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V FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medforbv&Tribune I very body to Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 17-39 North Fir St. Phone S-S14I DHRFRT U7 RTrHT- Friitor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor ir i rtr cTinr WFHH Rnfit Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act ot Marcn a. laui . SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $350. 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 Sundaj One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1-25 Carrier and Dealers 6e per copy All ierma -asii in aorance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU or cuicuuiiw WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices in New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver, E-C. NATIONAL EDItSrIAI hm-miw u lira NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 80 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Mar 7, 1946 (It was Thursday) More than 1500 cases of meas les have been reported in Jack son county since January 1, Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health officer, reported this morning.- 20 YEARS AGO Mar 7, 1936 (It was Thursday) Light smudging of fruit orch ards was done in scattered parts of the Rogue valley early this morning as freezing tempera tures brought frost to isolated sections in the lower levels. Medford stores will be closed all day Decoration day, Satur day, May 30, it was announced today by C. D. Bean, chairman of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce retail merchants committee. 30 YEARS AGO Mar 7. 1928 (It was Friday) Between $25,000 and $30,000 will be spent on improvements to the Masonic building on "West Main st., to commence next June. The Commercial Discount cor poration has been purchased by Commercial Credit company, a national organization with local headquarters in San Francisco and Portland. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 7, 1916 (It was Saturday) Fruit and vegetables suffered heavily by a killing frost early Sunday morning that extended from Sacramento, Calif., far into Oregon. The first band concert under the direction of bandmaster Reg inald G. Rowland, given yester day afternoon in the city park, proved to be a marked success in every way. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Cop. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. Alger Hiss, Yresident Tru man, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Winston Churchill, or John Foster Dulles said at Eu gene, Ore., in June 1948: 'I like old Joe (Stalin)"? 2. Cancer of the lung is about as common as 25 years ago, or much more or much less com mon? 3. The U. S. now pays a larger or smaller percentage for all U.N. expenses than when U.N. was founded in 1945, or about the same percentage? 4. Ex-President Hoover says he does or doesn't expect to take part in the 1956 presidential election campaign? 5. Boys joining the new Re serves program are to get $50, $78, $95, or $110 a month mini mum pay while in the 6 months active training program? 6. The World Zionist Congress recently met in New York, Jeru salem, Washington, D. C, Mos cow, Paris or Cairo? 7. Which well known movie star, recently deceased, was originally named Guenther Schneider? The Answers: 1. Truman'; 2. Much more common; 3. Smaller (33 now, almost 40 then); 4. Sayt ha doesn't; 5. S78 (used to be $50): 6. Jerusalem; 7. Edward Arnold. - ... .: -. MAIL TRIBUNE Hillcrest Route Favored Two weeks from this Thursday the state highway commission will be in Medford to conduct a hearing about the future route of a freeway in the Medford area. Local residents will be given the opportunity of being heard as to their opinions. More important, however, will be the economic effects on the area, as far as the highway commission's final decision is con cerned. . .. .' TTHE commission is actively considering two routes. It may be their reasons for abandoning other pro posed routes will be made clear at the hearing, but for all practical purposes it would be well to concentrate, for the time being, anyway, on the two they deem most feasible. These are : 1. The Hillcrest route, east of the city limits. 2. The Genessee route, cutting through the present residential area on the lower east side of town. Which would be the best? A FTER looking over the areas covered by the two proposals, after studying maps, and after dis cussing highways and freeways with a number of people, including some in towns now by-passed by new highways, we have come to the conclusion that the Hillcrest route should be chosen. . , Each would damage values, both economic and in tangible. But the Hillcrest route, we believe, would do less damage than would the through-town route. , ""THERE has been some objection to the by-pass to the east of town, based on the fear that tourist trade would fall off in Medford itself. In an attempt to obtain information about how such by-passes have affected other towns, the follow ing quotations were obtained. From Charles V. Stanton, editor of the Roseburg News-Review : Roseburg has had so many problems it hasn't had oppor tunity to get excited about the highway by-pass. Down town business was never seriously concerned. Traffic con gestion in the business area has been so great that shoppers -.