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Newspaper Page TextN - FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody in Southern Oregon . Reada The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. t7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager X C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC AIXEN 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 ax second class matter at Medford- Oregon, under Act ol noarcn a. :oa ' "cTTDCruroTIAV RATES By MailIn Advance: Per copy 10c Daily and Sunday-ne year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moi 3J0 Sunday Only One vear 3 50 Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. jfcSnviUe. Gold mil. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ,.nn Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month M Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance V"22rd OniCiai l-aper ui United Press -Full Leased wire BUREAU Of UlUL,UL tv - A Wt-'holdTycompany INC. SW Portlani St. LouU Atlanta. Vancoover 3.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION I M vJ NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1945 (It was Wednesday) 3 Roy G. Smith elected director of Medford Irrigation district, succeeds George B. Dean. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge-Pot column: The local owner of a $4,800 diamond, boasts it will make a hole in most anything, not mentioning his pocketbook. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1935 (It was Thursday) A total of $13,555.63 raised in Community Chest drive. Maurice Tedrow, forester with forest service, supervises plant ing of 60,000 ponderosa pine m Cathill burned over area. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 14, 1925 (It was Saturday) Miss Blanche Hicks, Ashland librarian, announces only city residents may obtain books from library there after Jan. 1, 1926. Redmen of northern Califor nia and parts of Oregon con vene here for annual met!rig. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 14 1915 o (It was Sunday) Supreme chancellor of the Knights of Pythias schedules formal meeting with Medford chapter. From Local and Personal col umn: How to kill and dress a turkey or goose: Hang up by both feet on pole or stout line; bleed back of the 'ear or an mouth; pick dry while warm. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Vice President Nixon is the youngest man elected to that of fice since the Civil War; right or wrong? 2. Official head of the Church of England is Queen Elizabeth II, Archbishop of York; Duke of Edinburgh, Prince of Wales: Archbishop of Canterbury? 3. More schookage children die from accidents than from polio; righjt or wrong? 4. The average 1955 car sell ing for $2500 will probably have four years from now a sales value of around $400, $700, $950 or $1200? 5. The Rhodes scholarships were set up by a U. S. news paper publisher, the Norwegian inventor or dynamite, a British enterpriser in South Africa or a U. S. mining magnate? 6. Hypertension is or isn't an other term for high blood pres sure? 7. Which man now discussed as a presidential nominee next year married a woman who was a British citizen? The Answers: 1. Right: 2. The Queen; 3. Right; 4. Probably around $700; 5. British enter priser in South Africa; 6. Is; 7. Sen. Estes Kefauver. Confiped To Hospital Hollywood (U.R) Doctors said today blonde actress Mamie Van Doren will not lose the baby she is expecting because of a col lapse from general weakness. Miss Van Doren, wife of band leader Ray Anthony, collapsed yesterday and was taken to St. John's hospital in nearby Santa Monica. She was told she would have to stay at the hospital for "at least a week." 5 MAIL TRIBUNE A New Out of the mass of so-called "news releases" which pass over the desk each day, we recently picked one which could have real significance. It was entitled "New Process Halts Stream Pollu tion Economically by Converting Organic Waste Mat ter into Power." It starts out: An important new discovery that' promises to overcome, ginglehanded, three enemies of American industry stream pollution, high power costs and waste disposal has been perfected. MOW we have no way of knowing just how good this A process is, or how well how economical a procedure it involves. But we do know that if it does these three things, and does them well and at a relatively moderate cost, it is a really important discovery, with vast potential ities for good in the Pacific northwest, as well as other parts of the country. For the three problems which the process would solve (if it is as good as itssponsors say it is) are among the most important we face today. "THE process, the released states, "takes aqueous waste containing organic matter and, by f lameless combustion, 'burns' it in the presence of oxygen . . ." The heat can be used to produce power, the organic waste products in the water are removed, and at the same time inorganic wastes can be recovered for reuse if desirable. The process may even turn out to provide some cities with a cheaper method of sewage disposal than the present type of sewage disposal plants, which are extremely expensive. One American company has a pilot plant in opera tion which eliminated stream pollution' caused by or ganic wastes in the production