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Newspaper Page TextG G O fOTO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL. TRIBUNE Tuesday, October 18, 1955 "Krerybody tn Southern Orasoe flwui iiw man uiuujw Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD Pali" TING CO. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RtTHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager Z. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor hliu . rcnrc"T"i C.a EMI OLIVE STAR CHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation M, An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot xoarca d, to& t al!? Sunday-. yr ia.00 itauv ana ouiiubj -- Daily and Sunday Three mos. 1 JO Sunday Only un . By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. laieni. and on motor routes: .,. Q Daily and Sunday One month l- carrier ana Leaici v- AU Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ot the City of Mediord Official Paper ot Jackson County United Prsas Full Leased wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU AdvernsinK ncijiociiwu". . WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St- Louis Atlanta. Vancouver BC- NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCtyTllON -jrf2jXNIW$iAMi PAS$OCIATIl . Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO .Oct. 18, 1945 (It was Thursday) Ashland placed on list of cities eligible for post office building. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Leaves are now as thick in the city park as rocking chair generals, three days after the Normandy inva sion. Most of the generals are now football coaches or quarterbacks. 26V, YEARS AGO . Oct. 18. 1935 (It was Friday) "School Superintendent E. H. Hedrick announces meeting of district residents to discuss bud get for coming year. Gordon R. Green, general manager of American Fruit Growers, Inc., sends eight boxes of select cornice pears to Pana ma Canal officials. SO Yf ARS AGO Oct. 18, 1925 (It was Sunday) C. G. Thomson, superintend ent of Crater Lake National park, announces improved road conditions to ritm Highway engineers announce comprehensive plan for mainte nance of Pacific highway In Jackson and Josephine counties. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 18, 1915 (It was Monday) Medford High school sewing department offers, course in mil linery for first time in history. From Local and Personal col umn: The deer season will close November 1st, and a number of local hunters are planning for a final outing in the hills. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lh 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Heeert 1. President Eisenhower is or Isn't the oldest man in the Presidency since the Civil War? 2. Alger Hiss was indicted, tried and found guilty under a Republican or Democratic ad ministration? 3. Advertising is or isn't ban ned from TV in Great Britain? 4. An average human heart beats and pulses during the year about 40,000, 140,000, 400,000, 1,400,000 or 40,000,000 times? 5. Expense accounts of the Vnany members of Congress now abroad on official trips will or won't be made public? 6. Attendance at U. S. base ball parks to see a baseball game has sometimes gone over 100,000; right or wrong? 7. Barbara Hutton had been married three, four, five, six or seven times up to Oct. 1, last? 1. Isn't. Truman was older. 2. Democratic. 3. The ban rec ently was lifted. 4. About, 40. 000.000 times. 5. Won't. 6. Wrong. 7. Five. Ticket Brings Gee To Tokyo Prisoner Tokyo (U.R) Chikao Miura, in jail on suspicion of theft, was an unhappy prisoner until he found a slip of paper in a corner of his trouser pocket. The paper was a lottery ticket he had bought last August and forgotten. It had the winning number and was worth $3,000. Police said they would hold the money until he gets out. Use Tribune Want Ads Vice-Presidency Changes Vice-President Richard Milhous Nixon has inevit ably achieved more responsibility in Washington now that President Eisenhower probably won't return there before 1956. Thus Mr. Nixon is filling a role that the framers of the Constitution must have expect ed a vice-president to fill. A FTER all, until the 12th Amendment went into ef feet in 1804, the vice-president would be the man who had received the second highest number of elec toral votes for president The first and second vice presidents became, respectively, the second and third presidents. Although the next five vice-presidents didn't make the White House, they were all outstand ing figures, and then the eighth, Van Burean, was elected president. Most of the ensuing vice-presidents up to the Civil war, though perhaps not of the highest Presidential stature, were men of parts. But the next eight, from 1869 through 1897, were distinguished chiefly