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0 FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDtiJTBIBUNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Publiihed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St.- Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered at second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and 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, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. 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. De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I AsTbcG-ATLQN J U WUJUTMiH.'.M.'.lHI NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The .Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 194S (It was Saturday) Gwen Goin, Barbara Hawley, Anne Bonhert, Jean Kincaid and Jeanette Brown announced as candidates for Queen of Amer ican Legion sponsored World War II veterans homecoming dance at Central Point. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Quite a hegira of local folks have gone south to drink spring water, trod the hot sands of the desert, and gawk at movie kings and queens. 20 YEARS AGO - Jan. 12, 193S (It was Sunday) Jackson countv Judge Earl B. Day elected vice-president ' of state association of county judges and commissioners. Central Point abandons sewer disposal plant plans because of high cost of materials. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 12, 1926 (It was Tuesday) Dr. S. V. Gearey, county health officer, and Miss Vera Beard and Miss Leah Jennings, public health nurses, to conduct first pre-school clinic here soon Merchants committee of Louis Ulrich, A. C. Hubbard and B.. W. Paul appointed to study and or ganize budget system for Com munity Chest drive, which is favored by the local Merchants association. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 121916 (It was Wednesday) Dr. J. J. Emmens and Dr. J. M. Keene elected councilmen from wards one and two, re spectively, in city elections. From Local and Personal column: Those living in the vi cinity of Derby, up Rogue river, report that the heavy snowfall of the past three or four days has driven some big game down into the foothills. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Repert 1. It Was three, five, seven or nine years ago that Gen. MacAr thur stopped the Chinese Red advance in Korea? 2. Most Methodists, a national survey finds, do or don't con sider dancing sinful? 3. Wives living with their hus bands work outside the home in about one out of every two, four, six or eight U. S. families? 4. Which avowed candidate for a 1956 presidential nomina tion has a wife named Nancy? 5. The bite of the black widow spider usually is or isn't fatal to human beings? 6. Which two members of the Eisenhower Cabinet have been U. S. Senators? 7. A "Benedict" is a bachelor, a recently, married man, a long married man, a widower or a divorced man? The Answers: 1. Five years ago. 2. Most don't. 3. About one out of four. 4. Sen. Ke fauver. 5. Usually isn't.. 6. Secretary of State Dulles, Sec-' relary of Commerce Weeks. 7. Recently married. MAIL TRIBUNE !: An Announcement For quarter of a century it doesn't seem that long! the Southern" Oregon Publishing company of Klamath Falls, has-been a minority stockholder in the Medford Printing company which publishes the Mail-Tribune. It was in 1931 that this Klamath com pany, owned jointly by Frank Jenkins of the Klamath Falls Herald and the late Ernest Gilstrap, for many years the business manager of the Mail Tribune, bought out the stock interest of the late Sumpter Smith of Medford who was for oyer a decade the advertising business manager of this paper. A few weeks ago this minority stock interest was purchased by resident stockholders of the Mail Trib une, so that the paper is now entirely (100) home owned. This will mark no changes in the policies of the paper or its operating personnel, but m view of the fact that during the period of joint-interest, many misapprehensions existed, and many false rumors were circulated, an announcement of the change in stock ownership at this time seemed desirable. . .. R.W.R. Line-up on Gas'Bill The Democrats in the Senate are badly split on the pending Fulbright (D-Ark.) bill (S 1853) to end federal regulation over prices of natural gas as sup plied by producers to distributors for resale in inter state commerce. Hence the Democratic leadership is anxious to have the bill disposed of quickly, that any scars it leaves may heal well before the Novem ber elections. Senate Majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texans both, are working for the bill. When the similar Harris (D-Ark.) bill (HR 6645) was passed by the House last July 28 by only a six vote margin' (209 to 203), the House Democrats were better than 3 to 2 (136 to 86) against it. The House Republicans were almost 2 to 1 (123 to 67) for