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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Heads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-611 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. Cirv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports fcditor 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 of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES rtT Man Arivanrp- Per copy 10c. Daily and' Sunday One year $12.00 Twit. CunHav Six months o.ou Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sundav Only one year mju. tw r-.i-ir In Advance Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phpemx. Shadv Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month carrier ana umjcib .- All Terms casn in flnvancc Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County IInitpdPrt3s Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULAliUii Advertising ncpmcuiouvj. WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De . troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seatti. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'l-ATlfON hjjiitiiMiA'iua NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1945 (It was Saturday) State Superintendent of parks S. H. Boardman mapping Judge F. L. Tou Velle's property for state park along Rogue river. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: One of the Older Girls had a birthday Wed. As she will not tell her age, we will not tell her age. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 17. 1935 (It was Sunday) Eugene Thorndike named to Oregon State Dad's club's execu tive committee at annual Cor vallis meeting. Bill Cottrell of Medford, play ing lead role in University of Oregon play production, "The Queen's Husband." 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 17. 1925 (It was Tuesday) Voters of Medford school dis trict deciding on budget more 'than 6 per cent over last year's budget. Court martial of Colonel Wil liam Mitchell on charges of criti cising the nation's air service continues in ' Washington. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 17, 1915 (It was Wednesday) Dr. J. M. Keene appointed to fill vacancy created by resigna tion of councilman Colonel H. H. Sargent. John Doe, Negro who terror ized county schools by lecturing on cannibalism, told to leave county or spend 60 days in jail by Justice Taylor. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rep1 1. The Armistice in World War I was signed for the U. S. bv President Wilson, Secretary of State Lansing, Secretary of War Baker, Gen. Perishing, or our ambassador to France? 2. More money is spent every year by state and local govern ments on schools or by the fed eral Government for defense, or is it about 50-50? 3. Chief Justice Warren gets a higher or lower salary than Vice President Nixon, or the same? 4. In which two of these cities does the Hearst press have no paper: Albany (N.Y.), Denver, Detroit, Milwaukee, San Fran cisco, Seattle, Washington? 5. Less than 10 per cent, about one-fifth or one-third of all Americans are left-handed? 6. The U. S. recognized the Soviet government of Russia im mediately this was set up, with in a year, about five years later, or more than 15 years later? 7. Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California says he has a good or slight chance of getting the 1956 Republican presidential nomin ation?. The Answers: 1. Pershing; 2. More for defense; 3. Higher by S500; 4. Denver and Washing Ion; 5. Less than 10 per cenl; S. More than Is years later. 7. Slight. Eleven anH a 1 -i : iaix miiiiun y pie live on Sumatra, sixth lare 11 I T - -. peo- :est oj. ine wona s islands. Even so, en- tne Indonesian Republic courages immigration from densely populated Java. more MAIL TRIBUNE Greed! One of our favorite news commentators, Chet Huntley, thinks there is only one explanation for such an unspeakable atrocity as that committed by that Colorado youth, who planted a bomb in a United air liner resulting in the death of his mother and 43 other passengers. That is insanity. For once we can't agree with Mr. Huntley. "IITE DON'T believe the Graham boy to be insane, except in the sense that any criminal with homi cidal tendencies is not normal mentally or he wouldn't be a homicidal criminal. From what information there is available, young Graham has for many years been possessed and ob sessed by selfish greed. There was one thing only that he wanted or cared about money. That is why he forged checks and went night-clubbing while he allowed his mother to open a restaurant and earn enough to reimburse his victims. Instead of being a help to his mother in her ven ture he fought with her almost always over the ques tion of money. He never had enough. Thwarted in one criminal direction, only intensi fied the young man's passionate determination, "so the next step, that of killing his own mother to remove the immediate obstacle to his ambition, and get her insurance, was not, we think, as long a step, morally, as Broadcaster Huntley indicates. DUT how about the other passengers on the plane, including the crew, all innocent bystanders so to speak how could any SANE person young or old, bring