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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) -Everybody In Soutnern Oregon ,,Z iteaofl me lau tnoune Published Daily Except Saturday by 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHi. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. City Editor HAkRY CHIP MAN. 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 Medlord Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1387 - ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MailIn Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One vear $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear $3.50 By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point. Eaele Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms casn in aovance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County " UnitedPress Full Leased Wire "'MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU WEST-HOIDAY COMPANY INC. ' Offices In New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattis. Portland St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOC'l-ATIlQN i7 v Ir" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 7. 1945 Leonard Carpenter, Medford, elected second vice-president, and C. B. Cordy, Medford, elect ed assistant secretary-treasurer of Oregon State Horticultural society's ; 60th meeting at Cor vallis. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Most of the new auto advertisements an nounce the beholder, "will be struck' by the superiors acces sories provided." This won't help any, as the average pedes trian is still a poor shock ab sorber. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 7. 1935 Aubrey Sanders elected presi dent of Medford Twenty-Thirty club; Herb Brown chosen vice president. Miss Eetty Vgm, former honor student at Medford High, hon ored Cat Alpha Lambda Delta banquet at Oregon State college, where she is a freshman. 30 YEARS AGO Dec. 7. 1925 (It was Monday) Miss Ada Brewster, 32 Mistle-' toe st., is host to Business and Professional Women; discuss Christmas plans. "W1 From Local and Personal col umn: It is with surprise, no doubt, that Medford people learn that increasing cloudy weather is predicted for Tuesday, be cause on account of the heavy wet fog prevailing here for the past two days no one knew that O it was even cloudy. 40 YEARS AGO ' Dec. 7. 1915 (It was Tuesday) Senator Chemberlain intro duces a bill returning to the United States unsold lands of the Oregon and California land grant and the payment to the railroad company of $2.50 an acre for the lands, returned. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rspart O 1. Department store sales in December are normally 50 per cent higher than monthly aver age for rest of year, or twice, - iSiree times, or four times as high? 2. Secretary of Defense Charle? E. Wilson was formerly s president of General Dynamics, : General Electric, General Foods, General Mills, General Motors or General Tire? 3. Full professors in large state universities average about $6000, $7500, $9000, or $10,500 a year? 4. A much discussed book by Rudolph Flesch is on weaknesses in Russia, in the Republican party, in reading methods, in our defense program or in churches? 5. About half of all vegetables and fruits moving to wholesale markets go by truck, or less or more than half? 6. Reno, Nev., is northeast or northwest of San Diego, Calif, or almost due north? 7: In U.S. defense circles a "chopper" is a hydrogen bomb, jet bombing plane, 'rocket mis sile, radar detection system, or helicopter? The Answers: 1. Twice as high. 2. General Motors. 3. About S7500. 4. In reading meth ods. 5. More than half. 6. North west. 7. Helicopter. MAIL TRIBUNE . . Pearl Harbor Day The juke box was playing something about "the waiter, the porter and the upstairs maid," and we were eating doughnuts and drinking hot chocolate on Sunday morning, December 7. Probably everyone over the age of about 30 can remember what he or she was doing that morning. We remember the waitress turning down the juke box and turning up the radio, which was blaring the incredible news that bombs were dropping on Pearl Harbor. We remember dashing to the newspaper office where we worked then, and listening through the day as' bulletin followed bulletin. One commentator kept reassuring his listeners that it was probably all a mis take, and that when the "by-passed" emperor of Japan learned what was going on, there would be apologies,, and Pearl Harbor would be called off. DEMEMBER? It comes with a sense of shock to realize that these memories, so vivid still, are about something that happened 14 years ago. And these years have seen the world turned upside down. It has never quite righted itself. The names and phrases of those days form an in distinct montage of memory "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"; Guadalcanal; MacArthur; Hickam field; Bataan; the Coral sea; "the day that shall live in infamy." A ND the years that followed, too, are full of memo ries, of casualty lists where one name jumps out at you and the world is suddenly bleak, because a friend is gone; of the obstacle course in basic train ing; of digging practice foxholes and discussing field tactics with the pink-cheeked lieutenant, who was to die in action a year later; of crowded and dirty bus depots, and long rides in hideously uncomfortable day coaches We also recall the red coupons for meat, and the yellowish green coupons for gasoline; we recall standing in line to buy cigarettes and nylons, and wondering if the tires on the old jalopy would go another few hundred miles. There were tearful good-bys and joyful reunions in those days. There were fast friendships for men whose names cannot now even: be called to mind. Over everything there was a sense of urgency, of mis sion, of a unity of purpose that was only partly over laid by the eternal boredom and futility of waiting waiting for news, for orders, for furloughs, for chow, for shots. A ND now, today, we realize that on this December 7 it is 14 years since it all began 14 years of heroism and cowardice ; of big men in little jobs and little men in big jobs; of death and rebirth; of hopes fulfilled and hopes dashed. During these 14 years America has been thrust into a position of world leadership, a position it doesn't like but uneasily realizes it must fill. We talk proudly of being the world's richest and most powerful nation, yet we are half fearful of what this means in terms of leadership and responsibility. DEARL Harbor Day, 1955, is an anniversary. As such it is a symbol of a world which is changed, but not necessarily for the better. It is a day on which we can remember what has happened. Not all of it was bad. There were lessons to be learned, or re learned. We saw again that man can be noble in times of danger, and cowardly in times when the only danger is in the mind. We saw that unity and com mon purpose can work miracles. We also saw that unity and common purpose, imposed forcibly and without consent, can destroy men as surely as a bul let. " We saw that all men had courage and cowardice, intelligence and stupidity, high purpose and low, and that the proportions in which the vices and viiv tues were apportioned didn't differ much between men of different nations or races. . "llE SAW these things, and recognized in them a " reaffirmation of that oldest of lessons that men are truly brothers, some good and some bad, but all partaking of a common humanity. : These things can be seen, but they are difficult to learn. Even in America, which was born under the declaration that it is "self evident" that "all men are created equal" and deserving of liberty, it has been a poorly-learned lesson. ' Perhaps Pearl Harbor Day, which marks Amer ica's entry into the bloodiest war in history, is a time to reflect that there are some things worth dying for. If they are worth dying for, they are no less worth working and striving for through peaceful means. TT IS to be hoped we have learned that liberty is a living thing which must be earned and defended anew by each generation, and that each man has a responsibility for his neighbor's liberty. If we did not learn that, our comrades in arms died in a lost cause. If we did not learn it, the land of the free and the home of the brave is a mockery. If we did learn it, arid learn it well, then America, and what it stands for, remains the free world's best perhaps its only hope. E. A. Portuguese Envoy Backs Dulles Remark Los Angeles U.R) Portu guese Foreign Minister Paulo Cunha today backed up a joint statement he made with U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dunes by insisting that "Goa is a Portuguese province and noth ing else." "Portugal has a 'moral obli gation' to the Portuguese peo ple in Goa to keep them under the sovereignty of Portugal," he Wednesday, December 7. 1955 maintained. Cunha, here for a brief visit, declared last night Goa had been a province of Portugal for four and a half centuries, by way of constitution, religion and cul ture. He said even if Goa was a colony of Portugal, "which it is not," by being annexed to India it would become only a colony of India. Dulles Seems To Have Started Something By 'Provinces' Remark By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles started something when he referred last Friday to 7&m "Portus u e s e provinces in the Far East." Dulles made the reference in a joint state ment with visiting Por tuguese For eign Minister Paulo Arsenio Verissimo Cunha. TT 3 It diaries Mccann rie mdue ii m joining with Cunha in a cri ticism of the speeches made in India by Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Russian Com munist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev. The Soviet ambassadors of ill will had denounced Portugal's continued possession of Goa, Diu and Daman, three pinpoints of territory on the map of India. Now dispatches from India re port that the Dulles-Cunha state ment has caused violent anger in India and has started a wave of anti-American feeling. The anger is so intense, in fact, that it seems to be a little strained. Would it be unfair to suggest that the outburst against Dulles helps to cover up the embarrass ment of Indians over the blatant attacks made by the Kremlin's rover boys in the Western Democracies? Indians do resent bitterly the refusal of Portugal to give up the little territories it has pos sessed since 1510. There is no doubt about that. India Prime Minister Jawa hsrlal Nehru already has co erced France into, giving up its possessions in India. He has announced his deter mination to get Goa, Diu and Daman. But the fact is that these tiny territories, which total 1537 square miles and have a popula tion of about 638,000 are Portu guese provinces, as Dulles called them. They are not classed as colonies. : Ought Dulles to have called them something else in a joint statement with the foreign min ister of a fellow member with the United .States of the. North Atlantic Treaty Organization? Ought he to have kept silent about the anti-Western . state ments of Bulganin and TChrush chev? It is still uncertain how much Nehru intends to make of the incident. ... But it is certain that the United States has shown its good will to India. Its anti-colonial sentiment has been traditional throughout its history. ... Had it not been for the United States, it may be that countries like India, Pakistan and Indone sia would not have attained their freedom after World War II. It is certain .also that the Singapore Eyes Status Of Sovereign Member New Delhi, India OI.R) Da vid Marshall, chief