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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Med; Tribune "Z very body tn Southern Oregon Keaas The Mull iTiirant Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-S9 North Fir St. Phone 2-9141 ROBERT W. RCHU Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR, Managing Editor IARL H. ADAMS. CitT Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor EICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES K Mail In Aiivanea: Per CODT 10c Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dailv and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mom. 3-50 Kunrinv fnlv On vear S3 .50. By Carrier In Advance Mediord. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix, Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S1500 Dailv and Sunday One month lis Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper or Jacmon loumy United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: wpsT.Hm.i.inAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago. De tenu Kan Francisco. Los Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL lASSOCfATLQN y U O EMiJUniCTTTmial NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 27. 1948 (It was Saturday) The Elks lodge annual May day dance will be held tonight, according to Leon Boomer, chairman of the dance commit tee. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: An ice wagon showed upon the Main stem the past week, and was the first sign of spring anyone has seen around here. U YEARS AGO April 27. 1936 (It was Monday) After serving the Rogue River alley under one management for the past 36 years, the Sunny side hotel in Eagle Point will close. "The Nut Farm," senior class piay of the Medford High school will be presented at 8 p.m. at the school auditorium. 30 YEARS AGO April 27. 1928 (It was Tuesday) Mayor Alenderfer today re ceived from the California Ore gon Power company a release of all its right, title and interest in the Big Butte water right. Members of the Medford school board will be guests at the annual dinner tonight. 40 YEARS AGO April 27. 1916 (It was Thursday) The Merchants association and Commercial club committees ap pointed to reorganize the fair association met at the Armory "Wednesday night and completed initial plans. F. A. Elliott, state forester at Salem, recently published a com prehensive map of Oregon. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S. Editorial Research Report 1. Windsor is a Buick. Cadil lac, Chrysler, Ford, Mercury, Plymouth or Pontiac line? 2.Cruisers of the U.S. Navy are named for states, cities, at tributes of character, naval heroes, or Presidents? 3. Gov. Frank J. Lausche (D.) of Ohio has never been defeated for public office; right or wrong? 4. Has any American woman ever won a Nobel Prize in lit erature? 5. George Washington Is buried at Mt. Vernon, in the cap- itol at Washington, at Arlington National cemetery or in a Vir ginia churchyard. 6. There are about the same number of breweries as distil leries in the .U.S., or many more distilleries, or many more brew eries? 7. A schizophrenic is always a man or woman, or may be either? The answers: 1. Chrysler. 2. For cities. 3. Wrong; he was de feated for Governor in 1946. 4. Yes, Pearl S. Buck. 5. At Mi. Vernon. 6. Many more brewer ies. 7. May be either. ENGINEER KILLED Cordoba, Argentina (U.R) An explosion in the Anterior liquid oxygen plant here killed a chemical engineer and injured eight workmen Thursday. , MAIL TRIBUNE A Great Lady A newspaperman, who ha3 ample opportunity to meet all sorts and varieties of people the great, near-great, would-be great, politicians, hangers-on, ax-gnnders, flag-wavers, crusaders, and just plain folks is ordinarily difficult to impress simply with personality. But once in a while someone comes along who, through accomplishment and spirit and greatness of soul and mind, impresses virtually everyone, will-he, nill-he. "THIS thought occurred to us this week as we watch- ed Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, at the age of 71, calm ly and smilingly go through a routine as hectic as any we've observed in a decade and a half of watching people and public affairs. She bears her honors and her years with spirit, dignity and humor. She has a vitality and vigor that shames her younger colleagues. She has a sweetness and humanitv which do not dim nor obscure her strong convictions and beliefs. She is, indeed, a Great Lady. fNE can disagree with her ideas. Many do. But one cannot watch that mobile, sensitive face which is homely bv many standards but is made beautiful by the light shining through from within without knowing that here, truly, is one of the world's great persons. Medford was honored Roosevelt. E.A. Local Boom and Bust Most of the cities in Oregon are population-con scious at the moment, following announcement of the state census board's figures communities. Those which have grown are a bit puffed out; those which have lost people are unhappy. Astoria is one of those board's estimates, no change at all. 1 TTHE Astorian Budget comments on the situation as follows: Sometimes it seems that community pride attaches too much importance to population. Other