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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Sout&ern Oregon Rad The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday toy MEDFORD PRINTING CO. n-29 North Fir St. Phone 2141 nnnrpT w RTTW1- Editor HERB GREY Advertiainii Manairr E 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 Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3.' 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall Ir. Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear S12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Dailv and Sundav Three mos 3.30 Sunday Only One vear S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medtord, i.Ll I Ipul Dnmt PaCfl Pflint Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: ' Daily and Sunday One year 13-H Daily and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms uasn in unvinct Official Paper of the City of Medfor Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY fNC Offices In New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C rjATIONAl EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION r J J Flight of Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct 24. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Plans made for Junior Cham ber of Commerce board of di rector's convention here Satur day and Sunday. From Arthur. Perry's ".Ye Smudge Pot column: The first snow has appeared on the sum mit of -Mt. Ashland, just enough to leave a white fluff on the foliage. According to lo cal .tradition, this is a sign of . snow on Mt. Ashland, and a hard winter. ' V 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 24, 1935 " (It was Thursday) ; Medford man killed in mine cave - in at Miller's Gulch. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1925 (It was Saturday) -' G. O. Sanden chosen secre tary and W. D. Welch elected treasurer of Presbyterian church Men's club. : From Local and Personal col umn: City lots, it was announced today, can be purchased only through the six members of the realty board,, who have an op tion giving them exclusive sales rights for 60 days. The campaign which opened this week, has al ready figured in the sale of sev eral jpfe, and it is a general ex pectation that the original num ber of 63 lots, all of which are oh the pavement, will have been disposed of before the expira tion of the option. , 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 24, 1915 (It was Sunday) A team belonging to A. P. Whitney became frightened at a moving box car ' on the S.P. track at Central Point Saturday and ran away, crashing into and tearing down an electric wire pole. , y Oregon Governor Withycombe and staff to be here for dedica tion of new armory. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7 Copr. 19SS. Editorial Research Report 1. Red China's admission to UN will be decided by the pres ent session of the-UN General Assembly before it adjourns; right or wrong? " . : 2. TV networks charge about $65000, $16,500, $65,000 or $165,000 for an hour's time in mid-evening? r 3. The Senate almost a year A ago voted to censure Sen. Mc Carthy by a narrow margin, or by about a 3-2, 2-1, 3-1, or 4-1 vote? q 4. The Elsie Dinsmore books were written by Harriet B. Stowe, Lydia Pinkham, Mary Haworth, Martha F. Finley, Dor othy Dix or Charlotte Bronte. 5. The Constitution as adopt ed in 1789 contained seven, ten, seventeen or 22 articles? 6. The Ryder cup is contested at tennis, college football, polo, golf, or horse racing? 7. Bouillabaisse is a French work for a: Settler in Canada, ardent kiss, soup, formal eve ning gown, or sailors' chant? 7 The Answers: 1. Wrong; issue has been postponed to 1956. 2. About $65,000. 3. Vote of about 3-1. 4. Martha F. Finley. 5. Str- en. 6. Golf. 7. Soup. MAIL TRIBUNE The New Annexation Plan Will the new annexation proposal be rejected? As the Senior Editor of this department remarks occasionally, "We shall see what we shall see." If logic and reasonableness and good will and a sincere regard for the progress of Medford prevail, the annexation will be approved. If suspicion and bitterness and unreasoning fear prevail, it will not. . IITE are willing to concede that the "mass annexa- tion" which was so soundly defeated last July (and wThich, incidentally, this newspaper strongly supported), has its drawbacks. But we still maintain that, by and large, it would have' been a step in the right direction. A majority of the voters in the area af fected disagreed. - ' '. , Now there will be a new election to permit resi dents of a smaller area to pass on the proposal. . Why? Are the city fathers trying to "cram something down the throats" of those living there? Are they "greedy for more tax money?" Fiddlesticks ! ! Of course not. IXHAT they are trying to do is solve, in an intelli gent and progressive manner,' the approaching crisis in sanitation; the need for zoning and proper and acceptable building standards; the vital neces sity for looking ahead and providing a basis whereby adequate municipar services can be furnished to our rapidly growing population. It is a credit to the city administration, after the sound drubbing the earlier annexation proposal re ceived, that they are willing to make another try, on a smaller and more homogenous basis. . 