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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTeieune "Everybody in Southern Oregon Keaas lne Mail Tribune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT 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 IndeDpndent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Ttallw Dn.4 CnnHav 51 months 6.50 Dailv 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 Dailv and Sunday One month 1-23 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford omciai yaper oi jacKson United Press Full Leased Wire "MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF ClHCULAllUfl ,i.t.-c--i- i iniv rriMPAW INC. OffirM in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver, o.v-. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION XJ fcmjiif'H.'.iHM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 jiears ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 11. 1946 (It was Thursday) Willard Pederson elected pres ident of reorganized 20-30 club here; Ritchie Francis chosen vice president. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The OPA has abolished price controls on bottle openers. It was about time as the thirsty were getting tired of yanking off beer caps with their teeth. 20 YEARS AGO April 11, 1936 (It was Saturday) Jackson County Chamber of Commerce highway committee adopts aggressive policy regard ing Pacific highway improve ments. H. L. Wright, who recently purchased large turkey flock, predicts a 20 per cent increase in turkey industry in valley. 80 YEARS AGO April 11, 192S (It was Sunday) Contracts between federal gov ernment and California Oregon Power company concerning up- tier Klamath lake and tributary water rights ruled void and of no effect by Attorney General l. H. Van Winkle. Snider Dairy and Produce comoanv buvs property on North Bartlett st. from K. C. Eldrige for about 15,000. 40 YEARS AGO April 11. 1916 (It was Tuesday) Officials label rain which started Sunday as a "million- dollar shower that gave us an inch and a quarter of rain." Miss Caroline Andrews of Medford praised in Portland paper as a member of the De- Koven Opera company. What's the Answer? Can You Gel 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Corpcricni with profits under $25,000 a year pay lower rate of federal income tax than those with higher profits; right or wrong? 2. The Senate recently voted for or against changing the pres ent sysetm of electing the Presi dent and Vice President? 3. More soft coal is mined every year in West Virginia or Pennsylvania, or is it about 50-50? 4. Eisenhower got about 51 55, 59 or 63 of the popu lar votes for President in 1952? 5. The Tuhks and the Greeks until recently had a tradition of mutual friendship or of ani mosity? 6. Most Southern Democratic leaders favor or oppose Sen. Ke fauver as 1956 presidential nominee, or are neutral toward him? 7. A heliport is a harbor for big steamers, bus terminal, landing field for helicopters or way sta- tion on the road to Purgatory The answers: 1. Right. 2 Against 3. More in West Vir ginia. 4. About 55. 5. Animos ity. 6. Most oppose Kefauver. 7. Landing field for helicopters. The American farmer has in creased his investment in tools and machinery about 900 per JXNEWSPAPR PUBLISHERS A-SsOCIATION cent since 1910. OS We are both pleased and proud that the Sunday women's section of the Mail Tribune has been ad judged the best of its kind in the state of Oregon. It would be untrue to say that we were surprised for we have long known that the product of our favorite Women's Editor, Mrs. Olive Starcher, and her associate, Mrs. Frances Bulkin, ranked well up with the best in the state, outside of the metropolitan dailies, with which we can hardly compete in volume, number of personnel and facilities. JtyTRS. STARCHER, whose initials, 0. S., are famil- iar at the bottom of her weekly column, Pot pourri, won two other awards last week at the annual convention of the Oregon Press Women second place for her column, and second place for her daily women's section. Of all the newspaper women we know, we can think of none who more richly deserves accolades of this nature. For sheer hard work, for dedication to the service of her community, and for a tremendous zest and urge to do the best possible job in presenting all the news of the community of special interest to wom en, we know of no one who is her equal. We're right proud of our Olive. E. A. School Consolidation The elections in which consolidation of three lo cal school districts was approved Monday were, in our view, overwhelming votes of confidence for the school boards and staffs of the school districts. No promises were made to the school patrons that there would be any great saving in taxes, for looking at the realities of school population and the costs of education, any dream of tax reduction for schools is nothing but a dream. MO the consolidation sold itself pretty much on its own merits, which include a centralization of re sponsibility and a uniformity of administration and educational practice. The school administrators in volved made no rosy promises that it would be a pan acea for all the ills besetting the schools. But they did soberly point out the greatly increas ed problems of school operation, and indicated that consolidation would help in their partial solution. The reasons for the arbitrary division of school districts, understandable in the days of the horse and buggy, have by now largely disappeared. " THE ACTION of the voters, and the provisions of Om Wt1"I11" TTTll rtTT'OTT 4- 4? TTV wood districts also into the Medford school district; will result in the creation of the fifth-largest school district 'in the state, following Portland, Salem, Eu gene and Springfield. The distnet number complicated designation Medford number, 49, plus 500 to show that it is an