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o rOTTH rEDFCrRD (OREGOlf) "Everybody Id Southern Oregon Reads xao Man in puce Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-M North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON. Managing Editor ERIC AJ-LEN JH City Editor HAitRY CHIPMAN, TelegraDh Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr. An Indepenaent newspapei Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1397 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily end Sunday One ear$i2.00 Daily and Sunday S:x months 6 30 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.oU Sundav Only One year 3f50 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eaele Point jarktionville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Bhady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, end on motor routes: ,m Daily and Sunday One year $13 oo Daily and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealers Be per copy. AU Terms Cash in Advance fffflctal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackaon County " t..-j e.. run leased Wire . - - r. TTT-1TT BUREAU OF cmt-umi Advertising neprraeuiu. WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assooTatiIon x-j u u wwmumH O1 NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS i ASSOCIATION Flight o'Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO NovJ30. 1945 (It was Friday) Debate teams composed of Bill Moffat, Jerry Igo, Janet Horseley and Jerry Liebman win pre-season debate at Rose burg High school. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Galoshes are no longer popular with the fair sex. One of the Older Girls reports they make her feel like she was walking across a plowed field. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 30. 1935 . (It was Saturday) Humane society reports dogs killing sheep in areas just out side city limits. Glen Fabrick, president, calls first meeting of Rogue Snowmen this season. SO YEARS AGO Nov. 30, 1925 (It was Monday) J. D. Russell, A. E. Orr and R. B. Strang in charge of city's Christmas season opening tomor row night. Howard Dynan of Medford re ceives award from California Oregon Power company for sav ing life of fellow employee. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 30, 1915 (It was Tuesday) E. J. Kaiser, Ashland post master and founder of Record, shot by post office employee who kills himself; Kaiser in fair condition. From Local and Personal col umn: This is the last day on which exposition low fare tick ets will be sold by the local Southern Pacific agent. . What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of lho 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report Can You Get 4 of the 71 1. The Pilgrims always cele brated Thanksgiving in Novem ber; right or wrong? 2. If a U.S. official is ' im peached, the charges are brought by the Senate, the House, both of them, the President, the At- tornev General or the Supreme Court? 3. Are there any states in which more than half the land area is owned by the federal Government? 4. Of all U.S. millionaires about 5 percent, 20 percent 35 percent, 50 percent or 65 per cent are estimated to be Jewish? , 5. Which two of these states ehave the most electoral votes in electing a President next year: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Cal ifornia, Texas? 6. More or fewer or about the same number of hospital beds are set aside each year for tuber culosis victims? 7. Wattles are found on poul try, on fish, in Australian forests, in a framework, or on roofs? The Answers: 1. Wrong. 2. Charges brought by the House, heard by the Senate. 3. Yes. 4. 9 About 20 percent. 5. California and Pennsylvania (32 each). 6. ' Fewer. 7. All of them. Klamath Falls (U.R) The Klamath Basin Water Users Pro tective Association is prepared to withdraw all objections to California Oregon Power Com pany's proposal to renew oper ation of Link itiver aam. MAIL TRIBUNE S-D Day Tomorrow It would be wonderful if the United States could go through one full 24-hour period without a fatal traffic accident. It is doubtful, however, that this can be done, but to come close would be cheering. The former is the objective of the second annual S-D (Safe Driving) day, which is supported by gov ernmental and safety authorities all the way up to the President of the United States. S-D day is tomorrow. , . "THERE is reason to believe that progress is being A made in traffic safety, for statistics in recent years reveal that, while the total number of traffic deaths are up, this is largely due to the increased number of cars on the highway. The actual death rate, based on the number of mile3 traveled, is down. Last year the death rate was 6.4 per 100,000,000 miles traveled, compared to 16.3 for the same number of miles traveled in 1927. This decrease of almost two-thirds in the death rate per mile was recorded despite the fact that the number of motor vehicles on the highways climbed from about 23,000,000 in 1937 to about 60,000,000 in 1954. THE objectives of S-D day are two-fold. The first, of course, is to reduce the number of deaths on that day. The second is to bring home the fact that the death and accident toll is, actually, reducible by greater cau tion and thoughtfulness on the part