Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1955)
o O O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody to Southern Oregon Readj The Mail Tribune Published Daily Excut Saturday by MEBFORD P RENTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-S141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager K. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR, City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD f,WETT SporU Editor OLIVE STAKCHER Society Editor EARL H. ADAMS, Sunday Editor GERALD LATHAM. Circulation Mgr. An JnijDendent NewsoaDer Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MallIn Advance: Per cony l?c. DaUy and Sunday One vear $12.00 O Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Asrid. Central Point. Eagle Point JacHonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month lua Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Ad&iLRL5IPDTYeToUMp:ANY INC. Offices in New York. CMcao. V trott. San Francisco. Los Aneeles. Seattle. Portland. St Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOll AL ASSOCH-ATIION J fcTtjjifiiia.uiua NBWSPAPIR PUBLISHERS i 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. 19,1945 (It was Wednesday) Almost half of Jackson coun ty's service men have been dis charged according to local Se lective, Service board. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Fire chiefs of the .state have started issuing their annual Yule warnings against carelessness with fire, resulting in conflagrations in fiie Christmas tree, and Santa Claus cottonbatten whiskers. 20 YEARS AGO , Dec. 13, 1935 (It was Thursday) Fred Knox making arrange ments for annual VFW Gold khevron ball at Oriental Gar dens. . Boys and girls leagues at Med ford High school entertain grade school pupils at Christmas party. 30 ARS AGO Dec. 19, 1325 (It was Saturday) Oregon State Horticultural society urges funds to promote pear advertising in eagf;. A. G. Bishop elected master of local Masonic lodge replacing Paiil B. Rynning. 40 TCARS AGO Dec. f 9, 1915 (It was Sunday) HMfteenth annual meeting of State Teachers association to be held in Medford starting Mon day. Fron? Local and Personal col umn: Forecaster Gentner prom ises Medford a white Christmas. Should it come all right, we are to remember that he told you so. Should it fail, let it be known that the weather report comes from Portland anyway. What's the Answer? o Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report . 1. Carmine DeSapio, head of Tammany HaU, says he'd like the Democrsts to pick Harriman, Kefauver3or Stevenson for Pres ident next year, or has no choice yet? 2. The average American fam ily spends about $1, $3, or $5 every year for Xmas cards? 3. The federal income tax on profits from sales of stocks takes no account of how long they were held; right or wrong? 4. Chancellor Adenauer of the West German republic will be 70. 75. 80. or 85 on his next birthday? 5. Adlai E. Stevenson was en dorsed for President in 1952 by the AFL, the CIO, both or neith er? 6. About half, less than half, or more than half all 16 and 17 year-olds are still in school? 7. Brandeis University, found ed in 1947, is in Massachusetts, New York, Washington, D. C Chicago or the state of Israel? The Answers: 1. Wants Harri- man. 2. Abut S3. 3. Wrong (lax is on only half of profit if stock Qheld longer than 6 months.) 4. 8Q. 5. By bolh. 6. More man nan, 7. Massauchusetis. HtAVI LUAUn Detroit (U.R) Police searched today for a "strong allied" thief who robbed a thea ter of $2,500. They said $2,300 rjf the stolen money was in coin. V1 MAIL TRIBUNE Tragedy at Astoria Parts of Astoria were on the move again last week. It's unfortunate that at a safe distance it can appear slightly amusing to think of part of a city sliding down hill. At close quarters, however, it's anything but fun ny. The Astorian Budget, which in recent days has carried full news coverage of the event together with pictures of the sliding.hillside, had this to say: To the people whose homes are tossed, undermined and twisted by the flow of earth, such a slide as this is tragedy. Perhaps it is a home that has sheltered a family for nearly a lifetime. Perhaps it is a new home recently finished and barely paid for at high cost ... It's worse than a fire, which strikes quickly and is over. In this sort of disaster one can see one's home gradually torn apart while one is still living in it, hoping against hope that the movement will cease before it is too late. N 0 ONE knows for sure the cause of the slides. The "Rndo-pt savs there have been rennrts nf some 0 - - x slides on the hillsides of the town since the earliest settlements. But only in the past few years have they been destructive of property and utilities. The newspaper speculates that a severe earth quake in 1949 might have jarred loose a stratum of earth on the north side of the hill, and that since then freezing weather followed by heavy rain may have ' 1 J.1 ,1, n,T,n., L 1 - rippeu me eaim away xium a Mippeiy suapsione oase. IERTAINLY heavy rainfall has something to do with it, for the slides in each case have followed soaking downpours. The current slide occurred after four inches of rain fell in less than two days. Whatever the cause, it is a tragedy to the people whose homes are involved. Many, of them have lost thousands of dollars worth of property, and have be come dependent on the Red. Cross and other agencies for assistance. We visited the town