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o If OUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDSIITRIBUKI "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune tubuxhed Dally Except Saturday by MJUJr UKU r ivLT X ITS sa tU. S7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6U1 HZRB GREY Advertuing Manager K. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD Jiswtn bporn Miiut QLTVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol jyiarcn o, ioqi ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES T.. Ai4ianiM' Pr COHV IOC. Daily and Sunday One vear$l2.00 i c..nrtr Riv month 6.50 XJtlU? B1IU uuiiuu j rlL o CA DaUy and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sundav only une vear . i i I 1 Dnint F90 A Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Love. Kogue iuvci. 5."Ti j c r. ai- S15 00 Daily and Sunday One month l-to umer ana ueaicrs wc All jicrma CMn m Official Paper of the City of Medford " United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU 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-ATIIQN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 15, 1945 (It was Thursday) City and- army air base offic ials say Medford base not de clared surplus, and will remain military base. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It takes four days for a committee to de termine the Where and When of a district title football game. No wonder statesmen are un able offhand to decide on final rites for the atomic bomb. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1955 (It was Friday) Congressman James W. Mott schedules discussion of recently passed legislation in congress at Medford meeting. Circuit Judge H. D. Norton returns from Josephine county to resume court sessions here. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1925 (It was Sunday) Between 40 and 50 acres of I. A. Merriman estate between Medford and Central Point sold to William Olson. From Local and Personal col umn: Geese are commencing their southward flight and it is said that thousands are now in Lake and Klamath counties en route to more sunny climes. Several local hunting parties have journeyed there to return laden with game. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 15. 1915 (It was Monday) Statue of Lincoln and Verona marble fountain to be shipped from Panama-Pacific exposition to Ashland park. Judge E. E. Kelly supports sugar beet industry here, point ing to prosperity on Idaho sugar beet farms. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Average horsepower in new cars has increased in the last 25 years about one-fourth one-half, three-fourths or 100 per cent? 2., The Communists took over Russia as soon as the Czar was dethroned in 1917; right or wrong? 3. More or less than half the members of Congress are mem bers of the American Legion? 4. Which one of these prom inent Republicans is youngest: Warren, S t a s s e n, Knowland, Nixon, Dewey, Herter, Milton Eisenhower? "7 5. Yugoslavia has been urged for a seat on the UN Security Council by the Soviet bloc or by the U.S. or by neither? 6. U.S. college graduates over the last 25 years have increased by one-half, doubled, risen by 150 per cent, or about tripled? 7. Oldest U.S. synagogue is in Newport, R.I., New York, Balti more, Charleston, S.C., or St. Augustine, Fla? The Answers: I. 100 per cent. 2. Wrong; about seven months later. 3. Considerably more than half. 4. Nixon. 5. By the Soviet bloc. 6. About tripled. 7. New port. e PURCHASING AGENT DIES New York (U.R) James L. (Larry) Hoppes, 53, superintend ent of telegraph and purchasing agent of the United Press, died unexpectedly late yesterday at the Staten Island hospital. MAIL TRIBUNE Will They Ruin Football? There was a report in San Francisco papers a couple of weeks ago which did not receive the atten tion in sports circles it should. Two college football third coast college football ing to condemn "unnecessary roughness" but actually instructing his team, before a game, to go out and "get" a certain star quarterback and do it quick. The order was promptly carried out. The quarter back was not only put out for the season. TF THAT report is true A wise it should be the subject of a football con ference investigation and if the main facts are sub stantiated that coach of college No. 3 should be fired at once and barred from any coaching job anywhere on the coast or anywhere The acuused coach's a rough, tough game, and should stay out of it. Football is a "rough and tough" game. But it isn't or shouldn t be a dirty hem or manslaughter. It is est outdoor sport ever invented, has greater spectator interest than any other, and should be both a thrill and a great benefit physically and morally to the.par ticipants. But if it is going to degenerate into a "battle roy al" of the brass-knuckle type, with football coaches advising such' practices in violation of all rules and regulations, then the goose that, for so many years, has laid the golden eggs will not only be killed, but also public interest and football as a college sport. "COAK 'EM and sock 'em" is ok provided it is ac J cording: to the rule book. But when hitting below the belt is not onlv nracticed