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Newspaper Page TextDUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordJTribune 'Everybody In Southern Oregon neacu 111c iuiiiiuuuc Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 O cpOBERT w- RUHL. Editor HERS 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 DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered s second class matter at MediorK Oregon, under Act of Marcn a. io SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 512.00 r Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.o0 Sunday Only One year S3.50. 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 515.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All iermswsninAovdiiw Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper oi dacKson wm'i United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClitCULAllUJI n:rcT --rr-.f I TniV fOMPAKV INC Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angeies. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocITatlqn 1 7 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 14, 1946 (It was Thursday) Medford Lions club endorses city school bond issue to finance improvements. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Spring is officially due to arrive a week from today. So far the vernal season has been so backward, nobody is forward enough to call the current sample, Vern. 20 YEARS AGO MarchC14, 1936 (It was Saturday) Spraying for peach starts in valley. aphis Wild horse roundup to start at dawn tomorrow in Little Ap plegate area. 30 YEARS AGO March 14, 1926 (It was Sunday) Medford takes third place in state basketball tournament with 22-17 victory over Baker. Construction and installation of new water system in Med ford to start in about three weeks. 40 YEARS AGO March 14, 1916 (It was Tuesday) Clint Gallatin, deputy county assessor, filed for nomination on Democratic ticket for assessor. J. Cecil Alter establishes of fices in Medford as official frost observer. Whai's the Answer? Can You Gei 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower's brother Edgar is a newspaper publicity man, college president, engineer or lawyer? 2. Largest state is Texas. Sec ond largest is California, Flor ida, Georgia, Minnesota or New York? . V. . . 3. Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany is a member of the Social Democratic, Christian Democrat, or Free Democratic party? . 4. The horse that "places" in a race has come in first, second, third, fourth, or worse? 5. Medium-priced cars depre ciate in value in three years by about, on the average, 40, 55, 70, or 85? 6. The natural gas bill vetoed by President Eisenhower had more support in Senate from Republicans or Democrats or about equal support from each? 7. A man named St. Laurent heads the government in France, Quebec, Portugal, Italy, Canada, or Australia? The answers: I. Lawyer. 2. California. 3. Christian Demo crat. 4. Second. 5. About 70, on the average. 6. More from Re publicans. 7. Canada. Lonergan Withdraws From State Primary Salem (U.P.) James F. Loner gan, Portland candidate for the GOP nomination of representa tive from the east central city subdistrict of Multnomah coun ty, was the only person to with draw from the Oregon primary. Deadline for withdrawing from the race was 5 p.m. Monday. MAIL TRIBUNE Jack Pine Uses We read about the plans of the Johns Manville company, which is starting a big plant near Klamath Falls for the manufacture of insulating board, with considerable interest. The interest was motivated by the fact that for a long time we have been waiting for someone to be gin making use of the jack pine, or lodge pole pine, so abundant in that area. THE ONLY previous large-scale use of the little trees has been for chipping, with the chips being used in hardboard manufacture, a process similar to that Johns Manville plans to use, with the ground fi bre of the wood being dry-pressed into the insulating material. The $15 million or so the big company will invest in this venture is an indication of its confidence that it will pay off, and that jack pine is finally coming in to its own. With a growing cycle of only 20 to 50 years much shorter than that of larger species the little trees can renew themselves on a regular basis and form the backbone of a continuing industry. E. A. Two Steven Kelly, a 9-year-old whose home was in Sa lem, died in Rochester, Minn., last week following a heart operation. His death is in tragic contrast to the successful operation performed on a young Medford man, Leon McDougall, whose story was told in last Sunday's Mail Tribune. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL of Salem, in a thought- ful tribute to the boy and to those who did what they could to save young Steven's life, commented on his death this way: It came just after "heart month" when this community under the urge of a special local organization, the press, television, clubs and soliciting groups, had done its part in a national drive to create a fund for research into heart ailments, their prevention and cure. It came just after 69 persons in the community had do nated blood in Steven's behalf, lifting the most recent Red Cross blood drawing above its quota. Are these movements futile just a whim of the times? Emphatically no. They appeal for more effort and great er giving, even to the point of sacrifice. Every death from this and other ailments, suGh as cancer, is a challenge, an accepted challenge, to, the science of medicine and sur- gery. Steven died. And the community, which had watch-' ed the case so closely and hoped so strongly for his recov ery, extends its sympathy to his family. But his death may mean that other children shall live. Science some day will be able to control this affliction, as it has others. THE OTHER story, the story of "Punky" McDoug " all of Medford, has a happier ending. His opera lion was successful, and he is nearly back to normal again. Better than normal, actually, for the increased circulation of blood has "brought to life" nerves and feelings he never had before. We're sure Punky agrees whole - heartedly with the Capital Journal's comments about Steven, and about the need for further study and research in the field of heart and other ailments. THE TWO stories one happy, the other tragic A stand in contrast as symbols of the fact that medi cal research is making progress, and the time is ap proaching when boys like 9-year-old Steven need not die. ; , They also demonstrate dramatically that people basically are good, that when called upon they will do what they cari to aid their fellows, and that when the chips are down one really finds out who are friends and who are not. E. A. - What Will We Be? ' Up in the Willamette valley, telephone exchang es are being switched over to the use of word-prefixes, such as have long been in use in large cities. Most familiar, probably, are those in Portland, ATwater, BEacon, and so on. The inevitable has happened some of the cities are less than totally pleased with the prefix '"designa tions assigned to them. CALEM, for instance., has been labeled EMpire. But the Salem Statesman mildly complains that either CApital (now in use in Portland) or CHerry would be much more appropriate to the area. And Eugene has been assigned the prefixes Dia mond and Riverside. The Register-Guard in that city says it "isn't com plaining exactly," but it points out that the Guard has named its own circulation area the Emerald Em pire, "and we'd sure like to have that EMpire prefix ourselves." CO IT GOES in the unhappy Willamette Valley. We checked with the local office of the telephone company, and were informed that we're due for prefixes in Medford (Central Point, Grants Pass, Rogue River and a 'few other places already have 'em) in just about a year. Wonder what we'll be called? E. A. Night Bus Service May Salem (U.R) Salem citv council is studying a Chamber of CommmeFce recommendation that night city bus service should be continued in the city even if the city government has to help pay the way. Meanwhile, no changes in night bus schedules were expect ed at least until the next city council meeting March 26. The city transit lines have asked to eliminate service after Wednesday, March 14, 1956 Stories Slop in Salem 5:45 p. m. on Sunday and hol idays, after 9:15 p. m. Mondays and Fridays and after 6:45 p. m. other days. The 2,000 -word chamber report presented to city coun cilmen this week confirmed the transit lines' poor financial condition due .to declining pa tronage, but said the night serv ice should be continued as "nec essary to the health, safety and general welfare of the people." Communications - Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a Den nsn-? -js initial for publication is Dermia lible. The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for Dublica tion must not exceed 400 words On School Bill To the Editor: Keaderslof your newspaper who are familiar with school problems must have been startled to read Congress man Ellsworth's recent by-line story about the Federal aid-to-school construction bills now under consideration in the Con gress. Mr. Ellsworth wrote: "So far as Oregon is concerned, we will gain nothing in dollar aid from this bill." But in the imme diately preceding paragraph, he stated: "The Kelley bill formula might be the best but I doubt it. I feel inclined now to vote for an amendment using the President's idea." It seems hard to reconcile these two statements by Mr. Ellsworth. Under the Democratic-sponsored Kelley bill, rec ommended by the House Com mittee on Education and Labor, Oregon would receive $15,452, 284 in Federal school aid over four years. Under the Presi dent's proposal, Oregon would receive only $11,660,000 spread over five years. Mr. Ellsworth fears that Oregon will gain no net financial help from Federal aid to school construction, yet he simultaneously announces that he would vote for an amendment to the bill to substi tute the administration formula, which is far less favorable to Oregon. Mr. Rex Putnam, Oregon's Superintendent of Public In struction, has written me that "the Kelley bill will more near ly meet the needs in this area, so far as Oregon and most other states are concerned." I hope that every member of Congress from Oregon will be recorded in favor of passage of the Fed eral school-aid bill which actu ally comes to a final vote. Richard L. Neuberger, United States Senator, Washington, D. C. Label on a Can To the Editor: Label on a can of sodium fluoride designated for use in pure municipal drink ing water reads as follows: Insecticide Caution poison warning. Sodium fluoride is highly pois onous and therefore must be used with extreme care. Do not store it in the same locality With any fcod product or any medi cinal item for either external or internal