it. President Eisenhower took no stand, but his advisory committee on Energy and Resources had come out, Feb. 26, against federal control over natural gas "prior to its entry into an interstate transmission line." Most Senators, regardless of-party, from gas-producing states are for the Harris-Fulbright proposal. Local utility companies that buy ;Tiatural gas, also some state utility commissions, are fighting the pro posal, and opposition to it can be expected of most Senators from non-producing areas-using natural gas. CERTAINLY that was much the line-up in the House nre Inpf irnnv f 1 1Vi -i Tftvon A rnvinfin T vui.c .10.00 jrceu.. xnc icAas, Jru. rvdiioao, Jiu UlOldllct and Oklahoma delegations voted solidly for the Har ris bill, the Kentucky delegation solidly against it, the lennessee and Virginia delegations against it with one exception each, every Representative from New York City against it. . . ' For many years the Federal Power Commission considered its control over natural gas prices, under the Natural Gas Act of 1938, restricted to what the pipe lines charged on delivery to local gas companies. But on June 7, 1954, the Supreme Court by five to three in the Phillips v.- Wisconsin case found that the F.P.C. control extended to what the producers charged the pipe lines. Thereupon the F.P.C. froze the existing prices in the field. So It Can't Be Done? . "We are getting letters in the mail claiming that no defeated candidate for President deserves a sec ond attempt. "In the election of 1792 Thomas Jefferson re ceived only 4 electorial votes, but in 1800 and again in 1804 he was elected overwhelmingly. "John Quincy Adams was defeated in 1820 but elected in 1824. "William Henry Harrison was beaten by Martin Van Buren in 1836 but elected over Van Buren in 1840. After being defeated in 1888, Grover Cleveland came back to win in 1892. "These are some historical facts we will do well to consider." R.N. Editorial Comment iBATT.Ttnsn msTnnv We believe railroad passenger train history was made last week when the New York Central op erated General Motor's new Aero-train between Chicago and Detroit on a .four hour schedule for the 284 mile run. Currently the normal passenger train time between these mid-western cities is five hours. The GM Aerotrain is a revolu tionary type of passenger train, with low-slung articulated cars seating 40 passengers in each coach. Seats are of the airplane type. Two Aerotrain coaches weigh ' only a little more than half of a present-day standard railroad car and General Motor's new train is designed for speeds up to 100 miles an hour. A key factor in the new train, which should appeal to progres sive railroad managements, is the fact that the Aerotrain costs only one third as much as a train of similar capacity in stand ard equipment and can be oper ated at one half the cost. The initial reaction of New York Central officials was one of optimism. "This train gives us a chance at recovering profitable passen ger business," said Alfred Perl man, president o fthe New York Central. After May 1, the new GM train will be leased by the Central for regular passenger service be tween Chicago and Detroit. Until Thursday, January 12, 1956 that time, it will be demonstrat ed on half a dozen different roads and, according to the Wall Street-Journal, the Southern Pa cific is one of the western roads which will make tests of the new, equipment. While the present 10-car Aero train would be far too large a train to operate over the Sis kiyou line, it would be interest ing to see what the equipment would do on a test run between Dunsmuir and Eugene. It might demonstrate a meth od by which the SP could restore passenger service in this highly profitable section of its system. Ashland Tidings. EARTH AND SKY It is appropriate that Phil Bro gan of Bend has been designated the successor to the late J. Hugh Pruett as celestial bookkeeper for the Pacific Northwest. His title will be Pacific Northwest director of the American Meteor Society. Now it will be Phil who keeps the charts of the fireballs which pass across the sky. Phil, associate editor of the Bend Bulletin, is a science writ er of solid reputation. He is also a scientist. While most of his work has been done in geology, he served many years as Bend's weather man on a part-time basis. The men and women who worked with Mr. Pruett, report ing to him the time and direction- Good Will Potential Seen for Dulles' Visit to Nehru Soon By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Secretary of State John Foster Dulles can do a lot of good when he visits Prime Minister Jawa- SaRHEri .harlal Nehru of India in March. The visit, in fact, may prove to be one of the most impor tant Dulles has made in some time. First, he should be able Charles McCann to Clear UP completely the misunderstand ing over his recent reference to Portugal's "provinces" in the Far East, including Goa on the Indian coast. Secondly, he should be able to offset some of the propa ganda which . Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Com munist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev dished out so lavfsh ly on their visit to Nehru. Dunes may - be . able to con vince Nehru that solid American aid is of more value to India than Communist big talk. Finally, Dulles will be able to discuss intimately the issues outstanding between the United States and Communist China. The visit might even result in some initiative by Nehru to ease tensions in the Far East. He is anti-Communist in his po litical philosophy' but he is friendly with Chinese Red lead ers Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En Lai. He is a valuable go-between in East-West relations. Important Man Nehru has made himself a most important man in world affairs. He is the leader of the "neutralist" nations, which want to side neither with the West nor with the East. He is the leader of India's 360,000,000 people. His country, the second largest in the world in point of population, is bound to take an increasingly large share in world problems as the years pass. Nehru is in no sense a dic tator. He was chosen leader be cause he is India's outstanding man. He enjoys the respect and love of his people. But he is undisputed leader. A lot of dic tators might envy him. Indian-American relations got a big jolt when Dunes issued Grange Upper Rogue Grange Upper Rogue Grange held its first meeting of the new year with the new master, Caroline Harding, presiding. All new of ficers but three ' were present. Pomona master Herb Carlton in stalled Bill Miller on the exec utive committee; Ray Gillispie as assistant steward and Ann Gill ispie' as musician. The charter was draped for Brother Tracy Boothby who passed away, re cently. The master read her new committees as follows: Youth, Monte Axtell; juvenile, Don Vannice; ways and means, Carl Richardson, Robert Dar rOhn, Eda Torrance and Caro line Harding; building, Roy Vaughn, Harry Harding and Herb Carlton; hospitality, Meryle Carlton; roads, Henry Schuder, Mabel Hanson and O. E. Stone; legislature, Harold Barber, Ran ald Axtell; agriculture, Bruce Grieve and Herb Carlton; mu sician, Ann Gillispie, Nellie Van nice; publicity, Lucile Barber, Caroline Harding; education, Birdie Moore and Esther Merri man; history, Harold Barber; fire insurance, Bruce Grieve; and H.E.C., May Richardson. . . Herb Carlton attended a spe cial Grange conference meeting at Roseburg Sunday, Jan. 8. Next regular , Grange meeting wUl be Thursday, Jan. 19, at 8 p.m. H.E.C. meeting, with May Richardson presiding, will be in the hall Thursday, Jan. 12, with a'l p.m. luncheon. ' After the Grange business meeting refreshments were served by Mr. and Mrs. George Tockstein assisted by Meryle Carlton. Work Starts On Hotel Remodeling Work started this week on an other phase of a long range re modeling program at the Med ford hotel, Harry Watson, man ager, has announced." Under re modeling now are the large room formerly the dining room, and several upstairs guest rooms. In the dining room, ceilings are being lowered and new floor ing and lighting fixtures instal led. Don L. Jacobs is contractor in charge of work. Present plans call for use of the room for ban quets or special parties.. The other phase includes add ing new bathrooms to eight guest rooms. Stan Parrish, contractor, Coffeen Brothers, plumbers, with Phil Stanbridge, tile layer, are in charge of that work. of meteors observed in our skies, will now report to Phil Brogan. And we are confident that this man whose fame has stemmed from his knowledge of mother earth will do equaUy well when he turns his eyes to the skies. Eugene Register-Guard. a joint statement with visiting Portuguese Foreign Affairs Min ister Paulo Arsenio Verissimo Cunha in Washington on Dec. 2. The statement criticized Bul ganin and Khrushchev for try ing, on their visit to South Asia, "to foment hatred between the East and West." But it also mentioned Portugal's posses sions in the Far East as "prov inces" of the mother country and not as colonies. They are classed by Portugal as provinces. Wants Colonies Nehru, who says he Is deter mined to get Goa and its adja cent tiny Portuguese areas on the Indian coast, got quite angry. MClttQF Of FdCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop THEY THINK HE'LL RUN Washington President Ei senhower clearly indicated, at his recent press conference, that he had already made a tenta tive decision about his polit ical future. Among the men around the President, there is a re markable unan imity about the Joseph Aisop nature or. tnis decision. If those who should know are right, the President's intentions may be described about as foUows. He wUl run, on two condi tions. First, he win keep a close watch on his own reactions, now that he is back working "in full swing" at the job of being Pres ident. If he feels any grave and unusual fatigue in the next few weeks he wiU reverse his present inten tion. And he win, of course, also decide against running if the doctors advise against it when they examine him in a eDruary. Stewart Alsop - The steady growth of the con viction that the President : wul run if these two conditions are met is a remarkable political phenomenon. Three months ago, hardly anyone thought he would or could run. As recently as one month ago, even the optimists among his friends put the chances of his running at no better than 50 per cent. But now almost everyone with access to the President - believes that he means to run - bar - unusual fa tigue or a medical red light. THE simplest explanation . of this growing . conviction would be, "of course, that the President himself has said as much. More than once, most re cently at a meeting of the Re publican Finance Committee, At torney General Herbert Brow neU has clearly intimated that the President has given' such as surances. But others at least as close to the President assert very positively that he has not revealed his tentative decision to anyone, bar perhaps Mrs. Eisenhower. . . These men say that they are sure the President's present strong inclination is to run, not because he has revealed this in tention in so many words, but because of the way he talks and acts. He not. only looks weU, but what is far more import anthe feels weU. He has re marked jokingly to friends that "It must have been some other f eUow who had that heart attack." "Ike just isn't acting like a man whose career is drawing to a close," a member of the "Com modore Regency" has remarked. "He acts like a man who expects to be right in the thick of it for years to come. I'm sure he'll go." APART from the atmosphere the President generates around him, there is another reason for the relief that his tentative decision is to run again. . In the last year or so especially, the President has become very mucbTa party man. He now often says with obvious conviction, that the Republicans must win in 1956, because it would be a disaster for the Democrats to re capture the White House after only four years. The President is, of course, fuUy aware that the disaster is much more likely to occur if he is not a candidate. ' But aU this hardly seems to justify the near-certainty that the President will run which is expressed ' by many of those around him. The fact is that the extraordinary political depend ence of the Republican party on the President's magical person ality has led to a lot of wishful thinking. As pro - Eisenhower publisher John Knight has pointed out in a strong editorial, it has fed the delusion that "A coronary is not much worse than a bad cold." FIS A dangerous delusion. The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has esti mated that a coronary between the ages of 50 and 60 cuts life expectancy by an average of more than 50 per cent, to less than nine years. There are no estimates for higher ages, since! The incident was blown up far beyond its real importance. But it was pie for Bulganin and Khrushchev, and they made the most of it as enemies of anything but the Kremlin kind of colonialism. V Indian resentment over the DuBes - Cunha statement prob ably was keener because Bul ganin and Khrushchev, were still in South Asia. But the timing certainly was unfortunate, and it certainly hurt relations of the .United States with India. Dulles ought not to have much trouble in setting things'' straight again. persons who have coronaries over the age of 60 are not con sidered insurable. Such grim sta tistics must, of course, be weighted rather heavily in the President's favor, since his gen eral health is exceUent and he has so far made a remarkable recovery. But, as publisher Knight also writes, "it is . f oUy to pretend that, the President is not a sick man." The doctors cannot possibly give the . President the much talked about "green light," more; over. Kven it his recovery con tinues unmarred, they cannot possibly assure the President that he wiU not have another attack. All they can do is to give him the facts on. the basis of which he can weigh the risk of a "critical" mid-term change of government (to use his own ad: jective) against the opportunity of future service to the country, who has never been a victim of the no -worse-than -a-bad-cold myth, can be relied ; upon to weigh both risk and opportun ity most carefully and soberly. (C) 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Fortunately, the President, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the' name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication ii Dermis rible. 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. Mrs. Lyman Praised To the Editor: I am coming to the defense of a wonderful, dear, sweet, understanding, tolerant, wise human and the nearest thing to an angel in human form that ever lived in this country. No one can count the many thousands of little things favor and advice and wise council that she has given to hundreds of people on welfare. The cour age she has given, when things looked useless and black. As for her being disloyal to her job and county, 'tain't, true! She is the soul of honesty and loyal to the organization she has so loyaUy served. Who wants her job, I wonder? Easy way out, when she is ready to retire? Some of those who are kicking up a fuss had better sweep their own backyards. I have worked for the government and have never seen anyone, officer or otherwise, who was infallible or not human. Funny, after an these years she should suddenly be caUed incapable. She has a lot of people in her work to super vise, aU human beings, and make mistakes too we aU do. I have met many of them in my trouble, and never have I had either man or woman be discourteous or -unkind to me or mine. Some a good deal young er than I, Taut stiU wonderful people- Sometimes they get their ears fuU, but not a word or con fidence is broken. N Mrs. Lyman is a fine Christ ian upstanding woman.- I think any boss who doesn t try to stand by his or her help wouldn't last 21 years. That's for sure. . I worked for the Army three years and saw a lot that wasn't exactly according to Hoyle. They got by with it. But let a fine wo man like her make a mistake oh, my, it's awful crime! People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. OK, aU you folks she has helped, be human and write a letter to her defense; help give her faith in us she has helped; forget petty differences and write or caU her or the paper and stick up for her. Mrs. Anna Dale, 252 Strawberry lane, Ashland, Ore. Tribut to "Fergie" To the Editor: Do we realize how much we have lost with the passing of E. C. Ferguson? I be came acquainted with him in '33, and during those hectic years of '33 and '34 I was im pressed with the value of a man like Fergie to his community. I am sure that service to the community, state and nation was always foremost in his thoughts and plans. I join with his many friends in my expression of sympathy to Mrs. Ferguson, and in saying E. C. F. wiU be with us for a long time in memory. Elwood Hussey Mayor Cave Junction, Ore. and ' ly Walter CONGRESS AND THE PRESS The Eastland Sub-Committee announced last week that "this phase of our. hearing is closed for the pres ent." This phase has had to do with Communist in filtration of the newspaper press, and the specific target has been "The New York Walter Lippman Times." The Committee has shown that over a period of some 20 years there have been employed on "The Times some 30 men who have at one time or an other been Communists. Con sidering that there are now more than 4,000 employees, consider ing how many thousand more must have worked for "The Times" in the course of 20 years, the percentage of the infiltra tors has been minute. More sig nificantly, almost aU of them have held quite subordinate jobs, and none of them has nearly enough editorial authority to ex ercise any discernible influence upon the news and opinions of the newspaper. The objective test of whether there has in fact been infiltra tion is whether or not the pages of "The New York Times" show any evidence of the suppression or distortion of news by the members of the staff. If the paper had indeed been subvert ed, any competent investigator would have been able to point to the evidence that the Commu nist infiltrators had served their cause in the pages of "The New York Times." As the Eastland Sub-Committee has offered no such evidence, has not even hinted that it could offer such evidence, it is as certain as any thing can - be that there is no such evidence. What the hearings have shown is that the paper has at one time or another employed a very small number of Communists, and that these Communists have not infiltrated, have not in any visible way subverted, what the paper has thought fit to print. BUT while the investigation of "The New York Times" is a dud, the affair of this ; investi gation has raised a hard question about the freedom of the press and about the rights and duties of newspapermen. ; Does Congress have the power to investigate the press,, and if it has, what if any are the limits of that power? There is no clear and authoritative answer to the question for the very good rea son that it is in American ex perience a radicaUy new ques tion. Not for many generations, if ever before in our history, has any organ of government claimed the power to examine and to pass judgment upon who shaU work on newspapers. The law on the subject has not been tested and it is not clear. Judicial opinion ranges from that of Judge Prettyman's decision in the Barsky case, which is that Congress may in vestigate whatever it suspects. is a public danger, to the opinion of Chief Justice Warren in Quinn v. United States, that "the power to investigate, broad as It may be, is also subject to rec ognized limitations." It has never been determined what those lim itations are. The practical situation is that Congressional committees will tend to push the limits of their power as far as the newspapers and public opinion permits. The law on the subiect is not set. it is now being made by what we aU do and do not do. THE crucial question posed by the Eastland Committee is whether Congress has the power to censor the individual em ployees of a newspaper. If a Congressional committee has that power in case of employees who are, have been, or are charg ed with being Communists, what is to stop future Congressional committees from censoring newspaper employment on other Today jo.-! Jf ' Tomorrow Llppmann grounds? 1 Let the politicaL, climate change, let it become again like that of the '30s: On what legal ground is Congress to be chal lenged if it chooses to investigate the influence on the press of corporate interests; if, for ex ample, it demands a public ac counting of the financial con nections and interests of pub lishers, editors, and reporters? Once it is the accepted prin ciple that Congress has power to set up standards of newspaper employment, the inner spirit and the practical meaning of the First Amendment will be deeply impaired, congress has, of course, no power to pass laws dealing with , the standards of newspaper employment Has it ' the right to do the same thing by the power to investigate? As exercised bv latter-dar Congressional committees, the power to investigate is a tre mendous instrument, combining the power to make laws, to en- iorce those laws, to judge and to punish' men under those laws. nus tremendous instrument can he, notoriously it has been, used io narass, to intimidate, to pun ish, and to destroy. were it to become the nrrmK . ed practice that Congress may investigate the press, machinery wuuiu exist xo nullify the First Amendment. rpHE question therefore is --whether the newspaper pro fession shaU assent to, or shaU oppose, the claim that Congress nas tne ; power to investigate the editorial management nf newspapers. The hiring or ' fir ing of employees is an essential and central part of the editing of a newspaper. My own view is that no part of the editorial management should, that no part can under the First Amendment, be ceded legitimately to Con gress. If we who are connected with newspapers acquiesce, in the right to Congress to censor on any. grounds whatever news paper employment, we-., shall have opened the way to a grave invasion of the freedom of the press. ,'".'" .It has been said, among oth ers by "The New York Times" itself, that the press is not sacro sanct and that the right of "any investigation of the, press by any agency of Congress' should not be questioned. . I su&nit that it must be ques tioned. Of course the newspa pers are not sacrosanct. . They; are subject,, like every individ ual and corporation to aU the, laws of the land to the tax laws, to anti-trust laws, to the military laws, to the labor laws, to the building laws, and if they have watchdogs, to the laws about rabies inoculations. What is sacrosanct is that the freedom of the press shaU not be abridged by Congress. Con gressional' censorship of the em ployment of newspa permen would, if it is assented to, and aUowed to become the practice, threaten seriously to abridge the freedom of the press. - T'HE sacrosanct principle'of the First Amendment was not adopted in order to favor news papermen and to make them privileged characters. It was , adopted because a free society cannot exist without a free press. The First Amendment im poses many duties upon news papermen who enjoy the priv ileges of this freedom. One of the prime duties of free jour nalists is. that they should to the best of their abilities pre serve intact for those who come after them the freedom which the . First Amendment guaran tees. It is, therefore, our duty, as see it, to refuse to assent to, and instead to oppose, the setting up of a precedent that can lead to the gravest abuse. Copyright 1958, New York Herald Tribune Inc." U. S. railroads carried a total- of 17,500,000 fewer passengers in 1954 than the number trans ported in 1953. WHICH CEMETERY? - You can save your loved ones considerable inxiety if you let them know which cemetery you prefer. When the time element is critical in ar ranging funeral services, you can especially lave them much mental anguish if you have been thoughtful enough to have selected and purchased plots in advance of need. If you are not acquainted with Medford's three cemeteries, visit them and arrange for the purchase of space now, when it is easier to think of the "indefinite future." CHAPEL MORTUARY Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS
