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TOUR MEDfORD (OREGOW) Med Tribune "Every txxly in Southern Oregon Reads Th Mali Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by 7-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6 HI ROBERT W RUHU Editor EERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC A-LL.EN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 630 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 330 Sunday Only One year $330. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue Blver. Talent. ad on motor routes. Daily and Sunday One year S15.00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson Connty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU I r'TuriTl A TTnM Oavciusini! i.cy.' ... ...... ... - - WXST-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 a cert ruLA 1 1 o m 37 W 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 Mar 2. 1946 (It was Thursday) Medford water is scheduled to flow to Central Point mains late tonight or early tomorrow. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The alfalfa is up high enough in some sec tions of the valley to cause farm ers to wonder where they are going to get hay-hands. 20 YEARS AGO May 2, 1936 (It was Saturday) The Medford Gleemen will meet with the Teachers' chorus for rehearsal at the Holly the ater this afternoon at 2:30. A farewell testimonial lunch eon given in the Medford hotel by the Jackson county health board for Dr. A. N. Johnson, health officer. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 2. 1928 (It was Sunday) T. H. Rogers will supervise construction of projects for Paul's Electric store, of Med ford, according to H. V. Scheffel of Paul's Electric store. K. "W. Miller, of Portland, was In Medford last week arranging to start a new daily truck service between Portland and Medford on May 20. 40 YEARS AGO May 2. 1916 (It was Tuesday, Terah T. Maroney, the aviator, has written the Mail Tribune stating that he wishes to give a flight in the valley this summer and would like to hear from any one interested. As a result of an effort started by Ben Sheldon nearly two years ago, the State Editorial association of Oregon will hold its annual convention in Med ford in August. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 77 Copr. 19SS. Editorial Research Report 1. Which three of these states are not in the Baghdad Pact: Egypt, Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Pakistan, Turkey, United States? 2. More autos get delayed on the road from lack of gas, bat tery trouble, faulty ignition or flat tires? 3. Legal residents of District of Columbia vote for President, a delegate in Congress, delegates to national conventions or all or none of these? 4. More winter or more spring wheat is produced in the U. S. in a normal year, or about the same of each? 5. Which popular musical show was based on the novel, "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant"? 6. Adlai E. , Stevenson got many more or many fewer elec toral votes for President in 1952 than Thomas E. Dewey in 1948, or about the same number? 7. The word "milliner" is der rived from what city in Europe? The answers: 1. Egypt, Israel and U. S. aren't. 2. Flat tires, says A.A.A. 3. Delegates fo na tional conventions only 4. More winter wheat. 5. "Damn Yan kees." 6. Many fewer. 7. Milan. Italy, once a great center for female finery. I MAIL TRIBUNE Slow Progress . Long ago we heard a story about an old Quaker farmer who said to his wife something like' this : "I think all the world is daft but me and thee. And sometimes I think even thee is, a little." Probably everyone, at some time or other, has agreed with the old Quaker that everyone else is a little "off." According to recent statistics, this isn't too far wrong. As medical science has progressed, mental ill ness has been increasingly recognized for what it is the most prevalent disease AND, despite the many, those who are mad, is no laughing matter. More than half the hospital beds in the United States are occupied by patients with mental ills. The costs, both to individuals and to society at large, are fantastic. They are not only dollars-and-cents costs, either, but costs in suffering, dismay, human degreda- tion and waste. Although medical science has made giant strides in the past century, it has barely scratched the surface of the proper care and healing of mental illness. Much remains to be learned. But even with present know ledge, cures can be effected in considerably more than half the cases, provided proper care and treat ment are given. "THEREIN is the rub. For proper care and treatment are not, unhap ily, available to all. There are not enough trained psy chiatrists, therapists, social workers, and the others who are gradually learning the techniques of treat ment. There are, not enough hospitals, and those. there are, are overcrowded with staffs oftentimes too press ed for time and space to do more than offer custody, without treatment. Too often the custody is sub standard. There