of the nation's drivers. Looked at coldly, the second objective appears to be the more important in the long run. MOST of us know, at least in theory, what the prac- UtCD diC W 1111,1.1. t,U3l 11 V Co Oil WilC DCiCClO anu lligll- ways. Speed, carelessness, driving while in no condition to drive because of sleepiness or intoxication, mechan ical defects we know that these contribute to the number of accidents. And we realize that these factors are within our control. An increasing realization of this is, in fact, cutting down the accident death rate throughout the nation. Perhaps the nation can get through tomorrow without killing anyone in an automobile accident. We hope so. And let's make sure that if anyone dies, it is not around here. E.A. I Never Saw A Purple Cow... A week or so ago in this space it was reported that an "expedition" was planned to "explore" the slopes of Mt. Shasta in the hope of uncovering evidence of "Lemurians" reportedly inhabitating the area. Further information had been promised, but so far has not been forthcoming. UT as a result of the report here, we have been provided with considerable additional informa tion about the legends of Mt. Shasta, and a vast com plex of occultism of which the Mt. Shasta tales are only a tiny part. There are, it appears, a dozen or so sects which base their whole philosophy of life pretty much on the theories of the lost continents of Atlantis (in the Atlantic ocean), Lemuria (in the -Pacific, or Indian, ocean depending on which group is talking) and Mu, also in the Pacific. It also appears that the method of research em ployed in ascertaining the facts of - life on these ancient lands is to sit and think about them and, through intuition, to come to the proper conclusions. . S MIGHT be expected, contradictory and, in a There is not space here to go into the matter in detail, for a whole library of books has been written on the subject some of them outlining the "revealed" truth about Atlantis et al ; others giving a more ration al view of the lost continent theories. But one or the other of them have described Le murians in various stages of development as astral disembodied beings, or as creatures resembling men in some ways and apes in others. It depends on which group of occult devotees one consults, but each ap parently has worked out histories of the world, and of the races of mankind, based on their intuitive re searches. That the various versions have little simi larity appears to bother none of them, for each is confident in the truth of his own, believing the others to be in error. HTHE sensible attitude may well be to view them all with vast skepticism, tinged, possibly, with more or less tolerant amusement. This, of course, will be infuriating to the initiates of the sects involved. They're probably used to it by now. But wThen their theories are presented with com plete lack of any tangible evidence to support them; when the theories so completely disagree, even on essentials, let alone on details; when all the discov eries of qualified scientists and investigators are blithely dimissed, and the only items of "evidence" presented are the dreams and fancies of proven charlatans, on the one hand, or of self-proclaimed "sensitives" or "occultists" on the other in such a case one may be pardoned if his conclusions are some thing less than unquestioning acceptance. IF, however, we were on a stroll along the foot hills of Mt. Shasta and chanced to meet a Lemurian (tall, stately, white robed, according to one belief; tall, hairy and with a "sixth-sense" bump on the fore head according to another), we might be impressed. Particularly if he was riding in an air boat, op erating on the general principles of levitation; or if he were engaged in some esoteric ceremony in a vast crystal hall far underground. Until then we beg leave to remain skeptical. ' E.A. Wednwday, Korember 30, 195S the results are divergent, word, wierd. in fhe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Minneapolis Tribune, a re sponsible newspaper operated by the Cowles family, which has other large newspaper interests in the Middle West, says in a copyrighted article that the de partment of agriculture will soon announce a soil saving plan that will be expected to cost an av erage of about $100,000,000 an nually for the next 15 years. It adds that the proposal would , provide for paying the cost of installing soil conserva tion cover (meaning crops, such as grasses, that improve the soil) on land taken out of production under contract with the govern ment. Under the plan, farmers would also get up to $5,000 per year to compensate for UNPRO DUCED crops that is to say crops, such as corn, wheat and cotton, that they DIDN'T pro duce. fTHE Tribune's article tells of other details to cut farm out put and at the same time en courage soil conservation. It says that . under the plan farmers might enter the program and still use such land (that is, land devoted to cover crop conserva tion of soil fertility) to pasture livestock. - But, it adds, this acreage would have to be in ADDITION to acreage NORMALLY planted to cover crops or left to lie fallow as a soil conservation device. Presumably that means that if a farmer wants to pasture live stock on the acres he gets paid for