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rOUQ DtOD (0t5t)HfL wtuftt Mi "Everybody Southern Or ataca inp mail inpuct Published Daily xcept Saturdge b 7-29 North Fir St Pfaoi 141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HyR GRY 4Mvertiing Vrf E C. FERGUSON Managing Eaiwr (?RIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAJStt CHIP MAN. Teiegragh lit RICHARD JEWETT Sport ditor Uil STARCHER. Society Editor 0C JACKSON Sunday Editor 63Ai-D LATHAM. Circulation y. 3ijn Independent NewsrHcar ... Jnteil as second class matter t (jHeiford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION BATS By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.0a Daily and Sunday Six months 6.3 Daily and Sunday Three moa. 3J0 KnnHav ftnlv Ona vear S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medfqjd. Asniana. central roini. ucic Jackaonvtlleo Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady CoveT Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S15 .00 Daily and Sunday One montfc lis CarSer and Dealers 5c peropy. All Terms Cash in Aavance Official .Paper ot the City of Medford Officii?! Paper of Jackson County TTnitori Proa Full Leased Wire ' MEMB7J OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De . troi. San Francisco. Los An81? Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCHTIIO.N J fc"iB"'H'IU" newspaper PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flinlif o' Time Medford and Jackson, County! t u r9 ThA I nisiory irom Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YE,ARS AGO Oct. 31, 1945 (It wafc Wednesday) Southern Oregon educational conference for Jackson and Josephine county teachers starts at Ashland. O Frflh Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Smoke cloiujls rising over the waters of Crater Lake give rise to theories a new volcano is in the making. Thelouds are composed of gas and steam. Nothing definite is known relative to the source of the hot air, except that it is not emanating from a politician. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1935 . p (It was Thursday) ' Senotor Charles L. McNary of Salem, Fred Scheffel, city super intendent, and A. H. Banwell. manager of Chamber of Comn merce, inspect Medford airport. ' Snov continues to fall in Rogue Valley 14 inches over Crater Lake. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 1925 (It was Saturday) People warned not to eat ducks afflicted with disease in Tule lake area. Medford City council dis cusses ways of keeping Jackson ville railroad. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 31, 19S5 (It was Sunday) Jessie Howard elected chair man of Rebekah convention to be held in Medford in 1916; Anna Myer of Ashland elected vice-chairman at fJEentral Point meeting. From Local and Personal col o umn: Local taxicabs are being watched closely on account of numerous reports to the effect that they are frequently and sometimes brazenly guilty of ex ceeding the speed of 16 miles an hour within the city limits. Chief Hittson has put a few plain clothes men on the firing line with stop watches and the taxi terrors may be haled into court any hour. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapart 1. Most of the Saar industrial area lies between France and W. Germany, W. and E. Germany, Belgium and France, or Belgium and Lukemburg? 2. The 1955 session of Congress did or didn't vote a big increase in Congressional salaries? 3. A typical human heart pumps blood at the rate of about 16, 60, 160 or 600 gallons an iour? 4. The Negro ra$ is now rep resented in the U. S. House of Representatives. Also in the U. S. Senate? f 5. Which of these aren't mem bers of U.N.: Canada, Eire (Ire land), Italy, Japan, Spain, Swit zerland? 6. About one-third, one-half or two-thirds of all U. S. cars made in the last three years had auto matic transmission? - 7. Petite Marmite is a French dish: soup, quaU on toast, small cake, snail, or half-portion for a child? The Answers: 1. France and West Germany; 2. Did; 3. About 160; 4. No; 5. All except Can ada aren't; 6. About half; 7. Soup. - . Porcupines... Wt vitw 4fct porcupint with mixed feelings. Whilt it is trut that w have always had a sneak ing tfftction lor tht slow, stupid, ambling rodents, we're, confronted by the fact that they are a major dange? to young, growing trees. And trees are vastly important to tht teonomy of Oregon. That's the spot we'rt on. i N tarlif ye, woods propaganda was all pro-por- rnnine. "Don't kill norcuDines." we were told, be cause they are so slow and so stupid tht they are easy to kill, and thus form a major potential supply of food for those lost in the woods. But Btimes change. Porcupines are no longer re garded as emergency four-footed larders for lost peo ple. They are considered as economic menaces. And we are sorry this is so. "Kill porcupines," is the wprd now. One youngster we read about had a huge collection of salted porcu pine noses to brag about. And it has gone so far that the information service of the Western Pine associa tion has put out a bulletin saying that porcupine recipes are being compiled in order to stimulate ap petites as a means of hastening the demise of our prickly friends. 