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0 Q FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) O- UK1 "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Punished Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. ,?-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 K? nrnarwr W RTTTTT. Frlitnr HERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor HAkRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETl spora- iuisr OLIVE STARCHEK. Society Editor JACK JACKSON. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of jqarcn o. xogi SUBSCRIPTION RATES J&y roan Ji nuou.. IJI-fl. Daily and Sunday One year 12W XJauy anu ouuuaj nan Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3 JO Sunday uniy uot vei By Carrier In Advance Medford, . -1.1 i 1 Do, nt V.a& Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. KOgue caver. and pn motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Dauy ana aunoay uiuuu. Carrier and Dealers So per copy. All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford OHlciai raper oi tfacawa vvj United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CUtCUJLA.ril-JM nnrCT.unr l Tniv rnMPAMV INC Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. IjOS uigwes. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCfaTllON fidJiima-U'iHW NEWSPAPHR 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. 14, 1945 (It was Friday) Howard Glascock elected pres ident of Rogue Valley Radio club; Dwight H. Albright elected " vice president.. From Arthu r... Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The main cause of an increase in auto ac cidents is speed, the National Safety Council reports. They are also due to autos and pedes trians occupying the same space at the same time. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 14. 1935 (It was Saturday) Sixty men from Medford dis trict CCC tamps graduate from Qcamp Winner cooking school. From Jacksonville items: Among residences being deco rated with Christmas lights is that of Judge Tou Velle, which presents a striking appearance from the highway. The judge won a prize in the annual con test last year. I 80 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1925 (It was Monday) 0 John J. McEwan, football .poach at United States Military academy, appointed head foot ball coach at University of Ore Several California pear grow ers invited to attend Medford Chamber of Commerce banquet honoring fruit growers. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 14, 1915 (It was Tuesday) W. W. Watson points out in newspaper column there are only two farm tractors in the valley, but predicts many more in a few years. , o FQm Local and Personal col umn: C. G. Bullis, of the South ern Oregon Traction company, will have the municipal Christ mas tree cut and transported from Jacksonville to jvieaiora. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Total volume of U.S. crops this year, says the Agriculture Dep't, will be highest on rec ord, second highest, about aver age, or a little low? .2. Which of our Presidents was called "Old Rough and Ready'? 3. There are an even 100 Psalms in the Bible, fewer or more? 4. Pinon wood is used in fire places, expensive furniture, man ufacture of nylon hose, church altar piecesor sleds for chil dren? 5. A little over (a) 5, (b) 15, (c) 25, (d) 35 or (e) 45 per cent of all new car sales in the U.S. last year were Hardtops? 6. A uxoricide is a man who kills his girl friend, his rival for her affections, - his wife, his childJus parents, or the head of his government? 7. Eliza in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" fled across the ice over the Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, Potomac, Rio Grande or Suwa- nee river? The Answers: 1: Second high est. 2. Zachary Taylor. 3. More ihan 100 (150). 4. Fireplaces. 5 Little over 15 per cent. 6. His wife. 7. The Ohio. MAIL TRIBUNE That Half-Billion Gift The Ford Foundation's gift of a half-billion dol lars to colleges and hospitals is a breathtaking ven ture into philanthropy. It is the largest single such gift ever made, and presumably the largest gift of any kind. There is not a community in the land that will not be affected to a greater or lesser extent. There is hardly a family that will not benefit, in one way or another, sooner or later. IN Medford, the gift takes the tangible form of $60, 1 , 500 made available to the two medical hospitals. While the suddenness of the announcement coming without warning, has left the hospital authorities un derstandably amazed by their "Christmas present," each can, of course, make good use of the money. For Rogue Valley Memorial hospitaHt, comes at a crucial time, for the hospital is seeking to raise money to construct a new building. The amount of the grant is within a few thousand dollars of the amount which the state board of health trimmed from the hospital's request for federal funds. Sacred Heart hospital, too, is increasingly pinch ed for space to accomodate its patients, and has other needs. IN MEDFORD, the gifts to private colleges and uni- versities is a less tangible thing, but it has great importance, , here, as elsewhere, none the less. The gifts are intended to improve faculty salaries, both by the gifts themselves and by calling attention to the fact that in buying power faculty salaries have declined where, others have increased. Higher salaries for teachers mean a higher cali ber of individual will be attracted to, and kept in, the profession; a higher caliber of individual means a higher caliber of instruction, and the entire country will benefit thereby. UOW can any private organization afford to pass out a half -billion dollars? Well, the Ford Foundation has assets estimated at $2,500,000,000. This gift will decrease that. But since its investments are Company stock, and later securities which bring in good income, it hardly is a move which will liquidate the Foundation. The foundations Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie and others have come in for. certain criticism in recent years, some of it justified, but it is a fair con clusion that the good they do far outweighs their de ficiencies whatever they may be. And few can quarrel with the intent of this week's gift, which will do much to improve the American level of education and of medical treatment and ser vice throughout the land. E.A. Church and State Freedom of religion, and the separation of church and state, are still live issues in this and in other countries. Just the other day, comment on the question of property taxes being levied on churches was reprint ed here to the effect that tax exemption for church property boosts the property taxes of others, creating a sort of subsidy to churches, thus violating the tradi tion of church and state separation. The problem of disestablishment of the church of England has become a live one again since Princess Margaret's romance ended at least partly, presum- ambly, because of her position as sister to the queen who is head of the church. . CTILL another facet of the church-state relationship showed up on Page 1 the other day in a stoiy re lating how the U. S. Supreme Court has supported a lower court m its ruling that the teaching 01 poly gamy is both illegal and immoral, and that where religious belief conflicts with the law, the law must prevail. In any community which calls itseli civilized, such a rule of law is a necessity. Some religions, for instance, have taught that murder is an acceptable practice as the Assassins of the Middle East which cannot be condoned by present-day standards. Throughout history there are other examples of such religious practices, now abhorred, which once were in tune with the times, the morals and the needs of their practitioners. IT CAN be argued, for instance, that in a country where the population of women is three times as great as that of men, polygamy would be a highly moral and necessary thing. This does not mean that it is moral or necessary here and now. Western civilization accepts mono gamy as the rule of law and of morals, and quite prop erly so. DELIGIOUS freedom is a high ideal, and a thing to be guarded jealously. But with the wide var iety of religious beliefs present today, society can and must insist that when one such belief crosses the limits of freedom and steps into the area of license, then the state shall step in for the protection of the others. There's an old saying to the effect that "Your freedom ends where my nose begins." It applies to organized religion as well as to individuals. E.A. Murder Suspect Tes Reason for Jail Escape Taegu, South Korea (U.R) Murder suspect Kang Woo Won, who escaped from jail two weeks ago, Tuesday sent a letter to the Taegu prosecutor explain ing why: "I wasn't feeling too well be cause I feared I would . be ex ecuted. But I am very well now, thank you." Wednesday, December 14, 19SS at present in Ford Motor will be in other types of Avocado Plant Growth Rivals Famed Bean Stalk Chicago (U.R) Mrs. Maur ice Schwartz has an avocado plant that grows like Jack's fa mous bean stalk. The plant is three years old and is already nine feet tall. Mrs. Schwartz said she has to move it from pot to pot and from room to room to give it growing space. "But I like it," In TKe Day's By FRANK JENKINS A Chattanooga newspaper says Senator Kefauver has made a firm decision to enter the race for the Democratic nomination for President. The Tennessee pa per asserts that he will announce the decision late this week. It adds that Kefauver is now in California. I'D GUESS that the prediction is probably accurate. At any rate, in a speech today before the Commonwealth club of San Francisco, the senator CALLS FOR A FEDERAL PROGRAM TO SEEK A PRACTICAL METHOD OF REMOVING SALT FROM SEA WATER. . That's the modern political technique. Promise the voters in every section of the country that the federal government WILL PRO VIDE 'EM WITH WHATEVER THEY WANT MOST. Presumably at no expense to them. TUST a thought at this point: In the fiscal year 1956, Ore gon paid $429,231,000 to the U.S. Internal revenue bureau in DIRECT U.S. taxes. In case you have fallen into the