planting to soil conservation cover he must CONTINUE to put out cover crops or. leave fal low as large a percentage of his remaining acreage as he has NORMALLY done in the past. In the first year of operation of the new plan, the Tribune's article says, the aim would be to persuade 832,000 farmers to take more' than 16,000,000 acres out of production. ON SUCH a sketchy outline, it is difficult to form an accu rate opinion as to just how well such a plan would work. But this much, at least, can be said with a certain amount of confi dence: IF it resulted in taking out of production some 16,000,000 acres of land now devoted to produc tion of SURPLUS crops that presently are being piled up in storage that costs a lot of money and hangs like a dark thunder cloud over the markets of the future And X IF its cost was only $100,000, 000 annually for the next 15 years,' which is mere vest pocket change in these days of fabulous subsidies to hire people to do that which is only good common sense, anyway It would be BETTER than the present system which amounts to subsidizing continued heavy overproduction of certain farm crops of which there is already a huge and burdensome surplus. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or Initial for publication is permis sible. 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. Trail Blazer To the Editor: How many of the Tribune readers remember Ezra Meeker, one of the last survivors of the prairie schoon ers, herding a yoke of fat oxen over the remnants of the old Oregon emigrant trail. Our first and only time to see the then 90-year-old Meeker was at the first automobile show held at Kansas City, Mo., February, 1909. The old trail blazer with black twinkling eyes hardly looked his spry old age. He was perched atop an old wagon selling souvenir cards. He said it would be his last trip West. Little did we think then, that we would be going over the same route a few years later in a Model T. All the Ore gon Trail markers were visible until reaching Granger, Wyo., where we followed the Forty Niner's route, now the Roose velt Highway to Ogden, Utah, then northwest through Idaho and central Oregon .trail to Burns, Ore. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman st., Medford, Ore. To A Thief To the Editor: I hope the thief who entered our home at 105 Nutley st. in Ashland and stole more than five books of trading stamps from a desk drawer will read this. We had the misfortune through someone's carelessness, of losing most of our household furnishings by fire and what was left by water and smoke damage. Then because we couldn't live there, and had to wait for the insurance adjust ments to be made. You come into our house without permis sion and what is more, snoop through my desk and help your self. What else did you steal from me besides the trading stamps? It took a long time to save up those stamps and I was World Seems Unable To Gel Along Without Services of Old Men By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The world just doesn't seem to be able to get along without its old men. expected that the atomic age would bring a complete new generation in to world lead ership. But that has not happened. Nor' is there any indication that it is going Charles AlcCaan TO happen soon. The old men are holding on. Winston Churchill, for exam ple, gave up his job as prime minister of Great Britain last April 5 because of his advanced age. But today, as he celebrates his 81st birthday, reports are coming from London that his Conservative Party can not get along without him. Anthony Eden, whom Church ill groomed for years as his suc cessor, is under heavy fire. Churchill left a gap which the British government has not been able to fill. The word from Lon don is that Churchill has been asked to take a much more ac tive part in leadership. Badly Needed There is no suggestion that he might take office again. He will remain an ordinary member of the House of Commons. But he is needed badly to strength en Eden in debate and counsel. There is Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the Federal Re public of West Germany. Aden auer will be 80 on Jan. 5. But Russia trying to weaken his gov ernment, Western leaders shud der at the thought that anything might happen to him. There is President Syngman Rhee of South Korea. Rhee ad mits to being 80 years old. He will celebrate his 81st birthday next March 26. A lot of Ko reans believe he has forgotten a few years. Nevertheless, dispatches from Korea say that Rhee has decided to run again, for a third four year term, when the presiden tial election is held next July or August. President Juho Paasikivi of going to trade them for some thing for Christmas, but when I went to get them, they were gone. You know I can have you arrested for looting. Even a sneakthief must have some de cency. It isn't too late. Why don't you wrap up those books and send them over here to me? Be lieve me, you won't enjoy any thing you might trade them for. The contents of that house are in the hands of the insurance Co. and they are checking everyone who has been in there as to the cause of the fire and missing articles. Do you make a habit of looting unoccupied houses, or do you have a persistent neurotic im pulse to steal especially