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FOTJR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody la Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune . Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager . C. FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AI.l.KN JR City Editor HAKRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 3.50 Sunday Only One year S3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold HllL Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sundqy One year (15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers 6c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATION A J mi rr Danraaantfltlvn WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY. INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL ED1TOIIAL ASSOCfATllQN 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. 25. 1945 (It was Wednesday) Klamath District Labor coun cil slates two-day meeting here. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Many of the fair sex are scouring the town looking for a house to scour, come spring houseclean ing time. 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 28, 1935 (It was Thursday) First National Bank of Med ford sold to First National Bank of Portland; A. A. Schramm to manage branch here. C. D. Bean, chairman of re tail merchants committee, an nounces formal opening of Cnristmas shopping season to morrow. 30 YEARS AGO Nov.- 28. 1925 (It was Saturday) State irrigation commission grants six-months extension of guarantee of interest on Eagle Point irrigation district bonds. Tickets for Medford - Salem football game going fast; game to decide western Oregon cham pionship. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 28. 1915 (It was Sunday) Central Point interests to help organize poultry show in valley. e Ethel Barrymore to appear at The Page theater in movie production "The Final meet." Judg- What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report l. It is usual or unusual or about 50-50 for a retiring Presi dent to pick his successor as pres idential nominee of his party? 2. "Taft". is the middle name of which member of the Eisen- nower caDinetr 3. Highest state tax on gaso line is seven cents a gallon; right or wrong? 4. The Democrat who ran best in the 1952 preferential primaries was Truman, Harriman, Kefau ver, Stevenson or Russell? 5. The Red Cross as a rule does or doesn't get funds in most U. S. Communities by sharing in their annual Community Chest or United Fund drives? 6. Antarctic weather is usual ly warmer or colder than Arctic weather, or about the same? 7. Rita Hayworth is getting a divorce from Joe DiMaggio, Prjnce Aly Khan, Leopold Sto kowski, Dick Haymes or Ernest Hemingway? The Answers: 1. Unusual; 2, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T, Benson; 3. Right; 4. Kefauver; 5. Doesn't; 6. Colder; 7. Dick Haymes. 4 LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE NO. 9277 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE STATE OF OREGON FOR THE COUNTY OF JACKSON PROBATE DEPARTMENT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE of HOMER M. NORTH. Deceased Notice is hereby given that the Final Account of Alta E. North as Ad ministartrix of the above-named estate has been filed herein and that 9:30 o'clock a.m. on December 27. 1955. at the Courthouse in Medford. Oregon has been appointed for hearing ob jections to such Unas Account ana settlement thereof. Dated and first published Nov. 28th, 1955. Alta E. North. Administratrix Van Dyke & Dellenback Attorneys for Administratrix j2XNEWS PAPER PUBLISHERS VS-ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE A Bitter Thing Loneliness, when it comes to a man or woman, can be a. corrosive, destructive,"'thing. Particularly in the middle or later years, when family ties have loosened, and other associations have faded when people such as this are left alone it is then that loneliness can be a bitter thing indeed. In youth there are school associations, dances, a host of organizations and activities. Later on, too often, there is nothing. 4 I7RQM time to time this newspaper has been re- quested to print classified ads by people who are lonely, and who lack other means of making acquaint ances. The paper has been forced, reluctantly, to refuse such ads, for there is little opportunity to check on the reliability and sincerity of the people who place them. - And while undoubtedly the majority are honest and sincere in purpose, there is always an unscrupu lous minority who feel no shame in preying on the loneliness of others, and taking advantage of such ads in a manner which is both unscrupulous and cruel. This has happened often enough that most daily pa pers have similar regulations. . 117HAT is the answer, then? V The stock answers are to go to church, to join a lodge or other group, participate in organizational activities to meet people, and more particularly peo ple of similar interests of both sexes. These answers, like many, are too pat, and often do not solve the problem fofSany one of a hundred reasons which differ with each individual. Some churches, particularly in larger cities, have had success in organizing, under church auspices but distinct from their religious programs, social groups appealing to various interests middle aged groups, young married groups, "golden age" groups, even groups for divorced men and women. CUCH organizations have the advantage of having the principal aim of easing loneliness, and attract ing people of similar interests. Whether or not they could be successful in a small community is doubtful, although one never knows ugtil it has been tried. Meanwhile, for reasons mentioned above, the