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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfoi Tribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published 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 STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at . Mediord, 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. 3.30 Sunday Only One year S3.50. 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. . 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, De troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I AsTbcfATLQN W (TfV NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 0 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. 13, 1946 . (It was Sunday) " Allen N. Smith, Richard A. McElhose, David L. Miksche, Robert Davis, and William S. Barnum pledged to fraternities st University of Oregon. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: 1946 model lambs are gamboling in country pastures. The new arrivals feel good and jump up in the air and land stifflegged. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1936 (It was Monday) Representatives of federal housing authority to discuss pub .lie housing with Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Five new CCC companies from mid-west will arrive in Medford area soon; brings camp number total to 22. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1926 (It was Wednesday) Superintendent of Medford Schools Hedrick announces that schools will be closed Wednes day so students may attend after noon concert by John Philip Sousa and his band at the ar mory. '"From Local and Personal col umn: About the only citizens who do not rail at the spell of fog and cold are the wood and coal dealers, who have done a much increased husiness during this time. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 13, 1916 (It was Thursday) J. Harry Carlton of Central Point goes without food while lost two days in blizzard in mountains north of Merlin. Professor H. O. Frohbach of Ashland announces proposed plans for Ashland's celebration for Fourth of July. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 ot the 7? Copr. 1 955 Editorial Research Report 1. Final federal income - tax returns for 1955 may be sent in by Jan. 15 or must be held off to the coming April? 2. Most Americans who get divorced do or don't remarry? 3. An average college graduate- has about the same lifetime earnings as an average high school graduate, or about 20, 60 or 100 more? 4. Ice hockey is or isn't con sidered the national game of Canada? 5. The Republican party will poll next year, says Secretary of Labor Mitchell, a small, size able or large labor vote? 6. Wives in the U. S. are about the same age as their husbands, on the average, or of!e year old er, or three, five or seven years younger? 7. Patrick B. McGinnis is head of Montgomery Ward, the. Knights of Columbus, Civil Lib erties Union, New Haven R.R., or Irish embassy in Washington? The answers: 1. May be sent ia either by Jan. 15 or in mid April. 2. Most do. 3. 60 more. 4. Isn't (lacrosse is). 5. Large, lie says. 6. Three years younger on the average. 7. New Haven R.R. MAIL TRIBUNE That Annexation Vote '"THIS is in the nature of a reminder of an, election which will be held in -an 1,100-acre area south east of Medford Monday. At stake is the annexation of this rapidly-growing section. , The decision will be made solely by the residents of the area. No one can make it for them. Many of them, we are informed, are convinced that annexa tion would be a big step toward the solution of their problems of sanitation, drainage, street construction and lighting, and fire and police protection. Others are not so sure, and will vote against annexation. W1 E hope the majority decides to join the city. We Vinne sr fnr a number of reasons. We stated those reasons as forcibly as we knew how last July, when a much larger area was voting on the same kind of proposal. . If the question affected only the residents of the area, and no one else, we would feel less inclined to offer our comments. But as has. been pointed out, many others are affected, too. The proposed new hospital, for one thing, is in the annexation area, and if the area is not annexed, p hio- rnf)flh1nrl- will be thrown in the wav of the hos- i.pital construction. And .would .be tne business ot just about everyone m jacK son county. A BIG new retirement home, planned for construc tion at an estimated cost of $2,000,000, is an other project planned in that area. This too, is some thing in .which residents of the area should have an interest, for if the project materializes it would give a considerable economic boost net only to that dis trict but to the entire county. In other ways non-residents of the annexation area are affected in the development of streets and roads, in sanitation and drainage, in the orderly development of a city of which we can all be proud. IXT'E hope the voters of the area, in making up their " minds how they will vote next Monday, will feel inclined to take these things into consideration, along with how the proposal will affect them personally. If the decision is favorable for annexation, we shall be pleased. For we fail to see how Medford and the immediately surrounding territory can long con tinue a haphazard growth without serious and in creasing problems arriving at a point where they might get out of hand. In the long run this type of "leave-it-alone" philos ophy, which ignores the facts of growth and change, will prove more expensive to everyone. E.A. ; I Os West State Park? Si Os West (governor of Oregon, 1911-1915) is one of the few individuals .who is fully entitled to be called a "Grand Old Man" of Oregon. He's nW in his mid-80s, and still pens letters to the papers of the state, commenting cogently on subjects of interest to him, mostly in an historical vein. .: . During his term as governor, he was forthright and blunt, and made himself -a number of enemies. But he-did succeed, among other things, in pushing through legislation which classified Oregon's beaches as public highways, under the jurisdiction of the highway commission, and so belonging to all the people of Oregon forever. OREGON is the only coastal state with this law. It would be a fitting tribute to Governor West if it were found possible to name a state park, prefer ably along the coast he loved and protected, after him. It would be nice if it could be done while he is still alive to accept this honor. A quiet movement is under way to pursuade the appropriate state officials to take the necessary steps. It is a movement we are glad to support. E.A. Saving Money and Minds Like the man said : "You gotta spend money to make money." . ' Most recent application of this truism has to do with psychiatry that developing science-cum-theor-izing which is making progress toward the, curing of mental ills. One of America's . foremost psychiatrists (his name is Menninger and he is the head of a highly successful clinic in the mid-West) recently told Ore gon doctors that the state would be money ahead if it spent more for adequate treatment of mental pa tients in its two (soon to be three) hospitals for'the mentally ill. . - , TpHIS theory has .proven sound in at least one state, where appropriations for the employment of psy chiatrists and other highly-trained . personnel were stepped up. As a result the" cost per-patient-per-day skyrocketed. But so did the rate of cure for patients. The turn over came pretty close to doubling, with more and more patients being sent home, either cured or well on the way to recovery. And this permitted the ad mission of others. who were on the waiting list. As the backlog of patients declined, so did overall hos pital population with resultant savings in cost. HTHIS is a sort of cold-blpoded way to look at men- tal illness, on a dollars and cents basis. Vastly more important is the tremendous benefit to society as a" whole in the return of useful, healthy citizens who before had been disabled, and were liabilities to the state and to their families. .This method of saving the state money, and at the same time contributing to the mental health and ef fectiveness of the citizenry, might well be pondered by Oregon's officials and lawmakers. E.A. Friday, January 13, 195S that, directly or indirectly, Communications Letters to the Editor must bear Che 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. Commissioners Commended ' To the Editor: We would like to commend the action of our local Jackson County Welfare commission in their defense of the loyalty and integrity of Mrs. Blanche Lyman. We have known Mrs. Lyman for many years, having worked with her in various civic affairs, and know of many instances when her judgment and advice were the guiding factors in commu nity projects. We have heard dozens of com ments praising the straightfor ward action of the local com missioners, and would like to make it a matter of public rec ord that we feel the ability, loy alty and integrity of Mrs. Ly man is beyond question. Dana L. Platz Ethel Mclntyre Hazel A. Platz Laura York 125 South Central ave. Medford, Ore. About Al Sarena To the Editor: "The Al Sarena Mining Claims" were Pete Ap plegate's discovery, over some 50 years ago. Had this discovery proven to. have been of worth as to what has been claimed for it, it would have been in opera tion, for the values within its boundaries, other than its tim ber values. Quartz mining claims must be located along the strike of quartz veins,' containing valu able minerals. And to receive patent on a quartz claim, it must be more valuable than any oth er material known on or within it, and $500 toward its develop ment, besides a certain amount to the government per acre. A quartz claim must be located along the strike of a vein, 300 feet on each side of the vein, and 1,500 long. It cannot be lo cated as a placer claim, by sub division, which as I note in read ing the various statements with in the1 Mail Tribune. The question is that the mine, and the values within, are of moreVvalue . than any other known values within the boun daries of the land claimed for patent. Somebody has got his foot rather deep within ,the mud. It is a simple matter to prove that the timber is its value, after that is gone, there will be no reason to pay further taxes upon the property. The slate and county has no problem before it. A competent mining engineer which will cost several