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I FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Every Doay in boutfiern Oregon Reada The Mail Tribune Published 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 HAKRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Indenendent Newspaper. Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 112.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three moa 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: ... Daily an Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month M Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Aavance SfriclaTPaper of the City of Medford Official PapergfJ ackson County United P" Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: ITaWporlla s"Lo Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL E DITOtlAL AS'SOCM-ATllON 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. 22, 1945 (It was Thursday) Willard Eberhart, former city editor of Ashland Daily- Tidings, named manager of United Press in Honolulu. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Leading ed itorials of the day in the upstate press, deal with "The Big Burn." This concerns a forest fire in Tillamook county, and has noth ing to do with the way the gen eral public feels about the strike situation. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1935 fTt. was Friday) Dr. L. D. Inskeep, city health offirpr. savs doIio epidemic pos sibility diminishes with no new cases reported in three days. Fre Chief Roy Elliott an nounces that George Dayton's eight-piece orchestra will play for annual firemen's ball. 30 YEARS' AGO Nov. 22, 1925 (It was Sunday) Robert D. Lytle of Vale, grand chancellor of Knights of Pythias, to visit Medford lodge. From Local and Personal col umn: The ballroom of the old United States hotel at Jackson ville will again resound with dancing feet and laughter when a Thanksgiving ball is held there next week, if plans materialize. Arrangements have been in prog ress for several weeks past for the laying of a new dance floor over the old and worn one. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 22, 1915 (It was Monday) J. A. Westerlund returns from National Apple show at Spo kane; announces plans for na tional advertising campaign for western apples. From Local and Personal col umn: Senator H. Von der Hellen of Wellen returned Monday from Eugene where he witnessed the football game. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapert 1. The state of Israel now does or doesn't have a security treaty with the U. S. for mutual defense? 2. An old car is traded in on less than one-third of all used car purchases, or about one-half or two-thirds, or more than three-fourths? 3. The proportion of persons over 65 on relief has risen or fallen or stayed about the same in the last five years? 4. Drinking on planes is or isn't regulated by the govern ment through the Civil Aeronau tics Board? 5. The Washington, D. C, In ternational race was run on Vet erans day at the Belmont Park, Laurel Park, Garden State, Pim lico or Washington Park track? 6. Polar bears inhabit the Ant arctic as well as the Arctic; right or wrong?. 7. A tutu is found in a French grammar, jazz band, laws on in heritance by minors, ice cream parlor, or ballerina's dressing room? The Answers: 1. Doesn't. 2. "About one-half. 3. Fallen consid erably. 4. Isn'i. 5. Laurel Park. 6. Wrong. 7. Ballerina's dressing room (it's a ballet costume). MAIL TRIBUNE Speed versus Safety According to report the F.B.I, and certain federal airplane experts are getting together to devise ways and means to protect airplane passengers against bomb explosions. That ghastly and inhuman crime in Colorado a few days ago, is the cause. The comment of a great many people will be "It's about time." THE airplane industry has made sensational ad A vances in making airplanes faster, but little, if any, in making them safer. We think it is high time the airplane company ex perts and researchers paid more attention to safety and less to size, luxury and speed. A CCORDING to army and navy officials thousands of lives both in peace and war have been saved by making parachutes attached to flying personnel compulsory. Whv not dve civilian air-passengers at least the privilege of parachutes if they wish same. It has alscbeen suggested that huge parachute attachments for planes, would save many lives when a plane for some reason is forced down out of control. f!ertinlv some annliance could be perfected that would nrevent a passenger hitting the top of a mountain peak when 25 miles off its course as was the case a short time ago near Den- i ii .