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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon neaaa me Man Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phona 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL Editor HERB GREY. Advertisine Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager IRIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor ZARL, H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CiUPMAN. Telegraph Editor KiCHAKD jewlit, sports jsaiior OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr, An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford, Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Itv Tn Advance: Per Cody 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only one year w.su. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, JaxVanntrille Gold Hill. PhOemX, Shady Cove. Rogue Hiver, Talent, snH m tnntrr routes: Daily and Sunday One year $13.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.2a Carrier and ueaiers ac per tuvjr. All Terms Cash in Advance fifflrlal Paoer of the C5ty of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire '" MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIHCULAT1UXS 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. NATION At EDITORIAL ASOCjTLN NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION 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 Fob. 1. 1946 (It was Friday) Lester Lewis of Central. Point kills cougar measuring seven leet in length in Star Gulch in the Applegate district. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow is Groundhog day. Whether or not he comes out of his hole, there will be six weeks more of weather, of some kind. SO YEARS AGO Tab. 1. 1936 Mr. and Mrs. Larkin Reynolds cf the Applegate valley pick a bouquet, oi yellow daisies today on the south side of lower Table Bock. From Side Glances: Jack Woods flaunting sartorial con vention by wearing a Tyrolian hat in pork-pie fashion. The ef fect is somewhat startling.. SO YEARS AGO Feb. 1. 1926 (It was Monday) Attempt to rejuvenate the Ku Klux Klan at Salem Thursday lails, according to reports from north. t s LeComte and Flesher's musi cal sensation, "My China Doll," playing one night at Hunt's Cra terian theater. 40 YEARS AGO rb. 1. 1916 County to collect $778,778 in taxes during 1916; announces shrinkage in assessed valuation of $5,000,000. From Local and Personal col umn: The elevator in the Main street entrance to the Garnett- Cory building has been com pleted and is now in operation, What's iha Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cepr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Listed horsepower on new U. S. cars was increased between 1948 and 1955, on the average, by about (a) 40, (b) 65, (c) 90 or (d).115? 2. Which present U. S. sena tor carried some states when he ran for president in 1948? 3. The Soviet Union now has diplomatic relations with most, about half, or only a few Latin American countries? 4. The game of hurling is most popular in Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland or Russia? 5. Curling is a game on ice especially popular in Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Switz erland or Russia? 6. Harley-Davidson was the name of an early auto; right or wrong? 7. Willie Keeler was famous long ago in pugilism, Ivy league football, baseball, bowling, wres tling, golf or tennis? The answers: 1. By 65, on the average. 2. Slrom Thurmond of South Carolina. 3. Only a few. 4. Ireland. 5. Scotland. 6. Wrong (motorcycle). 7. Baseball. ACCIDENTS FATAL Hermiston U.R) Howard Moses, 29, Umatilla, an em ployee of a contractor laying a natural gas pipeline to Portland, was killed in an accident late yesterday. He was working as a brush man in painting the pipe when a 300-foot section which had been welded together and laid on a scaffolding rolled from the timbers and fell on him. MAIL TRIBUNE Undreamt of Things A new book called "The Search for Bridey Mur phy" is making something of a splash in publishing circles. One Portland newspaper is serializing it the while making it excessively clear that it is not passing final judgment on it. ' t The book purports to be the description, much of it in dialogue, of the experiences of a woman in a "prior life." The information was elicited, the author claims, during hypnotic trances. " " . . TTHIS is one of those cases where it is difficult, if not impossible, to prove the truth one way or the other. In this it is similar to a great many other types of mental phenomena which have been explored in recent years. "Proof," in these cases, is almost always of a subjective nature. A few years ago a book called "Dianetics" by a prominent science-fiction author created a similar stir, claiming that under proper conditions of near hvonosis one could recall events back to the moment of conception. The theory each experience recorded itself m the cell tissue oi the body, and could be called up to consciousness by the proper methods, j