-were discouraged from entering the district. Removal of some of the through traffic has improved shopping facility. . Additional improvement was made through reversal of the . city's downtown one-way grid system, as the previous street pattern was designed to get traffic "out" of town, rather than making it easy to get into the shopping district. Motels, service stations, and other service businesses, catering principally to through traffic,' and located in the fringe area, have suffered from the highway change. This, however, has been partially remedied by. the location of "Business Route" signs at the traffic exchanges north and south of town. ... If and when ALL Oregon towns along the highway are by-passed, it would seem to me that none will be injured - businesswise. Until the system is completed, however, those towns having the highway in or near their business sec tions will have an advantage. I recently returned from a trip through California, Ari zona and Nevada where I learned that this program for by passing cities is being generally adopted,' making it much more convenient for through travel. The traffic growth being experienced here in western Oregon, in my opinion, makes it advisable to get as much of the through traffic out of our business districts as possible to provide better facilities for those of us who live here. TTHE theoiy of the freeway has been ' pretty well adopted and. is not the subject of argument. No matter which route is chosen, it will be non-accessible except at interchanges. The dispute in Medford arises from the fact that one cuts right through town, the other by-passes it. .' In the case of Roseburg, the freeway is across from Roseburg, but the city itself is fairly well in view from the highway. In Salem, the 10-mile freeway is well to the east of the city. When it opened, protests were heard that it was hurting downtown business. What is the situation today? William H. Hammond, downtown businessman and f ormer president of the Salem Chamber of Com merce, says: , . The disadvantage of such a by-pass is in the initial set back to some businesses. In Salem the main ones hurt were outlying eating places, especially "truck stops" and motels ... as well as some gas stations. The original signs on the by-pass were criticized as in- adequate . . . but were changed for the better during the first few months. Particularly valuable . . . have been road-map-type signs indicating how to get into the city proper. One of the principal advantages of the by-pass, as it has. turned out, is the elimination of much unnecessary, unpro ductive traffic from downtown streets. By now, few if any complaints about,the by-pass are heard. ... As more by passes are completed, the tendency is for drivers to get into cities they want to, regardless of the highways. ' , CLMER Odegaard, motel operator between the city J-4 limits and by-pass junction and former president of Salem Motels associations, says: The business picture is considerably better now than in the first year of by-pass operation, and I don't believe we'll be hurt in the long run. ... We campaigned for better signs, and the highway department cooperated wonderfully. Traffic seems to be less now, but business is definitely bet , ter, and many of our motel patrons mention the signs . . . Douglas Yeater, downtown appliance store owner, former legislator, and president of the Downtown Salem Merchants association, says : We never have had much discussion in our association about the by-pass, so I guess that's a sign it hasn't hurt busi ness too much. F THE route follows the I stroy a considerable amount of good orchard and other agricultural land. But if it goes down the Gen essee line, it will destroy many homes, with accomp anying dislocations, and will force those residents to find homes elsewhere. Sooner or later (and this route would speed the process) homesites are going to oc cupy a large area of nearby agricultural land. The Hillcrest route would be scenically attractive, going through orchards, and with a view of the foot hills on one side, and the city on the other. The Gen essee route would go through the town, and however attractively it is done, it would "blight" a large area of valuable residential property. Taking these and other factors into consideration, it appears clear to us that the decision should be for the east-of-town route. E.A. . . . .. :.. : Monday, May 7. 1958 Hillcrest line, it will de Emphasis on Foreign Trade is Feature of New Russ Tactics Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Kremlin is putting a lot of emphasis on foreign trade in its new policy of "peaceful com- "TII petitive co-ex-I istence" with tne iree wona. This policy was outlined by Communist party leader Nikita Khrush chev at the re cent 20th party conference in Charles McCann MOSCOW. It called for wooing Socialist par ties in Western countries, for a revival of "united fronts" of Communist parties with, other leftist groups, and for greatly increased foreign trade. Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin offered Prime Minister Anthony Eden $2,800,000,000 in purchases dur ing their visit to Britain last month. A Russian - delegation has opened trade negotiations with Denmark, a fellow member with the United States and Britain in the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization. ' : . t . Now it is reported that Anas tas I. Mikoyan, Russia's No. 1 foreign trade expert, will start a tour of Latin American coun tries soon. ' ' -Russian Outlets Sought Moscow dispatches report that Mikoyan will visit Argentina, Brazil and Chile, the "big three" Latin American countries, offer ing big purchases of their com modities and seeking outlets for Russian exports. Mikoyan seems to be a man to watch. Khrushchev and Bul ganin get the headlines in their visits abroad. Mikoyan gets little publicity. But he does get around. He has just returned home from a little publicized tour of East Asia during which he visited India and Burma among other countries. The Kremlin's bid for friend ship with Western -Socialist parties got quite a setback dur ing the visit of "Mr. B. and Mr. K." to .Britain. Khrushehev got into an angry argument with members of the Labor party and accused them of "piggishness." Socialist parties in -Western UL Matter of Fact by stewan aiSoP MISSILES AND THE PRESIDENT Washington In this era of complacency, the most cogent warnings are blithely disregard s' ed. For exam ple, former Assistant Sec retary of the Air Force Tre y o r Gardner has written two articles in "Look" maga zine citing un denied facts to Stewart Aisop prove that this country is losing both the air power and the missiles race to the Soviet Union. Hardly any body has paid much attention. Perhaps more attention would have been paid if it had been known that the second Gardner article, on the missile race, was written in the hope that it would be read by President Eisenhow er, and that the President would recognize in it a special, hidden meaning. 'T'HE story goes back to last "7 November, when the Presi dent, at a meeting of the Na tional Security Council at Camp David, again took up the reins of government after his heart attack. At the Camp David meet ing, the President was briefed on the major problems confront ing his Administration. Gardner, together with Deputy Secretary of Defense Reuben Robertson and one or two others, was as signed to brief the President on the missile, problem. The President was told how, in mid-summer, almost certain knowledge had come into the hands of the government that the Soviets "were already testing medium range missiles. He was told how a decision had very recently been taken to start a new missiles program to attempt to match the Soviet achieve ment in the medium range field. And the cumbrous organization of the whole missile program was described to the President. - . AFTER his briefing, the Presir dent asked certain angry questions. And this is why Gard ner's second article, "Our Guid ei Missile Crisis," should have had a special significance to the President. Towards the end of the article, there appears the fol lowing paragraph, which Gard ner italicized: "Why did it take from August to November to make a decision to proceed with the medium range missile? Why is the pres ent organization so filled with committees? Why wasn't one man put in charge of the entire program at an early stage? . . . Won't inter-service rivalries and the multiplicity of programs re sult in a slowdown of intercon tinental ballistic missile prog ress? Why isn't the ICBM given i 1 " . sP - IK f t an i'jpin Europe are likely to be cool to the suggestion that they form "united fronts" with the Com munists in their countries. Shopping List Cleared Britain, for instance, has grab bed at the Russian trade offer. Eden refused to consider any breaking down of the Allied em bargo against the export of strategic goods to Iron Curtain countries. But he pointed out in a statement in the House of Com mons that the Russians sub mitted a big "shopping list." The government has just announced that most of the items are clear of the embargo restrictions. Mikoyan, if he does make the South American tour, can do a lot of damage. He could both weaken relations of the coun tries concerned with the United Correspondents Look Ahead to Coming News United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Atomic Thaw? . The disarmament situation is more hopeful than it looks. True, the London negotiations con ducted by a United Nations sub committee broke up in a dead lock. But one reason seems to be that the Western allies are putting pressure on Russia to make concessions. London in siders expect a move by the Kremlin soon. United States del egate Harold E. Stassen may have made a good guess. He suggested after the break-up that Soviet' Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin is likely to reply soon to President Eisenhower's let ter of March 5, proposing a freeze on the production of nu clear, weapons. A favorable re sponse by Mr. B. might start things going again. Ups and Downs " High . British officials were amazed by the emotional quick- changes of Soviet Communist Party Leader Nikita S. Khrush chev on his visit to London, Bubbling good humor one mo ment. A pout or an outburst of rage the next. One top official a clear top priority over other missiles programs?" These are, in paraphrase, pre cisely the same questions which the President asked the assem bled moguls of his Administra tion at Camp David, after he had been briefed on the missiles crisis by Gardner and Robert son. The questions remain unan swered a point which Gardner, when he wrote the article, undoubtedly hoped would strike the President. rpHE President has, in fact, rec ognized from the first the huge significance of the evidence of Soviet success in the missile field. After the evidencetecame available, and while the Presi dent was vacationing in Colo rado before his heart attack, Secretary of the Air Force Don ald Quarles wrote a memoran dum for him on the missile program. " The Quarles memorandum took the line that the Soviet achievement was important, but not decisively important, in view of the continuing superi ority of the United States in the air-atomic field. The memoran dum recommended progress in the missile field with "all prac ticable" speed. The President revised the memorandum with his own hand, underlining the decisive importance of the Soviet achieve mentment,' changing "all prac ticable" to "all possible,,' and assigning top priority to missile development. Again, at the Camp David meeting, as the questions paraphrased by Gard ner suggest, the President made it abundantly clear that he was deeply disturbed by our rela tive lack of progress in the mis