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rOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mali Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-lM DAPVUT TO DTTOT FHitrir n ITFR CiX TSfN Mnnaffinff Editor XBIC aujcn JK, city taitor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHAKLJ jLwca s porta tailor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of is aaarcn o, tovt SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 Sunday Only One vear $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, andnon motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 1JW Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash' in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or t;iw.mjtiimi WEST-HOLUDAV COMPANY. INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASOCIATllON J J fT NIWSPAMt v PUBIISNIIS ''ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1945 (It was Wednesday) G. B. Goddard, superintend ent of Jacksonville schools, an nounces school lunch program jointly sponsored by U. S. de partment of agriculture and school district. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The friend ly Espee has " put on another passenger train to the south, for autoists to try and knock off the crossing. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 10. 1935 (It was Thursday) Total of $470,444 ' allotted to Jackson county for WPA work, including $32,340 for airport improvement; $437,000 for high way improvement. Eugene Thorndike, president of he Community Chest, an nounces fund campaign is grati fying and urges residents to reach' quota. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 10, 1925 (It was Saturday) Emily Brown was elected president of Girls League of Medford High school; Mary Ed wards elected vice-president; Helen Laritis, secretary; Ruth Lawrence, treasurer. Billv Sunday considers con ducting an extended evangelistic campaign at Ashland for south ern Oregon. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 10. 1915 q (It was Sunday) Twelve indictments, 10 of them for selling whiskey to In dians, returned by federal grand jury here. From Local and Personal col umn: Many of the farmers of the Rogue River valley are making apple cider, and the home prod uct will soon be on the market. This is the only large apple pro ducing center in the world that does not make enough vinegar for its own use. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Reperi 1. "One Nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" is from the Constitution, Decla ration of Independence, Star Spangled Banner, Gettysburg Address or Pledge to the Flag? 2. Hawaii is or isn't the larg est of the Hawaiian islands? 3. Which of the authors of the four New Testament Gospels was of non-Jewish origin? 4. A small business is or isn't eligible for a federal loan if not engaged in defense work? 5. The Weather Bureau is part of the Interior, Commerce, Agriculture or Defense Depart ment, or is an independent agency? ".-.. 6. Boulder Dam lies between New Mexico and Arizona, Ari zona and Colorado, Arizona and Nevada, Nevada and California, or Nevada and Colorado? 7. Chief Justice John Mar shall was a native of Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, Massa chusetts or South Carolina? The Answers: 1. Pledge lo the Flag. 2. Is. 3. Luke. 4. Is. 5. Part of Commerce Department. 6. Arizona and Nevada. 7. Vir ginia. " Dead line Sunday Classified is' at noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. MAIL TRIBUNE Reserve Program Grows - - ' - Military reserve activity. is undergoing a sharp upswing in tHe Medford area. It is in large part stimu lated by the. 1955 Military Reserve act, which gives young men a greater impetus to partake in reserve programs. - We were talking to Col. William Prentice, senior Army reserve officer in the area, about the situation the other day, and he pointed out that, military pre paredness considerations aside, the enlarged program will have a considerable economic effect in Medford, as well. The annual payroll of Army reserve units alone, he said, will total nearly half a million dollars a year a fairly substantial amount.. In all, nearly 500 men will be engaged in the reserve program, with the pos sibility of later increases. .'. IN ALL, there will be five Army reserve units and one Navy reserve unit, as well as Medford's two National Guard companies. There is a possibility that another unit, possibly Air Force, can be established here. - Four of the Army units are on an active, pay-earning status; the other is a training unit composed of about 15 officers who receive no pay, but who are con stantly studying staff and command procedures to keep themselves in readiness." H ERE is a description of Headquarters and Headquarters company of the 417th , Aviation Engineering Brigade. Colonel Prentice will com mand the unit, although the table of organization calls for a brigadier general. The company calls for a complement of 29 officers, 6 warrant officers and 33 enlisted men, a total of 118. The unit'3 task is to supervise and administer Army construction battalions, as many as 10 of them possibly, or a total of more than 10,000 men. The battalions' mission is to construct and maintain air fields in support of the Air , Force. Headquarters and Headquarters company, 2nd battalion, 413th Infantry regiment, 104th division. Maj. Robert A. Elliott, as battalion commander, will also command the company, which will consist of 125 to 150 men at full strength. The battalion