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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, May 4, 1956 MbforbTeibune "Everybody In Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 21-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERAU LATHAM. Business Manager zjiil. inrLtji jk. Managing Tjaivx KARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor MutiAnu jW.ir sports Editor LIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Cod 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12,00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3-30. 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 XJaliy and fc-unday one month ija Carrier and Dealers Sc per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Officii! Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago, De troit. San Francisco. Leo Angeles, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION rtJ.'iwniMiii NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. SO and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 4. 1946 (It was Saturday) First division ratings award ed Medford High school band and Robert Miller, soloist, at national music contest in Eugene. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Cultivating Is the order of the day in the ru- putting words into action, and their oldest boy doing it. Anything Wrong? We have been asked several times in recent days if there's anything wrong in the Medford police de partment. Sure there is. At least one traffic ticket has been "fixed" in recent months. 'The officer responsible was dis- ciDlined bv a 30-dav lav-off without pay. There has been some grumbling and griping by a few members of the department aoout various unrigs, many of which are not within the power ot trie ae partment's administration to change. . ""THE department has been criticized for (1) not de voting enough time to enforcing traffic regula tions, (2) not devoting enough time to criminal in vestigations, (3) not devoting enough time to parking meter enforcement, and (4) for asking for too large a budget to provide more men and better conditions of employment. Over the past several months, a number of officers have quit the department, borne of tnem nave gone on to other jobs, to continue schooling, or for personal reasons. Some of them didn't like police work. A few quite possibly did not like their superiors, or their colleagues, or some phase of the administration. One or two left by request. There have been dissentions between members oi the department, some of them personal,-some of them about the work. There is nothing unusual about this. The .unusual thing is that during the years 1954 and 1955, the per centage of turnover that is of men leaving was the lowest it had been in a number of years. . GILBERT and Sullivan declared that "A police Oman's lot is not a happy one." They said a mouthful. Is is a continual source of wonderment to us how police work can, and does, attract men who are willing to serve a demanding and querulous public for pay which, while better than it used to be, still gives no promise of winters in Las Vegas, or summers at the beach. We have a high regard for a number of individual members of the police department, and a respect for many others. A few, we believe with some reluctance, should, for their own good and that of the depart ment, be in other lines of work. "IITE FIND it a bit strange to discover ourself be- " Kevins: as we do that the department is doing rai regions Many larmers arei remarkably good job under difficult circumstances. vuittno TtrnrHc intrt affirm anri t . - . For it wasn t too long ago, in this space, that some highly uncomplimentary things were said about the department, and its responsibility to the public and the way it was being shirked. ' Things have changed. At that time no officers were required to have had first aid training. Now all must be, or become, quali fied first aid men. At that time firearms training was sporadic at best. Now it is conducted once or twice a year, with an FBI man in charge. At that time the on-the-job training required of a recruit was informal, to say the least. Now it is routine and, from what we can gather, fairly effective. Rates of pay have been increased. IFFICE routines have been improved, and the re- porting systems modernized and made more busi nesslike. Plans for further changes such as the "non fixable" four-copy traffic citation have long been in the works, and are only awaiting action by the city to place in effect. Some of the things which have caused unhappi ness among the officers will be corrected as soon as the city employs a full-time city attorney, which is scheduled in the near future, and is provided for in the proposed 1956-57 budget. - MO things aren't perfect at the police department. Mn the nature of things they never will be, for in any group of 25 or 30 men there will problems of per sonnel and administration. (Ask any former platoon sergeant or first sergeant or company commander.) But as for serious imperfections, we have found none. Nor have the few telephone calls we have re ceived (some of them anonymous), asking why we're "covering up" for the department, revealed any solid evidence of anything really wrong. No one has offered to stand up and be counted, or put his name to rumors and allegations which have been going around and around. . I TNTIL and unless this is done, we shall continue to hold for the department and the majority of its officers the respect we have come to feel over the past two years a respect which we believe they have earned. On the other hand, if there is evidence, other than the possibly disgruntled statements of a few, that something is wrong, it most certainly should go to a grand jury, where it belongs, and not be bandied about via anonymous insinuations. Meanwhile, we shall continue to declare as we have all along that effective police work is a two headed coin; that the public gets about what it pays for, and must insist that the department receive what it needs to do a good job and then insist that it be done. In large measure we believe this has been, and is being, done in Medford. E.A. Stock SplitsGovernment Bonds, Talked by Babson A a ' ' s. .J 20 YEARS AGO May 4, 193S . (It was Monday) Senator Frank Arbuckle, member of the national Town- send board, and western mana ger, speaks at the Medford armory. Fishing conditions over the week end were extremely spot ty, sports goods houses report. 