Mail Tribune will continue to decline advertising of the type described unless and until it can be shown how, within the limits of a newspaper's operation, it can Drotect both its advertisers and its readers from cruel ty and dishonesty of those heartsick and alone. offer of Fact THE JOHNSON PROGRAM Washington For the first time since President Eisenhow er's 1952 landslide, the Demo crats in Con gress are going to challenge the Eisenhow er administra tion all the way down the line. That is the real " meaning of a little-noted speech whi c h Senator Lyn don Johnson, Stewart Alsop Senate Majority Leader, made a few days ago in Texas. In his speech, Johnson outlined in sur prising detail the Democratic program for the next session of Congress. Just about every item of the program he outlined is carefully designed to catch the Administration and the Republi can party neatly between the ribs. There is no question that the Johnson program, which he rath er lyrically calls "a program with a heart," is the official Democratic program. Before he made his speech, Johnson con ferred at length with virtually every Democratic leader, and there is equaUy no question that the great majority of Senate Democrats will unite behind the program. Indeed, the fact that he was able to announce such a program well in advance of the session is a remarkable tribute to the par ty unity Johnson has achieved in his two years as a Majority Leader. The program has a markedly New Dealish flavor, and two years ago it would have thrown the Senate Democrats into a cantankerous uproar. Yet the best guess here is that John son can count on nine out of ten Democratic votes on almost every item. Among other things, the pro gram calls for social security, health, school, roads and hous ing programs on distinctly New Dealish lines. It calls for disaster insurance, Federal relief to de pressed areas ,and amendments to the McCarran Act. It callsj most importantly for tax relief for "low income groups," and for a "farm program which will restore 90 per cent of parity." Johnson's unprecedented ac tion, in announcing such a de tailed Democratic program long before Congress is to meet, was most carefully planned. Its object is to "attack not react." 'C'ACH item of the program was carefully selected. On almost every point, very clearly defined Party positions have been de veloped since 1952. On almost every point, moreover, the Ad ministration is left holding what certainly looks now like the short end of the stick politically. This is especially true of in- Monday, November 28, 1955 who would prey upon those Stewart Alsop creased tax exemptions, which would put extra dollars in every voters' pocket, and which the Administration opposes. It is even more true of the farm is sue, certain to be the most bit terly fought issue in the next session of Congress. Shrewd Democrats also believe that there is much more political hay to be made than is generally recog nized in such issues as schools and roads. In short, the Johnson program is carefully tailored to present tlje Democratic party in an elec tion year as "The party with a hjeart" and the Republican par-J ty, at least by implication, as the heartless party. Republicans would be ill-advised to under-es-timate the dangers involved. Yet there are lurking dangers for Democrats too. One of the dangers is suggested by the am biguously worded seventh item on Johnson's program: "A nat ural gas bill which will preserve free enterprise." The issue of the regulation of natural gas, which involves hundreds of mil lions of consumer dollars and some of the most powerful eco nomic interests in the country, threatens to split the Democrats all over again. Although the issue was suc cessfully shoved under the rug last- session, moreover, it is al most sure to crop up this time. It could well become for the Democrats what the offshore oil issue was in 1952. And, as in the case of offshore oil, there is spe cial danger in the issue for front running Adlai Stevenson, since he will make powerful enemies no matter which side he sup ports. T'HERE is another special dan ger for Stevenson as well. For it has been too often forgot ten that, although Stevenson may make the speeches, the Dem ocratic party in Congress will make the record. For example, Stevenson has recently made un enthusiastic noises about both rigid parity and a tax cut. But the Johnson program clearly means that he will have to get fully in line on both issues, or Kind himself isolated by his own giarty. - It has also been too often for gotten that Lyndon Johnson wiU be a remarkably dominating po litical figure after the next ses sion starts. Johnson says that he is not a candidate for any office, and that he means to concentrate on recovering from his heart at tack. But he is a very well liked man in his party, and he is not the only man who has had a heart attack. All in all, the tall Texan will be a man to watch in the months to come, as, he steers his program through the Senate. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Jt is estimated that there are 170,000 unknown cases of tuber culosis in the United States. AFL, CIO Prepare for Separate Meetings Prior To Joint Session New York (U.P.) Top ex ecutives of the AFL and CIO gathered here today to prepare for their separate conventions beginning Thursday and for the inaugural meeting of their merged forces of 15,100,000 members. The separate conventions prior to the joint meeting a week from today will file the rough spots off a joint AFL-CIO constitution agreed months ago. No amend ments of any substance are ex pected. Both groups must approve any changes and are expected to do so at their historic joint conven tion. Leaders of the merger movement hoped for unanimous approval but there was some grumbling, notably from Mich ael J. Quill, head of the CIO Transport Workers' Union, and Dave Beck, chief of the AFL Teamsters. Prior to the separate conven tions Thursday executive coun cils of both groups will meet, the CIO Tuesday and , Wednesday and the AFL on Wednesday. Reuther To Decide From the CIO meeting may come decisions of CIO President Walter Reuther on whether to run for head of the industrial union department of the merged AFL-CIO and whether to support Quill for the AFL-CIO executive council in view of his attitude towards the merger. The AFL Executive Council is expected to decide whom it will nominate for three positions it still has to fill on the new Executive Council. The council will be made up of 17 represent atives from the AFL and 10 from the CIO, all of whom will be AFL-CIO vice presidents. Reuther's annual report and that of AFL President George Meany will be issued Thursday. Both were expected to be con- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The interstate commerce com mission ordered an end today to racial segregation on interstate trains and buses. It also rules that racial segregation in public waiting rooms is unlawful. In past years the commission has gone along with the theory that separate accommodations for the races ("Jim Crow" cars and waiting rooms) met require ments of the interstate com merce act as long as the accom modations were equal. In to day's ruling it added: "The disadvantage to a travel er who is assigned accommoda tions or facilities so designated as to imply his inherent infe riority solely because of his race must be regarded under present conditions as unreasonable." THE trouble started when the first African slave was brought to America. We are un dergoing now the pains involved in the correction of that origi nal tragic mistake. VlfHO started the slave trade to the Americas? I suppose the discredit belongs to King Charles I of Spain, who in 1516 gave colonists and slave traders permission to take slaves into the Spanish colonies of the New World. The slave trade became so profitable that seveYal nations took part in it. By the time of the American Revolution Brit ish ships were carrying about half the slaves that were brought to the Western world. The British became ashamed of their part in it, and in 1807 the House of Commons passed a bill forbidding the slave trade. Sla very was abolished in all British colonies in 1833. In January of 1808, the young United States prohibited further importation of slaves. This legal ly ended the overseas slave trade, but the institution of sla very endured in our country un til it was ended by the bloody War between the States. THAT raises an interesting question: Was the Civil War NECES SARY to end slavery in our country? v I doubt it. Given time and tol erance and WISE LEADER SHIP, the conscience of Amer ica would have put an end to slavery WITHOUT WAR. rpHAT brings up another inter esting question: Is war inevitable between the free world, as led by the United States, and the Communist slave world, as led by Russia. T DOUBT that also. Given time and tolerance and wise and far-seeing leader ship AND SUSTAINED MILI TARY AND INDUSTRIAL SU PERIORITY on the part of the United States I feel that it may be possible to avoid war be tween these sharply conflicting systems. After all, Communism is as foul as was the system of human slavery. I can't help believing that if time enough can be pro vided the Communist system will fall of the weight of its own foulness as slavery in our own country would have fallen with out war if time and tolerance enough and wise enough leader ship could have been provided. cerned mostlv with the mereer. although it was hinted the AFL report might include a recom mendation for suspending the Airline Pilots union. A subcommittee of the execu tive council recently investigat ed complaints by the AFL flight engineers, on strike against United Airlines, that the airline pilots had acted as "strikebreak ers." Election To Follow Election of officers, in most cases already agreed upon, will follow adoption of the constitu tion at the convention next Mon day. Meany will head the com bined labor organization. It was reported Reuther can have the post of head of the in dustrial union department if he Labor To Fight for Statement Favoring Federal School Aid Washington (U.P.) Labor del- egates served notice today they will fight to have the White House Conference on Education issue a strong statement in favor of federal aid to schools. Their opening gun will be an attempt to change the procedure of the four-day conference to per mit floor debate on the federal aid question. Rules for the con erence, which opens tonight, now provide for no overall debates or voting. The conference the first of its kind was called by Presi dent Eisenhower to cope with problems facing the nation's schools. About 100 delegates from the CIO, AFL and railroad brother hoods decided at a strategy ses sion Sunday night to push for a full-fledged debate on federal aid the hottest issue before the meeting. Some labor delegates charged the session is stacked against federal aid. Protest Labor Voice - The group also protested that labor is inadequately repre sented. Conference Chairman Neil Mc Elroy said he does not see how the procedure for the meeting can be changed at this late date. Under the rules, all discusions will be carried on through 130 round tables of about 10 dele gates each. Round table chair men will meet in a series of pro gressively smaller panels to dis till the views of the 1,800 dele gates into a final report to the President. McElroy