but officially recom mended, that is another matter entirely and anv font- ball coach advising it, or failing to preach against it, should be given his walking papers at once and with no return ticket ! R.W.R. Pity the Poor Voter A contemporary is already sorry for the poor de fenseless candidates who are going to run for high public office next year. "This is going to be the worst knock-down-and-drag-out bare-knuckle fight in political history and woe betide the aspirant who has no brass knuckles and can't borrow a football . helmet!" It probably will be a hard-fought campaign, par ticularly here in Oregon, but we doubt if the casual ties will be much greater than usual. IN FACT as of today we are not so sorry for the con testants as for the voters particularly the voters who have not decided how they will vote before the campaign begins. We refer particularly to the inde pendent voter who would like the facts before he marks his ballot and will depend upon the candidates to give them. JUDGING the main-event by the preliminaries he or she is in for some hard sledding. For many of the issues, especially national, will be complicated ones of essentially a factual na ture. Unless all signs fail, the Republican candidates will claim the facts are thus and so which support their position; while the Democrats will claim the TRUE facts will repudiate the GOP stand and back up theirs. Who to believe? A GAIN disregarding those who are going to vote their party tickets straight regardless of what the facts may be, the voters will be pretty generally con fused and up in the air assuming they listen to the campaign speeches and take them at all seriously. Take Hells Canyon as just one example. Figures and alleged facts will be quoted pro and con ad infinitum. And the figures as well as the salient facts on one side will completely disagree with those on the other. There may be a few voters with the time, skill and patience to do a bit of independent, authentic check ing, and to their own satisfaction determine what is true and what isn't, but they, we fear, will represent a decided minority. The majority undoubtedly will throw up their hands in dismay and disgust, skip the complicated issues and go on to something less controversial and involved and also we fear less important. That procedure will lead to better digestion, no doubt, but not we fear to better government. DROBABLY it is too late to do much of anything about it. But we wish the poll people Gallups, Ropers and all the others would add a department of impartial information to their efforts, the same devoted to a non-partisan and objective compilation of facts re garding some of the more important issues such as Hells Canyon, Reciprocal trade, Farm prices, Foreign aid, Civil Rights, etc, etc., with complete disregard of partisan politics or implications. We grant such a service wouldn't do the 100 per cent regulars on either side any good, but it would be of great value to the growing number of Independent voters and when all is said and done they will de cide next year's election as they have so many of the others, including the presidential election of 1952. R.W.R. NAME EMBARRASSING Santa Ana, Calif . (U.R) A Santa Ana man petitioned su perior court to change his name, Tuesday, November 15, 195S coaches publicly accused a coach or. not only rems- of that game but perhaps it is hard to believe other else for that matter I "alibi" was that football is those who can't "take it," game or a contest m may in our judgment the great saying his four children found it embarrassing. He requested the family name be changed from Sapp to Stapp. Matter of Fact By Joe THE KENNAN LETTER Washington Just a little more than 10 years ago, George F. Kennan sent off from Moscow the ten thous and - word despatch that grimly and b r i 1 liantly charted the course of the Cold War for the American government. Some weeks ago, George Kennan re- Joseph Also turned from a long journey of inquiry in Eu rope. He then wrote a long letter about Soviet policy in Europe and especially about the German problem, which is the key to the European future. This Kennan letter shatters almost as many happy illusions as the historic Kennan despatch of a decade past. It sug gests, in fact, that the cur r e n t foreign ministers meeting in Geneva is a mere way sta tion to the grand night mare of West ern diplomacy, which is a Stewart AJaop U e r m a n re versal of alliances in favor of the Soviet Union. It needs pray erful pondering, now that the deneva fiasco is drawing to its close. These reporters have been permitted to quote the following excerpts: 'The Russians," writes Ken nan, "will aim their diplomatic action from now on exclusively at the Germans, simply by-pass ing the Western governments, who have lent themselves most obligingly to being by-passed by working themselves into rigid, sterile positions without alterna tives and without latitude for maneuver. Moscow may take its time about wooing the Germans, confident that the Western gov ernments are safely boxed in by walls of their own making "Moscow's game, with regard to the Germans, will be first (to give) the East German govern ment a position of political re spectability, so that it may have a voice in the eventual discussion of unification . . . Then the ventriloquists of Moscow will speak through Pankow (the East German capital); and what they will surely suggest to the West ern Germans is that only one thing stands in the way of (Ger man) unification the military bond with the United States." "CJURELY it is not reasonable it will be said to Bonn, that you should come into the discus sion of unification with . . . your freedom of decision preju diced by a military tie to another great power. Drop this . . . and real'discussion of unification can begin. Moscow figures it cannot lose by this approach." Kennan continues that Mos cow s calculations seem likely to prove correct, for several dif ferent reasons. For one thing, 'The unification problem has now been activated for fair in German minds.!' For another, the situation in Eastern Germany is now "beginning to become cru cial." Almost all hope of libera tion has been lost in East Ger many since President Eisenhow er's journey to the summit and West German Chancellor Ade nauer's journey to Moscow. The East Germans who have not fled are accepting the Communist re gime, and the youth are even be coming converted to it. For simi lar reasons, the situation in West Berlin also "shows signs of de teriorating." AU these trends, in turn, are giving an extra edge to the de sire for re-unification among the West Germans. The West Ger mans "fear that unless something is done about unification soon, the whole Eastern part of Ger many will be morally and spirit ually alienated." "Finally," continues Kennan, "there is the effect of the recent visit to Moscow by Adenauer and the large number of German fig ures who accompanied him. Leaving aside the Chancellor, I think it generally fair to say that the Germans returned from this experience somewhat shaken, in the political sense, by what they saw . . . Please don't misunder stand me. These men are as much Westerners, jn every fiber of their being, as you and I. . . The last thing they want is to see Germany detached from the West . . . . "They know, in the wooing of which they are the objects, that they have to do with a Siren, and they are miserably conscious of the frequent and, in this instance, wholly probable wages of sin. And still the lady's image haunts their dreams, and they can't get away from it. "Why is this? It is partly be cause the West Germans know that we . . . cannot negotiate any further for unification (while) the Soviets lead them to hope that perhaps unification (can) be had by direct German - Soviet negotiations Furthermore, they are psychologically tired of us. For 10 years, they have wrestled with . . . Western disunity, in decisiveness and vague preten sions of idealism. . "TT IS more than refreshing, it is downright intoxicating. now to meet up with the (So and Stewart AIsop viet) political personality which (shows) without sham ... a knowledge and assumption of human evil; which speaks with one -voice rather than three; which has something to give and is capable of delivering it if it wants to; and, above all, which talks the language of political realism to which Central Eu ropeans are accustomed: brutal, cynical, in one sense crude, but in another infinitely subtle and sensitive." Kennan adds that in the ex posed arid ill-defended Berlin position, the Soviets can find many levers to force the West Germans to begin talking to the East Germans. These levers, he thinks, will be effective unless the Western Powers "are de termined to react, if necessary with real military preparations, and to the first encroachment (at Berlin) and not to the last and the French, not to mention the others, could not be further from any such readiness." Hence Ken nan grimly concludes: "All these things lead me to believe that the chances are not bad for a Soviet success (in Ger many). Adenauer may hold the line; but his successors are not likely to." There could be no darker com mentary on the smarmy public optimism of these last months. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On its front page the other day, the Klamath Falls Herald and News printed a picture of a check changing hands. Over the years, it has printed many such pictures so many, in fact, that its newsroom has come to frown on them in a mild sort of way. In the daily life of an American community, no transaction is more common than a check pass ing from one hand to another. In our profession, you know, there is a shibboleth to the effect that when a dog bites a man it isn't news but when a man bites a dog it's hot stuff. This man-bites-dog dogma is akin to the proverb: "VARIETY is the spice of life." Both arise out of the funda mental fact that when a man's wife feeds him precisely the same dinner menu seven days in a row he is apt to display signs of boredom. Newsrooms leans to the belief that this principle applies in the case of pictures. They ain't so good, newsrooms think, when there is too much sameness about them. BUT this particular picture was a little different. Among oth er things, it dramatized a fact in our modern economy and our modern politics that de serves more intelligent thought than it