30 YEARS AGO May 4, 192S (It was Tuesday) Rainfall last night and today, and promise of more rain satis factory to residents of area. Major T. E. Rilea, here from Salem, completes arrangements for Camp Jackson. 40 YEARS AGO May 4, 1916 (It was Thursday) Work expected to start on the Ashland hill grade on Pacific highway this month. The city council street com mittee considering changing the name of Roosevelt avenue to Crater Lake highway; petition submitted to council Tuesday night. By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. So much appears in the newspapers to day about stock split-ups, I be lieve readers will be interested to know why they occur Most of the split - ups are due to the fact that some very large stock holder has died and his stock must be sold to help Roger w. Babson the executors pay the estate taxes, which may approximate 50 per cent. As in vestors are much more willing to buy stocks at a low price, the brokers strongly advise split-ups in such cases to help the market ing of the stock. There is noth ing unethical about this. No stockholder should basically be harmed or helped by such ac tion. If it's a "two for one" split-up, and if you have ten shares of stock, you are sent, without cost, ten shares more. The capitalization is doubled, but the assets are the game. Hence, theoretically the value of your shares after the split-dip should be only one half what it was before. However, owing to the gulli bility of investors and to their desire for low-priced stocks, the sum total of the "split-up" stock for a while is usually worth more than before there was any talk of a split. In addition, new investors in a split-up stock may be misled by the price of the shares. For instance, just before General Electric was split, it sold at about 125. It is now quot ed at a price of around 60, which looks lower to most peo ple. However, because the stock was split 3-for-l, this really rep resents a price of 180. The new lower price misleads investors who did not know of the split up. What Stocks Have Done Without taking any position as to whether you should now buy stocks or put your money into government bonds and await much lower stock prices I submit the following interest ing table, using stocks which have not been split since 1929, so "as not to mislead you. 1929 1932 Present Company High Low Price Am. Radiator 55 3,i 22 Am. Sugar Ref. 94 13 100 Anaconda 1747's 3 76 Curtiss-Wright . 30','s ' l 33 Elec. Storage Bat...l041i 12", 37 New York Central..256 '.i 84 43 R CA. 114'i ' 2,i 46 So. Cal. . Edison 93 'i 15 49 Government Bonds Many prominent bankers and businesmen men believe that the government debt should be cut down. They may be right; but I see no vital reason for this. The U.S. government is a corpora tion with definite assets, includ ing about one fourth of all the real estate in the United States. I understand that an inventory of these federal holdings can be secured from Senator Hayden of Arizona. This report shows that the government has over 400,000,000 acres of land, about 400,000 buildings which cost over $14,000,000, valuable min eral rights, undeveloped water powers, and many other assets -Furthermore, there are vari ous ways of figuring the govern ment debt. Also, in addition to its power to tax and the right to print money, which no other corporation has, the Federal government keeps books in very conservative manner. For instance, if a new post office is buitl in your community, it is not listed in the capital account, as every private corporation would do, but is charged to oper ating expenses. 'The Fly in the Ointment' Although there is no lack of security for government bonds and no fear of present outstand ing U.S. government bonds de faulting on their coupons, such bonds could suffer from infla tion. I refer to the fact that the interest payment on government bonds is fixed. Hence, if the value of the dollar declines, the price of long-term government bonds might decline correspond ingly. This danger can largely be offset, however, by buying short-term government bonds. Inflation is a danger which all investors should carefully watch and fight. This is especially true in a democracy like ours, where congressmen and senators vote for inflationary measures just to get reelected. Such politicians are selling our country "down the river," or, as the Bible says, "for a mess of pottage." I know nothing about the possibilities of World War III; but if it comes, I forecast that our dollar will go to thirty cents. In that case, most government bond holders, yes investors, employers, wage workers, and housewives too wUl suffer. Proposed Broadening of NATO's Base Tops Good News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. The foreign ministers of the 15 countries which belong to the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization held what promised to be a historic conference in Paris. They proposed to broad en the basis of their alliance to cover economic and social co- In The Day's News By FRANK JENKINS I'd like to. deal today with a tribe known as the Gate-crashers. For reasons that are obvious, it has no members in the smaller towns. With the possible ex ception of Los Angeles, it is scantily represented in the West. Its Happy Hunting Ground is New York City. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Sopr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Which member of the pres ent U.S. Supreme Court was once his party's nominee for Vice-President? 2. The Kentucky Derby is re- ' stricted to 2-year olds, 3-year old colts, 3-year old colts and fillies, or 3-year old and older horses? 3. More ship tonnage passes each year through the Panama Canal, Suez Canal or Sault Ste. Marie locks on the Great Lakes? 4. More Republican than Dem ocratic nominees always run for Congress, or more Democratic, or about the same number of each? 5. Which South American country has a larger area than the United States? 6. The Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution (D-A.R.) has about (a) 20,000, (b) 200,000, (c) 1,200,000 (d) 2,000,000 or (e) 12,000,000 members? 7. Germanium is something . pertinent, a flower, a metal, a race of northern Europe, or a germ-killer? The Answers: 1. Chief Justice Warren. 2. 3-year old colts and fillies. 3. Sault Ste. Maria locks. 4. More Democrats (no Repub licans in some Southern Dis tricts). 5. Brazil. 6. Almost 200, 000. 7. A metal. GET IT UP Waterbury, Conn. U.R The Naval Reserve Training Cen ter, alter being sent a bill for two years' back rent due the city, in sisted the bill be made out in quadruplicate for the period. The annual rental is ?1. INHERE are good reasons why this is true. One reason is that New York is so big that nobody can know anybody else. Another is that our biggest con ventions are held in New York. These huge affairs are attended by thousands of people from all over the country. Their sessions are liberally sprinkled with re ceptions and cocktail parties at which good food and the best of liquid refreshment are served in fabulous abundance. For the most part, these creature com forts are provided by "suppliers" that is to say, firms that have things to sell to those who are in attendance at the convention, And Credentials at the door are not scrutinized TOO meticulous ly because it would be easy to miff a prospective customer who had forgotten to wear his badge or bring his admission card along. Again the cynic prodded. "Tres bon," he said, "vous etes Francais, n'est ce pas?" (How nice, you are French, then?) Once more the blank look and the deaf ear. A few . minutes later, explaining that she must find her husband or the poor dear would be frantic, she arose and moved back toward the re freshment table and the bar. AT ONE of these affairs held in connection with the re cent session of the American Newspaper Publishers associa tion a group of duly accredited members was sitting at a table at which there was a vacant seat. The seat was spotted by a mem ber of the tribe, and she sat down and joined happily in the festivities, explaining that her husband had got lost in the crowd and she was tired of stand ing up. Underwriters Group Elects Officers Officers were elected for the coming year at the regular meet ing of the Rogue Valley Life Underwriter's association Mon day. - Elected were Donald L. Arant, Mutual of New York, president; Arvid Althens, Prudential, vice- president; William Abbott, West Coast Life, secretary; James Asher, Predential; Glen McCul lough, Provident Life and David Cutting, Northern Life. . Dr. Edwin R. Durno, local physician, spoke on social se curity as viewed by members of the medical profession. rivtii!, conversation turned on foreign affairs and she en tered it with the statement that her grandfather, who owned a big estate near Berlin in the pre Hitler days, had been a distin guished patron of the newspaper profession and since she had lived much with him she felt at home always with journalists. Perhaps it was the word "journalists" that rasped. We Americans insist that we are NEWSPAPER people. We look upon journalists as wearers of spats and maybe monocles. At any rate, a member of our party remarked a bit drily: "Ah, sie sind Deutsch, nicht wahr?" (Oh, you are German, I take it?) Her face went blank and she turned her deaf ear. A few min utes later, however, she was chatting cheerfully about the years she and her husband had spent in Paris and the good times they had with the French journ alist crowd. ...... -. . i (XttK WELL. It takes all kinds of people to make a world, And food and drink ARE ex pensive in New York. And every day, at some big hotel or other, there is a convention. Week in and week out. Year in and year out. Ad infinitum. If one knows the ropes and has the necessary touch of brass one can cut down quite a little on the cost of living. And, after all, what real dif ference does it make? These big affairs at .the big national con ventions cost far, far up into the thousands of dollars. Who is hurt to any appreciable degree if a few uninvited guests do crash the gates? That, I suppose, is the gate crasher's reasoning. : Congressional Quiz (Copyright, 195 Congressional Quarterly) Q Congress upheld Presi dent Eisenhower's .veto of the farm bill when a motion to over ride his objection failed to pass the House April 18. Has Con gress ever succeeded in over riding an Eisenhower veto? A No. The only previous at tempt to , over-ride an Eisen hower veto in May 1955 also failed when the Senate . upheld the President's veto of a bill raising postal workers' pay. Q The Clayton Act relates to what field? (a) labor relations; (b) civil rights; (c) antitrust; (d) agriculture. t A (c) Antitrust. The Clayton Antitrust Act, passed in 1914, supplemented and strengthened the Sherman Act by naming il legal business practices and ex tending antitrust provisions to labor and agricultural organizations. Q The Constitution provides that a vetoed bill shall return for reconsideration to: (a) the chamber where the . measure originated; (b) the chamber that last acted on it and sent it to the President; (c) the House of Representatives. A The chamber in which the measure originated. The provi sion is observed only when there is a move to defeat the veto. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot 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 view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Informing Voters To the Editor: Unless the mem bers of a political party are pre pared to let any particular office go by default to the opposition in the November general elec tion, it is essential that such political party nominate the strongest and best candidate available. The only method by which this can be accomplished is through party member partici pation in the May primary elec tions, and therefor individual participation of each party mem ber is important to his party and to himself. Candidates are like any other job seekers, and they should not be selected on blind faith. The individual voter should examine each candidate for public office with the same care that would be exercised in selecting an em ployee in the voter's own pri vate business. The League of Women Voters at its "Meet Your Candidate" night today at 8 p.m. at the Hed rick Junior High school in Med ford offers the voters of both parties the opportunity to meet the candidates who are seeking the nominations of each party. Each candidate will be given an opportunity to state his views, The audience will be given an opportunity to put questions to each candidate, The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan group, and en dorses no candidates. The League's purpose in Friday nighf s meeting is to get out an informed vote. Vivian S. Collins, 40 Glenn Oak Court, Medford, Oregon. Letters submitted for publication must from these resources on a basis of need and equality, everyone should be satisfied. But since there' is a shortage of politicians with Senator Morse's high principles, this plan would result in a contest to see which state has the most flood, school, and farm surplus emer gencies, thus deserving the lar gest portion of the resource pool. This discussion of a centrally controlled economy, principles in politics and hypothetical oil fields will get us nowhere. It's better we get back to shouting 'creeping socialism' from one side and Big Business, 'give away and 'reactionary' from the other. John O. Rector 214 West Jackson st. Medford, Ore. Humane Methods Bill To the Editor: A bill intro duced in the United States Sen ate by Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey has made humane history. It is a bill "to require the use of humane methods in the slaughter of livestock and poultry in in terstate - or " foreign commerce." There , is -" now great interest throughout the United States in this bill, and you can do your part by writing to your Senator and Representative to ask his support for it. The counterpart of Senator Humphrey's bill is introduced in the House of Representatives by a Calif ornia representative. Edgar W. Hiestand. The tech nique of introducing similar bills in both - houses of Congress is employed to save time and move a bill more quickly through both the Senate and House of Repre sentatives to a point where it can be jointly considered. In any case, any piece of legisla tion must be acceptable to both houses before it can . go to the President for his final approval or rejection. When you write to your Uni ted States Senator urge his sup port of S-1636 and when you write to your Representative urge his support of H-9063. Address your Senator co U.S, Senate, Washington, D.C. Address your Representative co House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. Southern Oregon Humane Society. P.O. Box 935, Medford, Ore. Phone 2-8222 Principles and Politicians To the Editor: High principles in politics would be fine if all politicians had high principles. However, when Senator' Morse donates Oregon's hypothetical off-shore oil to the federal treas ury while the un-principled Sen ators from Texas keep their oil for the state coffer it seems Oregon is going to come out on the short end. Each of the 48 states has its share of resources, be it oil, timber, minerals, Florida sun shine or Nevada's roulette wheels. If all of the states would pool their resources, then have co-gress dole out the revenue Year-Long Day To the Editor: No doubt you will receive many queries about Mr. Zawislak's year-long day. Perhaps his attitude concerning daylight saving time is as cor rect as his ideas concerning the various movements of the earth. Max Wimmer 1115 West Second st. Medford, Ore. Adlai Impresses To the Editor: This is our im pression after listening to the speech of Adlai Stevenson Tues day: A commoner of all the people, like William Jennings Bryan, with the wisdom of a Woodrow Wilson, and the qualities of lead ership, like Teddy Roosevelt. In his own words, he inti mated he was no politician in the usual sense of the word. We think Adlai has the foresight and statesmanship of a coming win ner of the