THE new book, goes this theory one better, what with "memories" of a prior life, as well as experi ences in the astral world between lives. As such, it gets out of the realm of the here and now, anclgets over into, the fields previously preempted by religion and spiritualism What with all this, it is the easy course, and per haps the one of common sense, to dismiss it all as imagination, or as a fake. B UT can we do this? Should we not acknowledge witir SVinlfp'snpflrp's oh more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy" ? Shnnld wft tint realize there ARE nhenomena so- far unexplained and, at present, uhexplainable? -There are tnn manvnf them "flvincr saucers" reported by highly reputable people; materializations m 1 1 ill 1 1 ol long-dead people, also reported oy people oi sud stanpp nnrl intplliVenfe: . exneriments in nsveho- kinesis and clairvoyance aoie to, wasn our nands oi tnem witn a simple, 011 hand denial. There are too manv examrles of things undreamt of in our philosophy. E.A. Healthy Wp. keep harping about change. Well, why not? The way of life of Americans has changed more in the, last half -century than it has in all the other years of the nation's existence. Change is a thing we have to live with. But unless we are ad justable and understanding and receptive, it can be a hard thing to accept. 1 " .. . COME changes are 'destructive. Others are neutral. ? Some possibly even most are all to the good. One of the latter variety is the change in the pat tern of home ownership. This was pointed out the other day in an editorial in the Daily Journal of Com merce at Portland, which recorded the fact that 36 years ago that's 1920 about 10,900,000 families owned their own homes. In 1955, the total was about 27,000,000, an increase of 16,000,000 or about 150 per cent. This is a faster rise than that of the popu lation as a whole. In 1920, about 45.6 per cent of all homes were owner-occupied; the figure for 1955 was about 56. AS with other changes, this one has had far-reach-" ing ramifications. It has given a sense of per manence and solidity to many families, knowing their homes are their own. It has increased a sense of re sponsibility and the attention which occupants give their dwellings. . The do-it-yourself movement of recent years in large part reflects this situation. So does the rise in purchases of home appliances. And it may even be that it is a contributing factor to a rise in import ance of the family as the basic unit of society. It would be good to know that this is so. For as long as America's families are sound and happy and integrated, there is no need to fear a collapse of so ciety. E.A. Fast Buck Artists . The business of making a fast buck on promo tional schemes or in selling shoddy merchandise is not a new one. So old is it, indeed, that the Romans coined a phrase to describe the situation "Caveat Emptor" let the buyer beware. . IT remains, basically, a good rule. For there are men and women about who are not above trading on the credulity and good faith- of fellow human beings, and who do so, with gusto and finesse. The warning has special force in the case of itiner ant merchants, promoters and salesmen from out of town. Merchants in Medford have a stake in the community, a reputation to maintain. The itinerants, quite Dossibly, would not be itinerants if this were the case with them. .. TTHIS, like all generalizations, is full of holes, for there are always exceptions. But "caveat emptor" remains sound advice to those in doubt particularly in the case of telephone solicitation or door-to-door salesmen who are here today and gone tomorrow. The police department and chamber of commerce files are too full of. the records of shady, quasi-legal or outright dishonest operations to recommend otherwise. ' It's a shame. But that's the way it is. E.A. Wednesday, February 1, 1956 here apparently was that flrart.er that "There are at Duke university to be Change Organized Liberals Mustering Strength for Morse's Campaign By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Organized lib erals have begun to muster their corporate strength and en- thusiasm f or one of "their major national efforts of this 1956 election year to do all they can to help re-elect Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.). This build- a. Robt. smith up Became evi dent here during the past week as two groups within the organ ized liberal movement took the ommunkations Lettersto 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 te clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Don't Underestimate Ivan t To the Editor: Despite Mr. F. J. Cliff ord s usual - common sense, his letter which you print ed Thursday, Jan. 26, shows evidence of both hasty and prejudiced thinking, t . He is "not much bothered" by Russian guided miscile develop ment. Does he know that many Britons were not much bother ed by German air force develop ment in 1937 and '38? When Mr. Clifford speaks of Russian history, is he aware that