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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUH.L. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager 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 ol Marcn ma i SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey MailIn Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and- Sunday One vear S12 .00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3-50 Sunday Only One vear t3.50 Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dail j and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms cash in Aovancg Official Paper of the City of Medford nff!rtaiPaDerof Jackson County United Phi-Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU of ciHt;umimii Aaverusins WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'I-ATIION IS V" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1945 (It was Thursday) Colorful parade scheduled for Medford's first peacetime Armis tice Day observance in three years.. From Arthur Perry's' Ye Smudge Pot column: The latest and most effective rat poison, discovered by a federal agency after two years of chemical re search, is called 1080. What the world needs is something called 1081. that will eradicate the poli tics from a politician, without eliminating the politician. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 8. 1935 (It was Friday) City Superintendent Fred A. Scheffel asks residents not to rake leaves into city streets. Grangers seek rooms for ac commodating members attend ing state meeting here. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 8, 1925 (It was Sunday) City, county, state and federal officials and representatives of Ministerial association and the WCTU present at dumping of 64 cases of bonded gin and whisky seized by prohibition officers. Insurance Rating bureau rec ommends opening Sixth st. west ward; states rates may rise west of tracks if not opened. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 8. 1815 (It was Monday) Rogue River Spitzenburg ap ples displayed by A. C. Fiero of Central Point win first prize at Portland land shgw. FromXocal and Personal col umn: The tendency of the local chicken market is upward, with less than the demand in sight. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Most Hallowe'en rites in the U.S. derive from the British Isles, China, Scandinavian lands, Germany, Russia or Africa? 2. Many more hardtops than station wagons are bought now, oor many more station wagons, or about the same number of each? 3. The law against a British royal family marriage under 25 without Crown consent was or wasn't due to Edward VIII want ing to marry Mrs. Wallis Simp son? 4. Which college football team is called the Buckeyes? 5. Who were the Vice-Presidential candidates with Dewey when G.O.P. candidate for Pres ident in 1944 and 1948? 6. Juan D. Peron, ousted dicta tor of Argentina, found refuge in a neighboring state: Boliva, Bra zil, Chile, Paraguary or Uragu ary?? 7. Atherosclerosis is the same as arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries), or is one form of it, or arferiosclerosis is one form of atherosclerosis? The Answers: 1. British Isles, especially Ireland. 2. Many more hardtops-. 3. Wasn't; it goes back almost 200 years. 4. Ohio State. 5. Sen. Bricker (Ohio). 1944, Gov. Warren (Calif.), 1948. 6. Paraguay. 7. Atherosclerosis is one form of arteriosclerosis. MAIL TRIBUNE Probe on Government Secrecy A new House subcommittee study of federal agency information policy which begins this week should, in the words of Chairman John E. Moss (D Calif.), "show the public the extent to which there has been a brown-out of information about the pub lic's business." The House group on Aug. 10 sent out inquiries on information policy to 63 federal departments and agencies. The subcommittee will base its study on the replies of the federal bodies and also on some 350 letters and telegrams alleging that government infor mation policies have been remiss in about 100 cate gories. THE Congressional inquiry will take up the work ing of President Eisenhower's Executive Order 10 501, issued on Nov. 6, 1953. Originally hailed by the press, the order replaced President Truman's Execu tive Order 10-290 (Sept. 24, 1951), under which every government agency had authority to classify documents for security reasons. The Eisenhower order abolished the "restricted" category of classification, leaving only "confidential," "secret," and "top secret." One other legal classifica tion, "restricted data," applies exclusively to atomic secrets. Also, the order deprived 28 non-military agencies of classifying power, limited classifying power in 17 other non-military agencies to the agency chief. But subcommittee investigators on Sept. 23 dis closed that at least 30 formulas were being used by agencies to classify information that could not qualify in the three regular security grades. Papers were be ing stamped "administratively confidential," or "not for publication," or "limited official use," or "confi dential treatment." One agency was identifying un officially "secret" documents by putting them on specially colored paper. The codes, "medical-private" and "personal-official," were frequently used. DRESS comments on the administration's handling of information have not all been brickbats. J. R. Wiggins, executive editor of the Washington "Post and Times-Herald," who as chairman of the Ameri can Society of Newspaper Editors' Freedom of Infor mation Committee has frequently been critical of fed eral information policies, on Oct. 15 commended White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty.'s handling of the facts about