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oo o o FOUR MEDFORD (OMGrO) 'Everybody m Southern Oregon Reads The Man Tribune" Published DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. j7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-611 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. 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. Ey Carrier In Advance Mediord. 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 1.23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy. Q All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHCULAlton A 1 4 . ; Danraunttlliv' WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland, St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITOR I fs lASSOcfATLQN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 9, 1946 (It was Saturday) Senator Earl Newbry an nounces candidacy for president of senate at next legislative ses sion. o From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Sunshine the end of the week, caused buds, blooms, fall sown grain, grass, and weeds to grow like a small boy. 20 YEARS AGO March 9. 1936 (It was Monday) Clarence F. Davies, superin tendent of Eagle Point schools for eight years, files candidacy for county school superinten dent. John E. Eiders appointed rab ban of Hillah temple at Ashland meeting replacing the late John C. Thompson. 30 YEARS AGO Marc 9. 1926 (It was Tuesday) Bedford High school basket ball team leaves for state tourn ament for fourth consecutive year. Home Telephone and Tele graph company holds open house in observance of 50th year of the telephone. 40 YEARS AGO March 9, 1916 (It was Thursday) State highway commission agrees to finance survey for highway to Crater Lake park. From Local and Personal col umn:, The demand for eggs for setting purposes continues to be stronger than the supply. There ought to be a good crop of broil ers this spring. Whafs the Answer? Can You Gei 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial -Research Report 1. Federal law requires or for bids unemployment compensa tion to be paid to strikers, or lets each state decide for itself? 2. Russia now allows or for bids U.S. Protestant clergymen to visit that country? 3. Chronic alcoholism is or isn't grounds for divorce in most states? 4. Gen. Franco has headed the present government of Spain for almost (a) 12, (b) 20, or (c) 28 years? 5. A U.S. woman citizen does or doesn't automaticaUy lose U.S. citizenship on marrying a foreigner? 6. The 1956 big-track horse racing seasons opens in the East in March: in Kentucky, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland or Delaware? o 7. AFL-CIO president George Meany started work as a brick layer, coal miner, cigar maker, plumber or machinist? The Answers: 1. Lets each state decide. 2. Allows. 3. Is. 4. Almost 20. 5. Doesn't. 6 Mary land (at Bowie). 7. Plumber. Virginia and Tennessee held popular votes on secession at the time of the Civil war. Vir ginia favored secession four to one, Tennessee by only slightly more than two to one. Ants are said to have the most powerful jaw .grip, in proportion to their size, of any insects or animals. MAIL TRIBUNE Election Year Today is the deadline for candidates to file for office in Oregon's primary election, which will be held May 18. After today the question will no longer be "Who's going to run?" but "Who's going to win?" So as is abundantly evident we are well into the quadrennial and typically American hassle known as election year. CLECTION year is a time when some sensitive souls want to make like ostriches, and bury their heads in the sand. The noise and fury of the electioneering depresses them; the charges and counter-charges alarm them; the pointing-with-pride and viewing-with-alarm leave them cold and miserable. We feel for such individuals, but we cannot share their anxious concern, for the state of Ameri can morals or stability. We view election year as a time of intense stim ulation, of excitement and interest; of clashing per sonalities and clashing philosophies; of logical ar guments, and monumental and deadly platitudes. CLECTION year is the time when the "little guy" is in the driver's seat, and is catered to by the can didates and political hangers-on. And it is time when the "little guy" makes the big decisions who is going to hold what office, and what kind of taxes are going to be approved, and a host of other questions which, in a democratic nation, cannot be decided for him. Those who feel that the brawling of politics is beneath them had better not complain if the results are not to their liking, for they have no one but them selves to blame. Just about anyone can get into the act if he wishes. E.A. On Registering It could be pointed out, as an addendum to the above, that a pre-requisite for participating in an election is being registered to vote. And, for the pri mary election, the deadline for doing so is April 17. There are many residents of the county who are not registered, as is shown by the fact that in the gen eral election of -1952 there were some 11,000 more persons registered than there were last week. ' TITHILE we urge everyone who wishes to partici ' ' pate in the great game of American election politics to make sure he is registered, we do not nec essarily go along with the argument that every single, solitary soul should be lambasted and badgered into registering. There is something, at