are. not enough of the so-called community clinics, where those with mental ills and disturbances can go for help. All in all, it's a bleak picture. , NONETHELESS, progress has been, and is being, ' made. Increased public attention to the problem has done much to increase of mental hospitals. Perhaps the most important thing that aroused public interest has done is oi tne proDiem useii, ana oi me iaci uiai mental iu ness is not incurable, nor is it something to be hidden away as if it were something shameful. Frank and open discussion of what needs to be done, and what can be done, will add to this under standing, and to the eventual betterment of the pres ent conditions. THIS is Mental Health week, proclaimed for just the This is a good time to this area for assistance to ties are far more ample, though still circumscribed, than ever before. An increasing awareness of these resources, and use of them when necessary, will do much to ease the suffering caused by mental illness. A call to the public health department can provide the information needed to obtain the help which is available. E. A. Meet the Candidates The May 18 primary election is only about 22 weeks away. It is time for voters to begin making up their minds about the candidates for whom they will vote. If your mind is unsettled on the matter, or if you have a question about some of the local vote-seekers, we commend to you the annual candidates' night of the League of Women Voters. , THE EVENT will be this Friday,-May 4, at 8 p.m. in the Hedrick Junior High school. All or most of the candidates for local office will be on hand to tell why they should be elected, and there may be a few aspirants for state and national office. It is as good a time as any, and better than most, to learn a bit about the people we are going to name as our representatives and administrators for the com ing terms. The league is to be thanked for its service in making the opportunity possible. E. A. War Baby It was 15 years ago yesterday that the first U. S. defense savings bond was sold. The purchaser was Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the ensuing years, "war bonds", and the suc ceeding savings bonds have become the best advertis ed, the best known, and the most widely held secur ities ever offered. THE STORY of the bond program and how it de- veloped, how it is an important factor in the na tional economy and money-management programs, how it is a stabilizing influence and a source of secur ity to millions of people all these are well known, and need not be recorded here. What we do want to point out is that the financial planning which raised the money to fight the war is now a well-integrated, thoroughly-accepted, and vital part of the nation's fiscal operations. .The war baby has grown up. E. A. Wednesday, Mar t. 1938 of the 20th century. many stale old jokes about or half-mad, mental illness the number, and standards, to create a new awareness point out that facilities in those with mental difficul rranco Lavs uown rirm Line in Dealing With Domestic Unrest By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Generalissimo Francisco Fran co of Spain has laid down a firm policy for his Nationalist re- "I gime in an at tempt to quiet mounting un rest. Franco him self say that the country faces serious internal prob lems. These in- Cbarles McCann elude public dissatisfaction with the Falange party, which provides the basis for his political support, and the dissatisfaction of workers with economic conditions. The political unrest broke into the open in February when university students became in volved in riots with Falangists. The students were supported by Monarchis elements. Last month strikes started breaking out in Northern Spain in protest against the lack of balance between wages and liv ing costs. The strikes started in Pamp lona, a bulwark of Nationalist strength. They spread to the Basque country to the west and to Barcelona, Spain's greatest Radio, TV Reports Become More Popular in Congress; Studio Facilities Provided Washington (CQ) "And now, as a public service, station KRDI brings you a recorded re port from Congressman John Jones. Speaking from the Cap itol, here is Congresman Jones." Day and night, across the land, introductions like this point up the little-noted fact that Congress, source of many things to many people, has lately be come an important supplier of radio and television material. In studios scattered around Capitol Hill, Senators and Rep resentatives last month turned out 75,000 feet of television film enough for 36 hours of contin uous viewing, iney recorded more than 200 hours of radio talks. Duplicated and distributed weekly to a network of more than 200 television and 1,000. radio stations, their words and gestures are magnified to awe some dimensions. Strictly Congressional All this, it should be noted, is separate from and in addition to their appearances on commer cial network programs. AU the shows referred to here emanate from the Capitol HiU radio-TV