the President's heart at tack. Hagerty's performance, declared Wiggins, is "an example of open dealings that should not be lost upon others in government." But on the same day, Norman E. Isaacs, managing editor of the Louisville, Ky., "Times," was telling the Southwest Journal Forum : Along with so 'many newspapermen, I am astounded that Mr. Eisenhower should have given his blessLig to the Department of Defense's fatuous proposal that there should be screened out of non-security news whatever might be of interest to an enemy. FJEFENSE Secretary Charles E. Wilson on Sept. 16 had warned defense industries to "exercise con siderable caution" in publishing economic and techni cal information even though it bears no security label. "Indiscriminate release could make easier the job of the saboteur by pointing out potential targets," Wilson argued. One of the first witnesses before the Moss sub committee is to be James S. Pope; executive editor of the Louisville "Courier-Journal" and "Times," who has been extremely critical of recent Defense Depart ment directives as "outrageous . . . muddle-headed . . . asmine. Un Aug. Zb rope declared: 1 don t want Charlie Wilson or anybody in his department to de cide what nonsecurity information I ought to have." E.R.R. To Honor We should not let this week pass without noticing the fact that it is American Education week. Parents of Medford youngsters, in connection with the obser vance, have been invited to visit the schools to see how their children are treated, and to get an idea of what goes on in today's schools. Additionally, the Medford Council of Parents and Teachers has set aside Wednesday, Nov. 9, as Teach ers' day, in honor of the men and women who have the highly responsible job of. teaching today's chil dren. JT IS not an easy job, but often it can be a rewarding one, as most teachers can tell you. It is one of the aims of this day to point this out for as has been stat ed repeatedly, many, many more teachers are going to be needed as more and more youngsters go to school. Here is Mayor Miller's proclamation of the day: WHEREAS, The period of November 6th to 13th, 1955, has been designated for the 35th Annual American Educa tional Week, and WHEREAS, The Medford Council of Parents and Teach ers have resolved that Wednesday, November 9th of Ameri can Education Week, be set aside as TEACHERS DAY. This day to honor and give special tribute to teachers for their wise and experienced guidance of our children's educational growth laying the ground work for the citizens of tomor row our children. NOW, THEREFORE, I, EARL MILLER, Mayor of the City of Medford, proclaim that November 9, 1955, be here by set aside as TEACHERS DAY and do hereby appeal to all persons having an interest in education to make this day a memorable tribute to teachers. EARL M. MILLER, "Mayor E.A. HAWK IS GUEST Worcester,' Mass. (U.R) Carl Anderson's unusual pet is ' a broadwing hawk. Found injured, the bird was nursed back to to health and now appears to be a contented member of the An derson household. Tuesday, November 8, 1955 Teachers FORESTER TRANSFERRED Lakeview (U.R) Robert L. Bjornsen, on the Fremont na tional forest staff here, has been promoted to district ranger of the Bear Sleds ranger district of the Wallowa-Whitman national forest. Russia Wortd If Tito Friend Attempt Payi By CHARLES M. McCANN United Presi Correspondent Soviet Russia's leaders may be wondering whether their at tempt to make up with President Tito of Yugo slavia is really paying off. They have failed com pletely to get Tito back into the Soviet bloc. They have failed to weaken Tito's alliance with cnanes Mccano Greece ana Turkey, which are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. Tito's relations with the United States have been strengened, not weakened, since Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist Party boss Ni kita S. Khrushchev made their pilgrimage to Belgrade last May. Now Tito has agreed with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that Russia's eastern Eu ropean satellites ought to be free. The statement which Dulles made after his conference with Tito Sunday, and to which Tito agreed, on the satellite situation must have caused considerable annoyance in the Kremlin. Russia Worried There are many signs that the Russian government is increas ingly worried over the problem of keeping the eastern European satellite countries under its heel. None of them is really Com munist, of course. In none of them would Communism have the least chance of approval in a free election. There are signs also that the Russian attempt to woo Tito has served to weaken the Kremlin's hold on the satellites. The Soviet government has been compelled to press the Hun garian and Bulgarian Commu nist governments to follow its example in trying to be friends with Tito. Such friendship can hardly strengthen the Kremlin's posi tion. Developments ever since Tito's break with Russia in 1948 have tended to suggest that he may be the smartest of all Com munist leaders. Despite his break with Russia. Tito remains a Communist. But he certainly does not seem dedi cated to the Kremlin's obsession with the necessity for Commu nist world domination. Tito seems increasingly to be Jacksonville City Council Declines Britt Estate Use Jacksonville The Jackson ville city council recently voted not to accept an offer from ex ecutors of the Miss Amalie (Mol lie) Britt estate be made into a municipal park. The property is in the southwest section of Jack sonville. Under terms of the will the estate originally was left to the Southern Oregon Historical so ciety along with $25,000 provid ing the society financed main