of paper, and which recovered between 92 and 96 per cent of the valuable inorganic chemicals m the wastes. TPHE first large-scale application of the process, which is named after its inventor, Frederick J. Zimmerman, will be made by a big Norwegian paper company. It plans to build a $3,000,000 plant to con vert waste pulp liquors into steam, which it will use in the operation of its mills. In Oregon, where so much of the economy is based on wood products, and increasingly on pulp and other processed wood products, and where power supplies are running short, a process such as that described could have a real bearing on the future. E.A. Lemurians? It is highly probable that we would not recognize a Lemurian if we happened across one. It was only re cently, in fact, that we learned a "Lemurian" is (or might be) a descendant of the race which once occu pied Lemuria, the hypothetical "lost continent" of the Pacific a sort of western counterpart of Atlantis. We have been apprised of this in recent months in connection with a series of "expeditions" planned by a Yreka man to investigate mysterious lights, foot prints, ruins,- et al, on the slopes of Mt. Shasta. WE make no secret of our scepticism regarding this unfovm-ica M a olcn novo tr arlrmr tn a nntiaiVilv warped sense of attraction to the wierd, the bizarre, the unexplained. The most recent communique from the expeditions, led by a newspaperman named John W. Chamberlin, said a group was to leave Sunday "seeking old ruins on Mt. Shasta which may indicate that an ancient race formerly lived on the mountain. Recently, report made of a fresh trail of giant footprints found high up on the mountain aroused interest among scientists and other persons." It added that a follow-up story, pos sibly with pictures, could be expected Monday or Tues day. We can hardly wait. E. A. Fine The difference between getting a parking ticket in Medford and getting a parking ticket in Salem is that in Salem it's easier to pay the 50 cent penalty. On the streets where there are parking meters in Salem, there are also boxes, about one to a block, in which the familiar orange envelope with its pink tick et and a four-bit piece can be deposited. The little city of Newburg recently adopted the plan. WE do not at the moment advocate such "progress" for Medford, because the addition of the fine boxes would cost money, and the city of Medford is short of money this year. But we should like to suggest that it be considered in the future for the convenience of those whose abil ity to remember how long the parking meter has to run is no better than ours. E.A. Oregon Accidents Leave Two Dead By UNITED PRESS At least two persons were killed in traffic accidents in Oregon during the week end. -At Parkrose, 50-year-old Ever ett Cansler of Boring suffered fatal injuries when his automo bile rammed a power pole near the Parkrose high school Satur day night. Linda Hirst, 12, Prineville. died in a hospital yesterday of injuries suffered when a car overturned Friday night near Prineville. Monday, November 14, 1955 Process it has been developed, or Boxes Support Urged for Rehabilitation Plans Washington (U.R) Marion B. Folsom, secretary of health, edu cation, and welfare, today urged governors to give their full sup port to expansion of rehabilita tion services for the disabled. Folsom said success of the federal-state program to restore more disabled persons to useful lives "depends upon the finan cial support given to it by the several states." Folsom made his plea for sup port in a letter to each governor. MQttQf Of FQCt By Joe and Stewort Alsop LOOKING FORWARD Washington This is evi dently going to be a winter of alarm, if not worse. The Middle Eastern crisis, with its strong threat of a new Arab- Is raeli war, has already caught American ' di plomacy be tween wind and water. And in the in ner rooms of the Adminis tration, the Joseph Also likelihood of a new Far Eastern crisis in February or March is already being nervously discuss ed. On this point, it is understood, the astute U. S. Ambassador to Moscow, Charles E. Bohlen, had something to say before he left for the current disastrous meet ing at Geneva. It was part of a thoughtful analysis of the rela tions between the Soviet Union and Communist China. This analysis was given at the State Department by Bohlen, but aroused such interest that it is being rather widely quoted. With the great majority of Western diplomats, Bohlen held that the Soviets have consistent ly sought to in fluence their Chinese junior partners toward a cau tious policy. But he sug g e s t e d, too, that this mys terious but vi tal relation ship between the Kremlin and the for Stewart Alsop bidden city might well resemble the relationship between Imper ial Germany and Imperial Aus tria before the first World War'. The parallel, if correct, is om inous, because the central fact of the old German-Austro-Hun-garian alliance was the ultimate ability of the Austrian junior partner to commit the German senior partner. In 1914, neither the German Emperor, Wilhelm II, nor the grandees of the German General Staff at all de sired a European war. But without consulting the German government, the Austro-Hungar-ian government responded rash ly to the assassination at Sera jevo. The junior