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0- O O o FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) o "Everybody in Soutflern Oregon Reads Tha Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RtTHL. Editor GHERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR.. Citv Editor HAkRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor KlUHAHD jewett Sports Editor "OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. D?jy and Sunday One year $12.00 T., T.. 1 tZ c;v mftnth R SO ivau aim uuiiua. uia - Daily and Sunday Three mo. 3.50 BunwK' omv one year o.au. By CiMet 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 S1S.00 Daily and Sunday One month IJa Cwrier and Dealers 5c per copy .11 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 OF i;un,uu""" TesV-holIYday-'coiany tsc. Offices tn New York. Chicago De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOdHUllON NEWSPAPtR PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Trigone 10. 20. 30 and ?0 years ago. - i YEARS AGO. Dec.Vl945 Q . (It was gunday) Dr. Elmo Stephenson,, who will 'be Installed as Southern Oregon college president Jan. 1, to speak at Boy scout banquet.0 From Arthoir Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The politi cal pot has started to simmer around here. So far the simmer ing has been confined exclu sively to young Democrats, no j longer young. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 9. 1935 q (It was Monday) Fifteen-yeaif3ld Klamath Falls boy dies of cerebral hemorrhage following fist fight with school mate. Postmasier Frank DeSouza urges residents to mail packages early; predicts largest shipment of packages in history. 80 YEARS AGO Dec. 9, 1925 (fi was Wednesday) ' Eula Beilson0 elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Oregon. Jackson County Game Pro tective association discusses pos sibility of keeping open season on steelhead in Rogue river. 40 YEARS AGO " Dec. 9. 1915 (It was Thursday) C. W. Whillock and Son ad vertise Kuppenheimer suits sell ing at $16.50 and $19.50; others range from $8.89 to $12.50 for all-wool blue serge suit. From Local and Personal col umn: If you see ghosts walking around town tomorrow night, don't get scared. The Grizzlies and invited guests are to dance at theO sheet and pillow case party at the Natatorium. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Repetl 1. Chairman Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commision says the U.S. is ahead or behind Rus sia in training scientists, or keep ing abreast or her? 1 , 2. Credit in buying a new home has been tightened or loosened recently by federal housing authorities, or has been the same for over a year? 3. Estes Kefauver was ahead of Stevenson on the first ballot at the 1952 Democratic national convention; right or wrong? 4. About nine, 19, 90, 900, or 1900 persons are killed in the U.S. in auto accidents on an average day? 5. Robert E. Lee and U. S. Grant never fought on the same side in war; right or wrong? 6. More money is bet during the year at flat (running) horse race tracks in California, Flori da, Maryland, New Jersey or New York? 7. The PlimsollLine marks the neckline of evening dresses, Polish E. Germany boundary, safe load limit on ships, or ena of state sovereignty over tide land waters? The Answers: 1. Behind. 2. Tightened. 3. Right. 4. About 90. 5. Wrong; both were in the war against Mexico. 6. New York. 7. Safe load limit for ships. MAIL TRIBUNE How To Avoid Getting Killed If you are an average sort of person, you may have a tendency to be just ever-so-slightly bored with "safety." There are a lot of good reasons, though, why it would be a good idea to shrug off that boredom, and to pay a bit of attention. Maybe it would focus it a bit to say that safety is nothing but doing things in a way that won't kill or injure you. A GREAT deal of progress has been made in this field in recent years. Scientific studies have re vealed dangers which had been unsuspected. Meth ods and equipment have been designed to minimize the chances that a man on any given job will wind up in the hospital or "where the woodbine twineth." But the most important safety factor of all is the human factor. If a man is properly trained and indoc trinated, he's much more apt to die of old age than if he gives little thought to the subject. . fXN SATURDAY, a regional conference will be held in Medford which is designed to make progress in both these fields in wider acceptance of safety methods, and in wider acceptance of safety training. Now why should a few hundred men take a full day away from their jobs and homes and gather to talk about