4 It takes a particular kind of courage to try again, on principle and 'with nothing-to gain, after having been once defeated. , V THERE are a number of impelling reasons why the annexation should be approved. One is the fact that the proposed new hospital site is in the area, and its construction would be threatened or hindered if it cannot have city services. Another is a subdivision planned in" the area which will need city services. The over-riding reason, however, is the need to provide a means and a pattern for growth of the city, not only in this particular area, but in others as well. That .-it is needed is acknowledged by many of the residents who have petitioned to come in to the city. IT MAY be noted that there have been several small pieces of land annexed to the city since the "mass annexation" was defeated last summer. This appar ently will be a part of the pattern from now on, and actually the new proposal: is in line with -this, al though the area is bigger. " We also can foresee the time when other similar areas will be convinced that their best solution to the problems of fringe growth will be to join with Med ford. Annexation is not a cure-all. Nor is it always fea sible for sections with particular problems or circum- i stances. But in most cases are having growing pains, The Lincoln Legend We are pleased to extend the hand of welcome to Medf ord's newest journalistic enterprise. It is issue No. 1 of The Lincoln Legend. .It is published by the students in the language arts department of Lmcoln school, and they were kind enough to mail us a copy, with the promise of future issues "if you should like." We should. It's a good paper. .'. CDITORIAL writers, who sometimes tend to be verbose, could leam from Sixth Grader . Mau reen Schultz, who wrote an editorial entitled "Kind ness To Others." Here it is, in full: Being kind to others is a wonderful way to live. It's very easy to be kind and to say kind things. If there is a new per son in your classroom at school, and you say you're glad that they are in your room, it gives them reassurance. That is kindness to others. That's not only good editorial writing;. it's good journalism, clear, concise, definite and inclusive. Johnny Cornell, correspondent for the fifth grade, reported, "A boy asked another boy what he was going to give his sister this Christmas. He said he didn't know, but last year he gave her a cold!" a ; IF MORE evidence is needed, we shall provide a last quotation from "Athletics," with the opiniori that some of the nation's top sportswriters ' could leam from Jobie Kellog: In the first game of the season, Jackson school defeated Lincoln 6 to 0. Jackson made a touchdown in the first few minutes of the game on a pass play. . Even though Lincoln made the most yardage and first downs, bad luck, hurt us during the game. Mike Geary was the hardest runner of the game with his long runs around the end of the line. ' k Welcoming to newspaperdom, kids. You're do ing fine! E.A. - . 5500 Students Seen Portland : (U.R5 Dr. John F. Cramer, inaugurated yester day as president of Portland State college, predicted that there may be 5500 students who will select the school in 1964. Dr. Cramer-spoke at the dedi cation of the downtown Portland school. He said that on basis of chil dren living in the Portland area Monday, Octobtr 24, 1955 where semi-urban sections it is a big step forward. E.A. For Portland State now and if" the. proportion of high school seniors going on into college remained what it is now, there would be "at least" 5500 students seeking enrollment at Portland State. He said the esti mate made no' aUowance for persons coming here from other areas and" that the "total could well be greater." Matter of Fact THE LEFT-OUT PROJECT . Washington The most impor tant American military project to aid the Chinese Communists - - was one of the more conspic uous omissions from the . re cent Pentagon release of doc u m e n t s con cerning U. S. policy in the Far East in the last. war. The elder of these .report ers has person Joseph . Alto al knowledge of this project, which constitutes one of the major unsolved mysteries of the Far Eastern war. In the summer of 1945, shortly after the Jap anese surrender on Okinawa, the reporter accompanied' Maj: Gen. C. L. Chennault .to the China Theater headquarters of Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, at Chung king. ' . While there, Gen. Wedemeyer decidedly flatteringly asked the reporter's advice on a highly c o n f i dential -z telegram which had just been received from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Wash i n g ton. The tele gram request ed Gen. Wede meyer's opin ion of a truly e x traordinay prop psal.. In Stewart AIsop brief. Gen. Wedemeyer's prede cessor in the China Theater, Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, then held the Okinawa command un der Gen. MacArthur. Why not, asked the telegram, let Gen. Stilwell land from Okinawa on the North China coast, possibly on the Shantung peninsula? Be cause of the expected require ments of the invasion of JaDan. Gen. Stilwell could not be al lowed .more than' a couple of American divisions. But he could make a junction with the local Chinese resistance forces; he could strengthen them with American arms; and he could lead, them against the Japanese armies in North China. TiHE J.C.S. proposal, in snort, A was tantamount to an Ameri can declaration of war on Chiang Kai-shek. The reporter, perhaps frivolously, suggested to Geri. Wedemeyer that he answer the telegram bv inauirintr wJipthpr the Joint Chiefs really meant 10 go to war against Chiang. Gen. Wedemeyer, who concur