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o o O dOX-CDroft9 (OBEGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 o ADPOT PTTWT. Friitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. 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 matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act 01 Marcn j. ion ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear 12.0O Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year M.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month ja ,T Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. v 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 OF ClKUmii"" Advertising nepi WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De- . r.' n: I rtm AntfeleS. iron, oan riai". : Seattle Portland. St. Louia Atlanta. Vaneoover ax. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Z7 V NIWSrAPlI PUBllSNIIt ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The flail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1945 (It was Sunday) Seth M .Bullis, president of Jackson County Civic Music as sociation, announces plans for an nual membership campaign. From Arthur Perry'sYe Smudge Pot column: New grass is coming up on the sunny hill sides. Everybody is too busy to have any of it grow under their feet. : . 20. YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1935 B. E. Harper, president of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, invites several naval officials andlanes to visit here Navy Day, Oct. 28. Travelers discouraged from attempting to visit rim of Crater Lake because of foot of snow. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1925 Circuit Judge Charles W.. Thomas sustains demurrers of the cities of Medford and Jack sonville against, W. S. Barnum and Medford Coast railroad. Attendance at Medford public schools increases 10 per cent over last year. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 14, 1915 (It was Thursday) Rebonding committee agrees to new rebonding plan with city paying half the cost and property owners half. , Fruit growers of area plan active campaign against orchard diseases. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Renarck Raped ' 1 . About one-fourth, or three fourths of fatal traffic accidents occur on straight, level roads? 2. The Taft-Hartley act forbids mass picketing by strikers; right or wrong? 3. Farm prices as a whole have fallen less or more in 33 months of this Administration than in last 33 month under Truman, or about the same? 4. President of the U.N. Gen eral Assembly now is a Russian, North American, Frenchman, Latin American or Hollander? '. 5. The Government now is or isn't directly restricting oil im- carasj i i m . ports? 6. More cigars are sold today in "drug stores or in tobacco stores, or is it about 50-50? 7. A hemophiliac lives in a -dream world, can't stop bleeding easily, drinks too much, steals all the time, or is addicted to drugs? The Answers: 1. About three fourths. 2. Wrong. 3. More. 4. Latin American (from Chile). 5. Isn't. 6. More in drug stores. 7. Can't stop bleeding easily. LEARNS OF DEATH Salem (U.R) James Gun ston, Salem, has been notified that his brother, Army Sgt. Win ston L. Gunston, 40, was shot in the back and killed Oct. 4 while on guard duty' in Kyushu, Jap an. Army police said they were investigating the slaying. PROMOTION AUTHORIZED Denver (U.R) A $2,500,000 promotion campaign for wool ' and lamb has been authorized by the American Sheep Produc ers coucil, according to R., A. Ward, Portland, council director and general manager of the Pac ific Wool Growers association. mail tribune Atomic Electricity "Whv" wp asked a California Oregon Power 7 ' w company official recently, an atomic energy plant?" The question was asked only nan-joKingiy, ior electricity is now being generated by atomic power in several locations. One that Pittsburgh would have atomic electncity by - . til i i r r l j 1 i 1957, that .Boston would nave it oy iyoe, ana mai Detroit, New York and Chicago would by 1960. It stated that within the next few years there would be atomic powered merchant vessels and warships (in addition to atomic submarines, which we have now), and A-powered planes (perhaps like Buz Sawyer's). By 1980, it said, two-thirds of all electricity would be atomic in origin. , In addition, think of the publicity for southern Oregon if it became the first non-metropolitan area to receive power for general use from the atom. . THE Copco official agreed that it was a good idea, but pointed out the catch money. At its present stage of development, atomic power transformed into electric energy is immensely expensive, com pared to the hydroelectic energy which we receive from Oregon's tumbling waters. With the magazine's forecast in mind, and no- timncr ntfior rprPTir. TIPWS nf atomic developments, is it not logical to wonder how energy from atoms will light and neat our nomesj Cnnnn iteolf is inr.prp.sted. and is one of a group of electric utilities which is development program m THIS newspaper the other OUCVX VV-rVJ. VWM Washington U.R) A handful of America's most bril liant scientists are striving to create an artificial star ca pabil of generating limitless supplies of energy for power