is composed of several rifle com panies, which will be administered by the headquarters outfit. Company G, of the same battalion. Capt. Donald Gray will be commanding officer, and will also have 125 to 150 men. Company G will be a rifle company. Headquarters and Headquarters detachment, 382nd Quartermaster battalion. This is a "carry-over" Unit, as the other three are newly organized. It is commanded by Lt. Col. Jack Hartley, who has 25 men in the detachment. Its task is to serve as headquarters for between four and six -quartermaster companies, up to 600 men. The 6402nd Logistical command (training). This non-pay unit is commanded by Col. Clifford O. Lovejoy, and is active - principally in correspondence courses and other forms of military study. The only Navy unit is Naval reserve Electronics divi sion 13-5. Commanding officer is Lt. Cmdr. John D. Sim mons, who took over command last week from Cmdr. Rod ' 'ney Keating. There are 59 officers and men in the unit, which is now at full strength. j .... , TTHE Aviation Engineering Brigade will be activated at ceremonies at the Medford High school audit orium a week from tomorrow evening. The guests of honor will include Maj. Gen. William F. Dean, win ner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his part in the Korean conflict prior to his capture by the Red Chinese, and Gov. Paul Patterson, as well as a num ber of other military dignitaries, among them Maj. Gen. Lamar Tooze, commanding general of the 104th division. . Colonel Prentice has explained that because Medford is one of the major population centers of this general area, three of the units are headquarters organizations. The units they supervise will be scat tered throughout southern Oregon and northern Cal ifornia, and the local units themselves will draw on a large territory to' fill their ranks. THE colonel also said that, as "the word gets around" about the various ways in which young men can fulfill their military obligation, interest in the reserve program is increasing. Some of the options offer draft-exemption; others offer varying length of active service. But all young men, under the new program, will have a certain per iod of reserve time to serve, and the units are there fore virtually assured of a continuing supply of man power. The reserve plan is one which contributes greatly to national defense. In addition, it offers considerable opportunities to young men of military age, in military preparation, in pay, "in vocational skills, and in other ways. " We wish the units success in their tasks. E. A. Sun Tan Pills ""IIHAT Won't they think of next" is about the most " appropriate cliche we could think of when we learned that doctors at. the, University of Oregon's medical school have come up with a pill which is sup posed to increase one's sun-tanning ability. Having the kind of hide which burns and peels, leaving only a few freckles, we welcome this gift of science warmly. 1ITE are glad to report, however, that this discovery was the bv-nroduct of research on other types of bodily ills. With all the aches and pains that human flesh is heir to, we would deplore tne tnougnt oi skiii ed physicians devoting full time to development of sun tan pills. Cosmeticians yes; physicians, no. Oj.a. Aviation Cooperation With Russia Studied Moscow (U.R) The first Union in civil aviation American congressional commit tee to visit Russia since World War H made plans today to in vestigate the possibility of de veloping cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Monday, October 10, 1955 the reserve groups : , The arrival of the eight con gressmen, led by Rep. Oren Har ris (D-Ark) raised the possibility that American airliners may someday fly direct to Moscow with Soviet airliners landing at U.S. fields. Adenauer Striving To Keep Army Under Democratic Control By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent . Chancellor Konrad Adenauer certainly is doing all he can to make' sure that the West Ger man army will be kept under d e m o c r a tic control.-' In deciding to arm the fed eral republic, the United States and its allies admit tedly took a calculated risk. ' The danger iharies McLann mat oermany would start to build up a new war machine was less than the danger that Russia might decide to start a war. But every move that Adenauer has made has been encouraging, lraditional Prussian goose- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Tragic note in the news: Egyptians are giving thous ands of dollars voluntarily to buy arms and equipment for Egypt's army. A delegation of transport workers from Alexandria hand ed Premier Nasser a check for 2700 Egyptian pounds ($7749) representing workers' wages for one day. Another worker sent $1.50, suggesting it be used to buy soft drinks for the crew of the first ship bringing arms to Egypt. WHY is that tragic? " The answer is tragically simple. These poor devils of Egyptians (90 per cent of whom are poverty sincKen Deyona American ca pacity for belief) are digging into their pockets to buy guns and ammunition that may be used to help start another war in the explosive Middle East. If another war gets started in the Middle East, it could spread into another world war. They'd FAR BETTER be put ting their money into a United Fund campaign as we're doing m faouthern Oregon; . TTERE in Southern Oregon well " spend our money for such things as CHARACTER BUILD ING for our youth, . the Red Cross, which is the ever-present mother in time of dire need. into care of