himself to the point of mass murder on such a scale to satisfy his selfish lust for gold? This is a question that could best be answered, no doubt, by experts in the field of criminal psychiatry. But our own idea is that this passion of greed is far stronger m this materialistic era, than most people realize. It became so overpowering in the case of this Colorado youth that he only considered what he would get out of such an atrocity and never consid ered the price others would have to pay. llIOREOVER, like the infamous juvenile delin quents Leopold and Loeb, this boy is reported to be in the near-genius, brilliant class, and undoubtedly this plane plot would, he figured, be the "perfect crime," that he would not (only get the insurance money but his share of his mother's estate, and he himself would never be suspected but go Scot free with enough money in the bank to be a "Big Shot" man about town as it had always been' his ambition to be. In other words while in one so young to commit a crime so gigantic, so completely callous and inhu man, a case for insanity might well be built up, it is the belief of this department, that such a defense, when all the evidence is in, will fail. R.W.R. A White Thanksgiving? This winter snow in November is "unusual' not unprecedented. The writer (and other old-timers) will never for get the winter that descended on the valley 35 years ago. Not only was there snow on a 4-foot level, but it stayed on the ground for weeks, while the mercury ell to zero and in some sections even below. MOT as many heated and cooked with electricity as they do now. But those who did, including "Ye Editor" and family, were forced to close up shop and move, bag and baggage, to the Medford hotel." All wires including telephones were down, and there was no water, for practically all the pipes were frozen. That was a winter for "The Italy of America !" How ever it was a field-day for the plumbers and the chil dren. Also the hotels they were packed to the doors with refugees from the "wide-open spaces," some of whom with the proper bank balances stayed all win ter, but the average stay we would say, was two or three weeks. However their hearts were "young and gay" then, and it was fun staying at a warm hotel, there was a lot of bridge and the children had the time of their young lives making snow men and snow balling each other over in the park. Moreover the ranchers and most of the refugees had orchards then all believed that the "big snow" would mean not only big crops in the fall but big prices. (Our recollection is they were correct regarding the size of the crop, but the prices as sometimes happens did not quite keep up with them.) "AH, THEM were the days !" We are somewhat short on snow plows and snow shovels even now, but most of the homes are better built, Copco doesn't break down so easily not quite ! and the idea that Southern Oregon is a Palm Springs type of winter resort is not so prevalent. Meanwhile it is to be hoped histoiy repeats itself, the snow sticks around at least until the skies clear and the sun comes out, for then we might have a white Thanksgiving if not a "White Christmas," and think of the pictures junior could take with Pop's new movie camera! P.S. Don't forget the quail, pheasants and other birds, who can't remember back 30 to 40 years, and probably have decided the world has come to an end this section of it at least and if they want to sur vive they will have to change their winter feeding grounds to Southern California. R.W.R. There are actuaUy three poles in Antarctica: the geographic South Pole; the magnetic South Pole; and the "pole of inaccessi bility," at the center of Aurora Australia. Thursday, November 17, 1953 but Newest American name in the Antarctic regions is "Atka Bay," so named by the crew of the U.S. Navy icebreaker on her 1954-55 reconnaissance trip to Antarctica. Tax Cut Likely Despite Failure Of Geneva Talks Washington (U.R) A tax cut still is likely next year despite the failure at Geneva. This became evident Wednes day when Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson told newsmen that failure to settle cold war problems there will have "little or no effect" on America's de fense program. He said the pro gram is not affected by periodic "ups and downs" in international relations. Spending To Continue Wilson made it clear that de fense spending will continue at about the present level some $34,500,000,000 a year. That means the administration still can hope for a balanced bud get based on greatly increasing revenues and its attendant tax cut next year. Treasury Secre tary George M. Humphrey has stated flatly that tax relief must hinge on a balanced budget. An administration tax expert agreed with Wilson that nothing has changed toward the budget and spending, particularly for defense or foreign aid, simply be cause Geneva was a flop. Geared for 'Long Pull' He said the present defense program is geared for the "long pull." Congressional sources said they believe prospects for bal ancing the budget this fiscal year are good. They said prosperity is the key because it's producing terrific corporate profits and in dividual incomes. These will boost tax