out-of-sequence number, plus the final digit to show tne number oi consolidations approved. ' if other districts later Medford, it will be 549C-2 alter tne one following, and so on. IN THE NATURE of things, it is difficult for the av erage citizen and taxpayer to be completely fa miliar with the problems oiten. nernaDS he is denendent on the arivirp of his elected representatives on it i i meir employees, the administrators and teachers. t it, j j ii. i ah una ctse uie vuieia "the best solution to the tricts with mutual economic to consolidate." The voters they did right. E. A. Acetylsalicylic Acid It is estimated that Americans consume about 11 million tons of aspirin a year or somewhere around 16 billion five-grain tablets. Now the benefits of aspirin are many. More uses are being discovered every day! And for a three-way treatment oi low cost and (known clinically as acetylsalicylic acid, or CH3C02- LbH4C02H chemically) is cr pains, lowering fever, and arthritic ailments. On the basis of new to replace a number of more expensive drugs, such as cortisone and AvJlfi. DUT THE FACT is that, its low cost, and its relative safety, it is still drug, and still potentially dangerous. The U. S. Public Health service reports that thousands of cases of salicylate poisoning come to the attention of doctors every year. In 1952 there were nearly 17,000 such cases reported, including 113 which ended m death. By far the largest number of these were young children. Most ot these were under 5 years of age, wiin tne majority aoout 6. A CCORDING to an article in the New Yorker mag. azine, which details the 3,000-year history of as pirin's use and development, sometimes only a slight dosage can cause senous results, particularly m cer tain illnesses. Habitual use of large doses almost in' variably results in some degree of intoxication. But it is-the youngsters, who are used to children's aspirin, decked out in colors and sweetened (and sometimes even called "candy" in an attempt to get it down when they need it), who are in the worst dan ger. A toddler exploring a serious danger of his life the headache or cold sufferer. E. A. Wednesday, April 11, 1956 will be 549C-1 a rather derived from the former vote to consolidate with after the next one, 549C-3 of the schools. Often too the school boards, and of .. 1 were auviseu uiai it seems Droblem ... for those dis and educational interest took that advice. We think high effectiveness, aspirin unbeatable for easing min and combating rheumatic discoveries, it is being; used despite its widespread use, medicine cabinet can be in from aspirin the friend of Algerian Situation Increasing In Danger; By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Algerian situation is get ting steadily more dangerous. France is trying to mobilize an army strong enough to crush the nationalist rebellion which broke out 18 months ago. But the rebels seem to be getting stronger. They are now able to put disci- Charles McCann piinea iorces into pitched battles against the French instead of waging mere guerrilla warfare. Further, the situation is no longer one which involves the French and the rebels alone. Arab nations are coming out openly on the side of the rebels. The nine-nation Arab League has approved a resolution offering the rebels full support. Syria is leading a move to declare a blanket political, economic and cultural boycott of France. In fluential organizations in other Arab countries are getting be hind the boycott move. Asia-Africa Group There are indications that the 24-nation Asia-Africa group of countries, led by "neutralist" Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, may soon enter the situation actively in the rebels' support through the United Nations. Asia-Africa bloc delegates at U.N. headquarters in New York set up a standing committee to discuss proposals for dealing with relations between Trance and the Algerian nationalists. Any such proposals would cer- tainly be aimed at putting pres sure on France. Socialist Premier Guy Mollet of the French coalition govern ment got support last month for In the Day's News , By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the senate- house conference committee has completed- work on the contro versial farm bill and congres sional leaders predict it will pass both houses next week and be on President Eisenhower's desk by Friday. Committee leaders are said to have served notice on the Presi dent that if the bill is vetoed con gress is not likely to pass another general farm bill at this session, That is to say: The President has been told to take it or leave it and taka the consequences if he decides to veto it. HHHE bill is a high price support J- bill It is an ancient political prin ciple that when people are un happy and dissatisfied THEY TEND TO VOTE AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATION IN POWER, That makes a high support farm bill very attractive to the Demo crats and to a lot of weak kneed Republicans. At the moment, it seems doubt ful that the Democrats can beat Ike and -take the Presidency. But if they can carry the big Midwest farm states (where there is admittedly a lot of un- happiness over the farm situa tion) and in addition can hold the South and maybe pick up some members in states like New York and Pennsylvania they can control the congress. That's the picture the devil of practical politics showed them when he led them up on the high place while they were drafting this farm bill and TEMPTED THEM. They fell for the temptation. A S TO the farm problem: T,et's take the case of this newspaper. Every day, we make the same decision the farmer makes each spring when he plants his crops. That is, we size up the situation and decide how many papers wc will be able to sell that day. Then we PRINT that number of papers, plus a relatively small number more to allow for any mistakes we may have, made in our calculations. PUT- - Suppose the government guaranteed us a price that would show us a profit on ALL THE PAPERS WE COULD PRINT. What would happen then? I'm afraid that in that event we'd keep our presses running as long at least as the available supply of paper held out. If the government stored the papers up in warehouses, but continued to pay us a price at which it would be profitable to go on printing them FOR STORAGE ONLY, RATHER THAN CONSUMP TION, I fear we'd go right on printing papers and turning them over to the government to be stored. Human nature, you know, is human nature, and it is human nature to produce as much as you can sell at a profit. I DON'T believe the real free enterprise farmers in this country are going to like it that is what happens to Amer ica g agriculture. Rebel Strength Up a plan to crush the rebellion and at the same time to offer Algeria real home rule. In pursuit of this plan Mollet proposes to call 7U,uuu reserv ists to the colors to reinforce the army of approximately 250,- 000 men now in Algeria. This is necessary because Mollet al ready has stripped to the bone the French divisions now at home, including those allotted to the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. A published report, quoting well-informed sources, is that Mollet may try to increase the French draft term from 18 months to two years. All this means trouble at home. War weary, crisis-weary Frenchmen do not want to fight in Algeria. There is talk also of disagreement between Mollet and Pierre Mendes-France, co- leader of the government coali tion, on Algerian policy. This Today and By Walter THE MIDDLE EASTERN DILEMMA While nothing in the Middle East has gotten better, it is, I think, becoming clearer what is the fundamental question of high policy which will have to in London and W a s h i ngton. The question is whether and how they will recognize the fact that the Soviet Union is .now present Walter Lippmann as a great power in the international ai- fairs of the Middle East. This question is as painful and difficult as is the somewhat similar question in the Far East that of the recognition of Red China. Both in China and m the Middle East the question is how policy is to come to terms with the hard and unpleasant fact that an unfriendly great power is now present in what has been traditionally a friend ly sphere of influence. It is this unanswered question which is at the root of the hesitations and the differences in London and in Washington. The reason that there are no clear and firm decisions being taken is that every decision in volves the question of what the Soviet Union will do about it, We are not genuinely in diplo matic contact with the Soviet Union about the Middle East We do not know what we are able to do without her, in spite of her, or with her. T AST week the United States made two important moves in the Middle East. One of them was to go to the U.N. and to ask that the Secur ity Council instruct Mr. Ham marskiold to work on the im provement of the Palestine arm istice. This move required the concurrence of the Soviet Union, which could have used its veto, and in the end the concurrence was obtained. Almost simultaneously, Wash ington, under pressure from Lon don, decided to send Mr. Loy Henderson, a high diplomatic of ficer, to the coming meeting of the members of the Baghdad Pact. This pact, which we have blessed but not joined, does not recognize the Soviet presence in the Middle East. It is in fact de signed to- exclude the Soviet Union's participation in the af fairs of the Middle East. Here then' we have two dif ferent lines of policy being fol lowed at the same time. One aims to "Induce the Soviet Union to concur in the maintenance of peace and eventually in the ar rangement of a settlement. This, one may say. is the line that the Eisenhower administration would like to follow. The other line, that of the Baghdad Pact and also of the 1950 Tripartite Declaration about Palestine, wduld not recognize the Soviet Union in dealing with the Pal estine conflict or with the strate gic and economic problems of the Middle East. . IlE have to ask ourselves how " long we can continue on these two incompatible lines of policy. There exists today a Moscow-Cairo axis which rests on the fact that both the Soviet Union and Egypt have a com mon interest. They both wish to overturn the policy of the Baghdad Pact and of the Tri partite Declaration the policy of excluding the Soviet Union and of claiming for the West the ultimate responsibility for the whole area. Can we expect to succeed both in the U.N. and at Baghdad? Can we have collaboration at the U.N. and non-recognition and exclusion outside the U.N.? Is it not evident 'that the attempt to follow both lines simultan eously must lead to the frustra tions we are experiencing and to the equivocations and indecis ions which everyone is complain L " 'J ing about? could develop into a cabinet crisis. May Be Too Late Robert Lacoste, French gov ernor general in Algeria, said in Paris last week that unless the Algerian rebellion could be ended within five months, it may be too late. There seems to be a serious question whether the rebellion can be suppressed in that time. Not only are the rebels get ting stronger, but there is disaf fection among the 45,000 Al gerians now in the French forces fighting the rebels. In a battle in February, be tween 50 and 100 Algerian sold iers deserted to the rebels dur ing a battle. An Algerian lieu tenant has just been arrested, charged with passing secret mili tary plans to the rebels. In all, the Algerian situation seems to be nearing the desper ate stage. Tomorrow Lippmann IT IS, of course, easier to see the dilemma of our incom patible policies than it is to see how the dilemma can be re solved. For we do not know whether the Soviet