hungry man. . . . Their artificial star would be a "thermonu clear machine. ..." that it is now considered pos- sihlp. within the foreseeable conceivable heat of hydrogen fusion. Developments m solar HpHvpH Hirectlv from ravs rapidly. The first, primitive solar "batteries" are al ready in use. 1I71TH all this, then, it would seem likely that the W vinlpnt. arDnmients about hierh. dams vs. low dams for hydroelectric power, . - - 11 quently heard, may wen Decome preiry raucn acau emic before too many years have passed. If this is true, dams will still be needed, for flood control, for irrigation and for watershed management, but with electricity eliminated as a major factor in planning the dams, the entire problem would be vastly altered, and ine arguments, wv, wuum uiaugc J s E.A. 10,000 Letters Mrs. DwiVht TV Eisenhower must be a very cou rageous, very thoughtful and very hardworking woman. Wp ramp to this conclusion the other day when we read that she has announced she will sign, personally, the bulk of thank-you notes sent out in response w me multi-thousands of get well wishes which have ar- rived m Denver since the WE ONCE had something to do with preparing tor rv.oi'Knrr o vatli nf pflrrJs which totaled some XlXO,Xi C wvw v.. 7,500 in number. The physical task of into an envelope, sealing it, was monumental. Mrs. Eisenhower's determination to see that tne letters of good wishes are answered, many of them personally, does her credit, but it is a tremendous job, even with adequate assistance. At last reports, she had completed some 10,000 of the responses. Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower must be an exceedingly nice person. E.A. Simple Precautions Nobody wants to have a fire in his home, but too few take the simple, logical steps which would do much to prevent one. Elsewhere in the Mail Tribune this week have been a series of articles containing hints as how best to avoid home fires. It is to be hoped residents have taken note of them, for they are designed to save both property and lives. LJUNTING is properly thought of as a fairly hazard ous sport. Yet it could be pointed out that deaths from fire in Oregon are about five times as numerous as deaths attributable to hunting. And it is a fact that last year in Oregon property loss caused by fires (not including forest fires) was some $10,000,000, of which nearly half was in dam age to dwellings and apartments. This is National Fire Prevention week, and a good time to take a few moments to consider if each of us is taking the easy,-simple precautions which are so important in protecting us from the great destroyer. ' " E.A. More Spud Pickers Needed in Oregon By UNITED PRESS One thousand more potato pickers are needed at once to complete the Oregon harvest be fore bad weather sets in, Ben Davidson, administrator of the Oregon Potato commission, said today. Davidson said about 600 pick Friday. October 14, 195S c "why doesn't Copco build recent magazine declared far away the day is when sponsoring a research and i . nuclear energy. day earned a story which future, to harness the in energy, m wnicn power is of the sun. are also moving now so bitter and so fre- 11 T J .President's mness. checking each, inserting it the envelope and stamping ers were needed in the Klamath Falls area and 400 more in cen tral Oregon. Redmond high school is sched uled to release students to pick spuds next week and efforts are being made to obtain, seniors from Bend high. Ike's Offer Proposal by Tops News Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: THE GOOD 1. President Eisenhower, in a letter to Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin, offered to accept a Soviet proposal that the United States and Rus sia station in spection teams at military c o ncentration points in each others' coun tries. The pur pose would be to guard against sudden chanes Mccann aggressive mo bilization. The President hinged his offer on Russia's acceptance of his own proposal for an ex change of blueprints of military establishments. The President's letter seemed to reflect hope that he saw the possibility of some progress, however slow, toward eventual agreement on disarmament. 2. Iran, abandoning its long standing neutrality, announced that it would join the important Turkish - Iraqi - Pakistani - Brit ish military alliance. Iran thus linked itself with the vast sys tem of Allied defense- against Communist aggression. Soviet Russia's reaction, as expected, was immediate and angry. The Kremlin told Iran that its action threatened peace and violated Russian - Iranian treaties. The State Department warned Russia to keep hands off Iran. 3. The Paraguayan govern ment ordered ousted Argentine dictator Juan D. Peron interned in the interior of the country and threatened to expel him if he violated the conditions of the asylum he had sought. The action was a safeguard against any at tempt at trouble-making. THE BAD 1. Communist China announc ed in a radio broadcast from Peiping that it is "groundless" for the United States to hope that any missing American serv icemen are still held in China. The United States is convinced that the Reds are holding nearly 500 Americans captured during the Korean war. The Chinese