factors, such as sta bility of income, steadiness of payroll, good level of pros perity throughout the community, are more important economically. It goes on to tell of Astoria's early days, when a lumber boom swelled its population into the 20,000 ranks, and then the slump as most of the old, first- growth timber, had vanished. "THER lumber-based economies, the Astoria paper says, may wake up some day from their "popula tion jag" with a sad hangover and its symptoms dwindling population, 100 mucn puunc ucul, bua.v tered pride and all the rest." It concludes: It would be enjoyable to point pridefully to a burgeon ing population - end say that we were outdistancing the other cities of Oregon in growth, rather than the reverse. And we may have to endure some jibes from the other cities which are passing us population-wise. But what ac tual difference does it make if Corvallis, say, or Roseburg, goes ahead in population, so long as all our inhabitants have steady jobs, are prosperous and happy, the merchants are making money, and civic improvement goes steadily but slowly ahead? THE BUDGET'S matter-of-fact and realistic view of the situation is interesting, particularly in this area, where population is But there's a note of warning in the editorial, too, about the dangers of a one And that is why the Chamber of Commerce and others who look ahead more harping about agricultural and industrial diversifica' tion, on the one hand, and the protection and perpet uation of our forest resources on the other. These twin approaches are our principal guaran- tees against a oust once . E. A. Simple Solution We have, alas, noted no mass exodus to the hint erland of citizens equipped with rakes, shovels and brooms in response to a recent plea printed in the Communications column on this page for. a general clean-up of the county. It remains, however, a good idea. For one of the great attractions of the out-of-doors is the crisp cleanliness accorded by uncluttered naturalness. a- DUT, lacking a large corps of tool-wielders, it could be pointed out that cleanliness can be achieved a lot more easily than sweeping and raking man created debris on the roadsides. The solution is for man to refrain from dumping the debris there in the first place. A word litterbug has been coined to describe the individual guilty of this offense. It's not a pretty word. But the offense is even less pretty. E. A. Dry Winds Fan Big By UNITED PRESS Strong, dry winds fanned a mighty forest fire across 1,500 acres of timberland in New Mex ico's Lincoln National Forest to day. The scorching winds hit 38 miles per hour speeds Thurs day and weather forecasters said they would pick up velocity to day. Three hundred soldiers from Fort Bliss, Tex., joined 500 other firefighters today in an attempt to stop the flames. The fire was near Alamogordo, but no popu lated areas were in danger. Elsewhere in the nation the Friday. April 27, 1956 to have you visit, Mrs. for each of the state s which showed, in the still climbing rapidly. - industry economy. than a year or two keep our timoer "Doom is over. Forest Fire weather was rainy over most of the Far West and eastward across the North to the Great Lakes. The rains fell on- dust-dry farm fields in the Midwest, but officials feared they were not heavy enough to stave off a threatening drouth. In Montana and South Dakota, the precipita tion took the form of snow. Temperatures climbed in the Central Plains, going up degrees to 76 today at Hill City, Kan. But a new cold wave shoved its way . down from Canada, drop ping the temperature 16 degrees to 20 at Minot, N. D. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, I have just listened to a speech by Adlai Stevenson. It was delivered in the Presidential room of the Statler hotel in Washington to the American Society of News paper Editors, which is holding its annual meeting in the na tion's capital. In this same room three years ago tonight President Eisen hower, who had been inaugurat ed only three months before, spoke to this same organization, which gathers annually in Wash ington as near to the 20th of April as the week-ends will per mit. rVO ME, it seems that these have been great years. In April of 1953 the end of the bloodiest war of all time had come a little less than eight years before. History tells us that by then a depression should have been ju?i about ready to begin. Or That a NEW war should have been under way. TUT NEITHER calamity has -come to pass. Instead these have been prob ably the three most prosperous yean in our history. They have been three of the most pros perous in the history of the world. Three years ago, we were at war in Korea. There was fear that this relatively minor war might explode into another world war. We are now at peace. Three years ago, it looked like the dragon of inflation was get ting out of control. Since then, the dragon has been held in check. An so on. gUT- If one were to believe Mr. Stevenson today One would have to believe that these have been drastic and awful years years in which our nation has been brought to the brink of the abyss that has no bottom. I won't go into detail here, because by the time you read this you will have heard