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o o o rOUR-EDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-A141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. Citv Editor HAkRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor JEWETT SDOrU Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor JACK JACKSON Sunday Editor (GERALD LATHAM Circulation Mgr . An Independent Newspaper Eferel as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 n SUBSCRIPTION RATES By-Slail In Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos jju Sunday OnJv On vear $3 50. Ey Corner In Advance Medford Ashland. Centra) Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shadv Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County G. UnitTd Prt Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AHvrtivinp Rnrppntfttive: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago De troit. San Franeisco Los Angeles Seatti. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B.C NATIONAL EDITOItAL assooTatiIon u u w 7 O" 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. lgEARS AGO Dee. 12. 1945 (It was Wednesday) ' Roy Parr, principal of Talent school, studies possibility of ad ditional facilities for 40 per cent increase in enrollment. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An East Oregonian boasts for the first time in 30 years, he has not hied forth to shoot a duck. His will power is something for the I books, not to mention the firm-! ness of his Missus. 20 YEARS AGO 0 Dec. 12, 1935 (It was Thursday) Ashland sells .$27,000 worth of bonajs for sewer disposal plant to E. M. Adams and company, Portland bonding firm. Councilman Frer! Hpath .Tr says Medford almost assured of $300,000 WPA funds for airport improvements here. 80 YEARS AGO Dec. 12. 1925 (It was Saturday) Medford officials rush sup ply of meningitis, serum to Kla math Falls, where spinal men ingitis epidemic has taken two lives. Coach "Prink" Callison pre-i sents 20 letters to Medford foot ball players. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 12., 1915 ( (It was Sunday) W. S. Sumner of Modoc orch ards invites bids for installation of irrigation system. From Local and Personal col umn: The streets of Medford are thronged with Christmas shop pers today and there isn't a pessimist among them. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of lh 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rtpcrt 1. Food prices next year, pre dicts the Agriculture Depart ment, will be higher or lower than mis year, or about the same? 2. Teachers in high schools of large cities average about S4300, $5000, S5700 or S6400 a year? . 3. Irel5)d (the Republic of Eire) is or isn't a member of U.N.? 4. More Anusptcans will die this year from auto accidents, cancer, polio, tuberculosis or pneumonia? 5. Which receptive candidate f a 1956 presidential nomina tion was once Secretary of Com merce? 6. The Sahara is the world's largest desert; righ or wrong? 7. Hackmatack is a city of Cilichigan. saw for cutting metal, specie of tree, wild animal of Africa, or a casserole dish of f meat and vegetables? The A.nswers: 1. About the me. 2. About S5700. 3. Isn't. 4. Auto accidents. 5. Gov. Harri rr?an of N.Y. 6. Right. 7. Species of tree. o O Time spent in the fall to apply int and rust preventatives to farm implements will help pro vide trouble-free service from trie machines next season and will, make the equipment last longer. MAIL TRIBUNE Check Your Mantel? If there's a big stack of mail sitting untidily on your mantel (as there is on ours), why not check it to make sure you haven't overlooked the TB Christ mas seals sent out this year? If anyone does not want to contribute to this cause, which is gradually eliminating tuberculosis as a threat to the American people, that's his business. But for those who approve the work, don't let it go by the boards because of forgetfullness, only to find, ruefully, that the stamps are still there, unused and unacknowledged, sometime in February. E.A. Watching Cars Go By Through the office windows it is possible to see a great cluster of cars parked in a parking lot. And during these Christmas shopping days, the streets are jammed. On Sixth street, for instance, it is not unusual for cars to be backed up and stopped well west of Fir street from the red light at the Front and Sixth inter section. F AST year the state highway commission estimated there were about 9,000 cars in the Medford vi cinity. It predicted this would double within the next 15 years. It .is possible the total will double sooner, what with the increase in population and the trend toward two cars per family. Watching the cars go by, creeping slowly and in line, gives one to wonder what the outcome will be. Off-street parking and an arterial system of streets appear to be a minimum things toward which the wheels of government are now slowly, veiy slowly, grinding. Otherwise it may be impossible to get around town at all, and all the motorists will set in their cars and wait for St. Bernard dogs to rescue them. E.A. Do It Now We are informed that supplies of polio vaccine, which were a "drug on the market" hereabouts a week or so ago, are vanishing rapidly. That's good. That means it's being