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O O O FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORIwle Tribune Ever oody in Soutnern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RtJHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor' DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 650 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 350 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 Dailv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City ol Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL vr I IassocITatlqn O NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 7, 1946 (It was Thursday) John E. Gribble, retired fores ter and Medford resident, files for Democratic nomination for Jackson county judge. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A number of local citizens are striving for a roof over them and a 1946 auto wheels under them. Both are distant, but it looks like the spare tire will leak before the roof does. 20 YEARS AGO March 7, 1936 (It was Saturday) Local residents urge federal aid in preserving forests along Crater Lake highway in Pros pect area. Some 15 scout leaders attend school for leaders in Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO March 7. 1926 3 (It was Sunday) Medford merchants make ar rangements for style show at Craterian theater tomorrow. From Local and Personal col umn: The fee for automobiles entering Crater Lake national park will be reduced the coming season from $2.50 to $1, and the same reduction will be made in Mount Rainier rtational park. 40 YEARS AGO March 7, 1916 (It was Tuesday) County Judge Frank L. Tou Velle, returning from trip East, reports that some sugar beet area farmers net as much as $70 per acre. From Local and Personal col umn: The city council wili hold its regular monthly meeting to night. In addition to routine work, it will probably fix a date for clean-up day. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? ' Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. The 1955-56 strike at West- inghouse(jplants was the longest major U.S. strike m the last five years; right or wrong? 2. President Eisenhower's brother Earl is an engineer, col lege president, lawyer or news paper official? 3 Which two of these states had no city over 100,000 in the 1950 census: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire? 4. The big prehistoric dino saurs were larger than any ani malQtoday; right or wrong? 5. Temperature during March is normally highest in Albuquer- - que, Dallas, Mobile, New Or leans or San Diego? 6. The Negro proportion of the population is higher in Flor ida than in Texas, or abjDut the same in eacn. 7. Thomas Jefferson did or didn't help frame the federal Constitution in 1787? The answers: 1. Right. 2. Newspaper official. 3. Mississippi and New Hampshire. 4. Wrong; some whales today are larger, 5. New Orleans. 6. Much higher in Florida. 7. Didn't (he was serv ing in a foreign post). The 688,000 civilians em ployed by the Army work at more than 400 plants, offices and camrjs throughout the United SSates and at almost 100 stations ia more than 40 foreign counts. MAIL TRIBUNE Watching The Wheels Student Government Day, which has become an annual affair in Medford, and which was in operation Monday and Tuesday, is a sound and well-thought-out program. There are many people to credit for its success the Elks lodge, which helped originate it; school staffs, who have encouraged it and fleshed it put and given it meaning during class sessions ; the officials of city and county, who have cooperated whole-heartedly in making the project go off well. TF THIS were, say, Russia, it wouldn't make too much difference whether young people knew how government works, for there's nothing much they could do about it anyway. But this is America, and the individual citizen is still a force to be reckoned with in the political man agement of public affairs. One man's influence can be felt, particularly if he knows how the wheels go around. In watching the wheels go around, these students are obtaining an infinitely valuable lesson, which will stand each one of them in good stead no matter what field they enter later on. t T"HUS, the program has personal benefits. But there are larger benefits for the entire commun ity. If a young citizen knows about government, he is apt to be interested in it, and will want it to work as well as it can. Only when a substantial portion of the citizenry has this feeling of personal interest, and the ability and desire to participate, will our form of govern ment operate the way the Founding Fathers intended it to operate as an extension of the desires and needs and abilities of all the people. E. A. Fiddlesticks, Dr. Hurlock Dr. Elizabeth Hurlock, who writes a column of advice in the Mail Tribune, sometimes has wise and sound things to say. Last Sunday, however, she gave some advice on a subject about which we think she might just have well kept quiet. We refer to her answer to this question: My daughter wants to marry a boy who is studying medicine. She says she will get a job and support them while he finishes his course. Can a man really respect him self and his wife under such conditions? 