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Newspaper Page TextFOOT MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody la Southern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. HUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager K. C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN jR City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent isewtpaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of SUBSCRIPTION RATES . By Mail In Advance: Per copy lOe. Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 830 Sunday Only One year $3.50 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 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 otmrct OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CBCUU""" WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.u. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION J PngPUiUIMIIt W-ASSOCIATIOH 1 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. 19. 1945 (It was Friday) Dr. Harry K. Newburn, presi dent of University of Oregon, tells Jackson county Chamber of Commerce major changes needed in education. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot. column: Upstate it is impossible to give Danish sjjuash away,' let alone sell it, not even to Danes. This does not indicate any contamination in Denmark, but' the fickleness of the public. Last year there was a scarcity of Danish squash and, how the people had to have them. This year "there is a surplus. Nobody wants them. 20 YEARS AGO . (Jet. 19. 1935 (It was Saturday) Some 200 educators, forest of ficials, and CCC officials in Medford for two-day welfare conference. Acting clubs of Ashland and Medford plan joint jneeting. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 19. 1925 Miss Grace Chamberlain, vice president of Oregon Federation of Women's club, expected to return to her home, in Ashland soon. From Local and Personal col umn: A billiard tournament, in which the leading billiardists of the city wfll take part, is sched uled to be held in a local billiard paflor before the end of the month. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 19, 1915 (It was Tuesday) Medford city council to con--sider plans for rebonding to fin 'ance paving indebtedness. From Local and Personal col umn: Grey squirrels are report ed thicker than flies in the Ap plegate district, and fatter than usual, besides being of large size. They mix deliciously in pot pies, and many local hunters have given chase to the "crit ters" the last week. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? . Copr. 1955, Editorial Rtseaich Report 1. Columbus landed Oct 12, 1492 on what is . now- Florida, Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Haiti, or another ;W, -Indies island? . 2. 107 former members, of Congress now draw pensions, at an average of $2000, $3500, $5000, $6500. or $8000 a year each? 3. More steel goes into" autos each year than into building, or more into building, or about the same into each? ..',.,. 4. Largest single oil refinery in the U.S. is in California, Louisiana, New Jersey, Okla homa or Texas? 5. F. D. Roosevelt vetoed more bills than any other President; right or wrong? 6. The 1956 Olympic Games will be held in Finland, W. Ger many, S. Africa, Los Angeles, Australia or New Zealand? 7. If somebody or something is noisome, he or it simply makes too much noise; right or wrong? The answers: 1. Another W. Indies island. 2. Around $3500. 3. About the same into each. 4. Louisiana (at Baton Rouge). 5. Right (he was in "office long er). 6. Australia. 7. Wrong (is generally obnoxious). MAIL TRIBUNE The Crowded Air F. B. Lee, U. S. administrator of civil aeronautics, predicts that within 10 years the domestic airlines of this country will be carrying 70,000,000 revenue pass engers each year. This is more than double the record breaking 32,000,000 carried in 1954. Business flying, other than that done by the air lines, today totals about 4,000,000 hours per year. He predicts that by 1956 this total will have grown to 7,200,000 hours per year. A SIDE from the sheer increase in volume of traffic, other changes are taking place that are making startling increases in the problems of air traffic con trol. Foremost among these is the rapid development of jet aircraft, and its coming use in civilian, as well as military, flying. In a recent talk to the National Association of State Aviation Officials, Lee said, "Aviation is grow ing and its face is changing so rapidly that even those of us who live with it are astonished." H E added: Our present practices in separating aircraft, based on time, are absurdly wasteful of airspace when applied to high speed jets. With the 20-minute separation commonly applied along