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o O rOUR MSDFORD (OREGON) "Iverybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 7-9 North Fn St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager . C FERGUSON Managing Editor EHIC AT ' FN JR.. City Editor HARRY CHI? MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor LTVE STARCHER Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper ' Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Ii Advance: Per copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily arid Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The snow, the beautiful snow, started fall ing Sat. a.m. Outside of being a change from the normal weath er, and pleasing the juvenile ele ment, it was not greeted with wild civic enthusiasm. 20 YEARS K&O Dec. 16, 1935 (It vjs Monday) Eagle Point Chamber of Com merce notified that $9,000 loan ,and $1,360 grant for water sys tem available from WPA funds. o ri Dunn and Baker, Klamath contractors, start work on Ash land's $80,000 sewage disposal plant. O 30 YEARS AGO O Dec. . 1925 q (It was Wednesday) Proseition and defense rest cases in court martial of Col. "William Mitchell; case grewout of criticism of war and navy departments. W. G. Trill, former publisher of Central Point American, and W. T. Bray, veteran Grants Pass newspaper man, announce pur chase of Jacksonville Post from Mrs. Blanche Johnstone Cook. 40 YEARS AGO u Dec. 16, 1915 (It was Thursday) Marriage license issued for President Wilson and Mrs. Edith Bofitag Gait. ' From Local and Personal col umn: If each sneeze is a com plaint, there is a good deal of fuss being made over the pre valent la grippe in this vicinity this week. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Rspart 1. Republican national chair man Hall says President Eisen hower should announce no later than Jan. 15 if he'llorun agaii& right or wrong? 2. Steel production has been high and there is nowntoo much or too little steel to meet de mand, or just about enough? 3. With 100 normal for I.Q.' (intelligence quotients), about 1, 4, 7 or 40 of all Americans have one over 137? O 4. A Comraunist party mem ber in Russia is or isn't allowed to become a church member? 5. Prices of new houses in most parts of the nation in 1956 3k expected to be higher or lwer than this yef, or about the same.' 6. Theodore Roosevelt IcKel Gdia is a Republican state gov ernor: of Illinois, Utarr, Mary land, California, or Massa ciysetts? n 7. Safe Dgving Day produced more or fewer street and high way deaths this year than last vear. or about the same number.' The Answers: 1. Wrong; Hall says some lime in March will do 2. Too little. 3. About 1. 4 Isn't. 5. Generally higher. 6. Maryland. 7. Mere. MAIL TRIBUNE Spirit of Christmas There were three headlines in last Tuesday's pa per which were related, and, if space and timing in the daily production of the paper had permitted, could well have been run together. The one on Page 1 said: "Local Retail Merchants Indicate Christmas Buying May Exceed Last Year's Record-Breaking Volume." On Page 14, a headline said : "Retail Sales in Western States Running High er Than Last Year." On Page 7 of Section 2, the third one said: "Christmas Buying Spree Almost Certain To Be Biggest One Ever." TTHIS is fine for the merchants who are selling the goods. It is fine for the people with whom the mer chants do business. And it's fine for the people who are going to receive the gifts which are being pur chased. As a matter of fact, we see no objection whatso ever to a big Christmas season, with the possible ex ception of the fact that consumer credit is building up at a rate which is a bit alarming to some econo mists. We are personally alergic to shopping, leaving, by necessity and design, the bulk of it to the family secretary of health, education and welfare, who is better equipped by disposition and background to cope with it. But we must confess we like the results, brightly wrapped and piled decoratively under the tree. A ND we have no particular quarrel with what has "been called "the commercialization of Christmas," for.it is the natural response of stores and manufac turers to the demands of their patrons for a gay and festive assortment of gifts for the holiday season. And the stimulation of this demand, through advertising, through music and through appropriate promotion, is only "good business." ' There are limits, though. It can be, and frequently is, overdone, with some few merchants attempting to capitalize on the spirit of the season, to persuade shoppers to buy more than they 'can really afford, to go into debt, if necessary, to buy, buy, buy. s IT WOULDN'T do any of us any harm to slow down " for a few moments and remember that Christmas is a lot more than the buying and exchanging of gifts, although that is important to a lot of people, particu larly the youngsters. The "Christmas spirit," which one merchant com plained is lacking this year, is, or should be, com pounded of a thousand and one things and among them, reverence, love, family, church, good will, gen erosity, happiness. E.A. Food Changes A recent news items reveals that the average Am erican eats about the same quantity of food as was consumed 50 years ago, but that the kind of food eaten has changed considerably. The consumption per person of potatoes, flour, cornmeal and other starchy foods has declined by about half, while the. use of eggs, meats, poultry, fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, sweets and dairy pro ducts has gone up. . COME of this change no doubt stems from chang ing tastes. But a lot of it, we suspect, is the result of discoveries about what the body needs in the way of nutritive values. Nutrition is as yet an inexact science, but the importance of vitamins as vital com ponents in our food intake has been established. Research on nutrition is continuing, and it is rea sonable to expect that further changes in eating hab its will result from other new discoveries. The packaging and processing of foods by freez ing, canning and so on is another phase in' the rev olution in foods, making them more attractive and also resulting in making life easier, and somewhat more expensive, for the housewife. What effect it has had on the nutritive value of food is something we occasionally wonder about, though. E.A. No Political "Insulation " There's been an interesting exchange in recent weeks from the campuses of the University of Oregon in Eugene and Oregon State college in Corvallis. The debate (if such it can be called) has been over political speeches on the campuses, and it arose when Gov. Averell Harriman spoke at the university, mak ing an obviously-"non-political" talk. This aroused suspicion in some minds that he had been cautioned in advance to avoid political subjects. "YR. A. L. STRAND, president of the college, made some pointed remarks about how students at the college would not be insulated from political re marks. A reply by Dr. O. Meredith Wilson, president of the university, declared no university official had cautioned Governor Harriman to avoid politics, and no university spokesman could be found to contra dict the president. This, of course, is all to the good. For college and university students are ostensibly there for an education. And in America today, an education should by all means include a familiarity with all types of politics and politicians. E.A. . Warm Springs Youngster Redmond U.R) A two-year-old Warm Springs Indian reser vation child was killed and an other person critically injured wtfen their car skidded 'off the icy highway north of here yes terday. William Anderson, 2, was dead on arrival at Central Ore Boa District hospital here. Criti- Friday, December- 18, 195S Dies as Car Leaves Road cally hurt was Pete Brown, 25. Brown was driving on high way 97 about two miles north of here when the vehicle hit the slick spot. More than one of every five patents issued by the U. S. Pat ent Office in 1954 were for auto motive improvements. Admission Said Top 'Good News' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good, and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. Sixteen nations were ad mitted to membership in the United Nations. The new mem bers include two important European pow ers, Italy and Spain. Seven ty six coun tries are now members of the world organiza t i o n. The U.N. ac tion ended a five-year dead- Cbarles Met ano lOCK. on admis sions which resulted from So viet Russian obstruction. Assem bly President Jose Maza called the admissions a historic ad vance toward the representation in the United Nations of all the peoples of the world. 2. Dr. Otto John,- former chief of the West . German intel ligence service, fled back from East Germany. John had gone behind the Iron Curtain on July 20, 1954. He had been kept un der close watch by the Commu nist secret service, but he manag ed to escape by a ruse. His re turn was a severe blow to the Reds. It was reported also that two important East German of ficials had "escaped to the West a department chief in the Trade Ministry and an alternate member of the lower house of Parliament. 3. Hugh Gaitskell, a staunchly pro-American right-winger, was elected leader of the British La bor party. Gaitskell received 157 votes of the Labor members of Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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. What Daes the Flag Mean? To the Editor: What is our flag, and just what is the mean ing of this piece of cloth with its stars and stripes? To me our flag means a visible reminder of our liberty; that we are not bound as slaves, or be hind an iron curtain in darkness, nor under the rule of a dictator, but have the sovereign right to Freedom, Justice, Righteousness, and Peace for all men, and to worship according to our own desires. Freedom; what a won derful meaning this word has to day. We have no fear to worship God, we do not have to hide in caverns or other secret places. We can openly celebrate the birth of our beloved Christ as our heart desires. What a privi lege this is. We can go to mar ket, spend as much or little as we wish for food, clothing, gifts, or what not, during this festive season and no one dictates to us about it. This flag I love is the symbol of all this, and