sile field. He said that he was determined to get someone to run the missiles program the way it ought to be run, even if he had to do the job himself. YET the President's angry questions still need answer ing, and, as Gardner proves be yond question in his article, the missiles program is still inade quate and badly organized. It is not really being run by anyone Why? Gardner asks the same ques tion in his article: "How can all this happen,, many citizens will ask, when the President himself is a great general? It happens because . . . the com munications system he relies on simply isn't working." This is another way of saying that the built-in resistance, in the vast bureaucracy of the de fense establishment, to the need ed drastic change in the organ ization of our missile effort, has so far proved too strong for the President to buck about as disturbing a conclusion as it is possible to imagine. Copyright, 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. States and undercut United States exports to them. A Buenos Aires dispatch says Russian motor cars and trucks went on sale in Buenos Aires last week at prices substantially lower than those asked for American, British, German and Italian ones. Mikoyan is the man behind all this. White-faced, black mustached, he has been Russia's leading trade expert for 30 of his 61 years. : An Armenian,' he is one of the few top-ranking men who survived all of. Stalin's purges. He has been a member of the Communist party Central Committee since 1922, when he was 24. He is now a vice pre mier and one of the 11 men in the Kremlin's "collective leadership." says he believes Mr. K. is sub ject to alternating feelings of persecution and of personal greatness. Propaganda Epidemic Western intelligence agents look for Communist- inspired re-, ports of "thermonuclear sick ness" to foUow the big United States H-bomb test in the Pacific this week. Such reports might be widely- credited not only in Communist-ruled countries but in others which oppose nuclear weapons tests. They would be' a new move in Red propoganda attempts to discredit the United States. Spaghetti a la Americana Business quarters expect Am erican hotelman Conrad Hilton to get approval soon of his long delayed plan to build a hotel atop scenic Monte Mario over looking Rome. The Communists have blocked the plan so far. But influential supporters of the Christian Democratic Italian government own the land near where Hilton wants to build. They . want Premier Antonio Segni to go along with Hilton the hotel would speed develop ment of the area. Valedictory? London believes Sir Winston Churchill, Britain's grand old man, may make one of his last great speeches in Aachen, Ger many, Thursday. He wUl go there to receive the city's Karl prize, awarded each year for promoting European unity. It was reported in London one month ago that he might make a masterly call on the free world to take advantage of the Krem lin's embarrassment in its Stalin-debunking campaign by laun ching a diplomatic, offensive. Cyprus Muddle Look for Field Marshal Sir John Harding, governor and commander in chief in Cyprus, to fly to London soon to dis cuss a change in strategy. His policy of "force for force" in combatting extremists isn't do ing so well Editorial Comment CONSERVATION v Last year a great to-do was made about Conservation Week, proclaimed by the late Govern or Patterson, and designed to bring to the attention of the people of Oregon the benefits to be derived from conserving our natural resources. That same week will be held again this May, next week to be exact, but will be called Soil Stewardship Week instead. I think a mistake has been made here. Everyone is becoming pretty conscious of this business of conservation but when you start using high faluting titles like Soil Stewardship Week you miss the mark by a country mile. , : . Plus the fact that there is a lot more t oconservation than saving the soil : and putting it to its maximum use. In fact, right now we seem-to be putting the soil that falls within the agricul tural classification to great use. At least we are if we judge by the vast surpluses that are piling up and the many, plans for taking some of this land out of production. Anyway, just a word of. ex planation prior to next week you wiU know what is going on. It's still the-old ' conservation week program under a new name. Bill Jenkins in Klamath Falls Herald and News. British Trade With China 'Being Sacrificed' Newcastle, , England U.R) Harold Wilson, one of the lead ers of the British Labor party, said Sunday that British trade with Red China was . "being sac rificed for the appeasement of a few hysterical American sena tors." - :. . Wilson's scathing attack on the Eden government said Brit ain's trade with 600,000,000 Chi nese was held up by American disapproval and "be sure that when it is opened the Ameri cans will beat us to it." Population of the United States, now 165,000,000, has in creased by 10 per cent or more sines 1950. In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS A previous installment of this series dealt with' what makes New York tick that is to say, how this city, that has within its own limits little or no heavy industry, gets the money to keep its fabulous self going. One answer is that it takes in a lot of cash every day from visitors, who bulk large in New York's economy as you can guess from the number of hotels you see aU around you when you get there. It costs quite a lot in TIPS alone just to get into a hotel in New York City. It costs an ap proximately equal sum to get out. T ET'S suppose you are coming in at the Pennsylvania sta tion and that you have four bags, which is at least .average for