partner thus became committed to fight. And since the senior partner could not permit the junior partner to be destroyed, the senior part ner had to fight, too. It was precisely the realiza tion that the Germans would have to back them up in the end, that encouraged the Aus trians to be rash. And if this is in fact the way the Chinese Com munists look at their alliance with the Soviets, then the Kremlin's pleas for caution can not be absolutely counted on to enforce caution. JT1HAT is one side of the medal. -- The other side of the medal, is the mass of information now available about Chinese Com munist military preparations in the Formosa Strait region. This is what causes a Far Eastern crisis to be predicted for the late winter or early spring. These preparations take three forms. First, the Chinese Com munist Air Force, which has been by fare the largest air force in Asia for at least two years, has been further strengthened in recent months by new air craft deliveries from the Soviet Union. Details of this increase of power are not available. But it is stated to be on the order of a 10 per cent increase. And it is highly significant, since it upsets the optimistic earlier estimate that the Chinese had stabilized their air power on a level of about 1,900 aircraft. Second,, the redeployment of the Chinese Communist Air Force to central and southern Chinese bases has continued. These are the bases that bear on Formosa. If the obsolete World War II planes of the Chinese Na tionalists are not counted- in the balance, the ratio of air power between Nationalist and Com munist was already on the ord er of one to four in favor of the Communists six months ago. De spite subsequent deliveries of jet fighters to Formosa, the ra tio is probably even worse to day. Third and most serious, en ormous construction works are going forward. These will make possible the massive Chinese Communist air attacks on the disputed off-shore islands in the Formosa Strait, Quemoy and the Matsu chain. In Fukien Province, within point blank range of Quemoy and Matsu, five jet airfields at Nan Tai, Lung Tien, Ching Yang, Lung Chi and Ching Hai, have been built with utmost ur gency. At least one of these, Nan Tail near the port of Foochow, is already operational. The rest are in the final clean-up stage or already semi-operational. In addition, a vast labor force has been recruited to build two rail lines through the grim mountains that surround Fukien Province, in order to supply these new Fukien airfields. One is to have its terminus at Foo chow, which is close to the Mat- sus; and the other rail lines run to the important second coastal port, Amoy, whose harbor is blocked by the Nationalist gar rison at Quemoy. ( ' WORK on the rail lines is pro ceeding night and day. They will not be completed in the con ventional m'anner by next win ter. But they will be useable in the way that the secret rail line that supplied the Communists at Dienbienphu was useable. In other words, all the easy links will be built, leaving only short gaps over which men and mules can carry the needed supplies. Dienbienphu is proof enough of the ability of the Commun ists to move very large tonnages in this manner. All this means that in Febru ary or March the Chinese Com munists will have the capabil ity of inaugurating an air block ade of the Matsus and Quemoy. Combined with heavy and con tinuous shelling of these little islands, a successful Commun ist air blockade should be enough to take the Nationalist island positions. The urgency of the work on the airfield and rail lines suggests that this is the Chinese Communist inten tion. If so, the Eisenhower policy-makers are going to be con fronted with about the nastiest choice they have yet had to make. (C) New York Herald Tribune ByLhABmsJ$? M tanacr-NaturalM A quiz it is. Get 90 and you are an Outdoor Expert; 60, a Woodsman; 30 a Drugstore Cow poke. Answers follow questions. Get rolling. I. Mammals have three prin cipal ways of adapting them selves to winter's cold and scar city of food and water hiberna tion, migration, and making bodily changes. Concerning the following animals, which of the statements are correct, which false? (Ten each; 50.) 1. The longest mammalian hi bernator, perhaps, is the ground squirrel which has been known to sleep for 33 weeks out of the year's 52. 2. As winter sleepers go, bears are light sleepers particularly the Arctic polar bear. 3. A bird has never been known to hibernate. 4. To keep warm, nonhiber nating birds and mammals al ways eat much more in winter than in summer. 5. In a down-mountain migra tion, a descent of 1,000 feet elevation is equivalent to a southward migration of approxi mately 600 miles. II. The blue whale,' also known as the sulphur-bottom whale, is perhaps the most as tonishing of all animals, past and present. To give him his IM4-55 rightful due, study these state ments and underscore those which are true. (10 each: 30.) 1. The blue whale may weigh over 300,000 pounds. 2. Although he may become 75 feet long within three years, he started life from an egg which was no larger than that which produced the one-ounce mouse. 