safety? Because it pays off, that s why. It pays off in dollars and cents, and this can be proven statistically, to the satisfaction of the hard headed accountants of big companies which spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote safety, and figure they save money doing it. It also pays off in the saving of human lives and elimination of human suffering. You can take your choice as to which is more important. "IN INQUIRING among safety experts about this, we were informed that safe working conditions and habits go hand-in-hand with high production. They added: It is now known that the firms with the very best safety records are among the very top in production. Aside from good safety being a sign of good management, accidents " slow down work because they mean short-handed crews, poor morale, and it has been established that men work bet ter under safe conditions, even though they do not con- - sciously fear or worry about a hazardous operation. Poor handling and care of equipment is usually synonymous with a crew that is not safety-conscious. Considerable progress has been made, and it is continuing. Safety conferences, such as the one here tomorrow, are contributing to this progress. The one here is the seventh and last in a series which has been held throughout the state in place of the regular an nual statewide conference. Others so far have been held in Dallas, Roseburg, Coquille, Pendleton, Port land and Eugene. It is, planned to have the regional conference on alternate years with the statewide meetings interspersed. CINCE this is in large part a logging and lumbering area, one of the big objectives tomorrow will be to show, even though woods and sawmill work is hazardous, that it can be made much safer. The record in other major industries, once notori ous for high accident rates, have shown that great progress is possible. Some of them, such as steel plants, coal mines and others have cut their accident rates to as little as one-quarter or less of what they were 25 years ago. "Safety" is a fight against heartache and eco nomic loss. Let's not be bored by it. E.A. Oceanic Farm and Mine What is the world's largest plant life? If you were going to say the Sequoia Gigantia, don't. It is a variety of floating kelp. And the smallest organic living thing? It is plank ton, microscopic floating plants and animals. . Both are found in vast quantities in the oceans of the world, and, together with other types of ocean growth, furnish the biggest potential reservoir of foodstuffs in the world, as yet barely tapped by man. DLANKTON is found almost everywhere in the " oceans. One form of it, reddish in color, is respon sible for the name of the Red sea. Other forms, lumi nous with a cold light similar to that of fireflies, make the top layers of the oceans appear to glow in the dark. The individual organisms are so small that for many years they were thought of only as a sort of pigment, drifting in strips or patches for miles along the surface. The tiny individuals which make up the masses, drift back and forth, drawing their being from the nutrients, in the ocean water and from the sun, which furnishes energy to convert carbon dioxide (an estimated 400 billion tons a year) into food. DLANKTONBURGERS, or filet of kelp, may not sound delectable. But with population increasing at the rate it is, before the turn of the century it may be necessary to expand our harvests from the sea. The oceans, which also absorb the contents of the world's rivers, also are a virtually untouched source of minerals, of which only magnesium is recovered in any significant amounts at present. As our re sources are depleted there probably will be far greater exploitation of the waters of the world to satisfy man's needs and desires. E.A. Police Ask Molorisfs A large number of complaints have been received recently con cerning cars parked in private driveways, Medford police an nounced today. Reports of cars blocking drive ways have been especiaUy num erous in the fringe area around Friday, December 9, 1955 Nof To Block Drives the business district, police said, but complaints have been re ceived from all parts of the city.. The cooperation of drivers would be appreciated, police said. Use Tribune Want Ads Matter of Fact by STEVENSON DECIDES Washington In a matter of days, if present plans hold, Ad lai Stevenson means to make a bold and aggressive move. The move will be a public an nouncement of definite plans for enter ing "four or five" primary con tests, thus chal- lenging all comers not ably Sen. Estes Kefauver to mortal combat. There has Joseph Also been much pulling and hauling m the