the basic prin ciple that stands for "Peace on the earth, good will to all men." Wherever we see this flag flying we feel protected under God, by this very principle it represents. Jesus Christ told us to "render unto Caesar the things that were Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's." Our flag represents our basic laws under God. Let us all remember to render due homage and honor to our flag under which we have sacri ficed so much for God, country and freedom. Mrs. Ivan S. Hatfield Route 2, Box 202 K Central Point, Ore. Report on Australia To the Editor: The acacia scrub on the edge of Australia's Never Never was in fuU blos som, with sometimes a million fluffy balls on a single tree. It was here we had one of the greatest thrills of years of bird study that extended from the auks at the Polar Ice Barrier, far north of Spitzbergen, to Antarctic penguins. In those acacias was a flock of "Pretty Joeys". These parrots beloved of Down-Under "dig gers," have feathers of scarlet, of sapphire contrasted with oth ers of sky blue, of green, and of gold that pales those acacia flow ers. This parrot's folk name comes frpm its Joseph's Coat of Many Colors. Writer knows of only one oth er bird, worldwide, with said bizarre coloration of the wise ad ministrator at Pharoah's Court. That other is the "chapitoreen" of the peons, the painted bunt ing. One finds it among the star apples and the wild avocados in the Sierra of Guadalajara's hin terland. Curiously, both birds enjoy a camouflage as effective as the browns of sparrows. What is important in knowing such birds exist is that today, in this f aster-than-sound age, Mex ico, even Australia, is next door. The boy of 8 to 14 who masters his California birds is prepared to enjoy chapitoreen or -"Pretty Joey" in even a fortnight's vacation. C. M. Goethe - - - Seventh and J Stsr -Sacramento, Calif. of New UN the House of Commons against 70 for leftwinger Aneurin Bev an, who is violently critical of American policy. The Bad 1. Secretary of State John Foster DuUes warned fellow delegates to a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organi zation in Paris that Russia has opened a dangerous new. "cold war front" aimed at penetrating the Middle East and Asia. "Sta lin is dead but Stalinism is not," he said. NATO experts reported in a survey that the Russian military threat to Western Europe is greater now than at any pre vious time. One of the chief top ics for discussion at the meeting was a program of action to meet Russia's new cold war aggres sion. 2. Israeli forces killed at least 41 soldiers and civilians in a night attack on Syrian army posts overlooking the Biblical sea of Galilee. Israel said its ac Babson on By ROGER W. BABSON Washington, D.C. I am much concerned by the' continued up trend in municipal and town taxes, in iaao, the "tax bite" of cities in the United States will amount to over $65 per person, com pared with $61 in 1953 and $46 in 1952. I am e s p e c ial- Boger w. Bsbtoa ly disappointed with the very little attention which the Conference on Educa tion, recently held here, gave to this important subject. A study covering 481 U.S. cit ies with populations of 25,000 or more shows that local taxes ac counted for about one-half of total municipal .revenues from all sources, including federal and state grants for education, road building, and other pur poses. The rapid rate at which these taxes have been increasing in recent years points up the fact ' that municipal debts are also growing larger. In fact, city debts increased 7 per cent during 1954 to a rec ord level of $12,200,000,000 for cities of over 25,000 population. As a result, the average debt per capita in these cities is $196.. In New York City . the per-capita debt was over $600 per person, and is still rising. I predict a further boost in city and town taxes and debts in 1956. Cities Overspending Obviously, city, debts are ris ing faster than city tax rates, even though the latter are be coming more and more burden some, especially to owners of real estate. Why should city debt be rising so fast at this point m our history when gen eral business is at record high levels? Of course, costs of city services are up all along the line, but that is only- part- of the story. Raw material and labor costs also adversely affect man ufacturers of many products, but the prices of those products have not soared as much as city taxes. In some cases, the city tax load has been permitted to be poor municipal management or downright mismanagement. There are many localities where money goes down the drain be cause accounting, purchasing, and other procedures need tight ening, but even these loose poli cies do not fully explain our plight. Expect Too Much Of course, our cities and towns are overspending. Munici pal, county, and state govern ments all over the country are living well beyond their means. In many cases, they are forced to do so because of heavy popu lar demand for luxuries in the form of ornate school buildings, careless road planning with lit tle thought of future needs, ex pensive recreational services and equipment. When I was a boy, cities were expected to provide fire and po lice protection, water and sew age facilities, also good schools. Now the people are demanding many additional services, often of no real value, and all of them very costly. I believe in parking lots for their cars; but not build ings, miscalled "schools," for mothers to park their children. It is ironical that cities along the seacoast in New England have built municipal swimming pools for children and adults! We provide buses to take the children to school and then build gymnasiums to exercise them when they arrive. I walk ed four miles each day for 10 PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is your picture tube dull and weak? Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL ; Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 Members of Week tion was taken in retaliation for Syrian attacks on its fishermen. Syria asked for U.N. action against Israel. Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt announc ed he would inform the United Nations that- any further Israeli aggression would be 'met by an attack on two fronts by Egypt and Syria. 3. United Nations admission of new members was clouded by the Soviet Russian vetoing of ing of Japan's application for membership. Russia apparently was trying to force concessions from Japan in the negotiations for a Japanese-Russian peace treaty. The veto threatened to cause a cabinet crisis in Tokyo. Socialist members of Parliament planned a motion of no confi dence against Foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu. Nationalist China also feared that its veto against Communist puppet Outer Mongolia might cause a move to deprive it of its seat in the General Assembly. City Taxes years to get an education, and am still alive! Tough Sledding We are -now at peace, even though the world is troubled. We are prospering as no other people have prospered before. But I believe that bad times will come again. We shall again be called upon to make sacrifices to preserve our political and eco nomic freedom, as these are threatened by war or depres sion. These sacrifices will be easier to make, and our efforts will be more effective, if we now pay closer attention to tax and debt policies and to effi cient government. The menace to our economy and to our way of life from r0' litical extravagance at all levels is a very real one. We must learn again that. thrift is the mainstay of any government and of any individual. If voters persist m their demands for lux .uries to be provided by city, state, and town governments, and continue piling up debt, we will some day force the break down of democracy in America. Ike's Heart Attack Biggest News Story During Past Year New York - (U.R) President Eisenhower's heart attack head ed the list of the 10 biggest news stories of 1955 chosen today by editors of the United Press. The other stories on the 10 biggest list were: 2. Announcement of the Salk vaccine for polio. 3. Princess Margaret renounces Captain Townsend. 4. Hurricanes Connie and Diane and the New England floods. 5. The fall of President Peron of Argentina. 6. Summit and foreign minis ters' conferences in Geneva. 7. Resignation of Malenkov and rise of Bulganin and Khru shchev. 8. Merger of AFL and CIO and modified annual wage in auto in dustry. 9. Sabotage of United Airlines plane in Colorado. 10. Dodgers win their first World Series. Other, big stories of 1955 in cluded: resignation of Winston Churchill; the accidental shoot ing of William Woodward Jr.; U. S. to launch earth satellites; Formosa crisis; murder of Serge Rubinstein; emergence of West Germany as a sovereign nation; SUGGESTED BIBLE READING VERSES The Medford Council of Church Women each year be fcetween 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 14: 15-31. -231 EAST SIXTH ST. : . PORK BEEF BEEP JOWL LIVER ROAST STEAK BACON NlOttGF Of FClCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop " BITTERNESS IN THE PENTAGON Washington What might well become an open revolt against the Administration's defense and budgetary pol icies is boiling up beneath the surface at the Pentagon. On the sur face, all is calm. But this calm conceals great bitter ness against what seems to many military men a Dolicv Stewart Alsop of putting a balanced budget in an election year . ahead of the requirements of national se curity. The bitterness is felt esnerinl- ly in the Air Force. There has been no public outcry from Air Force leaders about the budget recently approved for the next tiscal year. General Nathan Twining, able Air Force Chief of Staff, has avoided discussing the subject with the press, and so have his subordinates. But Twining's real feelings have be come know nevertheless. Twining attended the Nation al Security Council meeting at amp David some days ago, ,at which Presi dent Eisen- hower approv ed the decision to hold the de- f e n s e budget down to around S34 billion Twining strongly pro tested the de cision, as far as it concern- Joseph Also e d the Air Force, but to no avail. Shortly thereafter, he met with a num ber of important businessmen at a club near Pittsburgh, and he spoke his mind very frankly Although it may be denied 'for obvious reasons, what the Air Force Chief of Staff is reliably reported about as follows: - TTE REMARKED flatly that he "was getting to the point where he could not "stand all the double talk much longer." He said that 140 to 150 air wings were absolutely required for the vision of Pope Pius XII; the fighting between 'Israel and Egypt; unrest in Morocco; can cellation of Dixon-Yates con tract; tornadoes in Midwest; the popularity of the television pro gram, "The $64,000 Question;" crash of United Airlines plane in Wyoming killing 66 larg est death toll in commercial avia tion history. Wolf Sentenced To Life in Prison Portland (U.R) Victor Lau rence Wolf, 45, yesterday was sentenced to a life term in the state penitentiary for the car bomb slaying of Kermit Smith. The sentencing, by Circuit Judge James W. Crawford, was a formality, since the second-degree murder verdict returned against Wolf by a jury last Tues day carried a mandatory life sentence. Wolf confessed the April 21 slaying on the day following. He later pleaded guilty under a little-used Oregon law that per mitted a court hearing to fix the degree of guilt and the sen tence. Wolf asked permission to re main at the county jail here over the week end, so that he might visit with members of his fam ily before entering the state prison at Salem. He will be eligible for parole after seven years under Oregon law. Accident Injuries Fatal To Baker Man Baker (U.R) Ted Knowles, 48, died in a hospital here yes terday of injuries received in an automobile accident Sunday. Knowles was driving in a snow storm on Dooley mountain when his automobile went off the road and tumbled about 100 yards down a cliff. ' defense of the United . States. But, he said, the Air Force wasv not getting enough funds to maintain much more than 50 wings of truly moder aircraft in top operational shape. Twining went on to say that the trouble was that strong and persuasive men like Treasury Secretary George Humphrey al ways got to the President first. with the arguments for maxi mum economy. Thereafter it was almost impossible to reach the President with the arguments for trie other side. - The Air Force Chief of Staff said that he was deeply worried not only about the Air Force, but about the other services as well. With the Russians produc ing 100 submarine's a year, he said, the Navy was being held way down, and so was the Army. Finally, Twining remarked in effect that he would not take his case to the public on his own initiative, but that, if asked his views before a Congressional committee, he would love to speak his mind. is TT IS virtually Inevitable that Twining will be asked his views by a Congressional com mittee. When that happens some thing of an explosion, with poli tical implications, seems bound to occur. It is widely believed in the :. Air Force that a "stretch-out" of already available funds has been ordered on new spending. in order to make possible a politically desirable balanced budget. According to the Air Force men, the stretch-out de lays procurement, and ooera- tions, maintenance, the modern- lzatior. program and research, and development are all suffer ing disastrously. The bitterness of the military is by no means confined to the Air Force, however. For exam ple, there is much resentment in the Army at the official claim that the ground forces are being maintained at 19 divisions, which sounds like a respectable force. Actually, two divisions are "static," which means that they are composed of odds and ends of units from Alaska to the Panama Canal. They could not conceivably take the field as organized combat divisions in case of war. Nor could the five training divisions. That leaves 12 divisions capable'of actually fightir.2. TtlOST of these 12 are already committed to Europe or Asia, and many of the remainder are under strength, leaving a frighteningly weak . ready re- m, A serve, ine new nuciear weap ons, moreover, have transformed ground warfare far more com pletely than generally realized. But the task of equipping and training our ground forces for nuclear war is going forward only on a token basis, for lack of funds. By contrast, the Rus sians have approximately 200 ready divisions which are rapid ly being trained and equipped for atomic combat. On the other side, it can and no doubt will be said that the military always over-estimate their requirements, and that President Eisenhower knows something of military matters. But it will be a lot healthier when the concealed bitterness in the Pentagon is aired "openly, and the Administration defense policies publicly debated. In deed, the sooner the better, in view of the frightening way in ,, which the world situation is deteriorating. !, Copyright 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc. All motor vehicles on the North American continent will carry license plates measuring 6 by 12 inches by 1957. Financial Independence does not just happen. It is built over a period of time bit by bit. Your savings or investment account is the place for your fund of the future. FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save o