an airway, we could have only two aircraft " occupying one altitude between New York and Washing ton. We just don't have enough airspace for that kind of thing along our congested airway's. Lee forecast increasing use of radar, by which nirrraft control can be maintained bv eye as well as by ear (radio) as at present. But he pointed out that radar is expensive, and went on to outline plans for a combined military-civilian radar . netwonv using presently existing military radar and tieing it in with CAA control network. The first all-radar airway is now being planned between Norfolk and Boston. ANOTHER development Lee predicted is the estab lishment of a double level for navigational aids one at relatively low altitude for conventional air craft; the other a high-altitude system for high-flying, high speed jets, up to 75,000 feet. The low-level aid system would be expanded along present lines, giving aircraft frequent range bearings. The other, higher level one, however, would involve only a few key ranges operating on protected frequencies and high power, giving navigational criridanre at 200-mile or even 500-mile steps. Thus a jet- airliner flying about eight ranges to cnecK. EE pointed out that the would be hii?h. But he doing the job would be the one of the most vital, segments 01 tne economy. TTp added that for the first time in history, a. fed: eral aid program for local in nrncress on a rjlanned. gress provided thatfor each of the next four years, $63,000,000 will be available, ana as a resuii, ne saia, "Nnw we are in a nosition to do some medium-ranee We ran annrove surance that it can be carried through, and our air- ports can be developed on a stage-oy-stage Dasis . . . In a city such as Medford, where the citizenry has voon air-minded ever since the barnstorming days be fore World War I, and which is increasingly so, these developments can be of major significance. We tinw have, an excellent airport, constructed with federal funds and with money. We can take pride Civic Music The Jackson county chapter of , the Civic Music association is holding its annual membership cam paign this week, and we have been asked to call at tention to this fact. The association is organized for the purpose of making available to communities throughout the na tion top-flight musicians. It does this through mem berships sold during a one-week campaign in the fall. Only members may attend the concerts. POR those who enjoy concerts of fine music, it af- fords an opportunity to hear the best in a wide range of artists. The number, and excellence, of the guest musicians depends largely on the number of memberships sold, and the resulting amount of money available. ; -. The membership rolls of the Jackson county chap ter will be closed Saturday, or as soon as the quota is filled.' After that there will be no opportunity, to participate in this season's program. The organization here is administered by its local ly elected officers, is entirely non-profit and all the proceeds of membership sales go for bringing good music to Medford. E.A. Klamath Falls Hit Twice . Klamath Falls. (U.PJ Light ning struck at least two places in the Klamath Falls, area dur ing a heavy rain storm early yesterday. One bolt struck a shed and split a tree at the C. F.'O'Lough- lin place on Lakeshore Drive on the shore of - Upper Klamath Lake, three miles from the down town section. ... A second bolt ' struck the broadcasting tower of radio sta tion KFLW at about 5:15 a.m., but neither the tower nor equip ment was. damaged. The area was besieged by heavy, intermittent showers and lightning from shortly after midnight . to about 6 a.m. No lightning-caused fires were re Wednesday, October 19. 1955 across-country would have - only cost of this development also said the cost of not strangulation of aviation, airport development is now stable basis The last con starting- a Droiect with as a largeunk of local tax in it, and watch it grow. E.A. by Lightning ported, but Forest Service offi cials said such fires often were "sleepers" for several days. Civil Service Announces Exam An examination to fill trainee positions as electrician, lineman, and substation operator with the Bonneville Power administra tion was announced today by the Department of Interior Northwest Board of U.S. Civil Service examiners. Vacancies for positions with a beginning salary of $2.03 an hour exist in Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho, and Montana. Fur ther details . and application forms may be obtained at the Medford post office. I Dangerous Nazi Forms New Political Party; Threat To Adenauer By CHARLES M. McCANN United Pien Correspondent The most dangerous Nazi still alive has just formed a new pol itical party in West