minister of Singapore, said Tuesday his city-state wants ultimately to attain the full status of a sov ereign member of the British Commonwealth. Marshall told the Times of India he was not asking for com plete independence for Singa pore at present and would be content if foreign affairs and defense remained in the hands of the British by some kind of treaty for the time being. Hollywood U.R) Silent screen deadpan comedian Bus ter Keaton was reported "slight ly improved" today but still in critical condition at Sawtelle Veterans hospital from an in testinal ailment. Most CGBTRGllED MiXMASTER Larger bowl-fit beaters for high er, 6ner-textured cakes. TOASTER Patented RADI ANT CON TROL for uni form toasting Open Wednesday Evenings Until 9 United States has helped India substantially as part of its for eign aid program and that Rus sia offers nothing that is not paid for. The incident over the "Por tuguese provinces" is unfortu nate. It wUl help Bulganin and Khrushchev. But it is to be hoped that it will simmer down to its proper size. is That So? By Eugene Burnt Ranger-Naturalist Reality notwithstanding, pop ular fallacies have a way of sur viving to help lay them, here is a sampling of Fact vs. Fancy: Fancy: The human heart is sit uated on the left side of the chest. Fact: The heart is in the mid dle of the chest. This belief is probably based on the fact that the heart's beat can be felt more clearly on the left side. Fancy: Chamois skin, quite naturally, comes from the cham ois an animal celebrated in Switzerland. Fact: What is known in the market as chamois skin is really an oil-tanned sheep or lamb skin. And, at that, only the inside half of the skin. Actually, the supply of cha mois skins from Switzerland is very limited perhaps 5,000 a year. Not enough to supply U.S. needs for a single day, Fancy: Women have smaller brains than men. Fact: Sorry, men. Taking size into recognition, women have slightly larger brains, Fancy: If you cut an earth worm in two, both halves will become new worms Fact: Only the earthworm's "head" will grow a new tail and survive; the "tail" end, alas, will perish. Fancy: The use of tobacco will stunt the growth of adolescents. Fact: Although tobacco is sup posed to have a number of de leterious effects on the human body, the stunting of growth is not among them. Fancy: A plant gets most of its food from the soil. Fact: A plant gets practically 100 per cent of its nourishment from the air which it combines chemically with water by photo synthesis to manufacture its food. However, the soil does pro vide the plant with a trace of mineral foods which are import ant. ' Fancy: Rye bread is more healthful than white bread. Fact: In the milling just as much of the minerals and vita mins are removed from the rye kernel as from the kernel of wheat which has been milled into white flour. Had enough? (Released by McClure (Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with tha editors of the En cyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, or the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-vol-ume set of this world-famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be consid ered. Sorry, I simply can't an swer your many friendly let ters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care of Med ford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sau- ppreehM Gifts HEAT diaL Easy TROWBRIDGE In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS How to win friends and IN FLUENCE NATIONS in this cold war period: A Cairo newspaper says the United States might regain Egypt's friendship by granting a loan for construction of the pro posed Aswan dam on the upper Nile. Russia, the newspaper says, has already offered to aid in con struction of the project which would cost nearly $600,000,000. THAT is to say: "I'm offered FIVE! Who'll gimme TEN? Who'll gimme ten? Five! Who'll go ten?" I just can't help doubting if the auction block is the place to win DEPENDABLE friends and allies. rpODAY'S farm politics note: A Democrat and a Republi can senator found one area of agreement on agriculture. They agree there is a farm problem and Congress should DO SOME THING about it. Agreement stopped right there. Democratic -Senator Joseph O'Mahoney (by the way, he pro nounces it Oh-MAH-Ho-Nee) of Wyoming says the government must realize that processors of agricultural products are getting more and more of the consumer's dollar. On the other hand, GOP Sen ator Homer Capehart of Indiana says farm prices are dropping because of huge surpluses held by the government .(surpluses that hang like a dark thunder cloud over the markets of the future.) rVDDLY enough, they're both right. If prices of what he has to buy had fallen in proportion to prices of what he has to sell, the farmer wouldn't be unhappy. It is equally true that nothing but trouble for the farmer can ensue from the vast surpluses that are accumulating in govern ment warehouses. WHAT to do about it? ' I wouldn't know. But I doubt if political farming (which is farming the farmers for votes instead of farming the land for crops) will solve the problem. TUT let's get closer home, t The Yreka Siskiyou News tells about a tempermental well on the Stanley Wendt ranch at Montague. It began to fail in late September and on Oct. 8 it drop ped too low to produce sufficient water to maintain the house sys tem. About a week later, it petered out entirely. Confronted by a situation, Wendt bought a 300-gallon tank mounted it on a truck and began to haul water. He ran the water into the well, so that the power pump that supplies the house system could be utilized. Then Some three . weeks ago, the well began to flow just as vigor ously as it had before it began to fail. ' All this happened prior to the recent heavy precipitation in Far Northern California and Southern Oregon! T'VE heard of priming the pump to get it going again, but I never before heard of PRIMING THE WELL when it ran dry and getting plenty of water as a re sult. Amazing things can happen in the State of Jefferson. Senaca Indians War For Restoration of Land Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) The Seneca Indians are on the war path. The Senecas recently filed a $35,000 suit in federal court against the Allegeny State Park commission. The suit seeks to restore land to the Senecas which they con tend were deeded to them under the "Big Tree Treaty" of 1797. They say the state park com mission has been renting a sec tion of their reservation lands for 40 years at $40 a year to cottage owners. 9 The gift every woman wants. Perfect cooking results every time. Ends guesswork, cooking failures. Easy-to-set control - to - see Fry-Guide. ($unbwm WAFFLE BAKER Perfect waffles, toasted sand wiches, eggs, etc COOKER DEEP FRTER Does more things better Available in 3 sizes 10', 111'. & FLYNN Bricker Thinks Ike Still Undecided on Second Term Plans Washington (U.R) Sen. John W. Bricker (R-O.), said to- dav he thinks President Eisen hower is still undecided on Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication i oermis rible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eve to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Tells Appreciation To the Editor: The other morning a mother was prepar ing two youngsters for the day. Unaccountably, as usual, fire broke out. Before the fire could be controlled by the household water supply, the power supply to the pump was burned out. All she could do was round up the children and pets and leave. On the - off chance some one might be passing, she ran to the road and providentially found a California Oregon Power com pany crew working on the power line. Although they were total stransers. engaged in their own affairs, they swarmed into the house, lugging their portable ishers. and nut out the fire (professionally attend ing to numerous details, a& cutting the power lines to the hnnsp cheekinff the rest of the house, attic, etc.). They then waited for the speedy arrival of the fire equipment from Cen tral Point, a good 10 miles awav and as soon as it arrived, with no fanfare, casually went ahnnt. their business as if savins a house from burning to the ground were routine. It. is such men as these that make Copco a familiar, friendly symbol of cheerful community service, contradicting the con ception of a large corporation as an impersonal organization with little or no concern for the individual. It is with deep appreciation that we offer our thanks to them and Copco. Richard Reum Route 2, Box 298 , , Central Point, Ore. More About Mine To the Editor: More reminis cence ofn the Lost Cabin Mine. In 1914 in Ft. Klamath, Ore.,, we by chance broached the subject of gold to one of the pioneers who happened to : be in posses' sion of an intricate piece of gold amalgam, (that at today's prices would be worth around. $5). This specimen had been perhaps lost on the old trail the Indians used when traveling back to the Res ervation. After reading the ac count given later in the Portland Oregonian, we talked with a for mer Klamath county resident who confirmed the press story, and also said, no white man had ever re-located or found "the mine." An Indian and his son, both named Pedro, reputedly guarded this fabulous ledge un til their death, years later. The details we have, give us assur ance that someone, some day, will discover the so-called lost lode high in the Umpqua range, Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Medford, Ore. - H Club News Phoenix 4-H Clubs The December meeting of the new Phoenix 4-H club will be Friday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. at the Phoenix Grange hall. Those who couldn't attend the November meeting may still sign up for projects. Officers will be elected and a name will be chos en for the club. Leaders have volunteered for most of the pro jects, and the individual project clubs will be formed. t e 20 12' ELECTRIC COMPANY whether to seek a second term in the White House. He told rerjorters that. al. though Mr. Eisenhower is not dutv-bound to announce a de cision as soon as it has been made, he considers the Presi dent too straightforward to hold back. Newsweek magazine said to day a poll it made of Republican state and territorial chairmen showed an "overwhelming ma jority" believe Mr. Eisenhower will seek a second term. Majority Want Nixon The poll also showed that a "substantial majority" of the GOP chairmen want Vice-President Richard W. Nixon as the Republican presidential candi date if Mr. Eisenhower does not run, the magazine said. Sen. Hubert H. HumphreyD Minn.), predicted in New York last night that Congress, under Democratic leadership will achieve "liberal progress" in at least 10 major areas of legisla tion next year. One such move forward, Humphrey said in a speech be fore the New York Young Dem-' ocratic club, would be farm program to restore 90 pelr cent price supports and get rid of troublesome surpluses. Such a move would overturn the admin istration's system of flexible price supports. Byrnes Making Plans James E. Byrnes, fired as Secretary of State for former President Truman, indicated he might, consider going to the 1956 Democratic national convention to accept a challenge by former Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell. The 76-year-gJd Byrnes said last winter he definitely would not serve as a delegate to the convention. However, Mitchell later said that Byrnes and other Democrats who bolted the party in 1952 would be denied seats if they tried to attend as dele- gates; 0 "Bright girl. 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