habit of skipping big figures, that is 4291& MILLION DOLLARS or nearly $300 for every man, wo man and child in the state. That is TAX money. It come out of the pockets of the people of Oregon be cause there isn't anywhere else for tax money to come from. rriHIS is the point: : Tax money' is tax money no matter where it comes from. Is That So? Ever examined that tremend ously efficient organ, your skin one of the most extraordinary mechanisms of this world? Roughly it is a 4x5 foot blan ket which aovers the entire body? varying from 125 of an inch on the eyelids to one-fourth inch on the soles. It weighs about 9 pounds. ' Despite millions of tiny holes scattered throughout, it is water proof thanks to its ingenious overlapping construction with fishlike scales. Yet, the skin is much more than just a protective overcoat: it is a perfect electric blanket, keeping the body temperature on an even keel; a complex switchboard whose nerve cen ters warn of excessive heat or cold, touch or damage; a lab oratory in which hairs and nails are manufactured; it makes and stores the pigment along with freckles and the suntan which shields us from the sun; it con stantly rebuilds worn surface layers; to a modest degree it helps eliminate waste and take in oxygen; it manufacturers oil to keep hair and the horny outer layer soft; and with fats re moved and salt increased in later years; it grows saggy and wrinkled. Besides, it registers emotion. Hot or cold, your skin's sweat glands some 2,000,000 work constantly. Below 86 degrees, they give off invisible sweat droplets; above 88, there is us ually a sudden outbreak of vis ible fluid sweat all over the body surface. Nearly all of the body is cov- La Rosa Romance May Be Rekindled New York U.R) Singer Dorothy McGuire may be free soon to resume , her celebrated romance with an old flame, Jul ius La Rosa. "I don't know, when I expect to see her again. . . . We're both in show business, you know," said La Rosa when he was in formed last night that Dorothy's husband had filed suit for di vorce and she had filed a coun ter suit. La Rosa, who Is appearing here as a guest start on the'-Mar-tha Raye television show, said he knew nothing the of the di vorce actions. They were filed in Florida. He told reporters he hadn't seen Dorothy since "three days before last New Year." News of the pending divorce action was disclosed by her law yer, Charles E. Booth. : University Students To Make Drink Test Chicago (U.R) Three gra duate psychology students at Northwestern university will make alcoholic guinea pigs . of themselves Tuesday for the sake of science and $25 each. One will drink eight shots of bonded bourbon, the second six shots of the same, and the third two glasses of beer. They will then undergo tests to see how well they carry their liquor. News I If it is federal money, the peo ple still pay it. And When we send a tax dollar to Washington, what we get out of it' in the way of local federal spending comes back to us badly shrunken by the Washington squeeze. "DUT the politicians who are '-'running for federal office rely on us to FORGET that funda mental fact. TUT that's enough politics for one day. Let's turn to some thing else. In Portland the other day, a motorist named McGuckin told the police he was driving down Barbur boulevard when some body cut in front of him and he had to swerve to avoid col lision. His car went over the curb and demolished the front porches of two homes. Then it smashed into another house, splintering the. porch and breaking water pipes. Water from the broken pipes flooded the house. At that point, the engine of McGuckin's car caught fire. He wound up in the hospital with multiple injuries, includ ing a possible brain concussion. rriHAT'S what happens in the modern world when ONE DRIVER DOES SOMETHING WRONG. In this case, the driver who did something wrong was the one who cut in in front and thus triggered off the whole series of minor disasters. As too often happens- HE CAME OFF SCOT FREE. By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist ered with hair though often it is too fine to be visible. Its aver age life varies four and a half months of downy hairs to three to five years for long scalp hairs. Each has its own small blood vessel to nourish it and several oil sacs to anoint it. With it goes a nerve to sound the alarm if it is pulled, and a little muscle to draw it up on' end if one is chilled or frightened or angry. (In times past when humans were more hairy, this bristling doubtless helped protect the body against the cold while now it merely results in gooseflesh and a prickling of the scalp which sometimes accompanies fear or anger." Sometimes to our dismay, the skin may even disclose our in nermost feelings: we burn bright red with embarrassment and pale with fright. (Released by i.f McClure Newspapers) 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-famou6 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 letters. Please address our letter to: IS THAT SO; co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Coal Miner Wins $32,000 