revenues for fiscal 1956 much higher than the adminis tration forecast in January and considerably higher than its August prediction. Revenues May Close Gap Although Humphrey has fore cast a deficit of $1,400,000,000, many experts believe increased revenues may close that gap. Humphrey has said he hopes the revenues plus economies may do the trick. He may have to de pend on increased revenues alone. Wilson said Wednesday he still hopes to save about S500,- 000,000 in defense spending in the current fiscal year to bring the total down to about $34,000, 000,000. But Wilson noted that when savings are accomplished in one area, costs go up in an other. Scholarships for Foreign Students Explained at Meet The American Field Service program, which provides teen age scholarships in American high schools for foreign students, was discussed before the Med ford Rotary club Tuesday by Weldon Kline, forest engineer, and Leonard Mayfield, school superintendent for District 49. In explaining the AFS plan before the club at the Jackson hotel, Kline recalled how the or ganization was initiated by for mer members of ambulance units in World War II, with the objec tive of building for world peace through the youth of many na tions. Must Speak English Youngsters who come to the U.S. through- AFS scholarships are carefully screened by or ganization officials and U.S. em bassies in participating nations. Their ages must be between 16 and 18 years, and each must have an understanding of Eng lish and be able to speak it. Selection is made on a com petitive basis, Kline emphasized, and students live in American homes, attend high school and participate in all teen-age activi ties. So successful has the pro gram been since it was started in 1947 that last year 24,000 for eign students applied and more than 600 were placed in homes here. Sponsor Plan Mayfield told Rotarians that the international scholarship pro gram has been so successful within the last eight years 'that a number of Oregon communi ties had undertaken sponsorship, costing $650 -per student. The school authorities of this city were enthusiastically endorsing the program, Mayfield said, and the Medford Rotary club is con sidering joining 12 other Rotary clubs in Oregon in bringing for eign students to this community. Observers of the American Field Service plan claim this program is most successful in stimulating understanding and friendship between this nation and many foreign countries. American high school students also may qualify for scholarships to foreign areas, making the pro gram a true exchange of teen age youngsters. LOSES FIGHT, FINED Detroit (U.R)" Frank Cline, 46, was fined $5 because he lost a fight with a revolving door. Cline tried to exit through a re volving door Wednesday and col lapsed from exhaustion after pushing for 10 minutes. Police carried him off and charged him with being drunk and disorder ly. -.- ACCEPTING COMMISSIONS as lieutenant generals in New West German army from Defense Minister Theodor Blank (right) are Adolf Heusinger (left) and Hans Speidel, both major generals in Hitler's Wehrmacht. (International Italy About Campaign Position as By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Italy is about to start a vigor ous attempt to regain its position as a top-ranking power. President Gi ovanni Gron chi, .Premier Antonio Segni and Foreign Minister Gae- f ljt tano Martino have teamed to get the cam paign going. It is indicat ed that they hope to make cnaries Mct aiin the present Big Four set-up the Big Five. with Italy added to the United States, Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia. The campaign will be started by the Italian ambassadors in the big European capitals and Wash ington. Linked with the campaign is the hope that Italy may be ad mitted to United Nations mem bership under the "package'1 deal, now under consideration, to add 18 countries to the pres ent 60 in the world organization. As the first move in the at tempt to restore Italy to the place it used to occupy in world affairs, the ambassadors to the United States, Britain, France, Russia, West Germany and the North Atlantic Treaty Orgamza tion were called to Rome this week. They have engaged in a series of consultations with Gronchi, Segni and Martino, planning tac tics. First Objective The first objective is to see that Italy is consulted in ad vance on all matters of major Douglas Timberland Tax Rates Boosted Roseburg U.R) A meeting here between lumber company executives and examiners of the State Tax commission has re sulted in a 90 per cent increase in Douglas county timberland tax rates. The examiners compromised on a 32-year depletion rate as a tax basis and invoked rates of $1.35 per $100 valuation on tim berland within a 15 to 30-mile radius of a market point. Timber land beyond the 30-mile limit would be taxed at a rate of $1.15 per $100 valuation. The tax rate increase was the culmination of a five-year sur vey of timberlands in the nation's lumber capital. It was conducted b ythe county forest appraisal department, a division of the county assessor's office. Kefauver Demands Subsidy Explanation Washington (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver has demanded from the administration a detail ed explanation of what he called "huge subsidies" granted to the private electric utility industry under the rapid tax write-off program. The Tennessee Democrat es timated that electric utilities will get tax benefits of about $6,000,000,000 by the end of 1958 under the administration's program for fast tax write-offs for new power plants which strengthen the nation's defenses. "A subsidy of such proportion . . . should be subject to extreme ly close scrutiny under war con ditions," Kefauver said last night. "But under the condition which exist today it is practical ly incomprehensible . . ." DON'T DELAY - ORDER TODAY! YOUR NAME IMPRINTED Christmas Cards On the Balcony at . . . BOOKS To Start To P interest by the United States, Britain and France. Italians were very creased when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew to Rome for talks before he went to the Big Four foreign ministers confer ence in Geneva. Advices from Rome say that Gronchi, Segni and Martino will bid to get Italy in on discussions not only on continental Euro pean affairs but on those of the entire Mediterranean area in cluding the Middle East. That the government's inter est in widening Italy's sphere of influence extends to Southeast Asia and the Far East is shown by the fact that Foreign Minis ter Martino is about to visit Ja pan, Thailand, India, Pakistan and Ceylon. President Gronchi plans to visit Washington early next year. Back in Versailles Treaty days, Italy was one of the allied Big Four with the United States Britain and France. Mussolini's Mistake Benito Mussolini outsmarted himself in his attempt to build up Italy prestige. He did win the Ethiopian war, with the aid of a general who detested him. But then he got his vaunted Fascist "seven million bayonets" dis astrously defeated by Little Greece, made Italy a satellite of Nazi Germany and came to a shameful death after the collapse of Fascism in 1943, two years before Germany and Japan sur rendered. Now Italy's leaders have cast their lot fully with the Western Allies. Communism in Italy, only a few years ago a major threat, is losing out. Italy is a member of NATO and American troops are now stationed on Italian soil. Its re-emergence is a good thing. Need Seen in Portland (U.R) Power needs of the Pacific Northwest will reach 40,000,000 kilowatts by the year 2000, F. S. Brown, chief of the engineering section of the Corps of Engineers, predicted here yesterday. Brown made his prediction at a meeting of the Columbia Basin Interagency C o m m i 1 1 ee. He based his figures on current studies by the Federal Power Commission and Bonneville Power Administration. - He said the region now has an average power load demand of five million kilowatts. He esti mated the Northwest has about 15 million kilowatts of cheap hydroelectric power in sight by 1957. To meet the projected de mand it will be necessary to gen erate a large quantity of steam and nuclear power, he said. Billy Graham Shares Rostrum in London London (U.R) American Evangelist Billy Graham shared a rostrum with the Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of the Church of England, last night in addressing a gathering of the church's highest dignitaries. Graham had been invited to preach to the church assembly at its annual convocation by a group of churchmen, including the Archbishop, who spoke im mediately before him. Over 500 ministers, including six bishops, heard Graham speak for an hour on "Evangel ising the Church." It was the first time an American had" ever addressed the assembly. GIFTS RECORDS Regain ower In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Adlai Stevenson announces that he will be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President next year. He says: "I shall do all I can to per suade my party to entrust that immense responsibility to me again because: ""1. I believe it important for the Democratic party to resume the executive direction of our na tional affairs. "2. I' am assured that my can didacy would be welcomed by representative people in and out of my party throughout the country. "3. 1 believe any citizen should make whatever contribution he can to the search for a safer, saner world." TIE ADDS:. . . AX "Seldom before has the Uni ted States faced a period of greater opportunity and great er danger. "Our great opportunity lies in the fact that our prosperity and wealth can now be used to give all our people the higher stand ards and wider opportunities which are mankind's universal dream. These are now within our reach, not simply for the favored few, but for every fam ily in America. "Our danger lies in the ambi tion of a new tyranny for mas tery of the world and in com munist exploitation of the hope and discontents of the two-thirds of mankind who now demand a share in the good things of life." TJE CONCLUDES: ""In partnership with our friends and allies, with confi dence born of strength and in fluence born of magnanimity we must work to uproot the deep causes of conflict and tension and to outlaw the very means to war in this atomic age. "The task of the Democratic party is to make 'Prosperity and Peace' not