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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MhfordWTribune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Reads The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC A-LLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. 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 Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County Un .ted Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Rortland. St- Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocITatlqn i u w NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30 and tO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 2, If? 6 0 (It was Saturday) A. S. Rosenbaum, recently re tired Southern Pacific freight and passenger agent here, hon ored at Elks dinner. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: It is now rumored common sense is ap pearing in Washingtog, D-C. af fairs, but not to any alarming extent. 20 YEAIS AGO March 2, 1936 It was Monday) 0, Robert "W. Ruhl, publisher of l!i)Medford Mail Tribune, nam ed to the ste board of higher education succeeding Leif Finset of The Dalles. Eugene Thorndike becomes manager of the Medford branch of the First National Bank of Portland. (gj YEARS AGO (gjarch 1926 (It was Tuesday) New air mail service starting April 6 will give direct routes between New York and San Francisco and northwestern cities. v O. A. Kicklein, salesman with the Mason (Motor company here drives Starfour-cylinder stock model to Siskiyou summit with car sealed in high gear. 40 YEARS AGO ' March 2. 1916 (It was Thursday) (gRairrrall since Sept. 1, 1915, measures only 9.47 inches, about half the norrfiaamount. Utah Sugar compa indicates that sugar beet plantowill be built in area within a year. WhaS's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report : 1. More than half of all U.S families are repay&g in instal ments some obligation tney haSafe incurred: right or wrong? ' 2. Pone Pius XII was born in Borne, Venice, Florence, a small town in northern Italy, or rural south Italy? 3. Texas on eve of .entering Tio TTninn wa nart of Mexico. Spafn, or France, or an inde pendent nation? 4. Jewish population is larg est in the Bronx (N.Y.), (Brook lyn (N.Y.), Philadelphia, Chicago or Los Angeles? 5. Most-favored-nation clause in a treatv between two na tions restricts the treaty advant ages to those nations or opens thpm to all. reciprocally 6. Hawaii is closer to Califor nia or Japan, or about the same distance from each.' : 7. Eng and Chang were better lmnwn as ? The Answers: 1. Wrong (1955 shows somewhat less Wf.) 2. Rome. 3. Independ eni nation. 4. Brooklyn. 5. Opens Jhem to all reciprocally. 6. mor to California. 7. The Siamese Twins. TTt-PV RAISIN FROSTING nreriaring raisins to add to frosting made with instant fluffy frosting mix, cover them water iu i sauucyou v a boil. Remove from W c6ver, let stand five min- be soft anapiump. tW ereatest annual precipita- u n.in record was j5 inches at Miinor m j.a MAIL TRIBUNE 05 West State Park The Highway Commission, bless its collective heart, has granted a request to name a state park after former Gov. Oswald West, the doughty 82-year-old whose efforts preserved the beaches of Oregon for the people forever. Now, if Governor West will just stand still long enough to accept the honor, we'll be happy. We hope, because of a sense of over-modesty, he doesn't kick over the traces. He should permit us to have the pleas ure of seeing the state honor the man who did so much on its behalf. E.A. G O Quite a Year It looks like quite ayear ahead for southern Ore gon. We refer specifically to the large number of build ing and construction projects which are being started or are well under way in this area, and , which will serve both as a "shot in the arm" to our economy, and as long-range stimulants to activity by large seg ments of the population. riRST, and probably the most notable of the lot, is the Talent project a construction job which will totaf something-more than $19,000,000 in outlay be fore it is completed in the next four or five years. The future importance of this project, which will gre&tly increase the amount of irrigated agricultural land irPthe county, is greater than the short range importance although the infusion of four to five TYiillirms.inn t.hp prnrmrriv pach vear for four or five ears is nothing to be sneezed at in terms of payrolls, pupuiciLiuii arm geiicidi uuouicoo activity. ANOTHER major construction job which will soon o-of nnHrsf wav is t.hp Rnone Vallp.v Memorial & wv ' ' "J - " O iJ " hospital, which when completed will have cost in the i -i t -i f srr : aaa tt 1 J?.J -. neignoornooa oi $z,uuu,uuu. xiere again uie xuluic benefits outweigh the immediate impact of the big building job. Fdr Medford, located as the' trade center of a huge area of northern California and southern Ore gon, will increasingly also become the medical center of fhp area Tf 'ls tmp nlrpndv that, manv nermle come here for their mescal needs, and this habit will be come expanded as tne greater and more moaern facilities of the new hospital become known. THE Rogue Valley. Manor, a'$2,000,009 retirement V r-m r io nnnfnr m o irV Tin A orf .oVlTI T WrllfOl Will come to a head this year. retired people of means, will come here from all over the country and will serve element in the economy of The rehabilitation work of the irrigation districts in ficant, both in teEms of what the actual construction means, and m terms of what it will mean, m added irrigation water in the future. w w w T'HERE are other governmental and pnvate build-rv-i i vni'nifo wliinli era cf o vfir rr nr riVOonmuVillT will start soon. There is the $348,000 station in Medford, a new home which will be built located. 0 At least one and very likely two major new motel apartment unite are being planned in the immediate neighborhood of Medford. i . One of the major lumber companies is in the beginning stages of a big expansion program. Other industrial and business building is in the works. And, if congress succeeds in passing a federal highway bill, we have every reason to expect addition al highway construction activity in Jackson county, which as Oregon's fifth most populous, would be en titled to a high priority in highway building. Always in the offing are the rumors of 'major companies establishing light manufacturing or dis tributing facilities in this area, which because of its location has many advantages for this type of op eration. THERE are a few dim spots in the picture. A stone w;all faces a number of proposed sub divisiofis because of the problem of sanitation, which includes the high cost of sewers and the fact that soils hereabouts do not lend themselves to the indef inite expansion of septic tank0 and cess pool facilities. For this reason there are limits to the nuiriber of homes which can be constructed to "accommodate the influx of people which this increased activity will inevitably attract. And always, with growth of population and eco nomic activity, there are questions of school construc tion, fire and police protection, equitable taxation, and a mytiad of attendant questions. A third major probJem is transportation, which includes high freight rates and highway inadequacies. THESE facts lead us to two conclusions. " The firstois that we can be generally optimistic about the future of southern Oregon. We have the potentialities, of growth in agriculture, and of a stable light manufacturing, processing and distribution in dustry, based on our forests, our farms, and our stra tegic business location. . The second is that to work for the' solution of these problems we will need the ablest, most intelli gent, hardest-working and most cooperative public servants we can elect. Ineffectualness and. bumbling in public office could be disastrous to an orderly and progressive future. A11 in all, it promises to be quite a. year. E.A. Friday, March 2, 1886 The occupants, largely as a staple and well-neeied Jackson county. now under way on two the county also are signi o o Medford armory, a new fire $65,000 juvenile detention when an adequate site is UN Secretary Sees Danger of Middle Eastern War Lessening By CHARLES M. McCANST United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: The Good 1. United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, re turning from a visit to the Mid dle East, expressed belief that the danger of war between the Arab countries and Israel had lessened. Hammarskjold said he saw no easy way to a complete settlement of the Palestine dis pute. "But I do believe in the possibility of an orderly pro gress toward solutions" he said. Communications 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 Che right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Questions and Answers To the Editor: Your paper has been commended for its stand on fluoridation, which is all very fine, but I do think you owe it to the public to give us more of your factual information concerning this matter. I have put together certain questions I would like answered. I am in terested primarily as a parent whose chief concern is for my family's welfare. These are the questions: (1) Has it been proved, beyond reasonable doubt, that fluorida tion is safe' to everyone. (It is stated that fluoride is an accumu lative poison.) (2) Isn't it true in a great many of , the cities which have adopted fluoridation, that the decision was made by the City Council and not put before the people? Why? (3) Is fluoridation of public water supplies constitutionally and morally right? (Our Consti tution emphasizes that an indi vidual has certain rights so fong as they do not interfere with another's. Wouldn't fluori dation deny this basic freedom?) (4) Why is chlerinalion com pared to artificial fluoridation when chlorine ean easily be re moved by boiling' and fluoride can not? ' (5) According- to Dr. Exner of Seattle, Wash. "Fluoride must be absorbed by the bloodstream and carried to the toothbuds where it acts on the: enamel forming cells and these cells de pend on the concentration of fluoride in the blood." There fore explain how anyone can 4e termine a right dosage when one child will drink more or less than another? (6) Doesn't the" Public Health Service fully expect 15 to 20 per cent will develop mottling of teeth or fluorosis? Shouldn't the individual be allowed to decide if he wants to take the chance on being in " thet percentage? (Even a majority -yes vote would deny tlys individual . voluntary action.) (7) Aren't both sides of this issue equally trained and in formed to back their statements and findings? Why then is one authority more right than an other? . Thank you for answering these questions. I think every parent owes it to himself and his fam ily to weigh both sides of this issue with equal enthusiasm especially to consider if it i Constitutionally and morally right, if nothing more. (Name on file) Medford, Ore. (Editor's note: Each of the above questions could be an swered at great length. In an at tempt to provide brief, accurate answers, a doctor, a dentist, an attorney and a public health of ficial were consulted. The num bered answers correspond to the numbered questions: (1. Fluoridation has been proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, to be harmless to every one, according to the vast ma jority of doctors, dentists and public health officer after mora then 10 years of intensive test ing and researeh. (2. A number of city councils have approved fluoridation of water. Presumably the reasons varied somewhat, but it would be a safe generalization to state that they were acting, in their capacities as elected representa tives, for the welfare of their cities, and felt no more need to refer it to a vote than they would any other routine action. In cities where it has become a controversial issue (and it 1 has not been such everywhere) it frequently has been referred for a vote. (3. The Oregon Supreme Court recently specifically ruled unan imously that fluoridaiioQ is con stitutional, and is an appropriate exlrcise of the authority of a city on behalf of the health and welfare of the people. The same finding has .been made by more than 30 other courts, and no rul ing to the contrary stands today. As to moral rights, does a min ority have the right to prevent a majority from enjoying a bene fit, even though the minority would be in no way harmed? - (4. Both pro and anti-fluorida-tionists have compared chlorina tion to fluoridation because both are instances where chemicals He emphasized that he saw no reason for "panicky reactions" to the present situation. 2S The finance ministers of 17 Western European countries, meeting "in Paris, approved a plan for the collective develop ment of atomic energy for peace. A special committee was appoint ed to draft within three months a detailed program of coopera tion. This plan would fit in with one under which six of the coun tries France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg would pool all of their nuclear resources. President Eisenhower's offer of $500 million worth of uranium Letters submitted for publication must are added to water, though for different purposes. They have made the comparisons, of course, for opposite reasons. (5. The optimum dosage of one part per million has been de signed to be of benefit to all children, regardless of the fact that some drink more water than others. The amount ingested varies between .5 and 1 me daily. The recommended amounts are based on experience in areas where water is naturally fluori dated, and where it has be6n found beneficial and harmless in these amounts. Yet in these communities people drink vary ing amounts, and have suffered no ill effects and have derived dental benefits. One of the most significant ways in which fluo rides are absorbed is by the use of water in cooking, when it is ingested with foods. (6. There is evidence of a very mild degree of dental fluorosis in less than 10 per cent of chil dren drinking treated water, but this does not cause staining. The fluorosis (tiny whitish spots on the back teeth) cannot be seen in' normal inspection. Onty trained observers making a care ful examiration can detect it. (7. Everyone is free to believe who and what he wants. It ap pears, however, that the over whelming preponderance of in formed and expert opinion should carry some weight. Opponents among the healing arts are in a tiny ("microscopic," one phy sician said) minority. Among the organizations endorsing flu oridation are the American Den tal association, the American Medical association, the Ameri can Pharmaceutical association, the U. S. Public Health service, the National Institute of Dental Research, the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, the American Society of Dentistry for Children, the American Public Health asso ciation, the State and Territorial Dental Directors association, the Conference of State Sanitary En gineers, the American Water Works association, the National Congress of Parents and Teach ers, the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, most state departments of health, in cluding Oregon's, the Southern Oregon Medical society, the Southern Oregon DentaJ associa tion, and others.) Proud of Phoenix Team To the Editor: The recent Crater-Phoenix basketball game left many of the spectators with mixed emotions. It is felt that much bitterness and ill-wiU could be avoided by hiring ref erees who are not local people. We at Phoenix are proud of our boys for their fine display of - team work and sportsman ship throughout the season. We feel that they have done a good job and that they should be rec ognized as one of the outstand ing high school teams in the state of Oregon with their rec ord of20 wine and 4 losses. Though disappointed that our own team will not represent the southern part of District 6 A-2, we wisk Crater high school the best of luck as they enter the games against Coquille. Signed by 22 residents of Phoenix. On Prejudice o 0 To the Editor: We live in a wonderful country. Liberty and justice forDall. . WeU, I wonder what the rest of the world thinks of us and our racial hatred and prejudices? All this mess about the Au therine Lucy case. Also the two big white men thaj took that Negro boy (14 years olcf5 out and shot him "to put him in his place." Some of the American people had better take a good look at themselves and their consciences if they have any. The Gestapo, Jap and Russian methods and tactics, have noth ing on some of our people here in the United States. Also how is it in these days of prosperity and surplus those kids in Louisiana are starving and dying from eating from gar bage cans? We had better send some of our Care packages to the hungry people here in the United States as wells over seas. (Name on File Gold Hill, Ore. to aid freg countries in develop ing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes will play a big par in both plans. 