high office of the pres idency he aspires to. Only on rare occasions do the grass roots citizens get to inter view great personages like Ad lai Stevenson, candidate for the highest office in the land. More power and momentum to him. - Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman, Apt. 1, Medford, Ore. M-T Appreciated To the Editor: The Jackson County Mental Health commit tee wants to take the occasion of National Mental Health week April 29-May 5, to commend you and the staff of the Mail Tribune for your splendid support not only of our organization and its purposes but of the many com munity services which are basic to 'a sound mental health pro gram. The mental health committee is composed of representatives of official and voluntary agen cies and interested citizens. It serves as a coordinating group of many community mental health activities. It is also con cerned with study and planning lor more adequate services. It is the feeling of the com mittee that the mental health of the individual is influenced not only by the family but by the community, of which the news paper is an important instru ment. Socially acceptable behav ior builds on the following foun dations: the individual's striving for love, recognition, a sense of belonging, security, and adven ture. Positive recognition by the newspaper of constructive fam ily and group activities certain ly adds to mental health in the community. Discriminate report ing of names and sensational events which occur in everv community is also favorable to the promotion of mental health. As a group we appreciate the leadership and support the Mail Tribune is giving to help us in our work to build a better com munity. . Allen H. Hatch, Chairman Jackson County Mental Health Committee, 308 Leverette Building, Medford, Ore. operation. The alliance was formed in 1949 as a purely mili tary agreement, to meet what appeared to be the threat of im minent Soviet Russian aggres sion. The danger of war has les sened. But Russia's new "peace and smile" campaign offers a new threat that the Allies will be beguiled into forgetting that the aim of Communism is still world domination. Hence the broadening of "NATO's" basis aimed at strengthening allied teamwork in a new phase of the cold war. 2. Quiet - working Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold re ported to the United Nations that he had succeeded in arrang ing cease fire agreements be tween Israel and its Arab neigh bors. Hammarskjold went to the Middle East under instructions by the U.N. to try to stop the frontier incidents which seemed about to explode into open war fare. He announced the cease fire agreements in a preliminary report which left no doubt that he considered his mission a suc cess. He will make a final report next week. 3. The United States gave Communist Poland a stern warning against putting pres sure on Polish refugees in this country to return home. Previ ously two members of the Soviet mission to the U.N. has been or dered out of the country for put ting similar pressure on Russian refugees. In London, it was re ported that Prime Minister An thony Eden had urged Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Community party chief Ni kita A. Khrushchev to free 200 leading anti - Communists im prisoned in Iron Curtain coun tries. The Bad 1. There was anxiety in Wash ington over the lag in produc tion of intercontinental bomb ing planes capable . of carrying H-bombs. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, chief of the Strategic Air com mand, told a Senate subcommit tee that at the present produc tion rates, Russia would surpass the United States in interconti nental striking power in the 1958-1960 period. Defense Secre tary Charles E. Wilson admitted at a press conference that Rus sia is outstripping the United States in intercontinental bomb er production. 2. French Premier Guy Mollet was forced to ask a series of votes of confidence in Parlia ment on his social security and tax-increase program. He won the first vote and was expected to win the others. But the votes emphasized the seriousness of France's political situation rather- than representing a victory for Mollet. Continued terrorism in North Africa plagued Mollet also. In Morocco, to which France has given independence, extremists tortured and mur dered Moroccan moderates and opened a campaign of arson. 3. Rebels against President Fulgencio Batista attacked an army post in Cuba. Fifteen reb els were killed and 15 rebels and soldiers wounded. The outbreak was attributed to supporters of former President Carlos Prio Soccaras, whom Batista ousted in a coup ' in 1952. Previously there had been anti-Batista riots by university students. Dis patches from Havana indicated that the internal situation prob ably would get increasingly tur bulent in weeks and months to come. FFA Star Farmer Award Presented Eagle Point Wayne Mar shall, Eagle Point Future Farm er of America, received the chapter Star Farmer award be fore 160 parents, chapter mem bers, faculty and school board members recently at the annual FFA Parent and Son banquet. Other chapter members re ceiving awards were Ron Han son, chapter public speaking award, and Monte AxtelL chap ter farm mechanics award. Glen D. Hale, superintendent of Eagle Point schools, and Earle Jossy, county agent, became h a p te r honorary members. Nat Etzel, vocational agriculture instructor, announced appoint ments to the department advis ory boards. They are John Oster hout, Darrel Stanley, Don Geren and Merton Bradshaw. . 2 ssMssMsssHssj, M . 2 31 EAST SIXTH ST. ; PORK PURE PORK BEEF LIVER LARD SAUSAGE ROAST tm,. L2S' 33'l.