Russian history prior to the fall of the czars is no basis for com parison with present commun istic expansive philosophies? Has Mr. Clifford studied the com munist literature which urges and predicts the conversion of the world to communism by any means, including force? Mr. Clifford seems to imply a lack of courage, of intelligence, IRC Seeks Books For Asian Schools Ashland International Re lations club members from Southern Oregon college are undertaking a campaign in be half of the Asia Foundation's "Books for Asian Students" pro gram it was announced yester day by the group's adviser, Dr. Clifford Miller, faculty member. Aims of the foundation in clude seeking to promote inter national cooperation and . amity and, especially, better under standing between the peoples of Asia and the United States. Dr. Miller pointed out that a part of the Foundation's program is to give impels to a drive to ob tain good reading material for needy and deserving educational institutions in Asia. "Contributions to the book drive," Miller stated, "will help to build the bridges of under standing between Asia and America that will foster better relations; certainly, they will be a means of extending support and encouragement to those in Asia who are working for peace, freedom, and'social progress." Any college, high school or grade school textbook published since 1945 and in good condition is accceptable, as are standard authors or basic works in older editions. Fiction books in good condition are acceptable also, it was 'stated, provided they are suitable for literature courses in the schools. Donors may phone the college office at Ashland 2-4611 and leave their names and addresses with the switchboard "operator and a member of the Interna tional Relations club, will pick up the books, or may leave books in the Informs tion Office at the coUege. - Kaiser Chemicals Announces Expansion O a k 1 a n d, Calif. (U.R) Kaiser Chemicals Division an nounced today a .$3,000,000 ex pansion program at two of its plants which it said will "sub stantially increase" it capacity to produce refractory and mag nesia products. Frank M. Cashin, vice presi dent and manager of the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corpo ration, said the new facilities will be added to the California plant which will double its pres ent sea water handling capacity. The kiln will have a capacity of approximately 150 tons of mag nesia products daily, bringing the plants capacity up to 375 tons a day. New equipment at the Ohio plant will include additional pressing and materials handling facilities which Cashin said will increase the plant's capacity by 50 per cent. Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn. daily and 1030 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. ' - occasion of their annual cere monial gatherings to turn the spotlight of their attention on the Oregon senator. First, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, at its annual dinner, gave Morse its award for , meri torious service and the public praise of its leadership before an audience of Washington nota bles. Second, the local chapter of Americans for Democratic Ac tion (ADA) made Morse the hero of its annual Roosevelt dinner. The senator was main speaker on both occasions. "Fighting Champion' To the 1,000 personages who joined to cheer on the senator at these, gatherings, Morse has clearly become a fighting cham- and of honesty in the average Russian. Shouldn't his common sense tell him that there are as many kinds of Russians as there are kinds of Swedes, Japanese, or Americans? Mr. Clifford takes note of the fact that currently no Russian wrestlers are touring our coun try. Does he know of many American boxers now touring Russia? He seems to think that "by nature", a Russian does not take part in individual sports? Is he aware of recent Russian activity in the Olympic games? Does in: know that the Russians for years have shown keen analyxical minds in internation al chess? Does Mr. Clifford recall a World War II Russian invention known as the Molotov cocktail, which was delivered against a heavily armed German armored tank by a lightly armed unarm ored Russian foot soldier? Does Mr. Clifford not believe that to underestimate Russian intelli gence, courage, guided missile development, or aggressive ten dencies would be extremely, dan gerous to us Americans in view of the world tension today? Mr. Clifford says the Russian has "little stomach to fight on foreign soil." Does Mr. Clifford think that Poland, Czechoslo vakia, Bulgaria, Romania, . Hun gary, Albania, the Baltic states, Mongolia, and Germany" are Rus sian soil? . Does Mr. Clifford realize that the last sentence of his Thurs day letter could, well have been written on Dec. 6, 1941? v if W.R.Johnson, 457 Fairmont St. Medford, Ore. Flood Control Plan To the Editor: I would like to see flood control as well as any one else. But you never tan have flood control by building high dams which are only a tempor ary flood control measure. For example, look at Lake Meade above Hoover dam. When Hoover dam was completed you were told that the dam would be full in 56 years. And it is now about two thirds full and in another 10 years the Colorado river will be naming over the spillway. And then all you will have is an elevated river. The same thing is being done to all the dams. The dam as proposed on Lewis creek will be just like Hoover dam. And you will not have per manent flood control, only for a few years. However, you can have per manent flood control if only $1,000,000 of the $29,000,000 asked for to build Lewis dam, could be used to build parma nent concrete levees, six feet wide on the bottom and three feet on the top, all the way from McCleod to the coast. All you would need to buy would be ce ment and labor, as sand is avail able all along the river and the more big boulders you use would make it much stronger than crushed stone. . If the money that has been spent to protect Yuba City had been used to build good levees, there would not have been any disaster. . . The Rogue river can be pro tected the same way. And the Rogue would not be disturbed. The Louis dam will inundate many thousands ficres of the finest soil in Oregon and take out a lot of tax money that will have to be assessed against other property to make up for. the loss. Another thing, no one is al lowed to live within eight miles of the dam. This would take in Shady Cove and Trail. And if "Plan A" was used as planned, no - one would be permitted to live as far south as Dodge bridge. Melvin F. Allen, " Trail Creek Rt. Trail, Ore. Relieve Suffering Fast-Effectively with Shildreifs i Eoldsia pion, one of a small handful in public life today who can be counted upon to go forth and do battle with the dragons of reac tion. Virtually all of the members of these groups are Democrats, many of them prominent in the labor movement, quite a few of them former officials of govern ment in the Roosevelt and Tru man administrations. When the senator arose to speak at the ADA meeting, it was just a few hours after he had heard the word from Oregon that Gov. Paul Patterson had an nounced his intent to challenge Morse for his Senate seat this fan. Fought Everywhere After passing on this political tidbit to his audience, Morse told them that "the same fight (for liberalism) that is going to occur in Oregon is going to be fought elsewhere across this country." Calling on liberals to take the fight to the American people, Morse declared: "The great issue will be the return of the govern ment of the United States to its federal responsibilities and bringing to an end this adminis tration which came to power by a mistake in judgment on the part of the American people in 1952." Generally speaking, Gov. Pat terson's announcement came as no surprise in Senator Morse's camp. It had been anticipated for some time. And it came about where the senator and his strategists thought it would be in the overall time-table of this senate campaign. Was Expected That is, Morse was confident that Patterson would ultimately announce his- candidacy. He thought it would come in this winter period when congress was moving at high speed and his duties would keep him here much of the time at his senate desk. After having had the cam paign trails of Oregon pretty much to himself last fall, when he criss-crossed the state to do a thorough pre-election campaign job, Morse figured the governor would await his return to Wash ington, D.C before emerging as an announced candidate. , When he returned to the capi tal just before the first of the year, Morse felt that if he had stood for election at that mo ment he would have won. He felt that he had made solid , per suasive inroads into the votes of farmers, small businessmen, the less-than-well-off white . collar workers and, of course, labor. Now. he expected,- Gov. Pat terson would'gain an . advantage during the winter months by his own campaigning around the state. By spring primary time, Patterson could well be the man to beat. From then until November's election day, it would be a horse race all the way. Accuses America of . Increasing Propaganda Moscow (U.R) Marshal Semyon K. Timoshenko Tuesday accused American and British "imperialists" of intensifying propaganda for atomic and bac teriological warfare. Timoshenko, World War II hero and now commander of the Byelo-Russian military district, said the United States is increas ing arms expenditures annually and urged that the Soviet Union "always be prepared and unre mittingly strengthen the might of the Soviet army." Investments made by the 10th of the' month earn divi dends as- of the First. - Saudi Arabia Playing Big Part in Topleyei Talks in Washington By CHARLES W. McCANN United Press Correspondent A little Arabian kingdom is playing a big part in the talks between President Eisenhower and Prime Minister An thony Eden in Washington. Saudi Ar abia is the country. It oc cupies most of the Arabian peninsula, Charles McCann DOUnaea Dy me Red Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. Saudi Arabia practically floats on oil. And that oil is the real issue in what is becoming an ur gent Anglo-American problem. Mr. Eisenhower and Eden have discussed a number of world problems relations with Soviet Russia, German unifica tion, what to do about Commu nist .China. But the problem of Saudi Arabia is an immediate one. It enters into the Palestine prob lem, the Baghdad Defense Alli ance and the Russian campaign of penetration in the Middle East. If the President and Eden can come to any agreement on Saudi Arabia, their conference will be a success. But agreement seems to be unlikely. Getting Worse Britain's relations with Saudi Arabia are bad, and getting worse. Relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States are good. ; , Britain is involved in a long standing dispute with Saudi Arabia over possession of the little Burajii oasis on the east coast of the Araban peninsula, Both countries claim it. Britain's claim is made in behalf of a group of tiny shiekdoms, or Arabian principalities, which are tied to Britam by treaty, Last October a few dozen troops and police of the shiek doms led by British officers threw a few dozen Saudi Ar- Predict Release of More Salk Vaccine Washington (U.R) Some in siders predicted today that enough Salk polio vaccine will be released in the next several months to inoculate more than 40,000,000 children. ; They based their optimism on indications from drug manufac turers that vaccine production finally is ready to spurt after having lagged for months'. For one thing, they said, there is a good chance Parke Davis & Co. will get back into the market shortly. The firm, one of the nation's two biggest vaccine pro ducers, shut down its produc tion lines after the polio snafu last summer: There also have been uncon firmed reports that Sharpe & Dohme is finally getting ready to submit vaccine for govern ment approval. It was licensed to produce the serum last April but has never released any shots to the public. -Government officials were wary about making any firm production estimates. They said, however, that they expect out put to increase now that manu facturing bugs have been ironed out. START YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT NOW - INVEST REGULARLY - EVERY PAYDAY , IN AN INSURED SAVINGS ACCOUNT - Insured to $10,000 by The Federal Servings and loan .Insurance Corporation . v Your Savings Will Earn Dividends, Too! Come In Today Investigate . Discover how you will profit with regular investment in a First Federal cccount. START YOUR SAVINGS PLAN NOW FIRST FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. of Medford 27 North Holly R. F. Kyle, Secretary abian troops and police out of the oasis. Saudi Arabia is fum ingly angry over that. Behind it all is the clash of oil interests. Buraimi oasis gives promise of yielding fabulous amounts of oil. King Saud does business with the American-owned Arabian American oil company. He gets royalties of about $258 million'' a year from it. . If Britain gets the oasis, the g oil will be exploited by the Brit- ish-owned Iraq Petroleum com- J-ff pany. . British Charges I r Britain charges that King Saud 4 ""6 uu vu x c v ciiuca lu ouu. up trouble all over the Middle East, primarily against Britain. Saud is accused of financing the recent riots in Jordan against the Baghdad Alliance of which Britain, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan are members. He is ac cused of offering millions of dol lars in bribes to officials of the little Arabian shiekdoms. He is accused of bribing the editors of newspapers in Jordan, Leb anon and other countries. Eden would like President Ei senhower to step into the Saudi Arabian situation and ask King Saud to tmd less troublesome ways of spending his money. But the American position is that the United States can not very well tell King Saud what to do. There is no indication that Eden will be able to get President Eisenhower to change that position. It could be that the United States might make some friend ly approach to King Saud. But it should not be forgotten that billions cf dollars worth of oil rights enter into the situation. FACTS CONCERNING THE FLUORIDATION OF PUBLIC DRINKING WATER By: S. Milton Zimmerman D.D.S. Ardmore, Pennsylvania Fluoridation, of the public water supply to any community is a subtle way to promote socialized medicine and dentistry. Many children who will drink thfc fluori dated water will continue to have dental caries (cavities); their par ents will clamor for increased gov ernmental intervention, if the Government ic given further re sponsibility for public health, that responsibility can lead to only one thing Socialized Medicine and Dentistry. Government age.iciet and bureaus always expand. They never contract. Keep Our Water Pure Send your name, address, and all financial help you can FIGHT FLUORIDES Antifluoridation Committee 212 Leverette Bldg. Medford, Ore. m. Mb 6? i f Is" V
