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FOUR MEDFORD (OBEGOK) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Keaoj jno jaau inoune PubUihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-fll41 DA07BT 7 RTTTTT. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC A1.LEN JR., City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHEH Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot Mnrrh a 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES ; By MallIn Advance: Per copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos i-ou Sunday Only One vear t3?0 Ey Carrier In Advance Medfonl. Ashland. Central Point. Eaele Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1M Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms casn in novdun: Official Paper of the City of Medford ffiiapjaperof Jackson County TTTHjPr. Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Advertising ePreB?"iSr.S. .-no rvjc WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattl. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'l-ATllON ifnmi.in.'.nja NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and i0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 2, 1945 (It was Friday) ? Otto Frohnmayer, chairman of Community Chest drive, an nounces contributions of $16, 338.45 in campaign. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The men folks will have to wait until next summer before they can get two pairs of pants with a suit. Two pair of pants present a problem. The owner never knows which ,pair to wear, or whether tc piit on both, after sizing, up the early morning weather. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 2. 1935 (It was Saturday) Rogue Valley Ministers' asso ciation announces objections to state liqusss funds being used to construct capitol building. Low, temperatures forecast for; Rogue valley area today. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 2, 1925 (It was Monday) Jackson county win.) first prize on display of 25 boxes of Newtown apples at Portland's International Livestock exposi tion. 1 About, 300 attend hearing by highway" commission on proposal of special roacfe district to con struct highway between Medford and Oregon Caves. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 2. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Medford Commercial club pro tests action by Portland lumber men to monopolize Oregon's lumber industry. Panama-Pacific exposition of ficials discuss possibilities of dis mantlng Oregon building at San Francisco and assembling it at Ashland's Lithia Park. What's the Answer? Can You Gei 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Less than a fourth, about a third, a half, two-thirds.f-or over three-fourths of victims of a cor onary thrombosis survive the first attack? 2. Farm operators now are or aren't covered by social security? 3. The party in power always loses the Presidential election if it lost the Congressional elec tions two yeas before; right or wrong? 4. An old car is traded in on a larger percentage of all new car or all used car purchases, or is it about 50-50? 5. Ng wife of a U.S. President was Dorn abroad;, .right or wrong? 6. The average World War I veteran is much or slightly over 60, or much or slightly under 60? 7. A present U.S. Senator has represented his state in Con gress ever since iit Became a state. Who and which? The Answers: 1. Over ihree fourths. 2. Are. 3. Wrong; the Democriis lost Congress in 1946, won with Truman in 1948. 4. Larger on new car purchases. 5. Wrong; Mrs. J. . Adams was born in London of American parents. 6. Slightly over 60. 7- Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizoa. REPAIR BASE 1 Portsmouth, N. H. OJ.R) The USS Nautilus, the nation's first atomic-powered submarine, will undergo all its re.ir work and overhauling at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. MAIL TRIBUNE Junior Colleges? A lot of thoughtful attention is being devoted to the schools, colleges and universities of Oregon. It's a good thing, too. It has been responsibly predicted that higher ed ucation enrollments will double that's right, double within the next six or seven years. IXTHAT sort of a bind would the average business be in if it were to double in size in such a short period of time? Incolleges, the increase brings bigger problems in providing housing (not only for single students .but, in recent years, married students too), in added classrooms, in more administrative space, in greater athletic facilities, and so on. Two general ideas have been presented as steps leading to the solution of this problem. - The first is to limit ..enrollment "through tighter requirements. The second is to expand educational facilities in one way or another. TR. JOHN RICHARDS, chancellor of the state sys- tern of higher education, recently discussed with the state board the possibility of limiting enrollments not because he wanted to, to be sure, but simply because there is a doubt that the institutions in the system will be physically capable of handling the huge increased demand which will hit as the "war babies" now crowding the elementary schools get to college age. Well, limiting enrollment would be one solution. But we don't like