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o G o o f OtS-MEDFORD (OREGON) UHI "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune f ubliahed Daily Except Saturday by inrnpADn dd r VTTVf: 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUKL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager E C FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC AJ-LEN JR.. City Editor HAkRV CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLiVE STARCHER Society Editor EASL. H. ADAMS. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM, Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at edford Oregon, unaer March 3. laai oiTocmiPTinN RATES By MallIn Advance: Per copy 10c. DaUy and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear 3J0 By Currier In Advance Medforil. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point, V t-Lr.A Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: , Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Dally and sunaay une Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper ot the City of Medford J Official Paper of Jackson Comity United Prtss Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CBCULAimn AdyCTJlsing Keprraenuv- Offices in "New York. Chicago De troit. San rrancisco. ' SeaitU. Portland. St LouU Atlanta. VaiHOover B.C. o NATIONAL E DlTOtl At ASSodhATIlON Flight o' Time L Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, SO and 0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 15. 1945 (It was Saturday) Geological survey team here prepares (Installation of instru ments in C?ater Lake to deter mine if 1?re is a recurrence of volcanic action under lake waters. . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The hous ing shortage reminds the older natives of happier days, when any time a man droye down the Main Stem with a 2x4 fcished to the fenders, there was wild ru-mora-of a building boom. 20 EARS AGO" ec. 15. 1935 (It was Sunday) Eva Benson's Dancing studio to give masquerade dance Fri day; music by Whipple's orchestra, o OW. R. Holman and Roy Stan ley each purchase about 1,000 acres farm land near Eagle Point for cattl ranches. 80 YEARS AGO Dec. 15.. 1925 (It was Tueidy) R. K. Rians, Howard Beery, Leon Mtheny and,, William P. Stewart initiated into local chap ter of American Legion. Roosevelt school fumigated to check outbreak $t diphtheria there. 40 YEARS AGO Dfe. 15, 19$ (It was Wtflnedy) E.L. Jones, founder of Cop- Tvor TCint minp in T.pfiffe VASSOCIATIO r-- " -e - district, returns from site after three months with attractive Qspecimgtts for display. JFrom Local and Fertonal col- limn: GesL Rader, oi the Table Rock district, discovered a large bobcatjn'the act of carrying off q his Christmas turkey the other Qflay and quickly dispttched the offender with a convenient rifle. The same shot killed the turkey, els. What's the Antwer? o Can You Get 4 of ih 7? 0pr?1955, Editorial Research Raparl Can You Get 4 of the 7? - 1. A great White House con "ferce oi.ned Nov. 28 on auto safety, education, enforcing Su preme Court (julingsp health, or crime prevention? Q O2. Which of these are not British-made Fords: Anglia, Aus tin, Consul, Hillman, Prefect, Zephyr? 3. Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Sulganin recently visited Egypt, Red China, India, Japan, Morocco, or Israel? 4. Some of the new drugs can or can't relieve high blood pres sure? 5. Turbojet airliners now on order with U. S. aircraft makers 0 cost about $450,000, $1,450,000, 0 S4,500,000, $14,500,000 or $45, 000,000 each? 6. A man named Ashenfelter eo is an outstanding athlete; in golf, football, track, basketball or swimming? 7. The "Mile High City" is Denver, Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City or Santa Fe? The Answers: 1. Education. 2. jKusliri and Hillman aren't.. 3. India. 4. Can. 5. About $4,500, 000. 6. Track. 7. Denver. O Ti University of Illinois has had only three athletic directors in the pa 60 years George Huff, Wendell Wilson and Doug MiE MAIL TRIBUNE What is "Moderation? Apparently Adlai Stevenson i3 going to have plenty of competition for the Democratic nomination. Governor Lausche of Ohio the state of Presi dents has thrown his hat into the ring, and Senator Kefauver is expected to follow suit in a day or two. Governor Harriman has not made any announce ment as yet, but with Mr. de Sapio and Tammany Hall trying to push him, he will, no doubt be in their pitching when the Chicago free-for-all opens. "II7ELL why not? The more the merrier. We don't care so much about who the -winner is as what he and his party stand for. And just HOW they stand. If there is any mealy-mouth equivocation or spine less straddling of issues on either side, then a great opportunity will be missed. For 'we believe the people of the country are pretty well fed up on double-talk, playing both ends against the middle, and shadow boxing instead of fighting on. principle for votes. MOT that we are against Adlai and his program 1 of 'moderation." Not at all. We are for it 100 per cent. But as previously pointed out, moderation does not mean modification or adulteration, nor pussy footing around principles instead of meeting them squarely and vigorously, face to face. It merely means cutting out the breast-beating and table-thumping, the noise and fury, signifying nothing but a desire to get a quick vote, the old time flim-flam that claims all the virtues are in one party and all the vices in another. In short it means talking