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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI ""Every body in Southern Oregon tteaas Tne Mail Jtnoune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phong 2-61M ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at ' Mediord. Oregon, under Act of Biarcn a. xovi cmcrall I 'I rw DA1TC By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c, Dailv End Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent. uauy Ana aunaay una yedi i Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1J23 Carrier ana ueaien oc per cow? AUlWnuwaoinftavaiige Official Paper of the City of Med ford Official Paper 01 jacKSon t;onniy United Prtss Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION nrpwn tim r mAV r-"&yrDAWV INC Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San grancisco. um niw Seattle. Portland. St- Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL assochtiIgn J ijnznnznzxs 0" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mjjjford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 26. 1954 fit was Friday) Fourthreport of smoke or gas rising from surface of Crater Lake near Wizard island report ed W park superintendent E. P. Leavitt. - . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Holloween draws nigh. Friskier 'juveniles plan to wreak devastation com parable to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 26, 1935 (It was Saturday! Medford residents reject bond Issue to increase water storage capacity. Talent residents approve pro posal to construction sanitary sewer system and disposal plant; 60 vote for, 5 against 30 YEARS AGO Oct 26, 1925 (It was Monday) . Oregon public service commis sion orders disposal of Medford Coast railroad, owned by W. S. Barnum. ' - State Highway commission (gearings on proposed Oregon Caves-Medford route start in Jacksonville. 40 YEARS A0 Oct 26. 1915 . (It was Tuesday) Construction starts on Tiller cut-off road between Roseburg and Crater Lake. From Local and Personal col umnf City Recorder Elmer T. Foss will have the ctfy's budget in readiness for the considera tion of the budget committee at its meeting next Friday after noon, providing for the levy this fall for the purpose of covering next year's municipal expenses. Tentative provision will also be therein for bond interest and in cidental expenses pending the result of the forthcoming elec tion. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. If President ' Eisenhower xefuses a second nomination soley because of his health, he will or won't be the first Presid ent to do so? 2. Many more 5c cigars are sold today than 10c ones, or many more 10c ones, or about the same nunfiber? 3. The LVdge motor car is or isn't offering a six-cylinder model in its 1956 line? 4. If a candidate buys radio or TV time, the station must give his opponent time to answer him free, or at the same rate, or at any rate it chooses? 5. The Pilgrim Fathers first landed from the Mayflower in 1620 at Plymouth, what is now Boston, Provincetown, or Mar tha's Vineyard island? 6. The Ford Motor Company, says it's having this year profits somewhat above or below aver age, or a net loss, or the high est profits ever? 7. What American actress out standing on the stage for many years originally expected to be a career pianist? The Answers 1. Will. 2 About tame number of each. 3. Is. 4. At the same rate. 5. Province town. 6. Highest profits ever. 7. Ethel Barrymore. Use Tribune' Want Ads MAIL TRIBUNE Engineers & Scientists The United States doesn't have enough "engineers, scientists and technicians. A lot of people who should know are concerned about it. The New York Times says: . . . We live on the threshold of the automation and atomic-power revolutions, which promise an era of abund ance such as our ancestors could only dream about . . . We need scientists, mathematicians and engineers as never before, yet many teen-agers with the ability "to assume such roles are simply not being given a chance to get the essen tial training. "HEMICAL News, states, "Unless drastic action is taken, the nation's serious shortage of engineers, scientists and technicians promises to remain acute for many years. The situation may become increasing ly severe as our complex technological civilization grows more and more dependent upon the services of these skilled people." The president of the National Society of Profes sional Engineers, in 'a letter written not long ago to newspapers of the nation, declared that the situation, "if not corrected, will have grave impact on the future security of our nation." He set forth these points : 1. Only about 25 per cent of our high school students now study algebra. ' 2. Only about 12 per cent of our high school students now study geometry. 