-i ver a radar-alarm contrivance wouia appear to be a possibility as a protection and preventive. We have no "Rube Goldberg" gadgets of our own to offer, and alonsr with a majority of the public, don't know the answer to! attaining greater safety. But we do think the airplane companies are concentrating too much on greater speed and not enough on greater safety to a lesser degree are doing the same thing. IF these companies refuse to do something about makinc travel on land and in the air, less hazard ous, in the direction of devising safety equipment, safer designs, etc., on their own initiative, tnen laws should be passed to make them do so. WE grant the human factor is the most important cin ale olom pnt. rn the in creased casualtv lists. "Rut that is no excuse for panies in both fields, failing to do everything that r.AN hp done, mechanically with the inventive eenius and huge financial resources at their command, to make both the airplane and motor car less letnai weapons of destruction and more and more, mediums of reasonably safe, sane and expeditious transporta tion. K.W.K. Is Adlai a Demagogue? As usual praise for ex-Governor Stevenson's speech at' the recent Democratic banquet did not pro ceed from Republicans. And some of the Democrats did not sound particularly enthusiastic. But none of them termed the effort demagogic. Nearly all the Re publican critics directly or indirectly did so. This reaction was predicted m this department several months ago. And the Democrats might as well get used to it for there will time goes on. "HE reason for the demagogic charge is of course 1 that Mr. Stevenson dared to suggest the Republi can party is the party of Big Business while the Dem ocratic party is more interested in ALL business in cluding big, little business and the "little man." There is nothing demagogic aoout mis, it just nap- pens to be the truth. And anyone who has spent any time m wasnmg ton during the present administration will agree, that except during a campaign, many of the Republican leaders will not only admit it, but take pride in their admission. They don't see anything to apologize for m the fact the Republican cabinet for example consisted of "nine millionaires and one plumber," or that the bal ance of power was and is held by outstanding representatives of Big Business. As one of the most prominent of them remarked "This government is big business the biggest in the world why shouldn't Big Business men be' in charge of it? WELL, why SH OULDN'T they ? One reason is there are times when the interests of Big Business and the interest of the people are not identical. In fact they sharply conflict as was true in the tidelands oil case. And naturally a government led by Big Business will go the Big Business way re gardless of that general welfare clause in the consti tution. jVIR. STEVENSON doesn't like that. And a great '''many other citizens don't. Feeling as he does he wall no doubt make this GOP doctrine one of the ma jor targets of his campaign. Why shouldn't he? The voters of the countiy may agree or disagree with that position. But there is nothing DEMAGOG IC about it. ' It is merely calling attention to a difference in the economic doctrines of the two major parties which any discerning and impartial observer of the Ameri can political scene, would admit. It is not a matter of partisanship, but a matter of FACT. RWR. Ward Employees Vote Portland (U.R) Employees of Montgomery Ward in McMinn ville have voted in favor of un ion representation but em ployees of the same firm in Al bany have voted against it, the National Labor Relations Board said today. The McMinnville vote was 21 Tuesday, November 22, 1955 airplane in broad daylight the automobiles companies the manuf acturinsr com be more and more of it as on Bargaining to 12 in favor of collective bar gaining jointly by the AFL Re tail Clerks and Teamsters un ions. The vote in Albany was 30-13 against representation. The NLRB said employees of the Firestone Tire company re tread shop in Eugene voted 6 to 1 in favor of representation by the teamsters. L Rhee Not Softening With Advancing Age But Getting Tougher Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Advancing age does not seem to be softening up President Syngman Rhee of South Korea. 'mZMPvm Rhee was fifl years old last March. He has been active in politics since he was 19. It might be thought that by now, he would be get ing into a phil osophical state i.narles AlcCauu ui 1I1111U- On the contrary, he seems to be getting tougher and tougher. Many Allied leaders fear that some day he will start to back up his frequently angry words with deeds. That might mean involving the United States, am ong other countries, in a big war. Every now and then Rhee de mands that the United Nations cancel the Korean armistice and start the war again. In fact, he threatens to at tack North Korea himself, knowing that he would, bring in Communist China against him and taking it for granted that the United States would have to go to his support. Now Rhee is involved in an increasingly bitter dispute with Japan. It was announced last Thurs day that South Korean naval vessels would fire on any Jap anese fishing