a political slogan but an active search for a better America and a better world. "I am ready to do what I can to that end -either as a'worker in the ranks or at, the top of the ticket if my party sees fit to so honor me. TT IS a statesmanlike statement, A and I am .quite sure Mr. Ste venson means every word of it I can think of nothing that would be better for our country, in this period of great opportunities and great dangers (of which he speaks so feelingly and, I'm cer tain, so sincerely) than a 1956 Presidential campaign with Dwight Eisenhower, strong and well, heading the Republican ticket and Adlai Stevenson head ing the Democratic ticket. In that event, we would have every reasonable assurance of sound leadership in the critical years to come, for the personal platform that Mr. Stevenson out lines in his announcement of his active candidacy would set the pattern of the campaign that it would be obviously wise for the Democratic party to wage. II7HAT of his chances to win the " nomination?. . It is too early as yet to hazard even a guess. Fate hasn't yet dealt all the cards. It is possible tha President Eisenhower may return to complete health. Many men have suffered heart attacks and have recovered sufficiently to lead a wholly normal life. It is possible that President Eisenhower might do so. It is possible that in that case he might prefer to continue as the leader of his country in this per iod when his particular talents would be useful. That decision will be his to make when the extent of his recovery is de termined by time. : If President Eisenhower should be a candidate for an other term, it seems probable now that comparatively few people would want to change horses in the middle of the stream we are now fording. If he is not a candidate (which is presently the best guess) Mr. Stevenson will be a strong con tender for the Democratic nomi nation. Tibetans still scratch eold from the earth with gazelle horns. Letters and words of thanks come to us continually from the families we serve. Most of them express not only grati tude but surprise at the service given for the price involved. CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Frank Morgan - FUNERAL Bargain Priced Arms for Israel May Be Available Washington (U.R) . T h a United States may be willing to meet Israel s request for defen sive weapons at bargain prices, administration sources hinted to day. They said three months ago the United States would have re jected any Israeli request for arms at discount prices. But the multi-million-dollar Soviet bloc arms shipment to Egypt has placed a whole new complexion on the question, officials said. Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban formally presented the United States with a list of anti-jet anti-submarine and other defense weapons. He told reporters Israel wants them at "the most lenient price and credit" terms. Egyptian Ambassador Ahmed Hussein promptly warned the State Department that sale of weapons to Israel might touch off an "arms race." He said Egypt "may be compelled" to buy more weapons from Com munist nations or "wherever we ' can get them." The United States immediate ly began studying the Israeli re quest despite Hussein's warning. The weapons list soon will be referred to the Defense Depart ment for its consideration and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will be sure to study it soon after his arrival from Geneva today.' Defense Secretarv Charlps F. Wilson told a news conference Wednesday the United States has ample stocks of any weapons Israel might need. Officials stressed that the. Israeli request will be put to a number of "tough tests" before any final American decision. The United States wants to be doubly sure the requested arms will be used only for defensive purposes. The United States also wants to know the size of the arms shipment to Egypt to determine whether the Communist weapons will tip the military balance in the Middle East heavily to the Arab world. Another factor will be whether Israel accepts United Nations proposals to end sporadic but bloody fighting along the Israeli Egyptian border. New Blood Test 0 To Defect Cancer Washington (U.R) Three Ohio doctors report they have de veloped a new blood test for de tecting cancer which has proved 90 per cent accurate in more than 1700 cases. The test is basei on thicken ing of blood plasma. It can dis close evidence of early cancer as well as hidden types of the disease, the report said. The studies were made by Drs. James A. Quinn, Stanley A. Katz and Arthur E. Rappaport of the Department of Pathology and Laboratories of the "roungs town Hospital Association, Youngstown, Ohio. "Call me 'at the Plaza' What San Franciscan doesn't recognize that address ? It's a famous name, directly on Union Square in the center of downtown San Francisco. , Friends enjoy meeting at this popular hotel, and at El Prado, renowned for fine food and drink. For modern comfort, outstanding service, excellent accommodations, Hotel Plaza is the best value in San Francisco. . RATES: 5.00-6.00- 7.00 SINGLE 8.00-9.00-1 0.00 DOUBLE Sutler 1-720O Teletype SF 877 Best hotel value in Courthouse Harold Snodgrass DIRECTORS