SENSE. It means as suming that the voters of the country a majority at least, prefer a factual, objective presentation of the chief issues involved, as the speaker sees them, in a sane and reasonable fashion to a side-show ballyhoo to get in the crowd and then presenting them with a bucket of partisan bunkum. . VUf ANY of the professional "pros" on both sides of the fence don't" agree with this prescription. They believe a certain amount of pretense, humbug and claptrap necessary to rake in the essential majority. Well they may be right. We know of no Supreme Court qualified to decide such a question. But we DO know how this paper feels about it, and we believe there are thousands of voters who feel the same way. It all comes under the heading of putting away childish things politically speaking, and becoming reasonably ADULT. In the opinion of this newspaper, Adlai Steven son is the one presidential candidate thus far intro duced best qualified by character and temperament to do just that. R.W.R. "IF" For many years the Mail Tribune ran a regular column for offerings in verse called "The Poet's Cor ner." But as demands for news space increased, and the poetic aspirants hereabouts increased even more so, the feature was abandoned. As things appear at the present writing, particu larly the quality, rather than quantity of the few stray offerings received, this ban will continue. DUT that does not mean poetry, professional or amateur, good or bad will NEVER soil our pro siac pages, when and if in the judgment of the poetry editor they have intrinsic value or a genuine news interest. So we print under the latter classification the following poem regarding safe-auto-driving. It was designed for'S.D. Day but we believe its message can well be taken to heart any time during me year out particularly aunng tnis season of ice, snow and slippery corners: Here it is: . If everyone who drives a car could lie a month in bed, With broken bones and stitched up wounds or fractures of the head, And then endure the agonies that many people do. They'd never need preach safety any more to me or you. If everyone could stand beside the bed of some close friend, And hear the doctor say "no hope" before the fatal end,. And see him. there unconscious, never knowing what took place, The laws and rules of traffic, I'm sure we'd soon embrace. If eeryone could meet the wife and children left behind, - And step into the darkened home, one with sunshine lined, And look upon the vacant chair where daddy used to sit, I'm sure each reckless driver would be forced to think a bit. If everyone who takes the wheel would say a little prayer, And keep in mind those in the car depending on his care, And make a vow and pledge himself to never take a chance, The great crusade of safety would suddenly advance. ANONYMOUS R.W.R. Editorial Comment CRIME AT CHRISTMAS A resident of the Spencer Butte area drops in to complain about the number of people who are chopping Christmas trees on private property in that area. Most farmers in that area, she points out, try to manage their woodlots on a tree farm basis, and matters aren't helped by indiscriminate ax work on the part of city folks. Moreover, she complains, too frequently trees are chopped from the roadside, leaving only an ugly scar where Sunday drivers used to see a green tree. Thursday. December IS, 1955 by any of our readers, at Often, she says, the people in that area are willing to per mit a family to harvest a Christ mas tree from their property. But she wishes they'd have the courtesy to ask. It's both good courtesy and good forestry to consult the owner about which trees may be cut. Furthermore, the theft of a Christmas tree from somebody's woodlot is just that a theft. And petty thievery is a poor business at the start of the Christmas season. Eugene Register-Guard. J Indonesia, Odd Island Nation, Suffers Severe Growing Pains By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Republic of Indonesia is suffering severely from growing pains. This unique nation consists of more than 3000 islands and countless islets. It stretches for 2,000 miles f I -7 iL. T aiuug LUC AH" dian Ocean. Indonesia ob t a i n e d its i n dependence from the Neth erlands on Dec. 28, 1949. From the start it has been plagued by re volts. Rebels Charles AlcCann 01 VariOJUS sorts have long held large areas of it. The government is unable to control its own armed forces. Yet Indonesia demands insist ently that the Netherlands sur render the 160,000 square miles of West New Guinea to it. How it could control this area if it can not control its own ter ritory is something of a mystery. The army forced the resigna tion of Premier Ali Sastroamid jojo last July when it refused to accept a new chief of staff he appointed. The latest development came yesterday when the air force, re fused to accept a new deputy chief of air staff appointed by Premier Burhanuddin Harahap, Sastroamidjojo's successor. Ceremony Stopped' Air force men were drawn up at Tjililitan Air Base outside -of Djakarta, the capital, for the in stallation of Air Commodore H. By FRANK JENKINS The other day in Washington, President Eisenhower met with GOP leaders to discuss the ad ministration's domestic policies. The administration's domestic policies will provide the frame work of the platform which will be the Republican party's bid for votes in the Presidential cam paign year of 1956. The dispatches report that the farm problem GOT TOP BILL ING AT THE CONFERENCE. The GOP leaders were pretty weU agreed that something dras tic will have to be done to win the farm vote or the Republican party will be in a pickle. THAT raises this question: " WHAT TO DO? OEVERAL weeks ago, Congress- man Harris Ellsworth, repre senting the Fourth congressional district of Oregon, asked himself this same question. Trying to an swer it intelligently, he discov ered that he didn't know what ought to be done. So he decided to ask the farmers of his dis trict what they thought about it. He asked them these ques tions: Which in your opinion repre sents the SOUNDEST agricul tural program: 1. High, rigid price supports for basic crops coupled with pro duction controls? 