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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) USE "Everybody In Southern Oregon Beads xne Man xnpune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor f IDT TJ AHAUC r" i Tit TTHitiw HARRY CHTPMAN, Telegraph' Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter -at Medford. Oregon, under Act of. Marcn a. tavi SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 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 $350. By 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 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms uasn WAOvance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire ' MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU .., OF CIRCULAT1UM 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 ASSOCIATION I J U ruinmg'ij'iira '6v 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. 15, 194B (It was Friday) Glenn Jackson, American Le gion convention chariman, an nounces Medford will be host to convention this year. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A number of auto accidents, throughout the state recently have occurred at "blind curves" between auto ists, who did not see any too good themselves. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1936 (It was Saturday) -: Mr. and Mrs. Fayette Bristol of Provolt return from 10,000 mile trip which took them to Chicago, Grand Canyon and other points. Victor A. Tengwald, executive secretary of the Jackson County Relief committee, announces in tention to seek Republican nomi nation for district attorney.. 30 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1926 (It was Monday) Three more Sams Valley resi dents arrested .in connection with operating still, and having pos session of moonshine liquor. Election tomorrowon whether or not there will be super road district between Medford and coast. , 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 15, 1916 (It was Tuesday) Showing at Star theater for two days is "The Battle Cry of P e a c e"; acclaimed "without doubt the greatest picture in the world." The council of congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers' circles schedule meeting. . What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Autos and trucks powered by atomic energy will or won't be feasible before too long, says recent report of the citizens' panel on atomic energy? 2. Housewives throughout the nation are paying somewhat more or less for most cuts of beef than a year ago, or about the same? ' 3. Only U. S. corporation to earn over $1 billion in one year is U. S. Steel, General Motors, Du Pont, American Telephone & Telegraph or Standard Oil of N.J.? 4. Lent begins with Ash Wed: nesday; right or wrong? 5. Almost all cases of bald ness, the Federal Trade Commis sion has ruled, are curable or incurable? 6. American Business spends about $900 million, $1.9 billion, $9 billion, or $19 billion a year on advertising? 7. Governor "Soapy" Wil liams (D.) of Michigan now sup ports or opposes Stevenson for the presidential nomination, or is on the fence? The answers: 1. Won't. 2 Somewhat less. 3. General Mo tors (in 1955). 4. Right. 5. In curable. 6. About $9 billion, 7. Says he's now on the fence. BID OPENING DELAYED Portland (U.RL. Army en- rinpprs said todav that opening of bids for repair work at De troit dam, originally scneauiea yesterday, had been postponed MAIL TRIBUNE The Street Program . There is no doubt that $165,500 per year for 10 years totals up to a respectable amount of money. That is the price tag for an arterial street program which is designed to get Medford out of the big town classification and make it into .a small city. One can have few doubts that a program of some sort, probably similar to this, is desirable and neces sary. But is it worth the cost? - .' HTHIS is a question which only, the voters can answer. And they can answer it only by deciding what the job would mean to them personally. : V Let's say that the present population of Medford is about 20,000. (Actually, it is estimated at a bit more than that, almost double what it was 15 years ago.) On this basis, then, the program.would cost each individ ual in the city an average of, about $8.25 per year, or about 69 cents per .month .'or . a little better than 2 cents per day, to raise the city's portion of the total cost. 'v- ':' ':. v -..v. v vv. It doesn't sound like i quite, so much money that way, although, of course, some people would pay more than that and some less. ' THE question now arises: Is it worth a' couple of cents per day, all year, long for 10 years, to have a major street system which shows promise of doing much to eliminate traffic jams, of making it possible to go through or around the city more easily and in less time, and in keeping traffic moving even though the number of cars is increasing each year? To those who operate automobiles, it is pretty evi dent that the cost would be nearly offset by the sav ings in gasoline alone, not to mention the satisfaction of having an easier, pleasanter and more rapid drive. THHE street proposal itself is fully set forth in a 23 " page booklet prepared by the city's public works, department. Copies are available for inspection at the city hall. The plan was based on a more complete survey of arterial street needs in and around Medford, pre pared by the state highway department. The original plan called for the expenditure of $10,870,000, by the state, county and city, of which the city's share would be $4,130,000. - ; ;. ;vV;;.;v:.;-;.- ; : ... The modified program, .as presented to the city council for study last week, is far more modest than this. More than $2,678,000 has been trimmed away. ' ' . . A REVIEW of the smaller program indicates , that " it is well thought out and basically sounds Any one, we suppose, could quarrel with some of the. indi vidual proposals in it, for in any project some people think it should be done THIS way while others think it should be done THAT way. 7 v But, overall, it impresses us as a pretty good plan. Our principal question is whether too much of the original "ideal" proposal may not have been cut away, and whether the curtailments 'are so severe that the city might suffer in the future. The bulk of the financial savings have been m three categories (1) elimination of underpasses at the railroad tracks, with grade crossings substituted; (2) Narrowing of the proposed arterial streets, and (3) elimination of seven of the original 20 proposals altogether. TO know how severely more efficient than a cloudy crystal ball. 7 ' But, at the moment, that is not the important problem, for if necessary it can be expanded in the future.- v The important thing is to get the project under way. This carfonly be done by the people of Medford becoming convinced that a street program of. this nature is both necessary and desirable, and showing, by th'eir votes, that they want it badly enough to pay for it. E.A. Youngsters at Work The story in last Sunday's Mail Tribune which impressed us more than any of the others was one which had a headline saying "More Than 6,000 Youths Participate In Activities During Week." It impressed us because it was proof of something we have always known, namely: There are a lot more good kids than there are bad ones. rAY after day, week after week, the year, around, the constructive activities of thousands of young people go on. They are not always recorded in print, for most of the doings are routine, and are not con sidered as "news" even by those participating in them. , 7 ;---;r 7-7v:. ;:y7-;; 7'':;r-'; It is pnly when circumstances and events combine to focus attention on them that it is possible to gain an insight as to their scope and importance: The range of activities is wide, and the work done, is construc tive. '" 7 7 . In balance it appears that these activities have more long-range importance than the fact that a mis guided group of kids are stealing hub-caps from cars. 70R the fact that several thousand young people in a period of a week can be involved in a variety of interesting and significant activities has more po tential good in it than in the fact that "juvenile: de linquency,'1 a misleading phrase, is on the rise along with the population. Police Chief Charles Champlin is right when he says it is important, for his department is called into play when young people get off on the wrong track. And we all have a vital stake in seeing to it that the school, church, scout and other work, backed by the support of parents, leads to constructive paths and, ultimately, to better citizenship.-E.A. Wednesday, February 15, 1958 this cutting and trimming Timing of Dipfomafs'Sudderr Reappearance Creates Mystery By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia's reason for ad mitting, after nearly five years, that Britain's two missing diplo mats are in Moscow is likely to re main a mys tery. Experts on Soviet policy have suggest ed a dozen conflicting rea sons why the Charles McCann a d mission should have been made at this particular time. ' All that is certain is that the Kremlin had a definite reason and thought it was making a smart move. . Donald D. MacLean and Guy M. Burgess disappeared from London on May 15, 1951. They made their , first public appear ance in Moscow at a strangely staged press conference, last Saturday. Long Known It had been known beyond rea sonable doubt for more than one year that the two men were in Russia. But as recently as two weeks ago, high Soviet leaders denied any knowledge of them. It seems probable, then, that two weeks ago the Kremlin had no intention of making an early admission of MacLean and Burgess. . Here are a few of the reasons the . experts suggest for . the ap parent change of mind: It was to cause a split between the United States and Britain by spotlighting Britain's lax secur ity precautions. It was to smooth the way for the visit Soviet Pre mier Nikolai ' A. . Bulganin and Nikita S. Khrushchev are to make to London, in April. It Background on President's Illness and Convalescence By UNITED PRESS Background on the President's heart attack: - President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack Sept, 24 about 2 a.m. at theliome of his mother-in-law, Mrs. John S. : Doud, in Denver. He was transferred that afternoon to nearby Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Mr. Eisenhower performed his first official, function.:, since his attack Sept. 30. He signed two routine documents. 7"- He held his first official bed side conference Oct. 8. The caller was -Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. He began oil painting Oct. 19 and Oct. 21 he got out of bed briefly. He started climbing steps Nov. 5. Six days later he left the hos Editorial Comment (Editor's note: Medford is not he only Oregon city plagued with the problem of what to do about downtown off-street parking, as evidenced by the following editorial from the Eugene Register Guard. It makes some comments and suggestions which might be applicable in Medford.) PARKING STUDY SHOULD BE MADE We are glad to see that the Eugene City Planning commis sion is concerned about off street parking in downtown Eugene. It has been a little over two years since city voters turn ed down an ill-fated, off-street parking proposal by a 6 to 1 margin. And since that time, a feeble effort to organize another com mittee to study parking has ap parently fizzled. In view of the tremendous ' increase ... in traffic and in the number of vehicles, we cannot conscientiously sit back and do nothing about it. ' The planning commission has suggested that Mayor Ed John son appoint a special committee to study the parking problem in downtown Eugene. The city council vetoed a planning com mission proposal to require new businesses to provide thejr own parking outside the immediate downtown core area. 7 ' It is one thing to say off -street parking is not the responsibility of a municipality and that it should be accomplished by pri vate concerns who desire shop pers to visit their stores But, will private initiative produce the answer? In some cases, mer chant's associations have joined forces to provide off-street facil ities but more often than not they found the job too big. Oak land," Calif., is ' ' an " example. There the merchants have done a commendable job but they are urging the city -to step in and help. .-" ; We have some good examples of private parking in Eugene. Several of the big, new depart ment stores . have their own parking lots and the doctors of the Medical Center building have recently purchased a quar ter block to add to their off street parking area. This is fine for the downtown area. But what happens 10 or 15 years hence when one of the present owners decides to use off-street parking area for build ing expansion or to sen to an other party for an office build ing when a price is offered that is bard to refuse? was a prelude to the Communist party congress which opened in Moscow yesterday. Other Speculation Some experts suggest that MacLean, at least, helped to write the two letters Bulganin recently sent to President Eisen hower. Others suggest that Mac Lean and Burgess were "un veiled" because the Kremlin had no more use for them, and saw no reason to keep them under cover any longer. . In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Nogales, Arizona, just across a wire fence and through a cou ple of gate from Nogales, Son ora, is the jumping off. place for one of the great migrations of recent history the rush of American tourists into western Mexico. . - With.modern trimmings, it is a parallel for the California gold rush and the race into the Cher okee Strip. There is a slight difference in objectives, of course. The 49-ers were heading for California in search of gold. Those who made the race into Oklahoma's . Cherokee , Strip were seeking land. The Americans who are pour ing into western Mexico are hunting the sun. Otherwise, this latest rush is a dead ringer for the other two. ... I MIGHT add that results of latest American migration are just as satisfying as were those of the other historic mi grations. The 49-ers found gold in California or at least a lot of them did. The emigrants to the Cherokee Strip found land. In both cases those who made good were happy. In this particular season, EV ERYBODY participating in the pital for the White House. After spending a few days in Washing ton, he went to his Gettysburg, Pa. farm to continue recuper ation. . s He met with the National Se curity Council Nov.; 21 and the cabinet Nov. 22 at Camp David, Md., for the first time since his attack. He began taking on more work in December. Heart specialist Paul Dudley White said Dec. 17 the President soon could assume a normal work load. The President resumed full time residency in the White House Dec. 21 in time for Christmas. He flew to Key West, Fla., Dec. 28. He was back in Wash ington 12 days later, resuming a full work load. The fact that off-street park ing areas could be retained in definitely for the general wel fare of the community is the strongest point for development of municipal accommodations. (There are many cities which are acquiring off-street parking, so we wouldn't be doing some thing "unusual.") About a year ago we suggest ed a method of municipal off street parking development that we believe merits consideration. 1. City obtain option on sev eral locations in the central busi ness area as a start for off-street parking. - Voters would then know where the lots were and how much they would cost. 2. With cooperation of the merchants, establish a parking district confined to the central business area. ; 3. Based on the amount need ed for purchase of lots, schedule a vote by the city on a revenue bond issue to be paid off by rev enue from the lots and from on street parking meters. 4. If the revenues, in any year, should faU short of ; the amount needed for bond retire ment, levy an assessment to make up the difference on the properties within the parking district. ... ' . . - This plan would not have the "stigma"- of a general obligation on the entire' city.; However, the big drawback now is that it ap parently needs state legislation to authorize cities to establish parking districts. 7 Certainly the need for legisla tion should be. a part of any study undertaken. It could be ready for action by the 1957 legislature. A bill of this type died in the Senate local govern ment committee during the 1955 session. ' - Hardly anyone denies down town parking is a problem that need solving before the high value areas of the city deterior ate. A study and recommenda tions by a widely representative committee should gain the con fidence of most citizens . and lead toward positive action. Eugene Register-Guard British Foreign Secretary Sel- wyn Lloyd mentioned two pos sible reasons. (1) That "it was to forestall awkward questions" during the forthcoming Bulgan-in-Krushchev visit (2) It was to "create' distrust and drive a wedge" between the United States and Britain after the close accord reached when Prime Min ister Eden and Lloyd visited Washington early, this month. "If this is the explanation, they will not succeed,". Lloyd said. News rush to Mexico is finding sun. . So everybody is happy. the ALSO " - . f- Results come quickly; In Nogales the other morning, when the immigrants awoke, there was ice all over the cars. It had rained early the night be fore, and after that the tempera ture took another nose dive. So the rain that had collected on the cars congealed into ice that had to be scraped off the wind shields. It took, some scraping, too. , But In Hermosilla four hours and 180 miles later, a kindly sun was beaming down from a cloudless sky. Coats were discarded and sport shirts .were opened up at the throat. . Cuffs were rolled back and the car windows were let down. The Land of the Sun had been reached. rpHE Americanos who had left their native land in the frost some four hours before simply basked in it. The Sonoran mo tels have a pleasant custom. They are built with what Mid- westerners would can a front porch which is aimed into the sun. On this front porch there are chairs rocking chairs, for the most part. Everybody piled into a rock ing chair and SAT IN THE SUN And it was WARM! A T last we were in bougain- -villia land not the skimpy bougamvillia of the farther northern latitudes in Arizona and Southern California but the flamboyant masses of it that become ever more flamboyant as one approaches the Tropic of Cancer. -- v TTCJT- -L There must be a fly In every ointment. The fly in this ointment is the paucity of accommodations in comparison with the number of people desiring the accommoda tions. T SPOKE earlier in this piece of the rush . into the Cherokee atrip. If ypu have read your history assiduously, you will re call that in the Strip there were "Sooners." The Sooners were those seekers after land who had got in ahead of the rush. The Sooners in this modern day Rush for the Sun are those provident persons who had made reservations well ahead The later comers find them in comfortable, even a trifle smug, possession of aU the more desir- able accommodations. Winter Cold Pushes Over Much of Nation By UNITED PRESS Winter cold recaptured much of the nation today and tor nadoes played on the edge of the icy front. The cold wave pushing out of the Northern Plains kept tem peratures in a sub-zero . deep freeze throughout the Dakotas and Montana. Weather forecast ers said the cold should spread from the Appalachians to the Texas Panhandle and the North west by today. -Heavy Rains in South The clash between the cold front and a mass of warm, moist Gulf air touched off heavy rains in the South and tornadoes hit communities in Texas and Ark ansas. The Texas twister skipped through the heavily industrial ized Nederland-Port Neches area late yesterday, lifting an occu pied house off its foundations, turning it counter-clockwise, SMALL ENGINE REPAIRS CLINTON Sales & Service ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. .i AUTOMOTIVE Electric Parts Service 245 N. RIVERSIDE -Medford - Pho. 2-4918 ommunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves vhe right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. The Negro Vote 7 To the Editor: 1 would' like you to know how very much I enjoy your editorials, especially the one in Sunday's Tribune en titled "Adlai and :the Negro." Most of your, conclusions are sound, particularly as they dec cribe Stevenson, the man. How ever, I think, your, statement, suggesting the N.A.A.C.P. "pretty much controls . and di rects the colored vote," needs a bit of review. Your observa tion would probably be true, were there no other factors in volved. There are two great groups of colored people in America: (1) The colored group in the states of the deep South, where their voting is almost whoUy nil, and they are therefor po litically inarticulate.- (2) The colored group in the states of the North, where they do vote, and are vocal. , A laboring Negro in the North, situated in the populous centers like New York, Chicago, Detroit-, San Francisco, Los An geles, etc., belongs, mostly to one of the C.I.O; vertical unions. Such membership has . placed him on a "par with his white brother economicaUy. The thinking of his white brother is bound to influence his atti tude politically. Now remembering that the C.I.O., as a body, is, rightly or wrongly, antagonistic to some of the views of the Republican party, and that this organiza tion (C.I.O.) a substantial part now of the house of Labor, in tends to go all out to defeat its political enemies wherever they may be found, you have a situa tion where the northern Negro voter is compelled to choose be tween Rome and Caesar. Therefore, the political choice of his white feUow unionist,, as wen as the union to which they both belong, and in which de cision he (the Negro) wiU have a voice, will be the deciding fac tor as to how he votes. In other words, the northern unionist Negro will pretty much vote as the political philosophy to which he is exposed wiU suggest, and not because of a racial difficulty in Alabama. - The N.A.A.C.P. can no more deliver the north ern Negro vote as a block than can a labor union guarantee its membership wiU vote either Democratic or Republican, simp ly because its leadership so sug gests. 