is getting. The check, was written for the rather considerable sum of $472,283.98. It represented the Southern Pacific company's property taxes in Klamath county for the pe riod of one year. H ERE'S the political moral. Suppose the GOVERNMENT owned the railroads as many advocate. Well, in that event THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO TAX CHECK FOR KLAMATH COUNTY. SPHERE is a lot of fancy talk these days aoout xne govern ment doing everything for every body. But GOVERNMENT PAYS NO LOCAL TAXES. It leaves that for others to do. ONE more word about this check: It was for $472,283.98. That is approximately a HALF MIL LION dollars. That is a lot of tax money in any Oregon coun ty. If a big railroad company hadn't paid it, the rest of the taxpayers would have had to pungle up the difference. THAT'S what government own ership of the railroads would mean in Klamath county. It's what any kind of govern ment ownership means in ANY county. Portland Port Heads Approve Bond Issue Portland (U.R) Commission ers of the Port of Portland yes terday approved a $500,000 bond issue for maintenance of port fa cilities. Bids on the bond issue would be opened Jan. 10. Commissioners also decided to install parking meters in the central parking area at Portland International Airport. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE County Planning Commission ppointment Given The Jackson Countv Chamber of Commerce board of directors will be asked to recommend that the county court apnoint a coun ty planning commission, it was voted unanimously at a chamber oi commerce luncheon yesterday- . It was brought out at the weekly, round-table luncheon at tne Jackson hotel that the county court has had the Dower to aD- point a county planning commis sion for the past five years. Would Be Advisory Paul Rynning, county en gineer, stated that a planning commission would be appointed by the county court and act as an advisory committee to the court. - If the court approved zoning or future development plans for Chile Seems To Have Outlasted Threat of Revolt in Government By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Chile seems to have overcome the threat of revolt which has hit the other two "A-B-C" pow ers of Latin America. Argen t i n a has ousted a dictator and a p r o v i s i onal president within two months. In Brazil, a president has resigned and acting p r e s i- . v .. ji,.. aeni nas ueen overthrown within the last week. But in Chile, 78-year-old Presi dent Carlos Ibanez Del Campo is reDorted to be in a stronger position than at any time since he was inaugurated on jnov. 6, 1952 his 75th birthday., Only two months ago, Chile was linked with Argentina and Brazil as ripe for an explosion. The nowerful Central Labor Union was threatening a nation wide general strike which, had it hepn successful, mieht have re sulted in Ibanez's overthrow. Union leaders left no doubt that they planned a direct test of strength with the Ibanez regime. But the old cavalryman, after having tried conciliation for a long time, acted firmly. He ordered the arrest of hundreds of union leaders all over the country. McLoughlin Opens Annual Toy Drive The annual McLoughlin Ju nior High school toy drive, held in cooperation with the Medford fire department, started yester day under the sponsorship of the student council. Fred Funston student council president, is chairman of the drive. The home room contest is hplH each vear in connection with the fire departments an nual Christmas tov tiroeram. An intermural basketball tournament between home rooms of the seventh, eighth and ninth grades also started yesterday. The week-long tournament is utilizing two gymnasiums with two games per day. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permis jible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Help for the Birds To the Editor: Of all wild life, the species that have the hardest strusele to carry through the winter are our non-migratory birds. Ouail and pheasant proD- ahlv have the touehest time of it, because, by natural instinct and Dhvsical build, theirs is a limited range. Here are a few hints on winter feeding: Beef suet mixed with coarse corn meal Dressed into compact lumns is -helpful. It can be stuff ed in half walnut shells and hung on trees. Shallow basins of water with a drop or two of glycerine to prevent freezing, pranked rnrn. cracked wheat. chick feed suet also are help ful. ' Humane Society, Medford. Oregon WISHING WOiVTMAKEITSO The future independence and 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 lata. How about today? CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 COMPANY OF CANADA the county suggested to them by the - planning . commission, the proposals would be put up to the people for a vote. If the zoning, or development , plan is approved by the people, the , county . court would order provisions for enforcing the reg ulation. Enforcement of the or ders would be in the hands of the planning commission, Ryn ning said. There was general agreement among all present at the lunch eon meeting that a need for both planning and zoning exists on a county-wide level. Sanitation Problem .City Manager Robert Duff