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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfprdSSITribune "Everybody la Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" tubli-'Md Dailv Except Saturday by iStDFORD POINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY, Advertising Manager GERALD LATH Ail, 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 DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act 01 o March 3. 1897 0 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only one year j.au. 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 united tress ruii leasea itg MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Rpnrespntative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY rNC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta, Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ! y J u NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 12. 1946 (It was Tuesday) Some 149 new cases of measles reported to county health de partment last week. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The sun shone upstate last Sat. The phe nomena was photographed by the esteemed Oregonian, and knocked a ten-inch editorial out of the just as esteemed Salem Statesman. 20 YEARS AGO March 12, 1936 (It was Thursday) Frank Perl files declaration of intention to seek reelection as county coroner on Republi can ticket. Officers of Company A and Headquarters company of Na tional Guard here complimented following inspection. 30 YEARS AGO March 12. 1926 (It was Friday) James C Owen and W. H. Gore named to committee to represent Oregon counties at senate hearing on refunds for O and C land grants. Six-year-old girl found sitting along creek in morning; search by 150 men continued all night. 40 YEARS AGO March 12, 1916 It was Sunday) Ashland wins championship of Southern Oregon tournament by beating Medford, 18 to 16. From Local and Personal col umn: The steel for the crossing of the Bullis electric line and the Southern Pacific track on Main street arrived today and will be put down at once, thus uniting the east side with the Jacksonville extension. The cars will run through to the hospital when the crossing ' shall have been laid. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Five, four, three, two ,one or no Presidents have reached the age of 70 while still in the office? 2. If you're doing 60 on an open road, you should keep a minimum of (a) 4, (b) 6, (c) 8 or (d) 10 car lengths from a car ahead? 3. Coronation of Pope Pius XII took place in (a) 1919, (b) 1929, (c) 1939, or (d) 1949? 4. Montgomery, Ala., where race relations have been tense, has many more Negroes than Whites, about the same as each, or many more Whites than Ne groes? 5. A N.Y. Stock Exchange seat was recently sold for -S25,-000, $100,000, $250,000 or $500, 000?. 6. All 16 major league base ballGteams are doing their 1956 pre-season training in Florida; right or wrong? 7. Which of these is not a guided missile: Bizmac, Navajo, Redstone, Regulus, Snark? The Answers: None. Minimum of 6 car lengths (perferably more). 1939. . Many more whiles. S. For 5100.000. 6. Wrong. 7, Bizmac (it's an electronic computer). MAIL TRIBUNE Rock Hounds We had occasion to drop into the U. S. National bank here last week. After our business was trans acted, our eye was caught by a display case in the lobby. It was full of stones, selected, cut and polished by a local gem and mineral club, the members of which are more familiarly known as "rock hounds." Somewhere in the back of our mind we'd always had a vague sort of interest in the processing of non precious gem stones, and had even seen a few. But this display was an eye-opener. HTHERE must be a real creative satisfaction in tak- ing a stone which on the outside looks complete ly ordinary and through acquired knowledge and skill transform it into a thing of beauty. These examples of the amateur stonecutters are things of beauty. There were delicate crystaline for mations, heavily veined and marked formations; there were colors of the rainbow, and luminous blacks and whites ; there were fairyland scenes ; there were flowers and trees and the kind of animal-like shapes one sometimes can see in clouds all in solid stone. UOBBYISTS whether they work in wood, metal, stone, plastic or words will yield to none in their pride of accomplishment, and all are entitled to take pleasure in their own type of creativity. But it's refreshing sometimes to take a look at the works of others, and if you haven't happened to see these examples of artistry in stone, we commend them to you. E.A. Community Correspondents Last week the Mail Tribune completed arrange ments to bring to 14 the number of its "community correspondents" the reporters who write news of many of the towns and rural and suburban areas in southern Oregon and northeni California. We are hoping to be able to add to that number as times goes on, to bring to our readers still more complete coverage of the news of our fast-growing and changing area. f ""THE role played by the community correspondents is an important one. They are the "town criers" of the smaller communities, who chronicle the events and happenings of their communities so that all may know. Theirs is no light responsibility,, for if a name is, misspelled, a date given wrong, a situation described incorrectly, they are almost sure to hear about it. However, we are