said: "We are not gathered here to listen to a series of speeches, to pass resolutions, or to add up votes for or against the various possible solutions of our school problems." , Delinquent Girls Sought in Slaying Of Matron Akron, O. (U.P.) Police launched a sweeping search to day for three of five delinquent girls wanted for the slaying of a detention home matron Sunday night. The five escaped in a freezing snowstorm. Two of the girls gave themselves up several hours later Police said the teenage girls bound Eula Bonham; 59, resident matron at the home, with string and stuffed her mouth with wash cloths soaked in ammonia. The two recaptured girls said the group had planned the murder and escape for days and had re hearsed it Sunday. Talked Into Surrendering The two, Merle Cain, 16, and Margaret Nichols5n, 15, said their boy friends talked them into surrendering. The three still at large were identified as Ruth Beichler, 16; Zelda de' Cost, 16, and Shirley Shingler, 15. No charge had been filed against the girls, police said. Two of the girls had sex delinquency backgrounds and one had once been held for trying to knife a man with whom she had been drinking. Died Instantly - Police said the matron appar ently died instantly after the rags were jammed down her throat. The girls had hoarded the ammonia from supplies used for cleaning floors, police said. The girls apparently jumped the matron when she entered their locked dormitory on a rou tine inspection, police said. They escaped through a smashed win dow and raced into a snowstorm, wearing only short-sleeved prison dresses. Miss Bonham was to have been married in a few days, officers said. ' OREGON GIRL WINS Chicago (U.P.) Linda Lue Shockey, 18 - year - old Cherry ville, Ore., girl, was one of 39 winners in 4-H program contests announced today at the 34th an nual 4-H Congress here. Miss Shockey received a S300 scholar ship for wanning the award in the home improvement division. wants it, and there were indica tions he does. He also will serve as a vice president, as a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Coun cil and probably as a member of the Executive Committee. Undoubtedly the labor lead ers will have something to say about remarks of several of the speakers to address the five-day convention. They include Adlai Stevenson, announced candidate for the Democratic presidential nomin ation; Gov. Averell Harriman of New York; Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, and Marion Folsom, secretary of the Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare. President Eisenhower will send a message to the convention. He defended the round tables system as giving every delegate a chance to express his views. McElroy also warned against overemphasizing the problem of school financing. He said many other important problems face the schools. Finding enough teachers is "perhaps the most stubborn of all." he said. The labor group voted to hold another strategy session Wednes day night, after the first round table discussion. The conference will be opened with a filmed message from Mr, Eisenhower and speeches by Vice President Richard M. Nixon and McElroy. Sixth Suspect in Drug Ring Captured Portland (U.P.) A sixth sus pect in a local narcotics peddling ring was picked up here this week end, according to Jack Merrill, agent In charge of the Federal Narcotics Bureau. . Merrill identified the suspect as Eddie Williams, 23, Portland. He wes accused of selling mari juana. His bail was set at $2,500. Warrant for a seventh person who was secretly indicted by the Multnomah county grand jury along with Williams and five others, also is out, Merrill said. The narcotics roundup fol lowed tvo months of undercover work by a rookie policeman, Earl Johnson. Farm Production Costs Seen Unchanged Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department predicts "little overall change" in farm production costs in 1956. The department's periodical, The Farm Cost Situation, gave these 1956 predictions of farm cost rates yesterday as compared to this year: Feed and seeds expected to be somewhat lower on the aver age. Fertilizer, farm supplies and livestock for feeding and replace ment expected to remain fair ly stable. Farm wage rates, interest rates and prices of building and fenc ing materials, farm machinery, motor vehicles and motor sun- plies expected to be' slightly higher. Farm property taxes per acre expected to be about five rer cent higher. Air Force To Relax Coast Defense System San Francisco (U.R) The Air Force said today it will relax its air defense system along the entire Pacific Coast Thursday to permit freer travel by commer cial and private aircraft. Planes approaching the coast from the ocean or over the Sierra will still face challenge from armed jet fighters if they have not previously identified them selves, the Air Force said. But the area from the coast line to the eastern mountains in Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia will be open to unimpeded air traffic. An Air Force spokesman said the three states will still be "boxed in by guarded aerial frontiers," but the change will "cut down the immense load of paperwork and radio transmit tals." The Air Force also announced that the Air Defense Filter Com munications Center in Oakland, which handles calls from 85 ground observer posts in Cali fornia, will be moved to Reno to "remove it from a prime tar get area." Tuberculosis can be prevented, yet about 100,000 new cases of j TB are reported in the United States every year. T7? VJGet the BESri for LESS lPIR"V L2 Retreat by U.N. On Algerian Issue May Be Needed Lesson By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press orrespondent