Germany. The Nazi is Otto Strasser, first an ardent follower, then the most hated enemy of Adolf Hitler. His party is "The People's Movement for Unity and Freedom." Strasser Charles Mclanu " hopes to pull together the many small right wing splinter groups now active in Chancellor Konrad Adenau er's federal republic. " He is looking forward to the 1957 parliamentary election. A lot of things could happen in Germany before then. One of them might be the emergence of Strasser as a power, in German politics, at the head of a strong nationalistic party. . That would be bad news. Strasser is xa menace. He is an unreconstructed Nazi, even though Jie broke with Hitler in 1930. He is an excellent organ izer. He has as material the al ways strong, if now relatively in active, spirit of German national ism. Serious Problems Strasser announced the forma tion of his new party at a time when it is plain West Germany is going to have some serious problems. They are problems which will cause the Western allies anxiety. One is the health of 79-year-old Adenauer, now starting a long convelescence after an at tack of pneumonia. As long as Washington IT HAS HAPPENED HERE Washington Quietly, persist tently but so unobtrusively that few realize how much has hap pened, the Eisenhower adminis tration is achieving a major miracle toward erasing racial discrimination from the map of American busmess and industry, Those who are close to the facts are aware that monumen tal progress is being made in bringing equality of employment opportunity to Negroes through out the nation. They are con vinced that never has so much been accomplished in so brief a span. There are several reasons for this. The Administration has talked little but has worked diligently to achieve its reforms. It has used much of the re former's zeal but avoided many of the ref ormer s methods It has avoided the shibboleth and the controversy of the old F.EJP.C' and has made greater headway by so doing. It has undoubtedly benefited from the many years of educa tion and advocacy which pre ceded its own efforts. HPHE instrument which Presi- - dent Eisenhower brought into being to serve his objective is tne presidents .committee on Government Contracts, the chairmanship of which has been one of the lesser known but ac tive duties of Vice President Richard Nixon. Its membership comprises seven other high offi cials of the Administration, in cluding Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell and seven non-government people drawn from business and union leader ship. The authority of this commit tee stems from a Presidetial Executive Order providing that every contractor or sub-contrac tor doing business with or for the Federal government,- wheth er th econtract involves 10 cents or $10,000,000,000, undertakes to see that in the performance there will be no "discrimination against any employee or appli cation for employment because of race, religion, color or na tional origin." One Negro leader remarked to me the other day: "I really didn't believe it could be done. I am amazed and excited by the results." I suspect that the President did not at the time realize how far-ranging the leadership and power of the Administration would be when, refusing to sup port coercive legislation, he pledged that . wherever the fed eral government touched this problem of discrimination it would set a radiant standard of good conduct. TH3DAY fully 85 to 90 per cent of American industry does some business for or with the Federal government and .is steadily advancing the goal of non-discrimination affecting at least 50,000,000 workers. The policy of non-discrimina tion cannot, of course even if industry wanted to do so be limited to those who are directly working on a government con tract. That is one of the power ful and hidden keys to the miracle." It may be that only 10 per cent of 1 per cent of a firm's business is with the gov Adenauer is alive and function ing, West Germany is in safe hands. If anything happened to him, West Germany might be plunged into political chaos. Times of chaos bring men like Strasser and Hitler to the fore. j Strasser is 58, heavily built, with a big egg-shaped head, the forehead of which is becoming steadily higher as he gets balder, and a deceptively-mild appear ance. . - Strasser started out as a So cialist. He met Hitler in 1920 through his elder brother Gregor and became a Nazi leader. He broke with Hitler in 1930. Slight Disagreement ' The break came not- because' Strasser disagreed with Hitler's nationalistic and expansionist policies or his anti-Semitism. The official name of the Nazi organization was the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Par ty. Strasser complained that the 'Socialist" party