Union would, if invited, be willing to collab orate. At the U.N. meeting in New York last week Mr. Sobolev, the Soviet representative, drew a sharp line between stabilizing the Arab-Israeli armistice and attempting to make a settlement. Presumably then, Moscow does not now want war but neither does it want peace. The pres ent situation, with its fierce pas sions and its high tensions. seems to suit Moscow. Why' Presumably again, because it is an anti-Israel coalition that the Arab states are the most united and at the same time the most dependent upon the Soviet Union. ICrYPT, which is the prime " mover among the Arabs, de pends upon the Soviet Upion for something more than arms. depends on the Soviet Union for its veto in the U.N. and above all for its capacity to interpose military power if Britain and the United States were to re sort to force to maintain the status quo. Col. Nasser, one might say, depends on Moscow to keep the green light burning for his advances. The Soviet Union is acting as a protector cf Egypt and of Saudi-Arabia in their campaign to subvert the British and American position in Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf. The Moscow-Cairo axis is operating to nullify the Baghdad Pact, the Tripartite Declaration, and to frustrate the whole policy of excluding the Soviet Union from the Middle East. If there are to be serious dis cussions when Messrs. Bulganin and Khrushchev visit London next week, nothing would seem" to be more important than to find out whether they have any willingness to collaborate in the Middle East, and if so, on what terms. Copyright, 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Communications Letten to the Editor must bear the name and addresi ot the writer dlthough under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication i oermis rible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letter! with an eye to rliication and condensa tion I etters submitted for publica tion must hot exceed 400 word! Skuni Eating To the Editor: About 1907 or a fev years before, there were a number of families coming to Oregon from the Southwest, by way of mule train. And in the group there was a girl from Oklahoma and a young man from Texas. One evening while making camp they discovered a skunk under a culvert. It was killed, and a bet was made between the girl from Oklahoma and the boy from Texas as to which one could eat the more skunk. The skunk was promptly dressed and cooked, and the contest got under way. The result: The Oklahoma girl won out, which was really something, against a man from Texas, even to skunk eating. Well, eventually both families arrived and settled in Oregon, and at least to make the story good reading, or listening as the case may be, the young lady from Oklahoma and the young man from Texas married and raised a fair sized family. This may be the reason for the confusion as to who was the really original skunk eaters. But we don't believe Texas should be left out entirely. "A native Oregonian" (Name on File) First national election returns to be broadcast by radio were those which announced the choice of Warren Harding as President in 1920. ' Editorial Comment CALENDAR REFORM NEARER Why in tarnation don't we do something about changing our outmoded, oldfashioned, Roman instituted calendar? Now that science appears fully emerged, working in decimals, measuring in meters and grams, isn't it about time our calendrical sys tem was modernized completely to simplify living for -us non- scientists? For about 25 years the World Calendar Association has dedi cated its time, purpose and re sources to planting a World Cal endar in all nations. Numerous committees and affiliates are still hard at work in doing the spadework for adoption in many other countries than the 17 na tions already approving the idea in principle. The idea, sowed so many years ago, has now reached the reaping stage, and it has been seriously proposed that the world organization the United Nations might well spearhead its adoption. What is the World Calendar? According to those in the know, modern calendar- reform deals with an improved civil calendar. 4" ' wbmm; 4wMmwi FIGHTING POSE Adlai Stevenson strikes a fighting pose for a "hard-fighting campaign" at his home in Lib ertyville, HI., during a luncheon he held for supporters -from 22 states. Stevenson called the meeting to intensify his campaign effort for the Democratic nomination for President I GU&BAHT EE YOU'LL IMPROVE ANY RECIPE THAT CALLS FOR FLOUR WITH KITCHEN CRAFT ALL-PURPOSE FLOUR ( I - Wonderful for pies, cookies, cakes, breads, btsenfts! l"- SAFEWAY STORE In Medford In Case Your Friends Forgot To Tell You . Claudia Perry (Specialist in Duck Cutting) Are Now With 131 South Central Ave. Originally our calendar came down from ancient Rome. Caesar revised it in B.C. 45, and Pope Gregory in A.D. 1582. Russia adopted our mixed Julian Gregorian system after the revo lution in 1918. An excellent as tronomical counting board, our calendar has two glaring defects: its instability, causing birthdays, holidays, dates to change need lessly, and its lack of uniform ity in structure. This disorder is completely out of harmony with our modern pattern of regular routine activities. The reformed calendar and eventually we'll get it will equalize and simplify all dates with respect to days of the week, holidays, months of equal length of 28 days by having 13 months, and balancing out Easter, Christ mas and New Years. It's a mighty good, solid, scientific system. When it comes our turn to vote on it, let's just don't go damfool conservative and say "What was good enough for Granddad is good enough for me." Let's get the change over with, and start a new era of advancement. Oregon City Enterprise-Courier. ifitchen Its Modem' i p and Betty James (she has her'good points, tool) Phone 3-5379 f