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Newspaper Page Texto F0UR MEDFORD (OREGON) O MEDFORDtwTRIBUNI "Everybody in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune ' Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB. GREY. Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC JLLLEN JR. City Editor, HAkRV CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport EOltor OLJVE STARCHER. Society Editor J4.CK JACKSON: Sunday Editor G?RAI-D LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1BH7 -) SUBSCRIPTION RATES J By Mail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One vear $3.50. Ey Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonvilla Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 "Daily and Sunday One month 1.29 Carrier and- Dealers 5c per copy mi xcniig vt"" " - Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County -United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU All Terms uasn m OF cacULAUW (Advertising nepnacuum''- 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 AsToCATiloN bmiimau'lHW NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 1 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. 11, 1945 O (It was Tuesday) Miss Nina Tuttle of Medford wins county Victory Queen con test; leaves for Portland and state contest. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An epi demic of colds now sweeps the "nation, and people are warned "not to try and wear them out." Frequently, the cold is apt to last longer than """they do, the doctors point out. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 11, 1935 r0 (It was Wednesday) TSeely Hall, soneof Mr. and Mrs. Court Hall, Medford, pro moted to assistant vice-president of Untied Air lines with head quarters in Chicago. Fred Heath Jr., Fred W. Schef fel and A. H. Banwell in Port land confering on possibilities of getting $400,000 from WPA for Medford airport improvements. 30 YEARS 9vGO Dec. 11. 1925 (It was Friday) Two Jackson county jail pris oners escape; captured by Sher iff Jennings near Gold Hill later. Ceiling in Medford city hall caves in following adjournment of council; no injuries reported. 40 YEARS AGO " Dec. 11. 1915 (It was Saturday) From Butte Falls Bubbles: The town election was held this week. R- Baker was elected mayor, Ray Parker, recorder; H. D. Mills, R. Spencer, S. M. Clevenger, councilmen. Rpv Harrv E. Tucker presides at meeting to discuss possibilities of organizing a YMCA in Med ford. What's the Answer? r.Hn Von Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rep 1. Of all regular college grad uates these days about 10, 20, 30 or 40 per cent go into teaching? 2. President Eisenhower wants the 1953 immigration act on ad mitting refugees made tighter, more liberal, or left alone.' 3 An unmarried mother finds it msv nr hard in most parts of tfa country to have her baby adopted without going through lengthy procedure? 4. Which one of these is not a sign of the Zodiac: Caprieornus, Cassius, Leo, Libra, Taurus? 5. About 50, 60, 70, 80, or 90 per cent of all U. S. families own an automobile? 6. The Tangier area of Moroc co is under French or Spanish rule, or is independent, or is under international protection? 7. Annie Oakley was famous as a social leader, advocate of votes for women, pistol shot, mistress of a French king, or dress designer? Thg Answers: 1. About 20 per cent. 2. Made more liberal. 3. Easy. 4. Cassius. 5. About 70 per cent. 6. I&ernaiional protection. 7. Pistol shot. CATHOLICS CELEBRATE Buenos Aires, Argentina OJ.R) Tens of 'thousands of Roman Catholics Thursday night attend ed a mass in hoogr of the Virgin Mary on the feast day of the Immaculate Conception, one of the religiouV holidays banned under the Peron dictatorship. MAIL TRIBUNE How About Our Timber? During comparatively few years, the timber crop in Jackson county has in cash value to the community, surpassed all other crops including pears which not so long ago led the list. In fact today the annual tim ber income is placed at $?2,000,000, far ahead of the total value of our horticultural and agricultural pro duction combined in short it is now the leader and corner stone of local prosperity. Needless to say if this income were materially re duced, the effect on the business economy of this sec tion of the state, would be extremely serious. ' Yet according to our information from reliable sources at the present rate of consumption instead of over 30 mills being in operation 8 to 10 years hence, we will be lucky to have half as many, there might be only half a dozen although most of them would probably be the larger ones. In other words it would seem that timber conser vation is a topic like the weather a great deal of talk about it but very little actually done. . "1X7HAT is the answer? Will Southern Oregon as far ' as timber is concerned go the' way of the north west in general, and districts that were once humming with industry become deserted ghost towns, because the crop that should be permanent, has because of greed and the lure of the almighty dollar become a transient one? We shall have to leave the answer to those better informed about the timber problem than anyone in this department. But according to the Roseburg News Review the problem in Douglas county is almost indentical with that in this county, and Charles V. Stanton the editor of that paper believes things are not as bad or as hopeless as they appear to be to many. Here is his conclusion, quote : It is not a pleasant thing to have to say, but any realis tic analysis of the timber industry indicates that