10 THIS query, Dr. Hurlock replied: Many young people today marry under conditions simi lar to those your daughter proposes. While the young men accept the aid and support of their wives, they often feel guilty because they know older people think they are shirk ing their masculine responsibilities. It is certainly not an ideal arrangement for your daughter and you would do well to try to persuade her to wait until this man-is ready to support himself. ' To which we reply, "Fiddlesticks, Dr. Hurlock. Likewise, bah. Also, fooey." QF COURSE it's not an "ideal arrangement." The ideal arrangement, obviously, would be for all of us to have just oodles of money, so that we could all do just as we wanted whether it be studying medicine, or writing letters to the editor. But "ideal arrangements" are few and far be tween. This young man she tells about has a long road ahead of him somewhere. between eight and fifteen years of training and education, depending on his field and degree of specialization. This is a long time. It's a long time to take training and it's a long time to wait to get married if the young people are sincere about it. There are some boys and girls we know who we would advise to wait just to make sure it was what they wanted. But many young people, particularly if they go into it with their eyes open and with a realiz ation that they are facing a tough time, will come out of it, no only all right, but the better for the ex perience. Mf ARRIAGE is, or should be, a working partner ship. The young wife is entitled to be a full par ticipant. And if this calls for her to work-for the sup port of a student-husband, where's the harm? We have been privileged to know a number of young couples in circumstances like this. Sure, it's tough. But show us the early years of any marriage which are free from troubles and cares and worries. FR. HURLOCK's advice is too general and too re strictive. By it she might have deprived a young couple from an intensely satisfying experience in which the wife, for the rest of her life, cairfeel she is a full partner in her husband's later success. The pattern is shifting, these days, with marriages occurring at earlier ages. Provided this does not pre vent serious-minded young people from completing their education and achieving their aims, we see noth ing wrong with it, and much that it good. E.A. Filipino Girls Urged To Manila, P.I. U.R) City Coun cilman Apolonio Gener said to day he would introduce a reso lution to make Filipino women offer their lips to local males before foreigners. He was outraged that a Fili pino girl asked American actor Marlon Brando at a press con ference here to "kiss me" and Brando refused. ' "Gentlemen, look," Gener told newsmen. "Our foreign policy is run by Americans, and our economy is controlled by Chi nese. Let us not allow foreign ers to control our love life." Gener said that if the woman who asked Brando for a kiss, had come to hirri first, "I would have given her full satisfaction." The Filipino race, Gener said, Wednesday. March 7, 1936 Kiss Native Males is "more virile, more romantic than any other race in . the world." Margaret To Become University President - Newcastle-Under- Lyme, Eng land (U.R) Princess Margaret will soon take over the presi dency of a university from a 91-year-old man. The Court of Governors of North Staffordshire University College announced that the 91-year-old Earl of Harrowby had had accepted the office of uni resigned and that the princess had accepted the office of uni versity president. She will be informally install ed June 28. ommunications in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS All kinds of tales are in circu lation about the cost of living in Mexico meaning, that is, the cost of food and lodging. You'll hear one day that prices are fabulously low in terms of Amer ican dollars. As like as not, you'll be told the next day that they're as high as in the United States. All these tales are true by which I mean that what you pay will be determined largely by where you go and what you want. There are places on Mexi co's west coast that are modeled closely after luxury resorts in the states. At these places the price will be roughly equal to prices as similar places on our side of the line. But if you go to the Mexican places including the best ho tels in the larger towns you will pay much less than in the U.S.A. LET'S deal first with the lux ury resorts. Of these, the best known and the most heavily ' patronized by Americans is at Guaymas, some 250 miles down from the border. Guaymas has a glamorous his torical background. The Spanish conquistadores found it early some 300 . years agofor there were important pearl fisheries in the Gulf of California, and these early Spaniards had a sen sitive nose for gold and silver and jewels. Then came the missionary, or ders Jesuits, Dominicans and Franciscans founding missions for the education and the civili zation of the native Indians and the saving of their souls. There were pirates in Guaymas' past English' and French whose idea was to take away the gold and the silver and the pearls from the Spanish after the Spanish had taken them away from the Indians. Gold and silver and jewels and-pirates are prolific produc ers of glamor, and Guaymas has all of them in its past. GUAYMAS as a Mexican re sort for Americans had its origin in a gleam in the eye of the Sante Fe railroad, away back in 1884. The Santa Fe