use. Store out of reach of children. Use every precaution to prevent accidental spilling or accidental contamination of articles about the house. Doxnot permit hu mans or animals to come in con tact with sodium fluoride. It is highly irritating and a small amount on any skin abrasion, minor cut or injury may have serious effects. Scrupulously avoid inhaling the'dust. Do you want that sort of stuff in your drinking water? Of course you don't. Do not con fuse chlorine with fluorine. Chlorine affects injurious bac teria in water. Fulorine works destructive injury to the human body. John Strebinger, 126 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. He's Surprised To the Editor: Just read the half-baked editorial copied from the Oregon City Enterprise Courier, and am surprised that an editor would write such an article, or that another editor would copy it with apparent ap proval. However, some good seems to be coming out of this discussion of the fluoridation question. It seems to have developed a sure fire technique for determining the scholastic standing and integ rity of an individual. Just ask him "Do you favor fluoridation of city water?" If he says "Yes," you know he is well educated, well informed, unselfish, and highly dependable. If he says "No," then he has admitted that he is ignorant, uninformed, un educated, selfish, stingy, and gen erally not worth considering 1 Many of us belong to this lat ter class, and we do not feel too badly, or too lonely. The great nations of Sweden and France, are against fluoridation, and be long to our class. Also belonging to this class are men like-Dr. Chas. Dillon of the British Dental Assn. who has spent 14 years studying tooth decay; Dr. W. R. Cameron, formerly of the Bant ing & Best Research Labora tories; Dr. Geo. A. Swendiman, past president, American Dentai Assn.; Dr. C. A. Briisch, director Brusch Med. Center, Cambridge, Mass.; and an increasing host of others who, like the Delaney committee of the 82d congress, after hearing "both sides" of the question, decided against the ad visability of fluoridation. Your selfish, uninformed ser vant, John C. Stille, Shady Cove, Ore. At any one time the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Md., is testing nearly 30 different types of planes. Embarrassing Questions Seen For U.S. On Jurisdiction Limit By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States may be ask ed some embarrassing questions at a conference which starts Thursday in the West In- dies. Delegates of the 21 Ameri can republics wiU discuss at Ciudad T r u jillo, ' Domini can Republic, the issue of the Charles McCann proper limit OI territorial waters. That means the limit to which a country may claim jurisdiction over the waters off its coast. Chile, Peru, Ecuador and El U - 1 Consumer Credit At AH-Time High; Some Uneasiness Results By MARTIN PACKMAN Washington Uneasiness over a rapid rise in the volume of outstanding consumer credit was reflected in President Eisenhow er's proposal that Congress con sider giving the government standby authority to regulate in stallment buying. The President emphasized that present condi tions do not call for use of such authority; he thought, however, that "This is a good time for Congress and the Executive Branch to study the problem." Washington has not exercised direct control over consumer credit since May, 1952, when the Federal Reserve Board suspend ed Regulation W, which pre scribed minimum down pay ments and maximum maturities on instalment purchases. The Eisenhower administration came into office dedicated to keeping away from direct economic con trols as much as possible. Damp ening of boom tendencies has been undertaken mainly through the general monetary controls administered by the Federal Re serve Board. A growing number of bankers and economists have been sug gesting, however, that re-imposi tion of federal controls over con sumer credit may now be prudent. Congress usually has considered such controls dis tasteful, but Chairman Spence (D-Ky.) of the House Banking Committee has said that if the President shows that controls are needed, Congress will au thorize them, though reluctant ly. Consumer credit outstanding at the end of 1955 totaled $36 billion, an increase during the year of $6 billion. Automobile loans accounted for more than $14 biUion of the total and for about $4 billion of the year's in crease. The rate at which instalment credit has been expanding and the easy terms allowed for re payment of many of the obliga tions have paused -more concern than the record volume of such debt. Some economists fear that when the total outstanding stops growing and starts to shrink, the economy will suffer. Changes in the extent of instalment buy ing accentuate general business booms or recessions. Lowering of required down payments and lengthening of re payment periods have reduced buyers' equities and increased lenders' risks. This tendency has been especially marked in the automobile tieia, wnere ex tremely liberal terms have been offered on new and used-car purchases. Sales of new cars for only one-fourth of the purchase price down and 36 or 42 months to pay have not been uncommon. Consumer credit, once consid ered only the resort of spend thrifts, has for many years now been recognized as a vital seg ment of the national economy. Almost two-thirds of all automo biles and one-half of all major household appliances