many Ore gon mills are doomed to elimination. Such has been the history of the industry in all producing centers. Only a small percentage of the mills once found in Oregon's pine belt dperate today. The upper Willamette Valley has but a fraction of its original number of mills. The mortality in Lane County has been great in late years. Here in Doug las County we have dropped some 50 mills from the all-time high. BUT the general economic outlook is not 'as dark as it might appear from the foregoing. A decline in primary manufacture is followed, in the normal course of events, by secondary manufacture, which brings about an increase in employment. In many sections of the Pacific Northwest, where primary manufacture is almost non-existent, payrolls from industries utilizing wood as the basic material are higher than ever before. So, we have little to fear in the matter of over-all economy, despite reduction in the total number of primary units. TJERE in Douglas County, however, we have opportunity, Vif we properly manage our great resource, to retain the majority of our efficient mill operations. Our present in stalled capacity is around one and one-half billion board feet annually. By obtaining proper balance between re moval of timber from private and federal lands, doing a bet ter job of utilization and extracting all possible values from salvage timber, by re-logging, and other processes, we can support on a sustained yield basis a capacity of at least a billion board feet annually, and probably more. To achieve this desirable situation, however, we need a vastly, improved system of access roads, realistic inven tories, better balance in harvesting timber from private and public lands and closer utilization of salvage and sub standard logs. Failure in any of those departments will speed mortality of mills and will push the industry toward monopoly by a comparatively few operators, as has been the history elsewhere, R.W.R. What "Is " a Demagogue? Some weeks ago Senator Morse called the ad ministration's national highway bill a "bankers bill." He preferred the Gore bill, which, instead of be ing financed by the sale of bonds through the banks, would be financed by the government directly. For taking such a stand the usually tolerant and judicious Salem Statesman calls Oregon's senior Sen ator a demagogue, and a cheap one at that. AS THIS term "demagogue" is probably going to be used more generally, promiscuously and inac curately in the coming presidential campaign than eVer before it might be a good idea to determine, before the shooting really starts, JUST what a dem agogue is. i 10 The Century dictionary defines the term as fol lows: (i1 "An unprincipled political agitator, one who seeks to attain political power, or the furtherance of some sinister purpose, by pandering to the ignorance or prejudices of the . populace." ' As a perfect example of the demagogue thus de fined, there was the late Senator Huey Long of Lou isiana, and of today, Senator Joe McCarthy of Wis consin.".,. ;t,Y Both these men made a business of dealing in un truths and halftruths, so they could deceive the vot ers, and by appealing to the latter's prejudices, fears and passions, make political profit for themselves. N OW Senator Morse "may be a number of things, , and will undoubtedly opponents in the approaching campaign, but he is not a demagogue. The use of the term "bankers bill" re garding the Eisenhower highway proposal does not justify in any way the use of the term. Why? Because : This .bill as distinguished from the Gore bill will be handled by the private banks,-give them a hand some profit to which they would be entitled but roads would cost the taxpayers in interest charges and principal many times as much as wrouId be the case if a "pay-as-you-go" plan were adopted, and federal credit used. . As the "Statesman" points out the bonding bank- Sunday, December 11. 195S be called even more by his Matter of Fact THE ASWAN DAM AND THE KABUL STREETS Washington The United States, with Great Britain and Egypt, will soon embark on just about the greatest engin eering project since the build in g of the pyra m i d s. A firm decision has now been made to build the great As wan high dam rn n a TTrnOT Nile. Joseph Also The dam is a really exciting undertaking. It will back up a huge lake three times larger than any other man made body of water in the world. When it is completed which will take 15 years the dam will irrigate more than two mil lion acres of now arid land, and it will sup ply cheap pow er for the industrial i z a tion of Egypt. It will, in Stewart AUop short, trans form utterly the economy of the Nile Delta. The whole job will cost about $1.3 billion. The Egyptians themselves will pay the labor costs in local currency, but they will need between $400 and $500 million in foreign ex change, to buy earth-moving equipment, dynamos, and the like. The International bank wiU put up some $200 million of this sum, while the Ameri can government win pick up the tab for most of the rest, with the British supplying some needed sterling. Thus the cost to the American tape-payer is not breathtaking. But the decision to go ahead with the project is nevertheless highly significant, in terms of Eisenhower administration pol icy. The decision is a direct re- ing system has been used usually: in extensive road construction by the states, including Oregon, and as the hard surfaced roads in theory at least are supposed to serve the people for several generations, a certain injustice WOULD be involved if the entire financial burden were