Stevenson camp about this decision. Some Stevenson advisers, notably campaign man ager James Finnegan, have been extremely reluctant to accept the risks involved. Right now, so the more cau tious Stevenson advisers have argued, Stevenson can count on more than 80 per cent of the delegate votes needed for a first ballot win. Why should Stevenson risk this almost un c h a Uengeable lead if he does not have to? The answer is that he does have to, ac c or ding to a second group of Stevenson advisers, who Stewart Alsop have consistently counselled boldness. This group includes Mayor Richard Daley, of Chi cago, Bary Bingham, chief of the Citizens - for - Stevenson or ganization, and, on most issues, assistant campaign manager Hy man Raskin. Public pressure and the force of circumstance, this second group has argued, will force Ste venson to enter a number of pri maries otherwise he will be accused of ducking a fight. Moreover, if public polls and private soundings mean any thing at all, Stevenson has noth ing to fear from any other Democrat, including Kefauver. So Stevenson should seize the initiative and announce his pri mary plans, rather than wait and seem to be pushed into pri maries against his will. Bar a reversal, the counsel lors of boldness have apparently won the day with Stevenson. He has not, apparently, finally de cided which primaries he wiU choose in his expected announce ment. But it is not difficult to pick out four or five probable choices. CTEVENSON is already public- ly committed to enter Min nesota, of course. And he is al ready privately committed to en ter California or so the Cal ifornia Democratic leaders cer tainly believe. Oregon is not much of a problem either. Ore g o n National v Committeeman Monroe Sweetland and other Oregon leaders want Stevenson to enter their primary and Stevenson could be entered any way, without his consent. Pennsylvania is another prob able choice. Mayor David Law rence of Pittsburgh and Mayor Richardson Dilworth, of Phila delphia (who was for Kefauver in 1952) are both accounted Ste venson men, and both reported ly favor Stevenson entering their primary. New Jersey, where the leadership also favors Stevenson, is a further possibil ity. Florida is a tougher problem. Holding the South, both in the convention and the election, is an essential element in the whole Stevenson strategy. Ste venson spent a couple of days recently doing some effective politicking in Florida, and al though he made no commit ments, this led Florida Demo cratic leaders to assume that he meant to enter the primary. On the other hand, Kefauver ran very strongly in Florida in 1952 against the South's favorite son, Sen. Richard Russell, of Georgia. And there is a danger which, although it is remote, causes visible jitters in the Ste venson camp. This is that anoth er Southern favorite son. Sen. Lyndon Johnson, of Texas, might be entered in Florida (where consent of the candidate is not required). Equally tough is the problem of Wisconsin. The primary there comes less than two weeks after the Minnesota primary, which would crowd the Stevenson schedule. And there is the night marish memory of the fate, of Wendell Willkie, who also made a second try, and who was stopped cold in the 1944 Wis consin primary. , i far f V' M$ . ir-nniirriimi mi - 'Tmn in m i n n immmjiiujluijiTvI GIFT WARE - LAMPS - MAPLE DEPT. MIRRORS - FLOOR COVERINGS HASSOCKS - COSCO STOOLS AND CARTS Joe and Stewart Alsop The chances are thjt Steven son will skip Wisconsin, and, for a variety of reasons, such other primaries as Nebraska, Montana, , Ohio, South Dakota and West Virginia. There are stiU those in the Stevenson en tourage who would like to see Stevenson" challenge Kefauver in his own particular stamping ground, New Hampshire, which has the first primary. They argue that Stevenson could knock Kefauver out of the contest then and there, and clinch the nomination once and for all. BUT Manager ' Finnegan has been dead set against enter ing New Hampshire. He argues that it would be silly for Ste venson to risk a defeat in a state with a small minority of Demo crats virtually aU of whom have shaken hands with Kefauver. There is logic in Finegan's argu ment. And even without New Hampshire, the expected an nouncement by Stevenson will give his campaign the bold and decisive coloration it needs. The odd thing is that the announce ment was not made three weeks ago, when it would have got the Stevenson candidacy off to a flying start. (Copyright 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc. s or By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist Mail day. "My guide claims he