least, to be said for the idea that those who take the time and trouble to register, "without too much pressure or' urging, are more apt to be interested and intelligent voters than the ones who will not ordinarily take that time and trouble. TO QUALIFY for registration, a person must be 21 "' years of age (or have their 21st birthday by elec tion day), be a citizen, and must have lived within the state for the six months preceding the election. "THOSE PREVIOUSLY registered must re-register if they have not voted in any election with in the past two years; if they have moved, either within their precinct or to another precinct; if they wish to change party affiliation, or if their name has been changed. Registering is a simple process, and is being made as easy as possible this year. It can be done at the courthouse, at one of Medford's fire stations, or with one of the many registrars throughout the county who have been enumerated before and will be again. E. A. Robins One of the things we like best about people is that people like robins. This has been amply demonstrated in the past few days by the interest aroused by stories about the plight of snow-bound flocks of robins thousands and thousands of them who apparently are winter ing in this area. THERE is something about robins that is attractive. They're not exotic, like birds of paradise or pea cocks. Nor are they pert and appealing, like chicka dees or hummingbirds. But there is something both solid and half -humorous about robins. They are the burgomeisters of the bird kingdom the "great middle class," conserva tive, respectable and admirable. , We like robins," and can watch for long periods of time as they hop across the lawn, cocking their heads to listen for the subterranean noises which indicate the presence of worms, and then engaging in a tug-o-war from which they usually emerge triumphant. E.A. Home Congratulations to the county court on finding a suitable location for the county juvenile detention home. It is now possible to hope that the building can be constructed some time this year. When it is completed it will be possible to stop the unhealthy practice of keeping youngsters in jail which does nobody any good, and in some cases does infinite harm. E. A. Since 1946, the Ground ControUed Approach Unit at the Naval Air Stations, Patuxent River, Md., has guided 64,113 planes to safe landings by means of radar. GCA is used primarily in bad weather. Friday, March 9. 1956 Site Capt. David McCampbell, USN, is the top living World War II ace. He downed 34 Jap anese planes nine in one battle. Now he is Test Coordinator at the Naval Air Test Center, Pat--uxent River, Md. Communications Letten to the Editor murt bear the name and address of the writer Although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication ia permU tible. 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. Fountain of Youth To the Editor: I do not live in Medford, but have been read ing the fine articles In your paper regarding fluoridation of city water. I know nothing about sodium fluoride except what I read, but if adding it to the drinking water wiU save even 25 per cent of the children's teeth, and leave no other bad effects, it would certainly be worth while. On- part in a million does not seem very much, but I read that it is 25 times more potent than arsenic, so maybe that is enough. It seems to be a chemical en dued with super-human intelli gence, and perfectly reliable. When put into the water it has no effect till the child reaches the proper age, then it gives the teeth just the proper amount of hardness, regardless of the amount of water consumed. When the task is done it quits, and never again does it add any more hardness to teeth, bones, nerves, arteries, or affect ad versely any of the vital organs. Wonderful, isn't it? I have read that the communists use it to make their victims docile and easy to manage. But it could not have that effect here, for it is not put in the water for that purpose. Your plan does not go far enough. Only a small part of the population will benefit by it. I have a plan which would bene fit everybody. Why not put as pirin in the water? The experts could figure out how much would" relieve those . who have headache, and yet not have any effect upon anyone else even if, like myself, they are allergic to aspirin. The many who cannot sleep at night could be helped by put ting sleeping pills in the water. We could add cold tablets. That would benefit everyone, -not just a favored few. For those with heart trouble, the water should contain some . powerful stimu lant probably strychnine, or some of the new "wonder drugs." As I said, I do not live in Med ford, but it would be nice to stop at one of your lovely drink ing fountains, and realize that as I drink, I am not only quench ing my thirst, but am also stock ing up on all the needed medi cines and chemicals, and that I am adding days (maybe years) to my life. 1 Yours for a "fountain of eter nal youth" in every home (as well as at the street corners). John C. Stille Shady Cove, Ore. Study Is Cited To the Editor: In regard to the controversy on fluoridation, this is a subject so technical that the layman must rely upon the advice of accepted experts, since it is natural that persons with various motives might try to mislead. This was recognized by the Portland League of Women Voters when they made their study and recommendations on the issue. The following specialists addressed the committee and were questioned by the commit tee members: Dr. Arthur F. Scott, head of the chemistry de partment, Redd college; Dr. Frank B. Queen, professor of pathology, University of Oregon Medical School; Dr. Harold J. Noyes, dean of the University of Oregon dental school, and Dr. B. S. Savara, assistant pro fessor of dentistry, in the depart ment of pedodontics. All information in the exhaus tive eight months study was supported by documented state ments. Committee members sub mitted individual reports which were incorporated into the final report and a recommendation voted upon by the committee. The recommendation was that the Portland League of Women Voters support fluoridation of the Portland city water, and the League did approve it by a majority. Some facts which influenced the League's decision were: The amount of decay reduc tion thought possible by fluori dation is about 65 per cent. Most benefit is to those under 12 years of age when the program starts because this is when den tine and enamel are formed, but the benefits carry through life, and eventually the whole popu lation profits. - Fluorides in water at one part per million are tasteless, color less and odorless. Many American water sup plies are fluorinated by nature, some in much greater amounts than above, which is used to strengthen enamel without ill effects. One would have to drink over 400 gallons of water con taining 1 ppm at one sitting to receive a poisonous dosel The majority of scientists feel that no other public' health measure has had the extensive study on human populations that water fluoridation had before it was recommended as a public health procedure and that enough is known to warrant sup port of fluoridation with every Week's Good and Bad News Balanced by U.P, By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. President Eisenhower pro posed in a letter to Soviet Pre mier Nikolai A. Bulganin that the United States and Russia halt production of nucler wea pons. Future production of nu clear energy would be limited to peaceful purposes. The Presi dent's proposal was carefully conditioned upon the working out of safeguards against cheat ing. It was the latest in a series of exchanges between the lead ers of the world's two great nu clear energy powers. Nobody in Washington was optimistic enough to believe that agree ment was near. But Bulganin's first reaction was friendly. He said, at a reception in Moscow, that Mr. Eisenhower's communi cation was 'a very interesting letter and a good one." 2. The foreign ministers of the eight Southeast Asia treaty countries took their first real step toward putting teeth into their pact against Communist ag gression. They agreed, at a meet ing in Karachi, Pakistan, on the necessity of maintaining strong, mobile combat forces which could strike back quickly against an attacker. They also voted sup port of Pakistan against the at tempt of Afghanistan with Russian aid to take over part of its territory. 3. The lower house of the West German Parliament ap proved Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's "soldier bill" which will speed German rearmament. Babson Brings Early Forecasts Up To Date By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Last Jan. 1 there were published in this newspaper 50 forecasts by me for 1956. The first stated "President Eisenhower will be re-nominated and re-elected in 1956." The last of these 50 fore casts stated, "I now see no de pression ahead for 1956, but, of course, stock prices will not 'grow to the skies' . and there must be a sad . readjustment some day." The remaining 48 forecasts, which I have brought up to date in view of the events of the last three months, are as follows: 2. The President will be re lieved of much speech making, entertainment, and detail work. 3. Competition will be very severe. 4. Higher wages may be ex pected. 5. Increased advertising ap propriations will be seen. Money Policies 6. Recent policies of the money managers will be shifted to more "ease." 7. Liberal credits to the pur chasers of houses, automobiles, televisions, etc. will continue to be a strong support to business. 8. Great sums will continue to be spent on research and new plant expansion. 9. The baby boom wUl roll merrily on, resulting in ' more sales. 10. Predicted declines will come in auto and residential building, but will largely be off set by expenditures for roads, sewers, and schools. 11. Retail business will be handicapped in some cities by the parking nuisance. 12.. No appreciable price im provement in city business prop erty is likely. 13. Building costs will con tinue high. 14. Speculative builders will have to watch their step more closely. 15. The limiting of rents will be practically abolished. 16. Owners of costly apart ment buildings will find their profit margins squeezed harder. 17. Commercial farms need not suffer. 18. Owners of small scattered farms will suffer. Subdivisions Seen 19. More well-located "close in" farms will become sub divisions and shopping centers. 20. Those who have been hold ing real estate for speculative profits might well consider selling. 21. Russia will keep out of war with us during 1956. 22. There will be one or more small wars during 1956. 22. The "cold war" now exist ing between Russia and the the United States will continue. 