2. Flexible price supports as advocated by the present ad ministration? 3., NO price supports, per mitting agricultural commodi ties to find their own level in the market? ITHEN the replies came in, they ' ' gave him quite a jolt of sur prise. Here, percentagewise, is how the Fourth congressional district farmers who answered his questionnaire voted: FOR No. 113.1 For No. 239.4 FOR No. 3 47.5 rrHAT is to say: Of the FARMERS who re plied to Congressman Ells- worth's questions, only 13.1 per cent prefer rigid high supports for basic crops, coupled with production controls. Flexible price supports, as proposed by Secretary of Agriculture Ben son and embodied in the present law, are preferred by 39.4 per cent. NO PRICE SUPPORT, per mitting agricultural commodities to find their own level in the market, is preferred by 47.5 per cent. HERE'S how the city folks voted: FOR No. 1 6.5 FOR No. 254.5 FOR No. 339.0 rpHE citv rieoDle. vou'see. are -- sympathetic with the farm er's plight, and are afraid he might not be able to get along without ANY support at aU. But they haven't, much use for the rigid high support system that produced staggering surpluses to hang over the markets of the future like a dark thundercloud. They KNOW that is bad. Realizing that the farmer's sit uation since the war has been a rugged one, they are willing to pay their share of the cost of flexible supports. But nearly half of the Ore 3 in the Day's News gon farmers who replied to Con gressman Ellsworth's question naire are clear in their minds on this business of subsidized farming. They'd rather take their chances in the open market. That is QUITE interesting. Sujono as deputy chief of staff. Premier Harahap was presiding. The troops shouted that the air force would not have him. Hara hap was compelled to call off the ceremony. The re is more potential trouble over the issue whether Indonesia shaU remain a repub lic, based like the United States on the principle of separation of church and state, or shall be come a strictly Moslem state. A national election was held today for a constituent assembly which is to draw up a perman ent constitution. Indonesia's 81 million people are 90 per cent Moslem. Presi dent Soekarno and former Pre mier Sastroamidjojo assert that some Moslem leaders are work ing for the election of a consti tuent assembly which will make Indonesia a purely Moslem state. In all, it looks as if Premier Today and By Walter THE DOCTORS AND THE REGENTS There has been a notion in the air that at some future date, say in February, the President's doctors will hf able to tell him whether or not he should run for a second term. The White House press confer ence on Satur day, at which Dr. Snyder and Col. Mat tingly submit Walter Lippman ted to rigorous cross-examination, made it plain that while the doctor might -advise the President NOT to run, it is the President himself, not his doc tors, who will have to make the final "determination" that he is ABLE to run. Dr. Snyder, who was pressed on the point, was scrupulously careful to insist that the Pres ident's "ability" to run again, would, even if everything goes favorably, have to be left, to the President's own decision. His decision would be not merely whether he wanted to run, whether he felt it his duty to run but whether he was "able" to run. This cannot be a medical decision because the doctors can not foresee what demands will be made on the President during the next five years. "Is it pos sible," Dr. Snyder was asked, "to assess how much another term will take out of a man?" To this Dr. Snyder replied, "No, it is not. It is not." THE task of assessing how much another term would take out of him is if the doctors give him the most favorable re port the President's own per sonal responsibility. There can not in the nature of thmgs ever be an objective, scientific, au thoritative determination that he CAN carry the load of the Pres idency during the next five years. That is a question for his judgment and for his conscience. In the meantime the President has already, it would seem, made an important preliminary decision, which is to put off his decision about running again. There are two main considera tions involved. The one is that the better his recovery, the better able he wiU be to bear the heavy load of making the decision about run ning agam. Whichever way he makes that decision, it will be a demanding decision, one fraught with heavy responsibility. The 'other consideration is, of course, that the longer he is able to put off ihis decision about a second term, the longer will his leadership remain undisputed inside his party. That is why Senators Knowland and Bridges, who are reluctant about his leadership, are asking for a prompt decision; and that is why Mr. Stassen wants to