two people. That brings up a highly controversial subject the cost of getting your bags from your train to the taxi stand out in the street, and who gets what out of the money. There is a standard charge of 25 cents for each piece of bag gage. The porters on the trains teU you the railroads get ALL of that and that the redcap gets none of it. When pressed, they will concede that . the redcap does get a base wage, but say his wage is smaU and that to keep going he must get tips. He gets as a tip only what you give him above the 25-cents-per-bag charge: YOUR red cap takes your bags at the step of your car, where your Pullman porter has deposit ed them (and presumably you have given him a gratuity.) The redcap puts them on a cart, and you follow him. He leads you up two elevators and one esca lator to the taxi entrance and helps you to put your bags in the taxi. You figure up the physical toil and the mental anguish you would have endured in the pro cess of finding your way through that maze and shell out the dol lar charge for the railroad and possibly another buck to the red cap on the theory that so far as you are concerned he has earned it. YOU are now in two dollars, and at this point the taxi driver ..takes over and drives you to your hotel through a snarl of traffic that takes some doing. His charge will be about six bits, and being indoctrmated by this time you give him a dol lar bill and a wave of the hand that says keep the change. That gets you to the curb in front of the hotel, where the doorman takes over. . He helps get your bags out of the taxi, and rings for a bellhop which calls for at least a quarter. At this point you nter the realm of chance. If things are pretty busy around the joint, there will be only one bellhop, but 'the rule for two to carry four heavy bags and if enough are avail able you will get two. . . Maybe you'll get into your room quickly, in which event your bell hop (or maybe your two bellhops) will take you right on up. IF YOUIRE out of luck and have to wait until' somebody vacates a room so that you can get it, you'll tip your bellhop (or maybe the two of them) and they'll check your belongings while you wait. When a room finally does open up, you find another bellhop (or maybe two of them) and when they have got you located and have raised the curtains and opened the win dows and fiddled with the heat you'U pay off again.' If there is only one, you'll figure that maybe a buck and a quarter is enough, even in New York. If there are two, . you'll toy with the idea of shelling out a. dollar and a half and letting them make their own split but wiU probably end up by letting go of $2. IF YOU'RE shot with luck and have made the . grade with only one bellhop you'll be in only a matter of $3.25 or so. by FUNERAL SERVICES fa Every Price Range Since 1908 Funeral. Home Phone 2-6675 ' O ' PERL News the time you get settled in your room, but if it isn't your lucky day and you have been stuck with two bellhops all the way through (including the wait while a room is opening up) you'll be in considerably more probably around $5. THAT'S what it has cOst you to get in. It will cost as much more to get out. Unless, that is, you should take a notion when leaving to start a little early and leave your baggage at the station while you do some errands, or maybe a little last minute shopping down in mid town say at Macy's, which is just kitty-corner across the street from the Pennsylvania terminal. In that event, you'll pay off your porter at the two bits per bag rate, plus his tip, check your bags in the coin in the slot boxes at 25 cents per box and when train time comes do it all over again. A LL this has been just tips and "taxi fares to get into your hotel and out of it again. So, you see, with hundreds of thous ands of visitors coming in and going out every day, quite a little cash is added to New York's income by visitors from the outer regions. Medford Student Gets Scholarship Charles Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Anderson,". 218 Winema wy., Medford, is one of two Willamette university stu dents to receive Danforth grad uate fellowships, it was an nounced this week. Fifty of these scholarships are awarded throughout the United States annually. Amount of the scholarships are between' $2400 and $2800 each for four years, plus one year at seminary if de sired.. Anderson will use his fellow ship at Union Theological semi nary in New York City in pre paration for the ministry of the Methodist church. On the Willa mette campus he has been a member' of the Interfaith coun cil manager of Christian- Re source week and president of Oxford Fellowship. He is ajso a member of Phi Eta Sigma scholastic honorary fraternity, a senior in the religion depart ment and held a Collins scholar ship for two years. ' In addition to being a full time student, Anderson is a stu dent minister at the Methodist church in Marquam. In 1885 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa', then a city of 20,000, as the seat of government of Upper and Lower Canada. It ' became the capital city of the new Do minion in 1867. Use Tribune Want Ads Her Face Told It GEO. N. TAYLOR Christ stopped at the well at Sychar to r e s t a bit and a woman from the town came for a jug of water. Christ asked for a drink and then told her that if she drank of the water He had for her, she would never thirst again. The water He would give her would lie a spring of water bubbling up within her and giving eternal life. Content person, needed never tell- of the eternal life bubbling up within her heart. Her face told it. And may you be just such a blessing. Settle the sin question. 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