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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordJTrbune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Jir St. Phone 2-6141 i . - HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT, Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act ol Marcn a, iohi ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One yearS12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3-o0 Sunday Only One year 3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, ti i tint vpn Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady cove, Kogue ruver, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year J15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.2a Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Casn in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU 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 ASS ULII'A I LfclN fffi NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o'Jime Medford and Jackson, County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and iQ years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1946 (It 'was Friday) ' Medford debaters June Bos worth, Jerry Igo, David Bour quin, Janet Horsley and Bill Moffat tie with Salem team in debate here. ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The fog was so thick last night, one could not see one's hand to arm'i length, or find a lawyer to file a writ or habeas corpus to get out of it. " 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1936 (It was Saturday) Jackson County Chamber of Commerce approves active sup port of housing campaign being conducted here by federal auth orities. Four new CCC companies ar rive in Medford; to be stationed at Camps Applegate, Wimer and Steamboat. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1926 (It was Monday) Bernard Joy of Ashland faigh school wins first place in essay contest on marketing at Port land. Jackson County Bar associa tion, of which Rawles Moore is president, discusses possibilities of needed reforms in Oregon su preme court system. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1916 (It was Tuesday) - C. E. Gates, Bert Anderson, George Putnam, S. S. Smith, W. F. Isaacs, J. A. Perry, H. L Walther, J. D. Bell, C. M. Thom as, Guy Conner, John Mann, H, A. Latta, J. T. Sullivan, Bert Theirolf and A. L. Hill elected directors of Medford Commer cial club, o Judge W. H. Cannon of Med ford says he is not a candidate to go to national convention as reports have indicated. What's the Answer? Can You del 4 of th 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research RepaH What's the sanswer stdg hed 1. Has any Republican presi dent of this century who chose not to run again picked his suc cessor? 2. It is considerably further by air to Miami from Boston or from Kansas City or about Hhe same distance? 3 The average passenger car now on the roads has gone about (a) 30,000, (b) 50,000, (c) 70,000 or (d) 90,000 miles? 4. Estes Kefauver is younger or older than Adlai E. Stevenson, or the same age? 5. The proposed great Aswan dam would be1 in Colorado, Egypt, India, Russia, Washing ton state, or between Israel and Jordan? 6. International Business Ma chines (I.B.M.) is being sued for $90,000,000 antitrust damages by Pitney-Bowes, Sperry-Rand, Bur roughs, L. C. Smith-Corona, or Dixon-Yates? 7. "Slalom" is a-word used in ice hockey, basketball, skiing, horse racing or polo? The answers: 1. Y e s, T. Roosevelt in 1908 picked W. H. Taft. 2. About ihe same dis tance. 3. About 50,000. 4 Three years younger. 5 Egypt. 6. Sperry-Rand. 7. Skiing. MAIL TRIBUNE They Well, good! The voters of the southeast Medford area sensibly decided to join their section with Medford. This re moves the major barrier to the development of this important and fast-growing section of the county. It is our conviction that those who voted for the annexation won't be sorry nor, eventually, will those who voted against it. "II7E DON'T quite understand the 6 to 4 vote in the small "island" which prevents that area from having city services though entirely surrounded by the city. But it doesn't worry us particularly, for the' resi dents there will undoubtedly find, in the long run, that their decision was unwise, and will come in to the city eventually, either piecemeal or all at once. Mean while, this tiny section of county in the midst of a growing city has a rather ridiculous appearance. E.A. Flood Survey A couple of weeks ago we suggested that the resi dents of the Rogue valley "stand up and yell" for a concrete study of what is needed tc prevent floods. Apparently a great many people agree, for this is exactly what is happening. The county courts and chambers of commerce of Jackson and Josephine counties are calling for such a survey, as are many private groups and organizations. THE most significant change in policy we have seen is that of the Izaak Walton League, which more than any one other group contributed to the defeat of a high- dam' proposal in 1948. This group now indi cates that it still has reservations about a high dam, but that if it is found to be the only efficient solution, or partial solution, to flood control, it will go along too. The Waltonians also acknowledge some recent studies indicate that dams