pointed out that rapid urbaniza tion and increased population throughout the county must be controlled. Problems of adequate To the general surprise, the labor unions gave m. In Firm Control It is now reported that Ibanez is in firm control of the situa tion and that it looks as if Chile may look forward to a period of political stability. Ibanez says he is not a dicta tor, and he opposes the frequent suggestions of his supporters that he openly give himself dic tatorial status. But there is no doubt that, at 78, in the middle of his second political career, Ibanez is Chile's "Iron Man." Chicken Pox Leads List of Illnesses Fifteen cases of communicable diseases were reported in Jack son county during the week end ed Nov. 12, according to the county health department's weekly report. Topping the list was chicken pox, with four cases in Prospect and three in Medford. There were four cases of influenza, in eluding two each in Medford and Phoenix. Also on the- list were two cases of measules in Medford and two cases of strep throat in Medford Film on Family Now Available Roots 'of Happiness, a 25-min- ute film stressing family values has been purchased by the South ern Oregon Child Guidance Clin ic association for use by groups in this community wishing to learn more about family life The film brings out the import ance of the father in the family the place the children play in growing to adulthood, and the contributions parents make to ward shaping happy secure per sonalities for their children. The setting is rural Puerto Rico and the background music is Latin-American. Groups wishing to view this film should contact Elliott Beck- en, chairman of the association's education and publicity commit tee, phone 3-3683, to set a time for a program. At the association board meet ing on Nov. 14 the recent county membership drive was discussed. The chairman of that committee- reported more than 400 members outside of Medford have joined and are supporting the clinic. The possibility of new sources of income was also on the agenda. Call me for recent information an: Pope & Talbot ' West Coast Telephone Meier & Frank U. S. Steel Would You Like Us to Analyze Your Present Securities or Savings Program? Please phone Medford 2-7471 for any investment information or to set up an appointment either at your office, your home, or Zilka, Smither and Company's office. Mr. Watson and Mr. Hoogs, of our Medford office, bring you financial information based on the complete facilities of the Zilka, Smither or ganization. Out-of-town residents please call collect. INVISTMINT f ICUKITIIS (v- 14 S. CENTRAL AVENUE PHONE 2-7471 MEDFORD, OREGON Alio offices in: Portland. Salem, Eugene, Cooi Bay, Voncourer, Wn. Sacking sanitation and roads should be met in advance, and because of this peed there should be a county planning commission to make future plans which would direct county growth, he said. Edith Eden, city planning com mission member, said that a county planning commission would be the first step toward county zoning, necessary to pro tect the value' of real estate. A move to introduce county- wide zoning was defeated in a 1949 election by only 600 votes when a total of about 17,000 votes were cast, she said. Industry Favors Idea Don McNeil, chamber of com merce, stated that -industry would generally approve of a planning commission. McNeil gave as an example the fact that saw mills have found it necessary to purchase property immediately around the mills in order to prevent people from building homes and thus creating a danger that the mill would be sued because of children being injured while playing around mill ponds or equipment. It was pointed out that zoning would not interfere with exist ing businesses or have jurisdic tion over agricultural, horticul-' tural, timber or grazing lands. Medford, Ashland Meetings Planned Dr. Irwin Hill, superintendent of the Fairview Home for the mentally retarded, and Dr. D. L. Callicrate, assistant superintend ent, will conduct a series of meetings in Ashland and Med ford tomorrow, Nov. 16, concern ing problems of the mentally re tarded. : Nov. 13 through 23 is National Retarded Children's week. There are an estimated 5,000 slow learning children in Oregon's schools. . Dr. Hill and Dr. Callicrate will speak to classes and a gen eral assembly at Southern Ore gon college in Ashland, during the day. At 6:30 p.m. they will speak and answer questions during a potluck dinner in the Marcade room at St, Mark's Episcopal church in Medford. The dinner meeting will be open to anyone interested in the problem of the slow learning child. At 8 p.m., Dr. Hill will con duct a seminar for doctors and interested parents at the Health department in the Jackson coun ty courthouse. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan Why not save 1096 on the NEW BROAD FORM AUTO POLICY by installing SAFETY SEAT BELTS? They're safer. They pay for them selves. They make trade-ins easier for the dealer to sell. Credit is given for belts in the front seat no need to spend your money on the father-in-law (??) seat. For Informction Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIVE IN MEDFORD RICHARD E. WATSON Manager fef - fj JAMES HOOGS
