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Newspaper Page Texto fOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) JfEDFORDJTRIBUNE "Everybody in Soutnern Oregon Reads TSe Mali TnOune published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-A141 SOEERT W RUHU Editor HERB "GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City 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 Mediord. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oy Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6JS0 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash m Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County 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 I ASSOCIATION I U O HJMI.'.H.'.I.H I 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 30. 1946 (It was Saturday) Mrs. Elwood Hedberg, presi dent of Jackson County Public Health association, announces tickets on sale for annual meet ing. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Jackson K. Frost has not yet arrived in the valley on his annual visit, and is tardy. In normal years at this time, he has killed all the apri cots, and ruined an overwhelm ing majority of the pears. 20 YEARS AGO March 30, 1936 (It was Monday) Improvements on Medford armory started by WPA crews; total cost expected to be about $4,000. F. C. Reimer, head of South ern Oregon experiment station, inspects damage from cold weather; says about 90 per cent of blossoms remain on pear trees. 30 YEARS AGO March 30, 1926 (It was Tuesday) Ralph P. Cowgill of Medford recommended b y Republican pre-primary convention for sen ator. First forest fire of season re ported on Ward's creek between Gold Hill and Rogue River; covers about 50 acres. 40 YEARS AGO March 30, 1916 (It was Thursday) Tungsten ore strike at Syl vanite, three miles upstream from Gold Hill, reported sto be extensive vein. Talent Farmers' club votes to form irrigation district; J. W. Miller of Ashland, R. E. Robin son and A, L. Manning of Tal ent nominated as trustees. Whai's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Total number of electoral votes for President is (a) 135, (b) 351, (c) 531, (d) 1350 or (e) 5310? 2. Amman is the capital of an Arab state: Irak, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan or Saudi Arabia? 3. Date of Easter each year depends on the date of Christ mas, the calendar, time of full moon, decision of the millinery trade, or long-range weather forecasts? 4. One-fifth, one-third, one half or two-thirds of the states now forbid discrimination in em ployment by race, religion or color? 5. The Stock Market usually goes up or down in the second half of presidential election years, or shows no distinct trend? 6. The average age at which women start teaching in city public schools is (a) 17, (b) 20, (c) 23 or (d) 26? 7. The original name of which prominent screen star was Mar garita C. Cansino? The answers: 1. 531. 2. Jor dan. 3. Time of full moon. 4. One-lhird. . 5. Usually goes up. 6. Around 23. 7. Rita Hayworlh. PEANUTS LACKING Washington U.R) The Agri culture department had bad news for baseball fans today, but good news for cleanup men the ones with brooms. Peanuts MAIL TRIBUNE "Dime" The sudden death of Diamond L. Flynn was shocking to the thousands of people in southern Ore gon who were glad to call him a friend. He was doing what he liked best walking the streets of Medford, greeting people and talking about civic projects the day before he was carried away by a heart attack. Dime Flynn liked people. That was his genius in all the work he did for his community and state. He disliked hurting anyone, and whenever possible did whatever he could to avoid that occasional necessity. ASA RESULT, sometimes during his career of pub lie service he was criticized for "sitting on the fence," and "not getting anything done." That, we believe, was not the case, for during his administration as mayor of Medford for six years, more was accomplished than most people can recall in any like period. It is a tribute to Dime that it was accomplished, and was done without hurting people. His genius for liking others made it possible for him to arrange compromises and agreements, where other men, less skillful in dealing with personalities, would advo cate an "all or nothing" approach. DUT DEMOCRACY IS, by.one definition, govern ment by compromise. With a skillful, loyal and dedicated worker like Diamond Flynn as a leader, miracles can be wrought. 'And they were, in Medford. The same is true in the multitude of other activ ities to which he devoted much of his life. He was a community "sparkplug," an enthusiastic and dedicat ed worker in a dozen causes and projects. Medford, the county, the state and the nation are the better for Diamond Flynn's life and work. His pre mature death (he was only 59) may well have been hastened by the fact that he could not take it easy when he saw a job that needed to be done. rIME FLYNN'S death leaves a void that will be difficult to fill. But his work, his service, his dedication to what was good in community life all done in smiling friendship will stand as a memorial to him greater than anything that can be said or done in his honor. E. A. Garbage Adolf Hitler operated under the theory that if you told a