hundred dollars to prop erly sample the thousands of tons, of ore which are blocked out, as the statement goes, ready for milling. '' I have never been at the mine but all around it, while hunting during some 60 or more years as a resident of Jackson county. Knew Pete Applegate quite well, mining has been the larger part of my effort for a purpose of living in southern Oregon. However, the people, and its cli mate has been the really worth while substance I have received that gave me the pleasure and happiness that southern Oregon heads the top for those who en joy what it has to offer. George L. Haff P.O. Box 105 Gold Hill, Ore. Thanks From Home To the Editor: May we take this opportunity to thank the people of Jackson county for all their many kind contribu tions to the Farm Home during 1955. It is impossible to reach all concerned otherwise. Churches, Campfire girls, Scouts, Bluebirds, Kiwanis, schools, Chin Up club,. Jobs daughters, Salvation army and many families brought carols, music, flowers and good will all through the year. AH of these were thoroughly appreciated and we take this means of thanking you. May God's richest blessings be yours in 1956. Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Maust, Superintendents, The Staff of 20 Persons and 53 'Patients, Jackson County Farm Home, 5465 Pacific Highway S., Medford, Ore. RadioAmafeurs Asked To Attend Meeting Radio amateurs, commercial radio operators and message handlers have been invited to a "coffee klatsch" at the Wooden Shoe at 8 a.m. Sunday by the Jackson County Civil Defense control center. Among topics which will be discussed are the county disaster car, the amateur emergency radio corps and radio amateur civil emergency service plans. Providing communications and operators for the disaster car will be planned, as will a local network of mobile statins. Dwight Albright is control center chief, and urged all radio amateurs, commercial operators and -message handlers to participate. Balance of During Week Listed by Writer By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. The infant West German army received its first consign ment of weapons from the Unit ed States. Included were rifles, pistols, light machine guns and bazookas. They will be used in. training German instructors for the 500,000-man Streitkraefte fighting force which is to take its place in the front line of North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion defenses. Shipments of heavy weapons will start in April. A group of American of ficers and sergeants arrived at the German army base of Ander-. Babson Suggests Look Ahead for Four Years Babson Park Young people who entered college last fall will have a tendency to major in what looks good now. This may be a mistake. I s u g g e st, in stead, that they look ahead four years to 1960, and plan ac , cordingly. Roger w. Babson The differ ence between a college gradu ate who gets promoted on a job, and one who justs gets a job, is that the successful climber looks ahead. The student who takes what appears to be a good job now may be sorry later. The careful career planner, on the other hand, finds out where he is going. The first step in ca reer planning is an appraisal of one's interests, abilities, person ality,, and value goals. There is little success or hap piness if one does not like the job he is doing. A fellow is just butting his head against the wall if he tries to compete in a job for which he has neither the aptitude nor the personality. The desire to make money, serve mankind, or lose oneself in research will usually deter mine success or failure. The successful person is one who de velops his assets and does work for which he is fitted, at a job which gives him happiness. Yet, while these steps are essential, they do not go far enough. Sel dom, I find, do job hunters in clude in their search the prob able future growth of industries. A Look at I960 By 1960, our population will approach 180 million. Approxi mately 68 million will be em ployed. Our gross national pro duct will also have climbed from a 1946 postwar figure of $209 billion to perhaps $480 billion. With a shorter work week and a more productive work day, our people should receive in wages, interest, ' and profits about $365 billion per year by 1960. I predict consumer spending will expand from our 1946 an nual amount of $150 billion to about 300 billion, while govern ment expenditures will stabilize around the $75 billion mark. This $300 billion opens great op portunities for those engaged in advertising and selling new products. These figures, of course, assume that the cold war will not become "hot"; and they assume also a favorable political climate within which business can operate easily. Growth Opportunities Since labor costs, both on the farm and in industry, are ris ing, industries that manufacture labor-saving devices such as materials-handling equipment, con veyors, farm machinery, con struction machinery, and office machines will show good growth in the years to come. We need a lot of new roads, new hos pitals, and new schools; con struction must boom. Almost revolutionary developments of new materials will insure the growth of light metals and high speed alloys. The chemical in dustry could grow four or five times faster than any other in dustry, spurred by continuous research in synthetic fibers, plas tics, petro-chemicals, drugs, and farm chemicals. There will be a tremendous increase in the use of electricity, with 'output increasing 60 to 70 by 1960. There .will be marked growth in the great un saturated market for electronics applications, and for appliances such as air-conditioners, televis ion, dishwashers, electric heaters, electric blankets, clothes dryers, etc. Engineers will be turning PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is your picture tube dull and weak? Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. For further information CALL Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 Good and Bad News nach to help school instructors. Teams of Air Force and Navy men will follow. " 2. It was made known in Washington that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles intends to visit Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who is becom ing steadily more influential in the affairs of Southern and Eastern Asia. Dulles will be able to discuss a wide range of prob lems with him, including those which involve the United States and Communist China. 3,. The Central American states of Costa Rica and Nica ragua signed in Washington two agreements which promised to end a long and dangerous en mity. One . year ago the two countries were on the brink of loose on us an almost unbeliev able array of new products, new materials, perhaps as yet un dreamed of gadgets. Sales Experts in Demand It will be the responsibility of the men and women engaged in sales and merchandising to per suade you and me to raise our standards of living. There will be excellent job opportunities for those interested in survey ing, researching, analyzing, and motivating human wants. And someone will have to finance all this expansion. There will also be an insatiable demand for doc tors, nurses, school teachers, and preachers. College freshmen should plan now for 1960! In conclusion, let me again re fer to my first paragraphs above. Seek the job in which you will be happiest and for which you are, best fitted. Don't be misled by salary offers. But -if you will be happy selling then enter this activity that cuts across all lines. This may be the best opportunity in 1960! Editorial Comment GOOD OLD DAYS Remember the good old days, way back before income taxes and PTA meetings and televis ion? Before traffic jams and chlorophyl. Great old days, those, although not nearly so great as chronic recallers of yore would have us believe. . A clipping, kicking around the building, puts us straight. It is a reprint of "Instructions to em ployees" of the P. W. Madsen Furniture Co., in Salt Lake City. The date is Jan. 1, 1870. The "business code" follows:. "Store opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 8 p.m. except on Sat urdays, then store opens at 7 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m. This is in effect the year around. This store will remain closed each Sabbath. Duties of Employees "Sweep floors, dust furni ture, office shelves and show . cases. Remember 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness.' Trim wicks, clean chimneys and fill lamps. Make your pens care fully (but you may whittle the quills to suit your individual taste). Each clerk should bring in one bucket of water and one scuttle of coal. These things are necessary to pre pare us for the day's business. "Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form, gets shaved at the barber shop, or frequents pool halls or public dance halls, will give his employer every - reason to suspect his integrity, worthy intentions, and his all around honesty "Each employee is expected to pay his tithing, that is 10 per cent of his annual income, to the Church. No matter what one's income might be, he . should not contribute less ' than $25.00 per year to the Church. Each employee will attend Sacrament Meeting and adequate - time will . be given to each employee to . attend Fast Meeting. Also, you are ; expected to attend your .Sun day School. "Men employees will be giv en one evening off each week for courting purposes. Two ; evenings each. week, if they ' go regularly to ' Church and . attend Church duties. After . any employee has spent his :13 hours of labor in' the store, 231 LtsissssMMMsSasssssssssssssMIMHi PORK SAUSAGE war. The United States sent four fighter planes to Costa Rica to aid in suppressing a rebellion which, it was charged, had its origin in Nicaragua. The Bad 1. New anti-Western riots broke out in Jordan in protest of a move to include that country in the Baghdad Defense Pact of which Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakis tan and Great Britain are mem bers. Egypt and Saudi Arabia, fellow members of the eight-nation Arab League, were accused of complicity in organizing the disorders. Any hope of bringing Jordan into the Baghdad alli ance seemed ended for the pres ent 2. Tension increased in the Mediterranean island of Cyprus when Greek terrorists murdered a highly respected Turkish po lice sergeant. Previously, terror ism had been directed against British soldiers and civilians and pro-British Greeks. Eighty per cent of the island's 500,000 peo ple are of Greek origin. The re mainder are Turks. Britain has held the island since 1878. Greece never has owned it. But Greek nationalists demand that Brit ain give it to Greece. Turkey is bitterly opposed to that demand. The sergeant's murder threat ened to cause anti-Greek riots by Turks not only in Cyprus but in Turkey itself. 3. The French political crisis, now in its seventh week, seem ed as far from solution as ever. It now appeared likely that when a government was . formed it would have to depend on the Communist party for support The Communists won 150 of the 626 seats in the National Assem bly, the dominant house of Par liament, in the election held on Jan. 2. There seemed to be lit tle chance that a strong govern ment could be formed. Hence the prospect - was . for new crises, which would weaken the whole Allied position in Western Eu rope. he should then spend" his leis ure time in reading good books and the contemplating of the Glories, and the build ing up of the Kingdom of God." And those, oh cardiac patients of the Twentieth Century, were the good old days. , Well, it's time for the coffee break our second this comfort able morning in 1956. Eugene Register-Guard. AND FIX THAT THINGAMABOB Auto makers have it rough. People keep badgering them. Some people want them to give money away. Others quiz them for days on end about why they make so much money. Stock holders keep after them to make more, v No wonder these biggest of the big manufacturers don't have time to .make us comfort able. They don't know what com fort is. But if they ever do have a chance to relax and think a minute, there are some changes we want them to make. Here are some things that have been wrong with cars since the days of Henry I: They still leak around the windshields. Hood latches are impossible to find. Standardize them. Conceal a push button in the hood em blem. For some reason, spare tires still are bolted in. A spring-tension lever would do the trick. Door locks are horrible. The key-hole, for instance, could be surrounded by an unobtrusive funnel of chrome that would guide the key in. Keys could be two-sided so that it would be impossible to insert them up side down. Ashtrays can't be found, and emptying them is a job for a journeyman mechanic. Again, exposed push buttons would do the trick. Bumpers lock. Manufacturers could get together and decide upon designs which wouldn't death-grip each other. Now that cars are ronnrl ffcoir doors' drip onto the front seat wnen opened after a rain A simple curl of metal would solve this. And when these elemental items are taken care of,-Ford EAST VEAL STEAK XTH ST. BEEF LIVER 29W DR. WALLACE J. PIANKA New Medical Officer Dr. Pianka Named Medical Officer Al Camp White Dr. Wallace J. Pianka has been appointed new chief medi cal officer for the Camp White Domiciliary, Ej K. Ricker, man ager has announced. Dr. Pianka presently is at the Veterans Ad ministration hospital, Vancou- ver, Wash. Born in Fall River, Mass., Dr. Pianka was educated in Provi dence, R.I., schools and attended Providence college. He received his M.D. degree from Hahne mann Medical college in Phila delphia, Penn., and interned at Rogue Williams hospital. Provi dence, R.I. After World War II, during which he served in the Pacific area, he was chief of medical service, convalescent branch, of Madigan General hospital. While in the Pacific he served as a task force surgeon, medical battalion commander, division surgeon of the 43rd infantry di vision. He participated in invas ions of Guadalcanal, Tulagi, New Georgia, and Bougainville Islands of the Soloman group. .: Dr. Pianka joined the Vet erans Administration at Barneg hospital in 1946. He, his wife, Madelyne, and two children, Peter, 8, and Kath leen, 9, will live at Camp White. Storms Reports For Duty With BLM Here Murl W. Storms reported, for duty this week' as assistaot dis trict forester with the Medford district of the bureau .of land management. The posit was va cated in July when Roland C. (Bud) Burgess was transferred to,Lakeview. Storms' responsibilities will include reforestation and blister rust control, mining activities on public lands, recreation, and various administrative duties. He recently returned from' Jordan, where he spent four years as forestry advisor in the point four program. Following graduation from the University of Washington in forestry in 1949, he was assigned to the BLM Medford office and was here until Sept., 1951, when he went to Washington, D. C, for a department of interior train ing assignment. On his return to Oregon, he was assigned to the . BLM re gional office, Portland, and left there in Oct., 1953, for Jordan. He-and Mrs. Storms reside at Plaza apartments. can race GM to bring out a car with a special knob on the dash.' It could be used for turning down the cost. Albany Democrat-Herald. "OH THE DOT" twice a year generous earn ings are paid to our inves tors. It's an unfailing thrill, this attractive rate of pay for the use of your' hard-earned dollars. - ' FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASS'N of Medford 27 North Holly , An Institution Dedicated To Those Who Save SLICED BACON