used. That means that more and more children are acquiring immunity to infantile paralysis," and will have that protection when the period of high incidence comes along. A FAINT suspicion of the vaccine remains in some "people's minds after the hullabaloo and hooraw of last spring and summer, coupled with the unde niable fact that some of the vaccine produced by one laboratory was faulty. But Oregon's experience this summer looks con clusive. In a year when polio came fairly close to reaching epidemic proportions in the state, not one child who had been vaccinated came down with the disease. TT IS easy to say "let's wait until a better vaccine has been developed," as it undoubtedly will be. That's all right if parents wish to assume that risk. But the memory of the death from polio recently of a little Central Point boy is a good argument to get our children protected, and to do it now. E.A. Taxes on Churches We have always taken for granted the idea that churches should be free from property taxes. Not so, apparently, some church leaders, who believe churches should pay property taxes. The theory, it seems, is that since churches do not pay taxes,- the total amount of taxes needed must be borne by other property taxpayers, who, in effect, are then paying the churches' share and so indirectly supporting them. THE Oregon City Enterprise-Courier quotes at length an editorial from a Concord, N.H., paper. The key paragraphs from that article follow: Each organized church should be supported only by its own members, or others who may care to contribute to its support voluntarily. When one is taxed and thus made to . support all organized churches there is nothing voluntary about the process and freedom of religion is not realized to this extent. Each church should pay its own bills without the help of money collected for it through the force of law. In this country a man may, if he so wishes, have no re ligious convictions. Yet any who are atheists (we doubt there are very many genuine -atheists in this country) are compelled to help support church organizations, and the religious convictions they espouse, through the prevalent property tax exemption practice. This is one point at which the guarantees of freedom of religion have not yet been thought through clearly in this country. It is a vestigial remnant of colonial times, and the fact that there existed in those days in some colonies the English concept of a State church. We do not necessarily subscribe to this thesis, but it is an interesting concept, and one new to us, in these days of super consciousness about taxation of all types. E.A. Three Beeroom House Stolen by Burglars Pittsburg,' Calif . (U.R) Police were at a loss today to explain one of the '"biggest robberies" in the history of the San Fran cisco Bay area. A three bedroom prefabricat ed house was taken sometime during the day Friday. Detec.tives said it would have taken at least two men with a large truck to dismantle and move the building, but no one in the area remembered seeing it go. Calves usually are the least risk for feeding, as they grow and fatten at the same time. - Monday. December 12, 1953 Jet Stratoiiners Will Cut Flying Time New York (U.R) Contin ental Air Lines today announced the purchase of four jet strato iiners which will cut the Denver to Chicago flying time by more than one hour. Robert F. Six, Continental president, said four Boeing 707 jet Stratoiiners purchased by his company will be put into opera tion on routes between Chicago, Denver and Los Angeles and Chicago, Kansas City and Los Angeles by 1959. Continental will be the first company to establish regularly scheduled jet "transport service over the route, Six said. Matter of Fact BERLIN AGAIN Washington It is entirely possible that President Eisen hower may be faced, early in the coming el ection year with the kind of d e c i s i on which only a President can make. If worst " comes to the worst, he may have to decide be tween aband oning West Berlin or ad Joseph Also opting the course which Presi dent Truman once seriously con sidered ordering an armored convoy to Berlin, with instruc tions to shoot if necessary. Most of the experts in the State Department, it should be said, hopefully believe that the Soviets will not dare risk a second blockade of Berlin. But they do not exclude it.ta exclude it. And what is now going on in Berlin looks s u s p i c i ously like the prelimin- Stewart Alsop ary stage- setting for a block ade. The stage-setting began with the obviously planned arrest of two American congressmen. It continued with the rejection of the resulting American protest by the Soviet Commander, on Is That So? By Eugene Burns Ranger-Naturalist A quizzerool Every question is based on previous columns. An swers follow questions. Tote your score and if you make 90, you are an Outdoor Expert.; 80, a JVoodsman; 60, a Wrangler; and 40 a Drugstore cowpoke. 1. A surprisingly large num ber of our popular beliefs simply do not stand up to the light of day. Which of the following is myth, which fact? (Five points each, 15). 1. A rain, even if a cold one, or a hot sun shining on clean snow will- make it disappear quickly. 2. No mammalian mother can conceive while pregnant. 