to be assumed by one. DUT that is not the point we wish to make. The ad " ministration measure may be preferrable to the Gore bill or it may not their relative merits are not at issue. ; What is at issue is the condemnation of Senator Morse as a "demagogue" in his approval of one meas ure and his definition of the other as a "bankers bill." Apparently that term "banker" is what aroused the ire of the Salem paper and induced its accusation. Why should it? The administration measure IS a bankers' bill, and the Gore bill isn't, what is wrong with pointing out the facts? The essence of demagoguery is willful deceit and deception. Also utter lack of sincerity, and integrity. It is NOT dealing in facts, even if the speaker happens to be presenting those facts against the bank ing interests and in favor of the people. But as this use of the term by the Statesman indi cates, it is the prediction of this department that be fore the presidential campaign ends, that term "dem ogogue" is going to be hurled at the head of any as pirant for any office who will dare to maintain that he is fighting for the return of a government of, by and for the people, and the retirement of a govern ment of, by and for Big Business. He may be mistaken in his diagnosis. But if he is sincere in that belief and offers facts and figures to sustain it, he is not a demagogue and there is nothing demogogic in his approach R.W.R. Senator "Know Nothing" We are getting a little more than disgusted with some Republican politicians, especially of the ilk of Sen. William Knowland of California, who are be coming quite insistent that President Eisenhower reach a decision on whether he will seek another term. Last weekend, after a visit with Mr. Eisenhower, Senator Knowland told reporters he felt that Mr. Ei senhower had not reached a decision, and then added that it would be "helpful" if the chief executive would do so soon. Senator Knowland is one of a number of Repub licans who would like to wear the presidential garb, but we think his eagerness in pressing Mr. Eisenhower for an immediate" decision is in poor taste to put it mildly. , - THERE is no mitigating the fact that the president's heart attack was of a serious nature, but appar ently he has made an excellent recovery. His physi cians have indicated that they will not give him a full report on his recovery until late January or early February, which will allow time to see how Mr. Ei senhower stands the strain as he picks up, from day to day, larger portions of the duties of his office. While millions of Americans would welcome word that Mr. Eisenhower would run again, they do not want him to do so at the risk of his life. They are quite content to await the medical report, even though it may be some weeks away. Seems like some of the politicians could do like wise. Ashland -Tidings. By Joe and Stewart AIsop sponse to a Soviet challenge. When the Soviets made their arms deal with Egypt, they also made a vaguely worded but al luring offer to build the Aswan high dam for the Egyptians, which worried American policy makers even more than the arms deal. And although the International bank was consid ering the dam project before the Soviets stepped in, there is no doubt that the decision to go ahead was spurred by the Soviet offer. ' BUT THE decision on the As wan dam is also a part of a much larger decision. The dis pute within the Administration between the "Four H Club" and "The Young Turks" has. been well-publicized. The "Four H Club" members are the conser vatives, who supposedly want to keep foreign aid at or below present levels. "The Young Turks" want to respond to the new Soviet technique of offer ing arms and money abroad by a new, expanded, and rede signed foreign aid program. In principle, at least, "The Young Turks" have won the argument. The issue went to the President last week, at the National Security Council meet ing. The President ruled that the new Soviet challenge must somehow be met. It remains to be seen, of course, how this presidential decision in prin ciple will be carried out in prac tice. But it certainly means a hard new look at the whole for eign aid program. It is time for such a new look. Take, for example, the sad, cau tionary tale of the streets of Kabul, capital of the smaU, poor, but strategicaUy important state of Afghanistan. The Afghanistan government had its coUective heart set on getting the streets of the capital city paved with asphalt dirt roads were below the dignity of the capital. But the American aid experts stern ly ruled that there were no sound reasons for paving Ka bul's streets, which were tra- Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Mathematics Problem .To the Editor: Wayne Morse has another shocking revelation of the Eisenhower giveaway policy. What about the party he embraces? We would like him to figure out this problem in mathematics, not counting giving to Russia whole nations, and North . Korea to Communist Ch;na, just figuring taxpayers' money given away because of bungling mismanagement, with out any tangible returns. Figure the cost of the Korean war, in lives and money, the Berlin airlift, resulting from not providing way in and out by proper authorities. Forty cents per ton to John Lewis on top of highest wages ever paid are now pricing the industry out of business; oil and gas coming from north and south, as sub stitute. Bonus-causing .surplus, to farmers now costing millions to taxpayers just for storage, after blueing and destroying potatoes. Reduced value of dol lar, robbing old people of half their savings and