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1. FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everybody In Southern Orcgo Heads Tne Mail xriDune .Published DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 unnTTJT w rttttt Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE 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 of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MallIn Advance: Per copy 10c. DaUy and Sunday One year 812.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 DaUy and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One vear 3 50 - By Carrier In Advarge Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: . Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 123 Carrier and Dealers 5o per copy. AU xenns Bffidal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County O " United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU r9 rTDnTT.ATinN All Terms caan in "" JE - WEST-HOLlISaY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los AnKeles. Seattle, Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOOI-ATllON 37 S o NIWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1945 , (It was Thursday) Flu epidemic closes Phoenix and Gold Hill schools. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The eclipse of the moon Tues. eve was wide ly observed. It was an artistic, but not financial success. 20 YEARS AGO Dec. 20, 1935 ' (It was Friday) Federal aid projects under way in Jackson county include Bear Creek bridge at McAn drews rd., flume drainage proj ect in Eagle Point, and rehabil itation of the county farm. Jackson county physician or fanKe the Southern Oregon Medical Service association to pcjtade medicalo service for all industrial and commercial firm employees. SO YEARS AGO0 Dec. 20, 1925 (It was Sunday) Delilia Stevens, Jackson coun ty clerk, elected treasurer of state organization of county clerks. Icy highways across Sisklyous result is 13 automobile accidents In two days. 40 YEARS AGO Dec. 20. 1915 O (It was Monday) Jackson County. Taxpayers league organized at meeting Sat urday; officers nominating com mittee appointed by J. A. West erlund, a&ing chairman. From Local and Personal col umn: Miss Mabel Scudder, when off her guard Saturday evening, was caught by the beauty judges and named the prettiest young lady present at the Catholic (azaar. The judges were Judge Kelly and A. L. Rosenbaum. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? "Copr. 1955. Editorial Research depart 1. A higher percentage of the farms have TV sets in the East, South, Middle West or West? 2. Average costs are higher for boys in Ivy Leagues colleges or girls in better known Wom en's eastern colleges, or is it about 50-50? 3. Title of the wife of an earl in England is Duchess, Countess, n Lady, DameV:countess or sim- ply Honorable? 4. More roads fii the U. S. classed as "rural" are surfaced or unsurfaced, or is it about 50 50? 5. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, U. N. truce negotiator between the Israeli and Arabs, is an Ameri can, Britisher, Canadian, Aus- tralian or South African? 6. U. S. visitors to Russia get Russian currency for dollars at about two-thirds, one-half or one third of its actual purchasing value? 7. Head of our International Cooperation Administration (for foreign aid) is Harold E. Stassen, Allen W. Dulles, John B. Hol lister, Paul Hoffmen, or Nelson Rockefeller? The Answers!. El. 2. High er for the girls. 3. Countess. 4. Mere are surfaced. 5. Canadian. 6. About one-third. 7. Hollisler. Supreme Court. Alfalfa has a better change of survival when seeded the first week in August than when seed ed in September. MAIL TRIBUNE How About Dixon-Yates? The sensational charges of "crime," "fraud," and "perjury" that have sprung from congressional in vestigations into the controversial Dixon-Yates con tract will almost certainly be aired in open court. Edgar H. Dixon, head of the company f ormed to carry out the power contract with the Atomic Energy Commission, said on Nov. 23 that his group would go to court for settlement costs arising from the cancella tion of the contract ordered by President Eisenhower on July 11. The suit' was filed Dec. 13. The A.E.C. on Nov. 23 had declared the .con tract invalid because of a probable violation of the federal "conflict of interest" laws in its negotiation. These laws provide in effect that a federal employee may not serve both the government and a private employer in the same matter. " THE employee involved is Adolphe H. Wenzell, f or- merly a senior vice president of the First Boston Corp., a New York investment banking firm, and now an International