glad to report that , these inadvert ent slips are the exception, rather than the rule. IF YOU live in a community served by one of our correspondents, you can help by seeing that your, own news is made available to the correspondent. They are always on the lookout for news, but like reporters everywhere, a crystal ball is not part of their equipment. ' The scope of the news'covered by the correspond ents is wide. They report visitors, parties, community gatherings; sometimes they tell of unusual weather conditions, or the activities of the city council; they report on fires, and pink-and-blue showers, and ac cidents. They are interested in new homes going up, roads being repaired or built, and in how the crops look this year. Anything which is of interest to their friends and neighbors is news for the correspondents' paragraphs in the paper. .. "YQR correspondents report from the following towns and areas : Applegate-Jacksonville, Butte Falls, Eagle Point, Gold Hill, Grandview-Lone Pine, Hilt, Hornbrook, Jacksonville, McLeod, Phoenix, Rogue River, Savage Creek-Rogue River, Shady Cove and Table Rock. We are proud of the work they are doing. Each of them would freely, acknowledge that it is impos sible to report all the news of each community. But their jobs will be easier and more pleasant, and more productive for their readers, if the readers will help by reporting to them items of interest. E. A. Week for Girls The week starting March 11 is being observed as the anniversary of the founding of two of the most important of the organizations devoted to the growth and development of girls. They are the Campfire Girls and the Girl Scouts. The objectives of each group are similar the development of wholesome, skilled," self-reliant and helpful young women. The methods are slightly dif ferent, allowing scope for varying approach and em phasis. "1E ARE pleased to salute both organizations, and wish for them continued success in their work with girls who are in the formative and impression able period. We believe the leaders in both groups are aware of their responsibilities, and are doing their best to live up to them. E.A. American Clergymen Moscow (U.R) Nine prom inent American clergymen rep resenting the U.S. National Council of Churches of Christ arrived here Sunday for 'a months study of Soviet religious institutions. They were welcomed at Mos cow's Vnukovo Airport by lead ers of the Russian ' Orthodox Church headed by Metropolitan Nikolai Krutitsky, second in the orthodox hierarchy after Patri arch Alexius. Krutitsky expressed hope their Monday, March 12, 1958 Arrive in Russia visit would bring closer U.S. Soviet ties. The Rev. Dr. Eugene G. Blake of Philadelphia, presi dent of the National Council of Churches, expressed a similar hope and said "as Christians we are all united under God." Paris U.R) The Communist Daily Humanite joined the cap italistic newspaper contest craze today and offered its readers a Red dream come true fret trips tg, Russia as first, second and third prizes. Farm Groups1 Amendments Hit Senate Bill; Unanimity Lacking Washington Farm groups that Sen. AUen J. Ellender Sr. (D-La.), counted, on to run inter ference for his farm bill, instead helped revise it "with amend ments. Ellender? chairman of the Senate agriculture committee, tried as early as last November to get the farm groups together on a bill. But from the first huddle of the farm organiza tions it was obvious that once the bill reached the senate floor, amendments pushed by farm lobbies would make Ellen der look like a quarterback be ing tackled by his own team mates. Sought Agreement On Nov. 23, Ellender wrote such major farm groups as the American Farm Bureau Feder ation, National Grange, Nation al Farmers Union, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives and tHe National Milk Produc ers Federation, asking them to "put their heads together in the hope that agreement can be at tained on some of the plans or solutions suggested to meet the present challenge to agriculture on some of the plans or solu tions suggested to meet the pres ent challenge to agriculture." He asked for "unanimity" on surplus disposal, soil bank, two price plans, price supports, mar keting quotas, marketing orders and dairy products. At the outset, the National Milk Producers Federation and the American Farm Bureau Fed eration could not even agree on a date to discuss a bill. But a meeting was held Dec. 19 with out the Farm Bureau. The other major farm groups sent delegates, however, and agree ment was reached on such rela tively minor problems as gas tax exemption for farm vehi cles and more milk for school lunches. Second Meeting Ellender urged a second meet ing of the organizations and in vited them to sit down with his committee to work out an agree able bill. On Jan. 10 the Na tional Council of Farmer Coop eratives, the Milk Producers and the Grange met in Wash ington on their own. On Jan. 12 the Farm Bureau sponsored a third . meeting at tended by the National Farmers Union, National Grange, and the National Council of Farm er cooperatives. That same day Editorial Comment THERE ARE 'AGINERS' AGAINST EVERYTHING We are constantly amazed at the conservatism and downright intolerance of supposedly intellir gent and reasonably educated people. In particular we 'are impressed by some of the letters we receive from folks opposed to Portland's water fluoridation program. The thing that bothers us most is that the."aginers" reaUy don't know what they're talking about. They're simply emotional people, lacking in a fundamental education. In this case, they lack basic high school chemistry. We've recently received a long and bitter letter from a group of Portland opponents who call themselves the Citizens Council Against Water Fluori dation. Their basic idea is that add ing fluorides to our water, sup ply "poisons" it. Well, we have news for such people! A great many things they eat every day or so are "poisonous," providing they eat enough of it. We cite the following chemical illustra tions. Table salt (sodium chloride) is vitally necessary to the bodily manufacture of our digestive juices. Yet three pounds con sumed at one sitting will- kill because both sodium and Chlo rine, its constituents, are deadly poisons. Chlorine was the hor rible poison gas used in .World War I. Sodium fluoride, which is the salt to be added to water, is practically identical, chemi cally. Fluorine and chlorine are both poison gases, sisters under the atom.-They are commonly known as halides. Two other halides belong to the same poisonous family. Yet the "aginers" use them without qualms. Iodine is the solid hal ide, a deadly poison, yet used in nearly every home as a dis infectant and added to table salt to prevent goiter. Brominer the liquid halide, is an evil-smelling, terribly corrosive element which is truly deadily.. Yet it is part of bromo-seltzer, the headache remedy. . . - All these sister elements, the halides, are chemical poisons, yet their compounds are neces sary to modern living. Certainly, adding sodium fluoride to water in minute quantities, sufficient to prevent tooth decay, will be no more poisonous than adding sodium chloride (table salt) to gargle water to alleviate a sore throat. ' -. i x It is our advice to the fluorida tion ''aginers" to bone up a bit on ordinary high school chem istry before . they get" so emo tional over the whole use of halides that they can't see the forest for the trees. Oregon City Enterprise-Courier. those groups, the National Milk Producers Federation and the newly formed National Farm ers Organization met with the Senate Agriculture committee. But still no over-all agreement on major issues was reached. Some things the farm lobbies did agree on, such as the '-gas tax exemption for farm vehi cles, slid through Congress without a hitch. Ellender set out to get the same solid back ing for the bill itself. A rash of amendments 63 were in troduced before any voting started showed how far he fell short of pleasing everybody. Some Conflict The farm lobbies relied on the amendments to tailor the farm bill to fit their individual needs. Often, the amendments different groups persuaded Sen ators to sponsor conflicted. For instance, the Farm Bur eau wanted flexible price sup ports while the National Farm ers Union wanted rigid 100 per cent of parity supports. The Farm Bureau, largest of the Correspondents Forecast Hews eadlines United Press Correspondents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. A smouldering scrap in the Pentagon may hit the first pages. It involves the mid-range 1,500 mile guided missile. The Army and Navy are developing one to gether. The Air Force is working on its own. Each of the three services wants operational con trol of the finished product. The argument is so heated that it was a top item on the program of the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet ing in Puerto Rico last week. Nitltt&t Of FOCt By Joe and Stewart Alsop THE TWO NATIONS Washington In the Old Amer ican folk recitation, "The Sen ator from Arkansas," one of the climactic moments begins with indignant questions: "Mr. Speak er, Sir, why did Rome fall? I'm askin' you, Mr. Speaker, why did the grand imperial city, a-settin in her glory upon her seven hills, collapse into hijjus ruin j j. i i i Stewart Alsop ana teeiotdi deecay?" The answer provided by the orator is both unprintable and incorrect. But his questions are not out of place at the moment, because a part of the real an swer has . a pretty direct bearing on the debate on the Farm Bill that dragged its weary way along in the Senate in re cent days. The decay of Joseph Alsop itome quae certainly began when the hardy farm-citizens - whose valor had made Rome great, ceased to be able to maintain themselves and their families by farming their small holdings. In hardly more than a generation,, over great areas of Italy, the family-sized farms were swept away. They made way for vast, consolidated, slave-operated, absentee-capitalist holding that were the equival ent in those days of what we now call "industrialized farms." THIS same social change, when ever it has come over any great nation of the past, has in variably marked a beginning of an ending. All around might be the evidences of the most hectic prosperity, except on the little farms. But when the little farms went, it was as though the na tion's healthy roots in native soil were stricken and withered; and in the end the nation was stricken too. ' : - The warnings of history need to be remembered, at the mo ment, for the rather simple rea son that there would be no really grave American farm problem if it were not for the plight of the family-sized farms. Not all the big farms are prosperous, of course. But almost all of them can take care of themselves, and a great many of them are still enormously prosperous, like the industrialized rice growers re cently described in this space, or the rather numerous industrial ized cotton-growers who can profitably produce cotton at eight to nine cents a bale, but are now selling their cotton for 31 cents. . -. THE people who are not pros perous are the folk on the family-sized farms. They are so unprosperous, in fact, that this nation is virtually beginning to be divided into two nations. A single statistic tells the story. Per capita farm income has now declined to the level of $860 a year, whereas the per capita in come of Americans off the farm i w ' farm organizations, won out with an amendment adopted March 8 by a 54-41 vote. The Farm Bureau got a sizeable as sist from the Eisenhower admin istration which favored flexible supports. Neither the Farm Bureau nor National Farmers Union wanted the type of soil bank provided for in the bill. The Farm Bur eau wanted more teeth in the measure to make farmers com ply with the soil bank provis ions. The National Farmers Un ion felt the soil bank proposed in the bill was too broad. And the National Grange favored the biU's soil bank as a temporary measure. The National Milk Producers Federation wrote part of the bill before it reached the floor and lobbied to prevent the Farm Bureau from scratching out its language through amendments. So despite aU his preparation, Ellender was severely buffeted from all sides." And the end is not in sight. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) in Foreign Apparently no solution wasi reached. The odds favor an announce ment from Washington soon that the production of B52 inter-continental bombers will be stepped up soon. It's agreed that the United States must get going if it wants to keep Russia from pulling away in the race for strategic air power. Air Force generals want more B52s 'and want them faster. But Air Sec retary Donald A. Quarles and Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson must decide. The B52s cost $8 million apiece. now stands at the level of $1922 Farm folk are much less than half as well off as other folk in America. If this . condition persists for very long, it can produce only one result. All the ambitious, able-bodied members of farm families will do what the Roman farmers did. They will give up the life they have been trained to. They will . pull up stakes They will -go to seek better op portunities elsewhere. There are plenty of signs al ready that just this is beginning to happen. More and more very large farms are appearing in every . agricultural state of this country. . The number of family- sized farms is everywhere de clining, and in some states it is declining with alarming rapidity. The total number of farms in Iowa, for instance, is estimated to have dropped by more than 10 per cent between 1950 and 1954. TN Iowa, moreover, they call -- their hogs "the mortgage-lifters." But with pork down from well over $20 a hundredweight to a current price of $11.50 a hundredweight, a farmer whose hundred finished hogs might have fetched $4500 only a year or so ago, will now get only $2300. No wonder reports of an accelerated drift from the farms come from Iowa, as from most other farm states. i. Meanwhile, none of the farm doctors seem to be prescribing for the real disease. Secretary Benson is obviously right in arguing . that high, rigid farm parities are the kind of cure that only makes the disease itself more dangerous in the end. He has been courageous in fighting this prescription, and the Demo crats, who prescribed rigid par ities, have not fought for them with real faith. fN theother-hand, when Under V Secretary fit Agriculture True D. Moss says, as he has said, that small farms will have to go to the wall because large farms are more economically viable, he makes Secretary Benson's pro testation of attachment to fam-. ily-sized farms sound pretty hoi-' low. This, clearly, is the basic thing that arouses" the farmers against Benson. '. In the end, no doubt, the real point will have to be recognized, that family-sized farms have a very great social value, which' makes a national investment to sustain independent farming a paying- proposition for the long term. When that time comes, a distinction will somehow have to be made, between the big operators who have no claim to national support, and the family sized farmers who still constitute this nation's roots in the Ameri can soil, over-urbanized as we unfortunately are. - Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. North African Crisis Begins to Backfire Against Franco Spain By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The crisis in North Africa is beginning to backfire against Spain. France granted virtual in dependence to French Moroc co as part of its attempt to save its North African posses sions. Now Mo roccans are de manding that Spanish Moroc co be given in- Charles McCann uepeuaente also. And they want French and Spanish Morocco combined in one independent empire. Spain refuses to do that. France signed an independence agreement with Sultan Moham med Ben Youssef of Morocco in Paris on March 2. Immediately afterward, seri ous rioting broke out in Span ish Morocco. Spanish authorities first announced two persons were Affairs Here is the hottest rumor in London financial circles: When Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bul ganin and Communist Party Chief Nikita S. Khrushchev visit Britain next month they will offer Prime Minister Anthony Eden a jumbo loan of one billion pounds ($2,800,000,000) in gold. Russia has plenty of gold in its reserves. But there's a big string attached, London says. Britain would have to abandon its re strictions on trade in some strate gic goods with Communist coun tries. Britain hardly could do that without American agree ment. Assassination Nightmare British security officials are seriously worried over the ap proaching visits of the junket ing Russians including former Premier Georgi M. Malenkov. He's due Thursday, with Bui ganin and Khrushchev to follow. The nightmare: How to guard against an assassination attempt by some of the tens of thousands of bitterly anti-Red refugees in London from a dozen countries, Incidentally, diplomats say Bul- gamn and Khrushchev want to visit the United States after the election. '' Hong Kong believes that be fore the month is out the Chi nese Communists are likely to free at least one of the 13 Ameri cans they hold. The motive would be to prevent the threat ened breakdown of the United States-Red Chinese negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland. The Reds want a high-level confer ence between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai As long as the Geneva talks con tinue, they can keep on shooting for one. In The Hustings Look for actress Helen Hayes to hit the campaign trail for the GOP this fall. She wowed the Republican Women's National Conference in Washington last week. Later she said she wants to do "as much as I can" to help the campaign. If the much-impressed Republican . National Committee has its way, she'll do just that. Secretary Dulles is almost cer tain to run into a hornet's nest when he visits Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Formosa on his current Asia tour. Chinese Nationalists are angry over United States investigations of a passport racket involving Chi nese in America. They charge unfair discrimination. , Chinese in the United States appealed to Chiang. He reacted quickly. He already has taken their com plaint to Ambassador Karl Ran kin. He'll take it up with Dulles too. ' Since 1908 PERL Mortuary Phone FINER FUNERAL SERVICES killed then raised the figure to seven. Moroccan Nationalists say that the correct total is 32. Spain Accused France long accused Spain of fomenting violence in the Span ish zone. Gen. Francisco Franco has summoned Lt. Gen. Raphael Garcia Valino, his high commis sioner in Spanish Morocco, to Madrid for urgent consultation. Franco also has sent France the latest of a series of notes pro testing that Spain's interests in Morocco have been ignored. Spanish Morocco is only 18, 009 square miles in area. But it is strategically important. If commands the southern side of the Strait of Gibraltar, only 11V4 , miles wide at the entrance to the Mediterranean. Further, its loss to the once-great Spanish empire would be a severe blow to Spanish pride. Spanish Morocco was peaceful during the long campaign of ter rorism in French Morocco. France complained bitterly that many of the Riff Mountain tribesmen, toughest of its Moroc can rebels, operated from the Spanish Morocco side of the frontier. Sultan Mohammed is nomin ally the ruler of both French and Spanish Morocco. He makes his headquarters in French Mo rocco. He is represented in Span ish Morocco by a caliph, a Mos lem religious leader. Actually, the two zones are entirely separate; Relations Endangered Returning to Rabat, his cap ital, in triumph after winning independence in Paris, Moham med at once warned Spain in a broadcast that opposition to granting independence to Span ish Morocco would endanger relations between Morocco and Spain. Spain wanted to be cut in on the French-Moroccan nego tiations. It protested against any agreement that would affect its own interests. Mohammed has formed a representative government in French Morocco, with Si Bekkai as premier. He claims authority for the government in Spanish Morocco. Franco refuses to go along with that.' Franco seems ready to grant Spanish Morocco a considerable measure of home rule. But he is determined to keep it a part of his empire. It was made known that Franco would like the sultan to visit Madrid on his way back to Mo rocco from Paris to talk things oyer. Mohammed . ignored that irivitation. Franco now has in vited Mohammed's cafiph in Mo rocco to go there. He was ex pected last Friday or Saturday but failed to show up. . Mohammed seems to be in what diplomats call a position of strength. He may cause Spain a lot of trouble. Survivors of Missing Ship Reach Shore Honiara, Guadalcanal (U.R) Survivors of the wrecked "ghost ship" Arakarimoa said Saturday sharks probably claimed the lives of four of the passengers who-leaped into the sea' when other rescue methods failed. - Thirteen persons made it to shore safely in dinghies from the wrecked vessel and several were left aboard including a 66-year-old man whose body was found in the wreckage. The other six dived into the shark-infested waters arid only two made it to the shore.- The Arakarimoa was termed a "ghost ship" when its wreck age was found on a Guadalcanal beach with no trace of its passen gers. It had been missing for several weeks in a hurricane.- 2 - 6675 In every price range