it. America has become increasingly dedicated, over the years, to the principle that education for all ben efits all. And it's a good, sound principle. UT the alternative is going to be difficult and im mensely costly. If the present .institutions are going to be doubled, the task will be a huge burden. Is there a means by which it could be eased? Per haps there is: Some educators think that a system of junior colleges, similar to' the one in use in California, would go a long way toward solving the problem, and at a cost less than building up the present colleges and universities. - "WER in Bend they've started, successfully, an in- teresting community experiment along these lines. It is Central Oregon college, which is sponsored by the Bend school district. The Bend Bulletin, justly proud of the accomplish mentis a bit wry about the fact that the state legis lature refused support. It said : The bill was killed, due to the efforts of shortsighted partisans who were afraid a junior college system would hurt their own pet institutions. None of the institutions, state or private, who opposed the junior college bill in the ( last legislature will be ready to handle a double enrollment in six or seven years, or even ten, twelve or twenty years. In the meantime Oregon's one experiment with the junior college system Central Oregon college is growing and prospering at the expense of the? taxpayers of BendQ School District No. 1 and the students who attend the school. The school now is providing a good two-year college education for nearly 300 students, without one penny of cost to the state. This certainly compares favorably with the more than $600 per year in operating costs alone, on a per-student-per-year basis, run up at other institutions of higher education in Oregon.o Perhaps the answer to Oregon's coming problem .. .is a junior college system. The time for experimenting is growing short. c A COMMITTEE of educators and others is now at work studying the potentialities of the junior college plan. It is to be hoped they will be in a posi tion to make recommendations to the -jiext legislative session in January of 1957, for time IS growing short. It might have no immediate effect on the educa tional picture in southern Oregon, for with expansion and extension of Southern Oregon college in Ashland, our needs could probably be handled, at least for the time being. But in terms of tax costs, in comparison, to the over-all benefits accruing to the state at large from an expanded system of higher education, the impli cations are as big here as they are anywhere else in Oregon. E.A. Could Be Damaging In the absence of evidence to the contrary, it must be assumed thai there was no wrongful intent on the part of two members of the board of directors of the Talent Irrigation district, and the district secretary manager, when they agreed to a concession contract at Hyatt lake for the latter. But the incident serves to remind us again that public servants, elected or appointed to offices of trust and responsibility, must be meticulously careful that their actions are above suspicion and beyond reproach. ...... n Wl HEN the law governing the administration of irrigation districts, m specifically proscribes an action such as that which was proposed, it smacks of carelessness, at the very least, even to consider it. We commend the board for its quick action in rescinding any plans for such a questionable agreement. More is involved than thej simple rectitude of public officials (and that is just what irrigation dis trict officers are). An impressive( segment of the en tire county's economy is dependent for added wealth and well-being on the completion of the Talent project, which could be irreparably damaged by un thinking or reckless actions on. the part of district officials. E.A. The University of California has the largest 38,000 stu dent enrollment of any college or university in the United States. : Wednesday, November 2, 1955 plain black and white, o A national magazine survey showed it costs about as much to own and operate the modern automobile as it does to buy a new house. - Visits by Dulles To Spain and Yugoslavia Mav Prove Profitable Bv CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The visits of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to Spain and Yugoslavia may prove to be as 1 m p o rtant in the devel op men of Ameri can foreign policy as the Big Four con ference. There was no hint when Dul les flew to Eu rope to attend the meeting of the Big Four tuaries Mri aim ministers In Geneva that he intended to see either Generalissimo Francisco Franco or President Tito. , Apparently Dulles decided on the visit to Tito while he was in Paris, on his way to the Geneva meeting. Geneva dispatches say that he made up his mind to visit Fran co only last Saturday. " There was " considerable sur prise in the diplomatic world that Dulles should have chosen to take time out from the Gene va' talks to make side visits to the two leaders. There is the added fact that no American secretary of state ever had visited either Franco or Tito, and that only a very few years ago American relations with both Spain and Yugoslavia were definitely bad. Now Dulles is emphasizing that