was being for gotten. Otto Strasser fled to Czecho slovakia after Hitler got into power in 1933. Gregor was mur dered in the blood purge of June 30, 1934. Otto was deprived of his German citizenship on Nov. 3, 1934. . He moved about Europe with the Gestapo after him. He reached France after World War II broke out, and then managed to get to Canada. After the war he tried to get back. Adenauer would not have him. But the West German courts ruled last November that he was a German citizen and could not be kept out. He went some last lviarcn. it was sug gested then that he might be come Adenauer s No. 1 enemy. Roscoe Drummend ernment, but when its employ ment policy is non-discrimina tory, it has to apply to all its em ployment. It does. Since 1953 the President's Committee on Government Con tracts has been steadily, patient ly, unyieldingly, pressing the cause of non-discrimination. It has relied largely on education, persuasion and voluntary com pliance. But it hasn't refrained from lighting fires under the highest contracting officials of the government and seeing that they toe the line. It handles complaints responsively and vigorously. Progress has been so substan tial that the problems it faces are rarely any longer in the field of employment but in pro motion, upgrading and appren ticeship. . . . CJYMBOLIC of the extent to H which business r has rallied and been raillied to the cause of non-discrimination is the fact that more than fifty executive officers of big and little business will meet with the Vice-President and his committee on Oct. 25 to pool their ideas and their experience on how to do a still better job of developing ''Equal Job- Opportunity Programs." They have come to see that non- aiscrimination -lsn t . some re former's plot, isn't something just nice to have, but is some thing good for the community, good for industry, good for labor and good for the United States ecnomically and morally. As Secretary of Labor Mitchell has put it: "Neither the nation nor industry can afford to waste the skills of 6,800,000 Negroes." , This industry-government con ference was to end with a pri vate dinner and evening with the President. When Mr. Eisen hower was stricken and couldn't be present, these business execu tives were asked if they would prefer to postpone their meeting. They preferred no such thing. They wanted to come with or without the President. They wanted to get on with the1 job. They are getting on with it with amazing and exciting success. 'l Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. MomSfl Sa& -time $ Get fr you're nor uSinq n0 ytog're Working -ho ford County Principals At Salem Conclave Eight Jackson county ele mentary school principals at tended a meeting of the Oregon Elementary Principals' associa tion in Salem. - Subject of the meeting, held Monday and Tuesday was educa tion. Harold G. Shane, spoke to the group on "Creative Inservice Education." Those attending from Jackson county were Mrs. Myrna Frink, Griffin Creek school; John My ers, Phoenix; G. Lee Hayes, Eagle Point; Henry Kammann, Lone Pine; Lee Merriman, Elk Trail school; Ray Mullen, Shady Cove; Mrs. Bertha Haskins, West Side; and Harold Boner, Howard school. The meeting was sponsored by the Oregon Education association and the State Department of Ed ucation. Episcopalians Pick Bishop Coadjutor Portland U.R) The Very Rev. James Frederick Carman, 52, of Phoenix, Ariz., yesterday was elected bishop coadjutor of the Oregon diocese of the Epis copal church. After a close race with Rev Lesley Wilder Jr. of San Mateo, Calif.; Rev. Carman was elected on the sixth ballot by a special nominating convention meeting here. The churchman polled 32 cler ical and 26 lay votes on the last ballot. He needed 31 clerical and 22 lay votes to win. Election of the new coadjutor, who is dean of Trinity cathedral in Phoenix, was made necessary by Bishop Benjamin D. Dag well's announcement that he plans to retire m the spring of 1958. The Rev. Mr. Carmen will succeed Bishop Dag well - upon his retirement. He was ordained a priest In 1930 and served the church in Denver and Pueblo before tak ing his Arizona post in 1946. Two Insurance Firms Reveal Merger Plans Two affiliated insurance firms, both of which are repre sented in Medford,. will merge soon, it was ' announced today. They are the Northwest Casual ty company and its parent firm, the Northwestern - Mutual Fire association.' ' .. ' ' The companies are represented locally - by -.' the' ' Medford' Insur ance agency,3 -Beattyr-and "Me- Dougal, and Shearin and Young Insurance agency. The consolidated firms will be known as the Northwestern Mu tual- Insurance company, and will be a multiple line opera tion. The mutual firm is 54 years old. No