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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFOBDtMIOBUNE "Everybody in Southern Oregon D..j)a TVi Mail TVihllT," Published Daily Except Saturday 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 Di-vor-DT W OTTTTT. ITHitor GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC a i . i . k r jtt, iKLanaEinK iAii"" HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor R1CHAKU JEWtll, apori OLIVE ST ARCHER, Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of Marcn J. CTrccr-nrPTiriTJ RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday wo jreai Daily and Sunday Six months 6 .00 .50 Daily and Sunday inttt mm. r- i r ! Ana VHf S3 SO. 3.50 CUIHIdJ Wiuj ' Tn AHvanee Medford Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, T i Wit! Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes. Daily and Sunday One year $15 .00 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All xerms aaii m nuvawc Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper oi jacmon loumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF UKUUUUUffl WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York, Chicago, De troit, 5an irancisco, ixjs .fwigeiea Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Atlanta Vancouver, B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCfATLQN vJ KJ 0" NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and JO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 194S at was Sunday) Paul B. Rynning elected head of County Highway Officials' division of American Road Build ers' association at meeting in Chicago. From Arthur Perry's Ye 'Smudge Pot column: Ground Hog Day comes Feb. 2, a week from next Sat., and will tip off the Older Girls, whether or not their Easter hats get rained on. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1936 (It was Monday) From Side Glances: Johnny Niedermeyer and Earl Sims try ing to converse over the loud hum of voices as about 20 kids lined up to take turns on Earl's lop-wheeled kangaroo bicycle. , Evans creek area residents submit petition to county court seeking irrigation district. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 20. 1S26 (It was Wednesday) Special train arrives with John Philip Sousa and his band; to play at armory here. Medford city council to sell $500,000 worth of bonds for con struction of new water system 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 20, 1916 (It was Thursday) F. L. Tou Velle, county judge, and W. C. Leever, county com missioner order county officers to purchase locally made goods whenever possible. From Local and Personal col umn: The game wardens of this county have been officially noti fied to feed pheasants and other game birds when the snowfall makes it difficult for them to forage a breakfast. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of tha 7? Copr.1955, Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower took office in 1953 on Jan. 3, Jan. 20, or March 4? 2. Farm families have more or fewer children, on the aver age, than city families, or about the same number? 3. U. S. labor unions altogeth er collect in dues from their members about $100 million, $500 million, $1 billion or $5 billion a year? 4. Antoine's is a famous res taurt in New York, Paris, Buenos Aires, New Orleans, Mexico City, San Francisco or Chicago? 5. On shipboard eight bells signifies which of these: 4 a.m., 8 a.m., noon, 4 p.m., 8 p.m. or midnight? 6. More men than women die of cancer, or more women than men, or about the same number of each? 7. With what sport is the name of Hannes Schneider assc, elated? The answers: 1 Jan. 20. 2 More children for farm families. 3 About S500 million. 4 New Orleans. 5 All of them. 6 More men than women. 7 Ski ing. The second largest telescope in the world, second only to that at Mt. Palomar in Calif., has been uhveiled at Hampburg, Germany. I EKES MAIL TRIBUNE Should Be Interesting - The Legislative Interim Committee on Local Gov ernment will hold a hearing in Medford on March 1 in its efforts to find out just what are the problems of rapidly-growing areas, and to work out some possible solutions for them. It should be an interesting session. For Jackson county, in common with many other areas of Western Oregon which are growing rapidly in population, is faced with many situations which probably will call for a new approach. TO MAKE the hearing a fruitful one, represehta " tives of the area's many small units of government should attend, for they are intimately concerned with what the committee is trying to do. Many of them overlap, both in area and in taxing authority. - The cities, the county, school districts, fire dis tricts, sewer districts, water districts, irrigation dis tricts, soil conservation districts all these can look forward to telling the legislature, through this com mittee, what their problems are. And the chance to hear about the problems of other groups might well make for greater understand ing among the sometimes conflicting units of gov ernment. IT, CANNOT be assumed that some magic panacea will come out of the study, for people, after all, are still people, and as some problems are solved, others will arise. . But the committee is sincerely interested in hear ing both what the problems are, and suggestions as to how they can be solved. And they may well come up with some suggestions for the legislature which will make life easier for everyone in bur fast-growing part