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TOTTHt MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALJJEN JR.. City Editor HAkRV CH1PMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Ed-tor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper "Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. i SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eaele Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: .,. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper ol the City of Medford Official Pajerof Jackson County United grtgs Full Leased Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU Advertising rieprraeiiiouv- WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago De troit, San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta Vancoaver B.C ' NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdl-ATIION NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS i 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. 24. 1945 (It was Saturday) E. P. Leavitt, Crater Lake park superintendent, ' requests permission from Washington to install equipment to record earth tremors which might result at park; may help determine "mys terious smoking over past weeks." From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The juve nile element have started writ ing letters to S. Claus. If S. Claus can read some of them, he is a dandy. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1935 (It was Sunday) Assets of former Greater Med ford club being turned over to Girls' Community club. Mrs. Flora Hunsaker elected president of county Intermediate Teachers' council. 30 YEARS AGO Nov. 24. 1925 (It was Tuesday) F. C. Dillard, Medford water engineer, announces survey of new water system may be com plete by Christmas. State game commission releas es 144 pheasants on Rogue valley farms; several hundred more ex pected soon. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 24, 1915 . (It was Wednesday) Medford residents urge coun sel to force the payment of delin quent paving assessments before flew levy is authorized. From Local and Personal col umn: It may be noted that a fcreat many people familiar with the equable climate of Rogue river valley are rapidly acquir ing the habit of making their Winter home in this part of south- trn Oregon. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lh 71 Kopr. 1955. Editorial Research Rapft 1. Most line-ups in votes in the U. N. are between the big na tions on one side and small na tions on the other; right or Wrong? 2. Which two of these are linder 55: Adlai E. Stevenson, Chief Justice Warren, Gov. Knight, Sen. Knowland, Sen. Kefauver, Gov. Harriman? 3. An average American gets Iwo, four, six, eight or ten colds year? 4. Federal excise tax on lubri: bating oil is five cents a gallon, less or more? 5. Third largest colonial power (after Britain and France) is Russia, the U. S., The Nether lands, Spain or Portugal? 6. Well less than half, about fialf. or well more than 'half of rill U.S. farms are free of mort gage? 7. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, once a bitter foe of Soviet Rus sia, says he is now pro-Soviet, Hill anti-Soviet, or neutral as between East and West? The Answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Knowland and Kefauver. 3 Six, says U.S. Public Health Service. 4. More (6c). 5. Port ugal. 6. Well more than half. 7. Neutral. A medium-powered turbo-jet Aircraft engine, such as often used today, burns its own weight of petroleum fuel every 20 min utes in flight. .. - - . Gf3l MAIL TRIBUNE Thanksgiving From the standpoint of the cosmos to be enthu siastically thankful this year in accordance with the presidential proclamation takes a bit of doing. In other words the world as a whole is pretty much in a mess, on this 24th day of November 1955 A.D. Not from the standpoint of Moscow and commu nism, but from the standpoint of democracy, human freedom and the United States. CAST, west, north or south there is nothing very cheering in the picture. Not only was the second Geneva conference a flop but it would appear that our policy in India has not been the success we had imagined, or that ac cording to our lights, it should have been. We have not only spent millions to save the starv ing of that country, but we have spent more millions in aiding them to support their own people in comfort via improved farming methods and gifts of modern farm machinery. JUDGING by the welcome given the Russian leaders however on their pilgrimage of propaganda, there is little if any gratitude toward the U.S.A. as far as the rank and file in India-are concerned, and great enthusiasm over Messrs. Bulganin and Khrushchev, with their phoney talk and specious promises. If this means Russia is going to take over India as another "independent satellite" a la Poland and Czechoslovakia, then all Asia will be lost to the dem ocratic powers eventually. TN THE Middle East conditions are not so serious particularly with the Bagdad