tenance of the estate. The society believed that it would be unable to maintain the estate as a museum. The estate now will go to the state department of higher edu cation. Offered for Park The city of Jacksonville was offered the estate for a city park by the Britt estate attorney, Frank Van Dyke. The council decided, however, to maintain the Britt burial lot in the old cemetery here. In other action, the council heard a letter from Harvey and Watkins, consulting engineers of Medford, advising removal of everything on the second floor of the U. S. Hotel building in Jacksonville. The city owns the building, which has been used by the Royal Neighbors as a meeting place. The Royal Neigh bors have equipment stored on the second floor. The council also voted to ask various organizations with sec tions in the old cemetery to help clean up lots and maintain them. TO DIVORCE ACTOR Santa Monica (U.R) Actor Victor Mature's wife, Dorothy, 35, was scheduled to appear in Superior court here today to divorce the film star. Editorial Comment TOUGH Ordinarily it's bad form to find comfort in the failure of a business. But we just can't feel too sorry about the plight of the people who publish comic books. They're hurting and hurting bad. Comic book sales, which neared the 80 million mark in 1952. will only be about 40 -million this year. Publishers of the poorly ring hip g Off the sort of Communist with whom the United States and its allies can do business. No Police State, Yugoslav no longer is a police state. Tito has veered away from the Communist insistence on collective farming. He is trying to transfer priority from defense spending to increased food pro duction and the making of con sumer goods. He seems to be really popular with Yugoslavs. At 63, Tito has a record of continued successes for more than 10 years. He organized and led the partisans who fought the Germans and Italian Fascists so successfully in World War II. He made himself Yugoslavia's leader after the war, with little trouble. He got away to the as tonishment of the world with his defiance of Josef Stalin be cause he insisted on putting his own country's welfare ahead of Russia's. Now it is reported that the Kremlin is thinking of breaking up, for Tito's benefit, the "Cominform" propaganda agency which was made the me dium for his break with Russia. So far the benefits of the Kremlin's courtship seem, to be on his side and on the side of the Western Allies. . In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS In Geneva the other day a rumor spread that Russia's Molo tov was ill with stomach cramps. He answered the rumor in per son by taking a vigorous stand on four hours of debate on the German problem. Then he en tertained British Foreign Secre tary MacMillan at dinner. The next morning he entered the foreign ministers session as bouncy as ever and that night he joined the British and French ministers as a guest of U.S. Sec retary of State Dulles. THE rumor about Molotov and his stomach ache, you see, was just another of the BIL LIONS of things people know that AIN'T SO. POLITICAL slogans depart- ment : A National Democrats for Ste venson club has been started by a group of Oklahoma Democrats. One of the organizers says the club's slogan will be: "Gladly for Adlai." The trouble with the slogans is that somebody is always thinking up a backfire. Some wicked Republican would be pretty sure to twist it into "BAD LY for Adlai," which rhymes just as well but doesn't sound so good. SOMEHOW I have a notion that next year Americans are go ing to be more interested in good government for our country than in. fancy slogans. At least, I hope so. PRESIDENT Joao Cafe of Bra zil suffered a heart attack which, his physicians say, will force him to take a complete rest. They describe his condition, however, as not serious. Cafe is 56. As modern top leaders go, he's a mere young ster. He became President of Brazil in August of 1954. The term for which he was elected has three months to run. T ET'S be serious for a moment. It isn't by sheer accident that so many of our modern leaders are suffering heart attacks, or other serious illnesses. It may have been different in the old days, but modern leadership of modern nations involve a heavy burden of responsibility. We little people can relax and take it easy when we get tired. There is no such thing as relax ing and taking it easy for a while for the leader of a modern na tion. The burden of responsibility weighs upon his shoulders all the time. "DAJA (Lower) California ju dicial police report that they have just seized 435 pounds of marijuana and have arrested three men in connection with peddling of the stuff. The officers estimate that the shipment in cigarette form would retail at between $70,000 and $100,000. TF PEOPLE were willing to pay as much for things that are good for them as they are willing to pay for THINGS THAT ARE BAD FOR THEM, there would be a lot less kick ing about prices in these modern days. printed and often pernicious booklets blame the "clean-up code" which forced them to drop the gorier, sexier, more brutal stories and pictures from their publications. This left them with only the comic comics, and it lost them their audiences of adults who gloried in drawings of little girls being tortured. Some people have a hard time making a living. And that's just tough. Eugene Register-Guard. Matter of Fact By Joe and Stewart Alsop THEY HAVE 15,000 Washington A desperately grave Middle Eastern crisis has been touched -off by the Soviet sale of arms to Egypt and other Arab states. And be hind this crisis which is re ceiving far too little attention, there is an other set of facts of almost equal gravity, which is get ting no atten Joseph Also tion at all. The very fact that the Kremlin has Mig-15s, T-34 tanks and other expensive weapons to sell at bargain basement rates speaks volumes about the way the So viets have handled the most im portant single problem of mod ern defense planning. This is the problem of ob solescence, which is a wholly modern problem. ' Nelson's flag ship, the "Vic tory," had fought in the British line of battle for something like a century on theglorousday of Trafalgar; and five sen ior British naval officers were still Stewart Alsop squabbling about who should have the "Victory" when the Napoleonic wars ended a good many years later. Nowadays, however, the re morseless . onward march of science makes any weapon ob solescent before it enters full production. And within five years of going into service most aircraft types, for instance, must be classed as absolutely obsolete. This rapid obsolescence of arms of all types is combined, moreover, with another modern trend. Because of the increasing destructiveness of the terrible absolute weapons, , the import ance of what the war planners caU "force-in-being" is also in creasing by rapid leaps and bounds. According to one expert esti mate, the value of force-in-being, which is the force you have ready to fight on the outbreak of war, has gone up by 10 per cent per annum compounded since 1945. Meanwhile the value of reserve power, such as the in dustrial power this country has always relied on, has declined proportionally. Reserve power, in short, has ceased to be re liable, while a strong force-in-being has become decisively im portant. TUT how; to maintain a con " tinuously strong force-in- be ing, when its arms are continu ously becoming obsolete? After a period of compromise answers to this question under President Truman, the Eisenhower de fense planners firmly chose the cheaper , answer, for budgetary reasons. Our system now is to leave large parts of our armed forces with obsolete arms for very long periods, while main Babson and Stock Market By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. (Special To Mail Tribune) Twenty-five years ago I made a wellknown forecast about an impending big break in the stock mar ket. (Reprint of the article which ap peared in the New York Times in 1929, recording my oger W. Babson statement, will be sent to anyone free on re quest.) At the close of the pre vious day in 1929, the Dow. Jones Industrial Stock Average stood at 380. The market im mediately began to weaken and shortly plunged down swiftly, closing at 230 a decline of 150 points in less than eight weeks. As this is written the Dow-Jones Industrial Average is 358, with in six points of the highest fig ures since 1929. In fact, it has moved up over 100 points since September, 1953. Reactions To Be Expected I expect another severe reac tion sooner or later, of at least 50 to 75 points. Surely, present stock yields are now too low. when 1954 Federal Taxes are deducted. Such a break in the market could occur even during a period of good business acti vity such as I am now fore casting. Stock prices have of late demonstrated that they can move independently of both bus iness and earnings. It is well to recall that, in 1929. there were SUN LIFE ASSURANCE h -C i taining a research and develop ment program that at least pro vides models of truly modern arms. The Soviets, in contrast, have adopted the expensive answer. The extraordinary character of that answer is best illustrated by the fighter aircraft story. At the end of the second World War, the Soviet force of fighter aircraft was a mish-mash of inferior types, big in num bers, but in every other way in ferior to ours. By very great ef forts, the Soviet air industry pro duced the first model of the Mig-15 in 1947. At that time the American experts thought this early Mig was a hand-made job, which could not be produced in quantity. But while we in the United States were turning out our F 86s in hundreds, the Soviets were turning out their Migs in thous ands. In the end, according tc the official Pentagon estimate, So viet output of Mig-15s reached the staggering total of 15,000. In other words, the entire Soviet fighter force-in-being was equip ped with Mig-15s, with a great many left over for the Chinese and other satellites. Even today, a good many units of our fighter force are still equipped with types inferior to the F-86, and the F-86 is still our only fighter in wide use that is fit to meet the Mig-15 in the air. Among our allies, the- position is still more serious. With the dan ger in the Formosa Strait rapid' ly increasing again, the Chinese Nationallist Air Force, for in stance, is more than half equip ped with World War II aircraft types that will be utterly use less against the jet aircraft of the Chinese Communists. UTEANWHILE the Soviets have briskly put the Mig-15 on the obsolete list. After making the gigantic investment needed to produce 15,000 of these planes, they have written them off for their own purposes. They are now making another, equally gigantic investment, to re-equip the Soviet Air Force and after it the satellite air forces with their new "Farmer" day-fighter and "Flashlight" nightfighter, which are measurably superior to any comparable planes we have in quantity production. It is precisely this change over, in turn, which has permit ted the Soviets to start peddling Mig-15s at bargain basement prices in the places where they will make the most trouble, such as the Middle East. The Migs, the tanks, and all the other weapons the Soviets are selling the Egyptians, Sy rians, and Saudi Arabians (and now the Afghans and even the Yemenites must be added to the list) are nothing more nor less than war surplus, created by the way the Soviets have handled the problem of obsolescence. But these Soviet arms that are junk in Russia are also good enough to turn the whole Middle East ern balance of power completely upside down. And this is per haps a warning to the West. (Copyright 1955. New York Herald Tribune, Inc.' few outward signs of the stock market crash ahead. Investors were then anticipat ing larger dividend returns with a reduction in risk through diversf ied Investment Trust holdings and promised mass pro duction and inventions "such as the world had never seen be fore." The research laboratories of our great industrial concerns were also then depended on to bring these miracles about. In short, a "New Era" was then confidently anticipated. Basical ly, there was weakness, but it was most apparent in stock mar ket speculations. Conservative Advice The current market presents much the same irregular picture as was present in 1929. The so- called blue chips have outdis tanced the bulk of the issues on the market, due to concentrated buying, much of it by Institu tions. Pension Funds, and Mu tual Investment Trusts. There are in addition many new cross currents m the market that did not exist in 1929. We have arma ment activity and other Govern ment buying, heavy spending, support of farm prices, and es pecially the intense. new adver tising programs, which I con sider very important. It is clear that the economic picture and the trend in the market can change abruptly and snowball rapidly to an unexpected degree. The real purpose of my column this week is to bring to your at tention that the market may soon be in as vulnerable a posi tion as in 1929. WISHING MW7MAKEITS0 The future independence end leisure you are hoping for will be yours only if you prepare for it. It is never too early to make provision for a happy retirement. Don't let it become too late. How about today? CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA Simpson Slated To Take Part in Forestry Session L. L. (Doc) Simpshn, secretary manager and iorester or tne Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association, will be one of several speakers and discussion panel leaders at the 46th annual Western Forestry conference in Portland Dec. 7 through 9. The three-day conference will feature discussions on compet ing demands for use of forest lands, reviews o forest problems- radio communication, forest credit, and financing forest pest control. To Discuss Protection Simpson will be on a panel discussing forest protection, new equipment, cooperative- pro grams, the Clarke-McNary law and fire weather forecasting. Others on the panel include C. S. Cowan, Washington Forest Fire association. Seattle, chair man, E. E. Silva, of the Unitd States forest service at Arcadia, Calif., DeWitt Nelson, of the de partment of natural resources, Sacramento. Calif., and Nelson Jeffers, Weyerhaeuser Timber company, Longview, Wash. Ervm L. Peterson, assistant secretary of the United States department of agriculture, and A. D. Nutting, president of the national Association of State Foresters and forest commis- soiner of Maine, will speak at the conference, which will be at tended by representatives from 17. western states. Awards Planned The annual Western Forestry award for distinguished service in forestry, awards for prize winning essays and a report on the fourth World Forestry con gress in Dehra Dun, India, also will be featured. Exhibits will feature forestry equipment. Emmit R. Aston of Omak, Wash., is president of the con ference, and Stuart Moir of Portland has arranged the con ference. Phoenix Schools Set Education Week Events Phoenix Phoenix High and elementary school will hold an open house starting at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10, in observ ance of National Education Week. A musical program by the band and chrus will start at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gymnasium, and classrooms and various departments in the high school and elementary buildings will be open. Refreshments will be served in the high school homemaking room and in the grade school cafeteria. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion ltters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Likes Trees To the Editor: Ten years ago my family and I came to this lovely valley, bought a home and established a business. We decided to come here when we could have gone elsewhere just as well. Our reason for chrsing Southern Oregon was the beau ty and charm of the Rogue River Valley. I feel almost everyone will agree that some of the Valley's greatest assets are its trees of all kinds. Now, I am not an or chardist but it seems to me that anything which might tax the trees to the point of making fruit raising any the less prof itable is a dangerous policy. Not only because the orchardist should be encouraged in every way to keep up fruit produc tion for the sake of labor but be cause we all love the trees and want to keep them FREE. Why not give all the wee own ers of every kind a pat on the back and encourage the planting of even more of one of nature's most wonderful gifts. Let us not only keep Oregon green but prosperous and beautiful as well. (Mrs.) Alberta A More, P. O. Box 547, 0 Medford, Oregon. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan It It aggravating to have your home insured and then find that the policy doesn't cover the dam age that occurs. Does this new "broad form" fire insurance from your agency cover virtually every kind of physical damage to a home and landscaping? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940