Bank official. Wenzell acted as a temporary consultant to the U.S. Budget Bureau on the contract while retaining his connection with First Boston. This corporation was named financing agent for the contract, though refusing to take a fee. Wenzell's role in the Dixon-Yates negotiations was one of the factors leading to the President's ex ecutive order of Nov. 28 tightening restrictions on government "dollar-a-year" men. " CEN. ESTES KEFAUVER (D., Tenn.), who has been pushing the Dixon-Yates investigation, said on Nov. 25 that the A.E.C. ruling that the contract was invalid "amounts to a declaration that the con tract reeks with fraud." Moreover, said Kefauyer, "There is most certainly a criminal side to this case also." Dixon on Aug. 1 had testified that neither Wen zell nor any First Boston official "sat in a single" meeting in which the contract was negotiated. Sen. William Langer (R., N.D.) promptly shouted, "I think you've committed perjury right now." Sen. Kefauver noted "glaring conflicts" in testimony by Dixon and Wenzell before his subcommittee and be fore the Securities and Exchange Commission. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in his January 1954 budget message suggested that the A.E.C. use power purchased from non-government sources to replace 600,000 kilowatts of power it was getting from the Tennessee Valley Authority. The idea of having a private company provide the power, it was later disclosed, was originated by Director of the Budget Joseph M. Dodge, who resigned before the contract was negotiated. A proposal was made by the Dixon-Yates group on April 10, 1954, after the goverment turned down an earlier one. President Eisenhower on June 16 ofdered A.E.C. to negotiate under terms of the Dixon Yates offer. D EMOCRATIC National Mitchell set off fireworks on Aug. 16, 1954 by referring to the "Dixon-Yates scandal" in a speech at Chicago. The Joint Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy on Nov. -13 voted to allow the A.E.C. to go ahead with the contract, but on Jan. 28, 1955, after party control in Congress had shifted, the com mittee called on A.E.C. to cancel it. Wenzell's role in negotiations was disclosed in testimony before the Kefauver group alter the con tract had been ordered cancelled on July 11. The subcommittee on July 21 was told that Wenzell's name had been omitted from an Aug. 21, 1954 of ficial account of negotiations issued jointly by the A.E.C. and Budget Bureau on request of the Budget Bureau. The omission was despite the President's order to make public a complete history of the con tract. E.R.R. Rep. Martin Ike Will Run Again Washington OI.R) House Re-1 publican Leader Joseph W. Mar tin Jr. has predicted in some of the strongest terms 50 far that President Eisenhower will run again. The Massachusetts Republican said he is convinced Mr. Eisen hower will get a "certificate of health" from his physicians and will be reelected next fall. Won't Fail Country "He will not fail his country when they call upon him," he said. Other political developments: 1. Sen. Walter F. George (D Ga.) 77-year-old dean of the Sen ate, announced he will run for a seventh term. The veteran chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is certain to be opposed hotly for the nom ination by 42-year-old former Gov. Herman Talmadge of Geor gia. George said at a press con ference at his home in Vienna, Ga.: "I'm feeling fine." ' 2. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.) is understood to have de cided to' challenge Adlai E. Ste venson in Florida's Democratic presidential primary May 29. Kefauver already announced he will enter primaries in New Hampshire March 13 and Calif ornia June 5. Stevenson also will enter the California contest. 'Factional Warfare' 3. The Democratic Digest monthly publication of the Dem ocratic National Committee, said President Eisenhower's heart at tack has plunged the Republican party "into the churning waters of factional warfare." The maga zine predicted without elabora Tuesday, December 20, 1955 Chairman Stephen A. Predicts tion the "return to the political battles" of former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. Some Siskiyou Jails Listed As 'Disgrace' Yreka Some of the jails in Siskiyou, county are a "dis grace," a county grand jury declared in a report this week. Not all the jails were con demned in the report, but sev eral of them were found to have "deplorable" facilities and con ditions. The report added: "And how such a situation could have been tolerated so long is inconceivable." Particu larly mentioned was the fact that there were no facilities for women and children's care at the Yreka jail. The jails at McCloyd, Duns muir and Weed were given ap proval, but others in the county were criticized on several counts. Missing Sergeant, Payroll Object of Hunt Frankfurt, Germany (U.R) A $50 reward was offered today for information leading to the apprehension of a U. S. Army sergant who "went over the hill" with an $18,400 pay roll. Sfc. Donald F. Molter disap peared last Wednesday with the payroll for German employees of American-run hotels in Frankfurt SUGGESTED BIBLE READING VERSES '44 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 todays I John 4:1-21. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS How highway trouble starts: In heavy Chicago traffic, a man named Janetzke bumped the rear end of the car ahead of him. The bump wasn't a very husky one, but it roused the ire of the bumpee. He stopped his car and got out to tell Janetzke off. t In the ensuing argument Ja netzke stepped too far to one side and was hit by a passing car. He was knocked to the pavement and when he got up he walked into the path of an oncoming trailer truck. The truck driver, quick-witted, as truck drivers have to be, braked with all his might, but the street was slick and his big rig skidded and jacknifed. The following car, driven by a man named Sabo, smashed into the truck. Sabo got off with shock and bruises, but a passen ger riding xwith him was KILLED. AND so Another death was added to the staggering annual total of America's highway fatalities. THE moral? It is this: On our danger-laden highways, as in this danger-laden cold war world, eternal vigilance is the price of safety. I THINK perhaps there's an other word on a wider scale. If this short-tempered motor ist whose car was bumped from the rear in heavy and compli cated traffic had KEPT HIS SHIRT ON the fatal sequence on the slippery Chicago street would not have started. In this trigger-happy cold war world things are constantly hap pening that MAKE US AMERI CANS MAD. We'd better keep our shirts on. Otherwise, we may start a sequence that will end in a third world war. We need to remember that "whom the gods would destroy they first made mad." MORE on this modern world this one on the brighter side. A British research engineer says he has invented a new type motor that will revolutionize the automobile industry. His new power plant is only one-third the size of a normal auto engine. He says it develops 30 per cent more power, weighs 70 per cent less and runs on ANY liquid fuel. It has only NINE moving parts. Its inventor says it will last more than 200,000 miles without an overhaul. He tells a reporter: "Leading engineers to whom I have shown my new engine agree it will revolutionize the automobile industry in the same way that the jet engine has changed the scene in aviation." A NOTHER screwball? " Let's take a look at him. His name is Granville Brad shaw. During World War II, he was chief research engineer for Britain's royal- navy. He de signed the world's first RADIAL airplane engine. The radial -engine gave a terrific lift to air plane progress. So we can't write off as moon shine what he says about his new automobile power plant. ON BEHALF of the oldsters, I'd like to add that Brad shaw is 67. But, instead of climb ing up on the shelf at the nor mal retirement age and settling down there, HE KEPT HIS FINELY TRAINED BRAIN AT WORK. He began designing his new auto engine AFTER he had reached the normal retirement age. If his new engine works, we'll all be glad he went on working. TURNING to another angle of -- the modern world, the Ore gon Voter founded 40 years ago in Portland by C. C. Chap man ?nd now edited by Walter May says this week that Ore gonians pay just slightly less than a BILLION dollars a year in federal, state and local taxes. It adds that this is about ONE THIRD of the income of Oregon residents. TTERE'S a thought you might "toy with in your idle mo ments you might even take it with you to the voting booth at the next election: The more the state (meaning government) DOES for us, the more it will have to TAX us. There is only one place for tax money to come from, and that is out of the pockets of the people. Portland (U.R) The State Highway commission has denied the application of Lee Mantes, Enterprise, for a horse riding concession in Wallowa etate park. . Sudanese Independence Action Declared Bad News for Egypt By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Sayed Ismail El-Azhari, prime minister of the Sudan, has de cided that he likes independence so much that he must have it right away. Great Brit ain and Egypt, which had long controlled the Sudan, agreed on Dec.. 3 that its