craft that violated what is called the Rhee Line of territorial waters. If the Japan ese boats are accompanied by vessels of the new Japanese navy so much the worse it was In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Out of a week of hearings con ducted in Southern Oregon and Northern California by a con gressional investigating commit tee this interesting, if not too palatable, fact has been devel oped: The capacity of our exist ing sawmills exceeds the supply of mature sawtimber that is readily available.. We were dimly aware, of course, of this situation, but the week of public hearings has brought it more forcibly to our attention. It is quite apparent that f rqrn here on out there will be active competition for the re maining supply of .virgin trees. yyHAT should be done about That is a most important ques tion, and no pat answer is at hand. But it does seem clear that the . federal, government, which owns a large share of the remaining supply of virgin tim ber, should proceed without de lay, to get a more up-to-date in ventory of the merchantable timber it has on hand and should then take steps to make its tim ber that is ready for market more accessible. Otherwise, a lot of mills now operating and provid ing payrolls in the communities in which they are located are go ing to have to close down. That won't be relished by any of us. HOW can the supply of mar ketable timber in the posses sion of various government agen cies be made more readily avail able to the mills that need it? The answer to that question seems to be MORE ACCESS ROADS. The government owns the timber. Before the timber in the more inaccessible areas can be brought out, roads must be built. There are two ways to get them built. . One way is for the government itself, which owns the timber, to build the roads. That, of course, will require money, and the money will have to be appropri ated by the congress. The bulk of this government-owned timber is located in the West, and it hasn't been too easy to convince members of congress from the Eastern states that the govern ment should put up the money to make the timber accessible to market. rpHE other way to get access -- roads built is to sell govern ment stumpage cheap enough to make it profitable for potential purchasers to build the roads to get at the timber. That method, in general, has been favored by Eastern mem bers of congress. FROM the standpoint of the Western communities in which the mills that need the timber are located, selling government SUN LIFE ASSURANCE added. The Rhee Line was set about three years ago to protect Kor ean fishing "rights." It extends from 60 to 75 miles off the coast of South Korea. It is aimed spec ifically against Japan, Korea's neighbor across the 100-mile Korea strait. The Japanese are both alarm ed and angry over the threat. Japanese Foreign Minister Ma moru Shigemitsu has announced that he wUl appeal to the United Nations if the threat is actually carried out. Rhee is a valuable ally in that he bitterly hates Communism. He hardly can be blamed for hating Japan, too. He underwent imprisonment and torture, in fighting Japanese domination of Korea, and was an exile for 35 years until Korea was freed in 1945. The white-haired, quick-tempered, diminutive Rhee is Korea's No. 1 patriot. May Be Building Trouble But it seems fair to suggest that Rhee is a little too tough, and that he may be building up trouble for Korea in the years to come. He rules a population of 25, 000,000. His army of about 650, 000 men ranks among the larg est half-dozen fighting forces in the world. But Communist China has a population of 580,000,000 and an army numbering in the millions. Japan, which has 90,000,000 peo ple, is just starting to rearm with the blessing and support of the United States. South Korea is never going to be the dominant power in East Asia. Maybe Rhee ought to make Japan a friend instead of an enemy. News timber cheap enough to make it profitable for operators to build their own access roads has a seri ous drawback. The drawback is this: Such a policy would tend too much to limit the sale of govern ment timber to large concerns that can command the capital necessary to build the access roads. nriHE mills that will be forced - out first by scarcity of availa ble saw timber will be the small mills. These small mills are scat tered all through Southern Ore gon and Northern California They provide the payroll back bone of the communities in which they are located. Generally speaking, they are unable to finance the building of their own roads to get at the timber they need. If they are forced to close down,- through inability to get timber enough, the result will be calamitous to the communities in which they are presently operating. TT SEEMS to me that the situa tion, from the government's standpoint, is as broad as it is long. If Uncle Sam builds the roads to make the timber more accessible, it