Reds also dragged their heels, in negotiations in Geneva, Switzer land, after their promise to re lease imprisoned American civil ians. 2. British Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan joined Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles in warning Russia that it is en dangering peace in the Middle Babson . . Crop Situation By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Special to Mail Tribune) Although pro longed drought and heat, togeth er with hurri canes and floods, have sharply cut yields of corn, soybeans, grain sor ghums, tobac co, vegetables, and other crops, I still oger W.'BabMa look for a to tal U.S. crop outturn this year of near-record size. A number of summer crops already have been harvested, and the final official tallies prob ably will not differ materially from the published estimates. Al though the total wheat crop of nearly 917,000,000 bushels is down 20"per cent from the 1944 1953 average, total supplies for the current season are huge, since the carryover last July topped a billion bushels by a sizeable margin. Most of it, how ever, was in government hands. This fact, plus the government loan on the 1955 crop, may re sult in higher average wheat prices later in the season. The barley crop is the second largest on record some 386 000,000 bushels. This is enough to go around. Flaxseed also is in plentiful supply, with the crop the third largest on record. The record total hay crop 108,500, 000 tons should easily meet all requirements. Another record breaker is oats, with an outturn of 1,636,000,000 bushels and, incidentally, the highest-quality crop in years. Outlook for Corn, Soybeans The unfavorable weather con ditions also harmed the coun try's corn crop this summer. But corn . is sturdy and weathered these beatings well. Despite sharp losses, the indicated crop of 3,113,467,000 bushels is a lit tle above the 10-year average. Total supplies for 1955-1956 will be unusually large, in view of the substantial carryover. This should keep prices from kicking over the traces, and make for favorable livestock feeding ra tios. Efficient hog and cattle pro ducers should benefit. Soybeans "Johnny - Come Lately" wonder boy among U.S. grains also took a drubbing from the elements this summer, but came through with flying colors. Barring further damage, i ' To Accept Russia for Week East by letting Communist Czechoslovakia sell arms to Egypt. The State Department believes that Soviet bloc countries may offer to supply Israel with weap ons, thus adding to tension. In pursuance of the Kremlin's new and determined attempt to pene trate the Middle East, - Soviet ambassador to Egypt Daniel L. Solod said Russia also is willing to give "technical help" to all Arab and Asian countries which want it. 3. Chancellor Konrad Adenau er, West Germany's "grand old man" suffered an attack of pneumonia. His illness, which probably will keep him in en forced idleness for weeks, was a matter of concern to the United States and its allies. It came while preparations were being made for a Big Four foreign ministers conference in Geneva on Oct. 27, when German prob lems will be the chief topic for negotiation. Adenauer's counsel will be missed. The chancellor's illness was a matter for addi tional concern because he is 79 years old and has refused to build up a political heir. UN Week Subject Of SO Roundtable "The United Nations Its Ef fect on You" will be the topic under discussion at the Southern Oregon Round Table, presented Sunday, Oct. 16 on television station KBES-TV at 5:30 p.m. Octr 16 is the beginning of United Nations week, and the program will be in a series of events to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the U.N. in San Francisco in 1945. The program, sponsored by Southern Oregon college in Ash land, will have Hugh Simpson, public relations director at the college, for moderator. Giving the viewpoint of the student body will be Jim Kennette and Bob Matthews. Representing the Medford chapter of the United Nations association in Medford will be Mrs. Harlan Bosworth Jr., and Mrs. Herbert . Sampert, mem bers of the group. They will be assisted by Bruce Manley and George Rode. GENERATOR ON LINE Walla Walla (U.R) The 10th generator was put on the line at McNary dam this week, adding another 70,000 kilowatts of power to the Bonneville Pow er administration system. a record croD of around 388.000.- 000 bushels is in the works; this would be 13 per cent above the 1954 outturn and 62 per cent over the 10-year average.. Over all supplies of this versatile bean appear somewhat heavy to me, and I doubt that prices will make sustained progress on the upside, over the near term at least. Cotton, Other Fall Crops Despite record small plantings, the U.S. cotton crop may amount to 12,873,000 bales, which would be only moderately under the 10-year average. 1 Including the Aug. 1 carryover of some 11, 100,000, bales, total supplies for the current season are top-heavy. They, however, may not prove burdensome since the bulk of the carryover is in government hands. Free supplies will dwin dle as the season works along and prices probably will average higher. Dry beans promise to do well this year, with an indicated out turn of around 18,900,000 bags 9 per cent above average. This means plenty of the Boston spe cialty for all hands! The U.S. rice crop may amount to about 48,700,000 bags an amount eas ily sufficient for all require ments. The late potato crop (grown in 29 states) of 313,527, 000 bushels is about average size, and should have no difficulty meeting late fall and winter needs. Prices should work high er later on. Farmers Should Do Well All this adds up to fairly good times for the American farmer, although prices of farm nroHnrte for the first eight months of this year averaged about 5 per cent lower than in the corresponding period of 1954. Efficient, well- managea larms are still making money, despite the fact that the cost of thines the farmer hnvs is still relatively high. The going, or course, is tough, and always has been, for the small, ineffi cient farm; but, as I view the sit uation, American agriculture is doing well. Since 1956 is a presidential election year, the farm being will top the agenda when Congress reconvenes in January. Whether high, rigid supports will be restored, or the flexible sys tem further extended, remains tn be seen. I again forecast that the real need is for a long-term solu tion. Meanwhile, farmers should continue to work faithfully, serve tneir God, and vote in ac cordance with their basic con victions. Washington (Editor's jiote: Walter Lippmann, regular Mail Tribune columnist, is on a trip to Europe. In his absence, the New York Herald Tribune is circulat ing Roseoe Orununond's "Washington" column.) THE CABINET DIVIDES Washington The first serious breech in the ranks of the Cab inet since the President's illness is now visible in Washington. Today the most highly placed, influential officials of the Ad ministration are split practically down the middle over whether to stand , resolutely behind the Eisenhower-Benson farm policy, or to throw it to the winds in a politician's panic over declining farm prices. Because the division is so deep and the pressures from farm bloc Republican Congressmen to out-bid the Democrats for the farm vote so sharp, it has thus far proved impossible for the Cabinet to put an agreed recom mendation before Mr. Eisen hower. Thus the White House is faced with this blunt dilemma: 1. Only the President, by act ing decisively and soon, can stand off the growing demands of Republican politicians to grab farm policy away from the Ad ministration and Tide off in all directions. 2. But because opinion within the Cabinet is so hotly contested and because any present pro posal to Denver would have to reflect this division, Sherman Adams, the assistant to the Pres ident, has ruled that such a "controversial position paper" cannot be put before the Pres ident at this time. TK5 THOSE who understand something of how earnestly the political professionals can rationalize their economic pol icy and can turn them inside out with ease and without any change of countenance when the political tides seem to be shift ing and an election is in sight, it is not difficult to identify those within the Administration who are reaay to scrap the Ben son program piecemeal and who want either a pliable Benson or no Benson at all. Those who know the facts of the present controversy are aware that the leading advocates of diluting the Eisenhower-Ben son farm policy to a give-the- farmer-anything - he-wants eleo tion approach are Arthur Sum- merfield, former Republican Na tional Chairman and how Post master General, Harold Stassen, a Presidential aspirant himself, and Attorney General Herbert Brownell, a faithful Dewey man who has a variety of honest political stakes in his custody. Leonard Hall,. Chairman of the Republican National Committee,! is the target of the most frantic political pressure, but he will strongly support whatever deci sion the President finally makes. At the moment Vice-President Richard Nixon is sieering such a meticulously neutral course that the Benson supporters feel that he may well be their ally and the anti-Benson advocates feel that, despite his correct words, he has raised a friendly and sym pathetic eyebrow in their behalf. All other members of the Cab inet are on Mr. Benson's side. The upshot of the matter is that a high level Administration committee is to be appointed in an effort to resolve the disagree ment among the President's ad visers or to produce a compro mise which will be genuinely ac ceptable to both sides. No such agreement, no such compromise is anywhere in sight. Vice-President Nixon and Sec retary Benson will logically be the first to go over the make-up of the committee. But the final decision on its personnel which will almost certainly determine its ecommendations wall be made by Presidential Assistant Adams and the Vice-President. THERE IS no tendency within the Administration to min imize the reality of declining farm prices, or to belittle the political consequences of declin ing farm income when the in come of every other major group in the nation's economy is gcing up. But Mr. Benson and his sup porters hold that while many farmers are worried, they are not panicked and that the Ad ministration should not pursue a panic-retreat from the policies it believes economically sound. It is true that farm income is down 34 per cent since 1947 and that fanners are hurt by a price cost squeeze at a time when the chips are down for the 1956 election. But it is also true that because of the decline in farm popula- tion, per capita income from all 2 31 MUTTON I ROAST I Wu. By Drummond Roseoe sources of a now smaller farm population is actually up 16 per cent over 1947. Fanner in come from all sources is only six per cent less than the Korean war-time price peak of 1951. It is also true that income per farmer is actually 11 per cent more than it was in 1950 and that the total value of all farm assets is $163,000,000,000 down only 1.8 per cent from the all-time peak. The future of farming is so sound financially that land values ' are going up, are at a record high. v 1 Secretary Benson's known position is that the Administra tion can hold the majority sup port of the American fanner if the Republicans do not panic and try to run on everybodys else's farm program but instead unite and go into the election without reversing themselves. There is no doubt that Mr. Benson will not stand by and permit a farm policy of selling out to the highest bidder. But the pressure to do so is growing and only relatively early and decisive action by the President can hold the Admin istration and his party together on this issue. (Copyright, 19S5, New York Herald Tribune, Ine.) Editorial Comment LEGION HANDLING OF THE UNESCO CASE About a month ago The Jour nal commended the American Legion for its approach to the question of the aims and deeds of the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organi zation. First the Legion had appoint ed a committee and then the committee spent 18 months in investigation, coming up with a 40,000-word report which gave UNESCO a clean bill of health. The Journal was commending this approach to the problem not necessarily the findings of the committee as contrasted to the all-too-frequent system of maKing accusations based on hearsay or the testimony of un identified informers.' The Legion, meeting in Miami in national covention, has turn ed down the recommendatons of its UNESCO investigating com mittee. To quote from a United Press dispatch, "By an uproarious voice vote, without debate and with dissent of only a few weak nays, the delegates threw the Legion's prestige behind a reso lution that slappd at the stanch support given UNESCO by the Eisenhower administration and by congress.". Again, we are not arguing the merits of the UNESCO case. But it does seem that an issue as im portant as UNESCO deserves more than a voice vote without debate. The resolution condemning UNESCO upon which the dele gates voted was approved by the Legion's foreign relations com mittee in a secret meeting. The Legion is a major organi zation and it is dealing with major problems. It will continue to be a major organization only if it adopts a mature and re sponsible attitude toward the problems with which it deals. Oregon Journal. Advertising Elephant Costs Firm Damages i Los Angeles (U.R) An auto mobile agency which "parked" an elephant in front of its build ing as a promotion stunt got a $14.95 damage bill from the city Thursday. . The city charged that the ele phant knocked the head off a parking meter. - Great Britain's combined car, ous and truck production topped the million mark for the first time in history in 1954. "Oil THE DOT" twice a year generous earn ings are paid to our inves tors. It's an unfailing thrill, this attractive rate of pay for the use of your hard-earned dollars. o FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution DodicattW To Hum Who Sara EAST SIXTH 5T. BEEF BEEF ROAST 33lb. LIVER 29 Harvard Man Silent On McCarthy Charge G Boston' (U.R) Harvard president Nathan M. Pysey re fused today to comment on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's charge that the university was "a sanctuary" for Fifth Amendment Commun ists. McCarthy made the charge yesterday while testifying for the government at the contempt of Congress trial of former Har vard psychologist Leon J. Ka min, 27. Kamin, an admitted former Communist, was cited for con tempt because he refused to name fellow Reds at a Jan. 15, 1954 hearing of the McCarthy committee in Boston. - Don't Hesitate To Caff Firemen, Chief Advises Medford. Fire Chief Gordon Barker has urged residents not to be embarrassed to call the department for an investigation immediately if smoke is smelled or there is possibility of fire in a home. Chief Barker, reminding citi zens of NationalcFire Prevention Week, said calling the depaw ment for investigation is calling i it to do the job it is trained & perform. Officials appreciate alertness of residents in detect ing and preventing fire, Bari&r said. The chief pointed out that many residents believe they can do-it-themselves and too ofte lose everything, sometimes life. HUNDREDS OF STITCHES A lot of thread and stitching goes into a pair of Goodyear welt shoes. In fact, some 370 stitches are used on the sole alone. - Nothing in th rifcf nights is half , so 48ciA'ng ; as the new 956 D$P. : Out Wednesday, Oct. 1 & ' at the Dick Knight C, your De Soto Deafer. (Freely translated from (he Arabic) ' SLICED BACON 3 Lb. Lb. -7 O 8 i-1