3. The farther north one goes, the deeper the snow will be in the winter. II. These three animals are among the world's greatest mi gratory travelers but yet each one can be held in the open hand. What is the name of each one? (15 each: 45). 1. I travel from 2,000 to 5,000 miles going from the Sargas so Sea to fresh water streams either in Europe or America. 2. In pursuit of the sun, I trav el from the Arctic to the Ant arctic, my flight plan taking me from northern Canada where I nest, across the North Atlantic to Europe and thence down, the coast to southern Africa. 3. I fly over jungle and forest without ever pausing in my mi gratory flight; some of my kind fly from the arctic to Argen tina, crossing 2,400 miles of open sea; others fly from Alaska to Samoa stopping en route in Ha waii. III. Some mammals have de velop '. extraordinary powers of remaining submerged for con siderable periods of time, among them are the Alaska fur seal, the beaver, the otter, the bottle nose whale. Pair up the right animal with these times: 1. 4 minute duration; 2. 15-minutes; 3. 20-minutes; 4. 120-minutes. (10 each; 40). Answers: 1. Like so many popular beliefs, each one is wrong. Both of these are highly inefficient a warm wind is much more effective; 2. The fe male European hare has conceiv ed while pregnant in fact one to five days before giving birth; 3. Actually, it snows much' less in the Arctic than it does in Montana or North Dakota. . II. 1, The eel; 2. the Arctic tern; 3. The Golden Plover. III. 4 minutes, the otter; the beaver, 15; the seal, 20; the whale, 120. (Released by McClure , Newspaper Syndicate) Free: By special arrange ment with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week lo the reader who sends me the best true-life nature ad venture, or the best nature ob servation, or the best question on nature and wild-life a com plete SO-volume set of this world famous reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friend ly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! care of Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausaliio, Calif. i ""I ;-Y pi By Joe and Stewart AIsop the grounds that East Germany was now a sovereign power. It has continued further with hints in the Communist press that the "sovereignty" of the East Ger man puppet government extends to all Berlin; and with threats to stop the barges w-hich bring essential supplies to West Ber lin. Months ago, former 'Ambas sador to Moscow George Ken nan publicly predicted that just this sort ofthing would happen, the the Soviet response to the adherence of West Germany to the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. The ' Soviets would confer a phony sovereignty on East Germany, Kennan predict ed. Then the East Germans would put pressure on West Ber lin, for two purposes. First, the Western Allies would be forced to protest to the Soviets, and these protests would be rejected on grounds that East Germany was a sov ereign state. The West would thus be humiliated, and Soviet power in Germany demonstrat ed for all Germans to see. Second, the East Germans would use West Berlin as a hos tage, to force West Germany to negotiate directly with the Communist puppet regime. Thus the stage would be set for what Europeans call "The dialogue Bonn-Pankow" the direct ne gotiations on unification be tween the two Germanys, on an equal basis, which the Soviets have long been maneuvering for. 17'ENNAN begins to look like a better than average pro phet. The State Department ex perts also, of course, foresaw that the Soviets might react in some such way. The question' now is how far the East Ger man puppets and their Soviet masters are prepared to go. Most State Department exr perts beliene that, the Commun ists will adopt a policy of "max imum harassment." They will subject West Berlin to a series of pin-pricks, or even needle pricks, holding up traffic, de manding excessive tolls, and so on. But they will not plunge in the dagger they will not stop all traffic into Berlin, and thus impose a total blockade. If the East 'Germans get too tough, it is pointed out, the West Germans can also get tough. East Germany is still heavily dependent on West Ger man coal and steel. Last spring the East Germans threatened punitive tolls on traffic to West Berlin. The Bonn government estentatiously reduced shipment of coal and steel to East Ger many. And suddenly the East Germans began to sing a far milder tune. But that is not the only reason for the diluted optimism in the State Department. Too much toughness could unite all West Germany, which the Soviets have been at pains to woo, firm ly behind the policies of Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer. It could revive the faltering for tunes of NATO. Finally, a total blockade of Berlin involves a clear risk of war. And despite the recent hardening of the So viet line, the American experts remain convinced that the Kremlin does not want to risk war. HHHE risk of war would be greater than in 1948. After the first blockade, the three Western Allies pledged their na tional honor to the defense of Berlin. Even the instinctive ap peasers in Paris, London and Washington for that matter are fully aware that to abandon Berlin would be Munich a thou sand times over. Yet the airlift, which saved Berlin last time, may provide no way out now.