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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Med UNE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Reads Trie Mail lTiDune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM, Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR., Managing Editor T.AHI. H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHLPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT. Sports tcrnar OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Pv Mail Tn Advance: Per CoDV IOC. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday only una year uu. Rv Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland, Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix, Shady Cove, Rogue River, Talent, onrl nn motor routes! Daily and Sunday One year S13.00 Dailv and Sunday One montn 1.25 . Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy, All Terms Cash in Aavance OfficUl Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or jacumn """-j United Press Full Leased Wire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU AdS?rSYntCOMPANY INC. offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco, Los Angeles Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCfATLQN U KJ NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1S46 (It was Thursday) Southern Oregon Dairy Coop erative association elects C. A. Smith of Medford president. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Two Wyo ming veterans have applied for grazing rights on the planet Mars. It will be a fine place for the cows that jump' over the moon made of green cheese, land. to 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 7. 193S (It was Friday) "Sleek, powerful' motor cars" on display at the annual auto mobile show, at local armory tonight. Ralph Billings, Ashland, files formal declaration of intention to seek Republican nomination for county commissioner. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 7. 1928 (It was Sunday)" ' The 12th annual Lincoln Day club of Jackson County banquet will be held Feb. 12; Edgar B. Piper, editor of the Oregonian, to speak. From Local and Personal col umn: City Treasurer Berrian says that no lots on paved streets are now available through the city selling agency with the exception of one or two in an unfavorable location. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 7, 1916 (It was Monday) Ashland basketball players and fans "beat up referee before res cued by Medford residents; Ash land lost to Roseburg, 21-19. Medford school district calling for bids on 400 cords of wood of either body fir, oak or laurel for next year's heating supply. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower has been holding his weight down to about (a) 160, (b) 170, (c) 180, (d) 190 or (e) 200 pounds? 2. The present British foreign secretary is Eden, Macmillian, Butler, Lloyd or Gaitskell? 3. The Amalgamented Cloth ing Workers Union functions chiefly in the men's or women's clothing industry, or to a great extent in both? v; 4. The three Negro members of Congress all represent large city Districts; right or wrong? 5. The Government insurance against damage to crops in gen eral is open to farmers in more than half, about half, or less than, half of all counties? 6. Tinkers to Evers to Chance in baseball was a amous com bination on the N.Y. Giants, N.Y. Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, or old Balt imore Orioles? 7. A man named Strigdom is head of government in The Netherlands, East Germany, Fin land, Union of South Africa or Indonesia? 4 The Answers: 1. To close to 170. 2. Selwyn Lloyd. 3. Chiefly in men's clothing. 4. Right (New York City. Chicago, Detroit). 5. Considerably less than half. 6. Chicago Cubs. 7. South Africa. MAIL TRIBUNE Risks of the Presidency Many years ago the suggestion was made in this department that there should be two Presidents in stead of one. ' - The idea then was there should be a chief presi dent and an assistant, the former would assume the demanding and important duties, the latter would be a sort of executive public-relations officer to take care of the speech-making, hand shaking, chicken stew eating and baby kissing. . The suggestion, of course, was made facetiously, with no idea of it being taken seriously and as far as we know, it never was. . DUT today that idea would not be so funny. In fact the Mail Tribune agrees completely with former President Hoover that the presidential duties and responsibilities have so sensationally increased particularly since the. first World War, that there should be an Assistant President to take over the numerous routine and less vital duties, which consume" so much time and energy, and thus allow the occupant of the White House, to have not only more time for the vital matters of state but more time for a desirable amount of fresh air relaxation and exercise. According to the latest however, this idea is not a presidential election in the offing there are so many more important matters to consider, more important to the politicians at least, and for that matter, prob ably to a majority of the people. THIS is too bad. We feel not only out chief executive whoever gard for the people of the welfare, the office of the dered less literally a killing one than it is. Look at the record: For the past half century, only one President has enjoyed his normal life expectancy. That one is for mer President Hoover. Former President Truman is the only "ex" whc promises to . make as good a record Harry has no nerves and is hardy pioneer stock. He may live to be 100. v AS FOR the others, the Roosevelt. There is no reason to doubt it shortened the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Cpolidge. - Let the life . insurance . actuaries . figure .up that casualty percentage. It is certainly a high one. .But the responsibilities', the inescapable strains and stresses today are far greater than ever before, and there is every indication they will increase as time goes on. ' . . The difficult decision facing President Eisen hower today is only added evidence. There seems no doubt on his part or that of his doctors, that the heart attack he suffered was the direct result of the punish ing strain physically he had to take because of the overwhelming demands of the office. He apparently has made a remarkable recovery and our expectation and hope is he will run again, but no informed source believes for a moment he can do this, as the presidential duties are now defined, without taking a real risk, it might properly be called a "calculated risk," but if some such change as Mr. Hoover suggested were adopted, the risk would prob ably be reduced to the absolute minimum. This should be done. But our prediction is until the people of the coun try more clearly sense the dangers of the situation and become more demanding, whilethe politicians in both parties become less selfish and grasping, nothing of a constructive or beneficial nature in this direction will be done. R.W.R. Norblad's Speed Limit Proposal Encouraged . By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Citizens by the hundreds are encouraging Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) to go through with his proposal to legally limit the speed po tential of au tomobiles to 70 MPH .in the name of high way safety. In the . two weeks since a. Robt. smith tne uregon lawmaker announced his idea, letters have been "pouring into his office from all over the country and aU but two thus far have favored putting mechanical gov ernors .on cars to hold them un der a national speed limit. , Disturbed By Toll Most of those who have writ ten the congressman are dis tressed by the. high death toll on American highways today, especially- the record number of fatalities over the recent Christ mas holiday week end. The idea is catching on with other lawmakers, who have been keeping in touch with Norblad's office to see what the public re action has been. Norblad hasn't actually introduced a bill on the issue as yet, but- one is in the drafting stage. It would exclude such vehicles as ambulances and fire and police cars.'' A North Carolina resident called it "one of the finest pieces of legislation to come from Washington in many moons." A New Jersey man pre dicted its .adoption would "cut the appalling death toll in half." Tuesday. February 7, 195B report from Washington being taken seriously. With of consideration for the he may be but out of re country and the general presidency should be ren presidency killed Woodrow When a Terre Haute, Ind., civics teacher mentioned it in class, his students .pulled out their note pads and' dashed off letters of encouragement to Nor blad. But from a Missouri high school lad came one of the few objections on the grounds that extra power is needed to pull out of tight spots and avoid col lisions. "I would be dead if your law kas in effect," wrote the stu dent, relating that his family had avoided a crash by turning on the added power at a vital mo ment. An upstate New Yorker told of two boys in her neighborhood who take pride in racing then cars every Saturday night on a nearby country road, the one claiming he regularly hit 115 MPH in his Ford. . Drivers Take Dare A Massachusetts man respond ed to Norblad's complaint against the current emphasis on high powered cars-. He wrote: "You read such advertising slogans as 'The most powerful car at the price,' and 'Winner of the stock car races,' or 'A gasoline to put 40 per cent more power into your old engine' etc. The auto industry is practically daring the average driver to open 'er up and see what she'U do. And too many drivers can't take a dare!" A traveling salesman from Oklahoma reported that in 45 years on the road he had driven over a million miles without an accident of any kind and he al ways stayed under the prevail ing speed limit. He said: "All new cars are too fast and have too much power. It seems Soviet Worry Apparent About U.S.-Sponsored Balloon Plan By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia seems to be get ting worried over the anti-Communist nropaeanda which is get ting t h r o u gh its Iron Cur tain. A note of "deter mined protest" which the Soviet gov ernment sent to Washington over the week end mentioned .Charles McCann Dig Dauoons, equipped with photographic and radio devices which are landing in Communist territory. But it is evident that the pro test really is aimed at the cam paign conducted by American agencies against Russia's domi nation of Eastern Europe. Protests Balloons The Kremlin foUowed up its note to the United States by pro testing formally to West Ger many yesterday against the launching of propaganda bal loons from its territory by Amer ican agencies. These balloons, or most of them, are being sent up by the American-financed Free Europe Press. ;.- About 350,000 of these bal loons have been sent through the Iron Curtain, when the wind was right, since April, 1954. They carry anti-Communist prop aganda. ' In addition, radio transmitters based in Western Germany are transmitting a n t i - Communist propoganda to Iron Curtain countries 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. - It is known that . millions of people in satellite countries, and many in Russia itself, take the risk of listening to these pro grams. Operates From Berlin The station called RIAS Radio in the American Sector operates from West Berlin. It celebrated its 10th . anniversary Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a Den name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Dog Eat Dog - To the : Editor: It was with great interest that I read your editorial of Feb. 3 on old folks, but you didn't get in quite deep enough. After 45 to 55 years you can hold onto your job, but 55 years to 65 years is the time that you slow V. down in your work and no one wants to hire you, even though it is work you are able to do and the doctor says you wiU have to work at jobs that you can and not over tax the heart. If you do, it will act like President Eisenhower's did. ' Raising a family, paying for your home, hospital and doctor bills have left you nothing put aside for those intervening years until your social security begins to come in. ". President Eisenhower had to slow down on his work load, and yet the people didn't ask him to resign but some are want ing him to run again. Are people being fair, or is it a case of dog eat dog and the devil take the hindermost? Gladys Hamilton, Rt. 2, Box 468, Medford, Ore. Legislation Proposed To Extend Longevity Pay , Washington (U.R) Sen. Norris Cotton (R-NH) introduced legislation today to extend long evity pay increases to indust rial employees of the govern ment on the same basis as other federal employees receive them. An estimated 700,000 em ployees of federal industrial es tablishments, such as naval shipyards, would be affected. that many people lose all sense of courtesy and decency when they get behind a wheel. They must be curbed and your pro posal will do it." An Alabamafl, conscious of the trend toward foreign spoils models, pointed out that a law to be effective would have to cover imported vehicles as well as American-built cars. No Longer Pleasure An ' Illinois lady told the con gressman that "driving today is no longer the pleasure it used to be. One is downright fearful of planning even a week end holiday because of the ominous fatalities." She favored a gov ernor to control "the cold disre gard of human life" on the part of auto manufacturers. Several people who wrote Norblad said they had tried un successfully in the past , to get the National Safety Council to press for just such a speed limit law, but. they said they got the brushoff. The reason is that the Council - is not . convinced that speed is the great killer most people believe it to be. (Next What the National Safety Council says about speed.) Sunday. Communist newspapers compliment the effective work of RIAS by calling it such things as "a paid, stinking news ulcer owned by foreign monopoly cap italists and war mongers in the heart of Germany." Equally detested by the Reds is Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts ,a ceaseless stream of anti-Communist propaganda from . West Germany. '. Russia's week end note com Matter of Fact By Jos and EISENHOWER-EDEN: PLUS AND MINUS Washington Two exchanges which took place during ' the course of the Eisenhower-Eden meeting sug gest what was and what was not ac complished by the talks. The first such ex- change con- cerned the ticklish subject of trade with Stewart Alsop , led China. British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd stated the British case for relaxing the trade restric tions, centering mostly around the economic requirements of Malaya and the Asiatic common wealth countries. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles began to make disapproving noises, when President Eisenhower in tervened. There was no reason, the Pres ident said, in effect, why the trade restrictions should be froz en in perpetu ity. The bene fits gained by our friends and allies by trade with Red China should be weighed in the overall bal ance. And he suggested a re- joseph Aisop study of the whole trade question with this in mind. Although the eventual out come remains very much up in the air, this Presidential in tervention naturally pleased the British. On other matters, like the British dispute with . Saudi Arabia, the. President also took what seemed to the British a sympathetic position, and there were a number of issues: on which the differences between the Anglo - American partners were usefully narrowed. MOREOVER, arifT Primo the President Minister Eden got on better together than ever before. Eden frequently remark ed to his own people how vig orous the President seemed, and how weU -he handled the issues. More important, the confer ence was a sort of visual demon stration of the continuing Anglo American partnership, and such a demonstration from time to time is necessary and useful. Yet the conference never did really come to grips with the kind of basic, underlying .differ ences in British and American policy which would blow the alliance right out of the water. Take the matter of the Chinese offshore islands, Quemoy and the Matsus. Eden broached the subject, saying that his government con sidered the islands racially and geographically a part of the mainland; that the . presence of Nationalist troops on the islands constituted a danger to peace; and that Chiang Kai-shek ought to be persuaded to withdraw them. The President replied that Chiang had said flatly he would never withdraw his troops and that they would "fight to the last man." There was no way Chiang could be persuaded to withdraw, even : if the United States wished him to do so. As for what the United' States would do if the Chinese Commu nists attacked the islands, that would have to await a decision based on the actual situation, if and when it arose. . rpHE subject was then tact fully dropped, and it was never referred to again. Yet there is no issue which more clearly involves . the . danger of an open and almost irreparable break between the American and British partners. And the danger becomes more real every day. On the one hand, Chiang Kai shek himself has obviously be come convinced that the United States will have no choice but to support him, if serious fight ing over the islands begins. Espe cially in the last week or so, Chiang's forces have become in creasingly aggressive. They have been shelling the mainland op posite the islands. They have even been patroUing the main estuary, which is a bit like a hostile force patrolling the Ches apeake Bay. Whether or' not it is cause and effect, Chiang's burst of aggressiveness has followed a visit to Formosa by Adm. Ar thur Radford, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For their part, the Chinese communists have also been acting and talk ing tough. A concentration of plained of baUoons sent up by "United States military organs." Berlin's RIAS station is oper ated by American occupation au thorities. Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Press and Radio Lib eration are privately financed in the United States. . The Kremlin is not just hoot ing at "military organ" balloons. It would like to stop the entire operation which gives hope to East Europeans of freedom. Stewart AIsod landing craft has been spotted opposite the Matsus group, and Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai has threatened to "liberate" Formosa, "by war if necessary." LL this does not necessarily mean that war over the off shore islands is in the offing. Before attempting any all-out attack, the Chinese Communists will certainly move much of their Russian-built air force from the north, where it is now concentrated, down to the air fields they have built in the Fukien area. They have not yet done so. Some observers be lieve, perhaps wishfully, that they will avoid an all-out at tack, on the grounds that the islands will fall to them any way, sooner or later. But the existing situation is enough to suggest that Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles' famous doctrine of "clear warn ing to any potential aggressor" is not being applied with great firmness in the Formosa area. On the contrary, the Chinese Communists, and the Chinese Nationalists too for that matter, are under constant temptation either to ' under-estimate or to over-estimate the American re action. The situation is also enough to suggest how matters which vitally concern the Anglo- American partnership were tact fully disregarded at the recent conference. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. Forest Grove Men Lose Court Case Portland i(U.R) Two Forest Grove men who charged they had been defrauded in their pur chase of the Kelsonian-Tribune were ruled against today by U.S. Judge Chase Clark. . The Idaho judge awarded $6500 plus interest and attorney fees against Hans Running, own er of the newspaper engraving business ' and photography stu dio, and Philip Dana, job print ing manager of the Forest Grove News-Times. ' "- , The judgment favored wilber A. Bishop, Menlo Park, Calif., and Albert D. Nelson, San Car los, Calif. They sold the paper to the Forest Grove men in 1953 for $30,500. When publication suspended a year later, the Californians sued for a $6500 note given as part payment for the newspaper. The Forest Grove men filed a counter-claim for $50,000 damages, claiming Bishop and Nelson had misrepresnted the newspaper's paid-up circulation. Youth Said Lacking National Background Tokyo (U.R) Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, U. S. Far East commander, said Monday that the average American youth lacks the "background , they , re quire to meet and overcome the Communist ideology and techni ques." Lemnitzer told a meeting of the Far East Council of the Boy Scouts of America, that he was "deeply" concerned over the contents of a Defense Depart ment report on prisoners of war in Korea. He said the report reaches the "sorry conclusion that these young men were unable to reply to statements in favor of Com munism with arguments in fav or of their own way of life be cause they knew so little about their own . country, its history and its political beliefs."' Amateur Uranium Prospectors Said Best Omaha (U.R) There's one field, at least, in which amateurs seem to do better than profes sionals. J. G. McMillan, associate pro fessor of physics at the Univers ity of Omaha, said more than 50 per cent of the uranium strikes in the United States have been made by greenhorns. And it doesn't cost much money to try, either. "If you have a Geiger count er, available for $45, you can detect radiation and a possible' ore source," he said. However, McMillan cautioned amateurs not to get their hopes too high. He said relatively little ore is the type that pays off. He suggested that uranium hunting be an . avocation rather than a vocation. Children Face Prospect Of Setter Dental Health Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles on dental health as part of the observance of this week as National Children's Dental Health Week. The articles were prepared in cooperation with the Southern Oregon. Dental Society. For one out of every two Americans, middle age and the need for artificial dentures ar rive about the same time. But there is no need for chil dren growing up today to face the same prospect. New methods of filling teeth and treating gum diseases, new techniques for using antibiotics, and outstanding advances in dental science such as fluorida tion of water can add up to bet ter dental health for today's chil dren. Up to Parents But it is up to parents to take Santa Fe Train Crew Absolved Of Negligence Los Angeles U.R) A coron er's jury has ruled the Jan. 22 wreck of a Santa Fe commuter train in Los Angeles with the loss of 30 lives was an unavoid able accident without criminal negligence on the part of the crew. . The "blue ribbon" jury of nine prominent Los Angeles citi zens returned the verdict yester day after deliberating over the inquest case for an hour. Jury Foreman Earl Vaughn, Bank of America vice-president, said: : "We find the deaths of the de ceased accidental and no per sons were criminally respon sible." Engineer Frank B. Parrish, 62, who had blamed himself "for the dead and orphans I made," was noticeably relieved when the jury's verdict came, but he stat ed he had nothing to say con cerning the vindication. v Various Ailments Parrish felt he was to blame for the two-car train , overturn ing, on a curve because he had blacked out moments before the accident. . ' v Dr. Marcus Grahan, a psychia trist who examined Parrish, said the' engineer over the- past 10 years has . variously ; suffered from tuberculosis, peptic ulcers, with perforation and p e r i- tomtis. - .... .. '. ; Crahan said this combination of defects could have produced unconsciousness or mental aber rations of a transient nature. The engineer, he said, could have suffered a mental lapse some thing like sleep walking a few moments during which the train raced out of control.:i Nuclear Reactor Most Efficient Fuel User Omaha (U.R) A Nebraska manufacturer, Walter E. Behlen, an expert on fuel energy, esti mates' that the nuclear reactor is the most efficient user of fuel, by many million times, ever to be used in industry.. It's fantastic, but true, Behlen said, that out of 11,322,000,000 kilowatt-hours of energy in a pound of coal, man has learned to .extract only about one kil owatt hour. This is due to ina bility completely to burn the coal. However, uranium may be burned much more completely, although there still remains a tremendous waste. Industry has learned to burn about one-tenth of one per cent of uranium ore, which is one part of one thous and. This is about three million times more complete burnup than in the case of coal. Portlander Will Seek State Legislature Seat Portland (U.R) Louis J. Lampert, general manager of Pa cific Cab company here, an nounced today he had filed by mail for the Democratic nomin ation for state representative from the east county sub-district of Multnomah county. Lampert has headed the cab company for six years. MR. INSURANCE FRED BRENNAN FOR INSURANCE THAT PAYS: During ' 1 955, this Agency -. re turned to the community in actual loss and dividend payments the sum of $153,364.06 This represents a real contribution to the economy of the Rogue River Valley. We invite you to share in this fine insurance protection - INSUR ANCE THAT PAYS by insur ing with MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY , Phone 2-4940 advantage of the preventive measures which have been de veloped. Dental disease is large ly the result of neglect, accord ing to dentists. Giving examples of the ex tent of dental disease among chil dren, the dental profession point ed out that 50 per cent of all two-year-olds have at least one decayed tooth, and the average youth at the age of 16 has seven or more teeth decayed, missing or filled. They also said malocclusion (badly positioned teeth) is wide spread. About 30 per cent of the children examined m one large study needed some form nf or. thodontic treatment Disorders of the sums and other tooth-supporting tissues often have their start in child. hood, the profession pointed out une study indicated that two out of three children are af. flicted with the diseases to some degree. Lists Guide Dr. Bernerd C. Kincsburv. nf San Francisco, president of the American Dental association, listed a four-point program to help parents guide children to Better dental health: l.'.Toothbrushing immediately after eating, before the teeth are attacked by the enamel-destroying acids which result when car. bohydrates ferment in the mouth. . . 2. Periodic dental examina tions beginning by the age of three. 3. Proper diet, which includes cutting down on the amount of between-meal sweets children eat. 4. Fluoridation of water sup plies to prevent about two thirds of dental decay. Vyatt Sees GOP Election Sweep Lebanon, Ore. (U.R) State Republican chairman Wendell Wyatt of Astoria believes the Re publican party will score a clean sweep in the November elections, not only for state government posts but also by putting a Re publican in the United States senate.- , Wyatt, speaking at a Lincoln day dinner sponsored by the Linn county federation of Re publican women, said, "I say that we can and will elect a Republi can Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, a Re publican Governor and Legisla ture, and last, but not least, a Republican United States Sen ator." ; ,; Wyatt began his address with an inventory and assessment of the Republican party record in Oregon." He said, "The loss of Paul Patterson has not changed any of these items." . Wyatt said he felt certain that, "The Republicans will nominate candidates who can and will win the election races." CHARLES E. JONES Most of us are reluctant to face unpalatable truths. That sensitive spot on our molar is probably just a temporary irri tation; that twinge of pain in the region of the heart will no doubt go away if we give it time. Too many of us put off seeing our dentist or consulting our physician for a- periodic check-up. Similarly, possibility of early death is an unpleasant fact that we try hard not to think about Yet only two cate gories of people can afford to disregard such a contingency those who have no dependents and those who have made. through life assurance, sufficient provision for their loved ones against the chance of untimely death. If you cannot conscien tiously clairr to be in either of these categories drop me a line or telephone. CHARLES E. JONES, Local Agent Phone 2-9772 SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA IMfl Looking H&jsfl Ahead " ffMf with TRIBUNE mm FOR RESULTS Phone 2-6141
