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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford&Teibune "Everybody in Souuiern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-141 ROBERT W. RUHL, Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL 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 ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.30 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.30 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 13W Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy An lenratasninnovflii tffleial Paper of the City of Medfora 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. Loui. Atlanta. Vancouver. BJZ. NATIONAL EDITORIAL asoc6tqn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aoril 4, 1946 (It was Thursday) County court names Bert Thierolf, Medford; W. W. Rob inson, Ashland, and Arnold Bohnert, Central Point, to coun ty budget committee. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Winter lingering in the lap of Spring has retarded valley crops and pears. Furthermore, many citi zens are two weeks late with their Spring fever, for the same reason. 20 YEARS AGO April 4, 1936 (It was Saturday) Jackson County Young Demo crats schedules dance, cocktail parties among other party ac tivities. Dr. Ernest De Alton Part ridge, national director of re search, Boy Scouts of America, schedules Medford visit. 30 YEARS AGO (It was Sunday) A. C. Strange, former Astoria school superintendent, accepts Job as instructor at Ashland nor mal school. John R. McQuigg, national commander of American Legion, visits Medford, post. 40 YEARS AGO April 4. 1916 (It was Tuesday) j Mrs. C. L. Scheiffelin elected resident of Greater Medford club; Mrs. Jap Andrews first vice president, and Miss Eliza beth Putnam, second vice presi dent. From Local and Personal col umn: An official map of Jackson county, dated 1910, is on display at the Commercial club, rivine substantial data concerning the various mineral regions ot tne county. It gives the estimated coal region as being 600 square miles in extent; gold, 231 square miles; gold and copper, 126 square miles; granite 45, and lime 10. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Wisconsin voted in 1952 for Stevenson for President by a small margin, or Eisenhower by a small margin, or Ike by a big margin? 2. A Caesarian operation is done in the case of eye cataracts, kidney stones, strangulated her nia, breast cancer or childbirth? 3. Sears Roebuck does most of its total business in its retail stores or by mail order, or is it about 50-50? ",4. France recently tightened or loosened the terms of its pro tectorate over Tunisia, or aban doned it altogether? 5. A vaccine has or hasn't been discovered against death from whooping cough? 6. More than half of all U.S. Presidents have been Masons; right or wrong? 7. Artifacts are works of art, blood vessels, statistical data, primitive relics, magicians' tricks or synthetic jewels? The Answers: 1. For Eisen hower by a big margin. 2. Child birth. 3. Most in retail stores. 4. Abandoned it altogether. S. Has been. 6. Wrong (but almost half). 7. Primitive relics. Robert F u 1 1 o n's steamboat made its first voyage Aug. 11, 1807, on the Hudson River. 51 MAIL TRIBUNE How You Do It The toll of life taken in airplane accidents over the week end was a terrible thing to contem plate. Yet, somehow, the average American has be come hardened to disastrous loss of life. One says, "Tsk, tsk," and turns to the sports page. The same thing of course applies to the tremen dous toll of life in automobile accidents. Oddly, however, natural disasters floods, torna does, earthquakes provoke a slightly differing re action, and at such times the contributions to the Red Cross and other agencies take a strong upsurge. AITHY IS IT that we take so lightly man's basic dis " regard for the taking of life through man's handiwork? Is it the old story of familiarity breeding contempt? Or is it that we're so busy we just can't be bothered to worry about it too much? Or and we rather incline toward this view is it because we feel we can do so little about it? What can we, as individuals, do to reduce the toll of automobile or airplane fatalities? Nothing much, really, except to be more careful ourselves, and to keep working for better roads, better mechanisms, better safety procedures. B UT we can talk about terms of "somebody have had., his head examined." And, usually, it's true. A-tremendous majority of all so-called accidents are the result of somebody flubbing. The formal description in aeronautical cir cles is "pilot error," and the same thing applies in most auto accidents. One point we can make out of all this is that no matter what one does driving, flying a plane, swim ming, kite flying or mowing the lawn only the indi vidual can guarantee his own personal safety. We suspect that more people died in automobile acci dents in the U. S. last week end than in private plane crashes but this has little meaning other than the fact that there are more motorists than private pilots. Safety does not depend so much on what you do. It depends on how you do it. E. A. Ite, Er If there is any rhyme practice of changing the name of a town into a de scription of the residents therein such as Medford and Medfordite we've so far been unable to