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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune fublihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. 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 NewBpaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, undeT Act of March a. lavi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10e. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 660 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear S5T50 Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, end on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $ 13 .00 Daily and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy AU Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medfoxd Official Paperofjlackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Office, in New York. OucaKa De troit. San Francisco. Los Amjeles. Seattls. Portland. St- Louia Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCH-ATllON m jnzmnncQaiia 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. 16, 1945 8 (It was Friday) Miss Nina Tuttle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Tuttle, Val ley View dr., first applicant for Victory Queen contest sponsored by American Legion. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: GI's con tinue to return from the battle areas, with battle ribbons on their chests, and service stripes and brides on their arms. ' 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 16, 1935 (It was Saturday) Dr. A. N. Johnson, county health officer, reports fifth polio victim in five days. Karl L. Janouch, Rogue River Valley National forest super visor, announces total of $422, 173 expended for improvements in forest. . . 30 YEARS AGO v Nov. 16. 1925 (It was Monday) City Attorney John H. Carkin says insurance rates west of tracks will increase if Sixth st. crossing not completed soon. From Local and Personal col umn: The curtain at the Cra terian theater, where the "White Cargo" drama is presented to night, will rise on time as the company and scenery arrived in the city yesterday from the north. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 16, 1915 (It was Tuesday) W. L. Alexander, Portland landscape artist, says Medford's shade trees need repairing. Some 2,000 acres remains to be obtained in final week of sugar beet industry drve in Rogue valley! What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Mrs. Roosevelt is for Stev enson, Harriman, Truman, Ache- son, Lausche or her son James for the 1956 Democratic nomin ation, or says she has no choice? 2. About half, or fewer or more than half of all Americans over 21 have attended high school? 3. Which college football team is called the Spartans? 4. A ych oil producing area centers around Ploesti, which is in Venezuela, East Texas, south Russia, Rumania or the Middle East? 5. Which member of the Eisen hower Cabinet is a Catholic? 6. T. V. sets are now to be found in about one-half, two thirds, or 85 per cent of all U.S. homes? 7. The late "Jimmy" Walker resigned as mayor of New York, or filled out his term, or was removed by impeachment? The Answers: 1. Is for Stev enson; 2. More than half; 3. Michigan State; 4. Rumania; 5. Secretary of Labor Mitchell; 6. About two-thirds; 7. Resigned. FANCY MEETING YOU Minden, Neb. (U.R) John L. Sullivan, en route to his San Francisco home after a recent visit in Lincoln, stopped off at Pioneer Village here and met an old friend, cable car No. 47. He was an operator of the car when it traveled up and down San Francisco's steep hills. Both car and operator have been retired. a i 6S MAIL TRIBUNE Tax What is the function of a chamber of commerce? Well, there are a lot of answers. One of the best would seem to be to fill a need for service or informa tion on the part of its members. This week we will see the start of just such an undertaking when the local chamber's legislative committee starts a study of local taxation. A LARGE howl has gone up in property taxpaying circles since the bills were mailed out this year. Whether the increases are, or are not, justified a question which the average taxpayer is not equipped to determine. The chamber committee, however, provides a means whereby an impartial group can conduct a study of the situation with the cooperation of repre sentatives of the taxing bodies who should welcome such an inquiry. The committee, under the chairmanship of Frank Van Dyke, plans no "crusade," no "inquisition," no putting of anyone "on the spot." What it will seek is a balanced, rational and factual examination of taxing problems and procedures. A STEP m this direction was taken recently when the citizens budget committee of Medford began monthly meetings, to keep a running tab on the needs