needy and unfortun ate children, intohealth agencies, such as cancer and heart disease research. And so on. In Egypt, they're going to put their money (some of it raised under a system approximating our payroll deduction plan) into GUNS for another war. If that isn't tragic, there is no such thing as ' tragedy. fNE more word: v It is this willingness to put our money into funds (such as the United Fund) to make our cpmmunities better places to live in that makes America AMER ICA. It is willingness to put money into guns, when people are starv ing on every side with nobody paying much attention, because want and misery are accepted as a part of life as it is lived there that makes Egypt EGYPT. "piCONOMIC note in the news: -The U.S. department of commerce reports that publicly disclosed cash divided payments made by U.S. corporations in the first eight months of this year amounted to five and a half BILLION dollars. It adds: This was a gain of 7V4 per cent over the first eight months of last year. rpHAT raises an Interesting question: WHO OWNS AMERICA'S CORPORATIONS? rpHAT question can't be EX ACTLY . answered because there are thousands of little cor porations whose stock, owner ship isn't listed in existing records that are available. But the Brookings Institution estimates that the total of indi vidual share owners of publicly owned corporations in this coun try is now about 7,500,000. In ah exhaustive study made in 1952 it was able to track down a total of 6,490,000 persons who own shares in America's better known corporations. It separated them into family income groups, with this result: Under $5000 income, 2,050,000J people. Five thousand dollars to $10, 000 income, 2,880,000 people. Ten thousand dollars a year and over, 1,560,000 people. rpHAT is. the point: America's corporations are no longer owned by a few big shots. They are owned by MIL LIONS of Americans of all kinds. This 5V billion dollar divid ed income in the first eight months of this year went into the pockets of MILLIONS of Americans who had been thrifty enough to put their savings into the stock of American corporations. stepping and iron discipline have been scrapped. Every officer of the rank of colonel and upward in the new army is being rigidly screened to keep out men of the war lord type and former supporters of Adolf Hitler. Special Board Screens The ' screening is being done by a special appointments board, made up of military men and civilians, including members of Parliament. . aii appointments to senior rank must be approved by the cabinet. In his latest move, Adenauer has set up an eight-man civilian defense council to wield supreme authority in matter of both mill tary and civil defense, including appropriations. Adenauer himself, who has the complete trust of the Allies, is chairman of the council. His seven aides are senior cabinet ministers. All of them have excellent re cords. Like Adenauer they are working tor full European po litical and economic cooperation, All have a background of anti- Nazism and anti - militarism. Some of them were arrested on suspicion of complicity in the 1944 bomb plot which nearly enaed mtier s life. For instance, the key man on the defense council is Defense Minister Theodor Blank. Short, stocicy, hot-tempered, given to using strong language, he is 54, tin TTiii a - wnen muer got in power in 1933 he was a local labor lead er in the industrial Saar. The Nazis at once threw him out, He went to college to study en gineering. He was drafted into the army in 1939 and served six years. He was promoted to first lieutenant in the field for gal lantry in action. In the army Blank grew to detest Prussian militarism. He is a firm believ er in an army run on democratic lines. Arreste.d in Bomb Plot Foreign Minister Heinrich Von Brentano, 51, was an outspoken anti-Nazi. A bachelor, a lawyer, full of nervous energy, he was one of those arrested after the bomb plot. Vice Chancellor Franz Bluech- er is one of four Free Democratic party men in Adenauer's coali tion cabinet. He risked being thrown out of his party last Feb ruary because he backed Aden auer in urging that Saarlanders vote for a Europeanized status in the plebiscite to be held Oct, 23. The other members of the new council are Franz Josef Strauss. minister without portfolio; Ger hard Schroeder,- interior minis ter; Dr. Ludwig Erhard, eco nomics minister, and Fritz Schaeffer, finance minister. Is That So? Did you know that hu- man embryos a week old are so small that it takes seven of them to cover the period which closes this sentence. Perhaps the calmest region in the world, considering its great size, is the Arctic. Although there are regions of intense lo cal storms, it is strange how sel dom the wind blows and how gently it blows when it does. The growth of children is far from regular throughout the year, even during their fastest growing periods. During spring, the growth in height is usually almost twice that of the fall. However, spring's gain in height is made without a gain of weight while in the fall, when there is but little increase in height, chil dren fatten more. Within five years a plot of ground, ten feet by ten feet, may grow 37,639 weeds. A botany professor at Massachusetts State college pulled 'em and counted em. Premature grayness of the hair is on the increase among women generally in civilized countries. Because of the elephant s de mand for vegetable food, in the wild it wUl feed for 19 to 20 hours out of each 24. It sleeps little, an hour or two at a