24. The threat of the hydro gen bomb and guided missile will be the greatest interna tional factor for diplomatic trading. 25. The Republicans will turn slightly "New Dealish." . 26. Some "dark horse" may assurance of its safety. This is more a health issue than a political one, and in that light should we not inquire into the qualifications of those who oppose it? Mrs. W. A. Scoville 20 South Barneburg rd. Medford, Ore. The upper house is expected to approve it later this month Adenauer's own position was strengthened by a victory in the Baden-Wuerttemberg state elec tion. The Bad 1. The situation In the Middle East became steadily more ex plosive. President Eisenhower called for "urgent and early" United Nations action to prevent war between the Arab countries and Israel. The United States ordered a battalion of Marines to join the 6th Fleet in the Medi terranean in an apparent show of force. Britain already had sent 2,000 paratroppers to Cyp rus. British Prime Minister An thony Eden was put under heavy fire 'in the House of Commons because of the setback Britain suffered when Jordan fired Gen. John Bagot Blubb as chief of its Arab Legion. The leaders of three allied Arab countries Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria agreed at a meeting in Cairo tc warn Western governments against arming Israel. They agreed also to treat any Israeli attempt to divert the waters of the Jordan river, under a power project, as aggression which would call for united retaliation. 2. President Eisenhower made it plain that despite his exchange with Bulganin he was concern ed over the broadening of the cold war. He said this situation had taken a "very serious" turn because it now combined both the political an deconomic fields. 3. The French National As sembly opened a critical debate on the crisis in Algeria. Premier Guy Mollet virtually staked the fate of France's colonial empire run off with the Democratic nomination. 27. Some taxes will be re duced. 28. The farm problem will be the center of most political fights. 29. The cost of living will in crease only slightly. 30; There need be no further inflation during 1956. 31. Expanding farm subsidies will mildly bolster farm income. 32. Wheat and corn prices will also depend upon shifting weather and foreign conditions, 33. Look for selective easing in industrial commodity prices, No Steel Cut 34. DO not expect any cut in the price f steel. 35. Zinc and lead may give a tip-off to the coming downtrend in nonferrous metals. 36. Processed and frozen foods will advance only slightly, if any. 37. There will be more lei sure time during 1956. 38. School teachers will be paid more. 39. More people will continue to return to the help of religion 40. The Administration will not allow high money costs to bring about unemployment. 41. Seasoned dividend-paying stocks will do better. 42. There will be one or two bad stock-market breaks during 1956. 43. I have great confidence in the "top-ten" group of variety chain stocks, i 44. The money managers will reduce stock margins. Uncertain Investors 45. Bank, insurance, and cer tain investment trust stocks should continue to be a refuge for the uncertain investors who seek security and income with out reference to prices or marketability. 46. Certain aircraft stocks will suffer. 47. Soundly, financed natural gas stocks will enjoy good growth. 48. Many important new de velopments and inventions will emerge from drawing boards and test tubes.' 49. Canadian stocks have reached their peak for this cycle; this includes the uranium craze. Conclusion: My 50th forecast is given in the first paragraph above," and I see no reason to change it on account of Presi dent Eisenhower's consent to stand for re-election. There will continue to be bitter political fights up to the day of election, and the international situation! will remain severely unsettled. 231 Ground Beef 4 lbs. $1.00 III! tS Foreign Writer on the success of a plan to end terrorism in that ; key North African possession. But one dif ficulty among many is that there may be no Algerians who can negotiate with author ity. The rebels demand out-right independence, and are willing to fight for it. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS On the west coast of Mexico above Mazatlan there- are two outstanding resorts. One of them, at Guaymas, has been described in these sketches. The other is at Los Alamos. Both are in the state of Sonora. Guaymas has glamor. But Los Alamos has more of it.- There was a time, some three centuries ago, when Los Alamos was the greatest silver producer in the Spanish world. It had wealth. It had power. And it had build ers. Its architecture was as beau tiful as ' any in Spanish Amer ica. What remains of it is still so beautiful that it makes you catch your breath. Knights in armor trod its cob bled streets. Great Spanish ladies looked out from the bar red windows of its entrancingly lovely homes and perhaps tossed a red rose to the caballero of their choice. Over El Camino Real the Highway of the King on which Los Alamos was the most important place north of Mexico City passed at one time or another all -the digni taries of New Spain. THAT was in the centuries that are past. In the plaza of Los Alamos, in the shadow of its gravely beautiful old church whose bells still peal softly night and day, burros graze. Chickens and sometimes pigs forage for food. And brown-skinned children