changes are planned in existing policy forms , or the general underwriting programs. Hospital Building Totals $20,000,000 Portland (U.R) Hospital and public health center construc tion grants in Oregon have to taled more than $20,000,000 since passage of the federal Hill- Burton Act, the State Board of Health said today. George Shiffer director of the hospital survey and construction section of the board, laid 33 proj ects have been approved. They include 31 hospitals, equipping of the state hygienic laboratory and construction of the Multno mah county health center. Sniffer said the 1956 annual revision of the program's state plan will be reviewed at a public hearing in Portland Oct. 28. Willamette Basin Project Meeting Draws Speakers Corvallis (U.R) Three na tional figures will speak at a public meeting of the Willamette Basin Project Committee Nov. 3 at Oregon State College. Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay will speak at the noon luncheon and Sen.; Richard Neu- berger (D-Ore.) and Rep. Harris Ellsworth (R-Ore.) will report on the Willamette Basin Project in Congress. vVho uSfe In TKe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As stated before in these chronicles, California has 130 odd state parks comparing with 140-odd in Oregon. With one ex ception, the area along the Curry county coastline, Ore gon's parks are small. Califor nia has some 400,000 acres in one park, but it is in a desert area. The jewels of the California state park system are In the red woods area extending from the Oregon line to the southern boundary of Humboldt county. There are some beautiful red wood areas in Mendocino coun ty, but they are relatively small. There are two varieties of redwoods sequoia sempervirens cn the western slopes of the Coast range, and sequoia gigan tea,' about midway of the Sierra. Sequoia gigantea, as the name indicates, is the more robust and long-lived. Sequoia semper virens is infinitely the more love ly parUy, of course, because of the lush undergrowth stimu lated by the abundant rainfall of the coastal area. . BASIC state park theories dif fer somewhat in the two states. In Oregon, the state parks are under the jurisdiction and management of the state high way commission, and are fi nanced by state highway funds including the gasoline tax. They are regarded as an adjunct of the state highway system and in theory are maintained for the benefit of those who use Ore gon's highways. I'd like to add here that the Oregon system has its thriftier as pects. Under the Oregon theory, the state parks are maintained for the benefit of the road users, and among the road users are tourists from other states. They pay gasoline taxes in Oregon. Their gasoline tax money goes toward the maintenance of both the state highways and the state parks. Thus, you see, they help to pay for the facilities that are created and maintained, in part, for their benefit. To me, that seems eminently -logical. VOU MAY disagree with this notion. You will be almost sure to if you are on the idealis tic rather than the practical side." Personally, I'm not above beufg practical. We just couldn't run this world without at least a reasonable .measure, of. PRAC TICAL people. If we turned everything over to the idealists, they'd run us so deep in debt that before long we wouldn't be able to afford either state high ways or state parks.. . TESIDES, ' I VgetTriaround to " some extent in other states. In nearly all of them, I pay SALES taxes. It doesn't burn me at all to do so. These other states have facilities that are fx 'imin J ' ' I l MA For the world's easiest tuning! This is tops in the new 21" table models. No stooping or stretching . . . no dials stick ing out on side or top ... all controls are Rigit-Up-Front. Superb wood-finished cab-, met, Mahogany or Blond. Model No. 21T28. J309'5 OPEN WED. EVES. TIL 9 - Troubridge & Flynn 214 W. Main there for my use. They are paid for in considerable measure by sales taxes. It seems quite fair to me that I should chip in my , two bits worth in the way of sales taxes as a miniscule con- tribution toward the mainten ance of the economy of the states in which I am a visitor. I am quite sure that our vis- itors who use our state parks, , along with our state highways, feel the same way about it and do not object at all to putting . a little in the pot in the way of gasoline taxes to heip pay for. our state parks system. CALIFORNIA'S system of nancing state parks is quite ' different. The bulk of the money our sister state uses for parks., maintenance comes from royal ties on offshore oil. So California's basic philoso- . phy regarding its state parks dif-. fers from Oregon's. . 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