- East German radar-jamming facilities have been greatly expanded, and they would presumably be used. An airlift cannot operate without radar. Moreover, although the airlift was an adequate response to the first blockade, it would surely seem a weak response to a second blockade. Short of abandoning the city, the only alternative to an air lift is direct force. This is why it is worth offering a passing prayer that the State Depart ment experts are right, and that the worst 'will not come to the worst. But even the optimists agree that the worst might hap pen, especially in view of the amazing, sudden truculence of the implusive and powerful so viet boss, Nikita Khrushchev. (C) 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) 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 ihe American Bible association, the Med ford Ministerial association and ihe National Council of Church Women. Following are ihe passages recommended for today: Luke 10:25-42. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This modern world note: In Cleveland, they're starting off a new kind of convention. It will be known as the 1955 Nuclear Congress and Atomic Exposition. One of the exhibits will be a cigarette-making ma chine equipped with a new elec-tronic-neutronic control designed to insure complete uniformity of tobacco in every cigarette coming off a production line. The device vill reject from the line any cigarette not meet ing the established quality stand ard. TRIVOLOUS thought: Do you reckon we could utilize this jigger to REJECT THE COMMUNISTS who seek constantly to infiltrate our gov ernment so that when THE DAY comes they can TAKE OVER? MORE on this modern world: The head of the Iowa State College equipment department (her name is Elizabeth Bev eridge) gets into the news with a description of a fascinating new electric dishwashing compound. The stuff, she says, is based upon a triple action formula. It uses a special rinsing agent to insure that dishes, glasses and silverware are not spotted when they come out of the machine. It provides added cleaning power for removing stubborn spots and grease. The final touch is a finisher offer compound that offers added protection against hard water deposits and film. WHAT I'd REALLY like is an electric dishwasher with a satellite robot that would pick up the dirty dishes, scrape 'em off, put 'em in the machine, turn it on, clear off the table, sweep up the crumbs, wash up the nice white stove, tidy up the drain boards and then mop the kitchen floor. An attachment like that would be worth while. IN THIS modern quiz-program age, everybody secretly hopes to set himself up in business by breaking the jackpot for a tidy sum, here's a good question for the quizzers: Who were the first men to fly around the world, and how long did it take them? Here's the answer vouched for by the National Geographic Society: The men were Richard E. Byrd (better known . as Commander Byrd) and Floyd Bennett. It took them just TEN MINUTES, They did it on May 9, 1926. TJERE'S the catch: - They flew around the world AT THE NORTH POLE. They crossed all the meridians of longitude in one full turn, which constitutes flying around the world. If you'll get out your globe and take a look at the upper (north) end of it, the whole thing will be clear to you. If you could pin-point the pole accur ately enough and had solid enough ice to tread on, you could WALK around the world in five minutes. ALL of which can't help re minding us of the methods of the demagog politicians who are always trying to convince us that if we'll only VOTE FOR THEM we can do it with mirrors instead of working like the dickens and saving up our money. Paint Causes Fire In Residence Today Fire spread td the entire kitchen and into the attic this morning when paint thinner ex ploded in a residence at 1410 Flower way about 8:30 a.m. to day, firemen reported. Heat damage resulted throughout the house. Firemen said that the vacant house, owned by William L. Adams, 109 Waverly ave., was being painted. They stated that the paint was being mixed next to the kitchen stove. AWAY FROM IT ALL Marion, Mass. U.R) Three times, hurricane-spawned tidal waves battered Russell Make- piece's ocean-front home. So he's moving the residence to a new location far from the sea. The move will cost him S15.000. ADMITTING he was in Lake Geneva, Wis., when bank was robbed of $74,293, Donald J. Kramer, ex-convict, is being questioned by Chicago police. f JSS 4" ' He denies crime ( IxUmatioiuil) Election in France On Jan. 2 Probably0 Won't End Troubles By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent France's politicians have man aged to get themselves into -a notable muddle. The only thing which seems certain about the parliamen tary election to be held Jan. 2 is that it -will not end the Cabinet crises which have plagued the country- for years. These crises have weakened coarles Mccann r a n Ce ltselt. They have kept it in internal turmoil and weakened France's voice in international councils. They also have weakened the entire Allied world. Twenty-eight different parties have nominated 5000 candidates Stevenson