or read his words many days ago. I'll mention merely that, referr ing to the cold war, he said: We have lost already the MORAL advantage. We are rapidly losing the MILITARY advantage." The implication was that the Russians are almost on our shores. I SUPPOSE it has to be that WAV Mr. Stevenson is seeking the D e m o c ratic nomination for President. If he wins it. he will be the candidate of the Demo cratic party for the office of President of the United States. If the Democrats are to win the election this fall, the people of our country must be made to believe that these HAVE been drastic and terrible years and that as a result of them our na tion is tottering at the brink of the abyss. Such is politics. T SHALL indulge here in no carping criticism of what Mr. Stevenson had to say. I'm sure he is a patriotic American. If he spoke today with a double tongue it was because, under the accepted rules of the game of politics, he HAD to. He COULDN'T, under the rules, have praised President Ei senhower's achievements, be cause that would have left him without a political leg to stand on. GAIN- SUCH IS POLITICS. That is the way the game is played. T'D LIKE merely to add that it is most flattering to us, as edi tors of the nation's newspapers, that the President of the United State's and the man who is pre sently regarded as the leading contender for the Presidency of the United States during the four years beginning next Jan uary should come before ,us to argue out the issues of this po litical campaign. T HOPE this flattery doesn't go to our heads and cause us to think of ourselves as KING MAKERS. We aren't king makers. We are reporters and interpreters. The people of the United States, may the Lord be thanked, are the kingmakers. If we editors have any in fluence at all in politics it is due to the honesty and accuracy with which we report and interpret and EXPRESS OPINIONS ON the news of the political cam paign. SMOKE BAROMETER Concord, N. H. (U.R) New Hampshire's yardstick for meas uring its tourist business in sum mer time is the state's tobacco tax. Last July and August, tour ists paid 168,617 in such taxes, according to the tax commission. SNUFF SCENT Detroit (U.R) Detroit police seek a cemetery safecracker who snuffs snuff. A snuff box left at the scene was the only clue in the theft of $900 from the office of Forest Lawn Cemetery. U.S. Willingness To Consider Extending By CHARLES M. McCANN United Prs Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: THE GOOD 1. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced that the United States is willing to consider extending the North Atlan tic Treaty Or ganization by including eco nomic cooper ation, it was an important move to strengthen the alliance Charles McCann Which Was formed seven years ago to meet the threat, then acutely danger ous, of Soviet Russian aggres sion. Canada, France and Italy had been urging for some months that the time had come to put NATO on a broader base. Dulles's agreement means that plans for wider cooperation will be discussed when he and other foreign ministers of the alliance meet in Paris next Thursday. 2. The Kremlin's debunking of Josef Stalin as a Communist diety hit the governments of Iron Curtain countries with in creasing impact. In Poland, two high police officials were ar rested and held for trial after three cabinet ministers had been dismissed. Another victim was Alexei Cepicka, a top-rank ing Communist in Czechoslo vakia. He was fired from his posts of vice-premier and de fense minister. 3. The United States ordered two members of the Soviet Rus sian delegation to the United Na tions to leave the country. They were accused of taking part in the virtual kidnapping of five Russian seamen who had been given refuge in the United States. A stiff American note ousting the two officials also rebuked Arkady A. Sobolev, Soviet chief delegate to the U. N., for his part in the ugly inci dent. THE BAD 1. The visit of Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Com munist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev to Great Britain appeared to have lessened ma terially any hope that major cold war issues might be settled soon between West and East. The coldness of the British re ception to "Mr. B. and Mr. K." was a serious propaganda de feat for the Kremlin. That was good news. But it was indicated also that it would serve to harden the differences between Russia and the free world. 