on TV Show New York U.R) Stanley Skeens, who has worked for a West Virginia coal mine since 1949, starts digging toward day light today. Skeens, an expert on "the Bible, walked away from CBS TV's "The $64,000 Question" last night with $32,000 in his pocket. He indicated that his winnings might change his way of life. "I kind of ' hope now that some time in the future I can go into a little business," said Skeens. "Maybe a garage or a filling station." Skeens, Danville, W. Va., fig ured he might be able to salvage "about $18,000" after taxes. He's married and has one 5-year-old son. Skeens, an ordained minister in the Free Will Baptist church, built up his stake over a five week period on the giveaway show. He was offered a chance to double his winnings last night, but decided to quit. A-H Club Knitting Club Applegate Knitting club held the first meeting at Applegate school cafeteria December 9. Officers elected were Luci Sims, president; Gwen Krouse, vice president and song leader; Mary Herriott, secretary; Jean Row den, reporter. Records books will be re ceived before the next meeting. The club has only four members but hope to have more. Members discussed what had been learned during the first year of knitting. All of the Applegate 4-H clubs met at this time and foUowing refreshments, adjourned. Jean Rowden, Reporter. Read and Use Classified Ads. . . The Community's Biggest Marketplace Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a Den name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. How Much is $35 Billion? ' To the Editor: In regard to the thirty-five biUion doUars we are about to spend for defense. Or offense as the case may be. The average person has no idea of what a billion doUars is. If it were broken down into fig ures that could be understood, thirty-five billion dollars would build: s Three million, five hundred thousand homes, at ten thou sand doUars apiece. Or One million miles of four lane highway, or enough to cross the United States three hundred times. Or ' Three thousand, five hundred hospitals, at ten million dollars apiece. A dam on every river in the United States that could produce a kilowatt of power, with enough left over to huild the highway and aquaduct up Bear creek, as was so aptly suggested by Mr. Tucker. It would buy: Twelve million average priced automobiles. Or Enough rope to hang every mothers son that causes us to drain away our resources that are so badly needed for the bet terment of mankind. I. C. M. Prospect . (Name on file) Baseball & Music To the Editor: At the Cham ber of Commerce Round Table luncheon, Monday, Dec. 12, the subject for discussion, as plan ned by Paul Hornbeck, program chairman, was organized base ball for Medford. Present and speaking were quite a number, who, from knowledge and ex perience, spoke with authority. Presiding with his customary courtesy and competence was Victor Milnes, chairman of the discussion group of the Cham ber. Just before the luncheon was concluded, he asked the three women present (I was one of them), for our views on the matter. I had attended, just the day before, the concert of the Philharmonic Society of South ern Oregon, and had regretted the small size of . the audience, as did "OS" of this newspaper, in her coverage of the concert. Being somewhat of a musician and having the interests of the profession at hearty I answered Mr. Milnes in a; manner which I believe was a disappointment and not quite understood. In effect, my thought (per haps unfortunately expressed because on the impulse of the moment), was that I should like to see financial support of cul tural matters, as well as of ath letics; that artistic attractions might be valuable assets to the community as well as those of another nature. It was not a mere personal preference; not, as Mr. Milnes expressed it, "You would rather go to a symphony concert than a baseball game." I have lived- in Medford nearly all my life, always com ing back to it after absences of weeks, months, years. To me, it is now more interesting, en joyable, more downright fun, than ever before. The new resi dents, industries, organizations, the zip and enthusiasm, the eager - beaverness, constitute a many-splendoured thing." If we can have organized baseball, let's have it; but still, I wish we might have a little more appreciation of good music, too. Jeunesse (Sally) Butler 106 South Ivy st. Medford, Ore. YOUNG DETERMINATION New Haven, Conn. (U.R) Police report a 13-year-old boy apparently is determined to drive. The youngster was picked up for the third time in a stolen car. Each time, a patrolman stopped the youngster because he was hardly big enough to see over the steering wheel. ' EAST Afghanistan Visit by Red Leaders Seen as Potentially By CHARLES M. MCC ANN United Press Correspondent The visit which the Kremlin's roving ambassadors are paying to Afghanistan is loaded with potential trouble for the West ern Allies. It. could prove to be the most dang-, erous of their tour of South ern Asia. Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Commu nist Party Leader Nikita Charles McCann S. Khrushchev are due in the remote Himala yan kingdom today. - They have made their - inten tions plain. Afghanistan has . been - em broiled for more than six years m a border dispute with Pakis tan, which is allied with the free world. Bulganin and Khrushchev in tend to take advantage of this feud to intensify their present campaign of penetration of Af: ghanistan. In their speeches in India, the two Soviet leaders took the op portunity to denounce Pakistan entered the Baghdad alliance with Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Great Britain at the dictation of "American monopolistic circles." Protest Made r It was disclosed at that time that Pakistan had protested to the Soviet embassy in Karachi agains a visit by; Bulganin and Khrushchev at this time. "No one is going to tell us where we will go," Khrushchev said in mentioning the protest in a speech. Afghanistan demands that about seven million turbulent Pathan tribesmen on the Pakis tan side of the Afghan-Pakistan border be incorporated into a separate independent state. . Pakistan holds that all Af ghanistan wants to do is to get control of this area, which in cludes the famous Khyber Pass through the Himalayas.. ': Incidentally this pass . could be made an invasion route from the Soviet Union to Pakistan through Afghanistan. Ill-feeling between Pakistan Western Oregon Farmers Complain Of Disaster Loans ' Portland U.R Some west ern Oregon farmers complained today that federal disaster loans made available to the area after the November freeze were not worth the adverse publicity that came with being declared a dis aster area. Farmers said after a meeting with C. G. Hendry, loan officer with the Farmers Home Admin istration, that the loans offered by the federal government to pay for freeze damaged crops would be of little use to most growers. : " Must Exhaust Credit Sources Federal law requires that the grower must have suffered a 25 per cent overall loss and have exhausted all other sources of credit. A standby agreement would have to be obtained from other credit sources. One farmer said "a fellow would really have to be flat on his back to get one of those loans." Hendry said estimates of loss had ranged up to 100 per cent in cane berries with consider able damage in fruit, truck, and nursery crops. Damage estimates resulted in a declaration of dis aster for several western Wash ington and Northwestern Oregon countries. Farmers said they . doubted that most growers could qualify for loans under present require ments. MAIN SISKIYOU I PUBLIC , LIBRARY JM&r: Dangerous and Afghanistan exploded last spring in riots. Afghan mobs at tacked the Pakistan embassy in Kabul, the Afghanistan capital, and wrecked consular offices in other cities. Russia moved swiftly to take advantage of this situation. It first negotiated an agreement by which Afghanistan, whose natural trade route is through Pakistan, could send its exports and receive itsPimports through the- Soviet Union. The Russian colony In Kabul started to grow , amazingly. Rus sian technicians began moving In to aid in Arghan economic development. A United Press Kabul dispatch recently quoted reports that construction and re pair work on all roads connect ing Kabul with the Soviet Union would be turned over -to Soviet technicians. The visits of. Bulganin and Khruschev to India and Burma may turn out to have been large ly of propaganda value. But in Afghanistan, the two ambassa dors of ill will may be able to cause real trouble. Portland Plant Damaged by Flames ' Portland U.R) A wind- whipped two-alarm fire roai(jl through the Collins Concrete and Steel Pipe company plant here before dawn fcpday and damage was estimatej! at $175,000. Jack J. Collins, president of the firm, estimated the plant was about 50 per cent destroyed. He said he hoped to have it back in operation within 30 to 60 days. The company employs 212 persons. Collins said the fire broke out about 4:30 a.m. when flames under a dipping vat containing mineral rubber were diverted by high winds toward a wooden platform and set it ablaze. With-, in minutes, the strong east winds had spread the fire. The hot water heater plant, the galvanizing department, ma- chine shop, guard rail fabricat ing, plant, a storage shed and a yard office were destroyed. Sixteen pieces of fire equip ment went to the scene and fire men were hampered by freezing temperatures as ' well as wie wind. Hot embers were blown mnro than a milp west of the blaze and some firemen were sent to put out a grass firA mo than a quarter of a mile away. . 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 eo operation with the American Bible - association, the Med ford Ministerial association and the National Council of Church Women. Following are the passages recommended for todayi Luke 15: 11-32. SUCCESSFUL LIVING starts with savings. Have the things you want through sys tematic savings. Don't just dream . . . or wish, but have the things you want in life by saving for them. Start with any amount. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save BLVD.