can always tell a deer's sex by its tracks. I say a large doe and a young buck make a track of just about the same size and cannot be distinguished. Who wins?" writes S. E. R. Sure, . every old-time guide swears that he can tell sex by a deer's track. And in mud or earth which retains a clear im pression, I'm with him. As you knowj a buck's footprint is broaded and heavier as well as larger while the doe's is narrow- er and more delicate. But when it comes to your argument, de ciding between a large doe and a young buck of equal size, then the problem becomes involved. But, even so, I'd go along with your guide and say the young buck's would be wider. Anyway, wouldn't it be smart to lose to your guide gracefully? You want another buck next fall, don't you? "' "Does the trout depend on his fins for locomotion?" asks G.E.S.D. "I say yes; my son says no." Your son is right, the trout as well as many other game fish such as the pike, muskellunge and bass, does not use his fins for locomotion. It propels itself through the water much as' a snake does by rapid sideways action. With the trout, the sec tion behind the body cavity does most of the propelling. "My wife says some reptiles are born alive. Do I have to take her out to dinner?" writes J.E.B. The great majority of reptiles, which includes snakes, lizards, alligators, turtles and crocodiles lay eggs as do all birds and they are generally hatched by the heat of the sun or the chemical action of rotting vegetation. But that isn't all of it and for this you'll have to fork up that dinner. J.E.B., because some snakes give birth to living and fully developed young as does our rattlesnake. (Actually, the female rattler produces eggs within her body and her young are hatched there but the liv ing and active young are born alive. But that's quibbling. Gives you a graceful out, though.) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia 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- SUGGESTED BIBLE READING VERSES The Medford Council of Church Women each year be between Thanksgiving and Christmas sponsors a pro gram of daily Bible reading, recommending a different verse of the Bible for each day during that period, in co operation with the American Bible association, the Med ford Ministerial association and the National Council of Church Women. Following are the passages recommended for today: Luke 14:1-14. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS If, for ANY reason, you're feeling on the glum side today, I'd like to offer a suggestion. Look at the calendar. THIS IS DEC. 7. (These words are written on Wednesday). Dec. 7 is PEARL HARBOR DAY. U No matter how low may be in your mind you You'll be feeling vastly better than you were at this hour 14 years ago. TDEMEMBER this: Fourteen years ago today, we woke up AT PEACE. We went to bed that night AT WAR. TIHERE are problems today. A There are problems always. But, if we can find a way to maintain PEACE WITH HONOR, all of our troubles will be com paratively little ones.- CPEAKING of trouble Up at Wenatchee, in Wash ington, a black cat named But tons has been having it. Four days ago, Buttons took it into her head to try out her claws on a 40-foot-high power pole. So sne started climbing. It was fun. Her claws dug into the soft wood of the pole, and she went up and up, just like snooting fish. She kept at it until she got clear to the top. Then her troubles began. She was afraid to come down! HER trouble lasted more than 1 n r i j.uu nours. men a warm hearted service lineman for the electric company came to the rescue. The pole Buttons was clinging to yowling lustily, meanwhile carried a 110,000 .volt power line. The lineman wasn't too anxious to come in contact with it. So he rigged himself a lasso. shinned up a nearby pole and from the top of it he LASSOED Buttons. He gave a sharp yank on the rope and Buttons drop pel free of the high tension wires and fell to the ground unharmed QO it all ended happily. Troubles can verv. ve often end happily if somebody swer you? many friendly letters, Please address our letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575. Sausalito. Calif. From 50' Up o f: Pot Holders Pepper Mills Electric Trivifs e Salad Bowl Sets e carafe n;cu CHAFING US5I1 o Shred-O-Mal Grinder and Salad Maker Combination DRU WARE STARTER SET . . $19's Large WAFFLE IRON & GRILL $2500 ELECTRIC SKILLET with Lid . 