without economic motive known as kleptomania, whenever you see green stamps? " Mrs. Ann Yorton Remote, Oregon General Delivery Good, Clean Fun To the Editor: Monday eve ning I heard a letter read on the TV "Question Box program" on our local station that con demned the humor displayed by the staff, as "Low Brow Corn," and asked for programs without it, especially the commercials. How conceited and self-righteous can people get? I have heard some of the kind of commercials this person- ask ed for, at Los Angeles, and when they started, the dials started turning in the homes where I visited and didn't come back to the program until the commer cial was over. The humor in jected into the local programs make them interesting and re membered. And the smiles on the faces of the speakers make us smile right back at them even though they can't see us. I don't care for rough, ribald humor, but as that type never has been shown on the program, I see nothing to object to, I notice that some of the su per cultured people like their corn in a bottle, but I'll take mine in the form of clean fun on programs, in the home, or crowds. Really now, can a person be interesting or good company if humor hurts their over sensi tive, conceited, critical little minds? Culture can be carried too far! I say keep good clean fun and a little "corn" on our TV and radio programs. I really don't think it will make us hard or bar us from heaven. We were given a sense of humor to make it possible to enjoy life and con quer our troubles. Continue our programs as they are. Yours for smiles and laughs. Grace Kurz, 360 DeBarr Ave., Medford, Ore.' . ; X Finland was 85 years old on Nov. 27. He seems to have no further political ambition. But his fel low Finns hold him in such high regard that they are talking of drafting him to run again for a six year tearm in the election to be held next February. Long Retirement Paasikivi, by the way, "re tired" in the mid-1930s from the managing directorship of his bank and from the chairmanship of his Conservative Party. He became president at a tragic mo ment in Finnish history when victorious Russia grabbed more than one-tenth of its territory. King Haakon VII of Nonvay should not be forgotten either, though he is not a leader in the political sense. Haakon was 83 last Aug. 3. He has been king for 50 years, ever since Norway separated itself from Sweden in 1905. He is still under treatment for a fractured hip he suffered in a fall last June, but he is going strong. British Subscribe To Churchill Birthday Fund . London (U.R) The British public has subscribed more than $700,000 to former Prime Minister Winston - Churchill's 80th birthday fund, it was an nounced today. Churchill is 81 today. The fund was started several weeks before his birthday last year and now is closed. He has not announced plans for the money, but it is believed he plans to start some sort of foundation. Oil The Side (Distributed by King Among the few products that have maintained the same price for fifty years is the five cent package 6f chewing gum. At one time the chewing gum manu facturers discussed raising the price to six cents. They decided against it on the grounds that the six cent price was "not gear ed to the currency." That sales results would be better if only one coin, a nickel, was required for a purchase. Facts To the list of the cities whose names are most frequently mis pronounced must be added Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. ... As for giv ing children names somewhat similar, a Detroiter has five off spring all have first and second names with the same initials, as follows: John Albert, Judy Ann, James Alan, Joseph Arthur and Jeffrey Anthony. Between Seasons Most people in seasonal occu pations do not remain idle be tween seasons. Summer and win ter resort hotel workers do not sit around idly in the spring and fall. They take between season jobs. So do practically all people Healthy Baby Contest Slated For Oregon An Oregon healthy baby con test will begin Jan. 1, 1956, ac cording to J. E. MacDonald, dis trict manager for Morning Milk, sponsors of the contest. It will run for six weeks through Feb. 11. Oregon is one of five states to participate in the contest. Cash prizes totaling $720 will be awarded to parents of winning babies in Oregon. All babies in Oregon who are 3 years of age or less and were raised on Morning Milk are eligible. There is no limit to the number of babies who can enter from one family, and twins or triplets are eligible. Prominent local people will serve as judges. Editorial Comment WE'LL ROOT FOR ASHLAND We hope that problems threat ening interruption if not elimina tion of the Shakespearean Fes tival at Ashland may be soon solved. According to the Ashland Tid ings the state fire marshal has declared the festival theater building .to be unsafe for the actors, requiring an expenditure of from $10,000 to $20,000 for rectification. While the safety problem may be a local one the Shakespearean Festival is by ' no means so. Thousands of Oregonians outside of Ashland and many outside of Oregon regard Ashland as a shrine of culture and arrange their affairs to permit their vis iting the southern Oregon town during the Shakespearean sea son each year. More than that thousands