now are sold on time. Consumer credit helps make possible mass pro duction and mass- employment. Moreover, by facilitating pur chase of hew models before the old are worn out, it contributes to the dynamic nature of the economy. Longshoremen Open Contract Discussion San Francisco W.R) Repre sentative of 17,000 West Coast longshoremen opened a two day meeting to prepare demands for forthcoming contract nego tiations. The master contract for all West Coast longshoremen ex pires June 15, unless extended to achieve a common termina tion date with the East Coast contract. . Most of the first day's session was spent in the study of wel fare programs, including a pilot dental plan that provides care of longshoremen's children up to the age of 15. Harry Bridges, president of International Long shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, was to address the final session of the meeting today. Salvador formally claim a 200 mile limit. Some other Latin American countries are ready to make the same claim. The United States refuses to recognize that. It points out that the historic limit is three miles. It admits that the three-mile limit is really outdated in these modern times. But it wants to set a modest one instead. Some Countries Bitter The immediate point in dis pute is fishing rights. Some Latin American. -countries are bitter over; the activities of big United States fishing fleets off their" coasts. - They say' the fish population is being Wiped out. But some bigger 'issues have entered into question. One is that of the "continental In view of the fact that the country is currently experienc ing record prosperity many ex perts maintain that the present volume of consumer debt is not unduly high. General Motors' President Curtice has said that the expansion of consumer credit represents "a very normal situa tion, which has accomplished the growth in . . . population . . . disposable income, and . . . consumer purchasing." Borrowed From Future On the other hand, some of those who think that consumer credit has been rising top fast and too far contend that so much buying on time has probably cut into future production and sales. Chairman Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Senate Banking Committee said on Jan. 25 that "It now ap pears that a great part of the boom . . . was borrowed from the future." Numerous defenders and critics of the current credit sit uation agree that dealers and lenders should refrain from us ing credit terms as a weapon of competition. They hold that greater self-restraint and more careful selection of credit risks are the best way to regulate con sumer credit. Campaign-Year Biography By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R A book briefly titled "Nixon" hit the sales counters today and headed toward some angry controversy, It's a 188-page account of the life of Richard M. Nixon written by Ralph De Toledano, a re search expert on the Commu nist conspiracy in the United States. Henry Holt and Co. pub lished the book at $3. Toledano's book will delight the vice president's friends de spite its tilt toward over-praise It will anger his enemies with special emphasis on former Pres ident Truman, top Democrats and the political-left. Chief Justice Earl Warren may be jolted by the implica tions of a paragraph discussing Nixon's . 1950 senatorial cam paign against California's Demo cratic candidate, Helen Gahagan Douglas. All Out Support Mrs. Douglas' record in the House was notably left wing. The Truman administration went all out for her with Vice President Alben W. Barkley and several cabinet members on the stump. Toledano relates: - "Gov. Earl Warren, -who was running for re-election against James Roosevelt, said openly that 'he would not raise a finger for Nixon and he kept' his word. Warren never explained why he disassociated himself from the rest of the Republican ticket. But it was known that in 1948, when he was the vice presidential candidate he had dissuaded Thomas E. Dewey from raising the Communists-in-g'overnment issue." Toledano details Nixon's poli tical career from his first elec tion to the House- in 1946 through the 1954 general elec tion campaign. Nixon defeated the unbeatable Jerry Voorhis for a House seat in 1946 in a campaign stressing the "Social istic, aspects of Voorhis's pro gram and its general left wing character." He was in bad with left wingers thereafter. - Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport shelf," involving the sovereignty over the under-water oil re sources off a country's shores. Another that especially worries the United States is de fense. If a country can claim a 200-mile limit, it asks, could the claim be extended, to air rights? Could a country set a sweeping jurisdiction over the air lanes over the waters? The arguments of the United States seem somewhat weakened by a prohibition-era chicken which has come home to roost. Back in the late 1700's the United States and Britain agreed on a three-mile limit of terri torial waters. That limit was de termined by the distance from shore to which a cannon fire might extend. On the principle, in these days of guided missiles with inter - continental ballistic on the way a country might claim jurisdiction which could span the Atlantic. But the United States itself set some precedents, which now may become embarrassing, back in the 1920's. ' The Prohibition Act had come into force, but not into effect. Fleets of fast rum-runners start ed operating off the American coasts. The United States succeeded in negotiating treaties with Can ada, Britain, Cuba, Panama and Mexico setting at. 12 miles the limits to which its coast guard cutters might chase a rum-run ner. Then it got some countries to agree that rum-runners flying their flags might be pursued and captured up to one hour's steam ing distance, from the coast That, in those days, might have been 30 miles. Then came the almost forgot ten , incident of "I'm Alone." An enthusiastic Coast Guard skip per pursued the Canadian regis tered rum runner of that name for 2V2 days and sank it 215 miles off the Canadian coast. It may be hoped that none of the Latin American delegates at Ciudad Truipillo will be mean enough to hark back to those days. But some of them may be tempted to ask the American delegation the difference be tween . the 00-mile limit they want and the 215-mile limit the United States took. Nixon On Stands Toledano presents Nixon as the key figure in compelling a reluctant President Truman and his Department of Justice to prosecute Alger Hiss. The de partment's inclination, Toledano states, was to prosecute, instead, Whittaker Chambers, who was Hiss' accuser. The author finds Nixon the victim of smear cam paigns from the early days of his House career, one of the first being related to Nixon's activity in obtaining successful prosecu tion of William Remington, a Fifth Amendment employee of the Commerce Department. Remington was murdered by fellow-inmates while serving his sentence. "Junior G-Man" "The significance of the Rem ington case in this account," writes Toledano, "derives from the fact that Americans for Democratic Action set itself up as prime advocate of his 'inno cence' and attempted to prove it by mounting one of the first smear campaigns against Nixon. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. let fly a rouser by calling Nixon a 'junior G-man' but "never bothered to inform his growing public thatj since 1946 he himself had known the key facts in the Hiss-Chambers case." The book organizes in story form Nixon's accusations over a period of nearly 10 years. It boils down to the charge: That President Truman and key fig ures of his administration tried to look the other way when evi dence was produced of high level Communist infiltration of government. It is a campaign book in a campaign year with a hard core of attack on the Roosevelt-Truman administrations on charges of being soft or muddle-headed on the issue of Communist spies in government. SONOTONE All-Transistor HEARING AID WHAT IS IT? In simple terms the Sonotone transistor Hearing Aid Is a Very small perfectly engineered in strument. It is most economical to operate and easy to wear. The only thing that your friends could possibly notice about it is the marvelous change in your hearing and your entire per sonality. j C. 18 ..Years with Sonotone 839 East In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign aid project: The U S. government has just proposed buying 10,000 tons of Burmese rice to help meet an emergency food short age in East Pakistan. Proceeds from the sale of the rice would be used by the Bur mese to hire American techni cians to direct various Burmese government projects. TT'S a fine gesture, of course. If there are hungry people in East Pakistan, they ought to be fed and since we are the best nation on earth it's up to us, ac cording to all the rules, to do the feeding. But I can't help feeling it would be better for all concern ed if instead of going clear around the barn and buying rice in Burma to feed East Paki stan's hungry people we just gave the food to hungry Paki stani out of our own surplus supplies, which are becoming so huge that they threaten to de stroy our agricultural economy. UR biggest agriculture prob lem is to get rid of these surpluses which arose be cause our politicians lacked the necessary courage to change our agricultural support policy when the basic conditions that were responsible for the policy changed. As long as they hang over the markets like a dark thundercloud, our agricultural economy will remain unsound regardless of what we may do in the way of soil banks and such. We can't burn these surplus ses. We can't throw 'em in the rivers and the lakes and the oceans. People, jut won't stand for DESTP.OYING food. If we start dumping them on the mar ket at whatever price they will bring, we will make their people plenty mad and thus gain us even more unpopularity throughout the world than we already disenjoy. BUT we can give our burden some surpluses of food away to starving people. Ever since the world began, feeding the hungry has been the right thing to do. We'd be better off to give it away than to let it lie and rot in expensive storage ware houses. IN New York, scores of Chase Manhattan Bank clerks are continuing their search through the vaults for a MILLION DOL LAR U.S. treasury note that has been lost or mislaid since last Wednesday. I know just how they feel. I lost my keys a while back, and until I found 'em the world was an upset place. r rM ON MY WAY TO WAINSC0TT PHARMACY WE ALWAYS GET OUR PRESCRIPTIONS FILLED THERE. MOTHER SAYS SHE LIKES THE DEPENDABLE SERVICE. Flavahist .$1.79 $5.40 Paladae, 16-oz. Homicebrin, 16-oz. $3.96 Medford's Oldest Hearing Aid Institution R. 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