red in the reporter's analysis, in the end wired the Joint Chiefs that such a landing ' in China could hardly be made without Chiang's consent, which would not be forthcoming. No . more was heard of the proposaLthere after. : , . There is still interest in this proposal, however, in the pres ent context , of heated contro versy about Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's role in that difficult and distant time. Stilwell him self was then Geh. MacArthur's subordinate and the forces he was to lead into North China would have come from the divi sions available to MacArthur for the Japanese landing. Stil well landing on the China Editorial Comment A COMEBACK FOR YELLOW? A year ago the state highway commission . decided to change the color of the familiar center stripe on Oregon roadways from yellow to white. This was done, we were told, to bring Oregon practice into conformity with that over the rest of the nation, so that visiting motorists would not be confused by a , marking system unfamiliar to them. . At the same time it was decid ed, the new white stripes should be broken instead of continuous. It was felt motorists on foggy nights might be able to distin guish broken stripes better than an endless white line blending into the mists ahead. Besides, it would save a lot of .paint. So all this past summer, Mr. Baldock's pavement Picassos have been busy marking dotted lines down the middles of Ore gon highways. Now that the rainy season is upon us, motor ists nave had a chance to test the new theories in practice. A good many have reported their personal findings to us, and we regret to inform the highway de partment that they are univer sally negative. No one seems to have a good word to say for the new white broken lines. Even under the best condi tions, we are told, the white markings seem to lack the good nightime visibility- of the old yellow. And on dark and rainy nights, the dotted lines simply disappear in .the glare of oncom ing headlights on the black wet pavement. And as for economy, we have noticed the new white markings already . have been most effaced on heavily traveled roads in the Portland area. There will be no saving if the painting must be done twice as often as before. ; One wonders if perhaps Ore gon was not right in the first place - in standardizing on the good old continuous yellow cen ter line. Perhaps the other states should have i been the ones to change. Portland Oregonian. I rw3 By Joe and Stewart AIsop coast would have drawn' its logistical support from MacAr thur's Pacific Theater. Even after landing in China. Stilwell would have remained under MacArthur's command. The aim of the proposed land ing by Stilwell, moreover, was to counter a threat which Gen. MacArthur then estimated far "too highly. This is shown by the papers already published by the Pentagon, and particularly by two key memoranda of con versations with Gen. MacArthur iri 1945, written by Col. Paul Freeman Jr. and Brig. Gen. George A. Lincoln. In .both these contemporary documents, Gen. MacArthur is portrayed as warmly endorsing very great concessions to the Soviets in Manchuria J such concessions, in fact,' as "were made at . Yalta as . the worth while price of a Soviet offensive against the Japanese forces on the mainland. Although Gen. MacArthur has since declared that he did not want a Soviet intervention in 1945, Col. Free man further described Gen. Mac Arthur as strongly urging the Soviets' ought to be persuaded to move against the Japanese in Manchuria at the very first pos sible moment after the German surrender. T'HE reason given, in both in--- stances, : was that Gen. Mac Arthur believed the Japanese armies on the mainland to be very powerful and thought they constituted a serious menace to the success of the landing in Japan. The- Freeman - Lincoln memoranda fit, in turn, with a precisely similar account of ' a conversation -with Gen. MacAr thur by the late New York Her ald Tribune correspondent, Bert Andrews, which is preserved in the Forrestal papers. A question therefore" arises about the origin of the remark able proposal to send Gen. Stil well and the Chinese Commu nists against the Japanese main land armies that were then giving Gem MacArthur such grave concern. Was it a mere J.C.S. pipe dream? Were the Joint Chiefs, who always hated a row with Gen. MacArthur, really proposing to divert forces under his control, at a most crucial moment and without his prior concurrence? . Or had the proposal in fact originated in Gen. MacArthur's ow,n head quarters, as seems more natural. These questions also deserve answers. Copyright 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Is That So? Through the years our lan guage has been enriched with spicy, earthy phrases taken from the outdoors. For your pleasure I have tried to trace back some of their origins. 