lie big enough, and repeated it often enough, it was bound to be believed by some people. This technique has come to be known as the "Big Lie." There is some validity to the theory, for some lies, although thoroughly discredited, still make the rounds. "NE SUCH is the rather stupid and sordid tale mar- keted under the title of "Maria Monk," or '"Se crets of the Black Nunnery in Montreal, Canada, Re vealed." When the thing first was published 120 years ago in New York, it created a big stir, until investigation revealed it was the product of a former adventuress and a jailbird to boot, who had concocted the story for notoriety. Like other Big Lies, however, it keeps popping up from timeHo time. It most recently has appeared in envelopes mailed out from the Gold Hill area, we are informed. D ELIGIOUS diversity is one of America's strengths. Each person is entitled to believe as he must, and decry the beliefs of others if he feels so inclined. But this right does not extend to spreading lies. "Maria Monk" is in the same category as the ancient and infamous falsehoods contained in the so-called "Protocols of Zion." Both are pure garbage. E. A. Journalism Dean Several of the state's newspapers have comment ed on their pleasure over the appointment of Prof. Charles Duncan as dean of the school of journalism at the University of Oregon. . We are delighted to join them. "Chuck" Duncan is the kind of person sometimes described as the salt of the earth. There's no pretense, no sham in his makeup. He's a solid citizen, and we like the idea of his being in charge of educating Oregon's future newspaper men and women. "THE ONLY THING wrong with the appointment was that it was so long delayed, for he has been acting dean for almost a year. But since it has finally been made official, we con gratulate both Dean Duncan and the university on the action. It is of more interest to those of us in the business than to most residents, of course, but newspaper read ers in general might be interested to know that the young men and women who in the future will be writ ing the news and editorials in the state will have their education supervised by a literate, human, honest and highly intelligent gentleman. E. A. Jeanne Crain Files Action for Divorce Hollywood (U.R) Film star Jeanne Crain's suit for divorce against manufacturer Paul Brinkman today stunned Holly wood. The couple married on New Year's Eve, 1945, had four chil dren and generally was consid ered one of HoUywood's hap piest marriages. are in "comparatively short supply" this year, the depart ment said and consumption in the bleachers "probably will de cline for the second consecutive year." Friday, March 30. 1958 Fly nn FBI Captures Two Most Wanted Criminals Memphis (U.R) Notorious Nick (The Greek) Montos, only criminal ever to make the FBI's "10 most wanted" list twice, and escaped convict Robert Lloyd Jones were surprised by FBI agents at a motel early today and taken without a shot being fired. FBI agents poured tear gas into the sleeping fugitives' room and forced them to come out with their hands up despite the fact they had a small arsenal with them. 'Open Sky1 Stalin, Top By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. Hope was expressed in Al lied capitals that the big powers might at last get started on the way toward a disarmament agreement, including the safe guards against violations which Soviet Russia has refused to ac cept. For the first time, the So viet delegation at a United Na tions disarmament conference in London agreed in principle to the "open sky" plan for aerial inspection of armaments which President Eisenhower proposed at the "summit" meeting of the Big Four heads of government in Geneva last July. The tenta tive acceptance was cautiously qualified. But it was the latest of several indications that the Kremlin might be ready to do business. A new Russian dis armament plan, submitted at the London meeting, also failed to include the previous Kremlin insistence on a flat ban on nu clear weapons as the first move. 2. Communist parties all over Europe showed open consterna tion over the debunking of Josef Stalin, built up for years as in fallible. The Hungarian Reds an nounced that Laszlo Rajk, their foreign minister, and other lead ers were executed on concocted evidence in 1949 in a Stalin-era purge. Communists parties in East Germany, France and Italy squabbled over the debunking. Many ' of them refuse to agree that Stalin was only a clay-footed idol. 3. President Eisenhower's con ference with Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent of Canada and President Adolfo Ruiz Cor tines of Mexico at White Sul phur Springs, a new kind of in formal get-together by "summit" leaders, proved to be a resound ing success. There was talk of developing the new techniques. It may be used when Prime Min ister Jawaharlal Nehru of India visits the United States in July. The Bad 1. The Parliament of Iceland, Fire Losses Greater; Insurance Is Not Full Answer, Babson Says By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Fire losses have so increased that I feel the subject should inter est everyone, whether man ufacturer, or household er. The finan cial loss may be covered by insurance; but insurance does not cover oth er