discov er same. Should a man who lives in Ashland be an "ite" or an "er"? An Oregon resident is known as an Oregon ian. Does a resident of Houston, Tex., respond to the appellation Houstonian? Why not Houstonite? Or Houston er? "TTIME MAGAZINE calls a resident of Michigan a Michigander whether rightly or wrongly we don't know. A Los Angeles resident is a Los Angeleno, and the unhappy residents of Cyprus are Cypriots. In consulting reference books and usually knowl edgeable people in our search for a logical answer, the best we've come up with is the explanation that "it depends on the sound." Well, that's all right. We suspect it also depends on what the individual wishes to use. Personally, we've always wanted to call an inhabitant of Tim bucktoo a Timbucktooter. E. A. SPring The other day we wondered out loud what our telephone prefixes would be when the PT&T got around to putting in their seven-digit dial system. The company tells us its SPring, wonderful SPring." On a day like Tuesday, with leaves budding, blossoms' opening up, and the faintest, trace of smudge-smoke in the morning air, we find the appel lation particularly appropriate, both to the season and to the valley. X A S BEFORE reported, the Eugene Register-Guard is unhappy with Eugene's Diamonds, and is cov etous of Salem's EMpire, which it wants for its own Emerald Empire. The Guard became doubly unhappy when it heard of the prefix PT&T had picked for Bend, just over the mountains. It is EVergreen. Such is the fate, we should remind the Guard, of EMpire builders. Let's relax and enjoy the SPring. E. A. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Miami Sen. Estes Kefauver on the results of the Wisconsin primary: "This is much, much better than I had expected. Because I car ried a number of farm precincts, I think it indicates a great unrest among farmers . . . since the administration is offering no relief to farmers I feel that we will carry the entire farm belt." New York Former President Truman on the significance of his breakfast meeting with "inactive candidate" Gov. Averell Harriman: "This is just a social visit. I was invited and I never turn down a free meal." Holland, Mich. Farmer Jerry Genzink on the devastating tor nadoes which shattered western Michigan: "We got in our car and drove away as fast as we could. Then we saw it pass over our heads and turned back. Our house had vanished." Chandler, Arix. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay on the public versus private power dispute: "The United States needs all the power that can be produced by any and all means, both public and private. There definitely Is room for both public and private power." Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Russia's current anti-Stalin crusade: "A dictatorship is a dictatorship whether it be that of en man oc several." Wednesday, April 4, 19S8 human accident causes in flubbed," or "he should or Ian? or reason governing the Spain's Franco Making Big Bid For Role in African Affairs By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Generalissimo Francisco Fran co of Spain is bidding for a big role in Worth Airican atiairs. Franco s ne gotiations with Sultan Mo hammed Ben Youssef of of Moro'-io, starting touvy in Madrid, open a new phase in the entire North African situa- Charlej McCann tion. These negotiations, specifically, will cover only the 18,009 square miles of Spanish Mo rocco. But Franco intends to make them his first move in an at tempt to build up Spanish influ ence and prestige in North Afri ca generally. Franco is pridefully mindful that Spain's ties with Arab North Africa extend back 450 years. France took over the dom inant role in North Africa later. The surge of nationalism com pelled France to grant independ ence to French Morocco and Tunisia and to offer it to Algeria. France thus forced Franco's hand in Spanish Morocco. He is' now compelled in turn to offer In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS It was a rugged week end in the Mediterranean world. In the embattled island of Cy prus, an elderly couple and a child were hurt in the city of Limassol, where a Briton was shot to death the day before. In the city of Paphos, several hun dred students carrying Greek flags threw bombs and stones at British security police. Bomb fragments wounded a school teacher and several Brit ishers were bruised by stones. QUPPORT of the rebellion in Cyprus is expressed by King Paul of Greece at the opening of the new Greek parliament in Athens. He says the Greek peo ple are united as a single soul in what he terms the claim of self determination of the Greeks' brethren in Cyprus. That is to say, the Greeks WANT Cyprus, or have been led by somebody to THINK they want it, although for. more than 3500 years it hasn't been Greek soil. It was conquered by Egypt some 1500 years B.C. It was later seized by Syria and later still by Persia. It has been held at times by the empires of Alexander and the Ptolemies, Rome, Byzantium and Baghdad. During the Cru sades, Richard the Lionhearted conquered it and for 300 years it was a feudal kingdom. The Venetians held it for a while, and for 300 years it was misgoverned by the Turks. Dur ing World War I, the British took it over from Turkey, "DOMBINGS, shootings and oth- MJ er bloody violence provided a week end of political terror ism in North Africa, all the way from Casablanca to Tunis. Along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, there was anoth er exchange of shots between the Israelis and the Arabs. In Egypt, Premier Nasser threatens to accept a Russian of fer of help in building the big Aswan dam if Britain and the United States don't come across with folding money in wads. And so on. WHAT lies back of it all? " Seeking an answer, let's go highbrow for a moment. A BOUT a century ago, Alexan- dre Dumas the Elder wrote a piece entitled "The Mohicans of Paris" in which he described a series of ruckuses. Seeking to explain the origins of the ruck- uses, he coined a cynical phrase: "Cherchez la femme" (look for the woman). It tickled the fancy of the cynical French, and has been widely quoted by cynics everywhere ever sincet So Let's ' coin another cynical phrase to explain the origins of all these ruckuses in the Medi terranean world. Let's para phrase Dumas and say: "Cherchez les communists" look for the communists. It' comes much nearer the truth than Dumas' crack. TWO things lie back of all this present trouble in the Medi terranean countries: 1. OIL. The Middle East con tains the bulk of the world's re maining known oil reserves. The Russians want the oil. 2. AIR BASES. We have air bases scattered all over the Med iterranean area. From these bas es we can retaliate QUICKLY if the Russians should puU a Pearl Harbor on us. The Russians want to knock these bases out of our ownership for, as long as we hold them and keep them manned and armed and provi sioned they will enable us to HIT BACK with great speed and frightful effectiveness if the Russians should attack our main land. That's about the size of it independence to that protector ate. But Franco hopes that any concessions he makes will prove, in the long run, to be a gain and not a loss. Franco's attitude on Spanish Moroccan independence has changed radically in the last few months. Only last Dec. 15 Franco said forcefully that the time had not come to grant Morocco freedom. But France concluded an in dependence agreement with Sul tan Mohammed on March 2 as regards French Morocco. Mo hammed started demanding at once that Spanish Morocco be given independence also, with the two zones united. Franco, according to dis patches from Madrid, is ready to do business with Mohammed. But he wants to keep close ties with Spanish Morocco and also to make Spain a potent in fluence in the affairs of North Africa generally. EspeciaUy he sees Spain as an effective foe of the spread of Communism along the entire southern coast of the Mediter ranean. Franco may properly be called Disability Coverage At 50 Listed in Plan To Change By HELEN B. SHAFFER Washington Persons covered by social security who have be come totally and permanently disabled would not have to wait for retirement benefits until they are 65 years old if a bill now before Congress becomes law. The pending measure would make the disabled eligible to receive benefits at as early an age as 50 years. The legislation also would bring additional groups under the basic social security system and would lower the retirement age for women to 62 years. The bill carrying these amend ments to the Social Security Act passed the House last summer by the overwhelming vote of 372 to 31. However, it faces an uphill battle in the Senate. Health, Education and Welfare Secre tary Folsom has urged the Sen ate Finance Committee not to burden the social security sys tem with new obligations. Ad ministration opposition to the proposed disability benefits, and to a lower .retirement age for women, may influence the com mittee to report a bill shorn of those features. Floor Fight Possible' In that event a stiff floor fight will ensue, tor Democratic members will offer the disabil ity proposal as an amendment to the committee-reported bill. In fact, they may push a more lib eral ' plan, advocated by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) under which persons covered by social security would become eligible for benefits whenever they be came totally disabled, without regard to age. Congress in 1950 made totally disabled persons of any age eli gible to receive relief payments under fedfrally-aided state pro grams of public assistance, and some 250,000 disabled persons are now getting an average of $55 a month from that source. Disabled persons under 65 were further benefited by amend ment of the Social Security Act in 1954 to provide for a freeze of their earnings records. That makes it certain that their re tirement benefits, when avail able, will be as large as if they had been able to continue work ing. But they stiU cannot get the benefits until they are 65 years old. Disabled war veterans are the only persons currently entitled to direct help from the federal government when they are phy sically or mentally incapaci tated. Railroad workers benefit from a contributory system of disability payments under the Railroad Retirement Act, and workers in various industries are covered by group insurance against permanently disabling accidents or illness. Secretary Folsom's opposition to a general system of disability benefits is based mainly on the fact that it would load the so cial security system with heavy additional costs and require bur densome increases in social se curity taxes. It has been esti mated that, within 25 years, a million disabled persons would be entitled to benefits totaling BEST WISHES TO ledford Furniture Store WIRING BY a real expert on North Africa. His career, up to the. time he took the leadership of the Na tionalists in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, was centered large ly in Morocco. Gained Reputation He went to Spanish Morocco first, as a 21-year-old second lieutenant, in 1912 to command a company of Moorish troops. He quickly established a repu tation for bravery in fighting re bels. Be became Sapin's young est brigadier general in 1926, when he was 33. Also, at a time when under the monarchy the Spanish Army in Morocco was ridden by graft and inefficiency, Franco won a name for complete honesty and for hard-headed efficiency. It was from Morocco that Franco set out to lead the revo lution of 1936 in . Spain. The re public had exiled" him to a minor command in the Canary Islands off West Africa. Franco flew to Morocco. He made a landing on the Spanish south coast with Moorish trooDS. was given the supreme Nationalist command, and led the rebel forces to victory. Statutes $900,000,000 a year. The neces sary tax increases might make annual social security taxes larger for some people than their federal income taxes. Forsees Pressures Folsom feared also that, if dis ability benefits should be made available at age 50, it would not be long before pressure to grant them at any age would become irresistible. Although not view ing such benefits as undesirable in themselves, the Secretary con tended that social security should be limited to old-age and survivors' insurance until ex perience has shown that other needs can be met without ad verse effects. Other opponents, notably the medical profession and the pri vate insurance industry, . cited additional reasons. Insurance spokesmen, drawing on their own troubles with disability in surance, warned of a probable flood of fraudulent claims. The doctors insisted that assuranrp of a steady income from the gov ernment would actually deter the recovery of disabled persons who otherwise might regain the capacity to lead useful and pro ductive lives. Social workers arsued. on the contrary, that disability pay ments would give not only neces sary financial aid but also a nsv chological boon that would pro mote renabiiitation. Extradition of Former Yugoslav Minister Blocked Los Angeles (U.R) A former Croatian minister of justice has been granted a petition for a writ of habeas corpus which blocks his extradition to Yugo slavia where he was charged with ordering the mass murders of some 200,000 persons. Andrija Artukovic yesterday was granted the writ by U. S. Judge Pierson M. Hall. Yugo slavia had sought extradition of Artukovic for the past five years to face charges of ordering the mass slayings while he was min ister of justice in 1941-42. Treaty Invalid Hall ruled shortly after Artu kovic was arrested in 1951 that the extradition treaty between the United States and the former Serbian government was invalid. The Yugoslavian government ap pealed its case to the U.S. Su preme Court which reversed Hall's decision and ruled the treaty valid. In the latest ruling, Hall granted the petition on grounds that Artukovic was accused of political crimes and the treaty didn't provide for such crimes. Artukovic now faces deporta tion proceedings by the Immigra tion Service. He came here from Ireland in 1949 and probably will be sent back there unless he voluntarily deports himself to a country of his choosing. Your new store adds a lot to the downtown district. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi the writer dlthougb under certain circum stances the use oi a pen name or initial for publication is permia rible The Mai Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words About Experts To the Editor: Dr. F. B. Exner was to be the speaker today at the joint Legislative Council of Oregon at the Multnomah hotel. As the nation's leading authority on fluoridation, of municipal water supplies, he was asked by an official of the City of New York to prepare a report. New York City has not fluoridated. He is a Fellow of the American Col lege of Radiologists, is a member of the Washington State House of Delegates of the Medical Asso ciation, has six times been secre tary of the American Society of Physicians and Surgeons; for 10 years he has been consultant for the department of health of the state of Washington; he is a member of the faculty of the Medical school of the University of Washington, and is president elect of Kings County Medical society. Dr. Leo Spira has M.D. de grees from the Universities of Vienna and Prague. He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, England. For his experimental work on the effect of fluorine on animals he has the degrees of Doctor of Phi losophy in Medicine in London. He is a member of the Medical society of the State of New York and also of the County of New York. His clinical observations of the effects of fluorine on man cover a period of 25 years, most ly on soldiers in the British Army. His experimental work on animals was performed over a period of four years at Mid dlesex Hospital in London. Ev ery step of his experiments was supervised by his chief and col leagues. These supervised