put off the decision until about June. PRESUMABLY, the inner Eis enhower circle, sometimes called the regency, feel that were the President to announce his retirement, there would at once be a struggle over the suc cession and that the struggle might go against them. Perhaps the greatest weakness of the Eis enhower administration is that there is no genuine, self-evident successor to whom the Eisen hower Republicans and the Eis- 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: John 3: 1-17. Harahap is going to have his troubles if he remains in office. He is a pleasant, friendly man. Like Sastroamidjojo he wants to keep Indonesia neutral in world affairs. But he does not, like Sas troamidjojo, depend on the Com munists for support. He also is more friendly to the United States. The Netherlands and Indone sia are now conducting negotia tions on various problems, among them the future of West New Gumea. But there again arises the question of what Indonesia would do with it. It is the most primitive area in the world. Some of its 700,000 people .still live as their ancestors did in the stone age. The Netherlands, con trols only 400,000 of them. And the Indonesian government can not even control all of its own territory. Tomorrow Lippmann enhower independents can read ily be rallied. The crucial question is whether the Eisenhower men are using the postponement to prepare a successor if he is needed or whether they are wishing so hard to have the Pres ident run again that they do not dare to tempt fate by thinking about his not running. If it is the latter, that they are shrink ing from an unpleasant subject, it must be said that they are playing for too high stakes at too poor odds. SINCE there are not precedents for what to do when a Presi dent is partiaUy incapacitated, it is only fair to recognize that the inner circle of the White House and of the Cabinet have been doing very well indeed They are, of course, treading water, not moving much from where they are though the times are full of movement. Eisen hower, to be sure, has happily not been so much incapacitated as Wilson was. But he has Tjeen largely absent from the seat of government. Yet in his absence there has been an agreeable lack of the intrigue and of the throat- cutting which usually take place when teacher is away. Yet it would be silly, not to say uncomplimentary to the President, to act as if his illness and absence do not make a big difference. On the other hand, they discourage, indeed they tend to prevent, that reappraisal in our foreign policies - which should have been, but never was, made at the time of the first Geneva meeting. We have had, instead, a remarkable display of bureaucratic inertia. There has been lacking that element, which the President alone is able to provide, the win to change course and not to be afraid or too proud to do so. ON THE other side, the absence of the President has, as Mr. Roscoe Drummond pointed out on Monday, left the Administra tion without a responsible spokesman. For more than four months there has been no Presi dential press conference. It seems unlikely that the Presi dent's doctors will soon let him hold a press conference. The way these affairs have devel oped,, they must be to use Dr. Snyder's word among the most "demanding" of the President's labors. I agree with Mr. Drummond that "some alternative method of putting questions to the Pres ident needs to be worked out very soon," and with his sugges tion that once a week written questions should be submitted to Mr. Hagerty. They could be given written answers which would, of course, be prepared by the Departments and edited by the regents. Even before the President's illness it was fair to argue that the oral questions and answers were not sufficiently informing especially on intricate mat ters and that they needed to be supplemented by written ques tions and written, that is to say deliberate and fully informed, answers. (Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) North BendPinball Raid Bags 2 Women North Bend, Ore. (U.R) Two North Bend women were fined $50 each in Justic Court here yesterday after pleading guilty to charges of possessing and op erating pinball machines. The women, Mrs. Edna Boyd, manager of Boyd's Diner here, and a waitress, Pauline Broock. were apprehended foUowing a raid ordered by the district at torney, sheriff's office and North Bend police. Two pinball machines were seized in the Tuesday night raid. Mrs. Boyd presented the court with an affidavit that the ma chines were owned by North Bend Mayor I. N. Hartley, but said that the idea of paying off on the machines was entirely ter own. She said the mayor knew nothing about it. 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. . Thank You To the Editor: The Medford chapter of the Oregon United Nations association wishes to ex tend to you its sincere thanks for the very generous and ex cellent coverage you have given to all phases of its activities. We believe that in so doing you have done a genuine public service by bringing knowledge to your readers that is of vital importance to them. We feel fortunate to live in a community having a newspaper with such an enlightened public policy. Medford Chapter Oregon UN Association Bruce Manley, Chairman What To Do? To the Editor: On Thursday evening, December ' 9th, the Medford Mail Tribune carried an article entitled "Operating Costs of Medford Discussed by Chamber Group." The Medford city manager ex plained the cause of your high taxes very clearly. He com plained that because the voters had rejected last years increase in the city budget that we would not get a needed police and fire switchboard. In 1950 when the consultant for the fire department was brought here and persuaded us to vote the $125,000 plus the 4 mill continuing levy that we Blizzard Isolates Towns in Dakotas By UNITED PRESS A killer blizzard isolated towns in the Dakotas and was blamed for at least three deaths in the United States and Can ada today. The blizzard still threw most of its punch at two Canadian provinces. But zero tempera tures and wind-driven snow created near-blizzard conditions from the Dakotas through Min nesota to Norhern Wisconsin. ' Cold Front Expected An accompanying massive cold front was expected to grip the nation in a new cold wave from the Rockies to the Applach ians. It had already knifed as far south as Southern Texas and as far south as Southern Texas and as far east as the Ohio Riv er valley. Bus travel in and out of the cities of Minot, Kildare, and Hettinger in North Dakota and Watertown in South Dakota was all but halted. Motorists were differ Laboratory Oakland, Calif. U.R) The parents of a 4 -year-old Idaho girl sued Cutter Laboratories for $300,000 yesterday, charging the child suffered paralysis after be ing vaccinated with Salk polio vaccine. Mr. and Mrs. John Brandon, Page, Idaho, filed the suit in Su perior Court through attorneys Melvin Belli and Caroline D. Rose. The suit alleged that Mrs. Brandon, a public health nurse in Shoshone county, Idaho, ad ministered the vaccine' to her daughter, Susan, and . several Farm Workers Reminded Of Social Security Tax Farm workers who received $100 or more cash wages during 1955 are reminded that social security tax returns must be filed on or before Jan. 31, 1956. The taxes, which are figured on a basis of two per cent em ployer tax and two per cent em ployee tax, apply only . to casji wages paid to farm employees covered by social security. R. C. Granquist, district di rector of internal revenue, said any employer of covered farm workers who has not registered with the district director should do so as soon as possible. ilk. I VnM 1 no! I V ft A3 were to get an alarm system at a cost of $40,000 (this system would have included the alarm switch board they want us to vote the money for again). We did not get this approved fire system, the switchboard, etc... and neither do we have the $40,000. The city manaeer stated verv proudly that Medford has a class a rating. We had a class 5 rat ing when the consultant was brought in and made his recom mendations, which if foUowed, . were to give us a class 4. and possibly class 3 rating. We voted $25,000 to build the east side station." We are paying about $75 per month rent for that station, and have onlv about $20,000 left in our building fund. Since 1950 we have voted (in addition to the funds used from our general tax levy) about $600,000 for our fire deDartment. without improving our rating at an, xnougn our cnief s wages have been increased about $175 (Ojae Hundred, Seventy-five Dol lars) per month." Yes, when we look at oneSSe partment in the city, it is very easy to account for your con tinually raising taxes. What are you going to do about it? Cleo Canoose, 55 Ross Court Medford, Ore. warned to keep off the highways in five South Dakota counties and Minnesota authorities fear ed all the state's roads would be iced over today. Across the north temperatures dropped to below 'zero from Montana to Wisconsin, hitting 15 below at Butte, Mont., 7 be low at Dickinson, N.D., and 3 below at Eau Claire and Grants burg in Wisconsin. Temperatures Skid The icy winds also invaded the Western Midwest, dropping temperatures as much as 20 de grees and sending the mercury to 9 above at Chicago early to day. . . Snow flurries were expected to whirl out of the Midwest into the Mid and North Atlan- reached a one-inch depth in Ohio.. ' Elsewhere, chilly fog shroud- temperature stayed balmy along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Sued for $300,000 other youngsters last April 21. On April 27, the suit charged, Susan became ill, "suffering pain, paralysis of the left arm and the right and left (Shoul ders." The parents accused the Berk eley, Calif., laboratory of being negligent in manufacturing and packaging the Salk serum. They are seeking damages and an un determined amount o money to pay for hospital and medical care. Former Dalles Clerk Gets Two-Year Term The Dalles U.R) A. C. Grin die, 39, former The Dalles city clerk, was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary yester day for embezzlement of $2,678 in city funds. Sentence was pronounced by Circuit Judge Malcom Wilkinson following . a mitigation plea by court-appointed defense counsel William Dick. Dick pointed out that Grindle had made full resti tution of the money and 10 wit nesses testified that he would be a good probation risk. Four city councilmen were among the wit- FUNERAL EXPENSE INSURANCE When the inevitable comes to you, someone probably someone near and dear is going to be obligated for funeral and cemetery expenses. You can show your thoughtfclness and love by taking out an insurance policy of your own. Even a small policy of $500 or $1,000, taken out for funeral expenses, eliminates the burden of a need for immediate cash. Consult the insurance agent of. your choice. CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS -
