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FOUR MEDFQUD (OREGpON) MEDFORDl&WriaBUNE . Evervbociy in Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 21-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 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 STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of - Marcn 3. ica' SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bv Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. 'Dailv and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sundav Only One year $3.50. Bv 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 Dailv and Sunday One month 13.3 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Ail icmswsiiinwv Official Paper of the City or Medford O fficial 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 I asTocITatlqn ei.JMfUniLLLLJ (f . NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight a Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filet of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1946 (It was Wednesday) Sale of Woodlawn Farm near Central Point for use as a din ing establishment announced by Mrs. Lillian Ehrheart. . From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Farmers report they can hardly waif to start spring plowing but they will. They have nothing good to say about the weather, ex cept it hasn't raised the taxes. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 1936 (It was Thursday) ' Moore Hamilton, state repre sentative from Medford, to dis cuss measures in special election with Applegate Grange. Fog continues to tie up air service into valley; no relief in sight. 80 YEARS AGO Jan. 23. 1926 ' (It was Saturday) , Newton C. Chaney of Jackson county elected to executive com mittee of District Attorney's of Oregon. Rogue River man places class ified ad wanting to trade a 2,700-pound team, harness and wagon for car. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 23, 19W (It was Sunday) From Table Rock Tablets: The farmers of this district have less grain sown at this time of the year than for many years. From Local and Personal col umn: The present storm has so far spent itself in wind with no precipitation in the valley. though on the southern side of the Siskiyous heavy rain and sndw are falling. What's the Answer? 0Can You Get 4 of th 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Rpr1 1. The Federal Power Com mission does or doesn't now reg ulate prices at. which producers of natural gas sell it to pipe lines for out-of-state distribution? 2. Most persons in the U.S over 65 have incomes of more or less than $1,000 a year? 3. "Peril point" as used in Washington refers to drinks at a cocktail party, driving speeds, tariff duties, or strapless gowns for women? 4. The Order of the Purple Heart is bestowed by the Roman Catholic church, British Crown Masonic Order or U.S. armed forces? 5. U.N. Secretary General Hammarskjald is a Finn, Swede, Norwegian, Dane, or German? 6. Which of these averages the warmest weather during January ofo normal years: Gal vestdn (Tex.), Miami, New Or leans, Phoenix (Ariz.), San Diego? 7. J. W. Fulbright is a U.S Senator from Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississip pi or Oklahoma? The Answers: 1. Does; 2. Less 3. Tariff duties; 4. U.S. armed forces; 5. Swede; 6.- Miami; 7. Arkansas. CAB DENVER ROBBED Oregon Cty (U.R) Walter Pabst, an Oregon City cab driver, was held up and robbed of 25 here early yesterday. MAIL TRIBUNE Controls in the Air ! As those "confidential" letters out of Washington say: Look for more activity from the Civil Aeronau tics administration. A fight, pretty much unpublicized, has been under way over the future of air traffic control. A new ad ministrator has been appointed. Appropriations for air traffic are up. . And the end is not yet. TT ALL STEMS from the fact that the number of - airplanes in the sky has been shooting up, and the increase shows no signs of slowing. And perhaps equally important, the day is approaching rapidly when the skylanes will be filled with jet aircraft. The jets will give a new dimension to the prob lem of air traffic control, which is already so overbur dened that aviation officials are highly concerned over the increasing probability of more collisions in the air. TTHE magazine, Aviation Week, warns : Unless the Civil Aeronautics Administration takes the lead now in building a federal airways and air traffic con trol system that can handle these jet transports, American aviation will drift steadily toward the worst crisis in its history. It is this problem, and its implications, which last month resulted in the firing of Frederick B. Lee as CAA administrator, and his replacement by Charles J. Lowen Jr. Criticism of the CAA had been mounting steadily for months principally from the airlines and the Air Force, which do a majority of the airline flying. TT' IS FAIR to expect that Lowen will attempt to bring a fresh and more active approach to the problem. Since he has taken over, news releases from the CAA, a branch of the department of commerce, have shown somewhat more imagination and greater attitude of vigor. The 1957 budget includes $40,00(,000 for new air navigation and traffic control facilities. Funds to aid local airport improvements have jumped from $15,000,000 this year to a proposed $75,000,000 in fiscal 1957. JUST what form will the new program take? Will it be the erection of a vast and costly network of controls and stations by the CAA?- Or will" it be a combination , and expansion of existing facilities of the CAA and -of the military flying services? - The picture is not clear cision will probably depend on experiments being made at present. For instance, a new CAA air route traffic control center went into operation at New York's vast Idle wild International airport earlier this month. The CAA says of it: With its modern equipment and 208 trained personnel, it will be called upon to do the biggest en route traffic job in the country, that of controlling the traffic into and out of the New York terminal area, and along the complicated net work of airways running in all directions ... The nvm'p.ct makes use of new Ion? rane radar. - j supplemented by medium operated ingnt progress ooaras. fN THE other hand, the CAA has agreed with the Air Force to make operational use of -the Air De fense Command radar for a certain specified area of Under this cooperative use the Air Force's facilities and will direct military as well as civilian traffic. Whichever pattem is the one which will develop and be used in the future depends on the success of these projects. But whichever. it is, it is to be hoped the pattern of the future can be laid out clearly and soon. ' , . . The rapidly increasing . number of people who travel by air are utterly dependent for their safety on the measures taken by the CAA and the airlines'. And the government itself has repeatedly warned that the problem of overcrowding is becoming crucial, with an average of four near-collisions each day. When jets double the speed of air travel, some solution had better be ready. E.A. "On Center" One of the more interesting publications to reach the editorial -department is a little mimeographed magazine called "On Center." It is published by pa tients at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, and is devoted entirely to the problems of alcoholism and alcoholics. The current issue, March-April, 1956, marks the first anniversary of the booklet. A BRIEF history of the publication also appears, and because of the highly unusual nature of the magazine, we are reprinting it here : Without fanfare, On Center came into existence one year ago with its first issue of 250 copies, which had a circula tion mostly within the state of Oregon. The present issue of 1,600 copies will go to interested persons in all parts of the world. Publication has been carried on without the support of paid advertising, or the solicitation of paid subscriptions. This has been accomplished by means of supplies and mate rials provided by the Oregon Alcohol Education Committee, the Oregon State. Hospital' and through donations of our readers. Inasmuch as this, the first and (so far as we know) only hospital periodical on the subjects of alcoholism and sobrie- . ty in the United States, is entirely patient promoted, pub lished and edited, 'we feel that this first year of On Centers life has been a gratifying one. Reader response has corrobo rated this optimistic conclusion. It's for sure that any degree of success our pioneering venture has had is largely due to the readers' interest and response. To them go the kudos and to them the thanks for On Center's continuing and flourishing existence. - E.A, Monday, January 23, 1956 at the moment. A final de - o o ' range radar and manually civil air traffic control in Kansas and Missouri endeavor, the CAA will Editorial Comment ED KENNEDY'S STORY By ROBERT W. CHANDLER Editor and Publisher Bend (Ore.) Bulletin New York One of the mem bers of our 27-man study group here is Edward Kennedy, assist ant editor and publisher of the Peninsula-Herald of Monterey, California. Now the name Edward Ken nedy probably doesn't mean much to many readers of news papers. To newspapermen active in the business 10 years or longer, however, it brings back a real memory. If you have a long memory, you'll remember that it was Ed Kennedy, then of the Associated Press, who broke the story of the end of the European War in 1945. Kennedy was one of the top wire service correspondents dur ing the war. He had a long and honorable career with the AP, and in early 1945 was the head of AP coverage on the Western Front in Europe. When Germany surrendered, Ed Kennedy, along with a num ber of other newsmen, had the story. The release was held up by the U. S. Army, although its own radio stations were broad casting it all over Western Eu rope. So, Ed Kennedy broke the story, and a great outcry arose to the skies. Some competing correspond ents claimed he had broken a pledge. Others felt he was justi fied. The loudest screams came from some of the large papers represented on the AP's board of directors. Their editors were unhappy' because they had to use Kennedy's story, instead of stories by reporters from their own newspapers, who also had been on the scene. ' Ed Kennedy came back to this country, and the then heads of the AP told him to take a vacation, until they learned what the members of the AP felt about the matter. He vacationed, and vacation ed, and vacationed. . One day his paycheck stopped coming, al though the heads of the AP still had not announced a decision. No decision has been an nounced as yet, although eleven years have lapsed. And there is ample evidence that the new heads of the big news-gathering agency still are embarrassed about the whole thing. Most American newsmen feel their predecessors did wrong with Ed Kennedy's back-door dismissal. The members of the group here have had a chance to go over the whole thing once again, and a number'Of us have .ques tioned Kennedy about it, over the dinner table and during "bull sessions." ' AU of us think Kennedy was in the right, and the AP in the wrong. The organization should have been able to reach a decis ion by now. Personally, of course, Ken nedy is far better off than if he had remained with the AP We'll wager his income is high er, and he works on an ex cellent paper its excellence due in no small part to his ef forts in a very pleasant place to live. As far as Kennedy is con cerned, he is not bitter about any of the whole affair., But he does deserve some sort of final answer. SEEKING FRINGE PROBLEM ANSWERS Problems of the rapidly grow ing fringe areas that surround Oregon cities are being laid be fore the legislative interim com mittee on local government in all their stark reality.- Hearings already held at Salem, Eugene and Roseburg have attracted intense interest at the grassroots level. The problems growing out of the relentless flows of people into the suburbs are remarkably uniform in some fields, but they also involve some tricky and vexatious local situations. But general or specific, the testimony given to date confirms the belief of state, county and city officials and citizens that a co-ordinated attack must be made on fringe or metropolitan area problems before they become overwhelm ing. In general, the interim com mittee (headed by City Commis sioner Ormond R. Bean of Port land and including city and county officials and legislators) already has determined that the people living in unincorporated areas around Oregon cities need help on such common problems as sewage disposal, drainage, police and fire protection, roads and schools. All too often they find them selves enmeshed in a whole series of overlapping local im provement districts designed to provide necessary services, but inadequate to meet minimum needs. Many areas are paying high prices (taxwise) for these serv ices without receiving adequate returns on expenditures. They need guidance. They need clear er and broader enabling legisla tion. They need the govern mental and financial machinery to bring order out of the chaos of conflicting agencies with limited powers. It would be premature to in- dipate at this stage what the in- terim committee's conclusions and recommendation will be. Some of them are self-evident. But the important thing right now is to complete the assembl ine of facts at other trouble spots such as Portland, Corvallis, Mediorc, Klamath tails, Coos Bay and the northern beaches, Pendleton and the Bend area. It will be time enough then to get down to cases. We are confident, in any event, that the committee is broadly based and ably staffed. It is receiving excellent com munity co-operation. It certainly will come up with some realistic answers to the metropolitan area problem for the considera tion of the 1957 legislature. Oregon Journal, Portland. !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The bureau of the census has just come out with a new esti mate of the population of the United States which it places at 164,300,000 as of mid-1955. This figure d o e s n't include American servicemen in foreign countries. So it is a safe guess that our present population is about 165 million. It is expected to ap proach 200 million by 1975. This rapid increase in our nation's populations lies at the root of most of the optimistic predic tions of steadily improving busi ness in our country over the next couple of decades if we can stay at peace. In a nation where living standards are high and getting higher, more population means MORE MARKETS and more markets mean more possibilities for business expansion. SO MUCH for the nation as a whole. Let's now take a look at the Pacific Coast and our own area of southern Ore gon. This new estimate just made by the census bureau, discloses that California LED ALL OTH ER STATES by a wide margin in population growth in the five years since the 1950 census California gained nearly two and a half million persons be tween 1950 and 1955. This puts the Golden State in, SECOND PLACE among the states of our Union just behind New York. California now .has just over 13 million persons. New York has 16 million. lyHAT does that mean ' Southern Oregon? It means a LOT. to It means that we have J, AT OUR DOORS the biggest mar ket in the West and the second largest one -state market in America. It is MORE MARKET that makes room for more industrial development. T SUPPOSE everyone is rough- ly familiar with the industrial situation in the states of Con necticut and New Jersey, which border on the great and popu lous state of New York and the vast market potential of New York City. In these states, industrial towns are only a few miles apart. They vary all the way from the one-industry viUage up to huge industrial centers like Newark. Driving through these states, you're hardly ever out of sight' of factory chim neys. You're hardly, out of the limits of one factory town be fore you enter the' limits of another one. It is true that these indus tries find markets ALL OVER the populous Northeast, but their most profitable market is in the state of New York, where more people live than in any other state. - PEOPLE make MARKETS and the closer the markets are the more attractive they are. rFHERE was a time when