losses espe cially in the Roger W. Babson cases of a successful business or a happy home. Unfortunately, a certain num ber of fires are set by mentally deranged people, or by juvenile delinquents. Other fires are set by unsuccessful businessmen who use the fires "to sell their business to the insurance com pany." In view of the large num ber of "set" fires, the little red fire-alarm boxes at street cor ners will always remain in use. No one who sets a fire will ever notify the Fire Department. This must be done by someone who discovers the fire when walking along the street. As such dis covery is made only alter the fire has got a good start, "set" fires are the most dangerous. Could Be Smothered With the exception of fires started from explosions, prac tically all fires could be smoth ered, at their start, by someone with common sense. This is espe cially true, as 27 per cent of the fires are officially reported as starting from "matches and smoking " In addition to the thousands of lives which have been lost in these 27 per cent of fires, the property loss amounted to $453,341,831 all from matches and smoking. In this connection I wish to acknowledge a debt of gratitude owed the National Board of Fire Underwriters, especiaUy their general manager, L. A. Vincent, and their chief engineer, John A. Neal. This board has various functions. It originates most of CAUSES Matches Smoking Misuse of Electricity Exposure to other Fires Petroleum Products Stoves, Furnaces, Boilers Overheated Chimneys Flues 115,697 Spontaneous Combustion Lightning Miscellaneous Friction and Sparks Open Lights Gas Natural and Artificial Ignition of Hot Grease, etc. Explosions Hot Ashes and Coals Chemical Combustion Sparks on Roofs Rubbish and Litter Fireworks, Balloons, etc TOTAL Plan, Debunking of Good News of Week a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, called for the withdrawal of American troops, on the ground that international tensions had been reduced. There are only a few thousand Americans in Iceland. But the little island country, lying east of Greenland on the Arctic cir cle, is a valuable aerial staging base, if nothing else. The "re duced tensions" argument is re garded by the United States as dangerous. The Kremlin has adopted a new look. To the American government, it is merely another false face to mask expansionist ambitions. 2. The Arab nations showed suspicion of a plan to send Unit ed Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to the Mid dle East in an attempt to settle the Palestine crisis. In the U.N. Security council, Arab delegates ommunications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation, not exceed 400 words. Pure Water To the Editor: Grandma will state her reasons why not to put fluorine in Medford's water system. The chamber of commerce ad vertised all over to bring strang ers into Medford, Oregon, U.S.A. You all praised this pure water that Medford has used the past years. We were newcomers five years ago and bought our property be cause it had irrigation water, and we wanted to enjoy drink ing this pure water you folks praised so highly. We moved from San Jose, Calif., where their city water is foul, full of chemicals. We bought bottled water to drink. We lived in Los Angeles previously and all one can say of Los Angeles water it's wet, terrible to drink. There again, we bought bottled water to the publicity issued to prevent fires; it maintains a legal staff to detect, and prosecute those who are suspected of setting fires; and through the Under writer's Laboratory of Chicago, the board tests fire extinguish ers, sprinkler systems, electric alarms, and gadgets which are publicly offered for the preven tion of fires. This latter is very important work. But your very best friend is your local fire chief. What About Insurance Too many people take the po sition, ''Why worry, because the insurance company will pay the bill." Although, in case of loss, you get a check from one or more insurance companies, yet this loss is merely collected by the insurance companies from the premiums which they assess plus the cost of operation to all who take out policies. In fact, the real loss from fires is con siderably more than the amount paid out as insurance. Due to the high character of. the men who operate these insurance companies and the careful su pervision given them by the of ficial state boards, their finan cial record is excellent. Therefore, I urge every reader to see that his factory, his store, and his home are well covered by insurance. Furthermore, in view of the rising cost of build ing, insurance, in most cases, needs to be increased at the present time. I believe every reader of this column should ijheck his insurance policies to day and see that they cover not only fire losses, but also losses from wind storms, acci dents, and other disasters. Frank ly, I am a great believer in all forms of insurance, and this includes life insurance for fam ily protection, for the payment of estate taxes, and for other purposes. Causes of Fires Read the following figures for the past 3 years issued by the National Board of Fire Underwriters: Number Per Cent Property Loss ; 666,812 26.90 $ 453,341,831 ! 330,047 13.31 405,896,793 180,220 7.27 270,946,033 195,645 7.89 ' -218,625,639 170,639 6.88 230,158,430 ; 115,697 4.67 146,475,730 47,127 1.90 140,263,778 224,694 9.06 143,601,697 88,105 3.55 127,540,039 25,233 1.02 76,251,420 76,653 3.09 73,693,025 43,505 1.76 70,351,899 97,143 3.92 50,303,751 I 24,114 0.97 48,793,380 69,782 2.82 54,320,903 25,358 1.02 41,981,665 38,422 1.55 38,120,602 56,734 2.29 . 51,710,806 3,326 0.13 2,811,229 ! 2,479,255 100.00 $2,645,188,650 sought to limit rigidly the basis on which Hammarskjold might negotiate. American chief dele gate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., will try to win over the Arab countries when the council meets again Tuesday. 3. Japan was angered by the United States rejection of its protest against the plan to carry out H-bomb experiments in the Marshall islands next month. Japanese from Premier Ichiro Hatoyama down to the most humble citizen, feel keenly that such tests are a menace because of consequent radioactive fall out. Japanese opposition to the tests will be encouraged by the propaganda of Soviet Russia and Communist China, and by "neutralists" like Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who want a ban on nuclear weapons without asking for adequate safeguards. Letters submitted tor publication must drink. And we were so happy after years of drinking bottled water we could enjoy drinking really good water. Now, if putting this into the water really was a cure all O.K., but you will find it takes far more than fluoridation to have perfect teeth. Neither are the medical doc tors always correct in their de cisions. Twenty years ago, a medical man gave me six months to live. I was moved from Pennsylvania to a sanitarium on a mountain beyond Los Angeles. There too, the medical men gave me only months to live. My husband then explored all these health centers. After two years he took me out of a sani tarium and we have lived these 18 years on so-called health method. My husband is 68 years old and has all his own teeth, in perfect condition today. A body has to have all the 16 elements .to keep fit and grow and keep healthy gums and teeth. The body requires more than water with a chemical added to have perfect teeth. Healthy teeth don't come in pop bottles, white sugar, white flour, etc., then gulp down some fluoridation water and have healthy gums and teeth. There is a toothpaste with Flu oristan on the market. In Switzerland they have a table salt with fluorine added, just as iodized salt. That's the way they settled the water prob lem, and all folks were happy As for us, if you mess up this marvelous drinking water, we will travel to the mountain springs and haul in our drinking water. Cheaper than selling and moving elsewhere for pure water. We intend to find pure spring water for our drinking. Mrs. James H. Morrison, Route 2, Box 240, Medford, Ore. Three Good Reasons To the Editor: I have three good reasons why I want fluori dation. They are, Dwight, age IV2, Jeffrey, age 3V, and Jim my, age 1. We have just moved here from San Antonio, Tex., and I might add we like it very much. Flu oridation is quite popular and successful in Texas and can be the same here. i Mrs. J. Dwight Wilson Jr. 1005 Winchester St., Medford, Ore. From Candidate To the Editor: I want to thank you very much for your story on my being a candidate for del egate to the Democratic nominat ing convention. . . Attending school 3,000 miles away from home doesn't pre sent me with many opportunities to talk to people in my locality, and I appreciate very much your telling them. Thank you again. Alex M. Hamilton Jr. Washington, D.Q. ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R) Actress Ruth Roman divorced radio station owner Mortimer W. Hall yesterday on testimony he had called her "stupid" and said "He wished he'd never mar ried me." 2 31 EAST SIXTH ST. m . PURE Beef Heart KRK : slab LARD or Tongue SAUSAGE BACON ITtl: 19 lb. 291b. :291b. iHnHBIManHHHHHMI Today and By Walter THE DISUNITED DEMOCRATS The Democratic Party, it is now evident, is in another of those periods of inner conflict which it passes through about once in each political gen eration. The party was sharply di vided , in the days of William Jenning Bryan. Then Woodrow Walter Lippmann Wilson united it. After Wilson, it became bit terly divided over prohibition and Ku Klux Klan until Roose velt, in the days of the great de pression, united it in the New Deal. Since the death of Roose velt at the end of the war the tension between northern and southern Democrats has been in creasing. ' Gov. Stevenson, who is a na tional leader in the line of Wil son and Roosevelt, has been try ing, but not successfully, to re unite the party. T1HERE IS a real and important issue between Stevenson on the one hand, Truman, Kefauver and Harriman on the other. It is not about whether Stevenson is too moderate in his criticism of Eisenhower, or whether he can give the Republicans bigger hell than Kefauver or Harriman. There is at issue the deep ques tion of party policy and party strategy: is there to be a united Democratic front or are the Democrats to run, as under Tru man in 1948, as a northern party? Shall they aim to win the Presidency by preserving the united front with the southern Democrats who are in control of Congress? If so, Stevenson is their man, indeed their only pos sible man. Or, shall they let the erring southern brothers go Republi can or Dixiecrat while they fight the election as a militant north ern party appealing to the farm belt and to the big cities? If so, they can make their choice of Kefauver, Harriman, and per haps some others in ar open con vention in which former Presi dent Truman, the hero of 1948, will be dominant. rTHE NEW Hampshire and Min- nesota primaries indicated that among northern Democrats the balance has turned rather emphatically against the policy of a united front under Gov. Stevenson. 'Why is this? It is because there is not now any national issue which overrides, as in Wil son's time and in Roosevelt's, sectional and local interests. A united front policy means giving the local interests something less Government Eases Pork-Buying Program Washington (U.R) The gov ernment reported yesterday its pork-buying program was eased this week with the strengthen ing of hog market prices. An Agriculture department report also hinted strongly the administration would continue tapering off the program if hog markets remained strong. Purchases under jthe program, aimed at bolstering hog prices, dropped to 3,800,000 pounds, of canned pork products this week, the department announced. Last week the department bought 9, 100,000 -pounds of pork and 7,800,000 pounds of lard. The department will continue to consider packers and proces sors, the statement continued, but future purchases will de pend "on market developments." Alaska's population increased by 134 per cent between 1940 and 1954. Easter Lilies $200 : Other Pot Plants Camellias, Azaleas, Cinneraria's, Cyclemen Hydrangeas. Cut Flowers Stocks, Snapdragons, Car nations, Roses, Daphodils Corsages $1 up Shrubs, Trees, Bulbs, Garden Supplies MARSHALL NURSERY & FLORIST 12th & Newtown Phone 3-1657 We Deliver . . . Open Sundays and Holidays Tomorrow Lippmann than they want. It can work only when there is something so big, such as a war or a depres sion, that local interests are not all important. o Truman, Kefauver and Harri man are in a position to say, "We told you so last autumn when Gov. Stevenson announced his candidacy; we told you then that the Democrats must run as a militant party, ignoring the South, and seeking the Negro vote, the labor vote, and the farm vote in the northern states." They did not put it quite so frankly. But what they were asking for . was that the party should follow the Truman pattern of 1948. A LTHOUGH they have by no "means proved that the Tru man pattern could win again in 1956, what has happened since Gov. Stevenson announced on Nov. 15 has done much to justify their view that this is not a favorable year for a united Democratic front. It is, however, only fair to remember that Nov. 15 was seven weeks after the President was stricken, and that there was no good reason then to think that he could or would conduct a genuine campaign for reelec tion. Last November there were the best of reasons for suppos ing that the Democratic candi date would be pitted against Nixon, either as candidate for President or as candidate for Vice President along with a f $ail Eisenhower. Against Nixon, the Democrats had every prospect of winning with SteveSson and the policy of a united front. For Ste venson, more than any other man in either party, possesses the unifying spirit which is the secret of Eisenhower's appeal to the pepple. The Gallup Poll was insistent upon Steven son's ability to beat Nixon. It is the President's remark able recovery which has trans formed the situation. STEVENSON and the united front have had no effective support either among the north ern or the southern Democratic politicians. The first allegiance of politicians is to the con stituency in which they have to be elected, and for that reason a united front policy can never be the first choice of politicians. The southern Democrats, who are in control of Congress, have in this session done nothing to make it easier, much to make it harder, for Stevenson to carry on the policy of the united front. The southern Democratic poli ticians in Congress have follow ed a sectional policy which, no -doubt, helped them in their own constituencies. But it divides the national party. They began with Sen. Lyndon Johnson's natural gas bill and they went on to Sen. George's manifesto about segregation. Since then, the Democratic party has 'been so deeply divided that it is almost impossible to imagine how a con mon platform can be agreed to at the national convention. THE SITUATION could change in the months to come. But on the prospect of an Eisenhower-Nixon Republican ticket, one may have doubts whether any of the leading Democratic politicans in the North or in the South are really interested in the Presidency. In part, that may be because they feel that the Demo crats have only; an outside chance to win the Presidency. But it may be also because they have done well enough, very well indeed, with Eisen hower in the White House and themselves in control of Con gress and of so many of the state capitols. They may, in other words, re gard the present division of powers between the two parties as not at all unsatisfactory. Copyright 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc.