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o TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody la Southern Oregon Reads Too Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager X. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor OTP All VAI TD rW ClitA- HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered u second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1BH7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail-eTi Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 O Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mot. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medforo, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. t i in riA Hill Phtvnix. Shady CoveO Rogue River. Tiuent. and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year tlSM Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All TenMLaaninjiavaiiCT Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MT.ivTRFB OF AUDIT BUREAU or cuiuumi'U" WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. TNC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver,, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I as so di ati Ion k PUBlllNlIt "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. 16, 1945 (It was Tuesday) . Grace Holms, Florence Bol ton, Irean Grigsby, and Effie Kurtz return from Portland where Gthey attended district conference of ?onta Interna tionaL . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The first country sausage of the autumnal season has shown up. There is something wrong with it. It has a decided pork taste and is not overrun and overwhelmed by soybeans, the over-worked food stretcher. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 16, 1935 (It was Wednesday) Jackson county budget com mittee approves $526,050 budget, levy. of .. $355,940; set hearing Nov. 6. Jackson county Parent Teach er association J issues plea for new members. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 16, 1925 (It was Friday) Public Service commission holds hearing on W. S. Barnum's request to tear up Jacksonville Medford railroad tracks; delega tion wants line continued to Copper. From Foots Creek items: Pre liminary work at the Black Channel gold mine is now under way to prepare dwellings for the men. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 16, 1915 (It was Saturday) F. S. Bramwell, field mana ger for Utah-Oregon Sugar com pany, announces $500,000 avail able for sugar beet industry de velopment in Rogue valley. From Sams Valley news: The Sam's Valley . Telephone com pany is procuring some fine yew posts for the telephone line.' These posts are expected to last 50 years - - What's the8 Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Raperl 1. Most 1956 cars are expected to have altogether different en gines from their.-'55 counter parts; right or wrong? 2. Most rmscarriages occur in the first or the second half of pregnancy, or is it 50-50? "!3. There is less or more buying of stocks fully for cash today than some months back, or about the same? q 4. Which of these British La Tor Party leaders have been prime ministers: Attlee, Bevan, Bevin, Gaitskell, MacDonald? 5. Average social security pay ments to retired elderly .couples are now considerably, less or more than $100 a month, or about $100? 6. Most pepper used in the U. S. is grown here, or comes from South America, India-Indonesia, Italy, or Spain-Portugal? 7. In Washington . Marion B. Folsom is a Senator, Cabinet member, diplomat from Britain, coach of the Redskins.or social secretary to Mrs. Eisenhower? The Answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Most in first half. 3. More now. 4. Aillee and MacDonald. 5. About 100 as average. 6. Most from India-Indonesia. 7. Cabinet member (health, education and welfare.) MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence . San Francisco, Oct. 14 With the mercury at 82 everyone here it the hotel is remarking that it is too hot "for this time of the year." We can't claim to be a San Francisco pioneer but we have been here frequently enough since 1910 to know that 82 is not unusual for "this time of year." In fact this is "the good old summer time" for the Golden Gate area, while July and August come under the heading of a cold and foggy Fall. We remember the mercury hit over 90 during October some years ago, and over at Berkeley the boys had to play football! It wasn't much of a game as we recall it, but the boys in the stands got-a good sun-bath. Very sorry to hear that Ralph Sweeney has had to retire from the post of county treasurer. He has been on the job there for many years, and as far as the voters are concerned could have re mained there indefinitely. But characteristically, when he felt he couldn't do justice to the job because of his health, he decided to step out. We hope that with less sibility his health will steadily his place is highly qualified and We can't figure out how the San Francisco area gets along with so little rain. For a month now there hasn't been a drop and "fair and warmer" is the week-end ists and visitors but hard on the Had an unexpected meeting day and we agreed bii athletics if not on politics. The decline of amateurism in college athletics and especially football was the chief topic. The departure of Tony Trabert, tennis champion, from the amateur ranks started the young men, for he is married, $80,000 a year for signing on the dotted line.. We hope, however, the young Australian boys, Hoad and Rosewell, won't follow'his example but they probably will. Who will be left to play tennis good tennis that is? Probably the world title will go to Jugoslavia or Indonesia. Well there might be compensations, the Anglo-Saxons have had a corner on amalev.r tennis for a long time. But this Ronnie Knox case at UCLA really got busy on our respective blood pressures. This is the young man who first went to Berkeley but when Papa Waldorf didn't come through with vari ous and sundry emoluments, Ronnie's fast working father-in-law stepped in, and ordered his athletic prodigy to Los Angeles. Now father-in-law says Ronnie has a bad shoulder and should not play until the injury is entirely mended. If Coach Saunders doesn't obey ?then it is hinted the young man will accept some of the many fat pro offers he has received. We hope Coach Saunders says ok and lets him join the pros. That is where he belongs anyway. Moreover if he stays with UCLA when they play Cal, Ronnie might have something worse than a sore shoulder to complain about before the final whistle. We note from the MT that Frank Jenkins, Klamath Falls editor, told a luncheon meeting of Republican women at the Hotel Jackson that, quote: "I am sure they (Senators Neuberger and Morse) would rather see Southern Oregon a desert than allow develop ment of private power." i Surprised that our courteous and considerate colleague should repeat this mendacious and malicious accusation originally coined by one of the rabid up-state partisans of private power. As has often been remarked in this department we have never been able to understand why this highly complicated and contro versial issue can't be argued by both sides without indulging in name-calling, irrelevant personalities or intemperate language. It isn't essentially a political but a business question which method of development in any particular case would best advance the pub lic, welfare. Senators Neuberger and Morse believe one way, Edi tor Jenkins another. Let them agree to disagree, and confine their arguments to facts, without impugning the characters or motives of those who think otherwise. ... k The complete absurdity of such a charge becomes Immediately apparent to anyone familiar with the situation in Southern Ore gon. For here the California Oregon Power company, a private corporation, has operated for several generations, and has steadily extended its field of operations and control, with no effective com petition from any federal project therefore to talk of ANYUNiS least oi ail representatives oi uu state in Washington preferring to see this section of Oregon be come a desert, rather than allow further developments of private power! R,W.R. - Washington HOGS. PRICES AND POLITICS Washington The Eisenhower administration is today faced with an acute political problem because of a moderate but po litically exploitable decline in farm prices. Actually the Administration faced the same kind of acute problem in 1954 because of a moderate "but politically exploit able unemployment. In last year's "unemployment crisis" which was purposely ex aggerated by some the Admin istration stood by its principles. Despite political pressure and temptation, despite the oncoming Congressional election, the Ad ministration did not rush pre cipitously into a large program of made work and mass scale deficit spending. It made money for capital expenditure easier to get by .lowering the interest rate and it cut taxes to increase consumer purchasing power. It refused to be panicked into throwing its own economic prin ciples out the window.' Its course has -now been proved prudent, sound and equal to the need. The economy by its natural strength righted itself without massive government intervention. Every body is better off. Employment, wages and profits are running at an all time high and the prophets of gloom and doom have been proved not to be our wisest or best friends. - NOW the Administration is faced with exactly the same kind of decision because of a decline in farm prices of about the same proportion as the de cline in employment in 1954. Only this time the political pres sures are greater because so much of rock-bottom Republican voting strength stems from states with large farm populations. This time the political tempta tions are greater because both the Presidency and the Congress are at stake at a time when a small shift of votes could turn the results either way. And at this time and at this stage the Eisenhower Cabinet without Mr. Eisenhower present is divided. So far it has been unable to reach a sufficiently united decision so that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson can privately know or publicly affirm that the 'Administration will . continua to .stand . behind Sunday, October 16, 1955 confining work and less respon improve. Karl Janouch who takes should prove a worthy successor a prediction. Nice for the tour truck gardeners we should think. with another "Old Grad" yester argument. It is hard to blame tne has no money and will get around in the picture at all. How silly Roseoe Drummond its own farm policy. There are some in the Cabinet who are so jittery over the farm vote that they want to "do something" as they say which means they want . to "'do almost anything" to show that they, not the Demo crats, are the farmers' best friends. V Obviously these do-something, do-nothing members of the Cab inet do not say would not say that they want to retreat from the Administration's basic farm policy. They just want to retreat from it without saying so. They know that Secretary Benson will take short- term, emergency measures to deal with real crisis conditions if they develop. 