more who may never have been able as yet to see Ash land's Shakespeareans in action plan ultimately to make the trek, and through its nine years of exquisitely done drama revival the Ashland festival has. become in a measure a national institu tion, a sort of American Ober ammergau. So we imagine we are not the only ones who hope Ashland will take good care of its festival. Albany Democrat-Herald. Is That So? For a eood share of the world rain is a very unpredictable quantity this year you have it, next year you don't. Of these alternatives, the hav ing of rain is less predictable than the not having it. But the rhances are that for most of our northern hemisphere, the wettest month will fall most often on July and the driest on Novem ber. But so uncertain is the pre diction of rain that the only parts of the world where people J;i" '"-iiu-ilr- have no reason to worry about either an excessive rainfall or, more important, an occasional drought are in the desert and jungle regions where drought is the permanent condition and ex cessive rain the expected season al experience. During the present century, November has been the driest month in America with an aver age of 2.02 inches. October runs it a close second with 2.06. As for the' driest spot in the country, that distinction goes to Greenland ranch, Death Valley, Calif., which has an average of only 1.35 inches for an entire year as against 150.89 inches for Ketchikan, Alaska, which is wet test. Can people live in such a dry climate as Death Valley? Indeed. For that matter, Cairo, Egypt, a city of over 2,000,000, has an annual rainfall averaging even By E. V. Durling Faatwra Syndicate. Inc.) engaged in seasonal work. How ever, when it is suggested that those bricklayers whose work is seasonal engage in other activ ities in off-season, they fly into a rage. Why? Is working at some thing else injurious to the dig nity of a bricklayer? Or, do the bricklayers enjoy taking it easy during the off-season and fear that suggestions that they do otherwise might inspire their wives to urge them to abandon the easy chair and go to work at something else until the brick laying season opens?,' Models British girls make ; the best dress models. They are much in demand in Paris and New York. The British beauties are -tall, long limbed and have that haughty look supposed to be very desirable in a dress modeL As for example, Jennie Scott, originally from Portsmouth, England, who is one of Manhat tan's highest salaried dress mod els. . Finest The Ellin Prince Speyer ani mal hospital is the finest institu tion of its kind in the United States. Perhaps in the world. Its specialty is dogs. Also cats. How ever, any other type of sick an imal can get treatment here. Not long ago a friend of mine was there when a boy brought in a sick turtle for treatment! Asides A candidate for the office of President of the United States could receive 80 per cent of the vote and still be defeated by an electoral vote of 267 to 264 . . . It was St. Bernard who first said, Love me, love my dog." . . . Note it said that the song titled Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" was introduced by Irene Dunne. That's wrong. It was introduced in the stage musical titled "Rob erta" by the actress known simply as "Tamara." Widows Widows left with small chil dren to support find it difficult to interest an eligible male in matrimony. Many men are ad verse , to supporting another man's children. Best prospect for a widow with youngsters is a widower left with small chil dren to take care of. I know of a widow with four children who married a widower with four children. After their marriage they had 13 children of their own. That made 21 children to care for and support. Sidelights It was Sarah Bernhardt who observed, "jeolousy is an unmis takable sign of a love that is purely physical." . . . Get it right: The original "blonde bon fire" was Jean Harlow. The or iginal "Brooklyn bonfire" was Clara Bow. ANNOUNCING Brooks Electric & Plumbing NOW LOCATED AT 1016 N. RIVERSI 1 Block South of By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist less than Death Valley's--a mere .27 inches a year! Other Regions Drier There are other reeinns miifV. drier than Death Valiey-in northern Chile, at Iquique, the average annual precipitation is 0.05 inches which means it would take 27 years to build ud Deaih Valley's yearly total! Looking at a lareer of our land, a state, the driest one is Nevada. Although it has areas which are comparatively wet, the whole state's is 8.8 inches. Utah, Arizona, Wyo ming, Montana, similarly fixed both dry and wet arpas havo more than half again as much rain as Nevada with 13.41, 13.84, 14.22, and 15.37 inches tively. But figures which P1VP trio an nual rainfall do not present the whole picture. Actually states with a heavy rainfall ran riaTo extremely dry periods. Thus, Kansas witn an annual precipita tion of 28.95 inches has only .7 inches in January; Iowa with 31.51 inches has a January dry of 1.02; and California which averages Zd.a7 inches has a dry month, July, during which only .08 inches falls which is ex actly 4V times as dry as Ne vada's driest month. O a (Released by McClure New i paper Syndicate) .- Free: . 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