studios owned and maintained by Congress- as a service to its own members. The service has proved in creasingly popular. Bob and Helen Coar, who started and still operate the 21-year-old fa cilities, told Congressional Quar terly: "Radio and television are the answer to the conscientious Congressman's prayer. They en able him to attend to his job in Washington and still keep in contact with his constituents at home." Apparently, many Congress men agree with this judgment. From a single customer the late Sen. Arthur Capper (R-Kan.) in 1935 the Coars' clientele has grown until it taxes available studio space. About half the 531 Senators and Representatives have weekly radio or TV shows and virtually - all members do some programs each year. Never Defeated The Coars flatly claim that de feat never has come to a Con gressman who regularly has re ported to his constituents by TV. We can almost sell insurance on it," they say. Two of their favorite talking points are Sens. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) . and Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.). - Both : began weekly radio shows when they entered the House in 1939 and have con tinued their reports as Senators. Gore was, the Coars believe, the first Congressman to campaign by television. A current success story is Rep. Elizabeth Kee (D-W.Va.), who succeeded her late husband in 1951 and hag been reelected twice in her own right. Mrs. Kee has been doing weekly shows for five radio stations and one .tele vision outlet in her district. This year the filing deadline passed with Mrs.. Kee the only candi date of either party in her dis trict. In November she will be come the first West Virginian in recent years to win unopposed reelection to Congress. Success for any of their cli ents pleases the Coars. "We have to operate on a strictly nonpar tisan basis, of course, Mrs. Coar explains. "Our only prejudice is for incumbents, because they're. the ones we work with." Like actor-producer Robert Montgomery, who fills some what the same function at the White House, Bob and Helen Coar are veterans of show busi ness. Bob started out in the tech nical end, as a pioneer sound engineer in the days when Holly wood was discovering "talkies." Helen's roots go even deeper. Her father, currently a technical industrial city, in the northeast Franco has just met the situ ation by making a series of im portant speeches on policy. In them, he set the following pat tern for his regime: Spain remains nominally a monarchy. But the Falange party is the basic political movement. "The Falange can govern Spain with out the monarchy, but the mon archy cannot govern without the Falange." Army Needed The army must be "the back bone of the motherland." The complete loyalty of the army Is necessary to defend internal or der and prevent subversion. Franco "hopes God will let h' i live many years longer for the good of Spain and the frus tration of its enemies." This was a plain statement, to the strong Monarchist movement that Franco has no intention of giving up the power he has held since the end of the civil war in 1939. Finally, Franco promised to do all he could to improve the lot of the worker. He called for worker participation in man agement as providing part of the answer. Perhaps the most interesting feature of Franco's outline was specialist for the Navy, worked with Edison in his early exper iments on motion picture cam eras. Before World War I, Helen enjoyed a nine-year career as one of the original child stars of the silent films. Billed as Helen Badgley, the "Thanhauser Kid- let," she emoted in a series of thrillers on the Thanhauser lot in New Rochelle, N.Y. . The Coars came to Washing ton in 1935 to open their first radio studio on Capitol Hill They continued to operate the facilities on a concession basis until 1947, when Congress took over the facilities and hired the Coars as managers. 15-Person Staff Today they preside over a staff of 15 persons and a set of stu dios and labs scattered through the Capitol and the Senate and House Office. Buildings. Salaries and operating funds are appro priated by Congress but repaid by the fees charged members using the service. From those fees, the Coars have purchased about $300,000 worth of modern movie and sound equipment. There are four radio and two TV studios, a : film processing lab and an audio control room. Congressmen get one day service on their TV and radio shows at a cost substantially below com mercial rates. ' v For instance, the Congressman pays $9.99 for a five minute tel evision film. In a commercial studio, it would cost him be tween $200 and $500. A 15 min ute radio show will be recorded by the Coars for $1.50. The min imum in a private studio would be $10. Catch on Quickly Helen says the legislators catch on quickly to the demands of radio and television. "With few exceptions," she says, "they're innate actors. All we Rave to do is show them a few tricks of the trade." The Coars urge the Congress men to keep their TV shows to five minutes, the