1 . Cry havoc: The wofd havoc comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning hawk, or "hafoc." In the days when hawking was a popular sport in England it was customary to "cry havoc" or shout encouragement to the hawk when loosed upon its prey. From this we get the mod ern meaning, to forecast ruin. Watered stock: Daniel Drew, a smart rancher, drove cattle in the early days into New York City to sell. Once they reached New York, he fed them lots of salt and they responded by- drinking their heads off and fill ing' up 'with water wnicn in creased their weight, which in turn spelled handsome profits. Hence the term for overvalued stock today: "watered stock." Crocodile 'tears: While devour ing oversized chunks of his vic tims, the crocodile is sometimes forced to stretch his jaws which in turn often causes his eyes to water. - Obviously there is no sentiment about these tears. And so we use the expression today for any person who, sheds false tears, empty of real emotion. Giving the cold shoulder: This phrase dates to medieval times in France. Honored guests were served hot-meat dishes, featur ing the best meats in the chat eau. But when guests overstayed or unpopular guests arrived, their host literally gave them a "cold shoulder" cut of beef or mutton. - - Hitch-hiker: This term may have come from colonial days. When two me'n, with only one horse between them, went on a journey, one man would mount and ride an . allotted distance, dismount, hitch the horse to a tree or fence and proceed on foot. The other man would walk until he came to the horse, then ride on until he caught up with the hiker, or take a hitch to the hiker. '-. - Honeymoon: This word may have derived from an ancient European custom which decreed that newly married couples drink a wine made from honey for a "moon," lasting four weeks, after the marriage. - ' Bullpen: In getting ready for Phone Workers Reach Agreement San Francisco "(U.R) Near ly 22,000 telephone workers in Northern California and Nev ada returned to ivork today, end ing a two-week strike against the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company. ' Officials of1 the striking CIO Communications Workers of i America and the PT&T reached a "compromise' settlement at a marathon bargaining session that ended at 5 a.m. yesterday and a few telephone operators began returning to work immediately. The union ' said"; all workers were scheduled to return to w,ork today and service'hould be normal. The strike began Oct. io. . ; . ; Union and company spokes men said the' new one-year con tracts, provide an average hour ly wage increase of 10.2 cents for all plant employees; a top weekly increase of $4.50 for fplants craftsmen; $2.70 average weekly; increase for traffic em ployees . (operators), and a $2 to $4.50 increase for commercial and accounting employees. Operators starting salaries will go up $2, $3 and $3.50 a week, depending upon job, and location, the company said. Curtain Rings Down On Livestock Show Portland (U.R) With the completion of regional FFA live stock judging Saturday the cur tain fell on the 1955 Pacific In ternational Livestock show and its ' companion Exposition of Progress. In final cattle judging, W. H. Savage of Ladner, B.C., was named premier exhibitor among Ayrshire exhibitors. State, herd honors went to California. Brit ish Columbia placed second and Oregon was third. In final FFA livestock judg ing, first place team honors went to Crater Lake high school of Central Point, Ore. Snohom ish, Wash., high school -took team dairy judging honors. High individual honors went to Richard Jack, Yamhill, Ore., in livestock and Jim Wiltse, Snohomish, Wash.;' in dairy. There are 40 mountain peaks, in the Great Smokie mountains more than one mile high. Six teen peaks exceed 6,000 feet in elevation. ..-' 1 By EUGENE BURNS ri Ranger-Naturalist a game, a baseball pitcher warms up in the buUpen. This "was a term made-up by sports' writers who compared the small pen where bulls are kept before bull fights to the place where the pitcher gets ready for . the "slaughter." (?)" Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol- ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding.' Each week new submissions will be consid ered. Sorry I simply can't an swer your many friendly letters, Please address your , letter to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail Tribune, Box. 575, Sausalito, Calif. United Strike Not To Affect Schedules Portland (U.R) United Air Lines officials here today an nounced V strike by UAL flight engineers will not result in any schedule reductions." United said there were no flight engineers stationed in Portland although they do pass through on flights. There were no pickets at United's Portland terminal, but picket lines were set up in Seattle. The airline said the strike was called when negotiations broke lln mror fi riomond Vi-tr fliiyVif An-! gineers for guarantees of assign ments on jet aircraft which the company plans to use in the near future. . Sherry Fong Trial For Murder Starts Portland (U.R) Sherry Fong went on trail again today for the murder of her one-time girl chum, Diane Hank. ' Mrs. Fong, whose earlier trial with her. husband resulted in a first-degree murder conviction which was overthrown by Cir cuit Judge Alfred P. Dobson, was on trial alone. Her husband, Wey Him Fong, will be tried again at a later date. Judge Dobson was presiding at the new trial. , The body of the 16-year-old Hank girl was found in Febru ary of 1954 near Washougal, Wash. The Fongs have steadfast ly denied they killed Diane, who was a baby sitter for them. Sher ry said she loved the girl . "like a sister." '. Australia Government Still Feeling Effect Of Petrov Revelations By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Vladimir Petrov really started something when he decided that he was through with Commu nism. He is the third secretary ' in the Russian embassy in Australia who tiirned himself over to the Australian Se cret Service on April 13, 1954. It happened caariPk Mil a.i.i mat Tetrov was also the Soviet spy