people would hold a plebis cite to determine Charles McCana their future. But Azhari announced last week that he intended to pro claim complete independence immediately. As the result, the Sudanese Parliament yesterday proclaimed the complete independence of the 967,500 square mile territory and established a republican form of government. There is nothing either Brit ain or Egypt can do about it, so apparently a new nation has been born. It is quite a blow to Egypt. Agreement Canceled One of the chief complaints Egypt had for years against Britain was that under what was called a condominium, or joint control arrangement, Britain ac tually was dominant in the Su dan. In 1951, former King Farouk canceled the condominium agree Voluntary Part in Soil Bank Plan Eyed Washington (U.R) Four na tional farm organizations want participation in the proposed federal "soil bank" program to be purely voluntary. The four organizations . also want Congress to insist that surplus-crop producing land taken out of major crop production for the soil bank should not be used for pasture, hay or the pro duction of other crops in sur plus production. The proposed soil bank pro gram would pay farmers for di verting land used for production of surplus commodities to soil conserving crops. Closed Meeting Representatives of the four groups got . together in . an aU day closed meeting yesterday at the request of Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee. He urged them to agree, as far as possible, on a legislative pro gram that might ease the cost price squeeze on farmers. Represented at the session were the National Grange, the National Council of Farmer Co operatives, the National Milk Producers Federation and the National Farmers Union. The American Farm Bureau Federation,' which had requested a one-week delay in the meet ing, was not represented. A spokesman said Bureau Presi dent Charles B. Shuman felt he should not attend prior to a Jan uary meeting 'of the Internation al Federation of Agricultural Producers. No Formal Statement A spokesman said after the meeting that there was informal Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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. Committee's Thanks To the Editor: The Southern Oregon Regional Safety Confer ence held Dec. 10 at the Senior High school in Medford was considered a success by all in attendance. More than 300 dele gates from Jackson, Josephine, and Klamath counties .were present. The committee in charge feels that much of the conference suc cess was due to the excellent publicity . that was generously donated to the event. They wish to thank the radio stations in the locality for advertising the conference: KMED, KYJC, KWIN, and KBOY, as well as KBES-TV for the inclusion of a conference committee inter view on their Ore-Cal panorama program. They also wish to ex press thanks to Bill Dawkins of the Pierce-Dawkins agency for promoting the conference. Appreciation is also expressed to the Medford Mail Tribune for the articles they carried rela tive to the event and to Mrs. Olive Starcher of the Tribune staff for the fine publicity she gave the conference in her fea ture section of the Dec. 4 issue of the Tribune. Thanks is also given to the local organizations who sponsor ed a full page ad in the Trib une, and last but not least to the many people who turned out for the event and through whose interest it is hoped will make this a yearly event. ' Southern Oregon Regional Safety Committee, By: William M. Bell, Secretary ment and assumed the title of king of the Sudan as well as of Egypt. But Britain would not con sent, and Farouk's proclamation did not stick. Farouk lost his throne in July, 1952. Britain and the new Egyptian government agreed that the Sudan should have the right to determine its own fu ture, subect to a three-year tran sitional period. Egypt had expected confident ly that the Sudanese would agree to unite with it.' In fact, under an agreement which Britain and Egypt signed early this month the Sudan was to hold a plebiscite in which the choice would be complete inde pendence or union with Egypt. Egypt made a big play to sell the Sudanese on the union plan, Some Americans may remember the photograph, published all over the world, showing Maj. Salahi Salem, Egyptian minister for national guidance, dancing with Sudanese tribesmen in a pair of loudly-colored shorts dur ing a propoganda tour. Favored Union x Azhari himself, when he be came Premier early in 1954 as leader of the Sudanese National Unionist Party, was on record as all in favor of union. But as happened in other ter ritories like the Sudan, the granting