in 1953 when that year's slide was at its worst, and the crumpled, twisted, slid ing homes presented an awesome and depressing sight. E.A. Intrigue We hope that the full and true story of Dr. Otto John will be told someday. On the surface and from the little we have been permitted to learn, it sounds like an amazin'g and fas cinating story of international intrigue, cloak and dagger stuff to put E. Phillips Oppenheim into the bush leagues. TT COULD' turn out to be a simple and sordid tale of a traitor, or of a man drugged and abducted. But that isn't convincing, somehow not in view of Herr John's long record of fabulously successful es pionage and intelligence work for Germany. It would satisfy our thirst for the dramatic a bit more to learn that it was all a complicated and subtle plot to learn more of the operations of the Communists in East Germany. Whatever the upshot of the matter may be, though, it is fairly apparent that Dr. John has no future as an effective secret operator against the Reds. E.A. Trees Is your Christmas tree up yet? It's a pretty thing, and it adds a great deal to making Christmas the be loved holiday it is. And yet (and we hate to be a wet blanket) a Christmas tree is a dangerous thing. Firemen, who are nice guys mostly, get the willies when they think of all the highly inflammable highly inflammable papers, over town most of them add to the danger by drying out the tree. TVflOST of us have watched and burn they do, Picture that in your living eries and the furniture and mean smoke and water damage. Firemen and insurance companies, both with stake in how you take care of your tree, suggest that extra caution will pay off until the tree is safely down and outdoors after the holiday. r0N'T put up the tree just asking for a fire) : keep the tree as much as possible, and the three itself away rrom mtiammable drapes. Keep the base of the tree in water, if possible, pre- f erably with a diagonal cut it to absorb more moisture. soon as convenient, and in dry and crackly. Watch out for matches, places. And just in case fiandy. And memorize phone number. E.A. India Will Establish Outer Mongolia Ties New Delhi (U.R) Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru said to day India had decided to estab lish diplomatic relations with Outer Mongolia during the "next few days." Nehru spoke in favor of admit ting both Japan and Outer Mon golia to the United Nations and said, "Outer Mongolia is not so big but Is an independent coun try and we have nearer relations with it." Nehru also boosted Commu nist China for a UN. seat. Monday, December 19, 1955 greenery, surrounded by sitting m living rooms all with electric lights which old Christmas trees burn with a whoosh and a roar. room, catching the drap the rugs. At best, it would too long in advance, they inflammables awavfrom across the base to permit Get it out of the house as any case once it becomes lighters, sparks from fire have a fire extinguisher the fire department s tele Spectators Killed In Race Track Mishap Barranquilla, Colombia U.R) Two drivers and four spectators were killed Sunday in two crashes during the Barranquil- ia-to-Cartegena auto race. Colombian driver Antonio Cure was killed when his car went out oi control and ca reened into a group of onlook ers. Four spectators were killed and several others injured. The other accident took the life of Pancho (Pepe) Crocker of Venezuela. His steering gear ap parently failed on a curve, and his car swerved into a bank. Left, Right Wingers Have Big Role in French Vote Campaign United Press Correspondent ' A jolly-looking Communist and a belligerent tax-hating sta tioner are playing big parts in the French election campaign. The communist is 55-year-old Maurice Thor ez. The station er is 35-year-old Pierre Pou jade. Thorez leads the extreme left wing of Communists and fellow t r a v e Uers in the race for the 627 seats in the Charles Met ano .Natl onal As sembly in the election to be held Jan. 2. Poujade is leader of the ex treme right wing Union for 'the Defense of Tradesmen and Ar tisans which he organized two years ago to fight the tax sys tem. French political experts are predicting that Thorez wUl gain materially in the election. Matter of Fact by THE DEFENSE FRAUD Washington The country has not yet been told the real story of next year's defense budget which can per haps turn out to be a life-and-death story for every Ameri can. The Admin istration has proudly an nounced an in crease in de fense spending of about $1 bil lion, raising Joseph Also the total in the new budget to about $35.5 billion. Great ef forts have been made to convey the impression that this belated concession to the requirements of national defense is both gen erous and adequate. Nothing could be more misleading. The history of the increase is simple enough. On the one hand, defense spending in the current fiscal year has been held down by one- shot savings on a very big scale, e s rj e cially in the Air Force, more one -shot savings were possible next year. Hence a substantial in crease of spend Stewart Also?, ing would have been necessary m any case, in order to avoid quite serious cuts in fighting power. On the one hand, the KiUian Report on guided missiles de velopment, first described in this space, has also forced the Eisen hower policy makers to face a really gruesomely unpleasant fact. In effect, the Killian Re port said that we were behind the Soviets in guided