can get a higher price for its stumpage. If it doesn't build the roads, it will have to sell the timber cheaper. If the joint committee that has been investigating the timber sit uation in this area has been able through the testimony it has brought out at its various hear ings to get a better understand ing of this access problem, it may be possible to get needed money for access roads. - Court Records POLICE COURT William Kirk McLaren, violation of basic rule, $10; no Oregon driver's license. S10. Oscar Thordur Hayerman. violation of basic rule. 51U. George Allen Graves, violation of basic rule, S10. DISTRICT COURT Ralph Hale, reckless driving, S40. Joseph Campbell Whitsett, violation of basic rule, S15. Chadwick Oliver Leaf, failure to dim lights for oncoming traffic. S6. Orville Alvin Koch, no operator's license, S10. Samuel Clifford Hatfield, four per sons over 12 years old in the driver's seat, $11. Bruce Edward Pringle Jr. violation of basic rule, S15. Harvey Skyler Bell, overload, $38. Ted Richard Davison, exceeding bag limit of dark geese, S30. Camille Sanford Lloyd, failure to stop before entering a through high way, S10. Edwin Leroy Neeley; violation of basic rule, $15. Eugene Ray Arnold, overload. $25. Robert William Varney, truck speed ing. $12.50. Byron Lloyd Herbert, failure to stop at stop light, $10. Carl William Garner, violation of basic rule. S20. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION'S Ray Archie Martin, 23, route 1, box 153, Ashland, and Patricia Carol Haynes, 16. route 1, box 500. Ashland. Perry Allen Skeeters, 26. Talent, and Wilma Pearl Sharp. 18, of 116 Ajax St., Camp White. WISHING rV6W7MAKEITS0 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 Matter of Fact ey MOST ORArTGES ARE ROUND" a Chicago This reporter's non- journalistic younger brother, who invented the repellent po litical epithet "egg - head," and who has a good deal more practical political e x perience than the authors of t h is column, developed an i n t e r e sting theory during the 1952 cam- Stewart Alsop paign. His theory was that the real popular appeal of any politician could be measured by his man ner of saying some such mean ingless phrase as "most oranges are round." If he could, say '"most oranges are round" with obvious sincerity and a sort of determined earnestness, how ever brilliant his qualifications and eloquent his oratory. During Adlai Stevenson's press conference here on Wed nesday, this theory kept coming to mind. No one who witnessed Stevenson's performance could doubt that he has a first class intelligence. He was nervous at first and who can blame him? For the press conference, in which a man can inadvertently destroy himself with a few ill chosen words, is surely a more cruel institution than the rack or the thumb-screw. But he soon- relaxed, and he deftly and shrewdly avoided a number of perilous pitfalls, in cluding a question by a corre spondent from Communist Po land, and another about politics ana heart attacks. And, espe cially when he made one of his small jokes, and smiled his wry smile, the human likableness of the man shone through those who have been advising him to wear a mask of permanent sol emnity must be secret agents of the Republicans. Yet something was lacking. What was lacking may be sug gested by a comparison between Stevenson's press conference performance and President Eis enhower's. Stevenson expressed himself well, in grammatical sentences. The President's grammar is often totally non existent, and he is capable of saying almost nothing at all at considerable length. . VET when the President says - what he has to say, even if it is only the equivalent of "most oranges are round," he does it with a sort of explosive sincer ity and earnestness. When Ste venson has to say the equivalent of "most oranges are round," he does it as though he were quite sure that most oranges really are round (and strictly speaking, of course, they're not). Politically,- his inability to ex press the accepted banalities with table-thumping earnestness is the curse of Adlai Stevenson. His friends argue that it is also one of the great strengths of his character and in a way, this is true. Take his press conference re ply to a question about farm pol icy. He said, in effect, that neither flexible supports nor high fixed supports were the complete answer, and went to great pains to demonstrate that his essential position on the is sue had not changed. All very true, no doubt, but hardly the sort of response that makes political hay in the farm belt. As anyone who has -spent even a few days there can testi fy, there are great mounds of political hay to be made in the farm belt. A real instinctive politician a Harry Truman, if TONIGHT! II Featuring the Missionary, JACK ANDERSON, who since the age of 12 has lived with these tribesmen. The film dramatically depicts the everyday life of these natives including