Petitions Circulate in Portland Portland '(U.R) Adlai E. Ste venson for president petitions were being circulated in the Portland area today by a Stevenson-for-President committee headed by two Reed college stu dents. x John Ramsay-Hill, Los Ange les, Calif., and Sheldon Lynn, Hammond, Ind., said that they thought their committee to put Stevenson on the Oregon pri mary ballot in 1956 was the first movement of its kind in the country. However, they said they would not file the petitions un less Stevenson declared an in tention to run in the Oregon pri mary. In Oregon, 1000 names are required to place a candi date's name on the ballot. His permission is not needed. Lynn and Ramsay - Hill said they had the support of Oregon Democrats. Picket Ban Asked At Portland Airport Portland (U.R) A temp orary restraining order against mass picketing of United Air Lines operations at the Portland International airport was sought today as the airline continued to report reduced operations here. There was no resumption of mass picketing during the week end but there were a few pick ets on hand yesterday and Unit ed reported flights were reduc ed from a normal 41 to 26. Twelve flights were rerouted and three were canceled. AFL-CIO flight engineers are on strike against United. They received support from other un ion members here, resulting in mass picketing last Friday. The restraining order was to be sought from Circuit Court this afternoon. Evangelist Schedules Special Services Here Evangelist Arthur Arnold, a converted Jew and noted camp meeting speaker, ' will conduct special services at the Medford Assembly of God, 1108 West Main st.,' beginning Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. Meetings will continue through Thursday night, accord ing to the Rev. F. Wildon Col baugh, pastor. The Rev. Mr. Arnold has had extensive ministry throughout the United States. He is serving at present as a member of the national evangelism committee of the Assemblies of God. The Rev. Mr. Arnold recently concluded a five-week series in Eugene at the First Assembly of God. FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home O Phone 2-6675 for the 527 seats in the National Assembly, which like the British House of Commons is the domi nant chamber of Parliament. Typical of the confusion is the state of the Radical Socialist party. Party Leans To Right It is one of the singularities of French politics that this party, long stable and powerful, is neither radical nor icialist. It leans toward the right wng. AT-ir i4- linn " r tv s T-v i O "" C Pierre Mendes-France, who re cently won control of the party, has thrown Premier Edgar Faure his years-long friend, out of it. Mendes-France has taken the lead of one faction and has turn ed it into a mildly left wing group. For the election, he has allied himself with the left-wing socialist party. Faure leads the other faction. This one has allied itself with the rally of the Republican Left. Tins group of parties, which calls itself left, actually is right wing. In this situation, it will be interesting to see what happens to the Communist party in the election. If it can offer voters nothing else, it can say truly that it knows where it is head ing. Red Strength Ebbing Communist strength has been ebbing in France, as in Italy, for several years. Party membership has dropped from a high of 850,- 000 to about 300,000. The Com munists held 98 seats in the last Parliament. Five years ago they held 181. But the Communists neverthe less polled nearly 5,000,000 votes in the last election in 1951 26.5 per cent of the total. If the Jan. 2 election promotes political instability instead of lessening it, France will be brought closer to a decision or. its future.' . There is increasing talk of making the president of France an executive, with powers simi lar to those of an American pres ident. Now he is merely a figure- O head. There also is talk of the possi bility that France may be tend ing toward a "strong man" sys tem of goverment, with a really dominant leader who could be either a president or a premier. The only man in sight in that connection is Gen. Charles De Gaulle. He is sitting back await ing developments. But he is all ready to step in if his chance comes. Done In Africa GEO. N. TAYLOR Dr. Clark, English M.D., slipped up to the African chief to whisper "God had a Son who died for your sins." But the chief went on with his dance a r o und the p y r a mid of skulls, still dripping with fresh b 1 o o d.. Later, the chief came to Dr. Clark to hear more as to God's Son who died for his sins. The two visited often and many a moon passed, says the doctor. Then the chief went back to the valley where he used to capture the men whom he was to be head. Now he went to win souls. He showed Dr. Clark his neck lace with many a knot and every knot, a soul won for God. Also he brought back converts. So the chief came into new birj.li and that part of Africa into peace. And it all began with these nine words "God had a Son who died for your sins. And when your heart grows heavy, repeats over and over "God has a Son who died for my sins." This message sponsored by an Oregon Dairyman and family. adv. 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