pact in the offing. But they can't be called good. Russia is supplying arms and ammunition to the Arabs through Egypt, and the Kremlin doesn't give weapons of war to any foreign nation or nations, with any expectation they won't be used; and in the direction Soviet Russia desires. TF EGYPT starts a "holy war" against Israel, the Arab nations will jump in with her and Russia won't be far behind when Arabian oil wells enter the picture, thus acquiring what Russia has coveted for decades, and without taking any military or naval action herself much less starting a world war. In accordance with the "New Deal" policy in Moscow she will let other nations do the fighting, and she will only share the loot, and later through infiltration take over. . , IN WESTERN Europe conditions are better. Russia neva may even have strengthened the western al liance against Russian aggression. But even so, with German unification and union with the western alli ance," the corner stone of American, success in that part of the world, the outlook could hardly be termed promising or cheerful. Even in South America all is in a ferment, with the ultimate outcome highly doubtful, so far as re approachment with North America along friendly democratic lines in the near future are concerned. . CO FROM the standpoint of this whirling old ball-of-dirt there is not much to be thankful for this day of national Thanksgiving. Which doesn't mean, of course, that from the standpoint of this section of the terrestial . globe the U.S.A. reasons for thanksgiving are hard to .find. Quite the contrary in fact. President Eisenhower has made a remarkable recovery and there seems little doubt he will be able to serve out his present term under fairly full steam, which means former Senator Richard Nixon won't occupy the White House this year or next at least. That is something to be thankful for! THERE is also "peace and prosperity" as the GOP claims the seeds of another war are . discernible in the air now and then but at least our boys are not now in the business of killing and being killed as they were on a certain Thanksgiving not so many years ago. And while everyone hasn't a job or the price of a 20 pound turkey, most of our citizenry has, and most of the experts predict this era of peace and plenty will continue for another year at least and they may be right this time even though a majority of them were wrong when they made the same predic tion around a quarter of a century ago. Finally when one comes down to brass tacks everyone who enjoys reasonably good health, has enough to eat and a warm place to sleep should fol low the President's suggestion, and thank the Lord for His manifold blassings, there are so many mem bers also of the genus homo, particularly in other less fortunate lands, who HAVEN'T ! R.W.R. . Graham No! To Get Psychiatric Test Denver iU.P.) John Gilbert Graham, charged with murder in the sabotage of a United Air Lines plane that killed his moth er and 43 others Nov. 1, will not be given a psychiatric examina tion requested by his temporary attorneys. Two civil attorneys, who are seeking to find the 23-year-old restaurant operator competent counsel for his trial asked Safety Manager Edward O. Geer Wednesday to permit a phychia trist to examine their client at the Denver County jail. Geer agreed! He said the law yers wanted to know whether Graham's mental condition was such that he should be allowed to talk to newsmen, and wanted his behavior in the jail for the past 10 days evaluated. Thursday, NoTmber 24. 1955 Wounded Policeman Undergoes Surgery Salem (U.R John Mekkers, the state police officer who was shot and wounded in attempting to. arrest two men in the act of holding up a Rickreall tavern late Sunday, was reported in satisfactory condition today at Salem General hospital. Tuesday. He was wounded in the arm and shoulder when he tried to arrest Robert Scott Kennen of Salem and Wallace Carlyle Cunningham of Portland. Cun ningham was shot and killed by Herschel Greenfade, a .Dallas service station operator, who was deputized by Mekkers when he arrived at the holdup scene. Kennen was arrested and charged with assault with intent to kill. He is being held in Polk county jail at Dallas. Today and By Walter THE SHORTAGE 1 OF EDUCATION Next week some 2,000 educa tors and laymen, drawn from all the states, will be in Washington to attend the conference on edu cation. They, have - al ready taken part in a series of local and state confer ences, and this is, so to speak, a meeting at Walter Lippmann the Summit. They have been called together by President Eisenhower who has had from Congress approval of the conference and an appro priation to pay for it. The reason for the conference is that education in this country is in serious trouble and big measures will be required to cure the trouble. It is the busi ness, indeed it is the duty, of the White House conference to re port to the President "making recommendations insofar as pos sible" for the "solution ... of significant and pressing ' prob lems in the field of education." npHE agenda of the conference -- covers almost every aspect of education from curriculum to fi nance. This raises a general and overriding question. It is wheth er the conference will try to say a little something about every thing or -whether it will resolute ly face up to the hard but essen tial task of making recommenda tions on, the biggest problems about which the Federai govern ment can do something. The leaders of this conference will have missed the bus the bus provided for them by the President and Congress if they scatter their energy over the whole enormous field of educa tion. They will have made the old mistake of talking about so many things that few will re member that they have talked about anything. They will have missed the bus, too, if instead of coming to a decision on the prac- tical problems which concern the Fedexal government most imme diately, they are content to use the White House as the sounding board for giving more publicity to problems which have already had immense publicity. . - TT IS nearly - two years since President Eisenhower asked Congress to approve this confer ence. -The time has now come to form a policy and take a de cision. What policy? A policy which shapes the relation of the Federal government to the supr port of the schools. There is a strange notion afloat in the land that to have a Federal policy on education is to have something new, some thing contrary to the American philosophy of government. As a matter of fact national grants in aid of education are as old as the Republic. More exactly, they are older than the Republic in that the Northwest Ordinance of 1785 contained an enormous na tional grant in aid of education. It provided that when the west ern lands had been surveyed "there shall be reserved the lot number 16 of every township for the maintenance of public schools within said township. The list of Federal statutes pro viding aid for education is a long one.. It includes the land grant colleges, vocational training, vet erans education, and aid to sup port schools in areas affected by Federal activities, such as de fense plants. There is no new principle in volved. The question is whether Federal aid is necessary and, if it is, how Federal aid is to be given to the schools while avoid ing Federal control and Federal domination of the schools. rpHERE is a grave shortage in - American education of which me outward signs are over crowded school rooms, part-time schooling and over - worked teachers. The basic fact is that our population is growing very rapidly, that more and more young people are going to school and college, that the schools and colleges are expected to do more and more for them. In a word, the demand for education has been growing. There are not enough school rooms and there are not enough teachers to meet this demand. This is the educa tional shortage which the White House conference is called upon to deal with. rpHE shortage of classrooms is - quite evidently a problem of monev. The classrooms can be built if the money is provided. The question is whether each state separately can raise the money that it needs, or whether Federal money should be appro priated. This is the most import ant question before the White House conference, and the coun try has a right to expect a clear answer. The shortage of teachers is, on the other hand, only in part a question of money. It has been demonstrated, as we shall see in my next article, that it is not even' theoretically possible to find enough teachers to meet the demand, and that a reorganiza tion of the teaching system will have to be undertaken. But the shortage of teachers cannot in any case be met unless there is- Tomorrow Lippmann a marked improvement in teach ers' salaries. - THERE is no reason why Fed eral money for school build ings should mean Federal con trol of education, control of what is taught, of how it is taught. In fact, Congress could "and, it seems to me, that Congress should, declare in appropriating money for Federal aid that the money shall be used for the con struction of schools, and that no Federal official shall give funds or withhold them in order to in fluence what is done in the schools when they are built. It would then be a Federal offense to use Federal aid to establish Federal control of the schools. (To be continued in another article). Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) Matter of Fact bv BENSONOPHOBIA Dubuque, la. There is only one issue in this part of the Mid dle West. It is, of course, the farm issue. But you have to smell the poli tical atmos phere in this area, to realize just how big an issue the farm issue is. Republic a n chances of holding the Middle West- Stewart Alsop era Republic an heartland next year are seri ously threatened by farm discon tent. In talks with large num bers of politicians, reporters, and even some farmers, this reporter has not found one who does not believe that this is so. For ex ample, one Iowa farm leader, a Taft Republican, has said flatly that Iowa is dead certain to go Democratic in 1956 if the pres ent trend continues. Many neu tral political observers agree, A Democratic win in Iowa could only mean a Democratic land slide nationally. Nor is there any doubt that the name of that able and honor able man, Secretary of Agricul ture Ezra Taft Benson, is sheer political poison in this area. In a way, this Bensonophobia is mysterious. Most Easterners suppose that the 90 per cent of parity formula is the central farm issue. Actually especially here in Iowa, which is essentially a livestock producing state rath er than a grain State, many farm: ers have little more use for rigid 90 per cent supports than Benson himself. Yet these same farmers, at the protest meetings which are beginning to be held in many parts of the Middle West, stamp their feet or hoot in derision when Benson's name is mention ed. In part, this is no doubt Ben son's fault he has an unfortu nate habit of issuing complacent statements forecasting upturns just before pork or corn hit new lows. But this is only a small part of the reason for Benson's un popularity. In the Middle West, Benson is not so much a person as a symbol: As a symbol of farm discontent, Benson's name has of course been exploited to the ut most by the Democrats, but the rebellious mood of many farm ers in the Middle West is no mere Democratic plot. A SMALL incident which oc curred in the office of the great Iowa newspapers, "The Des Moines Register" and "Tri bune," suggests what farm dis content is all about. Thomas E. Martin, Iowa's Republican jun ior senator, was visiting the pa pers, and he was asked by the able farm editor, James R. Rus sell, how he felt. "Fine, Jim, just fine," the senator replied, beam ing. "Take a look at these head lines," Russell replied, "and you won't feel so fine." The head lines read something like this; HOGS AT 14 YEAR LOW . . . STOCK MARKET NEARS ALL 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 Courthouse Frank Morgan - FUNERAL MKftbkni Atomic Waste Disposal Problem Slowing Nuclear Power Future By JOSEPH L. MYLER United Press Correspondent Washington (U.P.) The bright future predicted for nuclear power can't come to pass until' someone comes up with a safe and cheap way of getting rid of the splitting atom's deadly by products. As of today,, nobody has done this. But Arthur E. Gorman, sani tary engineer in the Atomic Energy Commission's Reactor Division, feels "sure the disposal problem will be licked." AEC laboratories are spending around $1,000,000 a year on re search into proposed ways of stowing radioactive wastes where they can never do any, harm. ' A number of effective tem porary measures have been put into use. Yet no permanent dis posal methods have been devel- Stewart Alsop TIME PEAK . . . CORN DOWN AGAIN . . . ORGANIZED LA BOR MAKES NEW GAINS. Aft er a thoughtful look, Martin agreed that maybe he didn't feel so fine after all. It is a sense of being left out, of being discriminated against, that seems to enrage the farm ers, even more than the sharp drop in farm income. One astute farm editor here put it this way. Suppose you were one of three people in an office, all doing the same job. Suppose the other two got raises and you got your pay docked 20 or 30 per cent, while your boss kept telling you not to worry and everything was dan dy. Wouldn't you be feeling kind of mad? The farmer feels, in short that business and organized labor are skimming off all the gravy at his expense, while he has no means to protect himself economically It is no use pointing out that the farmer himself got plenty of gravy in his time. - Nor is it any use pointing out that a good many family-size farms are sim ply not efficient economic units any more. A farm policy based on this economically justifiable assumption would be political suicide. The fact is that the sharp drop in farm income amounts to kind of double crisis. One crisis is political. The Democrats are under heavy temptation to try to buy the farm vote, ' at any price. And many of the smartest Republicans in this area are scared blue, a condition which does not often lead to sensible policy-making. There is hardly a major Republican leader in this part of the Middle West who has not urged, . publicly or pri vately, the firing of Secretary Benson. " TUT firing Benson is not going to solve anything, not even the political troubles of the Re publicans. For the trouble in the farm belt is more than a purely political crisis. It could easily lead to a genuine national crisis. Until two years ago, it was a universally accepted doctrine that the farmers would continue to prosper as long as the national income rose. This doctrine has now been knocked into a cocked hat. National income has gone steadily up, while farm income has gone steadily down. Some thing has gone seriously wrong somewhere. And. the political leadership which can address it self sensibly and effectively to what has gone wrong is very likely to capture the White House in 1956. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. BUST PRESENTED Balboa, C. Z. OJ.R) Pierre de Lesseps presented a bronze bust of his great grandfather, Ferdinand de Lesseps, to the Panama Canal Co. Wednesday in ceremonies marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of his forbear. Ferdinand de Lesseps came here 7p years ago to plan The Panama Canal. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5 :30 previous day Harold Snodgrass DIRECTORS oped which are certainly safe and at the same time economic. Unpleasant Characteristics "The reactor core of an atomic power plant -possesses some of the more unpleasant character istics of an A-bomb or H-bomb. Though it can't explode like a nuclear weapon, it does produce the same radio-activities. These include much publicized stron-tium-90, the H-bomb contami nant that gets into plants and animals and can cause bone tu mor and death. So you can't just shovel "atomic ashes" into wheelbar rows and dump them out behind the plant. Because some of the products of atomic fission are long-lived, experts figure re actor wastes will have to be kept intact and isolated from living things for as long as 200 years. That complicates the problem, because almost no container that might be easy and cheap to make can be depended upon to resist corrosion or cracking that long. Another problem; Gorman said, is heat. Radioactive mater ials generate a lot of it. Dump them where the heat can't get away and in the course of time you're likely to have a minia ture volcano geyser to contend with. Storage Temporary The AEC has achieved safe storage of wastes from its big Hanford, Wash., and Savannah River, S.C., plants. But storage is temporary, not-, permanent, and the costs are higher than an atomic power industry could eco nomically handle. Nothing so far proposed, Gor man confirmed, appears ade quate from both cost and safety standpoints to the "atomic in dustry expected to develop in this country by the year 2000. By that time, it has been esti mated, there will be some 400 big-scale atomic power stations in the United States. . . The British appear to believe it is safe to dump reactor wastes into ocean deeps. This country however, has been willing to dis pose of only "low level" wastes that way. Gorman said much more in vestigation must be made of ocean bottom currents and con ditions before sanitary engineers will know for certain whether wastes of high level radioactiv ity, suitably packaged, can be permanently and harmlessly thrown into the sea. Many 'Must Nots ' The "must nots" are many. High level radioactivity must not be permitted to contaminate ground water supplies, it must not be permitted to poison the multitude of sea and land life forms which are a basic part of favorite hereabouts' the earth's biological economy, it must not be permitted to men ace future generations of plants and animals. o For that reason, Gorman said, "We're not throwing it awag where we can't get it back." This is a situation in which, he added, "a mistake would be a bad one." But many ideas have been de veloped and out of them, Gor man feels certain, a solution will come. Some fission products per haps can be chemically fixed in the .soil so tljey can never be taken up by plants. Perhaps limestone or salt caves in many parts of the country can be used at least for indefinite storage of hot wastes. Another proposal has been to dump wastes, confined in steel and concrete, into the deep mud and the ooze of the Gulf of Mex ico. The drums would sink down through the mud which would provide a permanent cover. Christmas Trees, Holly Can Be Taken Into California Cut foliage of holly and Ore gon grape, as well as cut Christ mas trees, may be taken over the California state line without cer tification, Jackson county horti culture agent, C. B. Cordy, said today. He pointed out, howeve, that individual entire plants of holly must be certified. Cordy said the extension service can certify plants which have been grown outdoors. Apples, pears, peaches and most other fruits and vegetables grown in this area, Cordy said, have free access into California in small lots. Cherries are a not able exception, he added,' and cannot be taken across the state line. Commercial Loads Commercial loads of melons, squash and various other types produce must have point-of-or-igin certification. Walnuts must have the soft, outer ' husk removed, but bare nuts can pass agricultural check ing stations. In the spring, certification-must be obtained on peppers, tomatoes and egg plants. Cordy said that most fruits, vegetables or other plants grown in the area pass state line in spectors. Although they ask for such items, he said, "in the ma jority of cases they merely look at it and return it to the tourist." About 8,000 "Americans now live in Lebanon, them business men stationed there with their lanulies. V