broadcasts to 15, as an accomodation to sta tion schedules. "If they want to give a straight talk, all right. We see nothing wrong with their using a Tele prompter if they're nervous or haven't had time to memorize their speech. But we try to en courage them to keep the shows informal and ad lib." Favorite sets show either a liv ing room or an office scene, with law books and a view of the Capitol dome in the background. Informal chats between the Con gressman and a colleague, a Cab inet member or even visiting groups from his district are a popular format. ' Bob Coar serves as the inter viewer on about 40 of the more than 100 shows a week. Over the years the former engineer has developed sensitivity to his clients' needs. "We feel relaxed with him," one legislator says. "He knows our positions and our problems, the subjects we like to talk about and those we don't. So far as I know, he's never thrown anyone a curve." The Coars' job ends once the show is on film or tape. Distri bution is left to the individual Congressman, but usually there's NEW LOCATION 1100 Crater Lake Ave. Wakefield Drapery SAME PHQNE 2-6010 his notice that, at 62, he has no intention of restoring the mon archy within the foreseeable fu ture. Franco announced on March 31, 1947, that Spain was a mon archy. In event of his own death or incapacitation, a king or re gent would be named. Heir to Throne Don Juan of Bourbon is the heir to the throne. But the Fal ange prefers his 18-year-old son Don Juan Carlos as king when the monarchy is finally restor ed as it well may be in time. Dispatches from Madrid say that Franco is expected soon to give some word of encourage ment to the Monarchists. Many if not most of them do not like the Falange: And the Monarch ist movement is still going strong. It includes especially many influential businessmen and many army officers. But "El CaudUlo" the lead er, as Franco is called has shown that he intends to main tain the rule he has exercized for 17 years. His leadership is unquestioned. And even if he felt like giving up the leader ship many of the most ardent Monarchists probably would agree that this is not the time to do it. Proposed Soil Bank Nothing New; Has 2-Phase Approach Washington The so-called soil bank plan, or whatever name you want to give it, is nothing new. It is really a com bination of some present prac tices, a variation of other pres ent practices, and practices once abandoned but now to be resur rected. The plan has two aspects short-term and long-term. Un der the first, the farmer would be recompensed for taking out of production altogether a cer tain amount of acreage pre sumably much of it in good land now in major crops in over- supply. Here the great difference from present practices would be that one crop could not simply be replaced by another in over supply. . The objective, at least, would be for the producer to receive as much as he would have re ceived, net, from that acreage by growing an over-abundant crop on it. And the hope would be that thus the present oversup- ply of agricultural products would be so reduced that in no more than four years the with drawn acreage could again .be put into production without de pressing prices'. But that hope could be knocked galley-west by still higher productivity in farm ing. Under the long-term aspect, farmers would be paid to take marginal land out of production altogether. They would - use it for sail-conserving and water- conserving activities. Editorial Research Reports. no trouble about that. Federal regulations permit stations to make free time available to Sen ators and Representatives, ex cept when they are actively cam paigning for reelection. Most Congressmen find their stations more than willing to use the material. To critics who complain that all this free publicity gives the incumbent legislator an unfair advantage over his rival, the Coars have this to say: "Being in Congress is a full- time job and most of the men up here are very conscientious about their duties. While they're busy working their opponents are shaking hands and stumping the district. "Radio and even more, tele vision, gives people a chance to get to know their Representa tive. Its a good thing for the members, sure, because people wiU vote for somebody they know rather than someone they don't know. ."But it also gives the people a chance to spot a phony. You can't use this medium week after week and pretend successfully to be something you're not" Whatever the critics may think of the system, it's made a hit with the Congressmen. In this election year, the Coars studio schedule is getting fuller every month. The Claghorns and Throt tlebottoms may never attain the popularity of the Godfreys and Gleasons, but they re certainly going to try. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Communications 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. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. About By-Past To the Editor: In your edito rial regarding the by-pass of Roseburg and Salem, the lack of by-pass shows clearly for Medford if the proposed Gene see route is chosen. The city will be split instead of by-passed. Whom will It help? Not the hundreds of persons being dis placed and forced from their homes. Not the merchants who will watch the cars streaming by on an elevated, non-access road leading out of town. Not the city losing taxes from deval uated properties extending three or four blocks in both directions from the highway. How can the cost be compar able between routes, with the fill necessary for an 18 foot ele vated highway, tunnels for ex isting streets, the removal and destruction of homes, the incon venience to merchants from the noise, dirt arid dust? Why has the original proposed west side route been abandoned? Is the highway going to be for the good of the many or the com fort of the few? Undoubtedly, somebody will be hurt, yet that should happen to the least num ber of persons possible. ' Let's hope and work against another "Baldock's Folly." One should be enough. Jess Vail. 28 Geneva st. Medford, Ore. Power of Unity To the Editor: Sometimes glor-. ious things are happening right before our eyes and under our noses, so to speak, of which we may be almost unaware, or even totally so. I feel that, as an ob servant citizen and one who is sensitive to the public pulse. I sense such a glorious thing hap pening right now in this valley. It Is the growing "togetherness" of our communities. Anyone attending the round table luncheon of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce last Monday,- could not have failed to sense this increasing blending of interests in a com mon purpose, toward a right goal for the good of all. It was a most heartening example of desire to express mutual help fulness. The matter at hand was the Rogue Basin Flood Contral and Water Resources association; its membership and objectives. Pres ent were citizens from Grants Pass, Gold Hill, Central Point, Shady Cove, Rogue River, and Jacksonville as well as Med ford. Everyone who wished ex pressed his or her opinions, and everyone who wished asked or answered whatever " questions they desired. Not once did any thing of an argumentative na ture, except in a pleasant and Informative manner, enter the many-sided discussion. It was a clearing house as a clearing house should be and everyone present appeared to be having the best sort of a time. In these days, when dissen sions would try to enter the pub lic consciousness through many channels, let us rejoice at these indications of cooperation be tween the communities of the Rogue River valley. Unity is, in deed, a power. Jeunesse (Sally) Butler, 106 South Ify st, Medford, Ore. 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She has such amaz ing poise and simplicity plus a depth of sincerity and personal charm that to meet her is to love her. And when I . recall the vio lence with which I have often disagreed with many of her po litical views in the past, such a reaction strikes me as highly amusing, but I think all of us who were privileged to share in the U.N. Coffee Hour honoring Mrs. Roosevelt, experienced it to some degree and went away convinced that we had met a truly great person. Grace N. Pearson Route 2, Box 50 Jacksonville, Ore. Festival Praised To the Editor: It was Indeed gratifying to note the public re sponse and enthusiasm which heralded the third annual Pear Blossom festival. Especially so when the event falls during a period when it is much easier to condemn the fruit industry for the temporary discomfiture of smoke from orchard heaters than it is to praise it for provid ing a stabilizing base to our economy in the amount of sev eral millions of dollars. - In our expanding economy it is easy to overlook the econom ic value to the area of this prime agricultural product. The Pear Blossom-festival committee and those who support it are to be congratulated for focusing at tention on this important in dustry. The 'Festival serves to ac quaint newcomers to the area with Our famous Rogue river fruit. It helps carry the. fame of the Rogue River valley to other parts of the country and it re minds the rest of us of the dollars-and-cents value of our own produce in terms of jobs, supply and equipment purchases, etc. . On behalf of the pear indus try so recently saluted, may w return the compliment and say to those who made this year's Pear Blossom festival a suc cess, "well done." ' Howard Bush ' President - ' Jackson County Fruit -.. ' " ' Growers League Knowland Sees Congress Adjournment by July 15 Washington : (U.R5 Senate) Republican Leader William F. Knowland believes Congress can complete its work and adjourn by July 15. The California senator said yesterday that Congress is "in excellent shape on appropria tions bills," which often delay adjournment. - SAVING OFFER! They're magnetized! That meant they stick to your oven, kitchen . cabinets any iron or steel sur face. Or hang these colorful, heavily-padded mitts by their handy loops. Perfect for kitchen and cook-outs! calls fbr