time. Females may carry their first calves at 18 years, though this is young. The ostrich feather is the only perfectly symmetrical plume; other bird plumes tend to Le one sided. Because the wolverine's fur is the only kind which will not hoar up with frost when breath ed upon it" is prized for trim ming parka hoods.' Under ideal conditions in the northland with a temperature of 60 below zero, one can overhear an ordinary conversation a half mile away; a man stomp his feet at two miles; and the barking MattCr Of FaCt By Jm and Stewart Alsep: THE NIXON CANDIDACY Washington In the last fort night, Republican leaders from every corner of the United States have been telephoning "S or callins on Vice- President Richard Nixon, either to as sure him of their support, or to sound out his inten tions toward the coming p r e s i d ential election. Nixon has Joseph Also given them all the same answer. According to several firsthand reports, the Nixon answer has run about as follows: "We all hope the President will be well enough to run him self. Even if he decides that he can't run again, I think the party ough to defer entirely to his wishes, as I'm sure you agree. So I don't want to talk about the matter at all." This answer to the eager poli ticos is typical of the way Nixon has h a n d led the difficult situation into which the Pres dent's illness a u t omatically plunged him. He has not only been loyal to his chief. He has also been sure-footed and digni fied, which is Stewart Alsop an extremely difficult combina tion, as anyone knows who has tried to get over slippery ground in a dignified manner. But it is already transparent ly obvious, of course, Hhat the Vice-President will in fact be a candidate ' for the Republican nomination if the President, as is virtually certain, decides he must retire. Unless he is direct ly encouraged by the President himself, Nixon will not be an active, avowed candidate, en gaging in public delegate-hunts in the manner of his great ene my, California Gov. Goodwin Knight. But Nixon will be a can didate all the same. Furthermore an assessment of the Nixon assets and liabilities clearly reveals that he is, as of now, the leading candidate among the Republicans. He starts, of course, with one very heavy handicap. If Gov. Knight has anything to say about It, and he will have a great deal, no California delegates will be carrying Nixon banners. . "OUT Nixon can do what Gov. Knight will have the great est difficulty in doing. He can obtain heavy support in other states. For example, it is not gen erally known, but there is a close personal link between the Vice-President and former Gov Thomas E. Dewey of New York, who may be, retired, but will Br EUGENE BURNS . Ranger-Naturalist of dogs or chopping of wood at 10-12 miles, The Amazon river discharges about 40 times as much water as. our lordly Mississippi. If all the corn grown in Am erica were put into one field it would be about the size of the State of California. The seed corn alone consists of 13,000,000 bushels. The harvest therefrom more than 3,000,000,000 bush els is enough to f ill a freight train stretching halfway around the world. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Fee: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges wUl 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 refer ence 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 Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausali- to, Calif. Auto Tour of Russia Refused by Officials Moscow (U.R) A Chicago dentist who had hoped to tour the Soviet Union in his own automobile was driving back to the Finnish border today after his plans were vetoed by Soviet officials. . . "When I came here I thought Russia, was ready for tourists," Dr. Brethold F. Schulz said be fore he left Moscow Sunday. Schulz arrived here two weeks ago, the first tourist of any na tionality to reach Moscow by automobile in recent years. Supreme Court Will Study Legal Appeals Washington (U.R) The Su preme Court is scheduled to de cide the fate of about 300 legal appeals at its first business ses sion of the new term today. Heading the list is the govern ment's $2,000,000 anti-trust suit against the General Motors and DuPont-Corporations. --' l A Lkt - .1 1 still have a great deal to say about what happens to the New York delegation at San Fran cisco. How or when this link with Dewey was established is not quite certain. It may have come about through Nixon's close per sonal friendship with Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers, who is the-chief politi cal aide of the chief Dewey man in the cabinet, Attorney Gen eral Herbert Brownell. At any rate, although Gov. Dewey is abroad, people who invariably reflect his - views are already passing the word that "there's no one but Nixon." By the same tokenj almost all members of the old Taft group in the Republican party also re gard Nixon as entirely accept able, although they probably feel more real enthusiasm for Sen. Knowland. Almost the only exceptions, interestingly enough are Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and two or three of his fellow extremists, who cannot forgive the Vice-President for standing by the President in the culmi nating showdown in the Senate. Finally, there Is no doubt at all that Nixon also has the In valuable asset of the President's warm liking and admiration .Whether Nixon will also have the President's active support is of course another question. Most of those who know Eisenhower best think