order. Seven men. were so honored this week end, and only 14 in the stfte have earned the award.. Hanson has been state leader of the Order of the Ar row for four years! Others attending the confer ence from here were Byron Schroeder, Mike Forbes, Randall Stothers and Dick and Jim Co rum. Next year's meeting will be near Portland. The conference dealt with the purpose of the order, how fC benefits scouting and scouts, Mts relationship with scouting, and similar topics. What Healed the Boy? GEO. N. TAYLOR "Come heal my son or he will die." So said the nobleman to Jesus. At that Jesus answered the man "Ex- ' cept you see signs and won ders .you will not believe. So it was that Jesus must go to the boy and do some mira cle or the man would not be lieve. B u t in stead of that, the man came back with "Come at once or my boy will die." Jesus saw faith in the man and honored it with "Go your way, your son lives." So the man went and he found that his boy had come out of the fever at the very time that Je sus told him the boy lived. See ing the miracle the man and his whole household believed. John 4:46-53. You also have God's gift' of eternal life when you receive Christ into your: heart as the Eternal Son of God who died for your every last sin. From then on God builds you up by His word, tne mme. . This space sponsored by an Oregon dairyman. ady. PERL'S every family may make funeral ar- rangements which are In keeping with its means. 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