3. There are many small and even some large high schools in which students' lack of interest in physics and chemistry has caused these basic scientific courses to be , discontinued. '. IN Medford High school, we are glad to note, the basic scientific and mathematics courses, so vital to future engineers, scientists and technicians, are avail able. It may be that they are not taken advantage of as much as might be desirable, '.considering the need. . But all students are required to take biology, and all who are enrolled in a college preparatory course are required to take either physics or chemistry, which is a sound requirement. For unless a student is "ex posed" to an introductory science course, how is he to know that he may find a fascinating life-work in the field? THE numbers enrolled here in science courses are on jiiiuivabivAi undo uic oitiiv-o aic xijv ao pupuiai as they should be. Out of some 950 students enrolled, 166 are taking geometry, 120, are taking chemistry, and only 65 (a little more than 6.8 per cent) are en rolled in physics courses, than the national average , And there is, of course, no indication that those taking these courses will find in them sufficient in terest to make a career. Oftentimes they are regarded as useful supplements to a liberal arts course. But the fact remains that the nation needs many more than the 19,000 engineering and scientific grad uates produced in 1954. In Russia, we are informed that the comparable figure was 50,000 for the same year, more than 24 times as many. . . THE classes are not "snap" courses. They require a certain mental discipline which is too easy to re ject at the high school level. What is the answer? Is it, as the Eugene Register-Guard suggests in an editorial, that there should and fewer elective courses? It may be that students who are not attracted to such classes at first, would, upon exposure, find real interest in them.- Or is the answer, possibly, m making careers m science and engineering now are? We have a feeling the latter is the better sugges tion. Competition for engineers is so keen at present that salaries are going sky high. But members of the profession often complain that once on a job, they are limited to routine chores which could be as well per formed by less-qualified technicians. And the "rewards of the scientists, by and large, are less than those of the engineers. Except for a rela tively few. "pure" scientists employed by large1 com mercial firms, the best bet is with one of the founda tions 'engaged in scientific research, or with a univer sity or college. These jobs are not highly paid, as pay for highly skilled individuals goes. ,, THERE are signs that more attention is being paid to the problem. One of the major oil companies is instituting a fellowship program for high school science and mathematics teachers. About 60 will be selected each year to attend summer seminars at Stanford and Cornell universities. All living expenses, travel costs, tuition and fees will be paid, plus $500 to make up for the loss of summer earnings. In announcing the plan, to inspire those science best inspire the scientists and science teachers of to morrow." THERE'S one other encouraging note, too. We learn by an upstate paper that the greatest part of the increase in enrollment at Oregon State college this year was contributed by It is to be hoped this trend, if it is a trend, will con tinue. For on today's threshold of unguessed . won ders of science, we'll need plenty of smart young men and women to chart our course. E.A. . . Minister Runs Video New York (U.R) The Rev. Alvin Kershaw, a minister with ear for jazz, piped a $32,000 tune of his own last night to earn a possible shot next week at top money on TV's "The $64,- 000 Question." Kershaw, pastor of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Ox ford, Ohio, danced through a multiple-part query centering around Hornman Louis Arm Wednesday, October 28. 1955 which, however, is better of less than 5 per cent. be more required courses more attractive than they the company said it "seeks teachers who, m turn, can the school of engineering. Winnings To $32,000 strong on the CBS show to double his winnings of last week. He will have until next Tuesday night to decide whether to try to redouble his winnings or bow out with the $32,000. Another contestant on the show, Don E. Self, 24, a Texas physicist who lives in Lake Suc cess, N.Y., decided to quit after earning $16,000 in the category, "mythology." Matter of Fact ey THE KING'S CLOTHES Washington Hypocrisy is an ugly word. Yet it is really the only word that properly de scribes the Western g o v ernment's ap proach to the Geneva meet ing of Foreign Ministers, for which Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles has just departed. JeMph Also At no time since the Sec ond World War has the gap been so startling between what the statesmen have been saying in public and what they have been saying among themselves. The public line, of course, is to be sweetly optimistic and so to en courage "the spirit of Geneva." But in these last weeks, large gaggles of British, French and American pol icy makers have been la boring to pre pare for this meeting of For eign Ministers, which is sup posed to trans late the "spirit . of Geneva" into practical' ac-. 9 tion, Secretary Dulles,- British Stowmrt AJsop Foreign Minister MacMillan end France's Antoine Pinay have met at length in New York. Their staffs have worked still longer and harder. And what has been the theme of all these busy, almost fevered conferences? As one highly placed but somewhat cynical conferee is reported to have re marked, the theme has been "how to put the best face we can o;i the setbacks we have to ex pect." There are three main points on the agenda of the forthcom ing Anglo - Franco - American negotiation with the Soviets: cul tural exchanges between the East and West blocs; reunifica tion of Germany; and disarma ment. Cultural exchanges, no doubt, will afford a golden op portunity to show "the spirit of Geneva" at its best. But on the two really sub stantive points, the outlook is a bit different. On Germany, for instance, Secretary Dulles re cently predicted that the Soviets would be "forced" to let the two parts of the country come together again. At Geneva, the three Western Foreign Ministers will offer the Soviets a European security pact, guaranteed by all, if they will consent to German reunification with no strings at tached. , IN REALITY, however, the .So viets have already made it brutally clear that they have no intention whatever of permit ting German reunification, ex cept with the very bit attached string of German abandonment of NATO. There is no known way to "force" the Soviets to alter this position. And a lareg and increasing group of Ameri can, British and French policy makers are now haunted by the nightmare-fear that at some fu ture time, probably after the death of Chancellor Adenauer, the Germans will decide to buy re-unification by abandoning the Western alliance. On the disarmament question, meanwhile, the American policy makers have carried the new Madison Avenue diplomacy to what could prove to be a most dangerous extreme. The country and the world have been led to believe that the American gov ernment thinks disarmament will be easy, if only a sound inspec tion system can be worked out first. This impression was enor mously strengthened, when the President captured everyone's Editorial Comment THE REVIVAL The research bureau of the National Council of Churches cites six principal reasons for the "religious revival" that we hear so much about. The six follow: 1. The high birth rate since 1940. 2. The suburban movement which has encouraged people to seek contacts through churches in new communities. 3. Systematic evangelistic pro grams in many denominations. . 4. A change in the "climate of opinion" respecting organized religion in many communities. 5. A return of young parents tc church at the time when their children start attending the church school. 6. The international crisis, whict is believed to have made many persons more interested than previously in the resources of organized religion. This is very interesting and should bring no comfort to the architects of the revival. Of the six reasons, only No. 3 is a "re ligious reason." Nos. 1 and 5 are beyond the control of the church es. Nos. 2 and 4 are social reas ons. No. 6 is a selfish reason, having nothing to do with re ligion. We'll feel better about the "revival" when it appears that the human race has "re vived" for reasons more compat ible with religion. Eugene Register-Guard. Joe and Stewart AIsop imagination and raised every one's hopes with his aerial in spection proposal at the Summit Meeting. But in fact, disarmament will not be easy, even if the Soviets accept a copper-rivetted inspec tion system. There is no agreed Anglo-Franco-American disarm ament plan. There is not even an agreed American plan. There is just a high-level study group, named by Harold Stassen, whose members are thrashing around trying to find a plan. Furthermore, the country is utterly unprepared for the pro found and painful national choices that will have to be made if any serious American disarm ament plan is to be offered. Our whole defense design is now built around the nuclear weap ons, mainly for reasons of econ omy. Any disarmament plan worthy of the name must surely include a prohibition on the use of nuclear weapons. But even if Stassen's high-level types rec ommend it, is this country really ready to toss Gen.. Curtis LeMay into the nearest horse-pond and to begin the extremely costly job of building a new defense design from the ground up? THE British Foreign Office ex perts have warned the State Department that the Soviets may call our bluff, saying in ef fect: "O.K., e accept in prin ciple your great President's air inspection scheme; so now let's get down to talking about the real object of this exercise, which is not inspection but actual dis armament." . . . If that happens when we in fact lack an agreed disarmament plan, the embarrassment will not be easy to conceal.' Fortunately, it seems probable that the Brit ish are being over-apprehensive. But the fact . remains that this whole Geneva business the Summit Meeting and its present sequel begins to resemble noth ing so much as the allegedly magical clothes ordered by the silly old king in the nursery story. There were really no clothes at all. But because the clothes were supposed to be magical, neither the king nor his couriers dared to say they did not see these glorious garments. So His Majesty went naked, and boasted of the beauty of his imaginary costume too, until a child un trained in the ways of courts blurted put, "Why, the king has no clothes on." (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication Is permis 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. To the Editor: This is the saga of a raccoon tree. A number of years ago we were doing some gold prospecting around Nov. 1, .when a light sprinkle of rain fell, so took shelter under the nearest tree; a large oak with broken branches, and suddenly heard a growling sound inside the trunk. After looking up we discovered a round opening about 15 feet above the ground. By leaving some props against the base we shinnied up in eager anticipation to see three young "coons" with black beady eyes. Not being in a hurry for the day of capture, we simply did not disturb them. When .we returned with an axe some weeks later, all animals had vanished. How many there were all told will never be known for sure,' as -the tree prob ably was hollow all the way to the roots. Anyway, we plan to prospect that area again some day. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., SLIPPERY WORDS "Careful with fire," is good advice, we know: "Careful with words," Is ten times doubly so.. These' lines of Will Carleton are no exaggeration, as every writer knows.' No matter how careful one is with fire, a vag rant spark sometimes causes trouble. And so it is with words, only ten times doubly so. Recently, this newspaper has been flooded with letters and marked clippings of a news story about a wood carving of the Last Supper in which one of the characters was identified as "Brutus." Some time ago this page spoke of the "St. James" version of the Bible. A contemporary, in a sports story from Tucson, said the Uni versity of Arizona had more than 6000 students from "each" of the 48 states. That would make it the largest university by far in the world, with an enrollment of more than 288,000. Probably the mail is rolling in at this mo ment down the street. We hope there is no glaring error on this page today that careful proof reading has failed tc disclose. If there should be, we know we shall hear about it. And that will make us happy. For if no one finds the errors, it means we have few readers. Portland Oregon! an. j Value of U. N. iii Fostering World Understanding Told The American people could not invest in a more effective program for fostering world wide understanding and peace than that offered by the United Nations, Harlan P. Bosworth, vice-president of California Ore gon Power company, told the Medford Rotary club Tuesday. Speaking at a luncheon meet ing of the club at the Jackson hotel, Bosworth read the pre amble of the League's charter and pointed out that the annual cost of membership to every American is only about 9 cents. Cost Compared This modest cost, which adds up to only 54 cents per person for UN associated organizations included and all of its peaceful endeavors. . is eaual to what World War II cost for only ten hours of warfare. Bosworth, who is chairman of the Medford Ro tary club's international infor mation, United Nations and stu dent exchange committee, spoke on the tenth anniversary of the signing of . the United Nations charter in San Francisco. Mrs. Mona Bartels also spoke briefly on the forthcoming Jun ior Service League follies. Nov. 2 and 3, for the benefit of that organization's