the Republican lead ers will be unable -to persuade him to designate his successor. although they will certainly try to do so. And there may be other voices to counsel other succes sors in the White House. None the less, when the list of Nixon assets is added up, the total is certainly impressive. In view of the relative sparseness of the Republican competition, in fact, one would be inclined to go out on a limb and predict a Nixon nomination, if it were not for one weak point. As the President's principal poli ticker, Nixon has unavoid ably conveyed an image of him self to the public that is strong ly political; and nowadays the way to succeed in politics seems to be not to look like a politi cian. Among many independent voters, and even among certain grouns of Republicans, Nixon is decidedly unpopular, in a con siderable degree because he has done political errands that Eis enhower wanted him to do. rpHIS weakness of Nixon's has -- shown up strongly, in turn in the public opinion polls These have so far shown that whereas Adlai Stevenson would be badly beaten by President Eisenhower, Stevenson would beat Nixon by a heavy majority If , . Nixon - can proi ect a htmw image of himself and he is sure to try to do so the polls can of course be exoected to change if polls are to be relied on. But if the polls go on saying that Nixon is a loser, as they said Sen. Taft was a loser, the politicians are likely to end by taking fright. And if that hap oens, the politicians may ner- haps stamoede to some dark horse like the President's broth er, Milton Eisenhower, or even to Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, who has bee!n petting a good many ooliti- cal telephone calls himself re cently. (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Youth Quits Job . As Mother's Teacher Malton, Ont-(U.R)Arihur Fowler, 17. of Rexdal told police today that he wouldn't give hit mother, Mrs.'- Doris Fowler anymore driving les sons. ' Police said that Arthur was teaching his mother to drive Sunday and the car rounded a corner, smashed into a tele phone pole, bounced across the road, clipped a taxieab just as its driver ' jumped clear, jumped the curb, smash ed a plate glass window as it ran through a taxi stand and stopped five feet from the rear wall of the wrecked building. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 . .... . . PERL Ore Depletion Told by McKay Las Vegas U.R) - Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay said today most of this natiqp's high-grade ores have been de pleted and the U.S. now faces "growing dependence 1 upon imports" to meet mineral needs. "No longer can we fight a war or sustain an industrial economy without the aid of ma terials from foreign sources," McKay told the opening of the American Mining Congress con vention. ' He said, the United States is heavily dependent" upon im ports for tin, chromium, nickel, manganese aftd bauxite.-.. "We have to learn increasing ly to handle economically the submarginal minerals," he said. "We must use newer devices, better instruments. We must look deeper if we are to find new commercial deposits." The interior secretary warned delegates that this nation's se curity and survival "depends upon our ability to procure min eral raw materials." Convicts. Thwarted In Escaoe Attemof " i- - - r- Walla Walla (U.R) Two Washington' State Penitentiary convicts were back in their cells today after an abortive escape attempt got them no farther than , t.h nrisnn rnnrtvnril Convicts Charles Lambert and Cecil King, both faced with charges of being ringleaders in the July 5-6 riot at the peniten tiary, cut their way cut of their cells with short pieces of hack saw blades yesterday morning. A guard saw Lambert just after he had left his cell and he was apprehended immediately. King escaped after a scuffle with . guard Elwood Weathers and hid in a flower bed next to the prison auditorium, - but he gave up without a struggle when searching guards found him. ' ' Prison Warden Lawrence Del more Jr., said the three-inch pieces of hacksaw blades had been smuggled to the pair inside the prison. EX-GLAMOUR GIRL DIES Hollywood QR) One of the screen's first glamour girls, silent film star Alice Joyce Brown, 65, died of a blood ail ment yesterday at Hollywood Presbyterian hospital. . Quick in Results! Usr Tribune Want Ads Down Thru Roof GEO. N. TAYLOR The crowd outside was so great that the four who brought the paralytic, tore back the roof to let the man down at Jesus feet. Now hear Jesus tell the man, "Your sins are forgiv e n y o u." A t . that the Goody Goods sitting all about, rea soned as to who can for give sins ex cept God him self. These Goody Goods had come to trap Jesus for claiming to be the Son of God a claim punishable by death among those top men. But Jesus 'read their thoughts and asked which were easier to say? "Thy sins be forgiven thee" or to say "Rise up and walk." At that Jesus proved Himself to be God by telling the man to rise up and walk. Later Christ died for the sins He had forgiven the man. And youTOReceive Christ into your ' heart as dying for your every sin. At that eternal life is yours. Then be much in Bible and prayer. So you grow Christ- liKe. This message sponsored by an Oregon dairy family. adv. PERL'S every family may make funeral ar- rangements which are in keeping with its means. A selection of services In very price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet ' all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? r Certainly! to
