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Newspaper Page Texto 0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "I very body in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday try MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager E. C. FERGUSON Managing Editor ERIC ALLEN JR. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. 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 Marcn a. iaa SUBSCRIPTION RATES 8y Mail--In Advance: Per copy 10c. Dly and Sunday One vear S120 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3.50 Sunday Only One vear S3 .50 Ey C&rrier -3 In Advance Mefr,2 Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year SIJ.OO Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 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 OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York Chicago pe ril tit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St Louin Atlanta. Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSO Ul-AJ LU N NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 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 Jan. 9, 1946 (It was Wednesday) Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce amends by-laws auth orizing elections semi-annually instead of annually. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Trade journals report an abundance of canned peas, and they may show up for every eatery meal but breakfast, as did string beans during war times. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 193S (It was Thursday) Talent city council acts on or ganizing fire department at spe cial meeting. Plans for reorganizing com pany .A of the national guard here discussed. 30 YSARS AGO , . Jan. 9, 1926 (It was Saturday) Mount Vesuvius becomes ac tive with eruptions, and molten lava streams. Ernest Williams of Ashland named second vice-president of Independent Service Station Owners association of Oregon, 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 9, 1916 (It was Sunday) Medford isolated for 24 hours when heavy snows break com munication wires. From Local and Personal col umn: Garden plots about the city are being cleaned up and otherwise put in readiness for early planting this year. t From $25, to ?40 worth of garden truck is frequently sold from the back yard of an ordinary house lot in this city. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Ccr. 195S. Editorial Research Repert 1. If yog buy a fifth of hard liquor, $1.10, $1.60, $2.10, $2.60 or $3.10 of what you pay is for federal excise tax? 2. About the same number of new as used cars are sold every year, or twice as many new cars, or twice as many used ones? 3. Net income of all farmers in 1956, predicts the Agriculture Dept., will be about the same as last year, or 20 higher, or 5, 10 or 15 lower? 4. The U. N. General Assembly is scheduled to meet again this month, this spring, this summer or the coming fall? 5. Pay rises in recent years have been on the average propor tionately as high for women, or higher or lower? 6. An increase in number and intensity of sun spots is or isn't expected to interfere with TV reception? 7. Gov. Harriman of N. Y. has never been which one of these: ambassador to Britain, ambassa dor to Russia, mutual security di rector, . Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of the Treasury? The answers: 1.-782.10. 2. About twice as many used as new. 3. 10 lower. 4. The coming fall. 5. Proportionately lower. 6. Is, says the Federal Communications Comm. 7. Sec retary of the Treasury. In World War n, 88 presi dential unit citations were awarded National Guard units while serving in all overseas co&bat operations. MAIL TRIBUNE The Big Story The members of the Mail Tribune's .news staff, who write the local stories which appear in this news paper throughout the year, recently voted that the late December floods constituted the biggest overall story of 1955. There were only a couple of dissents. e This judgment, we think, was correct, on the basis of "spot news." But there was a bigger story which ran throughout the year. It was not told in any one headline, nor in any one issue, but-served as a con stant, throbbing undercurrent to all the local news. I T COULD be summed up like this: "Medford Completes Most Prosperous Year, in History." Perhaps some of the "old timers" 'would argue that the outstanding growth of Medford during the "boom" period of 1910 and thereafter was more pros perous. Possibly they would be right. But our view of 1955 embraces a multitude of things. It includes the start of the city manager plan in Medford, reflecting the . coming of age of the city as a corporate entity; the plansfor a big new hos pital; the attempts to annex a large area to the city; the successful elections for sewer and water bond is sues in nearby districts; the expansion of highway construction plans; the developments in irrigation, with the Talent project getting under way and rehab ilitation work starting in two irrigation districts. THROUGHOUT the year, employment in Jackson county was the highest, and unemployment nearly the lowest, in decades. There was a box car shortage, reflecting the bumptious state of the lumber industry. New schools were planned, constructed, completed. The telephone company planned a wide extension of its service. Old buildings were giving away to new ones. The fruit crop was the largest on record. The Christmas shopping season, though slowed by the floods of the last few days, still was one of the best on record perhaps the best when the final count is in. White City, that amazing industrial phenomenon,' continued its startling growth, with new enterprises starting operations almost monthly, if not weekly, there. ' CHARITABLE projects had unprecedented success, with the United Medford Crusade meeting its goal earlier than ever before, and with the drive for funds for the hospital showing a healthy early re sponse. Interest in prospecting, both for oil and for other minerals, was at a post-war high." It was a year of growth, of development, of con struction and planning for the future. It was not' or derly, particularly, for democratic societies seldom grow in an orderly manner. But it was vivid and alive and there was a spirit of optimism and adventure. IT ADDS up to prosperity for a-majority of the citi- zens of the Rogue, valley. . We have no crystal ball tucked away in the desk drawer. But we see nothing which would, diminish this to any great extent. There will be dips and lev-el'ings-out in the economy, as there always are; there may even be dips amounting to "recessions." ; . . But, barring a war, the continuing growth of the American economy and population as a wholes and of the west and of southern Oregon in particular- would seem to constitute a pretty firm guarantee of a con tinued high level of prosperity. E. A. t: - -'-.. - Nature's Flood Control An editorial in the Bend (Oregon)' Bulletin, which sounded as though it had been written by Phil Brogan, Oregon's outstanding newspaperman-amateur-geologist, explains the reasons why the De schutes river was one of few in Oregon which remain ed, placid and peaceful, between its banks last month. The river, one of the state's most beautiful streams, hardly rippled the surface of Mirror pond, while others were raging and carrying homes away. THE EDITORIAL reported that the stream flows through heavily 'volcanic soils and rocks, which act as natural "sponges," soaking up any water over an average flow, holding it, and. releasing it gradually.. And: Should mountain lakes reach flood stage there is no danger of overflow into the Deschutes. The high water is carefully stored in subterranean basins under lava fields, from which it is gradually with&rawn through the season. "The Deschutes is a friendly stream," the editorial concludes. "It is a stream whose quiet ways can be appreciated in these days of death and devastation resulting from flooded rivers." E.A. FHA Loan Changes To Help Flood Victims Portland U.P.) J. Guy Ar rington, Oregon Federal Hous ing administration director," said Saturday .two major changes have been made in FHA loans to help flooded-out Oregon and California residents. The changes permit a special low-cost home loan .with no down payment required and also an extension to 30 years for re payment of regular FHA loans which now demand a 25-year payoff. Arrington said the low-cost, no - down - payment plan also could be paid over a 30-year pe riod by flood victims in disaster areas. FHA has also eased its re quirements for lending institu tions whose loans are FHA-in-sured. That will give flood vic tims more time to make pay ments on present mortgages, in cluding loans for home repair as well as purchase. Monday, 'January 9, 1936 in a headline something Astor Heir To Wed Young Wisconsin Girl Green Bay, Wis. (U.PJ A 19-year-old Green Bay, Wis., girl has become engaged to marry a member of the wealthy John Jacob Astor family. Charlotte Fisk said at Green Bay today that she will marry William Astor of New York City at the Union Congregational church in Green Bay. She says the ceremony will take place some time in June. Astor, 'Who is about 20, and Miss Fisk are both sophomores at Northwestern University in Evanston, HI. Astor. majors in accounting and Miss Fisk has an English major. They met at a school party a year ago and have been keeping company ever since. f Miss Fisk says she and young Astor will continue their studies until they obtain degrees at Northwestern. After that, she says their plans are uncertain. Rough Campaign Seen;'Smear' Washington Republican and Democratic spokesmen, warm ing up for the coming president ial contest, already have given signs that the 1956 campaign will be rough and hard-hitting. Cries of "Smear!" are being ex changed as leaders of the party organizations jockey for favor able positions. The Republican National Committee a few weeks ago ac cused the Democratic majority in Congress of using the inves tigative powers of the House and Senate "to launch a smear cam paign of immense proportions." Democratic National Chairman Butler retorted that such charg es would not keep members of his party in Congress from "getting at the truth about any mistakes and wrongdoing of the (Eisenhower) administration." He added that "a desperate Re publican party" has already in dicated that it would use again in 1956 the "smear technique" it had employed in 1952 and 1954. Depends On Individuals What kind of campaign actu ally is Vaged will depend in large part on the identity of the presidential nominees. If Eisen Facist-Like Poujade Has No Program But Hatred for Taxation By LEROY POPE United Press Correspondent The surprising Pierre Poujade who elected 51 deputies to the French Parliament says he doesn't care if people call him a Fascist. I He also . says he will call strikes in France in order to force Parliament to do his bid ding. The trouble is people don't feally know what Poujade wants. The violent campaign of his followers revealed no program except hatred of the present par liamentary system and of taxes. Hate Tax System k ' Specifically, Poujade and his followers hate the complicated system by which France's small shopkeepers have to collect most of the nation's tays and pass them on to the government after keeping elaborate sets of books. It is a revolt of the