insurance, more than doubling the cost of living and defense. Now add up the cost to taxpayers by the Democratic administration, and substract the amount from what Eisenhower has given away to date, after giving him credit for what he saved by not taking the Democratic President's tax schedule. The result will demonstrate the truth about the Eisenhower policy. Please show this result to AvereU Harriman. He seems to be in distress over the mat ter. Of course if your plan works Eisenhower's giveaway policy wiU be saved. If your plan fails, these three dams on the Snake river will be built without cost ing the taxpayer one cent, and the taxes they pay will help tne versed largely by donkeys and pedestrians. INSTEAD, they ruled, a dam should be built in the hinter land. At this point the bitterly disappointed Afghans asked the Russians if they would help pave Kabul's streets. The Rus sians instantly agreed, paved the streets, and threw in an as phalt factory into the bargain. The Soviet investment in Af ghanistan is a fraction of the American investment, and the dam certainly makes better ec onomic sense than the paved streets. But the Afghans did not much want the dam and they did very badly want the paved streets. And Afghanistan is in real danger of becoming a Sovi et satellite. Or take the story of a certain district in Italy, during the elec tions a couple of years ago. As a sort of test case, especiaUy large amounts of American aid were poured into the district, with a maximum of hoopla. The sudden injection of money up set the economy of the area, and the hoopla was apparently re sented. The Communist vote was far higher than ever before. rjTHIS is not to suggest that - foreign aid is useless, un xne contrary, the President is cer tainly right that the Soviet challenge must be met, and the Aswan dam is an excellent start. But the United States has got to stop acting like a stern govern ess, who always knows what is best for her smaU charges, and who expects to be thanked for teUing them. The purpose of fgoreign aid is not sentimental, or even economic, but political. This is a lesson the Soviets do not need to be taught. It is a lesson a lot of American ad ministrators and experts badly need to learn, now that the So viets have directly challenged us in an area we had always thought was an American mon opoly. Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Navy Calls Off Search For Missing Aircraft Honolulu (U.R) The Navy has called off an unsuccessful search for seven fliers missing in the crash of their P2V Neptune patrol bomber. The Navy abandoned hope of finding the men Friday and re caned two search planes which had been scanning the area west of Kauai Island. The illfated patrol bomber crashed Wednesday night dur ing low altitude maneuvers with a group of submarines. Three of the 10 crewmen were saved. 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: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. overburdened taxpayer support our government. There was no giveaway about the tide lands, the states owned them. Unscrupulous rogues were merely trying to steal them. Ira C. Jones 2325 Stewart ave. Medford, Ore. She's Mad To the Editor: Can someone teU me what is the matter with the people in this vaUey of ours? Ask the Red Cross Blood Bank what I mean: I have just re turned from my fourth trip to give blood; before that I didn't qualify for physical reasons. I have considered it a privilege to donate my little pint of blood so that someone could have an emergency transfusion, or a sol dier could be kept alive to re turn to his family. Surely, in this area of some 3,000 people there are 250 or 300 who can give blood. Today there were some 175 donations. Do you think that sounds reasonable? I don't. Frankly, I'm mad. Sure it was raining. But did that stop people from Christmas shopping? No! Yes, you were too busy, but you had time to drink coffee with the neighbor for 30 minutes this morning. Oh, I couldn't get a babysitter. They have lovely Grey Ladies who will be glad to watch Junior while you are doing your share. I can't get off work in time; most bosses will be hap py to let you leave for the short time it takes. Now be honest. You don't have a leg to stand on. So get out of a rut and do your share. It might be your child that gets polio, it might be your brother overseas, it could be your son in a car wreck. Let's act like Americans and do our share. Mrs. Earl KeUey, P. O. Box 86, Central Point, Ore. Analyze Reasons To the Editor: Most of us com plain about the high taxes we must pay to every level of our government but seldom try to analyze the reason for them. As we demand more services there must be more public serv ants employed to perform these duties. We shift the duties of running our government to our elected and appointed representa tives and forget aboutj them. Some of us vote and for others it is too much bother; Too sel dom do we inspect the record. To enjoy the privileges of a truly free America we must be constantly alert to insure that our elected and appointed repre sentatives perform their duties impartiaUy and to the best inter est of us as citizens. In most cases our election of government officials places in office persons who dedicate their efforts to the proper and satis factory performance of the re quirements of their office, but occasionaUy we select those who are incompetant and partial to the small group responsible for their selection. When we select, or have select ed for us, persons to perform any duties of government we should insist that they be