and observed his progress in this work. His articles on this sub ject have been published in out standingly important Medical journals in this country as well as in Great Britain and the con tinent. In addition he has slides covering every phase of his ex perimental work. Compare this record with that of Dr. John W. Knutson, chief, division of dental public health, U.S.P.H.S., who stated to Mr. W. R. Cox, author of "Hello Test Animals, Chinchillas or you and your grandchildren," in April, 1952, that: (1) He had never worked with fluorides; (2) He did not know of anyone who had; and (3) he considered adding flu orine to public water supplies safe and desirable. ; ' r ' Miss Anna Streed ' 36 North Peach st. Medford, Ore. Let's Change Subject To the Editor: Don't you think this fluoride business has gone far enough? The Water Depart ment's 'slogan is "A mountain spring in every" home." Let's keep it that way. I believe most people brush their teeth too much. I am 54 years old and brush my teeth once a week whether they need it or not. Let's quit talking about chang ing our pure mountain water and publish something to bene fit the community. As a suggested subject, we need industry, and in order to get industry we need cheaper transportation, and again, in or der to get cheaper transporta tion, we need a highway to the oceai. There could be a good harbor constructed at Brookings, Ore., with a good highway down the Checto River to said harbor without going through our neigh boring states, bug stations. Francis "Shorty" Hibbard 1302 Saling ave. Medford, Ore. Likes "Suggestions" To the Editor: I did not want to bother you with any more of my letters about fluoridation, but the letter by W. E. Brooks ! WE GUARANTEE YOU'LL IMPROVE ANY PIE WITH KITCHEN CRAFT FLOUR VnierM tar mUm, cakes, km. Hurts, tnl lMb SAFEWAY STORE In the Monday paper wai k good I couldn't resist a few com ments. The article is rather long, but the gist of it is that many articles of food, such as eggs, liver, cab bage, cauliflower, etc., contain trace amounts of deadly poisons; but, in the amounts consumed, they are not poisonous, but may be actually beneficial. Therefore a small amount of sodium fluor ide in city water would not con stitute a "poison," would do no harm, and would actually do good. Now, if our friend were con tending for fluoridated salt, flu oridated chocolates, or chewing gum, it would be a parallel case, and we would all get on the band wagon and "toot" for it. We could go to the market and pick up our fluoridated salt, along with the iodized salt, liver, eggs, cauliflower, cabbage, and whatever else we might need, none of these articles would be forced upon us. But to put flu orine in the city water supply gives one no choice, he has to take it, and pay for it, whether he wants it or not. The small amount of cyanogen in cabbage (for example) might do us no harm in the amounts consumed; and, at any rate, we could discontinue its use at any time if it did not seem bene ficial.'But who can tell what the effects might be if we were com pelled to eat cabbage three times a day, drink cabbage juice when thirsty, make our coffee with it, wash our teeth with cabbage juice, shave with it, and take a bath in it? Thanks for the good suggestion as to how we may get our flu orine, as needed, along with our iodized salt, eggs, liver, and cab bage. John C. Stille, - Shady Cove, Ore. ; Street Names To the Editor: Medford's pop ulation is now 20,083, according to authoritative statement from city officials. This is cause for community congratulation. Med ford truly has reached maturity. It no longer is a hamlet, a vil lage, a small town; it is a small city. There are those who visual ize it as becoming the principal point, in terms of industrial im portance and population, be tween Portland and San Fran cisco. This does not seem im- probable. . Now the bombshell! Isn't it time to either speak of some of our streets, by using their correct names, or else to rename them? "Main st." legally is Seventh st., "Front st." is legally D'Anjou st. With both Sixth and Eighth sts. so well known, it shouldn't be difficult to recognize Seventh, st. And how much more beauti ful, dignified and distinctive is "D'Anjou" than "Front,". The former also is more representa tive of this area, since the name "D'Anjou" is the name of one of our better known varieties of pears. The name "Front" calls up, for many, rather unpleasant connotations. The name "Main" while once appropriate, is so no longer. We have ' other streets considered of equal (or almost) importance. It is also ordinary; more apt to call up the picture of a village or small town, than of the growing city Medford has become. If the mayor and city council. Merchants' association, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and the many women's organiza tions, with their alert, forward looking memberships-, would pro mote this idea, it should not take . long to become accustomed to the change. ' Jeunesse Butler, 106 South Ivy st., Medford, Ore. EVERY 30 YEARS Fredonia, Kan. (U.R) The unguarded Wilson County jail here had its 30-year safety re cord broken when three burglary suspects escaped. One of the three was William O Hanlon, 62. The last previous escape from the lockup was in 1926 by Williany u nanion, az. Craft mm ', .MMICMBO ?4Z ' Z I f