missiles; that we were getting further behind all the time, and that we would have to spend substantial sums to catch up. , TVEN the most ardent budget balancers did not wish to ac cept responsibility for' this kind of fatal lag. Hence the National Security Council voted, some time ago, to give, guided missile development an overriding pri ority. Thus spending on missile programs had to be increased by about S600 million, or 60 per cent of the entire announced in crease in the total budget. Spurred on by the Treasury and the Budget Bureau, Secre tary of Defense Charles E. Wil son tried long and hard to hold the budget at the current level, His aim was to borrow enough money from the Peter of general defense costs, in order to pay the Paul of guided missile develop ment and to compensate, as well, for the absence of further one shot savings. In the end, the re sistance was too great. Further concealed cuts in fighting power were not made, after all. But except in the single sphere of guided missiles, this leaves the defense problem almost ex- actly where it was before bud get-making began. A few fairly horrifying examples will show the nature of the problem clearly enough.' A FTER producing no less than 15,000 Mig-15 fighters, the Soviets are throwing this im mense investment on the dump heap, and are rapidly replacing The Migs with the highly super ior "Farmer" and "Flashlight" day and -night-fighters. When this became obvious last spring, Secretary of Defense Wilson de clared that money was available from existing' Air Force funds to step - up procurement of our own advanced fighters, the F- 101B, . the F-102 night-fighter, and the F-104. Wilson promised to order the step-up immediately, and then broke the promise. Nearly six months went by before increased fighter procurement was finally ordered. Moreover, the increase was not massive. While the So viets are getting "Fanners" and Profit by Split What Poujade, a newcomer to politics, will do remains to be seen. But he and two small extreme right wing groups which sup port his party have entered 180 candidates in the campaign. Both Thorez and Poujada are expected to profit by the deep split in the moderate parties. Premier Edgar Faure leads the moderate right wing and former Premier Pierre Mendes-France leads the moderate left wing. Once political allies, and inti mate friends, they now are ene mies. Thorez five years ago was called the most powerful Com munist in Europe next to Josef Stalin of Russia. He suffered a stroke in Octo ber, 1950, and was long an in valid. Now he has come back and is campaigning vigorously. Of friendly disposition, .tall, powerfully-built, with tousled hair, he is one of the most popu lar men in France personally. Thorez could play a convinc- Joe and Stewart Alsop "Flashlights" in quantity, the next budget will only provide our Air Force with a tiny trickle of superior fighters. m m m THE Soviet Air Force is now alieanrl nf ha Ampriran Air Force in the production of ad vanced types in every single im portant category but. one the medium range jet-bomber repre sented in this country by our B-47s. 'Even in the vital long- range jet bomber category, our output of B-52s is still lagging well behind the Soviet output of "Bisons." Yet the appropriations in the new defense budget will actually give this country about 30 per cent fewer new aircraft than were ordered under the current budget. Other examples could be cited at great length. For instance, there is the fairly hair-raising fact that the Soviets are now rapidly remodelling at least the core of their huge ground forces for atomic war. But whereas the Soviets are "atomicizing" some scores of divisions, the U. S Army, has -only been permitted Is That So? Now that nights are longest and the cold air clearest, this is the best time of all to' step into the velvet blackness of night and look at the splendor of the heaven. At no other season of the year in our northern hemis phere is there such a display of mighty constellations in the eve ning sky nor are there so many individually wonderful stars to behold. To add to your wonder, per haps, did you know that . . . every star has its own color, the quality of the light determined by its temperature. Those in tensely hot glow white Rigel, which is 540 light years distant and shines with more than 10, 000 times the intrinsic bright ness of our own sun, has a blu ish white appearance. Those which are "cool," are red: and stars like Aldebaran glow in pale rose. Those stars of inter mediate temperatures give a yellow light; and Betelgeuse, which is more than 3,000 times brighter than our sun7 gives off an orange to topaz glow. As for our planets, Venus is pale t gold; Jupiter, yellowish; Mars red. Being planets, they don't twinkle like stars. Be cause they are comparatively near, they shine brighter than the stars. Ancient Egyptians worshipped certain stars. Seven Egyptian temples were so placed that Sirius in rising threw its beams directly on their altars. Siriust incidentally, rises in summer just before the sun just at the season wherr the Nile rises, bringing new fertility to time worn fields. It is 8V2 light years away from our earth (light travels at 188,000 miles a sec ond) or a little matter of 51 tril lion miles away which, astro nomically speaking, is just across the street. .Temperatures at the heart of some stars runs to millions of degrees; even their cooler sur face temperatures can be 55,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Without the aid of binoculars, the naked. eye sees about 3,500 stars. - Closer To Sun in January We are 3,000,000 miles closer to the sun in January than dur ing the month of July. the danger of looking intn the sun. remember" that when a bit of paper is placed on the eyepiece of a tele- ing Santa Claus. Mothers name babies after him. Red Membership Drops Membership in the French Communist party has dropped to about 300,000. But partly be cause of Thorez's popular appeal, it poUs about five million votes in elections. In the last election, in 1951, its percentage was 26.5 of the total. , Poujade is a tough guy. He is stocky, blond and loud-voiced. He has won about one million backers in his anti-tax campaign. He has successfully urged many small shopkeepers and self-employed artisans to refuse to pay their taxes. He holds they are unfair to the small man. Poujade also is waging a tough campaign. While he waves his arms and shouts exhortations at his meetings, his strong arm squads are going around break ing up meetings of the two mod erate groups. One of Mendes France's most prominent sup: porters suffered a broken nose in one of the Poujadist. forays Thursday. Speakers at some meetings have been kidnaped." to make this vital conversion in one division, with two more test divisions partly converted. . "OUT examples do not need to be multiplied to suggest the real nature of the defense issue. Phony publicity and ' misleading token gestures have concealed the central fact. . The Soviets have spent, are spending and clearly intend to . continue to spend enough to provide an enor mous, fully modern force-in-being at all times. This country is not doing anything of the sort. Therefore, if the worst happens, American soldiers and airmen will go into combat not only heavily outnumbered by the enemy, but also with weapons far less good than the enemy's weapons. To maintain an adequate, con tinuously modernized force-in-being is an enormously: costly task. Maybe the budget bal ancers are right, that the United States cannot afford to pay the bill for survival. But if that is the settled national policy, it might at least bo admitted to the country. . (Copyright, 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) By EUGENE BURNS Ranger-Naturalist scope pointed at the sun, it catches on fire at once. It is dan gerous, even, to look intently into the sun through dark glasses. Stars rise in the east and set in the west a little earlier each evening of the year. Stars vary tremendously in their weight: some of the super giants are as thin and light as the 'vacuum inside a light bulb and may extend from our earth to the sun; some of the dwarf stars', no longer than our earth, weigh 25,000 times as much, a chunk about the size of a base ball weighing about 14 tons approximately the weight of six large automobiles. In addition to the shimmering rings whirling about its equator, the planet Saturn has nine satel lites, one of which is bigger than our moon. So far as we know, it is the only moon in our solar system ''o have an atmos phere a blanket of air all its own. Aided by Telescope With the 200-inch telescope on Palomar mountain it is now possible for astronomers to gaze at star systems which were 100 times too faint for the naked eye to see. (And physicists are studying single items half a hun dred millionth of an inch across.) Our Milky Way galaxy of which our earth is a part is roughly 100,000 light years in diameter and consists of more celestial bodies than there are humans on this earth. And, far, far out beyond, separated from each other by vast distances of space, are millions of other giant galaxies. The light, made by some of those distant star worlds has been on its way to our earth millions of years, since the days when our earth, was new-born. Astronomers will never know, what the Wise Men saw when they said: "We have seen His star in the east," because the Bible gives no hint in what month Christ was born. For that matter, even the year of His birth is not certainly fixed in sacred history. (Copyright, 1955, by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) 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, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refer ence work in a handsome Seal craft binding. Each week new submissions will be considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly letters. Please address your letter to: IS THAT SO! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. In TKe Day's News By FRANK JENKINS This modern world note: A new gadget designed to cater to the back yard back-to-natuxe movement combines a barbecue oven and a smokehouse and uses electricity to turn the trick. It works like this: You barbecue your meat in an electric oven. Then to give it that good, rich campf ire smoke taste you turn the switch on a hotplate and at the same time you push a button that releases hickory sawdust from a hopper. The sawdust falls on the elec trically heated plate and is con verted into hickory smoke. You spear your meat on a chrome-plated fork and hold .it in the smoke and thus get the good old hickory flavor. v WHAT'S that earth tremor that ' ills ' rattlori tho-hri.sjMin . ... U . 1 ui on the shelf? It's great-great-grandfather who lived in a cabin that he built with his own hands and barbecued his meat in the fire place over a fire of tough hickory wood that he cut with his own ax wielded by his own sturdy arms TURNING OVER IN HIS GRAVE! VTOW for a glimpse of the A1 world of the future. One of America's top atomic scientists says this morning that the world's OCEAN WATER can become a fuel resource of top magnitude when science learns to harness the hydrogen bomb reaction for peaceful use. He says the . deuterium, or heavy .hydrogen, in ordinary water packs more energy than its equivalent' volume of gaso line. Use of this enerev. he adds. awaits only the taming of ther monuclear reaction. rrHK trouble with these scient- ists is that they use such big words. What he's trying to say, think, is that NOW the atom splits with a BANG. The prob lem is to get it to split with a mere WHOOSH. "DACK to this modern world. Grain bins are now being made of huge canvas tents that cover as much ground as a foot- baU field. Under agreement with the government's Commodity Credit Corporation , (the . outfit that buys up the subsidized sur plus grain and cotton and pea nuts and tobacco and stashes the stuff away like a squirrel burying nuts that it knows it won't ever be able to find again) a Texas milling company is stor ing 23 million bushels of wheat under canvas at Ft. Worth. It has more than a million bushels under canvas at St. Joseph (Saint Joe to Missourians)., ' - The system is to pile wheat on building paper laid on the ground. Then the canvas tent, already in place, is carried up ward as the pile grows. Each tent holds about a million bush els. Grange Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange held their annual Christmas party and supper in the hall Dec. 15 with 100 people attending. A Christmas program was present ed by the lecturer and the new master, Caroline Harding, was introduced and gave the wel coming . address, after which presents were given out by San ta and his helpers. 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: . Romans 8:14-39. FUNERAL SERVICES Jh Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home Phone 2-6675 TAGE the political farmers! . They have a great new slogan in sight The slogan can go something like this: "Grow more cotton to be woven into more canvas to make more tent-bins to hold more wheat so that we'll need STILL MORE cotton to make STILL MORE tents to stash away STILL MORE wheat!" w HY, it's practicaUy PERPET UAL MOTION! With a slogan like that, the political farmers ought to be able to corral ALL the votes in ALL the wheat and cotton states. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear t the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a Den name of initial for publication is permia ible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with aa eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Not Socialism To the Editor: Mail Tribune columnist Frank Jenkins may be a good newspaper man, but if he actuaUy believes what he preaches his knowledge of po litical systems could be greatly improved. In his column of Dec. 13 he refers to the British labor government under Clement Att lee as socialist. He also refers to government ownership of in dustry under the British labor party. Neither of- these asser tions is based upon fact and con sequently can be reduced to pro paganda and malarkey. The British labor government never owned one screw, nut, or bolt of industry, no more than it owned the money in the Bank of England which was also na tionalized. All 'industry re mained in private hands and was operated for private profit. There is absolutely no relation ship whatever between privately owned property and socialism. Before socialism can exist pri vate profit must be destroyed. Economic regimentation or na tionalization for emergency does not .border the remotest area of socialism. Quite often Mr. Jenkins ex presses great fear that some dark night our own country will be overcome by socialism through the building of public power pro jects, farm relief, etc. Allow this factor to be pointed out: As long as American business ex-' tends $34,000,000,000 of install ment credit to working people, and financial institutions re willing to finance the credit, and expect to be reimbursed from the "profits" of labor, we are a long, long ways .from socialism. . Earl Allen, .' 176 South Stage rd., Medford, Ore. Kiddies Grow Up 1 GEO. N. TAYLOR You married and kiddies came. And they grew up. As you had Bible and prayer, day by day, you found tnat they liked best the parts of the Bible ' that had action. Did you kneel by the kitchen stove for prayer? The littlest ones stumble and stagger at first first but later they will sur prise you. In years to come, when the going is rough, you folks will have the faith to smile through their tears. For faith comes from the Bible. See Ro mans 10:17. A boy of school age of our circle was so injured that he died. His people were of Bible stock and long before his death, the boy had taken Christ into his heart as the Saviour' . who died for his sins. Now watch that mother. She knows that there wUl be a glad family reunion 'over there." And what for you and yours? Let them have Christ down deep and eternal life is theirs. And is Christ your Lord and Saviour also? This message sponsored by a Scappoose dairyman. Adv. PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which ore In keeping with its means. A selection of services In every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences and to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainlyl o