contribute significantly to better fish life conditions, and certainly are not as destructive as are rampaging floods. With such cooperation, such evidence of united and enlightened thinking, we should really get somewhere E.A. . Miss K and The Mail Tribune is one possibly the ONLY one which so far has not com mented editorially on the' romance' between Miss Grace Kelly of Philadelphia Rainier, prince of Monaco. The horrible truth is that we ve had no particular thoughts on the subject we cation, But as we read other newspapers' comments we get more and more irritated. . COME papers put on a crocodile-tear act, deploring r the loss to young American manhood of one of the leading beauties of the age. . Others affect boredom, declaring at great length that the matter is of no concern to them. Still others are all atwitter over the affair, obvi ously feeling it is one of the Great Romances of the century. . OUR view, for what it's worth, is a sort of left- handed combination of these opinions. We like the looks of Miss Kelly, we like the looks of the rich young prince; we have hopes that both of them will be as happy as any two people can be under the cir cumstances; we find the whole affair sufficiently off the beaten, track to be mildly interesting, but not suf ficiently so to leave us seriously agog. -That, in short, is our view, and all of it, about hMiss K and Prince R. E.A. We Try to Print the News ' -If all Printers were determin'd not to print any thing till they were sure it would offend no body, there would . be very little printed. V Benj. Franklin This quotation appears on the front cover of one of the nation's biggest magazines this week, as part of a tribute to the great and many-faceted man who was born just 250 years ago yesterday. We find Franklin's words particularly applicable at the moment applicable and true. A LMOST every day, someone calls this newspaper, asking that such-and-such an item be. withheld from publication. And it is. a not infrequent occurance to have someone call to "bawl out" the paper for printing something that does not fit the caller's idea of. good taste. Our answers to these requests and chastisements and we try to m'ake them consistent and honest center around the fact that news is news, and that newspapers are in the business of printing news, good, bad and indifferent. . For instance, we think that some of the carryings on of certain of the movie colony are in the worst possible taste. But they interest people and are news and are printed. C OME papers quote the old saying to the effect that whatever the Good Lord allows to happen will be printed. , . . We can't go quite that strong; for no newspaper, no matter how well staffed, could possibly cover ALL the news, or even have space to print it. But, everything else being equal, we endeavor to cover, and print, just as much of it as we possibly can, without regard to friendships or pressures and with even less regard to letters which the writer- lacks the courage or decency, or both, to sign. E.A. Wednesday, January 18, 1958 I Did It such determination and Prince R of the few newspapers and Hollywood and HRH thought worthy of publi-. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves vhe right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Going io India To the Editor: Just a note to let you know that we are leav ing this week end for India and then the Far East. We are taking this tour with two objectives in mind: first, to present Christian ity; and secondly, to try and build some good will for the United States. Khrushchev and Bulganin have made a tremen dous and at least a partiaUy suc cessful bid to' the masses of In dia. This is' a strategic sub continent. One out of every six people in the world is an In dian. We cannot ignore the stra tegic importance of these people! Many people do not realize that the earliest Christian churches in the world are found in India. They were founded by Saint Thomas in the early part of the first century. All the churches of various denomina tions are cooperating in these meetings, and it is estimated that from 50,000 to 100,000 peo ple a day will come to our meet ings. We are hoping that the people of India will realize that we in the United States have something of moral and spirit ual value to offer as well as economic aid and engineering know-how. In addition to the cities we visit in India, we will be holding great public meetings in Hong Kong, Manila, Taipai, and vari ous cities in Japan and Korea. It is going to be interesting to see how these vast masses of humanity will respond to the same message that has been suc cessfully presented in Europe and America. It seems to me that we in America have failed in the psychological warfare. I feel that a spiritual presentation is at least one contribution that can be made toward making friends with the masses of people. In the past we have been able to reach the leaders and some of the intellectuals, but we have failed to reach the masses. Bulganin and Khrushchev were smart enough to go over the heads of the leaders and appeal directly to the people. In my opinion, we need to do the same thing. I believe the people in the : area covered by your paper win be vitally interested and I hope you will carry such reports as the