by then had reached the Pacific Coast with its rails, and some of its brass had got as far down the Gulf of California as Bocochi bampo bay, where Graymas sits. They were charmed with it and acquired the site where the pres ent more or less fabulous resort hotel known as La Playa de la Cortes now stands. : . But, for one reason or another, the Santa Fe never went ahead with the resort project and short ly after the turn of the century the Southern Pacific acquired it. The S.P. is said to have had in mind a gambling resort some thing like what later became Agua Caliente, just outside Tia Juana in Baja California. People then did all their long distance traveling by rail and the S.P. is said to have had the idea that it could earn quite a few shekels by hauling Atlantic coast moguls out to Guaymas, where in beau tiful semi-tropical surroundings and in the midst of fantastic fish ing they could angle' by day and try their hands at outwitting Lady Luck by night. , But the S.P. fan into the long series of Mexican revolutions and among other things the revo lutionists cracked down on gam bling in the state of 'Sonora. Along about that same time Henry Ford invented the cheap automobile, which more or less put the skids under passenger traffic as a big revenue producer for the railroads. So the South ern Pacific project went the way of the Sante Fe projpet. "EWENTUALLY wealthy people acquired- the site and built the present Playa de la Cortes Not only did they have money, They had the good taste to em ploy architects of outstanding ability, who made a truly lovely place of it. It is charming, and you can get your money's worth just by strolling along its colon naded halls and loafing in its sunlit patios and swimming in its pool or sitting along its edge and watching, somebody else do the' swimming. It is run on the American plan, which means that meals are in cluded in the price. The cost for two people is around $25 per day, depending on the kind of room furnished. The cost for one person is somewhat more than half the amount charged for two because of the difference in room occupancy. At these prices it is so popular that you have to have reservations well in ad vance in order to get in. GUAYMAS has another distinc tion. No two people pro nounce it the same way. There are three general schools of thought on the subject. - One is just plain Gway-mas, like it is spelled. Another is Gwy-mas. Still another is WHY- mas, -with variations such as WY- mas. A fourth way is the right way -r-or at least the Spanish way but that can't be diagrammed here for the way the- Spanish pronounce the letter G just can't be done in print. You kind of clear your throat when you make the Spanish sound for G. The Drowning Incident To the Editor; I was very in terested in F. S. Brandon's ac count of the 1880 Umpqua flood and the "disappearance" of six stage horses and a heavy load ed stage of driver Fred Tice (not Tyce) as mentioned in the Mail Tribune of March 4. I knew Fred Tice years ago and he told me of the incident many times. I hope the following will clarify and not contradict Mr. Bran don's account. Fred Tice's stage run in Feb ruary 1880 was from Jackson ville to Canyonville which was made in a day and a night, and the road at that time, down in the canyons and straight up over the mountains, rarely followed a grade. It was a bad winter and the mud in the. road was axle deep to his coach. He said he expecte.d trouble crossing .the streams, but the main rrivers, the Rogue, and the Umpqua, were bridged but Graves creek, Wolf creek and Cow creek were open fords. He recalled that though they were all raging-torrents he made it across all till he reached . Cow creek. Cow creek was well over the banks and he was certain he could not ford it, but then he thought of the mail and the contract with the Express company, he felt he had to ford it if at all possible, so he urged his team of six horses into the stream. The swift water forced the lead team to stop and the swing team became tangled in the "stretchers,", bet ter known as "single trees," causing them to1 be pulled down in the raging waters, piling up the whole team. The stage, pushed by the current of the stream, swung around against the bank and Fred and his guard abandoned the coach, saving the express box and mail sack. They then walked to a change station and stayed a short time, and when the high waters lowered enough so they could get to where the horses were, they took their pocket knives and cut the harness loose from the horses and let them float down the creek. This is the version of the drowning as told to me by Mr. Tice. Mr. Tice has a son living here in Medford.. There is a' picture on display in . the Jacksonville Museum of the late Fred Tice on the seat of his stage coach driving a six horse team, but if this was the team that drowned I "do not know. Harry W. Barneburg 1297 Sunset ave. Medford, Ore. Not Sound Business To the Editor: The 10-year Kingston - Newburgh fluorida tion experiment, begun in 1945, is the only one' I have read about as being completed. Even now, the facts from both sides have not been told. Research has not yet disclosed a safe tolerance level for fluoride in take in the variable communit ies. It may take years before we know what effects they may have on the rest of the body. If fluorides