The United Nations may pos sibly have learned a needed les son from its embarrassing re treat on , the Algerian issue. This lesson is that there is a limit to the extent to which it may i n t e r f ere in the. domestic affairs of its member, coun tries. Fourteen na- cnarles McCauo tions of the SO- called Arab-Asian block in the United Nations had proposed that the Assembly, now in its yearly session in New York, debate the situation in Algeria. The ground cited was that France held Algeria solelv bv force and that the United Na tions ought to discuss the desire of Algerians for freedom. The U.N. steering committee, Warren Sees More Complex Government Wilmington, O. (U.R) Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren said Sunday he foresaw a more complex federal govern ment and he called for more persons trained in government service. Warren told an audience here tor week end dedication cere monies for a dormitory at Wil mington College that he believ ed . . . Our government must necessarily become more com plicated. t "As our way of life becomes more complicated," he con tinued, "it will take more people trained and dedicated to good government." ' Pointing out that many gov ernments had failed because the spirit of the people had died, Warren said: "Our future de pends upon the spirit of the people." ' . ROME PUBLISHER DIES Great Neck, L. I.-(U.R) Ray Vir Den, publisher of the Rome (Italy) Daily American,- ex-advertising 'executive and presi dent of the Dutch Treat club, died yesterday. He was 59. TO CLOSE MARYHILL FERRY Portland Army engi neers announced over the week end that the Maryhill ferry east of The Dalles dam on the Colum bia river would be shut down from Dec. 9 to 12. ' Communications Letters to the Editor must ear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a oen name or initial for publication is Dermis nble. The Mai 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. Thanks From Chin Uppers To the Editor: The members of the Chin Up club wish to nub licly thank all of those who as sisted in making our recent an nual nouDV snow and sale a sup- cess. Without this help it would nave neen impossible for the members of our organization of physically handicapped to pre sent tne sale. The club made a Drofit of an- proximately S125 on the sale. which will be used to meet club expenses during the coming year and to buv materials with which to make favors for those residing at the county farm, convalescent homes and for shut-ins during the year. These iavors are made and distributed for Valentine's day, Easter, Hal loween, Thanksgiving and unristmas. Mrs. Gordon Bowman, President, Chin Up Club Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES which passes on items submitted for Assembly action, voted eight to five against a debate. France Walked Out But on Sept 29, the Assembly overrode the committee. It voted 28 to 27 to debate the Algeria issue. French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay Jled his delega tion out of the Assembly. His action was promptly confirmed by his government. France thus formally established a boycott of the Assembly. Last Friday, however, the As sembly voted unanimously to forget it an. o Strangely, the resolution un der which the United Nations back-tracked was worked out by V. M. Krishna Menon of India. India, increasingly friendly to ward Soviet Russia, has been a leader in the campaign against the so-called colonialism of coun tries like France, Great Britain and The Netherlands. Here is what the U.N. charter says: "Nothing contained in the present charter s?iall authorize tne" United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shaft require the members to submit such matters to settlement under the present cnarter." It happens that Algeria poli tically is a part of France it self. It is not a protectorate like Morocco or Tunisia. Algeria is represented in the French Parlia ment. Veto Threatened Thus, technically it is more essentially a part of France than Puerto Rico Alaska and Hawaii are of the United States. France, in its protest against U.N. meddling in the situation in Algeria, was able to frack up its stand. Though it boycotted the Assembly, it did not boycott the Security Council. In that 11-nation committee, which is the real power in the United Na tions, it has the right of veto along with the United States, Great Britain, Nationalist China and Soviet Russia. France threatened, for one thing, to veto the proposed ad mission of Spain to U. N. mem bership under the "package deal" by which 18 new members are to be brought in. The United Nations' action on Algeria is a big victory for France. It also is a victory for the countries which oppose U.N. meddling in too many things. Christ Healed Her GEO. N. TAYLOR For 12 years she had suffered from, a chronic disease. Her money was gone and she grew not better, but worse. When she heard that Jesus was near she edged thru the crowd; touched His robe and was wholly and in stantly healed. Jesus demand ed who touch ed Him for He knew that sav ing faith was back of it. The woman confessed to it and Jesus said "Go in peace, your faith has saved you." Mark 5th. Now fix your eye on a mother of today who morning by morn ing worried lest the school bus be wrecked and her kiddie in jured. Finallj she left her fears with the Lord and He took away her worry. Now the noint is that both women were saved by faith. So what for you? First, receive Jesus Christ into your heart as the Lord and Saviour who died for you. At that God gives you eternal life. And read your Bible and grow Bible-faith and Christ-likeness,. . This Message sponsored by an Oregon dairyman and family. adv. in every- price rang r