for amiability or popularity with a party faction. THEN comes a mixed picture. Some later vice-presi- dents were of high and tested talents; some well, there were Charles W. Fairbanks in 1905, James S. Sherman in 1909, Thomas R. Marshall in 1913, Charles Curtis in 1929, Henry A. Wallace in 1941. In 1904 the Democrats nominated for vice-president a man over 80 (Henry G. Davis of West Virginia) and in 1924 one (Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska) who even Democrats admitted didn't know the score. Says former Vice-President Harry S. Truman in his current memoirs: "The opportunities afforded by the vice-presidency ... do not come they are there to be seized . . . The vice-president's influence on legislation depends on his personality and ability, and especially the respect which he commands from the Senators. Here is one instance in which it is the man who makes the office, not the office the man." E.R.R. What To Do For Elderly A three-day state conference on what to do about the olderly and aged is scheduled to open in Albany, N.Y. this week. Gov. Averill Harriman has a special adviser on the many-sided problem, and the state leg islature has set up a joint legislative committee on it. When it comes to finding ,a job, says the gover nor's old-acre adviserPhilip M. Kaiser, many a man finds to his dismay that he is considered "aged" when he reaches 45 or even 40. The line is sometimes drawn at as low as 35 for a woman. THE U. S. Department of Labor insists that middle " aged workers as a whole can and do give general satisfaction. What they may lack in physical robust ness they may more than compensate for in reliability, perhaps in higher skills. But many an employer sees only that pensions, under private old-age retirement plans, can cost more for employees who have not put in long years of service for him. - For men and women who've passed 65, all the ger ontologists (experts in problems of the elderly) agree that some form of occupation helps to keep up mental health. Involuntary idleness tends to lower it. And it is surprising to find how many kinds of useful light jobs can be filled by the elderly with profit to every body concerned. E.R.R. . National Olympic Day Saturday, Oct. 22, is National Olympic day, by resolution of Congress and proclamation of President Eisenhower. Athletic groups will use the day to solicit funds to send United States teams to the Winter Olympic games at Cortina d'Ampesso in the Dolo mites of Italy next Jan. 26-Feb. 5 and to the regular Olympics at Melbourne, Australia, ten months later. The resolution of Congress calls on all of us to "in sure that the United States will be fully and adequate ly represented." Between these lines can be read the realization of U. S. athletes that the Soviet Union is feverishly preparing to defeat this country in the 1956 Olympic contests. THE United States always wins the track and field section. In 1952 at Helsinki it won 14 of the 25 events and had more than three times the score, in the unofficial point system, of its closest competitor, Swe den. But we are often surpassed in total points when the winter Olympics are added in and also such events as water polo, soccer, weight lifting, bicycling, wrest ling, horsemanship, gymnastics. The modern Olympic Games were revived in 1896 to help promote better international understanding through the devotion of youth to athletics. But often the Olympic rivalries have evoked some hostility, in stead it may be noted that each contestant takes an oath to participate not only for "the glory of sport" but also for "the honor of our country." E.R.R. Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop 1 JJ.1 Klamath Minister. Boy Returned Safely Klamath Falls U.R) A Klam ath Falls minister and a 15-year-old boy returned to their car about 2 p.m. yesterday after be ing lost in the woods since early Saturday. The Rev. Roy Kneeland, as sistant pastor of Lakeshore church of the Nazarene here and Edward Mikesell, 15, said they got lost while on a hunting trip in the Shady Pine area north of here. ' The pair finally found their way back to their parked car near Blind Mountain as POWER ASSURED Portland U.R) Bonneville Power Administration today as sured Northwest aluminum and electroprocess industries of full deliveries of Interruptible power through Nov. 13. The favorable power picture, BPA said, was due to heavy rains and a fourth 64,000 kilowatt Chief Joseph dam generator scheduled for operation in early November. police and sheriff's deputies beat the brush for them. The 27-year-old minister said his car had a flat tire when they returned. He said they fixed it and drove on home. tata"e"a "na UM CJMsffled Ads. . . micXha Community's Biggest Marketplace HUMPHREY FOR WARREN Chicago The