2295 WE SBSCUYOU EMTOWAKE 225 West Main Street Phone 2-2939 Babson and By ROGER W. BABSON ' New York City There are many reasons for inflation. Most important has been the fact that inflation comes when the supply of money ex ceeds the sup ply of goods. The above can occur either by (1) an increase in government or private credit which results in higher prices K" W. Bib - and higher wages, or (2) an increase in the circulation of money, which can have the same effect as more money; this latter comes as a result of boom times such as are now being enjoyed by New York and other large cities. Contrariwise,- if unemploy ment increases and advertising appropriations decrease, retail trade will decline and inven tories accumulate. Then the supply of goods will increase, credit and money will, tighten, wages will decline, and we will have deflation. It's the old story: we cannot have our pie and eat it too." We can choose be tween full employment with higher wages and higher prices, or unemployment with lower wages and lower prices. Today's New Factor Since World War II, another very important cause of inflation has become operative. This may be called a psychological cause; but it is really due to the talk about "Atomic Bombs," "Hydro gen Bombs," and "Guided Mis siles." To scare us into demanding greater expenditures for defense and a - willingness to be taxed therefor, we are fed with this probable fact, namely: If World War III should now come, the 20 largest U. S. cities with 30,000, 000 innocent U. S. people would be wiped out.- Saving Becoming a Lost Art Constant talk of this sort in the press and over the radio is destroying the American habit of thrift, substituting therefor a spending craze. Before we heard of Atomic Bombs, people would get a mortgage for only about 60 per cent of the cost of a house. Their ambition then was to pay up this mortgage and have the house "free and clear." Fur; thermore, most mortgages were written for a term not exceed ing five years. Now, as a bribe to voters, the government offers or guarantees credit so that a new house can be mortgaged for 95 to 100 of the cost, with from . 20 to 30 years to pay the mortgage. In just has ingenuity enough to GET AROUND THE TROUBLE. QPEAKING stiU further of trouble, do you remember the tale of the frog that jumped into a milk can full of milk? The frog was in a bad way. ' But It didn't give up. It started KICKING kicking being a part of the nature of frogs. It kept on kicking. It wound up sitting on a lump of butter that its kick- xhe moral is obvious, Revere Ware Pyrex Dinner Sets Sunbeam Skillets 3 sizes Sunbeam Egg Cookers Lazy Susans Specials FOP , GIVE S&H GREEN STAMPS Inflation view of the talk that "World War II is inevitable although it probably will not come for five years people are reasoning as follows. "World War ni will wipe out - both me and my house, then I'll never have to pay the mort gage. Or else the inflation com- ing with or after World War III will cause the value of our dol lar to go down to ten cents. In " that case, if the house and I con tinue to exist, I can pay this mortgage with these ten-cent dol lars!" The same reasoning ap plies to enjoying automobiles, TV sets, washing machines, and even luxuries now- on borrowed ': money, rather than waiting until World War ni when one would have neither these things nor the money, and would perhaps" get killed to boot. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry Now Although the above is very contrary to the way we older people were once taught, yet. it is the way young people are now reasoning. I hate to admit it, but it may be logical reason ing under the terrible threat of World War III. This threat our boys .are today being fed by their superior officers while in army-training. . Surely, this is the basic reason for the prosper ity which I find today in New York and the other 20 cities which we are told are liable to be destroyed. In addition to the above eco nomic reasoning, there is an im portant political influence, one which both Republican and Democratic leaders' recognize This is that in order to "stay in" or "get in" office they must have, or promise, full employ ment and prosperity NOW. In: order to give this to the voters,, the government must supply more credit, favor higher wages, and make it easier for the voters to buy without money houses, automobiles, and anything else they want. This means more in flation. Since the great num ber of voters are industrial wage workers who are being fed the scare threat that World War III wiU come within five years, do you blame them for their shortsighted income reasoning? Knoxville, Tenn. j(U.R) Mrs. Shirley Campbell. Waggoner sought a divorce today because her husband, a minister, objects to her watching television, wear ing "barbaric" earrings and her hairdo. 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