their savage dances, making and shooting of the largest arrows in the world. Come tonight at 7:30, to the G FOURSQUARE CHURCH sJlETs Stewart AIsop you will would have been in there pitching as soon as . he heard the word "farm," blasting the Administration for niggard ly incompetence and promising the farmers a new deal all down the line.. Or take Stevenson's perform ance at the "Bonds of Israel" dinner here last week, which still has his supporters wringing their hands. Sens. Everett Dirk sen, Hubert Humphrey, and Estes Kefauver spoke at length first, and they all took the line obviously appropriate to such an occasion that Israel is the bastion of democracy in the Mid dle East, to be defended at all costs. Stevenson then got. up and spoke only a couple of sen tences, to the effect that the American strategic interest in the Middle East demanded sta bility, and that the United States must therefore use all its influence to make certain that the Arabs do not attack the Jews, nor the Jews the Arabs. These remarks notably failed to bring his audience to its feet, cheer ing wildly. WO a remarkable extent Ste venson lacks the political in stinct for saying the things his audience wants to hear. One feels, instead, that his audience is inside his own head, and that he is saying the things that Adlai Stevenson wants to hear. This is no doubt admirable. But one also has the feeling that Steven son, an honorable man in an uncertain age, is not very sure what he wants to hear Stevenson saying. Perhaps it would help if Ste venson were to practice saying most oranges are round," with great earnestness and sincerity every night before he goes to bed. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc Russian Leaders Visit Bhakra Dam Nangal, India (U.R) Two of the Soviet Union's top leaders today visited the site of the Bha kra Dam and discussed the mer its of peaceful competition with a California engineer helping build the giant structure. Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party -chief Nikita S Khruschev arrived here from New Delhi by private train and walked over the site of the dam which will be the second largest in the world when it is com pleted in 1969. The two Soviet leaders, escort ed by Punjab Governor C. P. N. Singh and S. D. Khungar, gen eral manager of the dam, were introduced to American En gineer Harvey Slocum of Alham bra, Calif. Grateful To America "We at one time had Ameri can aid," Khruschev told Slo cum. "We are grateful to the Americans for helping us build our country. Now we are build ing ourselves. We are in compe tition with you and will soon pass you." ''Competition breeds friend- j ship," Slocum replied. "That is a good idea," Khrush chev said, "and it brings peace." Slocum is the chief American consultant at the dam and has been working on the project for five years. Sixty other Ameri cans alse work on the dam but none were seen in the party greeting the Russians. The cement industry in 1954 used almost one-third of a ton of coal for every ton of cement produced. See the Life of Savage Power of the Gospel in the Film: BEYOND THE BELLS Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Che name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name or initial for publication is permis lible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for Dublica tion must not exceed 400 words. Lost Cabin Mine To the Editor: We were much enthused to read Mr. Nealon's item Sunday concerning the Lost Cabin mine, estimated to be around 90 miles northeast of Jacksonville. Thirty-five years ago the Portland Oregonian ran a story and fair description in its Sunday supplement of the Lost Cabin mine. It is' a well known fact, the Klamath county Indians hgd access and packed considerable quantities of the gold nuggets and traded it off to friends from time to time, that was from the seventies and late as 1911. We think the distance of 99 ' miles is nearer the actual loca tion, according to some informa tion that has been given out. These mountain miles are twice as long, and chances are when the discovery is made, it will be in a mineralized belt of Douglas county, yet unknown to present day prospectors. The terrain isr rugged and probably has changed in appearance the past 45 years. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman St., oMedford, Ore. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan Your agency gave us prompt serv ice and full settlement on our fire loss. The loan company that is financing our new home wants to include our insurance in the deal Can we insist on keeping our in surance with your agency? For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phcne 2-4940 How the REVISED STANDARD VERSION BIBLE can help you Written in the language of today, the RSV brings you new under standing of the great stories, parables and teachings of the Bible. 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