wire services will send. Thank you for your sympa thetic coverage of our work in the past." r Cordially yours, Billy Graham On Eating To the Editor: Down Mexico way, there's a bottom-fish they regard as fine eating; a similar fish they consider no good, nigh poisonous. Across the gulf on our own side, the natives take oppo site view, the good fish is re garded as bad, the bad one good. But no indulgent smiles should be wasted on such peoples. Right here in our own bailiwick we have queer inhibitions. Recently at Shady Cove, where some friends have a treas ure house of objects de art . and a wide range of interesting items the mister gathers in his far west wanderings, we were given a jar of jam we were, to try out on our baby-grand pal ates. We have no such tasters, but that purple-red jam was of baby grand quality, no foolin'. And, hard ; to believe, it was made of plain old Oregon grape, considered by many people, in cluding native Oregonians, as detrimental to health and long life. . So, inquiry was made and we found many people, natives as well as newcomers, who had made and used Oregon grape jam for years. Others . in the same categories took a dim view of it, like the night-shade for instance, that is considered poi sonous though belonging to the tomato family. Long ago back in Michigan, my sister Jessie came legging to the house yelling, "Ma, Oh Ma, Ferd is eating them love-apples!" Directly Ma and all the family was staring at me, at my tomato juiced jaws, looking for me to keel over. But I didn't, though Pa kept a fast horse hitched to the two-wheeler ready to rush me somewhere, for doctors were miles distant. No honor to me for starting the use of, tomato, for it had already started in other places, but not in our back-of-beyond neighborhood. Seeing the Hens eating the luscious look ing tomato must have induced my 2-year-old inquisitive self to try it. My inhibition allergy led me to much trouble. One day when I was about 7 or 8 years old, sister Jess called, "Come, 'Pa,' dinner's ready." She had pre pared a tasty looking meal from road-dust cookies and such. I knelt down, picked up a dried mud cookie and calmly ate it. Jessie's big black eyes widened, then with long legs flying she yelled, "Ma, Oh Ma, Ferd's eat ing mud cookies." The ear-boxing and scolding I got didn't seem fair. I'd watched horses, pigs, cows and chickens eat earthy stuff and they seemed healthy. Why not me? F. J. Clifford, 1211 West Main St., Medford, Ore. Hope Is Eternal To the Editor: It was so nice of. our Junior Senator, over both radio and press, to explain who was to blame in these terrible flood disaster damages. Of course what would apply to Bear Creek would apply everywhere. It was all caused by the shame ful neglect of the President in not furnishing funds to build dams high enough to stop the overflow of Bear creek. What would work at Bear creek would work anywhere. It is quite a relief to know who was to blame, and that it is the same fellow that is causing no end of trouble, buying extravagant hats, favor ing the rich man's club, giving away policy (anyone should know that when a dam gives way there is bound to be a flood), stealing school funds from future generations, favor ing big business, vested inter ests, Wall Stret, individual en terprise, 55 per cent to banks on road bonds, profits in indus try, and prosperity, and now this flood damage. It used to take three wise men to bring good tidings of great joy. Now with improved press and radio two can do it. They claim to have been called to warn and educate the people that this one man, and the Re publican party, is to blame for everything bad, and that they are the only hope of salvation. The ex-president and governor of New York and Adlai (moder ately) endorses them. The only remedy is to crucify this man that is ruining our nation. Hope looks bright as these two wise men, called to warn the people, are experts in their lines, press and radio; one a gifted fiction producer, the other a college de bate teacher and orator, to make any voter believe black is white. and their defending editor de claring demagogue and hypo crite do not apply. Hope is eter nal, and truth crushed to earth will rise again. Ira C. Jones . 2325 Stewart Ave. Medford, Ore. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS 'RESIDENT EISENHOWER sent to the congress a mes sage proposing a balanced bud get in the fiscal year of 1956 1957. Perhaps it would be well to pause here and explain the term "fiscal year." A fiscal year is a MONEY year that is to say, a bookkeeping year. The U.S. gov ernment's fiscal year begins on July 1 and ends the following June 30. The fiscal year that will end the 30th of the coming June is known in accounting parlance as "fiscal 1956." TN BRIEF, Ike proposes no tax - reduction AND HIGHER SPENDING. That is made nos sible by the prosperous state of our economy, which is bringing in a lot of tax money. In addition, he proposes to REDUCE THE DEBT by some 74 million dollars by the end of the present fiscal year on June 30. In the next fiscal year, which will end on June 30, 1957, he proposes a debt reduction of 500 million dollars. At that rate, in some 600 YEARS we could be even with the world. pRETTY slow, you say? Well, it's better than going in the hole every year. If jve go in the hole every year for 600 years, where will we be? History tells us in no uncer tain terms we'll be bankrupt long before that time. YlfHY the added spending? ' The bulk of it is. for de fense. We must think of defense spending in this modern cold war world something like this: If you lived in a dark forest peopled .by bloodthirsty sav ages ''and hungry wild beasts, you'd feel that you HAD to have good guns and plenty of ammu nition even if you had to go short on other things. We're surrounded by coiri munistswhich are far more dangerous than savages or wild beasts. T'M hopelessly old-fashioned, of course so much so that I think we could cut a couple of billions or so in the way of frills and extravagances out. of our proposed total of expenditures and hardly miss it. I rather imagine Ike feels the Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport Organization of East German Army Apparently Coming Soon By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The East German Commu nists apparently have decided at last to set up their long-threat ened "people's army." Advices from Berlin indicate that formal an nouncement of the decision may come at any time. It will be Soviet Rus- Charles McCann Sia S answer 10 the arming of West Germany on the side of the United States and its allies. The Red German army would take its place in the. fighting forces of Russia and its East European satellites. These have been coordinated, under Soviet Marshal Ivan Koniev, in retort to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of which West Ger many is now a member. The basis for the German Communist army already has been laid in the . so-called East German "Barracks People's Po lice." The new prospective German Communist army, must be re garded as a new Russian threat to the Allies. But it is certain to be an unreliable force, and some day it may prove more of a danger to Russia itself than to the West. Paper Army On paper, the "People's Po lice" are a crack force, with armored divisions, motorized in fantry divisions, an air force and a navy. But to recruit it, the East Germans are forced to coerce youths under threats to "volun teer" for it. Last year alone, 4,286 men of the police force fled to West Germany. East German Premier Otto urotewohl disclosed, in an un usually frank statement last Nov. 27 that it might be neces sary to enact a draft law to re cruit an army because of the difficulty in getting "volun teers" for the police. . It certainly seems likely that, when the plan to organize the News same way about it, but we must remember that this if an elec tion year and so he is under tre mendous pressure to make it ap pear that if the GOP is returned to power every voter will get everything he wants 'and won't have anything worth while taken away from him. I feel this way about Ike: He described himself at the begin ning of his political career as a moderate conservative a mid-: dle-of-the-roader, neither a reck less spender nor a tightwad. In general, he has lived up to that definition. He has reduced spending. And Our country has prospered under his policies. T HAVE the feeling that if his policies are continued our country will continue to 'pros per. And I have the further feeling that if his policies are continued we won't spend our selves into bankruptcy. rpHE political news this morn- mg contains a VERY inter esting paragraph. It reads: "President Eisenhower's bud get figures got a mixed recep tion in congress. The Republi- . cans tended to stress the balanc ing of outgo with income. The Democratic comments WERE I POINTED MORE AT THE PRO POSED INCREASE IN SPEND ING." " HHHAT is to say: - The Democrats, who have been the big spenders, are criti cal of President Eisenhower be cause in his budget message he proposes to spend somewhat more than he has been spend ing: TTOW COME? U. This is the explanation: Whatever the party in power does, or proposes to do, the party out of power has to be against. That is the first law of politics. Otherwise, the voters might ask: WHY CHANGE? !! BBBBBBBHBBBBBBBBBMKB SONOTONE ; All-Transistor HEARING AID WHAT IS IT? In simple terms the Sonotone transistor Hearing Aid is a very small perfectly engineered in strument. It is most economical to operate and easy to wear. , - The only thing that your friends could possibly notice about it is the marvelous change in your hearing and your entire personality. C. 839 East 18 Years with Sonotone army is announced, there is go ing to be a big flight of East German youths across the bor der of West Germany. But the Communists appar ently have made up their minds not to delay the organization of the "People's Army" any longer. v Some Hints East German newspapers start ed Monday to publish resolu tions passed by various Communist-sponsored organizations factory workers, farm workers, Communist youths demanding that an army be fornied. That was taken to mean that the- announcement is coming soon in the East German Par liament, which incidentally is meeting today. The Reds have taken a long time to take the big step. As far back as December 8, 1954, the East German' Parliament voted to convert the militarized police into an army if West Germany armed. ' On Sept. 26 last, the Parlia ment amended the East German constitution to