of the state. E.A. Good Appointment One of the reasons why the committee mentioned above has gone about its job in an effective and in telligent way is the fact that capable executive secretary, Kobert K. Johnson. Bob Johnson is largely responsible for the way in which the Oregon civil and knows his way around other men of his age (37) OIS ability was recognized this week by Gov. Paul Patterson, who appointed him to the watchdog position of director of the and administration, succeeding Harry Dorman. Dorman made himself employees for his determined and effective work in cutting out waste and lnemciency in state, govern ment. But he has saved the taxpayers money amount ing to millions of dollars, and is entitled to apprecia tion and good wishes in his retirement. We have a feeling Bob Johnson will be a worthy successor. E.A. Lapse in Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Clackamas county, in a letter to the Oregonian yesterday, caught that august newspaper in a logical lapse. The Oregonian had editorialized in petulant fash ion on a supreme court decision which ruled that some money, found by a couple of Portland young sters, actually belonged to an estate (not a living in dividual), and since there were no heirs, would have to revert to the state of Oregon. The Oregonian was disturbed. The boys, it said, who had honestly turned the money over to the au thorities, would not be "rewarded" for their honesty. It assailed the supreme court decision as unjust. The money had not been lost by some individual who needed it, the paper declared, and the state would never miss the money. . JUDGE Holman, however, pointed out that if the Oregonian's premise were . followed, "lawsuits should be decided on the basis of need and not on who is correct." As to the paper's other contention, that the boys' honesty was not rewarded, Judge Holman says : Might I point out-that if pecuniary benefit is the prin cipal reward for honesty, which I doubt, no person who returns property of another will ever be rewarded as much as if he had been dishonest and kept it, unless he received .'. the entire "amount as a reward. Apparently you are of the opinion that honesty is the best policy only if it has mone tary rewards. 1 The Qregonian, it seems, was carried away by sentimental concern, and didn't bother to think the matter through before taking the supreme court to task. E.A. Fire Station ' How long has it been since a permanent east side fire station was approved by a vote of the people? To long much, much too long. It is for this reason we are glad to see that a site has been approved, that, the city already owns the land, . that the .funds are available for the work to begin, and that there is hope that the east side crew can move out of its present temporary quarters and into a new building within about three months. THHE site selected is sufficiently far away from ex isting residences that objections should be few, if any. And if there are, it might be well to reiterate the experience of those who live near the west side station to the effect that the firemen make good neighbors, and a fire station is a handy thing to have nearby. The city councilmen, who have been in the middle of tills touchy situation for so long, are glad, we don't doubt, to get it out of their hair. E.A. Friday, January 20, 1958 it has had an exceedingly service system is set up, state government as few do. state department of finance unpopular with some state Logic Matter of Fact THE PRICE OF HONESTY Washington The case of Rob ert Bowie, chief of the State De partment's Dolicy planning staff, suggests that honesty is not always the best policy these days in Washington. Bowie has been nominat ed as an As sistant Secre- Joseph Alsop ""y or oidLe. But his nomination looks like its running into very bad trouble.- Indeed, Senators Wil liam Rnowland and Styles Bridges have already served no tice on the State Department that they mean to put Bowie through the hoops when his nom ination comes -up for Senate approval. As Republican leader and ranking Republican on the a 1 1 - powerful Appropriations Committeei Knowland and Bridges are certainly in a posi tion to carry out this threat. What, sin, then, has Bowie been guilty of? At first it was charged that he had been guilty of "associ ating" with Owen Lattimore. In '5IP1 fact. Bowie had seen Lat timore once, when Latti more long ago addressed an impec c a b 1 y conserva t i v e discussion group of which Bowie was Stewart Aisop then a mem ber. When Thruston Morton, Assistant Secretary of State for Congressional relations, explain ed this to Knowland and Bridges, the charge of guilt by association was dropped. But it was never more than icing on the cake anyway. THE real reason for the resent ment against Bowie among the conservative Republicans is quite different. Bowie is held to have favored recognizing Red China, or at least admitting Communist China into the United Nations. More generally, he is held guilty of New Dealish, or Acheson-like, foreign policy views. To understand why Bowie's nomination looks like making so much trouble, it is necessary to understand the 'nature of his position. He is one of those men there are always a few such in Washington who are hardly known at all in the country, but who nevertheless have real power in the government. Bowie wears two hats. As chief of the policy planning staff, he is the chief adviser of American foreign policy. But Bowie is also a member of the Planning Board of the National Security Council. In this capa city he has direct access to the President, and President Eisen hower has often consulted him. A MAN in this position makes enemies automatically. But Bowie, a rather sharp-tongued realist, has made more than his share. Both in the State Depart ment and in the N. S. C, he has made it his business to ask in convenient questions, and to question the realism of comfort able assumptions. He has never, for example, favored recognition of Red Chi o;ui sunio jo uoissiuipe ; jo 'bu the United Nations. But he has held, instead, that it is not enough simply to hold up heads in honor, and that recognition and admission must be discussed rationally, in terms of the real American interest. He has made enemies particu larly by his stand on the ques tion of the. off shore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. He has ex pressed certain doubts about the theory of an "immaculate war" against China. He has irritated certain persons in the Pentagon notably including ie power ful Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff by asking for official es timates of existing military capa bilities in the area, in case war starts over the islands. He has even expressed the view that, if we do not mean to defend the islands anyway, we should at least consider making a serious effort to persuade Chi any to exacuate the flower of his armies from them. m w FJ SHORT, on the matter for Far Eastern policy, Bowie has acted as a sort of general hair shirt. He has been a hair shirt in other ways too. He has ques tioned the eternal Tightness of our German policy, a most un fashionable things to do. He has questioned whether the much touted ' Baghdad and SEATO pacts are quite all they are cracked up to be. He has even asked whether the air-atomic balance of power is turning against the West, and if so, whe ther the process should be al lowed to continue. All this is not to suggest that Bowie has always been right. He has often lacked the insight of his brilliant predecessors, Paul Nitze and George .Kennan. But he has served most usefully in his roles of hair shirt, especially at a time when the way to get along in the government is to maintain solemnly that every thing is just Jim Dandy. Hair shirts are rarely popular, however. The going-over which awaits him on Capitol Hill is the penalty he will pay for honesty. 111 tfT-gSPX By Joe and Stewart Alsop No doubt it will serve as a useful warning to others with an incon venient tendency to speak their minds plainly. Copyright 1956, New York " Tribune Inc. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Poor old Dulles is in more hot water. Now it's the British that are in his hair over his "brink of war" statemnt in a recent mag azine interview. The venerable London Times says of his ex planation of what he said in the interview that his "footwork was good," but it doesn't think much of what he had to say. The equal ly ponderous Manchester Guard ian says: "DuUes has again put both left feet forward." In the olden golden days when Britannia ruled the waves she sent her fleet boldly to any spot in the world where trouble threatened and told the trouble makers bluntly to call it off or she'd blow 'em out of the water. But in .these more degenerate days anything that sounds like a firm policy upsets her no end. I THINK myself that if Dulles talked less he'd be better off. But in a situation like 'this cold war you just HAVE to let troublemakers know you have guns and if compelled to pull em you're GOING TO SHOOT. That's the only; language com munists understand. ' PUBLIC officials, of course, face a tougher situation.. -If they don't talk enough, we accuse them of bottling up the news. If they talk too much, we jump down their throats be cause of what they said. Theirs is a rugged life. LET'S jump from politics to economics. The president of the National Association of Home Builders applauds the reinstatement of 30 - year, federal - insured mort gages. But, he says., DOWN PAY MENT requirements should also be reduced. .: . On the other side of the fence, a New York mortgage banker describes the return to 30-year mortgages as "a temporary shot in the arm which will have In flationary effect." Our economy, he thinks, is again approaching the point where inflation is something to be feared. - T ET'S look at the housing busi " ness from this angle: When building is controlled by the market-j-that is to' say, by supply and demand private in dividuals use - their own judg ment as to whether to build more houses for sale. If they think there is a market'for them, they go ahead and build them and take their chances of selling them. If they can't sell them, they're just out, and that's that. ' The point is that in a housing mar ket controlled by. supply and demand no more houses will be built if the people who are put ting up the money think the houses can't be sold at a profit. DUT When the government is the controlling factor in the housing business, POLITICS EN TERS THE PICTURE. In this particular instance the National Association of Home Builders wants more homes built on smaller down payments and with longer time to pay out so that its members can build and sell more homes and make more money. After aU, it's the GOVERN MENT that is putting up the money and if it turns out that too many homes have been built and they can't be sold at a price that will yield a profit or break even IT'S ONLY THE GOV ERNMENT THAT