lower middle class and the upper working classes against being ground to dust between modern ization and rationalization of business and archaic govern ment. The 51 men elected to Par liament with Poujade's support reflect this revolt. They are a new type of deputy. Most are shopkeepers ,or working men. Traditionally ," French deputies have been lawyers, professors or businessmen of ,the larger and more highly professional kind. . But the Poujade deputies in clude a laundry worker, a print er, a traveling salesman, a clock maker, a gardener, a photogra pher, a clerk, a contractor, two In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS , It has just occurred to me that for several days this column has been dealing heavily in politics which is getting to be a de pressing subject. So let's turn today to somthing lighter. And what could be lighter than the engagement of the poor little rich girl of Philadelphia, who made good as a movie star, to the handsome and charming Prince Rainier of Monaco? It's almost certain to work out 'happily. She will get a title, and in the course of time he will get quite a chunk of American mon ey which in these modern days is pretty sure to come in handy in the case of a prince. rpHEN -- Of course There is always the possibility that they may live happily to gether and raise a family and in due time become members in good standing of the Grandpar ents club which is one of life's great achievements. A S THIS is written, there is re joking in the romantic lit tle principality of Monaco where the news of the engagement has just been received. A full holi day has been declared. The peo ple are deliriously happy, and are dancing in the streets and from time to time, as happy folk are apt to do along the sun ny shores of the Mediterranean, are h'isting a few in the wine shops. It is a pretty pastoral scene and might well 'serve as the framework for a fairy tale. TffHY are the people so happy? " Is it because, as loyal and loving subjects, they are happy because their prince is so happy? Wel-1-1-1, ye-e-e-e-s. In a way. But there is a quirk to it. The quirk is . this: Their prince is. a bachelor. Under the peculiar terms of the now nearly a century old agree ment by which the principality of, Monaco ceased to be a pro tectorate of the then Kingdom Depend on Candidates hower and Stevenson once more head the respective tickets, harsh and extereme attacks by one side on the other will be held to a minimum. But other possible standard bearers such as Harriman for the Democrats and Nixon for the Republicans have displayed a taste for less moderation on the political battlefield. American history is full of ex amples of rough-and-tumble po litical campaigning. Not only have charges of corruption been leveled at the opposition, . but the personal character of the candidates also has often been defamed, sometimes by deliber ate falsehood. John Quincy Adams in 1828 was accused of immorality, and a document falsely depicting him as a freemason was circu lated in areas opposed to free masonry. Jackson was reviled in the same campaign as an adult erer, a drunkard, and a brawler. In 1884 the Republican candi date was accused of . drunken ness, unsavory financial deal ings, and anti-Catholicism, while Cleveland, the Democratic nom- students and a number of butch ers and bakers. Like Mussolini's Supporters It was people of this class who were among the strong support ers of Benito Mussolini in the early days of Italian Fascism- Many such were early sup porters of Hitler in Germany. On the other hand, these peo ple are the first targets of the Communists when ' they attain power. In Hungary, Poland and the other Eastern Satellites such small tradesmen and independ ent artisans have been ruthlessly liquidated. This suggests that Poujade's followers should fear the Reds It raises the risk that if the Com munists ' start - throwing , their weight around in the new Par liament,, many French may stam pede to . the Poujade camp. It also suggests that Poujade might see a golden opportunity later in taking up the anti-Communist cause. Burned by Dictators Yet, -it would "be very danger ous to" make any such prediction, The French were burned so bad ly by dictatorships in the 19 th century under the two Napoleons and Louis Philippe, the so-called "Citizen King" that they have a holy, horror of strong men. In fact their intense fear, of Napoleonism and of all strongly authoritarian government is -the mam psychological reason for the instability of French govern ments. Poujade probably hasn't reach ed his zenith yet, but if the Fas cist label really is hung on him the French likely will turn against him quickly. News of Sardinia and became a pro- tecorate of France, taxes were abolished in Monaco. B UT- The agreement provided If the Prince of Monaco dies without issue the principality of Monaco will revert to French rule WITH FRENCH TAX RATES IMMEDIATELY PRE VAILING. That would be TERRIBLE! IT IS little wonder that the peo ple of Monaco are so .happy over the impending termination of their prince's estate of bache lorhood and his prospective en trance into the estate of matri monv. The 20,000 inhabitants of Mo naco are largely French, and if there is anything a Frenchman hates above everything else it is TAXES. Witness the stir that was created in the recent French election bv Monsieur Poujade (pronounced Poo-ZHOD) and his new party with its new and ap pealing slogan of NO. TAXES! NE question in conclusion " a question .which interests all of us: How has Monaco (whose total area is 370 acres) been able to get along all these years with out taxes? It is supported by revenue from gambling in its capital city of Monte Carlo, whose Casino and International Sporting club are the most famous gambling snots in the world. I suspect that the state of Nevada may have got its original idea from the Drincinalitv of Monaco, but Nevada never has been able to get away with a taxless exist ence. TiHE tiny principality of Mona- co has been cagey over the years. Its citizens are forbidden to gamble, if one of them is caught taking a chance he is promptly clapped into the clink Their job . is to make their money off the visitors as the Las Vegans do. inee, was charged with father ing an illegitimate child. Venality Frequent Cry Politicians today rarely im pugn the private morals of can didates for public office.'but the cry of venality is a hardy per ennial. Disclosures during the 1952 campaign about a special expense fund of the Republican vice-presidential candidate, and about a fund used by the Dem ocratic presidential candidate to supplement salaries of certain state officials, called for exten sive . explaining by - Nixon and Stevenson. Nixon seemed to pro fit in the end, however, by stag ing a highly publicized TV de fense of his conduct. Congress in recent vears has given extended consideration to the problem of how to lift the level of political cmDaicnine without unduly restricting free dom ot speech and of the press. After inquiring; into the Mary land senatorial campaign of 1950 in which workers for John Mar shall Butler were accused of using unfair tactics to defeat Sen. Tydings, . a Senate Rules subcommittee called for formu lation of "standards or guide posts for what constitutes suf ficient grounds for unseating a senator." Proposals Made The same subcommittee rro- posed in 1953 that penalties for publishing anonymous . and de famatory campaign literature be increased: that coniDlaints about unethical campaign practices be investigated nromtotlv: and that use of scurrilous campaign lit erature, with the knowledge of a candidate for office,, be made a basis for disqualifying him to serve in Senate or House. A bill to revise the federal election laws, reported to the Senate last June and still await ing action, aims to make a can didate resDonsible for campaign activities undertaken in his be half. By requiring the candidate to authorize expenditures by aE groups campaigning for himj and by empowering him to with draw the authorization and stop expenditures of any group, the proposed legislation would make it difficult; for a candidate to profess ignorance of question able campaign practices engaged in, by his supporters. Neuberger Favors Statehood Measures Washington j(U.R) Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon says he is willing to vote for statehood for .Hawaii alone in "oVder to "shame" the Republi cans into eventually letting both Hawaii and Alaska into the union. - Neuberger. said in at statement today he. was shocked by Presi dent Eisenhower's State of the Union- message . proposing that Hawau be admitted immediately but urging delays in statehood for Alaska. He says the adminis tration's views are politically motivated. - " "Republicans believe Hawaii probably would elect two Repub lican senators to congress, but Alaska undoubtedly would elect two Democratic senators,"' he said. : Neuberger said he and some other Democrats favor statehood for both territories "not on a po litical basis but on the basis of what is right and fair." Editorial Comment E. C. FERGUSON Death this week in Medford of E. C. Ferguson, longtime and highly respected managing ed itor of the Medford. Mail Trib une, is deeply regretted in news paper circles .throughout the state and by his many, many friends in Jackson county. Mr. Ferguson, or "Fergie," as he was known to newspaper friends, was an old-school news paper man. He started as a tele graph dperator with Western Union and in 1914 was assigned to Medford to handle press copy. The press operators of that day (and - they -are almost all gone now), were highly versatile men. They could sit before a typewriter for hours, taking copy off the Morse sounder as fast as it came. Using the 'Phil lips code, a variation of stand ard Morse, and a host of further abbreviations of their own, these operators could take down thous ands of words of copy in a day. Then came the first of Morkrum machines, which we commonly call teletype today, and the era of the fast, accurate Morse op erator came to an end. . In 1928, Mr. Ferguson joined the staff of the Mail Tribune and assumed the duties and responsi bilities of managing editor. He was recognized., "in , the trade" as an excellent editor and along with his duties in the news de partment, he wrote many of the editorials for the Mail Tribune. "Fergie" will long be missed by his friends in Jackson county and in newspaper circles of the state. Ashland Tidings. , The . oldest National Guard unit in Oregon is Oregon City, heavy mortar company, 162nd infantry, first organized as the Oregon dangers in 1843. Matter of Fact v stewan aisCP THE NATIONAL ESTIMATES Washington Every so often nowadays, "anyone who still bothers to report the lif e-and- death facts of of the Ameri can nati o n a 1 situation gets a very peculiar feeling of 'be i n g suddenly t r a n sf ormed into one of those super-super- bores who insist on reciting last Stewart Alaop n i s h t's bad dream at next mornings sun ny breakfast table. These reporters musi con fess to having this feeling at the moment. The last three re Dorts in this space have been filled with an admittedly ugiy and repellent mass of facts. Those facts were hot printed be cause it is enjoyable to deal in what is repeUent and . ugly. They were printed because they unfortunately but all too con clusively prove a point of vital national importance. The point is simple. The American air-atomic superiority that has served so long as the free w o r 1 d's sole defense, is now rapidly melting away. The Soviet Un ion, by making vastly greater efforts than this country is now making, is beginning to surpass us in the one area of strength that Joseph AIsop used to be exclusively our own IT MIGHT be supposed that the merest suggestion that this could happen would stir things ud a bit. The knowledge that it is happening, and the virtual certainty that nothing is going to be done about it, sometimes fills these reporters with an al most irresistible impulse to run around in circles barking like dogs. But in our present nation al condition of prosperous eu phoria, most people are inclined to think that facts which prove anything unpleasant are really not facts after all. So there is one further thing that needs to be said before this painful subject can be finally dropped. The facts are facts (one is almost inclined to shout it), or at least they are as near to facts as any information about the Soviet Union can ever be. What then is the origin of these facts concerning Soviet output of advanced aircraft types, Soviet missile develop ment and the like which we have been publishing? The an swer is simple. They are square ly based on undoubted informa tion concerning the "national estimates," which are, or at least ought to be, the basic-building blocks of American policy-mak ing. - A COMPLEX machinery to produce these national esti mates has been set up under our highest policy-making body, the National Security Council. These is first of all an Estimates Board," composed ' of brilliant specialists from the Central In telligence Agency, the Armed Services and the ' State Depart ment, and headed by the author of the most important postwar book on strategic intelligence, Sherman Kent. The board has the task . of making what may be called staff studies of special problems, such as the rate of Soviet aircraft output, for ex ample. But the process by no means ends there. The output of the Estimates Board, or any intelli gence from other sources for that matter, cannot be accepted as "official and therefore "na tional" until the problem has been examined by the National Intelligence Advisory Commit tee. The committee is called ad visory because - the director of; Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES e In every price range the Central Intelligence Agency, AUen W. Dulles, has the exclu sive statutory duty of providing intelligence to ihe National Se curity Council. Dulles serves as chairman of the committee, which in theory advises him. But the committee exists so that the final opinion offered to the Se curity Council by Allen Dulles may be fully agreed and ap proved by all interested parties w m w - TTIGH level representatives of " the armed services, the of- the State Department and the FBI sit on this committee. Unan imity of opinion is required. Any national e s t i m a te that emerges from the committee is a synthesis of the best opinion from all the different sources listed. Experience has proved, more- - over, that the national estimate! can be safely relied on, except inr one important way. Perhaps because the unanimity require ment works in favor of the lowest common denominator, all national estimates of future So viet military-industrial achieve ments have always turned out ' to be far too conservative when finally tested by events. It was, true with the Soviet A-bomb and ' the Soviet H-bomb. It was true, with the MIG-15 and the TU-14. ' was true again with the "Badger" and "Bison" bombers and the "Farmer" and "Flash light" fighters. pi EVERY case where there J- has been a test to date, the official intelligence forecast in dicated that the Soviets could not do the job so soon, or that they ' could not do it on such a large scale, or that they could not do it really well. And in every case where there has been a .test to date, the result has shown, alas, that Soviet capa bilities had been sadly under estimated. . No allowance has been made for this built-in error, in the facts and figures that have been; printed in this space to show the massively" growing air-atomic power of the Soviets. Most prob ably the true situation is meas urably worse than we have rep resented it. In any case to re vert, to our original image it is the bad dream that is likely to turn out to be reality, and the sunny breakfast table that will prove to be a dream. Copyright 1956,. . New York Herald Tribune Inc. SPEAKER SCHEDULED , Portland (U.R) Doctor Rob ert M. Hutchins, former presi- dent of the University of Chi cago, and now head of the Fund for the Republic, will speak at Reed college in Portland Jan. 17. Sam Went Along GEO. N. TAYLOR When we moved from Ar kansas, I sent. the young folks to the nearest Sunday School there in Dallas. Dr. Scofield was pastor and our crowd kept after me until I went v.. alohgi Then we wanted Sam to go but he said Dr. Scofield would hear he tended bar' and bawl him out. But we kept after Sam and one Sunday he rigged nip and went.' Just as we entered the door, Dr. Scofield was telling how at 35, he had one foot in a drunkard's grave and the other a-slipping. That won Sam and he kept go ing and in time gave his heart to God. So our troubles were settled. Dr. Scofield was brought up in a fast liquor-loving crowd. But before her death, Mother Scofield had prayed God to save her boy. So the answer Call upon me and I will answer thee and show . thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not. - . This messages sponsored by an Oregon . dairyman. adv.