gradual unveil ing of the intentions of key in dividuals is always the most ex citing process in any con fused political situation, such as the situa tion which has been tragically created by the Pre si dent's heart attack. Last Mon day, a major unveiling oc- Joaeph Also , curred in Chi cago. The occasion was the fund raising dinner of the Republican Citizens' Finance Committee, at which Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey was the chief speaker. After the dinner the Citizens' Committee chair man, Charles Percy of the Bell and Howell Company, gave a party at which Secretary Hump hrey met a selct group of the larger Republican contributors. It was here that the un veiling of H umph rey took place. In evitabley, the other guests wanted to know which candidate Hum p hrey would fayor if President Eisen h o w e r Stewart Alsop should decide not to run again. Without any beating about the bush, Humphrey answered that he thought Chief Justice Earl Warren would be the strongest and best choice of the Republican party could make, although, Humphrey added, "Warren will be very hard to get." . " Despite its private ' and In formal character, this Humphrey declaration for Warren has the highest significance. In his own big state of Ohio, Humphrey comes close to being the behind-the-scenes boss of the Republic an organization. All over the country, the businessmen who form the dominant Republican group look to Humphrey for leadership and will follow where he leads. In the White House, above all, Humprey has more influence with the President than any other man except. Gov. Sherman Adams. And Humhprey also has great influence with Gov. Ad ams, with whom he long ago formed a quiet personal alliance. TOR THE immediate future, the White House is where Humphrey's choice is likely to count most. It sticks out a mile that he have passed over Vice- President Richard Nixon, who is a supremely available Republic an candiate, in favor of the Chief Justice, who has publicly declared that he is absolutely unavailable. It seems fair to in terpret this as meaning that Humphrey dislikes the idea of the Nixon candidacy. It prob ably also means that Humprey's partner, Adams, share this dis like of the Nixon candidacy. If these two are not convert ed to the Nixon candidacy, more over, it is a 2-to-l bet that the President will not give the Vice President any laying on of hands. Nixon would be a certain nominee with the President's blessing. He will still be the leading Republican hopeful but his future will become the op posite of certain if no blessing is forthcoming. What holds true for Nixon, furthermore, also holds true with even greater force for the lesser Republican hope fuls on the Eisenhower team, such as the eager, hard-breathing Harold Stassen. . , On the positive side, the im plications of the Humphrey choice are equally great. Always assuming that Humphrey and Adams are still acting together, it quite probably means that the President will be persuaded to intervene to get Chief Justice Warren into the race. One could easily imagine what the President might say. He gave Warren the Chief Justice ship; and what he gave he can claim the right to take 'away, in favor of a higher duty. He has been forced to leave unfin ished an immense national task; and he can also claim the right to designate the man who is to finish that task. And on a low er level, he can hint that he has no alternative to Warren except Dick Nixon and there are few men the Chief Justice dislikes and distrusts as much as the Vice-President. There is no precedent for this kind of an appeal, by an ill, outgoing and loved President to a Chief Justice who is also his appointee. But in this very iffy situation, the biggest if of all still concerns the Chief Justice's response to this kind of a Presi dential appeal if it happens to be made. Last ' spring, for instance, when Eisenhower was talking as though he did not mean to run again, two old friends with great influence in the Republic an party went to see the Chief Justice with politics in mind. THEY pleaded with him to let them present his name to the convention. He refused. They then 'asked him to say that if nominated, he would consent to run. He refused with even greater emphasis. Finally, accord ing to reports, the Chief Justice revealed what had passed be tween him and his two friends to his . fellow Justices, stating that he wanted them to know exactly where he stood. - This incident is deeply im pressive in itself. A little later, a poll showing Warren in the lead among all Republican cand idates except Eisenhower pro duced his Sherman-like state ment that "under no circum stances" would he consider re turning to active political life. Altogether it seems very doubt ful that even the President