1 But they suspect that Mr. Benson will not go far enough soon enough, so that the Democrats will appear to be .outbidding them. And that is perfectly true. He won't not any more thari the President did in dealing with the decline of employment in 1954. He holds that a government managed farm, economy, is no more possible in its competitive enterprise system than a govern ment managed industrial econ omy and that steps which lead continuously away from bring ing farm production into, bal ance with consumption will end by hurting the American farm er, not benefitting him. . SECRETARY Benson has faced revolt in the Republican party ranks before and with the back ing of the President, won out. When beef prices were off, some time back, the Republican farm bloc Congressmen took, out after Benson. Their cry was: "Benson must go." Mr. Eisenhower de cided otherwise and cattle rais ers are doing very well today. Now the same issues .arises Over hog prices. The drum-beats of another "get-Benson" crusade by some panicky Republican Senate and House farm politicians can now be heard in the distance and they are going to get louder before they get quieter. : There 'are two reasons why Vice-President "Nixon is trying to resolve or compromise the Cabinet division as quickly as possible. Sherman Adams feels that a divided, controversial Cab inet paper should not be put to President Eisenhower -at this Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den name or initial for publication is permia 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. Demand of Government To the Editor: The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a voluntary organiza tion of men who have honorably served outside the United States in the armed forces of our coun try during time of war and up rising when the lives and prop erty of Americans were in peril. One of our principal purposes is to honor our dead by serving the living. Steelhead Post No. 6881, at Shady Cove, is a subordinate unit of "the federally chartered organization. We, as an organization, have no political aspirations nor do we endorse any political party or candidates thereof. We lay no claim to being better morally than any other group of like size of good Americans. However we do share, through our order and service to our country, a great love for the United States of America, its laws and institu tions. We believe the Constitution of the United States is a good and just document and that it, together with its various amend ments, should be the guide for all Americans. It guarantees to us certain rights and privileges but also imposes responsibilities upon us. We can enjoy our freedoms and liberties only so long as we protect them and must be con stantly alert since we have ene mies boring from within as well as the threats to our liberties from outside sources. The polit ico who uses his influence for the . benefit of a few is just as much an enemy to our way o life as the foreign power that tries to conquer us, and the of fice holder who puts his polit ical party above the best inter ests of all the people is no better. There are three things we de mand from our local govern ment COMPETENCE, HON ESTY AND IMPARTIALITY. "Dan F. Krotz II, . Chairman for . Community Service, Steelhead Post, VFW, Shady Cove, Ore. Dreary Sameness To the Editor: There is a rap idly growing number of people who, like myself, are becoming very concerned with the regu larity of labor union's demands for higher and still higher rates of pay, fringed with longer paid vacation and other benefits. Now the union leaders must know, and the rank and file also, that as their demands increase the cost product of the labor, so too must the price be increased to the consumer. All this as every one knows leads directly to spir- aling inflation that left uncon trolled, leads directly to national debt repudiation. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, realizing he could not carry on World War against the great debt of his country, went through devalua tion that pauperized once wealthy people, the mark so low people carried the change in large baskets. Some GIs caused a rift between the USA and France by papering their coach compartment with the devalued Franc notes. The very foundation of our happy golden age is crumbling under the demands of. higher and still higher wages by organ ized labor, especially the big. power hungry ones, who set the demands for other unions, many of which would prefer to main tain the status quo, to live and let live. There is a reason for it all. My personal observation says it is loss of pride of accomplish ment. The union steward told me, when, sourly viewing my own devised double-cut tool that reduced the roughing out of a 600 lb. slug of steel for the valve carrier in the triple-expansion engines we were building for Liberty ships, from a full eight hours to three hours ana twenty minutes, " Pop, we don't want any speed-up here, put in your time at what s to be done. When the whistle blows, that's it." No . lift for the worker in happwy eagerness to better qual ity and quantity of his day's product. Same old dreary same ness day after day till the em ployee is ready for a strike or anything to break the deadly monotony of dreary sameness of waiting for the whistle to blow. It is not a question of wages that are ample now for a good way of life, far better than most of the world's people. Powerful la bor leaders should heed what happened to our railroads in stage of his recuperation.' Sec ondly, if Mr. Benson cannot soon affirm a clear and strong White House position, the initiative will be grabbed by every vote-scared farm-bloc Republican Congress man, support for the Adminis tration's program will be drop ped piecemeal off the rear of the political train and the Repubil can party will be a house di vided against itself on one of the basic policies for which it has stood since Mr. Eisenhower's election. . - - Copyright. 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart AWp J RUSSIANS BEARING GIFTS Washington Assistant Sec retary of State George Allen has returned from his hasty trip to Egypt with the report to the State De partment that there is serious danger of a full - scale re newal of the Arab - Isra e 1 i war. The slow match was tossed into the powder keg Stewart AIsop when the Kremlin offered sur plus Soviet arms to the Egytian, Syrian and Saudi Arabian gov ernments. . It can further be stated on undoubted authority that com parable Soviet arms offers have now been made to Peru and Ecu ador. Hints of a possible arms deal have been dropped in Mex ico City. An there is a good possibility of a future Soviet arms oner to Brazil, where a left - wing gov ernment head ed by Juscelino Ku bitschek" seems to be com ing to power. The Soviet arms offers in South America have caused the extreme disquiet among the Eisenhower Joseph Also Administration policy-makers. But they repre sent nothing like the immediate threat of the Soviet arms deals in the Middle East. Assistant Secretary of State Allen was sent hurrying to Cairo in the hope of preventing the Egyptian-Soviet deal, which is by far the most important. The hope proved vain, and Allen re turned with his report of war danger, which has, until now, been closely guarded by the State Department. What is expected to be major test of the acuteness of the dan ger wiU occur within a day or two. The Arab states are then due to give their verdict on the deal for sharing Jordan river water with Israel, which Eric Johnston has been trying to ne gotiate as President Eisenhower's representative. . If the Johnston proposal is ac cepted by the Arabs, the war danger will be considerably down-graded. But if the Jordan river water agreement is. again rejected, as it has been once al ready, it is thought that the sit uation may move toward the crisis stage. , , . THE connecting link between Soviet arms for Egypt and Jordan river water is the mood of the Israeli leaders. They will be importantly reassured if the water agreement 'receives Arab approval. At present, however, the ten sion in Tel Aviv is stated to be extreme. The reason for the tension is the Israeli government's pas sionate belief that the Egyptians quite certainly, and the Syrians and Saudi Arabians quite possi bly, mean to use their new- So viet arms -against the Jewish state in Palestine. Israeli Prime Minister-designate David Ben Gurion has already stated pri vately but most positively that Israel cannot afford to remain passive in the circumstances. At present, Israel's armed strength appears to be greater than the strength of Israel's hos tile neighbors. But if the Egyp tian Armje is to be massively strengthened with Soviet MIG- 15s, medium bombers and other arms, the balance between Is rael and her neighbors will be proportionally altered. There fore, in effect, the Israelis want a showdown now, because they are convinced that their neigh bors' acceptance of Soviet arms will surely mean a show-down later, and on much worse terms for Israel. It is even possible to indicate the point where the show-down may begin. Some two years ago, the Egyptian government mount ed artillery on the small islands of Sanafir and Tiran, which com mand the approaches to the small ft their one-time ed" policy. 'public be damn- F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main St. Medford, Ore. Thanks To the Editor: May we express, through this column, our sincere appreciation for the assistance we received in the recent Bible film showing at Rogue River? Especially are we indebted to contributors of both time and money, to exhibitors of our plac ards, to the VFW Rogue River Post 4116, for the use of its hall, to Glen Wooldridge for the loan of his projector, and to Elza Abel for his excellent opera tion. We also wish to express our appreciation for the radio sta tions' very helpful broadcasts and for the writeups appearing in the Mail Tribune, the Times and the Grants Pass Courier. Our heartfelt thanks to one and all! The Lord bless it to each! Mrs. Irene Moreland, For the local group, Laymen's .Home Missionary Movement, - - Route 1,'Box 536, Gold Hill, Ore. J Israeli port of Elath at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba. Since then, the Egyptians have twice fired on ships thought to be destined for Elath, most recently on a British ship two months ago. At this juncture, therefore, Prime Minister-designate Ben Gurion is reportedly thinking about demanding that the Egyp tians demilitarize Sanafir and Tiran. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, the ambitious Egyptian Prime Minister who made the arms deal with the Kremlin, could hardly meet such an Israeli de mand without a" catastrophic loss of political face at home. But if deadlock ensued, it would have all the makings of a war crisis. As can be seen from the fore going the war danger, though held to be serious, is not held to be immediate. The hostile parties have not yet taken final posi tions, at least in public, and all the resources of American diplo macy are now being used to pre vent a flare-up. TiJO CONSIDERATION is being given any longer to the plan to persuade the Egyptians, Syr ians and Saudi Arabians to ac cept American arms instead of Soviet arms. It is regarded as a weak sort of yielding to black mail in the first place; and in the second place the Egyptians seem to have refused to give the usual guarantees that the arms will only be used defensively, which are required from all recipients of U. S. military aid. On the other hand, some con sideration is being given to the Israeli demand for a guarantee of Palestine against aggression. With such a guarantee, the -Israeli leaders would probably feel enough self-confidence to ignore the strengthening of their hostile neighbors by Soviet weapons. The cause of this new Middle Eastern crisis is in itself an in tensely significant phenomenon, and as indicated above, , it is by no means limited to the Middle East. What the Kremlin is doing, in effect, is to extract big po litical dividends frorri an other wise valueless by-product of the vast Soviet armament program. Since the war, the Soviet army, navy and air force have been re-organized and re-equipped from top to bottom. The Russian air force, in fact, is now in the process of being completly re- equipped for the second time, with postwar MIG-15s being re placed with newer MIG-17s and the even better "Farmer" fight er, iu- DomDers giving way to "Bisons" and "Badgers," and so on. Even after Chinese and other satellite requirements have been met, the supply of Soviet arms obviously exceeds the demand, for the Soviets manufactured no less than 15,000 MIG-15s, for in stance, before beginning to re place the MIG-15s with better models. . . ... The huge resulting stocks of unwanted aircraft, and indeed of tanks and guns too, have now been turned to account in a most astute manner. There has been no pressing or over-eagerness on the part of the Soviets. In the case of Egypt, for example, the first overture was made by the editor of "Pravda," Dmitri T. bhepilov, in the course of his interview with Colonel Nasser. f GYPT and the Soviet Union. said Shepilov, ought to have closer relations on all fronts Even military relations of a kind were not impossible. Whv should not the Egyptians buy Soviet arms on credit, paying off over a long term with Egyptian cotton, for example? From this seemingly casual and unofficial beginning, the Egyptian deal grew. In the same manner, the Saudi Arabian deal grew from a seemingly routine diplomatic call by the Soviet Ambassador to Teheran on King Saud, when the Arabian ruler was visiting the bhah of Iran. The Soviets have been careful to avoid putting any strines on the arms they offer. Substantial credits are being extended in the case of Egypt as high as $75.- 000,000. The Czechoslovaks are being used as ostensible inter mediaries; and in South America the arms offers seem actually to have been made by Czechs. Fin ally, the local Communist parties have been ordered to reduce their activities to the point of invisibility, in order to lull the possible fears of Soviet interven tion among the prospective re cipients of Soviet arms. Altogether, there has been no finer manifestation of the Ge neva spirit. (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Fire Debris Cleared ' At Hansen Building Debris from a fire in the Will Hansen building,- Bartlett and Sixth sts., was being cleaned up late last week, but plans for future building are pending, Hansen said. The building was gutted by fire last July with damage esti mated at more than $100,000. The building housed Medford Furniture company and Walke field Drapery company, which have since moved to temporary locations. Hansen said plans have not been completed for restoration of tne building. - x POTLUCEC (By M-T Staff and Contributors) Now this is real complicated, so read carefully. It involves three different newspapers, three newspapermen and at least two babies: Not long ago, Bob Chandler, editor-ef the Bend Bulletin, be came a father, and commented (anonymously) on the fact in his editorial column. His comment was picked up by the Albany Democrat-Herald and reprinted by Editorial Writer George Turnbull, with appropriate com ment. In turn, the D-H's com ment was reprinted by the Coos Bay Times. Here it is as it ap peared in the latter two papers: - '"A new-born baby we know (weight 5V. pounds) has the oth er five members of her family (collective eight 475 V pounds) hopping at her every sneeze, cry and burp.' This is the way Rob ert W. Chandler ... announces a fourth child in the family. He is discovering again what par ents keep forgetting, that the smug dictatorship of the recent ly born is, roughly, in inverse proportion to their weight." As printed in the C-B Times, the item was headed, "Yes, We Know, Grandfather," which is confusing until one realizes that Kenneth E. Johnson, managing editor of the C-B Times, is the son-in-law of Albany Editorial ist Turnbull, and recently went through a similar experience. Wayne Morse, senior United States senator from Oregon, is known to political friend and foe alike as a fiery or ator. Which may or may not have anything to do with the fact that during a talk at St. Mary's school last week, the fire alarm sounded for a rou tine drill and the students dut ifully filed out of the auditor ium, leaving the senator tem porarily without an audience. ' Mrs. D. Kirkland West, who spent many years in China with her missionary husband and fa mily, was an interested listen er last week as Dr. Walter Judd, himself a former China medical missionary, spoke here. During his talk he mentioned how his growing daughters at one point objected to their "fuddy-duddy missionary father," but how as the years passed they came to appreciate him more. After the meeting Mrs. Wesf related that her son, Bruce, was sitting-with her during the talk. At that point in the speech, she said, she reached back to pinch his leg to call his attention to the speaker's point about children of missionaries. ' "But in the darkness I think I pinched the wrong leg," she said. "Then I didn't dare look around to see who it was." . Chuck Riss't, who operates a downtown service station, was taking care of somebody's English-made, hand-braked bi cycle the other, day, and was to put it in the back of a sta tion wagon. Ha decided to ride it across the station lot, rath er than push it, and as ha ap proached the car, was seen pedalling madly backwards, yelling, "How do you stop this darn thing?!!l" ' William T. Jeffery, 521 May- ette st., Medford, recently found it necessary to furnish proof that he was not ex-President Harry S. Truman. Jeffery, in Washington, D. C, on a business trip, noticed some one staring at him as he was watching a World Series game on television in a hotel lobby. The starer approached and ask ed, "Say, aren't you Harry Tru man?" . . Jeffery assured him he wasn't, but the man would not let it go at that. Jeffery finally produced his identification. "Well," the other said, "you could pass f orTruman any day." Jeffery said perhaps that is why, no matter where he went on the eastern trip, people con stantly stared at him. Staff member's definition of a pear: A banana with its girdle off. 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A Nevada Corporation ' 1,000,000 Shares 10c par value non-assessable common stock OFFERING PRICE 10c PER SHARE Properties are located in the Colorado Plateau, near Moab, Utah For information or copies of the Offering Circular, call or write CA 3-9391 CA 7-1638 A week from today Marie Myers (Mrs. H. P.) Bosworth is to help officiate at a tree-planting ceremony at E. H. Hedrick Junior High school in observance of United Nations week. "A contributor is amused by the fact that, some 40 years ago, Mrs. Bosworth (then Miss Myers) helped out at a tree-planting at the then-new public library. In the first ceremony, Miss Myers danced a highland fling; during the second, Scotch bag pipes are to be heard, which proves,' our contributor declares, that history DOES repeat itself. wage earners rights in Oregon EQUAL PAY FOR EQUAL WORK The 1955 legislature added an "Equal Work Law" to Ore gon's wide-reaching legislation enacted to protect women workers. It entitles the wo man wage earner to the same pay as a man whose work is the same as her own. The following answers to equal-pay problems are provided by the Bureau of Labor. .' Q. The firm .where we ere" employed has aower wage scale for women than men because, it claims women are off work more. Is this a fair reason? A. The extent of absences from work has been shown to vary with individual workers, not necessarily differing between men and women. Most employees must be on the job regularly to hold their jobs. Excessive ab sence may affect any individu al's right to the job or oppor tunities for promotion. It does not justify discriminatory wage rates between men and women holding comparable jobs. Q. We employ a man and a woman on the same type of job. The man consistently; pro duces more than the woman. Can't he be paid more? , A. Yes, higher wages-may be paid on the basis of production records. They may be based on piecework, an incentive system, bonus plan or merit system. Equal rates of pay must be paid, however, irrespective of sex; A. Does equal pay allow a dif ference in wages because of sen iority of service? ".; ; A. The law permits a differ ential in wages based on the length of service as long as it applies equally to men and wo men employees. . if you have' a" question ; you may write Commissioner Nor man O. Nilsen, State Bureau of Labor, Salem, Ore. ,' La Grande Fire Chief Resigns; 'Needs Rest 1 La Grande (UP.) Fire Chief Harley Hutchison said yes terday he was resigning from the department effective Nov. 1. Hutchison has been a member of the department for 33 years. 'Hutchison said, "I feel like a rest." A successor probably will be named within the next week, according to City Manager Jess Parker. 5 WHO GETS THE WORM? BE AN EARLY BIRD Let us put your money to work in local opportunities. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS I LOANSS'N of. Medford ' i 27 North Holly In Institution Dedicated ' Te These Who Save 359 Morgan Bldg. 4 ! ! O 4