chief in Australia. He turned over to the Secret .Service, along with him self, an amazing assortment of documents on Russian espion age. . Petrov's disclosures led to the unmasking on Sept. 18 of miss ing British diplomats Donald D MacLean and Guy F. De M. Bur gess as long-time Russian spies, Now they have led Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies to decide on a national Parliamentary election. Menzies is expected to an nounce tomorrow that an elec tion will be held on Dec. 10 or 17 for the 123 seats in the House of Representatives and half of the 60 seats in the Senate. Menzies is head of the govern mental Liberal (County) party coalition. His opposition' is the Labor party, led by Herbert V.'Evatt.' The campaign-is expected to be an especially bitter one even Shingle Weavers End Convention : Portland (U.R) AFL shingle weavers of Oregon and Wash ington ended their three-day an nual convention here , Saturday by electing a five-member joint board to represent them in ne gotiations with employers. . Board members were Monte Ingram, Everetf, and Ray Ale- shire, Grays Harbor, Wash.; Har old Martell, Wheeler, Ore., Charles Coe, Eugene, Ore., and Lonnie Harrison, Mineral, Wash, Delegates adopted a resolution opposing a federal policy of sell ing government land in large blocks, contending the policy prohibits purchase by small op erators. - ' State Nears End In Axilrod Trial - Minneapolis, Minn. U.R) The state today went into the final stages of its attempt to prove that Dr. A. Arnold "Axil rod, a married dentist, seduced and strangled a pretty 21-year-old patient. ' The prosecution was expected to call its last scheduled witness, Coroner William Guthrie, after the defense winds up its cross examination of the father of the slain woman, Mrs. Elizabeth Mary Moonen. Axilrod, 50, is accused of strangling Mrs. Moonen when she threatened . to "tell the world" he was the father of her unborn child. . 4-H Club News Meetings Planned The combined 4-H clubs of Bellview, Valley View and Wag ner Creek will, hold their first regular meeting of the season at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, in the Bellview Grange hall.- - Officers for the year will be elected. .. Anyone interested in 4-H work is welcome to attend. Buffalo. N.Y.. with its 37-ile waterfront is the greatest fresh water port in the world in value of tonnage. FUNERAL SERVICES Jn Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 O - - PERL; for Australia, where free-swinging election campaigns are cus tomary. : .' For Petrov's disclosures are the No. 1 issue. He named some men closely , connected with Evatt as among Australians who had been, of assistance to the . Soviet spy apparatus. Evatt has denounced the Pe trov disclosures as "one of the most transparent political frauds in modern history." : ; But an Australian roval com mission, which spent 10 months investigating the documents in question, held that they are au thentic. Aides Named . . : . -. .. -. . One of the documents namoH three aides of Evatt as having given information on politicians and newspaper men to-agents of Petrov. ' . Fergan O'Sullivan. Evatt'K press chief, confessed on July 14 tnat ne nad provided a Petrov agent with a detailed report on Australian newspaper men. tvatt has made a desDerate attempt to cast doubt on the au thenticity of the Petrov disclo sures. He finally took the singular course of writing a letter to So. viet Foreign Minister Vvache.- lav M. Molotov asking him if the Petrov papers were true. To nobody's surprise, Molotov replied that of course they were not. Evatt's disclosure of this cor respondence astounded even his fellow Labor party leaders. Menzies decided the time had come to call an election, which normally would not have been held until August, 1957, for the House of Representatives and to advance the .date of the senato rial election, which was due next June. , . - Three Bull Moose Perish in Combat Gogoma, Ont. (U.R) Gov-, ernment Lands Department em ployees figures today that some where in the wilds of Ontario must be a Marilyn Monroe of the moose world. ; . Department officials said two. of its employees found the car casses of three bull moose all of which apparently. joined in. a three -way battle to the death for the5 affections of a cow moose. The officials said the bat tles usually involve only two- bulls with only one losing his life. . . - Dead Down Inside i GEO. N.TAYLOR Until born again, you are dead down inside; your throat is an open grave; with your tongue, you tell lies; the poison of a deadly serpent is under your lips; yoiir mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; your feet are swift to shed blood; destruc tion and mis ery are in your path; the way of neace . you have not known; there is no fear of God before your eyes Rom ans 3:13-18. You must be born again, said Christ. Then turn and -open your heart to Him and ac cept Him as your own Lord and Saviour who died for your every last sin. At that God blots out your sins and gives yoJ eternal life. Whosoever is not written in G6d's Book of Life, is cast' into. . the Lake of Fire. This is the Second Death. Having accepted Christ as your Lord and Saviour, search the Bible for the prom ises and pray God for the faith to live by them. This Message sponsored by an Oregon Dairyman. . " adv. ; PERL'S every family may make' funeral ar-rangements- which are in keeping with its means. 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