can "get" the Chief Justice in George Humphrey's special phrase. In other words, the news of George Humphrey's choice clar ifies important areas in the ex isting political pattern, but it by no means permits a positive forecast of the results the pat tern will finally produce. Coty Warns Fellow French Leaders To End Political Spree KV( 'If By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent President Rene Coty has giv en his fellow French leaders an earnest warning that they had better end their long political spree. Unless they do, he told them France is going to lose its position as a world pow er. He said that P a r 1 i a- tnaries Mccaao mem must end a situation in which a French premier is harassed and torment ed from the moment he takes office until he resigns or is over thrown. The sole situation, he said, is radical constitutional reform which will give France the pol itical stability it has lacked for 40 years. ' In giving his admonition, Coty stepped aside from his accust omed role. The role in that of a non-political chief of state. Coty is not a chief executive. His job more nearly approximates that of Queen Elizabeth II than that of President Eisenhower. Coty gave his warning in a speech Saturday. He had in mind the fact that Edgar Faure, France's 21st premier since the end of World War II, faces a critical vote of confidence today. Coty must have thought deeply before he spoke. He usually is content to remain in the back ground, as he is supposed to do, as the 16th president of the French Republic. He presides over Cabinet meetings and he formally ap points France's premiers. He also is chief- of the armed forces. But the Cabinet and the Na In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Interesting note in the news: In the first eight months of 1S55, the people of Oregon bought $31,853,593 worth of U.S. savings bonds. In the sim ilar period of 1954, their savings bond purchases amounted to to $24,287,061. That is an UP of 29 per cent. THERE is a general impression over the country .that that people are spending their money faster than they get it that is to say, that they are putting more on the cuff in the way of installment payments than they are getting in the way of in creased earnings. That doesn't seem to be true of the people of Oregon. They're tucking part of it away. . ... THAT'S THRIFT. V Thrift is putting a little aside. spending a little less every week than you earn. TN THIS ""modern age which in SO MANY ways is a wond erful age there is a lot of talk about SECURITY. - How can one be secure? The best way is to put a little aside every week as the people of Oregon have evidently been doing this year. QJPEAKING of saving brings up another question: What shall one do with after one has saved it? The-answer: INVEST IT. MILLIONS of people. Anyone who saves up a little money even as little as $100 can be come a part owner of our great corporate enterprises. it TTOW? "There are many good ways to invest savings. There' are government bonds. They are GOOD because the United States of America is good. There are savings banks. There is insurance. .There are the securities of our great corp orations. The demagogs try to make us believe that our great corporations are owned by a few fat cats who spend their time thinking up new. ways to gyp the people. That isn't true. Our' great corporations are owned by TiHE BIG thing is to SAVE - A LITTLE every week. . If you can't do any better with it after you have saved it, put it in the sugar bowl in the kit chen closet. Or bury it out in the back yard (that isn't good, for somebody will see you, soon er or later, and will dig it up some dark night when you aren't looking.) But it's better than not saving it at all. The big point (if you want security) is to SAVE something out of every pay check. School Official Faces Embezzlement Charge Eugene (U.R) Virgil C. Kings ley, former superintendent of Cottage Grove high school dist rict, is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow to plead to a charge he took $10,912 in dist rict funds. He was arraigned yesterday before Circuit Judge Frank Reid and posted $2500 bail on the con version of public funds charge. Kingsley was superintendent of the high school district from 1947 to last Aug. 9 when he re signed. An audit disclosed the shortage in deposits made by high school students for towels and other supplies. The Lane county grand jury investigated and returned a true bill. Fears Calmed At Kohler Plant Sheboygan, Wis. (U.R) . Un loading of a clay shipment for the strikebound Kohle Co., pro ceeded . without incident today, calming fears of possible labor violence. Gov. Walter Kohler had warn ed that he would move National Guardsmen into Sheboygan if CIO United Auto Workers inter