LOSES. AND- If in the meanwhile every body has made a lot of money building and selling houses on government credit, what differ ence does it make if the govern ment DOES lose in the transac tion? It's only government money anyway. That's one of the troubles with big-government-run-everything. Fuel Deliverers End Strike in New York New York (U.R) A four day fuel deliverers' strike ended today. The fuel-short city was shivering under a covering of snow. Mayor Robert Wagner an nounced settlement of the strike at city hall where representa tives of 3000 fuel oil and coal truck drivers and 350 fuel deal ers had been negotiating since Monday, assisted by a three-man citizens committee and media tors. A wage agreement which end ed the walkout was reached. Wagner had ordered the Board of Health to stand by to declare a state of emergency if the strike was not settled this morning. The end of the strike signalled the resumption of coal and oil deliveries to homes, office build ings and institutions whose sup plies had run low or, in some cases, been exhausted despite provisions for emergency delivery. New Balance Sheet of Lists Egypt, By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent "The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. Egypt, land of the Phar aohs, entered a new period in its 7,000-year history. Smiling, dy namic President-Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser proclaimed 'a new constitution. Under it, the infant Egyptian republic win get its first representative parliament ary government. After the over throw of King Farouk, the rul Babson Forecasts Eventual Return to U.S. Prohibition By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park-i-My father used to sav to "me: "Roger, avoid the words . NEVER and AL WAYS; also d.o not put dates on your Forecasts." In discussing this unpopular sub- 1 t- t ; I yy I bitibn, I wiU I I now observe his advice." Roger W. Babson - First, let me say 1 am not forecasting the suc cess of the Prohibition Party as a political factor. Rather, I am forecasting that one, or both, of the' major parties will put some form Prohibition in their plat forms. The1 curse of the liquor traffic may be no different now than 25 years ago; but there is one great difference. In 1933 when Prohibition was overwhelmingly defeated, there were "no great , industries to put up the funds to continue Prohi bition, while the great brewers, distillers, and other liquor inter ests supplied the funds to kUl it. Then, .however, there were only 20 million automobiles: Today with 50 million automo biles the situation is .very dif ferent. In the next , fight over Prohibition, the automobile in dustry (now the second largest) which includes manufacturers, sales agencies, the great gasoline industry, as weU as the owners of property rented by these in terests, should heavily support the Prohibition cause. And this group is increasing every year as more cars go on the roads. There are now over 225,000 fill ing stations earning nearly a bil lion dollars annually. ' Preventing Accidents Safety belts, compulsory ; car inspections, canceling of li censes, and even jailing offend ers should help prevent acci dents or make them less serious. However, none of these things seem to be effective. The main cause of accidents is with the brain of the driver. Hence, the great importance of insisting upon drivers keeping in line and not passing except where specifi cally permitted. The basic reason why drivers Meeting Of Radio Operators Sunday Members of the Jackson coun ty control center wiU meet at 8 a.m. Sunday, Jan; 22, in the Wooden Shoe at the Holland hotel to discuss county disaster plans. Dwight J. Albright, council civil defense control center chief, urged control center per sonnel, both commercial and amateur radio operators and message handlers to attend. Among items to be discussed are radio operating and han dling of messages and re-registration of members of the con trol center. Albright said mem bers must be registered since Jan. 15. Damage Suit Filed In Circuit Court A suit seeking $20,000 from Ralph Henry -Glass and L.' L. Atkins, partners in a lumber and log hauling busine.ss, has been filed in circuit court by Mar garet H. Conners, Ashland. The suit resulted from the death of Mrs. Connors' husband, Edward C. Connors, 68, who died of injuries last Nov. 21 when struck by a log truck operated by Glass, according to the complaint. ' 2 31 EAST SIXTH ST. ' '. - JOWL PORK , . BEEF VEAL BACON SAUSAGE STEAK STEAK 9 Wlb. ,29. Lb. 3 Lb. 3 Lb. I Cyprus, Finland ing army chieftains announced a three-year period of transition. This period ended Monday, and the army made good on its prom ise to start the country on its way to fun rule by the people. 2. Soviet Russia announced that it would f ormaUy hand over its, naval base of Porkkala to Finland next Thursday. After World War II, Russia compeUed Finland to "lease" the south coast base to it for 50 years. The Kremlin announced last September that it would give up Porkkala, 39 years ahead of time. disobey traffic rules, crossing lines, driving fast, ignoring in tersections and signs, is lack of mental control. People are all too wiUing to take chances. But civilization has progressed by a constant tempering of this in stinct to risk, by education, reli gion, and laws working toward the development of self-control. This is a very important fact which parents and teachers should recognize. Liquor and Self-Control There are three biological ef fects of drinking. 1. Drinks "pep" one up. Liquor, even -in very' small amounts, gives peo ple temporary courage to do and suy things they otherwise would not. 2. Drinks enable people to forget but this means forget ting driving rules a? well as troubles. 3, Drinks are habit- forming. No one ever expected to become a slave to drink when he started simple social drink ing. - . Not only, are ' automobiles in creasing every year by several million and the population by about - 3 million, but the . age when young people start - to drink has lowered. The cocktail party, along with the above- mentioned factors, has made liquor a national problem which must be conquered. It may -get worse before Prohibition, in some form,- returns; but it is a sure forecast that it wiU return. Perhaps one plan would be to prohibit sales to those holding drivers' licenses. Even the new four-lane turnpikes do not solve the difficulty, as they develop a "sleepitis. . ' Will Be Different How the liquor curse wiU be handled, I do not know. As my friend, Delcevare King says, it is a problem of the three E's- Education,, Engineering, and En forcement. The most common suggestion is that we aU have a license either to buy liquor or to drive a car. This, however, wUl not alone solve the cocktail party danger and the fact, that the self-control and judgment of many individuals are . not af fected by a little liquor while others are affected almost by the smell of it! I hope readers will not take this column as propaganda for Prohibition, as I believe the per son who does not drive a car has a right to drink. However, with 99 being killed each day and one seriously injured ever 25 seconds, and these figures con stantly increasing, something radical must be done. Also, un less the brewers and- distiUers themselves "see the handwriting on the wall" and help solve the problem, the securities of such companies face a 'terrific decline, as happened when . Prohibition went into effect in 1919. Reed Student Dies Of Gunshot Wound Portland (U.R) Police said to day they were continuing their investigation into the circum stances of the gunshot death yes terday of an 18-year-old Reed College student in one of the men's dormitories on the Reed campus here. The body of Richard Town send, son of Col. H. F. Town send, Phoenix, Ariz., was found in the. room, of another student. The death went into police rec ords as an accident. Student friends of Townsend told officers the youth had been "dry firing" a .45 calibre auto matic for the past two days. Investigating officers said a bul let may have lodged in the chamber of the weapon while Townsend was manipulating a loaded clip. Week After next Thursday, the peo ple whom the Russian evicted from their homes in the area will be free to return. 3. Hope rose for a friendly settlement of the dangerous Cy prus dispute. Greece demands that Britain surrender the east Mediterranean island, which has become the most important Al- ! lied military base in the Middle East. Advices from London indi cate that Greece, and Cyprus Greek nationalists, may agree to wider home rule for the island, with a promise of the right of self-determination some time in the future. The Bad 1. The newly-elected French parliament met in Paris in an atmosphere of dissension which foreboded months of recurrent cabinet crises. Formation of a strong majority government seemed impossible. Whichever bloc forms a cabinet will be at the mercy of the Communists, who hold 150 seats in the 626 seat national assembly, and the followers of anti-tax leader Pier re Poujade, who hold 53. ; 2. The Soviet Russian govern ment 'indicated that it planned a big campaign of Communist penetration in Latin " America. Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin said in a question-and-answer interview that the Kremlin is ready to enter diplomatic and economic relations with all of the 20 Latin American republics. At present only three of them main tain diplomatic relations with Russia Argentina, Mexico and Uruguay. Officials in, Washing ton had expected the move. They regard it as an- open challenge, especially in the economic field, to the United States. 3. Communist East Germany announced the establishment of a "National People's Army." Its basis will be the present Mghly- militarized "Barracks People's Police." The new Red army will be coordinated with the Russian " and Russian-satellite armies un der So -iet Marshal Ivan Koniev. Its formation 'is Russia's retort to the arming of West Germany, on the side of the United States and its allies of the North At lantic Treaty Organization. It is expected that more than 200, 000 East German youths will be drafted to join the 120,000-man "People's Police" in the new anti-Allied army. ITS STILL "OO" SOUP Washington (U.R) The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that Washington's Peking Palace res taurant should stop serving "oo soup" because the Peking restau rant just down the street has ex clusive rights; to the Oriental delicacy.-The court also told the Pekin Palace it may not use the "secret recipe" for "oo" and serve it under some other name. Most states have enacted laws to regulate the legal rate of in terest. PLANT THESE NOW! FLOWERING TREES Cherries (Pink-Double Pink White) o Red Leaf Plum Dark Red Double Pink-White) Red Leaf Peach (Fruiting and flowering Large White flowers) GARDEN CITY NURSERY (formerly Newhall's) Phone 2-7601 4631 Pacific Hwy. South Medford