7, , ... .77 Lee Wilmeth, Ashland, Oregon. She's Against Fluoridation To the Editor; Upon reading that Portland was voting con cerning the fluoridation of water there, I expected to see some thing in the paper that Medford will be wanting to do likewise. Sure enough, the first hint was cleverly tuckedaway in the back pages of Feb. 5th's Sunday . Trib une, no doubt hoping too many people wouldn't see it in time to get in their kick. . - Not so hidden was the article in Feb. 8th news as of rodent poison being used which seemed 'to be the cause of the death of and setting it down again. There were no injuries. Another tornado hit near Sugar Loaf, Ark., early today. A house and two barns were damaged but there were no in juries.' Snow Snarls Traffic Meanwhile, snows stretched from Montana into Colorado and the Western Plains, snarling traffic in some cities. The tem perature went to 22 below zero at Cutbank, Mont., almost 50 degrees under the 71 across the nation at Miami. Also in the West, two strong earthquakes and several smaller ones rocked a wide area of Southern California. The steady rolling motion set off fire alarms in San Diego, but caused no damage..:"- Tibet's New Year Festival, falls usually in February or March, . SONOTONE All-Transistor HEARING AID WHAT IS IT? In simple terms the Sonotone transistor Hearing Aid is a very small perfectly engineered in strument. It is most economical to operate and easy to wear. The only thing that your friends could possibly notice about it is the marvelous change in your hearing and your entire personality. C. 18 Years with Sonotone 839 East several dogs. That was In the middle of the front page in heavy headlines.: Seems as though dogs are more important than people. The article states that 10-80 rodenticide was used and contains a poison gas. Fluorine is also a gas, yeUow and highly corrosive; eating away iron pipes through which it passes. If it can dissolve an iron pipe, what would it do to the stomach? No one seems to have investi gated its reaction on those using sulfa drugs or any of the new potent medical treatment used today. How might it react on our hair with the chemical used in a permanent? A very smaU per cent of water is used for drinking; also, even, if it were not questionable that fluorine did any good to a few smaU children; that also consists of a smaU percentage of the people. Friday, Feb. 10, Tribune arti cle by S.O. Dental society states that too much sweets is the cause, that is, the greatest cause of bad teeth in smaU children. I am sure we all agree to that part. , They also ' claim that teeth cannot decay only from misuse to the enamel of the tooth. They seem to mean that a fluoride solution is the only means of counteracting the sugar left on. the teeth after eatine candv. Anyone that favors this treat ment can get it. No need to poison the drinking water, forc ing everyone . to use it against their will and better judgment. Why should a handful of peo ple worry about a child when their parent's don't. The use of candies and soft drinks by chil dren is equal to adults that over indulge in stronger drinks. There has much more been proven against chemical fluori dation than there has been for it. Very much more. And what a shame to add any thing to the God-given spring from which Medford is supplied! Mary E. Atkins 1634 Orchard Home Dr. 7. . Medford, Ore. The southern hemicphere pro duces most of the world supply of wool. Facts About Fluoridation "LETS LIVE" MAGAZINE January Issue 1956 Text books on Materia Medica Tnxicoloav and Pharmocology tata as follows: Fluorides: "It is a -general protoplasmic poison hav ma a strona irritant action." "11 is a gastro-intestina! irritant," and "has no therapeutic value" for the human body. ' .The second major reason for ob jecting to the use of sodium fluo ride in the public drinking water is found in its high activity in in hibiting the action of enzymes and the phosphatases. It has long been known that the enzymes and phos phateses are particularly sensitive to the presence of even a low con centration of sodium ' fluoride which is a specific poison for them. Therefore, instead of mak ing strong bones and teeth,- it draws the calcium out of the blood stream, causing central nervous disorders, brittle bones and brittle teeth. Sodium fluoride is a violent metallic, inorganic synthetic poison, and no human power or words from the human being can change it. -By S. Milton Zimmerman, DDS Ardmore, Pennsylvania Keep Our Water Pure Send Your Name, Address and All Financial Help You Can To FIGHT FLUORIDES , Antifluoridation Committee 212 Leverette Bldg. Medford, Ore. Medford's Oldest Hearing Aid Institution R. ADAMSON DISTRICT MANAGER Jackson Phone 2-5904 I