2. In France, Premier Guy Mollet's government was beset by problems at home and in Algeria. It was reported in Paris that Mollet now thought it nec essary to call 150,000 men in all to the colors, double the number originally planned, to combat the Algerian rebels. This would bring France's military strength in Algeria to nearly 425,000 men more than the peak num Rousing Reception In Miami Beach Cheers Stevenson Miami Beach (U.R) A rous ing reception for Adlai Steven son at a one-night stand cheered the presidential hopeful today. A crowd of some 4,000 turned out for a Stevenson rally in Miami . Beach Thursday night and applauded his blistering at tack on the Eisenhower admin istration's politics on Latin America and Israel. The former Illinois governor flew in from New York Thurs day night for a whirlwind visit to two rallies, at North Miami and at Miami Beach. He was scheduled to board a plane later for Chicago. "We are very much more con fident than the last time we were in Florida because of vic tories over Sen. Estes Kefauver in Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania," Ste venson aide Roger Tubby re ported. An apparent decline of Re publican voting in those pri maries Stevenson viewed as a "very hopeful" sign but he cau tioned his workers that "we have a long way to go" to win the Democratic nomination. Stevenson Thursday night called for United States support of Israel with arms to balance the power in the Middle East. In Latin America, the presi dential aspirant said, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has chosen a policy of caution in the face of an "ominous penetration by the Soviet Union." Subscribers To report improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune phone 2-6141 before 6:45 pjn. dally and 1020 ajn. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify office thus eliminating special messenger service. NATO Features News ber in the costly Indocina war, In the domestic field, Mollet faced a big budget deficit and popular opposition to the troop call-up. 3. . Riots broke out between Green and Turkish islanders in Cyprus. Greek Cypriot extrem ists who want Britain to give Cyprus to Greece murdered two turks. Young Turkish Cypriots retorted by attacking Greek- Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS London Soviet Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev on British refusal to ease export restrictions on strategic goods to Russia: "I was going to place an order for a ship. But they (the British) say they won't accept it. They say they want to sell us herrings. Washington Convicted spy Harry Gold on giving Soviet agents vital U.S. secrets: "I know I've done great damage io the United Slates. But I wonder if the greatest damage wasn't in turning myself over to these people. I turned over my complete soul." - Washington Vice-President Richard M. Nixon on running for reelection: "I informed the President that in the event that the President and the delegates to the convention reached the decision that it was their desire for me to serve as the nominee of the Republican party for vice-president, that I would be honored to accept the nomination again as I was and as I did in 1952." Washington Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland on Nixon's announcement: "It will permit Republicans io close ranks now and concen trate on the election of a majority in the Senate and the House of Representatives." Miami Adlai Stevenson on Nixon's announcement: "I greet this news without any misery whatsoever." Hollywood Gary Crosby, 22-year-old son of Bing Crosby, on the military draft: "I'd just as soon get it over Babson and Small Business Babson Park, Mass. I was recently asked what was the most imDortant thing I had learned dur ing my 50 years in active business. The answer is what New England's famous sur geon, Dr. Wil liam Warren Babson, once Roger W. Babson said to me: "Remember, Roger, that no two people are alike, what's food for one may be poison for an other and vice versa." This was brought home to me only re cently when reading in the Reader's Digest an article prais ing aspirin for arthritis. After finishing my reading of the Digest, I picked up an En cyclopedia of Health, by J. I Rodale of Emmaus, Penn., who has systematically collected what are recognized as the best opinions on a hundred physical ailments. This book lists aspirin as a very dangerous product, fifty million tablets of which are being consumed daily. I have great respect for Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, editors of the Reader's Digest, but wonder if they realize the tre mendous risk they run as their circulation becomes bigger? My purpose, therefore, this week is to further the urge of my friend Ernest Gaunt, and appeal for a subsidy to the small publisher, the small businessman, and the unknown genius. Thajge may be the hope of America, and not "big business," which assumes all people to be alike. Education, Labor Unions After spending many years and millions of dollars educating young people, I am convinced of the great importance of small colleges, small schools and classes. Figures may show that costs of so-called education may be decreased by consolidated schools, state universities, and other attempts at mass educa tion. Having learned, however, that all young people are dif ferent and are entitled to dif ferent instruction, I have con cluded that the solution is to teach young people to educate themselves. When the "do-it-yourself movement extends to education, we will begin to get good results and at very much less expense. The Labor Union movement is fulfilling a need in combating the misused power of employ ers; but it will some day break up of its own weight, due to the inherent differences in people. Its present program of paying every workman in a certain -It m cxo? OTPs I 231 BOILING BEEF owned shops and setting fire to some of them. At the same time Greek attacks on British troops, British, Turkish and Greek po lice and civilians continued. Large areas of the island were put under strict .curfews by the British authorities as part of the crackdown campaign of Field Marshal Sir John Harding, Brit ish governor and commander in chief. with before I'm too old." group the same wage is against human nature. I forecast that for labor unions to succeed, they must recognize that workers are entitled to different wages based upon their initiative, en ergy, intelligence, and other qualifications. Should Ba Encouraged Some day the small business man will have to be helped by a subsidy of some kind, especially to use for advertising. There is a demand for every product which has ever been found use ful. More candles are sold today than ever before: more hard wood is sold for fireplaces; horses and sulkies for racing sell at higher prices today than ever. There are buyers awaiting every product and service, if the pub lic only knew where to get them. Therefore, let no small busi nessman get discouraged. As the Good Book says (see Ecclesiastes 9th chapter, 11th verse): "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong." If Amer ica will do right, I have no fear of Communism with its stan- ardization of everything. We, however, must encourage the unknown genius, the small man ufacturer, and the little spec laity store ' around the cor ner." Religion and Investment It seems too bad that Protes- antism should be divided into 250 denominations. I have great respect for the Holy Catholic Church. I often wish there were some way that the Roman Church and these 250 Protestant denominations could be com bined. On the other hand, if re ligion is largely a matter of Spirit and Emotions, the next great New Horizon may be the study and harnessing of these spiritual powers which are now so divided. I have learned that the world is ruled by feelings rather than by figures: and that we have not given proper con sideration to the different feel ings of different people. I admire the work the Presi dent of the New York Stock Exchange is doing to popularize investments. If, however, his idea is carried too far, it may result in a great stock market panic. Too many people for instance are being advised to invest in the standardized "blue chips." Investments cannot safe ly be standardized. An investor should make purchases accord ing to his age, responsibilities, temperament, and the kind of work in which he is engaged. He needs an investment coun selor to advise him about this. People are different, and free enterprise will succeed only as this difference is recognized In every field. " J EAST PORK SIXTH ST. BEEF ROAST 3 LIVER Governor's Tax Recommendations Waif Commitlee Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith said today he would make no recommendations on a specific tax program for Oregon until the interim tax study committee had a chance to make recom mendations. . The governor's clarification of his tax stand came after what he called an "erroneous" press story to the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce. "My position on taxation in Oregon is as follows," the gov ernor said. Studying Structure "A legislative interim commit tee is conducting an intensive study of Oregon's tax laws and, Oregon's tax structure. This com mittee has conferred and con sulted with tax experts from the fields of labor, agriculture, indus try, big business, little business, public agencies, education end every field of Oregon activity. "On the basis of its study, the committee is expected to make recommendations to the legist ture for a comprehensive tax program for Oregon," the gov ernor continued. "Until such time as I have the benefit of the results of this tax study, I am not now making, and have not made any recommenda tions on a specific tax program for Oregon." The governor concluded: "Press reports which have me endorsing one type of tax over another are in error." Roseburg Revolt Leaders Seek To Have Budget Vole Roseburg (U.R) Leaders of a successful revolt movement here against the budget of the Roseburg school district Wednes day night urged the budget be resubmitted and approved by the voters at a figure some $138, 000 less than the rejected budget. At a school district budget meeting, James Conn, president of the Citizen's Association for Better Schools, presented pro posals for cutting school ex penses by ridding the school program of what he called "extra-traditional" activities. The district's budget was de feated by a heavy vote April 19 after the association challenged what it considered to be the frills of modern education. Conn suggested that a busi ness manager be hired to handle school business affairs, leaving education matters only in .the hands of the superintendent. He called for a study of the worth of the school physical education program, industrial arts, fine arts, band and chorus. He sug gested elimination of the junior high school and questioned the need for a number of clerks and stenographers. The school board said it was ready to meet with the associa tion to discuss a re-evaluation of the school program. flights a day to EUGENE $g90 plus tax Scheduled Local Service SLICED BACON c LB. w