'J'HE Pine Association bulletin says: It has reached a point where porcupine damage must be rated right along with forest devastation caused by insects, diseases and forest, fires. Forest agencies this year, among their attempts to control the pest, called upon hunters to shoot porcupines whenever they ran on to them in the woods. But it is felt if the porkies could be fileted, broiled, barbecued or roasted to make them attractively edible, the incentive to search them out would be greatly increased. Pretty sneaky, if you ask us. MO ONE has asked us. But we might point out that porcupines, while they're not asking for recipes featuring humans, do have wide and varied dietary habits. A recent mailing from the National Geograph is Society reports that a porcupine will not only eat the inner bark of trees, thus destroying or damaging up to 100 trees in a winter they also are inordinately fond of salt-flavored articles. . They chew ax handles, golf clubs, canoe paddles and other items which have absorbed human perspir ation. So the porcupine, whose spines are purely for de fense, and who asks nothing but to be left alone, is becoming the victim of his own appetite, and has in curred the wrath of foresters and loggers who can't be blamed, either. We still think it's kind of too bad. E.A. ...And Kangaroos... Another animal has earned the enmity of man, on the other side of the world. Sheepmen and farmers in Australia complain that kangaroos are settling down on lush pastures, and doing an immense amount of damage to fences and crops. The Australian Agricultural Newsletter informs us that open seasons have been declared in a number of districts. One grazier killed more than 400 kang aroos on his property in four week ends, with a total of more than 2,000 killed in two years. The pouched marsupials are still present in great numbers despite these killings. V "THE Aussies blame a succession of good seasons and " improved fodder pastures for the fact that the kangaroos Rave abandoned migratory habits. The Newsletter says: Farmers also report that the abundance of feed seems to have made them lazy. Rather than bound over a fence which they could clear easily, they jump against it, crushing it to the ground and allowing stock and other pests access to J growing crops. The damage cone in this way is very serious and is one of the main jeasons why permits for open sea sons have been granted over such wide areas. E.A. ...And Rabbits " m ' -All this recalls the fact that Australia has had its troubles before with animal pests. Rabbits were in troduced there in the last century and, encountering no natural enemies, multiplied so fast that they soon became a majornenace. Australians were desperate to stop the hordes of rabbits, grown into the millions, which were overrun- ing the land. They organized drives, built high fences for thousands of miles, tried poisoning, shooting, clubbing. Nothing seemed to help. DUT within the past few years, a disease which is particularly rough on rabbits, but which skips most other animals, was deliberately introduced into the rabbit population, and today they are almost gone. The moral, if any, seems to be for animals to do nothing to irritate mankind. It's usually fatal. E.A. Lakeview Uranium Lakeview (U.R) Dr. Garth W. Thornburg, a Colorado min ing company official, Saturday said carloads of uranium ore shipped from the Lakeview area were running between .30 and .50 per cent uranium. Dr. Thornburg of Thornburg Bros., Mining Comgany of Grand Junction, Colo., said the percentage was indicative of a "good commercial ore." Vitro Uranium Company of Salt Lake City, which purchased the ore, had three carloads tested at a sampling plant at Murray, Utah. The Thornburgs have formed the Lakeview Mining Company here, which was operating core Voslay, Oeloker 31, 1155 Ore Tests 'Good' drilling rigs at the White King and Lucky Lass mines, which were under lease. Dr. Thornburg said drillings thus far "are more than satis factory." The domestic turkey in the United States is a descendant of the Mexican turkey which was taken to Europe by the Spanish in the 16th century. From Spain the turkeys went to England and then to the United States. The' first cargo of iron ore passed through the Sault Ste. Marie canal from Lake Super ior in 1855. .. .. : Washington DELAYED JUSTICE IS INJUSTICE Washington Most Americans feel and rightly, I think that justice under the law is part of the heart and center or the demo cratic process. If it is widely denied, democracy itself is in peril. There is reason for genuine concern today. Not that the judicial process is inequitable, not that it is unfair. But when justice is grievously delayed, justice is in reality being denied. Throught the United States courts, justice is today being grievously delayed. The delays are getting worse, not better. Nothing that Congress and the Justice Department have done thus far is equal to the problem. The logjam in the courts is mounting. More cases are long er delayed than ever before. This is why Chief Justice War ren has been pressing for a whole series of reforms in the Federal courts. This is why Deputy Attorney General William P. Rogers has desscribed the logjam in the metropolitan districts as "de plorable" and is by way of be coming "a disgrace to the na tion." This is why Henry P. Chand ler, Director of the Administra tive office of the U. S. Courts, has called the increasing con gestion and delay in cjviT cases "a serious evil" desperately need ing correction. This is why President Eisen hower authorized Attorney Gen eral Herbert BOrownell to put the Administration behind new legislation at the coming session of Congress. TN 1954 Congress created thirty A new judgeships.