3. The United States, Great Britain and France opened nego tiations with West Germany for payment of the cost of maintain ing armies in Germany under the- North Atlantic Treaty. The present agreement for payment expires on May 5. West German Finance Minister Fritz Schaeffer insists that he cannot continue payment. But, he said in a United Press interview that an agree ment can be reached if negotia tions are conducted in the spirit of the Western alliance. The Bad 1. Despite U. N. Secretary Gen eral Hammarskj old's optimism over the Palestine situation, Is raelis were bitterly angry over the failure of the United States to comply with their demand for arms. The Israeli government demands that the United States give a yes or no answer now. A United Press dispatch said the reaction of the Israeli man-in-the-street to President Eisen hower's second term announce ment was unfavorable. The feel ing was expressed that under Mr. Eisenhower, the Republican administration has "curried favor with the Arabs" and that four more years of Repubcan rule is more likely if the Presi dent runs. 2. French, Premier Guy Mollet embarked on an almost desper ate attempt to settle the chronic crisis in North Africa. Mollet demanded unprecedented special powers to crush terrorism in Al geria if the rebels reject his offer of political and economic concessions. Gen. Augustine Guillaume resigned as chief of the2 general staff because he dis agreed with Mollet's policy. Ter rorism in Algeria intensified. There was no indication that the rebels would accept any con cessions Mollet might make. 3. Negotiations between Brit ain and nationalists over the fu ture of the Eastern Mediterran ean island of Cyprus apparently reached a new deadlock. Colon ial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, who went to Cyprus to negotiate with -Greek Orthodox Arch bishop Makarios, failed to nar row the area of disagreement, The nationalists want Britain to give "them "self-determination," which would mean union with Greece. By FRANK JENKINS In these rambling sketches the other day, I offered the opin ion that one needs no Spanish to get around in western Mexico It's a good general rule. But it has its exceptions. I ran into one of them the other day in Los Mochis. , Los Mochis, a town of some 20,000, lies in the far nrthern edge of the state of Sinaloa. It is half a dozen kilometers off to one side of Mexico's Highway 15. That's just enough to remove it from the beaten tourist path. As . a result, it is practically pure Mexican. , I CAME down in the morning, full of vim and vigor and ready for the road. I unlocked the door (one is cautioned to keep . cars lScked up tightly), turned the ignition- key and Stepped on the starter. Nothing happened. It just gruifted that awful, ' sickening grunt that be tokens a dead battery, That's bad enough when it occurs in your own garage when you're hustling down to work in the morning. It's rugged in a foreign town where there Js no dealer to cafl up with' a re quest to sgnd up a service car to get the darned thing going again. - It's ruggeder still when you realize there's nobody around who can understand a word you say and that you can't under stand what anybody else says. VITORSE yet, it was on Sunday " .morning (el- domingo in Spanish) and on el domingo nothing much is open in Mexico but the eating places and., the gasoline stations. The gas sta tion boys, in addition to know ing no English, don't know how to do anything but pour in the gas. "nVENTUALLY, to make a long story shorter, I found a place that on week days would have 231 HAMBURGER or SAUSAGE . 29b. $1.00 In the Day's News Reducing Educational Costs Is Discussed By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. I now see no way to cut costs of oper ating primary or grade schools. I believe, how ever, that high schools and colleges will become jnore efficiently and e c o nomically operated. The self- service super - market will show the the way. Roger W. Babson Some educational experts are urging cities and towns to spend less on buildings, libraries, and equipment and devote more of the total allotment to teachers' salaries. This may be good poli tics, but it is not in the students' interest. I favor building better schools with better libraries and equipment, but having fewer teachers. Then pay better sal aries to these fewer teachers. ' The most vital field for a "Do- It-Yourself" campaign is that of education. A parent can buy a set of encyclopedias for $100 which contain more information been a one-man repair shop for much minor incidents as fixing tires. A pleasant Mexican was painting the front end of a truck with a lacquer spray outfit. He looked up and said "un momen- tito," and when he reached a place where he could stop he laid down his spray nozzle and the hassle began. There wereno places in Los Mochis where a battery could be recharged. There were no places where a new battery could be purchased and install ed. So the problem was to get Jhis gentleman to take his truck up to tne motel where my crip pled car was parked and give me a shove to start the car so that its engine could recharge the battery. TT DEVELOPED that in the - city of Los Mochis in the state of Sinaloa in the Republic of Mexico the technique of start ing a car with a push from an other car was not understood. So it was up to me to instruct my new-found friend in the proc esses invoivea in such an op eration. I went to work in bad Span ish, buttressed here and there with little French to make it sound more impressive, and the Indian sign language. I must add here that it was the Indian sign language that turned the trick. ' " - - ' T WENT around behind his - truck, pointed to it and said: "Su automovil, entiende?" He nodded. Then I pointed to an imaginary car further back and said: "Mi automovil, entiende?" He nodded again. It was then that I put on the sign language act. I stepped back and with such histrionic talent as I could command I drama' tized myself as his truck. I put my hands before me as if Qish- ing something with much effort, grunting meanwhile to convey the idea of power. Then I made a short run, to depict gather ing speed, .stopped, said "Who-o-o-s-s-s-h-h-h-h!" to simulate the sound of a starting engine and waved my hands forward to in dicate my car skimming down the road, .like a startled rabbit. TIE GOT the idea, grinned hap pily, opened the door of his truck and said" "Entra, Usted," and we got in and headed for my stalled car. Arriving there, he got in behind it, I got in and took the wheel and he pushed me out onto the crowded pave ment, souped it up to about 40 kilometros per hora and by the favor of the saints the engine took hold., T STOPPED the car, leaving the -'Engine running, ' and went pack to his truck, reaching for my wallet oh the way. "Cuantos pesos?" I asked. "Nada," he re sponded. "Americanos nuestros amigos." I managed, however, to crowd 15 pesos on him, and we parted in high mutual esteem. I'd like to add at this point that practically without excep tion . the - Mexican people are friendly,' helpful and courteous. One can't help liking them. OH, YES. What happened ' to the car? The battery went dry. The hot weather down here uses up bat tery water fast. . EAST SIXTH ST. PORK ROAST SLAB BACON V Lb. than is contained in the heads of all the teachers in your com munity. Moreover, the training and discipline of self-education is even more valuable than all the facts that can be learned. Hence, I forecast that the next great movement in education for those above 13 years of age will be teaching students to learn without teachers. , I wish that some city would put the mana gers of its self-service super markets on their school boards. Who's On Your School Board? 5 To begin with, you probably don't know who are on your lo cal 'school board. If not, send to your superintendent of schools and ask for a list of the members and the business in which each is engaged and the number of children which each has in the schools. You may be surprised to find how poorly chosen these men and women are for this work. In too many cities, school board members are interested in getting income for themselves or friends as doctors, builders, insurance agents, bank officials, storekeepers, etc. These school committee members naturally take the advice of the superin tendent of schools who is an honest man but is guided by the colleges which determines what shall be taught and how. The superintendent and school prin cipals are too often judged by the number of students they pass along to the colleges, and promoted accordingly. They are fine men and women; they de serve mnrh Vtpttpr nnv Hnt tpr' -j - Siave very little freedom. ' What Is Education? I have just been reading re ports of the recent Conference on Education held in Washing ton. The great demand there was for federal aid without fed eral interference. Very little discussion was devoted to what should be taught our children and how. No time was given to discussing lowering the cost or raising the efficiency of schools. The great need today is to tackle the educational problem as we have T.B. and polio and cancer. , I have in mind a family of four grown-up brothers aU of wnom attended the same schools and had the same teach ers. Yet three of the men are to day useful in their communities and hold good positions. One of the boys was a "delinquent" and is now a ne'er-do-well supported by the fir three. The question the mother asks is: Did the schools have any effect on the character or "life" of these boys? Traveling to the Moon The books most popular with the youth of today are books on "space travel" that is, going to other planets. It is said that Washington is havgg more in quiries about the earth "satel lites" which are to be released than about any other subject. Why is it that young people are so much more 'interested in other worlds than in learning about their own world and how to live in it? Something is wrong somewhere. Education should teach how to live. It should help parents mold character. ' Teachers should be spiritual ly minded in order to be effi cient." " Although they should be paid better salaries, yet this sal ary 'should not be based upon the degrees which they have re ceived. Looking back over my school life, it was the teachers with the biggest hearts who won my interest and awakened a de sire for knowledge and service. To get back my main ap peal: One sure way to increase Cjhe efficiency and reduce the cost of our schools and truly help1 our children is to teach children where.; to find ' their own answers to questions and awaken in them a desire for more knowledge. We need teach ers born with a love for chil dren and trained as helpful li brarians. , . Adenauer Urges Counter To Russian Cold War Bonn, Germany (U.R)--Chan- cellor Konrad Adenauer Thurs day night urged the West to beef up the political side of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to counter the new Soviet "cold war" offensive. "NATO was set up for a pos sible hot war," he told reporters. "It should now be expanded into a political instrument of the free world in the cold war." . MUTTON ROAST