from among the recognized top mem bers of their trade or profession and who have risen, through their ability, above the necessity of being partial. Dan F. Krotz II, Chairman for Community Service, Steelhead Post, VFW, . Shady Cove, Ore. Cultural Efforts To the Editor:, It is very grati fying to be included with the other persons whose paintings were displayed at tne fudhc library. I feel that the manage ment is doing a forthright thing since our efforts are cultural in intent at least. I feel honored and happy to have been included. Clifford Platz, 1512 Wilson place, Medford,. Ore. Christmas Verse To the Editor: Here are some verses that I thought would fit in for Christmas for your Tri bune. Birdella Norris 145 B st., Apt. 2 Asland, Ore. FOR CHRISTMAS I have just been wondering mother What I could get for you. I would like to give you some thing That you will" cherish, too. Something to make you happy When the day seems long; Something to give you pleasure Since Dad vis gone. Think it over, mother, And you will let me know. I'm a Httle late this morning So you see that I must go. Mother did not answer. She sent note which, read: "Presents I ask from no one. "Just give me your love instead. "Love is the light which shineth "When the day is spent. "Love is a priceless treasure And it does not cost a cent." POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A local family drove south last week. As they crossed the state line, mother said to small daughter: "We're in California now." Small daughter looked won deringly around and replied: "We can't be. This looki just like our country." A reliable source informs us of a predicament a couple of city police officers found them selves in recently. It has not been reported previously, pre sumably due to -modesty on tp part of the officers. There was a report of a pos sible safe-cracking under way at a local business concern. The officers dashed there in response to the alarm, and as other offi cers covered front and rear, these two mounted the roof to make sure the miscreant would not escape that way. It appeared that the suspect, if any, had fled. And when the officers came to getting off the roof, they found, because of the excitement, that they couldn't remember how they got up. They were stranded. A ladder truck from the fire department eventually came to their rescue. ' ' p- A staff member wrote a brief article last week con cerning an increase in ' the number of bad checks being passed in Medford. Two days later the same staff - member took a small check into a gro cery store and was informed he couldn't get it cashed. Why ' not? The store owner bad just read the article in the Mail Tribune stating that bad checks were on the increase, and he wasn't taking any chances. The . state board of health, among other things, also keeps track of all births in the state, and issues birth certificates if and when they are needed. Its duties also include issuing certi ficates for those whose birth were not recorded at the time, and often this involves collect ing evidence in support of the facts of the time and place of birth such things as baptismal records, entries in family Bibles,, and so on. Too, they sometimes take evi dence from members of the fam ily, or even from the certificate seeking individual himself. The staff reports that their favorite bit of supporting evi dence, which sadly enough did not prove conclusive, was. this statement: . ; "I remember this birth date because mother's favorite pea cock died of malnutrition." t Early this week city police received a call from someone ' who complained thai a duck was loose in an alley between ' West Second and Third sis. . at North Fir si., and was ere- aling a disturbance by quack ing loudly. An officer was dis patched to the alley and found ! a large white duck, "quacking violently." The owner of the -noisy fowl was located and : he' promised She officer he would put an end to ihe quack ing. The police report did not state how he intended to do . it, but we have a hunch it - might well have been via the dinner table. Don't police officers live in teresting lives? Ward B. Spatz, prominent Medford farmer and fruitman, is a first cousin to General "Tooey" Spatz. In their youth, the boys used to play together, and Ward tells about the time they were in a hay loft in a barn wrestling. Ward managed to get Tooey to the edge and pushed him off. The future Air Force command er fell the 8 or 10 feet to the ground, got the wind knocked out of him and, it" developed later, broke an arm. But, Ward declares, he picked himself up and, broken arm or not, climbed doggedly back up into the loft with blood in his eye. Ward says he didn't wait to be pushed he jumped. Ward also has a theory why his cousin went into the armed forces; says he wasn't smart enough to be a farmer. Eugene Thorndike, former bank vice-president, chairman of the county Red Cross chap ter, distinguished citizen and man-of-af fairs, was spotted last week making a mad dash into Main st. traffic at the risk of life and limb. He rescued an object and carried it triumphantly back to ihe curb, brushing it off on the front of his coat. The object? It was a Davy Crockett coonskin cap which a strong breeze had whisked from the head of a passing youngster. Gene returned it to the owner, and strolled on. Mme. Sun Yat Sen To Visit in India New Delhi, India (U.R) Mme. Sun Yat Sen, vice president of Communist China and widow of the "father" of modern China, will arrive here Dec. 16 for a three week visit as guest of the Indian government, it was learn ed Saturday.