and expenses of city departments. The chamber study will supplement this with con ferences and discussions on other levels of govern ment. Taxes are high. Are they too high? If so, what is the reason? Are we getting our money's worth for our tax dollar? Where, if anywhere, can taxes be cut? It it to questions such as these the chamber study can hope to find answers. E.A. Stop for School Buses A law was passed in Oregon several years ago re quiring that cars must stop when a school bus stopped. The idea behind the law was the protection of chil dren getting on and off the bus. Except on divided four-lane or widei: highways, the law requires cars going in both directions to stop. The buses are equipped with red "stop" signs, which are plain to see. T1TE ARE informed by the traffic safety division, ' and by school bus drivers themselves, 'that this law is honored as much in the breach as in the obser vance. This is not good. One driver called to report that just since school started this year he has observed several "close calls" involving youngsters running for the bus, or getting off of it. He is on a route which runs through the cen ter of the city, and he's worried. Y"HAT is the answer? As in most other safety matters, about the only thing that can be done is to call on drivers, repeatedly, tn nap their heads, to obevthe law. to keen UDDermost in their minds the fact that gmeered tor speed, comtort, and trigger-UKe respon ses, can be a deadly weapon. If this fails, and indications are that has failed so far, arrests should follow. E. A. Non-Human Minds What sort of mentality would deliberately and in cold blood construct a bomb for the destruction of his mother? And what sort of mentality would place that bomb on an airplane loaded with other people, know ing full well that they would die too? The sheer horror of these ideas repels most people to an extent where understanding is impossible. HTHE young man who harbored these thoughts which we cannot understand must be mad. Somewhere, deep in his warped and twisted mind, he must have felt a justification for his action. As a result, 44 people, died. And in the mind of a Hitler or a Stalin, just as warped and twisted, must also have been a feeling of justification. We have still far to go to leam the skills of pre venting or healing minds not entirely human. E.A. Editorial Comment Some days ago we commented that a student in high school should keep his sights high, lest he find to his sorrow that he had sold himself short. We rec ommended that every student take courses and otherwise con duct himself as if he were going to the finest college in the world and then into a professional career. We find support for this idea in the New York Times Magazine. Norman E. Cutts and Nicholas Seat Ejection Saves Life of Jet Pilot Ramstein, Germany (U.P.) An American F86 fighter plane crashed in a field near here Tuesday night but its seat ejec tion mechanism enabled the pilot to parachute to safety. The plane, piloted by 1st Lt. Daniel J. Mourey of Fort Wayne, Ir.d., was on a routine training flight from the Landstuhl Air Base. When the plane got into trouble, Mourey triggered his seat ejection mechanism, opened his parachute and drifted down onto the roof of the city hospital at Kaiserslautern. Wednesday, November 16, 1955 Inquiry a ton of machinery, en- Moseley, authors of several' books on child guidance, write on "Helping a Child Choose a Career." They say: "Late deciders, however, may unwittingly deprive themselves of their best opportunities. The drifter who elects a snap course instead of mathematics or sci ence may be passing a point of no return. For him, a career in engineering, science or medicine may well be past recall. The point of no return comes much earlier for the youngster who, for one reason or another, de cides not to go to college. Al ready most professions and the many occupations which pre suppose college training are closed to him." Eugene Register-Guard. ICE CREAM FIGURES Chicago (U.R) On an "aver age" day, 23 per cent of all American families serve ice cream, the American Dairy As sociation reports. The associa tion said a survey disclosed that 39 per cent of a group between 15 and 24 years old consumed some ice cream on any average day. For persons 55 years and over, the figure was 21 per cent. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol 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 Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. No Gold But Nice Time To the Editor: Some 40 or more years ago, a prospecting friend heard of the rich gold finds being made over on the coast anywhere from Hoopa In dian reservation in northern Humboldt county, California, to Curry county, Oregon. It made him pull up stakes in Jackson county with a pack animal and head west over the coast ra"hge. Not having heard from him after several months, we were surprised to meet him one day again, saying he had too many callers. Asking him how come, he said he invited the natives over to camp and if it was raining they would stay until the storm was over, it might be a few days or last a week. Anyway it was raining most of the time. And for the half breeds, they always had plenty of time to pan out the price of a pair of blue jeans, a supply of tobacco, or a new phonograph record, every now and then. As for their secret of the gold diggings, it still remains a mys tery. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., Medford, Ore. Wants Questions Answered To the Editor: The answers to three questions regarding the proposed hospital in this valley, would be of interest to this writer and many of your read ers. 1. If I or any other resident should be admitted to the hos pital, emergency or otherwise, would my family doctor, an osteopathic physician licensed to practice in Oregon, be per mitted the use of the hospital facilities? 2. Will the present practice of demanding payment in advance of entry of a patient, or immed iately thereafter, be put on a humanitarian basis? 3. If any doctor, M.D. or CO., would decide to become human itarian and make a reasonable charge for an office call, would he still be permitted equality with other doctors in the use of the hospital facilities? Doubtless many hundreds of your readers would be very in terested in a reply to the above questions, and, an affirmative public answer, through the col umns of your paper, would mean that we are not being presented with false statements in the use of the words Charitable, Hu manitarian, Community and Pub lic. L. B. Pierce, 516 West Jackson St., Medford, Ore. Taxes Higher To the Editor: In May of tnis year nice cards arrived in the mail telling everyone of the re valuation of their property, with a note saying "This does not nec essarily mean that your taxes will be increased" as the tax base will be broader; signed, County Assessor. Ha! Who got took? Everyone that I have talk ed to, so they hope when next election rolls around they will be able to vote in a new group of people. All the taxpayers are beginning to realize that if they expect to live they are going to have some replacement in coun ty, state and federal offices. They surely are being taxed to death. Our taxes have been increased every year that we have owned property. There are people in the valley who get blind assis tance and welfare, and they manage to save ud the monev to pay their taxes out of their piti ful allowances. When taxes arrive, they, like everyone else, find their savings will cover a half or maybe a third. So I am askins this: Is the county going to own all pro perty? Is Medford Irrigation com pany trying to get control of all the irrigation ditches so they can have every ditch under their control? Looks that way from re cent elections held. Maybe the neonle who vote had better do some thinking on their own and not be so easily influenced by a smooth talker. Gladys Hamilton, Route 2, Box 468, Medford, Ore. A PRINCIPLE Waterbury, Conn. (U.R) Told by a pair of armed bandits to hand over her money, Mrs. Max , Fischer replied. "Shut up!" The . bandits fled. Later she disclosed j she wasn't carrying any money ; but balked because of the "prin-1 cipal of the thing." GETle BESTForLESS MUCH LESS Ian Tablet Bottle l ..f', ohm 7Q V Russia Seen Thinking Of Future in Claim Of Mongolia in UN By CHARLES M. McCANN - United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia probably is thinking of the future in insist ing that Outer Mongolia be ad mitted to the United Na tions. There is no good reason why this ill defined area of grazing lands in East tern Asia should be given U. N. membership. cnaries Mctann But Russia is obviously eager to get the "People's Republic of Mongolia" recognized by the world as a sovereign nation. One reason is that Outer Mon golia one day may be the cause of a clash of interests between Russia and Communist China. For Outer Mongolia really is a part of China, even though Chinese rule over it always was loose. Outer Mongolia is closely tied to the Soviet Union now, as a member of the U.N. it would, of course, vote with the Soviet bloc. But the Chinese Communists have shown increasing determ ination to extend their rule, in time, to all the lands once ruled by the old Manchu emperors. The Chinese Reds invaded Tibet, over which China claimed sovereignty, in 1950. Awaiting the Day '- . It has been reported frequent ly since then that the Peiping government was looking forward to the day when it also would claim Outer Mongolia. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS The news as this is written is a good deal like a muUigan stew. It has a little of everything in it. If you don't, happen to like mulligan stew, you'll add that what it has in it is mostly bad. So you'll like the simile even better. "CURST, there's the weather. The weather-over the week end contained a little of every thing snow, rain, sunshine, cold spots, warm spots. And, a few minutes ago, the teletype spit out a story to the effect that another storm is on the way down from the Arctic regions. It followed the pattern of a little of everything announcing that maybe the storm will bend off and miss us but also maybe it will hit us right on the nose. t;d ksdale, TJO! HUM! For weeks, the weather has been irreproachably wonderful. But, as summer wanes and win ter waxes, we forget all the good and complain bitterly about the bad. Life is like that. "WER the week-end two prom " inent Americans Robert Sherwood, playwright, and Ber nard De Voto, novelist and his torian are victims of . h e a r t attacks. Both were useful citizens. We can ill spare them. Both are THINKERS. Sherwood was 59. De oVto was 58. If spared, both could have gone on thinking for a long, long time. A San Francisco woman was savagely beaten in -a quarrel with her landlord, who wanted to fix a broken window in her apartment in the early morning hours hen she wanted to sleep. Fixing broken windows es 16-piece Starter Set Open Stock List Price $14.20 SPECIAL "A.L PRICE . . . IU Service for Four 4 10" Plates . 4 Tea 4 6" Plates 4 Tea Add to your Vernon Set at any time from the large selection of colorful open stock service pieces designed for multiple us, China & Glass 2nd Floor J$X )U f J I -L JJL I A J J J Red China's desire to increase its influence in Outer Mongolia has been made plain. As soon as the Communists got into power in 1949, they in sisted that they be permitted to station an ambassador in Ulan Bator, the Outer Mongolian cap ital. Russia was compelled to consent, though it had refused previously to admit a Chinese Nationalist diplomatic represen tative. Now China has been connect ed with Ulan Bator by a rail road. The line was built, on the Mongolian side, by Russia. But it is unlikely that Russia was enthusiastic in cooperating in the construction of this commun ication line. Loosely Defined Outer Mongolia has an area of about 600,000 square miles. It is so loosely defined that refer ence books disagree on its exact size. It has a population of about 1,000,000 almost entirely no madic herders. It has the dis tinction of possessing the most livestock per capita of any coun try in the world. Russia got a foothold in Outer Mongolia in 1921. Troops of the Chinese Republic had occupied it in 1919, in a re-assertion of sovereignty. The Russians aid ed Mongolian revolutionists in throwing the Chinese out. Then a so-called people's gov ernment was formed. Nominally it was a limited monarchy, ruled by the living Buddha of Ulan Bator. In 1924, the "Mongolian People's Republic" was pro claimed. It was the first "Peo ple's Republic" on the Soviet pattern. Since then, it has been a Rus sian satellite but it may not be always. News pecially here at the beginning of winter is a good thing. Sleep is a good thing. If the two of them could have . GOT TO GETHER, THE WORLD WOULD HAVE BEEN BETEER OFF ALL AROUND. , But they couldn't get together, So MUCH evil results because people can't get together in the common cause of human better ment. In New Orleans, a 62-year-old machinists is fatally shot by three juveniles whom he sur prised while they were ransack ing his house. That is doubly, bad. The world can iU afford to lost a good hon est machinist in these days when our lives are so dominated by machines. There is no greater tragedy than JUVENILES GONE WRONG. ' WORST of all is the case of the " student who has just been arrested and charged with re sponsibility for the crash of the airliner north of Denver a couple of weeks ago following a bomb-like blast in a baggage compartment. The young man's mother was aboard the plane. He had just taken out $37,500 worth of in surance on her life. He is one of the heirs of her estate, whose value is estimated at $150,000. He had been in trouble before, and always his mother . had helped him out. The whole affair gives one the shivers. IS the world getting steadily worse? It sounds like it, I know but I still think our modern commu nications are so super-perfect that we hear everything that happens almost as soon as it hap pens. In the olden golden days, Cups Saucers Dept. .U J Is That So? To a thoughtful person every creature in nature and every part of that creature is a matter of astonishment. But' every so