provide for na tional armed forces. Why the delay? It can be only because .the Russians know the army ' plan is a dangerous one to them. In East Germany, re cruits practically .have to be Editorial Comment FLUORIDATION The Oregon Supreme Court has rendered its decision in the Bend case in which city action to treat municipal water with fluorides was challenged by a citizen as an invasion of his lib erty and a trespass on freedom of religion. The high court up held the Deschutes circuit court in ruling that the Bend city gov ernment acted within its legal authority in ordering fluorida tion pf the water. . . The significance of the decis ion lies not alone in its settling of the constitutional question of city authority, . but also in the judicial findings which justify the court's decision. The court, with Mr. Justice Luck writing the opinion, took judicial notice of the reports of scientists on re sults of fluoridation. They found that fluoridation affects a reduc tion in tooth-decay iof some 60 to 65 per cent among children up to ages 12 to 14, and further that consumption of water so treated is not harmful. The court has ac cepted as valid these findings pf the scientists. - - - This ought to, but probably will not, silence those critics who portray all sorts of dire calami ties as resulting from fluorida tion. The vast weight of scien tific evidence which to this court proved convincing is that fluori dation helps prevent tooth decay among children without injury to organs of the body or its tis sues. On the point of infringement of religious freedom Justice Lusk wrote that the ordinance "bears only remotely if at all upon the religious practices of any indi vidual or the authority of the parents to rear their children.' He further pointed' out that con stitutional liberties are not abso lute but may be subject to rea sonable modification for theTjen eral welfare. An illustration might be given thus, that a per son suffering from plague is not permitted to runat large in the name of religious freedom. Also, freedom of the press is subject to certain restrictions against-libel, slander, circulation of obscene material. . The court decision will be wel comed by those who feel that this exercise of police power is warranted by the great benefits which accrue to children. It should help to . clear away the obfuscation that has resulted from pseudo - scientific propa ganda hostile to fluoridation such as was freely employed in Salem's municipal election two years - ago. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Soviet Scientists Seek Polio Treatment Data London (U.R) Four Soviet scientists were enroute from Moscow to the United States to day to study methods of treating poliomyelitis and of preparing the anti-polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk. ' Medford's Oldest Hearing Aid ' Institution R. ADAMSON DISTRICT MANAGER Jackson Phone 2-5904 'dragged to barracks. But West Germany could raise its entire 500,000-man fighting force by voluntary enlistment. State Electric Permits Top Mark Salem (U.R) Electric instal lations made under sfcate permit in 1955 reached a new high of 29,929, according to W. R. Vol-, heye, chief electrical inspector of the State Bureau of Labor. Permits are required for elec trical wiring of new buildings and for home alterations de manding any change in power service and are contingent upon installations being made in ac cordance with Oregon's electri cal code. Twenty-one cities and towns with electrical inspection, systems that meet state stand ards are not included in the year ly total. Home owners made 34 pert cent of the installations but the do-it-yourself trend in electric work continued the slow decline which began in ,1953, Vblheye said. Permits issued to electrical contractors showed a seven per cent increase over the previous year. ' '.,. WHOSE GREAT BORING ROMANCE? We aren't too happy with the Grace Kelly-Prince Rainier ro mance, but we wouldn't trade it for two or even three Princess Margaret-Peter Townsend fi ascos. Rich-girl-gets-prince, while it doesn't compare to poor-girl-gets-prince newswise, is better any day of the year than prin- cess-doesn't-get-commoner. Nevertheless, London Column ists without mentioning the re cent British romance are cry ing touching typewriter : tears about our Grace. Candidus, the Daily Sketch columnist, has this to say about the riches-to-riches match: "This is giving me an increasingly agonizing pain in the neck," Cassandra, the Daily Mirror's pseudonymed pundit, proclaims that: . "Of all the great boring romances of' the 20th century, tne tv-ii coniesi inreaxens to db the most formidable." ' K wait, a mimite. vou two. who's bored whom? Whose neck is sore? Whose princess had a rumored romance for two years and then spent three long, spot- ugnxea weess making up iici : 3 i. 4- . 1 . Vm.. m?n9 And whose princess-to-be let the rumors start only nours Deiore she announced that she had said yes? This is not a case of whose ox is being bored, but of whose princess, is being ignored. Albany Democrat-Herald. Financial Independence does not just happen. It is built over a period of time bit by bit. Your savings or investment account is the place for your fund of the future. 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