3. The eye of the adult whale is only slightly lareer than that of a horse. III. Many animals have de veloped weird and at once won derful defensive mechanisms. Among them are: A. hollow spines filled with venom; B. quills tipped with fishhook-like barbs; C. electric jolting ma chines; D. pinchers; Match them up correctly with the following animals (five each, 20). 1. Hedgehog; 2. South -American fresh-water eel; 3. Weaver fish; 4. Crab. ANSWERS: I. No. 3 and 4 is false. A pair of poorwills have been observed in a state of winter hibernation. Also, most birds and nonhibernating mam mals eat much less in winter than summer. Their mptaholism rate goes down and they also "ve on stored fat, in part. H. All are correct. III. The proper pairing is: 1. Hedgehog with B., quills tipped with fish-hook like barbs; 2. South American with C, an electric-jolting ma- cmne; o. weaverfish with A., hollow spines filled with venom; 4. Crab with D., pinches. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicaie) Free: By special arrangement DON'T DELAY - ORDER TODAY! YOUR NAME IMPRINTED Christmas Cards On the Balcony at . . . BOOKS Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is Dermis fible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for mibhca tion must not exceed 400 words. Morse Laughing Stock? To the Editor: In reply to Harry Parsons' letter asking, "Why all this continual yapping and criticism about Senator Wayne Morse changing politic al parties? that this is our right and privilege." I agree that it is our right and privilege v to change parties and even relig ions, as Mr. Parsons points out. However, our religious belief is one of our basic Freedoms and a completely personal problem in which we are not represent ing the people as an elected of ficial on a party ballot. Let us examine Senator Morse's motive for changing parties. Did he have a quarrel with the basic policies or prin ciples of the Republican party which he had followed for many years? No, this was not the case! Wayne Morse deserted the Re publican party in mid-term be cause he felt he had been slight ed at the 1952 Republican con vention. In other words, he de serted his party put of personal pique. ' The American sense of fair-play even in the sand lots across the nation will not ap prove of the youngster who goes over to the other team because he cannot be pitcher. This point is further substan tiated by the fact that he. did not immediately change his reg istration to Democrat, thereby indicating his quarrel was not with the principle, but chose the innocuous rank of Independent. Now, if by his action Mr. Morse was indicating that he was above "party responsibility" why did not he remain in the Independ ent rank? Because -he realized that he could not be reelected without one of the major par ties supporting him. Remember that he was very careful not to change until after the 1954 elec tion, although he was in Ore gon campaigning for his prote ge before the election, but made a special trip with all the fan fare, and no doubt at our ex pense, to change to the Demo cratic column last spring. As a result of his will-o'-the-wisp tactics, Mr. Morse has lost the respect of his coUeagues in the Senate, is the laughing stock of Oregon throughout the nation, and is the most ineffec tive man that Oregon could pos sibly have representing our great State. I wonder where he will go. when he gets mad at the Democrats! Luella S. Stine, Route 2, Box 424 Medford, Ore. Asks Proper Penalties To the Editor: We often read of a person being found guilty of an alleged offense and of the sentence' imposed, being follow ed by a suspension of all or part of the fine andor period of im prisonment. It would seem that where the facts in a case indi cate guilt and the imposition of certain penalties that a suspen sion of any part of the sentence .is also a suspension of justice. Too often a suspension of sen tence prior to the serving of any portion thereof does not rehab ilitate an offender of the law but serves only to make him more cautious in the commission of future offenses. There are some people whom a reprimand will correct but un fortunately these are not the ones causing our crowded court calendars. Our problems are caused chiefly by those who try to show the court an appearance of having themselves been wronged or those able to secure HITCHCOCK EYES POST Portland U.R) Philip S. Hitchcock, former Oregon Re publican state senator from Klamath Falls who is now em ployed by Lewis and Clark col lege said Saturday he might be come a candidate for U.S. repre sentative from the third district. The seat is now held by Edith Green, a Democrat. with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of iudees 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 wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many irienaiy letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. GIFTS RECORDS Former Labor Leader Charged With Keeping German Army Calm By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent A stocky, hot-tempered former labor union leader is faced with the difficult job of seeing that West Germany's army does not become a Prus sianized war machine. T h e o d o r Blank, 49-year-old minister of defense of the West German federal repub- lie, is the man; The new Ger man "streit kraeff te" fight ing force cnanes iUccaua emerged into reality Saturday when Blank took the pledge of loyalty from its first 101 men. There already are indications that Blank will have to fight to keep the streitkraef te, the demo cratic defense force, under strict civilian control, which the West German government plans. Most Warlike Country Germany is regarded general ly as the most warlike country, certainly the most warlike big country, in the world. Its military traditions go back to the year 9 A.D., when German tribesmen under Arminius de stroyed three Roman legions un der Quintilius. That battle wage earners rights in Oregon WOMEN'S MINIMUM PAY First - hand knowledge of particular regulations is im portant in conducting busi ness affairs. These questions answered by the State Bureau of Labor may. be some you have been pondering. Q. Doesn't Oregon have a minimum wage law for women? A. Oregon does not have one overall minimum wage for wom en workers but sets specific minimums for individual occu pations. Under the wage and hour law a legal minimum wage has been fixed governing all industrial employment of wom en in the state. y. What are the minimum wages for women in (1) a store, (2) a factory, (3) a. hospital, (4) an office, (5) a restaurant? A. (1) Mercantile 70c, (2) Man ufacturing 65c (3) hospital 65c, (4) office 75c, (5) Public House keeping 65c. Q. May women be paid on a piece work or ' commission ba sis? : ' '- , A. A woman may be paid on such a basis if the average wage is equal to or exceeds the legal minimum for the particular oc cupation in which she is em ployed. If you have a question, you may write Commissioner Nor man O. Nilsen, State Bureau of Labor, Salem, Oregon. counsel that will attempt to dis credit the evidence of the wit nesses against them. It has always been our belief that justice should be dispensed impartially according to the facts presented. A trial judge cannot serve the people he rep resents when he shows favor itism or a lack of strength in handling the business of his court. Trial judges, ' and other pub lic servants, both local and na tional, can earn the respect of the people only when they di vorce themselves from the in fluence of small pressure groups and political machines. Dan F. Krotz II Chairman for Community Service, Steelhead Post, VFW, Shady Cove, Ore. Since 1908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES In every price reins showed that the armies of the Roman Empire were not invinc ible. It was a turning point in history. When the Western Allies de cided that they must take the calculated risk of rearming West Germany to meet the threat of Soviet Russian aggression, Blank was given the task of preparing for it. First as defense commission er, then since last June as defense minister, Blank worked out the organizational plans for the streitkraefte. He and his chief, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, have put their prime emphasis on insurt ing that the 500,000-man streit kraefte is kept democratic- On paper, its men are to be civilian-soldiers, with none of the stiffness and blind discipline of the armies of the Kaiser and of Adolf Hitler. Fitted for Task 1 It would have been hard to find a man better fitted for the task than Blank. He was one of the 10 children of a cabinet maker. He went to work as a carpenter at 14, and later became a labor union lead er. The Nazis retognized Blank as a valuable man. They tried hard to lure him into their labor front. He refused. He was thrown out of his union job and went back to school to complete his education. At the outbreak of World War II, Blank was drafted into the army as a private. He was a good soldier, as he had been a good union leader, and was com missioned an officer in the field for gallantry. But in the army, he grew to hate the Prussian tradition bitterly. Blank ' calls himself a "tough Westphalia, bull-head." His hot temper, and his use of strong language, have caused his friends as well as his enemies, to agree that he is bull-headed. But a man of good disposition is not the one for Blank's job. Atomic Potential Of Russia Pointed Up Riverside, Calif. U.PJ Rus sia could wipe out all the United States air bases in Europe and Asia with, a single surprise atom ic aerial attack, says Maj. Alex ander P. De Seversky. The prominent aircraft de signer told the semi-annual meeting of the California Or ganization of the U.S. Air Force association Saturday that there is "smugness and complacency in our defense establishment." Two ves ons GEO. N. TAYLOR One son, Cain, was a tiller of the soil. He brought its fruit as an offering to the Lord and the Lord rejected it. Abe 1, the other brother, brought a slain lamb from the flock. God saw its sinless blood and accepted it as covering Abel's sin. Up to the time of Christ, believ ers who sinned had the blood of a slain lamb, bullock or even the turtle dove of the poor, as a covering for their sins. But even though their sins were covered v over, death was due, for the wages of sin is death. So it was that God sent Christ who volun-O teered to die for them. On Him God Dut their sins. You of this day are also to believe in Christ as dying to clear you. Have Him as your Lord and Saviour or go into the Judgment Day andV meet your sins. Then into eter nal woe. Rev. 20:12-15. This message sponsored by a Sca poose, Ore., dairyman and fam ily. ' adv.