of a little independence led to the strong desire for more. Dispatches from London and Cairo say that yesterday's action agreement on a "surprisingly large" number of farm problems. He said no formal statement would be made but the group scheduled another session for shortly after the first of the year. Besides the soil bank program, the conferees discussed such sub jects as ways to bolster declin ing farm income, balancing farm supplies with demand, a self help program for dairy farmers, and the general area of govern ment price supports. The spokesman said there was informal agreement on such projects as the school milk and lunch program, the use of tariff funds to buy farm surpluses, tax treatment of farmer cooperatives and agricultural research pro grams. Ed Parsons Elected Jersey Club Head Ed Parsons, Foots Creek, was elected president of the Rogue River , Jersey Cattle club at a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Moore near Eagle Point Sunday. Parsons, who formerly was president of the Coos County Jersey club, will assume his duties in January. Other offi cers include Delbert Mongold, Eagle Point, vice-president; Mrs. Mary Mongold, secretary; and E. B. Poyer, Ashland, treasurer. Roy Mitsche, manager of Mon arch Seed and Feed company, Medford, discussed weed control and soil feeding. Larry Tweedy, field representative for the com pany, showed films of the sub ject. Nat Etzel, vocational agri culture instructor at Eagle Point, discussed his work as instructor. Annual, reports were sub mitted by department heads, and recommendations for work for the club during the new year were made by the retiring president. CHARLES E. JONES Most of 11s art reluctant to face unpalatable truths. That sensitive spot on our molar is probably just a temporary irri tation; that twinge of pain in the region of the heart will no doubt go away if we give it time. Too many of us put off seeing our dentist or consulting our physician for a periodic check-up. Similarly, possibility of early death is an unpleasant fact that we try hard not to think about. Tet only two cate gories of people can afford to disregard such a contingency those who have no dependents and those who have made, through life assurance, sufficient provision for their loved ones against the chance of untimely death. If you cannot conscien tiously claim to be in either of these categories drop me a line telephone. CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA Phone 2-9772 (J-tr Looking Ml Ahead f with by Azhari and his Parliament is illegal and unconstitutional. But neither Britain nor Egypt seems in position to Interfere. Their troops have left and Az hari is in controL Azhari's dark-skinned, rugged face shows his determined char acter. Now 53, he was graduated from the American University in Beirut, Lebanon. He became a school teacher. In 1946 he en tered politics as an unconditional Nationalist! to work for inde pendence. He served short jail terms in 1948 and 1949 for his activities. But he is head man now, and it looks as if he may soon ask for admittance to the United Na tions. ' Junior Red Cross Collects Food Junior Red Cross members at McLoughlin Junior - High school are collecting canned food for. needy families for Christmas. McLoughlin, along with other schools in Jackson county, col lected enough food for 14 fam ilies at Thanksgiving, and mem bers have collected seven dozen cans of food for Christmas baskets. Last week, members of the Junior Red Cross helped deco rate rooms at Camp White. ' Training School Held ' For Shell Dealers A four-day training school for Shell Oil company dealers and service station attendants was held recently in Medford. The school was to provide personnel witn latest developments in servicing vehicles and. includ ed automatic transmissions and tubeless tires. . . John Boyd and Roy Raphael, both of Eugene, conducted the school. Both are merchandising representatives for Shell Oil company. 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Entertainment is planned fol lowing the business meeting. Salem Syndicate Buys Alberta Woolen Mill Magrath, Alberta (U.R) . Attorney-General E. W. Hinman of Alberta today announced the sale of a woolen mill here to a syndicate headed by Chester A. Page, Salem, Ore., for $35,000. 0 The syndicate plans to fcistall new equipment and have the plant in operation next spring. MR. INSURANCE Fred Brennan A Merry Christmas to all of our friends at this season with the fond hope that the year has been happy and successful for all. For Information Call MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-4940 Guaranteed UNTIL 9:00 P.4. $17.95