play and wave and shout "hallo" to American tourists. And in fiesta week the people of the town, from grandfathers down to tots, gather for a happy, carefree time. They don't do so as a show for the tourists, for Los Alamos is 30 graveled miles from the paved tourist highway. They do it for their own pleas ure as their grandparents and their great-grandparents and their great-great-grandparents did. THEREIN lies the charm of Los Alamos. It is still natural. It is still just itself. It sleeps in the sun and enjoys -life after the manner of contented people who live more in the past than in the future1 and whose wants are few. IN LOS ALAMOS there is an inn La Casa de los Tesoros. It has been remodeled from an ancient convent. Its guest rooms, with their 20-foot-high ceilings, were the nuns' cells. Its dining room was the convent's re fectory. Its patios were the patios where in other centuries the nuns strolled. It has been done over in ex ceUent taste by a smart Cali fornia couple who kept all its romantic charm but built in mod ern conveniences, such as fire places and tiled showers in the rooms and a swimming pool in one of the patios. They didn't spoil a thing. They just made the place charmingly habitable in these modern days: Its rates are slightly lower than at Guaymas about $20 a day for two people American plan, which means meals includ ed in the price. SO MUCH for the luxury places. In the BEST Mexican com mercial hotels in the towns and cities from Guadalajara north, room rates are apt to be around $5 a day for two people. Seldom more than that. Often much less. In Tepic, a city of 40-odd thousand people, dinner, lodging and breakfast for two 1 at the city's best hotel runs a little under $5 for the whole shebang. And in the morning a gang of wholly loveable little Mexican rascals ranging in age up to seven years will have your car which you left in the street all shined up like a plate glass window, and if you shell out a handful of 20-centavo pieces (20 centavos are worth one-fifth of eight American cents) everybody, including you, will be as happy as a lord. rr YOU watch your pesos and your centavos,' you can travel EAST SALT PORK SIXTH ST. . I MUTTON - I ROAST Editorial Comment MORSE WAS RIGHT Whatever his detractors have said about Senator Wayne Morse, few of them have ever doubted that he can be a man of rare courage and forthright- ness. That's the kind of man he was late last week when his Senate colleagues permitted Mississippi's Sen. James East land to become chairman of the judiciary committee. Only two senators objected publicly to the senate's bowing so readily to the "seniority" system in selecting chairmen. The other was Sen. Herbert Lehman of New York. Selection of a new chairman became necessary because of the death of Sen. Harvey M. Kil- gore of West Virginia. Senator Eastland, whose continuous ser vice in the Senate dates from Jan. 3, 1943, was the ranking Democratic member of judiciary committee. That committee, among its other functions, pass es upon appointments to the fed eral bench. And the personnel of the federal bench is an im portant matter right now as it bears upon race relations and civil rights in the South. Senators Morse and Lehman, rightly, pointed out that Mr. Eastland is, to say the least, a "racist" whose ideas of race re lations are not greatly different from those of Old Gene Tal madge of Georgia, the late Bil bo of Mississippi, and other Southern demagogues of whom the Republic is not proud. More over, it was Senator Eastland who headed the committee which swarmed into New York City last winter to poke into the distant pasts of staff members of the New York Times. He did not conduct himself nor his commit tee creditably. With Mr. Eastland heading the committee and with a heavy representation of southerners on the committee, it is little wonder that civil rights advocates are dismayed. Here's the make-up of the committee: DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS Eastland of Miss. Wiley of risc. Kefauver of Tenn. Langer of N.D. Johnston of S.C. Jenner of Ind. Hennings of Mo. Watkins of Utah McClellan of Ark. Dirksen of 111. Daniel of Tex. Welker of Idaho O'Mahoney of Wyo. Butler of Md. There have been times that we have been less than pleased to admit to friends from other areas that Wayne Morse was "our man from out there in Oregon." -Such times will no doubt come again. But not this time. This is one time we are proud of his stand and wish there had been 46 more like him and Mr. Lehman. Eugene Register-Guard. in Mexico for about half what it will cost on our side of the line. You won't, of coursa, live in marble palaces. But the places will be clean, and at tractive. And if you like Mexi can food (ham ancLeggs are as standard in Mexico as in the U.S.A.) the food will be good. ALL in all, an automobile trip along the west coast of Mex ico is a pleasant and inexpensive and rewarding experience. Among its rewards are the PEOPLE of Mexico, who are kindly and friendly and courte ous and thoughtful. They provide considerably more than half of the charm of such a trip. Two towers, each as tall as a 65-story building, support the 4, 200 foot central span of the fa mous Golden Gate bridge. It leaves you breathless mirtioff tfie areaiest name m vuuna S0proof.Midefroml00griinoeutriIspiria. Ste. Pierre Smirnoff Fli. Inc., Hirtford.Ccna. Pork Sausage (Vodka in orange juic Is