often, nature seems to produce a super-astonisher. Let's consider some of them. To enable the frog to protrude its tongue an extra length for nabbing its prey, it's rooted at the front of the mouth. The gecko lizard's tongue is long enough to enable its owner to wash its eyes with it The cha- M-IS-Sf meleon's is almost as long as its body. But to accomodate the ant eater, nature has rooted its tongue not in the mouth or the throat of its long head but fas tened it securely to its breast bone! Thus, the tremendously long tongue can reach deep into the anthills. . In perfection, the human eye of all organs seems perhaps the most "impossible." But an even more ' unusual eye is possessed by a tropical American fish, the anableps. It swims with the top half of each of its eyes above water and the lower half under the water. And for a good rea son: it is bifocal, with two pu pils in each eye. The upper pair scan the scene above the surface while at the same time the lower pupils which are adjusted to a different angle, study the under water depths. Running in pursuit of prey or Disillusioned Japan Marine Hangs Self Manila U.R) . Suicide today ended World War II for an emaciated Japanese marine who evaded capture in the Philip pines jungles for 11 years, con vinced that Japan would win the war and he would return home in triumph. Marine Cpl. Noboru Kinoshita strangled himself in a prison stockade because he felt he had disgraced himself and Japan by being taken prisoner two weeks ago After 11 years of jungle life Kinoshita finally . was taken prisoner Nov. 2. He thought the war was still going on and 're- fused to believe it when told that the battles had ended almost 11 years ago. Daily, he begged Filipino po lice to kill him. He grew almost hysterical in demands to die "honorably" and finally resolved his problem with a rope. it was different. We then heard little beyond our own immedi ate neighborhood. And We're inclined to pay more at tention to the BAD than to the GOOD. We read so many of the bad headlines and skip so many of the good ones. That is unfortunate. FREE COUPON This coupon entitles bearer, accompanied by parent, one free private lesson in any one of the following: Tap, Baton, Hula, Afro-Cuban, Spanish or Ballet "The Hollywood Way." Jackie Locke School, of Dance 1002 W. 4th, Medford-Phone 2-2857 Name Address... Phone . .. 1 Sets a table for the young tn heart I A gay modern design in fashion's favorite tones of rosy pink, aqua and charcoal on a textured background. TICKLED PINK is keyed to a gala mood . . . will make every meal you serve a party! OVENPROOF... Ideal for oven-to-table service DETERGENT-PROOF . . . loves a dishwasher... colors will not fade, mar or wash off with years of use GUARANTEED for 25 years against crazing or crackling Wonderfully chip-resistant Br EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist to avoid being eaten is an amaz ing process but look at what speedsters exist: a lumbering black bear can hit 30; a gawky giraffe, 32f a mule deer, a lion, 40; a jackrabbit, 45; a black- buck, 50; a'pronghorn antelope, 60. But there is one even faster the lean, sleek cheetah, ' a hunting leopard of Asia. . With f.n acceleration of 45 miles an hour within two seconds, this animal is nature's ultimate in speed for land-based mammals. It can race at 70 miles an hour. Birds Much Faster n Airborne birds, of course, are much faster. Perhaps the fastest in a straight-away flight is the Indian swift which has been timed at the incredible speed of 200 miles an hour over a two- mile course. In dives, the duck hawk may exceed it that's problematical and virtually Im possible to measure accurately. Several land-based birds that have lost the power of flight are no slow pokes. Our wild turkey can run 20 miles an hour; our roadrunners of the southwest, 26; and "the ostrich has been clocked at over 28 miles an hour. The sea contains many quick change artists. As the squid swims its body shows wavering stripes of horizontal light artel dark matching the effect of streaks of water in motion. But once at rest, it immediately changes these horizontal streaks to shimmering vertical bands. ' So now the motionless squid has become a bed of gently waving seaweeds. Matching the squid, a flounder who has learned to live on his side (his eyes must migrate to accomodate the change), can even simulate a black and white checkered back ground! (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous ref erence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissiens will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. WHO GETS THE WORM? BE AN EARLY BIRD Let us put your money to work in local opportunities. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save o