- A year later the backlog of .civil cases in the United States District Courts totaled 68,832 as against 68,431 in 1954. Civil case's terminated in 1955 increas ed from 57,903 in the previous year to 58,974. Though more cases were completed, the back log grew. The criminal case backlog lightened slightly but only be cause the courts gave priority to criminal cases at the expense of civil litigation. Deputy Attorney General Rog ers frankly says that we -have now reached a point Wherein j justice is so delayed that it means On The Side (Distributed by King How many things can you name of which the price hasn't been raised in 50 years? Off hand I can think of only one. That is the fare on the Staten Island ferry which is still 5 cents. That is the country's greatest travel bargain. Five and a 'half miles for a nickel. A beautiful ride too. Furthermore, you al ways get a seat. The Staten Is land commuters are among the few people in this country who find their journey to and from work a pleashre. Says She "Your constant references to successful persons born under Leo is becoming boring and irri tating," writes a feminine sub scriber. "You neglect to men tion some Leos whose careers and personalities were far from attractive. For example, Musso lini, was a Leo. Men born nnder Leo are conceited, overbearing, critical and exacting. They do a lot of sulking and whining and being very moody are' much given to singing the blues. They are also terrible flirts. My first husband was a Leo and when I think of my life with him it makes me shudder. Leo women are no bargains either. ' Their husbands are usually poor hen pecked wretches." Passing By Dick Maney. Distinguished Broadwayite. A character mem ber of the Circle to the Square Association of Bathtub Singers. Recent additions to his program of matutinal music are that touching ballad titled "Only a Rose With a Broken Stem" and the lively ditty called "Clancy's Wooden Wedding." Mr. Maney is a whispering baritone. Receptionists Young women possessed of what it takes to be a good re cap tionist are much in demand in New York. Average salary for this type of office queen is $60 a week. Speaking of the help wanted situation in Manhattan, I note office boys are being of fered $50 a week! When I was an office boy in downtown Man hattan my salary was $4 a week. I was robbed. Wise Decision The decision of Nashua's own er to pass up California and race his noble animal in Florida is a wise one. It will avoid another meeting with Swaps. Must also be considered that many great eastern horses of the past -have failed sadly in the Santa Anita Handicap, which is the toughest of all great stake races to win. Such great eastern thorough breds as Equipoise, Twenty Grand, Discovery and Armed were "also rans" in the Santa Anita "Hundred Grander." Ci tation did a little better. He finished second. Asking Queries from clients. Q. Was Lucrezia Borgia a blonde or a brunette? -A. Se was a natural Roseoe Drummond "justice denied." Describing the time-lag in the courts, one expert points to these facts: "The medium time for dispos ition of civil cases which were terminated by trial in District Courts, with or withort jury, in creased from 13.5 months to 1954 to 14.6 months in. 1955. "The time lag for cases tried by a judge without jury was 16.7 months in 1955. Litigants wait ed 12.6 months for cases tried by a jury.". But these figures put the best face on the problem. Look at what happens in the most con gested courts. There the med ian time lags in 1955 were: Southern New York, 45.9 months between the filing and the term ination of a case; Eastern New York, 45.1; Northern Ohio, 33.2; Western Pennsylvania, 31.6; Col orado, 29.5 months. Eight years ago the median time on civil cases was nine months. BECAUSE of the long tenure of. the Roosevelt and Tru man administrations, the J. lance of the Federal judiciary is large ly Democratic. There is, of course, no reason to assume that Democratic-appointed judges are responsible for creating this time-lag any more than there is reason to assume that the Republican-appointed judges have made it worse; but the uneven level of judges is reflected in an uneven work load. Better judges are needed as well as more judges. "The Congressional Quarterly" makes this interest ing report on the current mem bership of the Federal courts: Court Dem. Rep. Vac. Supreme 6 3 0 Circuit 44 22 2 District 159 85 5 Claims 4 10 Customs & Pat ent Appeals... 3.1 1 Customs 4 5 0 Total 220 117 The problem of delayed justice which -means something near to denied justice is not part isan, and at the next session of Congress there ought to be a bi partisan willingness to equip the third coordinate branch of the government with the qualified manpower to do its job. Licking this grievous time-lag is urgent business. Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. by e. v. Durimg Faaturaa Syndicate. Inc.) brunette but featured dyed blonde hair ... Q. Is it possible for a girl five feet one to get a position as a dress model in New York City? I mean is it a fact that only tall giantess type fe males can get such positions? A. There are openings in New York for petite type models who meas ure from five feet four to five feet six with heels. So, using three-inch heels, a girl five feet one would be eligible. Please Note "Physiognomical Haircutting." That's what a midtown Manhat tan tonsorial parlor announces it features. I may drop in there for a physiognomical haircut shortly and will report the re sults. I am always willing to try anything once. Well, nearly anything. Brooklyn Again ' Brooklyn is in again with something for Texas, California or even Baltimore to try to top. The Jewish Hospital in Brook lyn is claimed to be the locale of more births annually than any other hospital in the country. More than 5,000 infants annual ly first see the light of day in that hospital. , Briefly ' When a thoroughbred is said to have won "by three lengths," how far ahead was he in feet and inces? Not one turf fan in a hun dred can tell you what the aver age length of a thoroughbred is . . . Am asked why Navy men are caUed "Gobs." All I know about it is that "gob" is the Chinese word for sailor. Local Products The skill of London's famous Savile Row iailcrs cannot be questioned. Yet some distin guished residents of London have their clothes made by a tailor on East Fifty-ninth street, Manhattan. The workmanship of the British bootmakers is un questionably superb but there are equally skilful makers of made to order shoes in New York. Speaking of local products as compared to imports there is a shop in the East Sixties in Manhattan which regularly sends eight pound fruit cakes to the King of Norway. They are His Majesty's favorite fruit cakes. Portland Dry Cleaners Schedule Price Boost Portland (U.R) A majority of Portland area dry cleaners will raise their prices Nov. 1, according to Thomas T. George, Jr., industry spokesman. Georges said the price in creases will range from 5 to 10 cents for skirts and pants and other half garments, and 10 to 15 cents for dresses and suits. The increases were recom mended by a survey of the area by the National Institute of Dry Cleaning which showed higher labor and supply costs. Read and Use Classified Ada. . . , The Community' Biggest Jdaxketplace Time in for an Outdoor Quiz. A score of 60 is fair to middling; 75 is good; 90 is excellent mak ing you an Outdoor Expert. An swers follow questions. 1. What are the right ani mals for the following five state ments (10 points each): 1. This great animal gives birth to a tiny one-pound baby during its long twilight sleep. 2. What animal made many of the trafls over hills and plains of North America routes so well "engineered" that many of our highways and railways have been built upon them? 3 . Several ocean - dwelling animals nurse their young. Which is the largest? 4. Severaf North American game animals are expert jump ers. Of these, which is the long est broad jumper? 5. Name the two most com mon animals which carry their young in skin pouches? II. Of man's modern inven tions, nature perfected many first. Match the animal with the invention it utilizes: 1. Aba lone, 2. bat, 3. flying squirrel, 4. scorpion, 5. snake w.ith these: radar, hypodermic needle, anes thetic, parachute, suction cup. (Score 10 points for each right answer.) Answers: 1. The right animals are: 1, bear, 2. bison, 3. whale, 4. deer the white tail or Vir ginia deer has been measured 10-51 Hv by a running broad jump of 40 feet, 2 inches;! 5. kangaroo and opossum. II. 1. Today's popular suction cups have been used for eons by sea snails of which the Cali fornia abalone is one. 2. The bat used radar long before man. As it flies, it emits a series of sup ersonic cries unheard by hu mans but audible to the bat it self. As the cries bounce off various objects, they warn the bat of its approach to obstruc tions. , '3. The flying squirrel spreads forelegs and hindlegs outward so that the skin along its sides forms a parachute as it glides from tree to tree. .4. The scorpion's tail which he uses for his poisonous injec tions is a perfect hypodermic needle. " i 5. In biting, the snake applies an 'anesthetic. It paralyzes and desensjtizes its' prey before eat ing it. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) 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, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wild life, a complete 30-volume set of this world - famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week, new sub missions wiU be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care Medford Mail-Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Polio 'Shots' ' Planned at Nyssa Nyssa U.R) A mass inocula tion program for certain resi dents of the Nyssa area to com bat a polio epidemic will be started tomorrow. . - Dr. Samuel Osgood, epidemi ologist for the State Board of Health, said gamma' globulin shots will be offered to all preg nant women and to all other per sons under 25 years of age living in the Nyssa school district. He said the shots would be given on a strictly voluntary ba sis but he expected about 3000 persons to receive the gamma globulin. The clinic will open Tuesday and probably continue through the rest of the week, Dr. Os good said. He said the State Board of Health would supervise the clin ic and services of doctors, nurses and public health officials in the area were being donated. The gamma globulin will be fur nished free of charge by the Na tional Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Dr. Osgood said at last count .wise V; -S Confusion in French Morocco May Result In Eventual Peace By CHARLES M. McCANrf United Press Correspondent French Morocco resembles, at the moment, a sort of political merry-go-round. The Moroccan Nationalists are taking France for a ride on it. . o S t r a ngely enough, how ever, there seems 1 to be reason for hope that when-the ride is over, peace may be re stored. rr. . c nar les Met aim i w o years ago, France forced pro-Nationalist Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef from the throne and exiled him to the island of Mad agascar off the East African CcSst. Pro-French Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa, his uncle, was put on the throne. The Na tionalists always opposed him. . On Oct. 4 France forced Mau lay Arafa out and sent him to neighboring, Tangier. Moulay Arafa did not formal ly quit. He announced, in fact, that he was still sultan. Council Set Up President Rene Coty of France Retiring Highway Engineer Honored Salem (U.R) Howard G. Smith, state highway construc tion engineer who is retiring after 36 years with the high way Department, and Mrs. Smith T;ere honored by some 400 persons at a banquet here Friday night. Smith was first employed in 1919 as resident engineer and then division engineer at Baker. He was praised by State High way Engineer R. H. Baldock for his boldness in highway design, his worward look In highway development and his strict but fair standards in construction work. Highway Dep artment em ployees presented the Smiths with a five piece luggage spt and a merchandise certificate. Contractors whose work Smith had supervised presented an electric clock in a case hand carved from Oregon Myrtle- wood, and a watch and chain. NAMED Russell C. Harring ton (above), 65-year-old Provi dence, R. I., accountant and lifelong Republican, was named by Treasury Secy. George M. Humphrey to be the nation's top tax collector. He will succeed T. Coleman Andrews as commissioner of internal revenue when ap pointment is approved by President Eisenhower. there were 37 cases of nolio re ported in the Nyssa area of Mal heur county. Since 1 908 PERL Mortuary Phone sent him a letter promising that Youssef never would be restored. A four-man Throne Council was set up to act in place of the sultan and Premier Si Fatmi Ben Slimane was named pre mier. ' ' At the same time, France ar ranged to take Youssef to France from Madagascar as a gesture to the Nationalists, who had made him a symbol of their fight for independence. , Last Wednesday came a start ling development. El Glaoui, the powerful pasha or governor of the Morrakjssh area, announced that be thought Yousftf ought to be sultan. El Glaoui, a lifelong friend of Moulay Arafa, had helped to force Youssef from the throne. Youssef returned to France from Madagascar today in a spe cial French plane. Premier Ben Slimane and th four members of the Throne Council flew to France to wel come Youssef back. ' Now the word from Morocco is that it seems to be only a question of time before Youssef is back on the throne. v It looks as if Coty might have to tell Moulay Arafa that he didn't mean "positively" when he said Youssef would not be restored. ' But authoritative advices from Morocco now report that Moulay Arafa himself has written Coty saying that Youssef really ought to have the job. Situation Confusing Another surprise came Friday when the "Presence Francaise" organization issued a statement saying that the throne question was one for Moroccans alone to decide. The "Presence Francaise" is that anti-Nationalist, anti-independence organization of French colonists in Morocco. The col onists have always detested, Youssef because of his Nation alist leanings.- . Like everything in French politics right now, the situation is confusing.' The fact is, however, that the Moroccans fervently desire Yous sef's restoration. Crowds ran through the streets of Moroccan cities shrieking in joy when they heard that Youssef was going to France. Another fact is that Youssef is now prepared to cooperate with France in a program of limited home rule. Hence, when ; the .confusion ends,;4t may turn out that thei harried French government has found at least a temporary solu tion of the Moroccfe 'crisis de spite itself. s - Her Unborn Babe GEO. N. TAYLOR Her daughter had been before the Juvenile Court in Los An geles and the mother had come to her pastor for his advice Pastor asked the mother if she had ever prayed with the daughter 'Pastor, that is the trouble. We never pray ed together." Using that as a starter, the pastor told his audience that mothers should be gin with pre-natal prayers for the babe yet to be born. Believ ers must also give themselves to prayer, if they are to tell others of Christ's death for their sins. George Mueller, a great man of prayer, prayed often ' for the conversion of three elderly men: None was converted but all came to Chr&t after Mueller's death. God works when you pray "Whatsoever you ask the Fa ther in My name, he will give it to you." So said Christ John 16:23. , This Message sponsored by an Oregon Dairyman. adv. 2 - 6675 V FINER FUNERAL0 SERVICES o A every price range