harden the teeth, what is to prevent them from hardening the arteries and the bones? The mere application of heat to fluoridated water will increase the concentration of the fluorine by evaporation of the water. Leafy vegetables ab sorb more than the impene trable ones. Frozen absorb more than the fresh. So the question of how much fluorine one in gests daily involves not . Only how much fluoridated water he drinks but also the amount of vegetables he eats,- how - long they were cooked, and how much water they were cooked in. ' There is also a direct -correlation between blood coagula tion time and the fluorine, con tent of the blood. Rabbit's blood and goose blood clot slowly and have a high fluorine content, while that of the dog and cat which clot rapidly are free from fluorine. Further observations showed that in human subjects using drinking water with vary ing amounts of natural fluorine, coagulation . was 6 - to- 20 . times that of individuals, using flour ine free water. The magazine "Chemical Week," July, 1951, states: "Only 17 per cent of the nation's water is fluorine treated, thus the mar ket potential has. fluoride mak ers goggle-eyed. Standing to benefit from the boom are chemical companies ' and equip ment makers. It adds up to ,a nice piece of business on all sides." In Milwaukee it was estimat ed it would cost $78,000 to fluor idate the water. As only 1 per cent of the water is. used for drinking, so $77,220 - worth of sodium fluoride is wasted. There still remained $780 repre senting the cost '"'of drinking water for both child and adult. Of this, only three-tenths of 1 per cent is drunk by "children, so $546 more is deducted for the sewers, leaving $234, which ac tually served the intended pur po'se. To say . the "least, this is not sound business."' Maxine, Hill, 1300 Winchester Medford, Ore. SyngmanRheeSeen As Sure Winner in Korean Elections By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent It is pretty certain that wrin kled old Syngman Rhee is going to be elected President of South Js.orea ior a third four-year term. His Liberal party unani mously nomi nate d' him Monday as its c a n d i date in the election to be held some time this sum mer. Charles AlcCann There was quite a flurry a. few hours later when he sent a mes sage to the convention saying he would like to retire. It soon developed, however, that he wanted "the whole peo ple" rather than just the party, to decide. ; That meant that Rhee wanted to be drafted. "That he would be was made clear immediately. - . Paraders representing all ele ments of the Korean people started parading through Seoul, the capital, behind brass bands and organzing "We Want Rhee" rallies. There is no doubt that the people want Rhee to run, and that he really means to. Indispensable Man The fact is that he comes as close as is possible, at this time, to being Korea's indispensable man. Koreans' and American offi cials in Korea share the convic tion that if anythng happened to Rhee, political chaos would re sult. This conviction was pointed up dramatically on Jan. 30 when Maj. Gen. Kim Chang Yong, chief of the army counter intelli gence corps, was assassinated in Seoul. Suppose that should happen to Rhee? people asked. The reason was that Yong's murder ap peared to be part of an under- surface struggle for power. In addition to half a dozen politicians who would like to be President, four army generals and the chief of the militarized national police force are wait ing to make a bid for leadership, violently if necessary. " Nobody could blame Rhee for wanting to retire. He will be 81 years old on March 26. He has been in politics for 62 years, since he was 19. He has undergone im prisonment, torture, exile. He lived in the United States for about 35 years before his country was made free in 1945 He holds degrees from George Washington, Harvard and Princeton universities. , At 19, he was in politics. He served seven years in prison. Then he came to the United States. He worked untiringly for Korean independence in Wash ington, London, Paris and other capitals. At last his dream came true. He was elected Korea's first President in 1948 and reelected in 1952. Approaching 81, he is still tough. He speaks softly but his eyes are hard and he is al ways ready for a fight. He re mains Korea's No. 1 man. 'If you're Where you save does make As more than 15,000,000 Americans already know, there are important advantages to putting your savings in insured Savings and Loan Associations . . . Excellent returns from your money is one advantage. Modern, efficient, forward-looking service is another. And, of course, your money is safe because in insured Savings and Loan Associations your savings are protected by sound management and substantial reserves. They are insured up to $10,000 by the FSLIC an agency of the U. S. Government No wonder Americans are now putting more of their savings account dollars into insured Savings and Loan Associations than anywhere else! . Investments Made Matter of Fcrcf by STORM WARNING Washington The vast ma jority of Americans must -be a bit bewildered by the headlines "srrrr? announcins a crisis in Trans jordan. A local king, it seems, has summarily dismissed a pe culiar British character with the pecu liar appelation o f Glubb Pasha Stewart Aisop irom commana of the local army. "But why the devil should I care?," one common-sensible cit izen rather peevishly asked these reporters. "I don't even know where Transjordan is." Yet American interests and even the American future are TJ both rather di rectly involved in this liplv t little crisis in a small and re mote nation of the Middle j East. So it is well to try to be clear about what has really Joseph Aisop happened, and then to examine what it really may mean. What has really happened, in brief, is that three relatively novel pressures have utterly up set the established order in Transjordan. The first of these pressures, and probably the most important, is generally familiar. It is the increasing nationalism that makes it increasingly intol erable, for all the ex-colonial peoples, to have Westerners in key positions in their countries. T)ECAUSE of this new nation alism, which one sees all over Asia, General Glubb's position at the head of the Transiordanian Army was already an anachron ism.. Yet the anachronism might have lasted a lot longer if it had not been for the two other pres sures. The second pressure was not really a pressure, in our sense of the word, as much as it was a temptation. The : Saudi Arabian government is rich beyond the dreams of avarice, by Middle Eastern standards, with Ameri can oil royalties. The Saudi Arabians have used a substantial share of their oil royalties to sub sidize the politicians and the press in neighboring countries These subsidies have had a great effect in Transjordan, which is both small and poor. In Transjordan, moreover, the government itself has long been subsidized by the British. The whole bill for the Arab Legion, the force that Glubb Pasha head ed until last Thursday, was for merly paid by the British tax payers. Saudi Arabia and Egypt really meaning Saudi Arabia, which has the cash to spare- have recently been offering to pay the bill that Britain has al ways paid. King Hussein of Transjordan's abrupt dismissal of Glubb Pasha means that .his government has transferred from the British to the Saudi Arabian payroll. .. .' AS FOR the third pressure in volved in the Transjordan crisis, it is simply the new Soviet political offensive in the Middle East. On the one hand, the Com WW. Ik & saving for a comfortable future... by the 1 0th of March Earn FIRST FEDERAL j Savings & Loan Assn. of Bedford 27 North Holly R. F. Kyle, President WU m Joe and Stewart AIsop munist infiltration of the masses in Transjordan Is much further aavancea man mosi people sup pose. When the British tried to bring Transjordan into the Bagh dad Pact the Communists led the riots that defeated the Brit: ish attempt. This Communist in fluence has no doubt softened up King Hussein, so that he is willing to do business with, his family's Saudi Arabian enemies. On the other hand, Communist agents disguised as Arab . Na tionalists also' have far-reaching influence at the court of King Saud of Saudi Arabia. But after reviewing all these pressures on Transjordan, you may still ask where we come into this mess. The answer is fairly simple. In the first place the money that King Saud is dispensing is Amer ican money. The Arabian-American Oil Company pays him his oil royalties; and Aramco has allowed the Saudi Arabian ruler to anticipate his royalties for an enormous sum. Furthermore, the British in fluence in Transjordan, symbol ized by Oeneral Glubb. was the last, essential, 'ghostly survival oi tne .British imperial position in the Middle East. It was, if you uKe, a Kina ol visible guarantee of British control of the little Arab sheikhdoms to the south of Transjordan, such as Bahrein and Kuweit. It also reinforced the western links of the much larger neighboring state of Iraq, ine Key member ol the Baghdad Pact. TF ANYTHING unlucky hap- c Li , till anu. Iraq, it will not only break the Baghdad Pact. Aboveall it will affect the golden flow of oil from these areas to Britain and West ern Europe. Without the oil, Bri tain will go bankrupt there and then. The Western European economies, even if they do not go totally bankrupt, will come to a dead halt for want o, Mid dle Eastern nptrnlpiim Tho incm. . . lar vein of Western Europe and Britain, in truth, is the oil source of the Middle East. In short, the future of Amer ica's principal NATO partners is in play in the Middle Eastern power game, in which the Trans jordan crisis is a major incident. The power game is all the more important to America, because we are also in pawn to our Brit ish and European partners. For they control the overseas air bases on which the; striking pow er of the American strategic air command wholly depends. What has happened in Trans jordan can even eventually af fect the sacred concept of mas- sive retaliation, iu una caicui we are involved. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. SLACKS EXPERTLY FITTED' Wide Selection in All Wool, Shark skin, Imported Flannels, Gabs and Worsteds !g g5 CHRIS The Tailor 36 N. Bartlert Phone 2-8473 a difference This sign identifies us as a member of The Savings and Loan Foundation Inc., a nationwide organizauon of insured Savings and Loan, Building and Loan and Homestead Associa tions which sponsors this message in Life, The Saturday Evening Post and U. S. News and World Report. Dividends as of the 1st Mm. Jiiwpu Havings and loan? foundation i f ii ii i