fered with the unloading of the Norwegian motorship Divinia Monday. - But the strikers and their sym pathizers headed a union plea not to mass at the dockside or hinder the unloading in any way. No picket lines were estab lished, although about 100 per sons gathered some distance away. - Two sister ships of the Divinia were expected to dock here soon with more clay shipments. Kohler had issued the Nation ai uuarci warning because a crowd of 1,000 demonstrators prevented the unloading of a shipment last summer. The strike at the plumbingware plant in nearby Kohler began April 5, 1954, and is the nation's longest major walkout. tional Assembly, which corres ponds to the British House of Commons run the country.: The Cabinet is directly re sponsible to the National As sembly, not to Coty. And actual ly the National Assembly, not Coty, makes the premier. Presidents of France are elect ed not by popular vote but by Parliament in joint session.. Coty's chief duty is to preside at meetings of various state bod ies like the Committee of Nation al Defense, give state dinners and receptions and visit French cities in royal state. .-. He travels in a palatial six- car special train. The red carpet is rolled out for him wherever he goes. , : No Bitter Enemies ; Coty was elected President on Dec. 23, 1953, for a seven-year term. He is eligible for one more term. He was elected, like nu merous other French presidents, because he was not an outstand ing political leader and hence had no bitter enemies. IV-' ' He had succeeded in remain ing in politics for 30 years with out becoming well-known, even in France. ' Coty is an unassuming, solid ly-built Norman with a square body, a square face, jug ears and a direct, honest manner. His tastes run to classical literature and music. His only exercise is walking. He will celebrate his golden wedding anniversary in . -1957. Madame Coty is a large, self effacing woman who still likes to cook. ' . , " It is possible that Coty's warn? ing will do some good. There are signs that some other French leaders share his view. It will be good news for the Western Allies as well as for France, if they are heeded. A South Viet Premier 'Fired' by Emperor Paris (U.R) Playboy Emper or Bao Dai announced today he had "fired" South Viet Nam Premier Ngo Dinh Diem who has called a referendum in an ef fort to end Bao Dai's role as chief of state. An estimated 3,000,000 South Viet Namese will vote Sunday on whether to oust the absentee Emperor or the prime minister. Diem is expected to win a re sounding vote of public confi dence. ' . Bao Dai announced that he has withdrawn the mission he gave Diem 18 months ago and that the ."full powers given the Roman Catholic premier has been cancelled." The Emperor apparently was making a last desperate effort to maintain at least some sem blance of power in the South Viet Nam state. Diem is equally determined to force him out. JAPAN PRODUCES JETS Tokyo (U.R) Japan today started production of its first jet aircraft, with American-made parts and engines. The Kawasaki Aircraft company began as sembling the first of 97 T33 jet trainers to be delivered to the new Japanese defense force. BMkA4feiJSH WORRIED ABOUT THE FUTURE? life assurance will guarantee you a retirement income which yon cannot outlive, end also provide for your dependents if you die at aa early age. Don't just worry about your family's future of your own. See me about it today. . CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772' SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Sackett Will Open Bank at Coos Bay Coos Bay U.R) Purchase of property for location of a local ly-owned state bank was an nounced here today by Sheldon F. Sackett, editor and publisher of the daily Coos Bay Times. Sackett said he and certain associates would apply for a bank calling for $250,000 paid-in capital and $50,000 paid-in sur plus. Application would be sght also for membership in the fed-, eral reserve bank and in the federal deposit insurance corp oration, Sackett said. Two tracts of land with a total value of $84,000 have been purchased, one of which would be decided upon for the bank site. The bank would have drive in facilities. Coos Bay National bank Is the city's only present locally owned bank. First National bank of Portland has a branch in Coot Bay. 5 MR. INSURANCE Fred Brtnnan When Jim bought a "gun floater' 1 thought it was new gimmick to make a shotgun float if dropped in the lake. He tells me it's insur ance on guns. Will about $5 buy insurance to cover my guns against fire, theft, loss or accidental damage? For. Information Ccril MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 The Fashwnette OCTOBER Values! HURRY FOR THESE WOMEN'S AND Q. 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