hard of hearing kindergarten. -. The principal speaker for the dav was En?ene Ricker, manager of the Camp white VA Domiciliary. Missing 13-Year-0ld Located by Police A 13-year-old Medford boy for whom police had . been search ing since about 8:45 p.m.. Mon day was found about 2:15 p.m. yesterday by Officer Berle Stephens. The boy was found headed south on South Riverside ave. pulling a wagon which contain ed a sleeping bag and food. Police said that the youth had run away from his South Peach st. home and had last been seen about 4 p.m. Thursday. In addi tion to the sleeping I bag the youth had also left home with camping equipment, according to the police report. ' McNary, Ore.. (U.R), A five-foot sturgeon passed through the McNary dam dish locks Mon day. $6.75 Value 12 Pieces PYREX GIFT SET With $2.50 Cook Book SPECIAL ts2) ANGEL CAKE PAN 3MM SjLJ f Ifllp $1.39 Bake angel cakes and chiffon cake per fectly. Leak-proof construction. Hat legs to suspend cake while cooling. JUST ARRIVED! DESCO 2 for I Special 9" Skillet ... $3.95 1-Qt. Sauce Pan.... 2.40 BOTH FOR $3.95 Sets Available On Terms Use Our Lay-Away Plan Serious Greek Crisis Appears Headed Off By Action of King By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent King Paul of Greece seems to have headed off a possibly seri ous political crisis by appointing Constantin Karamanlis- as premier. Paul has been accused more than once of over stepping his powers and interfering in Greek politics. It happened once back in cnarirs urumi ivoi wnen tne late Field Marshal Alexander Papagos quit as commander in chief of the armea forces. Papagos accused the king of weakening the army by giving his court favorites high posts. Papagos entered politics and as head of a new "Greek Rally" party won a landslide victory in the 1952 election. He became premier. The king overstepped his powers again after Papagos died on Oct. 4. ' He passed over the two lead ing candidates for the prime ministry and gave Karmanlis the job. ' As a constitutional monarch. the king should have chosen a man who was recommended to him by the Greek rally. The party's choice probably would have been Foreign Min ister Stephan Stephanopoulos or Defense Minister Panayotis Ka- nellopoulos, both vice premiers under Papagos. Both were open rivals for the post. Karamanlis, though he had made an excellent record as min ister of communications and pub lic works, was just one of sev eral party leaders. Dispatches from Athens seem to agree, however, that in nam ing him premier the king may at least have postponed a crisis which would have thrown Greece back into the state of tur moil which existed before Papa gos took office. Karamanlis has started out well. The day after the king ap pointed him, there was serious anti-Greek riots in Turkey over Greece's claim to the island of Cyprus. This incident might have had serious results. But Karamanlis kept his head. 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LOWEST PRICES FOR o n SPECIALISTS IN MEDFORD when a Turkish cabinet minister ceremonially raised the Greek flag to the staff of a new Greek consulate at Izmir, which a mob had wrecked. The Turkish army paid military honors. ' Pro-Western Reputation -' Karamanlis has the reputation of being pro-Western. He -has said that despite the bitterness in Greece over the Cyprus issue, the country will remain loyal to its alliances with the North At lantic ' Treaty Organization na tions. Trouble still may come in Greece. National elections, which were to have been held next November, have been ad vanced to next ApriL It probably will be a bitter campaign. But opposition parties appear to be weakening in their demand, made after Papagos' death, for an immediate election at a time of confusion. Karamanlis is 48, a lawyer, a dark and handsome six-footer. He made himself popular by carrying out an ambitious highway-building program as minis ter of public works. He may be only a caretaker premier, but he seems to be a good choice. SPEAKER ' Ashland Dr. Roy W.- Mc Neal, Southern Oregon college professor of geography, will speak at the annual meeting of the Southern Oregon Bankers association Thursday evening, Nov. 27 at 6:30 p.m. on "Relative Values." The meeting and ban quet will be held in the Medford hotel. MAKE A PROFIT thafs worth while. Have ex tra dollars in ' your billfold later ... by putting savings to work with us. - 7. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N I of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicatee! ; , To Those Who Save OPEN TONIGHT TIL NINE Smooth ground t and polished finish C-Thru cover, strong bail handle. 5-quart size. Tray HIGHEST QUALITY HOMEWARES I CENTRAL POINT 51.98 oven 54.50 m I