Spanish-American and Yu goslav - American relations are definitely good. Strong Bases Franco is the most anti-Communist leader in Europe. The United States now has an eco nomic and military treaty with him under which it is building an impressive system of air and 1 :'::;:c;v:',v;;.,mwi I Matter of Fact By Joe MORE GENEVA SPIRIT Washington The remark able result of the first mani festation of the "Spirit of Gen eva" is still being generally un derated. Most people in this country cannot quite believe, as yet, that there really is a serious dan ger of war in the Middle East. ' . o At the" State D e p a rtment, however, the Soviet sale of arms to Egypt, Syria and Stewart Alsop Saudi Arabia is frankly stated to have produced a warlike sit uation of extreme danger. The chances of full-scale war break ing out between Egypt and Israel are variously estimated, of course. But at least one high ly responsible MKWS ,.,S4. 1 stated that the odds are even on an outbreak of war within thirty days. This, then, is the alarming problem with which the har assed Western Foreign Minis ters are trying Joseph Also to cope at the current Geneva conference, in the intervals of arid debate with Vyacheslav Molotov. And this Middle East ern hornets' nest was stirred up by the Kremlin when the ink was hardly dry on the final com munique of the summit meeting at Geneva whose famous "spirit" the Foreign Ministers are now supposed to translate into jus tice. . It can now be disclosed, furth ermore, that the first sales pitch to the Egyptians, to purchase sur plus Soviet arms at a low price, was actually made before the summit meeting. The Soviet feel er was put out early last spring, in talks between the Czech and Egyptian Ambassadors in one of the Western capitals. ThQB Khrushchev and Bulganin went to their summit meeting with President Eisenhower full of smiles and soap, but with full knowledge, too, that they were about to create a Middle Eastern crisis bristling with-menace to the Western Powers. To drive the point home, as it were, an exactly parallel op eration is plainly taking shape at the other end of the Middle Eastern fertile crescent , inj Af ghanistan. The country is small and infinitely remote, but it is strategically situated. It lies on the flank of Iran. It is the route from Russia to India. In the wicked old imperialist days, the British fought their Afghan wars with the main object of preventing Russia from gaining the upper hand in- Afghanistan. ... TVHERE have never been warn ing signals in Afghanistan for a considerable period. The pres ent King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, is strongly influenced by his cousin and Prime Minister. Prince Daoud. The policy and the administration of Afghanis tan are largely in the hands, today of Prince Daoud and the naval bases in Spain. Tito is a Moscow-trained Com niunist. But he rebelled against Kremlin domination seven years ago and is determined that Yugoslavia shall not again be a Soviet satellite country. He has joined a defensive military alli ance with Greece and Turkey, both members of the North At lantic Treaty Organization. Russian Foreign Minister Vya cheslav M. Molotov could not have been pleased at the news that Dulles was visiting either Franco or Tito at this time. But it seems clear that the Geneva conference will merely emphasize the differences in United States and Russian pol icy. The visits to Madrid and Bel grade are an example of the de termination of the United States to pursue its own policy of build ing up strength against the threat of Russian aggression. ' Arab Question In Madrid yesterday, Dulles had a chance to ask Franco to use his influence with the Arab countries in trying to ease the dangerous situations in North Africa and the Middle East. Spain's ties with the Arab world are historically close. Spain's re cent application for membership in the United Nations, which the United States supports, was an other topic for discussion. In Yugoslavia next Sunday, Dulles will be able to discuss with Tito the economic and mili tary aid which the United States is giving him. He undoubtedly also will explain to Tito the dip lomatic reasons which made it necessary for the United States to support the Philippines against Yugoslavia for a seat on the U.N. Security council. The visits to both Franco and Tito should prove profitable. and Stewart AIsop Minister of Finance, Abdul Malik. And Abdul Malik and Prince Daoud have been playing at putting their hands in the bear's mouth. Thus far, the game has chief ly taken the form of accepting Soviet credits and admitting large numbers of Soviet technic ians to build the roads, gran aries, oil storage facilities and other works on which the Soviet credits are being spent. The total of the Soviet credits has been substantially less than the total of American technical aid and of U. S. Export-Import Bank loans to Afghanistan, but the political pay-off seems to have been substantially greater. Now, moreover, a new phase almost certainly lies ahead. The Afghan radio has just announced the departure of a special mis sion to Czechoslovakia, to dis cuss arms purchases there which is another version of the Egyptian pattern. In' addition, Messrs. Khrushchev and Bulgan in are to visit the Afghan capi tal, Kabul, on their way to or from their visit to India's Prime Minister Nehru. The Khrushchev - Bulganin visit to Kabul is expected to pro duce a new Soviet-Afghan treaty, an arms .agreement and an eco nomic agreement. The first ef fect will be to bring Afghanis tan rather decisively within the Soviet sphere of influence. But this will not be the only effect. With Afghanistan under Sov iet influence, and with Tibet be ing dotted with Sino-Soviet air bases and laced with Chinese military roads, the two great Communist powers will com mand the historic conquerors' approaches to the Indian sub continent. All of India's long series of invaders, from the time when the Aryan war bands poured out of the Himalayas to destroy Mohenjodaro and Har appa, have come by these routes until the British, who arrived by sea. Tibet and Afghanistan may seem remote to us in the United States, but they do not seem remote to Indians with his torical memories. Communist control of these positions must inevitably affect the course of events in India. . c rNE Kind of effect can already " be foreseen. Afghanistan and Western-allied Pakistan have been engaged in a fruitless but bitter and interminable dispute about their borders, and about the status of p'eople of Afghan stock living within Pakistan. Feeling ran so high last spring that the Kapistanis closed the border during most of the sum mer, thus cutting off almost all Afghan trade with the outer world except through the Soviet Union. EUGENE V. MEYERLING, M.D. Announces the Opening Of His-Offices JN THE MEDICAL CENTER BUILDING G Medford, Oregon For the Practice of General Surgery o OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT: O rs Office Phone 3-3248 Residence, Phone 3-4910 Editorial Comment POVERTY STRICKEN Southern Pacific railroad, on the plea that passenger service on the Siskiyou line, Ashland to Portland, was too costly for it to operate, discontinued the overnight passenger train sev eral months ago. The nine months' operating statement of the poverty-strick en SP, as printed in the Pacific coast edition of The Wall Street Journal, makes interesting read ing. During the first nine months of 1955, the Southern Pacific turned in a :f t operating income of $47,912,Jd8 a pretty hand some figure which represents a In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS World problems stuff: Our Secretary Dulles tells the Big Four ministers conference that the U.S. is acting to elimi nate passport restrictions for Americans traveling in the So viet Union and in Eastern Eur ope. He urged Russia to lower bar riers similarly against mutual travel in the knowledge that RUSSIANS ' AND AMERICANS NEVER HAVE FOUGHT EACH OTHER and have a solid basis for good will. WHAT Dulles says is true. Russians and Americans never have fought each other. In several difficult situations while we were growing up from 13 struggling little states into a great nation Russia has given us help that was as effective as the help France gave us during our Revolutionary war. If left to themselves, the American people and the Rus sian people NEVER WOULD FIGHT EACH OTHER. WHUJ HAT Dulles meant but -left nsaid because it would ruffle the feathers of the Krem lin crowd the wrong way is that the threat of war between ourtwo countries is made real by the COMMUNIST OVER LORDS of Russia. o The purpose of Russia's Com munist overlords is to make this a COMMUNIST WORLD. -Free America will never submit to such a fate. o . OUR0 problem is to keep the shooting from starting, if we can, until the inevitable time comes when the fouL institution of communism will lall of the weight of its own foulness as Peronism seems to have fallen in Argentina. ECONOMY problems stuff: President Eisenhower has approved plans to ask congress again next January for increas ed postal rates. ' The President gave his ap proval 'to the plans of Postmas ter General Summerfield, who wants to wipe out a postal de- licit that amounts to about a half billion dollars. TTOW do YOU feel about it? AJ- I presume it depends on whether you'd rather pay your share of the deficit out of your stamp pocket or out of your tax pocket. It will have to be done one way or another. There are not magic wands. CHARLES SHUMAN, head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, says in a speech in Chicago that' development of CONSUMER markets is the an swer to the problem of falling farm prices. Government price support, he said, is NOT the an swer. He added: "Farmers are presently con cerned about the low price of hogS. "But "What we must avoid are gov ernment price policies that PRE VENT normal economic adjust ments." AGAIN, as in the case of Dul les, we must explain what he means. - He is referring to the hog price situation of a year or more ago. Hog prices then were high. So O Hog farmers rushed in to RAISE MORE HOGS so as to take advantage of the high price of pork. They raised so MANY pigs that they broke the mar- Soviet arms in Afghan hands will certainly make new trouble between the Afghans and the Pakistanis, as Soviet arms in Egyptian hands have made trouble between the Egyptians and the Israelis. So the result of the next manifestation of the "Spirit of Geneva" is likely to be the same as the result that now confronts us another men acing crisis in a region of great strategic importance? Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Incd profit of considerably more than 1,000,000 a week. It can be safely assumed that the Siskiyou line, which pro vides the SP with a handsome volume of freight traffic, con tributed substantially to the rail road's fine earnings record. Now we certainly feelhat the P should be a profitable line for we believe in private enterprise, but we are also of the opinion that service to the public is important and that the railroad can well afford to pro vide a passenger service of con venient, modern-type over the rails of its Siskiyou trackage. Ashland Tidings. News o ket. Because of oversupply, hog prices are now too low. rpHIS is the point: If the government buvs ud the surplus hogs TO KEEP PRICES HIGH, the hog farmers will go on raising too many pigs every year. The result of that will be a permanent surplus of pork to fill the government warehouses to the bursting point and hang like a dark thun dercloud over the hog markets of the future. That's the long and ,the short of it. Army Ready To Run Argentine Papers Buenos Aires iftJ.R) The revo lutionary government was re ported ready today to take over the rebellious OGT Labor Fed eration's two main propaganda organs the once-great inde pendent newspaper La Presna and the "workers' newspaper," El Lider. The reports, which could not be confirmed im'mediately, cir culated here a few hours after the federation sponsored by ex- President Juan D. Peron had called off a nationwide general strike scheduled at 12:01 a.m. to day. . . ' Informed sources said Lt. Col, Manuel Raimundez, government administrator appointed last night to oversee OGT affairs would install army officers to run La Prensa and El Lider. Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, who was publisher of La Prensa be fore it was seized by Peron and turned over to the CGT, said in New Orleans that the new gov ernment's taking over the news paper would be a good sign, "It means we won't see the continuation of the situation where Peron's henchmen were still running the paper," said Gainza Paz, who is attending a convention of the Inter-American Press j Association in the Louisiana City. GIANT 21" TV with FREE '14 stand 270 sq. in. Aliiminized picture tube Optic Filtered against glare for added detail New long-range Admiral chassis Smart Mahogany Finish )ee them at igflw&gjsfepiMiMB lar ' '''' 11 i ' LIGHTED n4i YEAR'S BIGGEST TRADE-IN mil TOP if! I J j front fl ALLOWANCE A TUNN0 k f-a '0t-l :i 270 "J ia- W- 5Jkwjo - j alurniruzed ; picture I fzlfikf? : ??t ; : 0ptic Filter Wts QA Cascode 5-MlU0MHTV SET- Imsrmi KBES-TV Now On from 12 Hoan Until Midnight Daily ff 1 1 0PEN T0N,GHT HUi si UNTIL 9 P.M. APPLIANCE STORE 321 East 6th ln the liHrell Pr- RU Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mai 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. Black and While Keys To the Editor: The Negro's melodies, his- dialect and his banjo, have always been identi fied with America. Even Ameri cans do not think of the Negro as a foreigner. He is found today in every state in the Union. This Negro racial problem is not new. It goes back to the early days of the U.S. For 300 years it has been a subject of discussion and most of the dis cussion has been followed by question marks. In the beginning a question seriously discussed was whether or not the Negro was a being with a soul, susceptible of moral development. Later a question treated with equal seriousness was whether he had the intel lectual capacity for mastering even the rudiments of education and the intricacies of English! speech. We hav seen that this is not true. The Negro has as much learning power as the white. the most distinctly foreign ele ment in America. As we look at ' history, we see the Negro: " 1. Started as a slave subject to hard labor. 2. Was given emancipation. 3. Now has progressed to ob taining an education, of which some are equal to that of the white. In world affairs various colored people have- obtained high positions, such as in law, the medical profession and even in actual business activities. Also in the armed forces they have served the U.S. and made high rank. The only conclusion I can come to is that those who dis criminate against the Negro take for granted a surface view only. On the whole it isn't the color that should be judged, it is what is underneath that color. The American people are praying and working for world peace, yet when it comes time to really show we want it, and to fight against color prejudice, most of us stand back, and offer only comments, personal abuse and telephone calls to the peo ple who are willing to help the Negro as well as the white. We think the people who have helped the Haynes family are true Americans. God bless them for it. I would like to leave a thought- to the people who don't think the White should stand by "the Negro as well as his own race in 6me of need: "On the piano it takes both the "black" and the "white" keys to play "The Star Spangled Banner". Name on File Central Point if TOP FR0KT TUNING jj I s20995 I The Claremont B " IT If I PHONE I M, m 3-5433' ft ... -mm m O o