the West was acutely handicap ped in the way of industrial de velopment by its remoteness from the important consuming markets. Everything we pro duced in quantity had to be shipped to the more populous area east of the Mississippi river. This long haul put us at a com petitive disadvantage with the East. That handicap is being re moved. It is being removed by the growth of population in the West. Our own Western area is now able to support LARGE industrial enterprises out of ITS OWN markets. It is able to do so because it has a large and rapidly growing consuming pop ulation.. Hardly a week passes any more when some large East ern concern doesn't announce a branch somewhere in the West to take care of its Western busi ness. Our own native Western industries are expanding to the point where they are able to invade Eastern markets. SOUTHERN Oregon has great resources. It has rivers to de velop power for its use. It has a wide range of industrial raw materials. It has agreeable cli mate. It has industrious and am bitious people. And In addition It ,is advantageously close to the markets provided by Cali- USSR Said Moving Into Africa In Big Way; Libyan Move Seen Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is moving into Africa, the world's second larg est continent, in a big way. It started with the deal under which C o m m unist C z e c hoslova kia is supply ing Egypt with arms. Next the Kremlin estab 1 i s h e d rela- Charles McCann lions Wltn tne new kingdom of Libya, which lies between Egypt and French North Africa on the Mediter ranean coast. Now relations are being es tablished with Liberia, the Matter of Fact ey IF HEALTH PERMITS" Washington The first gen eral press conference since the President's heart attack was a decidedly re assuring occas ion. Dwight D. E i s e n h o wer looked well. His color was good. His grin was as infec tious as ever. He was not Joseph Alsop treated lignuy by his questioners; yet he handled the questions with the sure . mastery that he has grad ually developed since the. early days when press . conferences were so obviously grave ordeals for him. To be sure, the President seemed to lack a little of his old bounce and fast- striding energy when he entered the crowded cham- ber. The pouches under his eyes were n o t i c e a bly heavier. The eyes them- stewart Alsop selves, wnen he did not laugh or smile, seemed restless and even a little troubled. Yet the total impres sion, conveyed was one of vigor and assurance. What a difficult year ahead, in which governmental paralysis can be appallingly dangerous, it was deeply encouraging to see the President with his : hand again firmly on the helm. TUT it is quite another ques A tion, whether this impression should also reassure the Repub lican leaders and all the mil lions of others who so strongly hope that the President will de cide to. run again. The distinction between Ei senhower's present state and his future great .. decision was un derlined, as it were, by his tele gram permitting his name to be entered in the New Hamp shire primary. Careful study should be given to the language that he used about his own con dition, which is as follows: "It would be idle to pretend that my health can be wholly restored to the excellent state in which the doctors believed it to be in mid-September (just be fore the attack) . . . My future life must be carefully regulated to avoid excessive fatigue. My reasons for obedience to the medical authorities are not sole ly personal; I must obey them out of respect for the responsi bilities I carry." TTERE, once again, and in even stronger tones, was the same note the President had struck in the special conference on his health that he granted the small group of reporters at Key West. In Key West he had intimated that it would be wrong for him to run again if he did not have a good chance of serving out a full second term, because "It is a very critical thing to change governments in this country at a time that is unexpected." Now he was adding the further state ment that despite his mercifully splendid recovery, the fact had to be faced that his heart at tack had in some measure pre manently impaired his health. Put the' two together, then, and ft becomes rather clear what the President is asking himself, and what he will ask his doctors when they complete their final check-up. He will ask, not whether he is out of the im mediate woods, but whether a man in his condition is likely to fornia, which is now, in point of population, the SECOND state of the Union. 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 Negro republic on the West Coast. Great Britain is already get ting alarmed at the possibilities. Advices from London say the British government is sounding out other countries on the possi bility of holding an internation al conference on the defense of Africa this spring. Prime Minister Anthony Eden is most likely to discuss the situation with President Eisen hower when they meet in Wash ington next week. Africa Is Rich Field l. Africa is a comparatively new field for Communist political and economic penetration. It is ' a rich field. For the Western Al lies, it is a dangerous one. Africa is still rightly called the Dark continent. Civilization Joe and Stewart Alsop survive the heavy pressures of the Presidency for another full term. IT IS a grim question, not easy nr nlpsQanf in HicrMicc Trip most authoritative study, based on case histories of 390 cardiac patients, seems to have been made by doctors David R. Cole, Evelyn B. Singian and Louis N. Katz of the Medical Research Institute of Chicago's Michael Reese hospital. "The U. S. News and World Report" has recently reduced the Cole-Singian-Katz statistics to tabular form. ine taoie shows that a man of the President's age, who has successfully passed the first months of acute danger immed iately, after his heart attack, then has five chances in eleven of living more than five years which means five chances in eleven of serving out a full second term in the President's case. The chances must be some what further weighted against the President, curiously enough. because he had his attack while resting. But his exceUent state of general health and his fine recovery constitute even bigger items on the favorable side of the balance. In cold statistical terms, this is the best available answer to the President's big question. It seems likely that the. Cole-Singian-Katz statistics are not fully accepted, or at least are differ ently interpreted, by the Presi dent s civilian heart specialist, ur. aui .Dudley White. TUT it can be stated on posi- tive authority that the emin ent Army heart specialist, Dr, Thomas E. Mattingly, does not make so light of the permanent impairment caused by a heart attack as Dr. White has recently aone in puDlic: These facts, in turn, give a somewhat new twist to the re peated, boldly positive assertions of the President's chief political advisers, that he will certainly run again "if his health per mits. Jjor their certainty is al ways carefully conditional; and it is very clear from the statis tics cited that their, "if" is con siderably bigger than most peo ple have come to suppose. Copyright 1956. New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Stevenson, Knowland In Illinois Primary Springfield, 111. j(UJ!) Demo crat Adlai E. Stevenson entered his second presidential primary today and Republican William F. Knowland may find himself in his first. Backers of both men were slat ed to beat today's deadline by filing their names in the April 10 Illinois presidential prefer ence prirnary. ' Stevenson, who already has filed for the March Minnesota primary, probably will be alone in the IUinois Democratic pri mary race. He also intends to enter primaries in California, Since 1 908 PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES ' came to it thousands of years ago. But civilization has yet to penetrate large parts of it where bow and arrow and spear are the standard weapons. Africa's 200,000,000 people are scattered over an area of about 11,640,000 square miles. It is the greatest remaining col onial area. There are but six independ ent nations in it Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Liberia, and South Africa with popula tions totalling about 63,000,000. Of these Egypt, Libya and The Sudan have attained independ ence since the end of World War II. Africa's remaining, colonial peoples are getting more and more restive. Witness the Mau Mau revolt in British East Af rica, the little-mentioned riotous unrest in the French Cameroons in West Africa, and the open re volts in French North Africa. It is evident that the Kremlin has decided to exploit this rich field. Center of Penetration There are indications that Lib ya may be made the center for Russian penetration in Africa. Incidentally, the United States has a big Air Force base there just outside of Tripoli, the cap ital. Russia's first ambassador to Libya arrived in Tripoli this month. It is interesting to note that he is Nikolai I. Generalbv, a Soviet, diplomat of first rank. Generalov was ambassador to Australia when Vladimir Petrov, his third secretary, surrendered to the Australian Secret Service and asked asylum. Documents . which Petrov handed over disclosed that he was the chief of a big spy net work, operating from General ov's embassy. Generalov personally was not implicated. But it is hard to be lieve that he did not know what was going on. His appointment as ambassador to little Libya may be significant. FILM PAIR TO WED Hollywood (U.R) Actor Robert Stack, 36, and actress Rosemmarie Bowe, 23, said they would be married today at the Beverly Hills Lutheran church in a double-ring ceremony. The couple met two years ago. It is the first 'marriage for both. Florida and Pennsylvania. A group of Chicago backers served notice they would enter Knowland in the GOP race, even though it means he will buck President Eisenhower. Car Wreck Due GEO. N. TAYLOR A clear sunny day with the driver of the o n coming car either alseep or else. His car seemed to steer itself over to the wrong side of the t w o-w a y highway. A wreck was due. To escape a smash, the driver who was on his own side of the road and had the right of way, steered off into the ditch to let the wild car pass. So you see the car that had the right of way, forced off into the ditch. But underneath that bouncing car there in the ditch, were the every-lasting arms "The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him and delivers them." Ps. 34:7 BIBLE. Trust him and God stands back of His word. As God put your sins on Christ and He died for you, now receive Christ into your herat, Let Him be your Lord and Saviour. He will up hold you until your work is done. So what for you? The pass ing show or eternal life? This message sponsored by a Scappose dairyman. adv. in every price range ISP
