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rOtni MEDFORD (OREGON) UKS "Xvsrybody la Southern Oregon Heads in Man inpunt Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDfORD PKLNTUSU tu. 37-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor HERB GREY. Adverttotae Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing soor KARL H ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWE1T sports tanor OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mall In Advance: Per Com 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3 JO Sunday Only On year (3 SO. Bt 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 315.00 Daily 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 County United Pr Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF circulation WEST-HOLL1DAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit, San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL vV assocCatlqn i t7 W mnn 1H NEWSPAPER PUBIISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. FLIGHT O' TIME Std Hed 10 YEARS AGO May 9. 1946 (It was Thursday) Total registration in Jackson county for the May 17 primary election is 17,559, according to the county clerk's office. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The farm ers all advocate rain. They won't get it until they make a noise like a mowing machine in a hay field. 20 YEARS AGO May 9. 193 - (It was Saturday) :.-..'. In addition to the United Air liners flying regular schedules, eight plans refueled at Medford airport Friday. Sa!e Of the J. J. Steiger resi dence at 122 Oregon Terrace at the end of Queen Anne ave, to J. E. Houston, announced. 30 YEARS AGO ''.-.' -May 9.' 1926 (It was Sunday) ' Marjorie L. Allison ' of the Lone Pine school wins essay con test among the rural schools of Jackson county. According to the state - tax commission figures, Jackson county will pay $1,663,883.81 in taxes in 1925. 40 YEARS AGO ... . May 9, 1316 V (It . was Tuesday) r First reports of damage frost Sunday are. believed have been exaggerated. ' Senator Albert B. Cummings will speak at the Nat Friday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? ' Cepr. 1953. Editorial Research Revert '1. About two-thirds, one-half. one-third, or less than one-third of cars put out so far in 1956 are painted black? ' 2. Rhodes Scholars go to study at Oxford University, England, only from the U.S. or from other countries as well? 3. Winter wheat in most areas is planted in the winter, or har vested in the winter, or both, or neither? 4. Eisenhower was chosen by 1952 Republican convention as presidential nominee on first, third, or a later ballot? 5. Which one of these Red leaders of the past is now of ficially denounced in Russia: Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Rykov, Stalin? 6. Nearest U.S. large city to Europe is Boston, Mass., Provi dence, R.I., New York, N.Y., Norfolk, Va., or Miami, Fla.? A "ghost writer" is or isn't one who writes ghost stories? The Answers: 1. Less than one third. 2. From other countries as well. 3. Neither (planted in fall, harvested in summer). 4. On first ballot. 5. Stalin. 6. Boston. 7. Isn't: he writes -what somebody else uses as his own. West German Youths Fleeing To Escape Army Berlin (U.PJ East German Communist leaders said today increasing numbers of West Ger man youths are fleeing to East Germany to escape conscription in West Germany.- No specific numbers were given in the report which ap peared in the Communist Party newspaper Neues Deutschland. MAIL TRIBUNE School The budaret for School come 549-C) is published Tribune in full detail. It merits the attention everv parent of a school-age For a buderet, as has a plan, reduced to dollars tion of the school district Duaget win give some iaea as to how the district operates, a bit about its philos ophy of education, and considerable about how much things cost these days. THE BUDGET totals $1,992,437.11. That is a lot of money. It is about $200,000 more than will have been spent during the current fiscal year. But, partly because of ly because of increased valuation, taxes will, increase less than the total increase in the budget, and will go up only about .2 mills, one creases m any major school district m the state. Still, it IS an increase. Why? THE LARGEST single increase listed in .the budget is in the costs of instruction. This was $1,101,- 308.02 this year, and is proposed to be $1,228,477.17 next year. The increase accounts for more than half m ,-. n - k in 1- l " a1 or the overall increase. Ana result of more money being ing new ones to the staff, of those now employed. This is net dene as a will toward the teaching profession. It is done because the economic facts of life dictate higher salaries for teachers if they are to be the school system. There ; tacners particularly gooa ford district must be able to As for the new teachers, the reason for them is fairly well obvious to anyone who has been following the population figures. There are more children. More children require more teachers. Q.E.D. A NOTHER considerable . improvement section $103,360 this year to $163,530 next year. Most of it is for additions and alterations to existing buildings, other than routine repairs, and for purchase of a new school site and the improvement of existing sites. ' The reason for this increase is precisely the same as for the added teachers tem. " :' ;.:" ": School Superintendent Leonard Mayfield reports that for each child added to the system, sooner or la ter about $1,000 must.be spent for capital improve ments. While this is flexible to a certain extent, when increases are small, it cannot be put off indefinitely. . And, from the 4;332 children in school during the school year of 1954-55, the,i6tal is expected to grow to about 5,100 by the start of the 1956-57. school year. THE ABOVE covers only the highlights of the bud- get. A detailed study will repay the voter and taxpayer concerned over how his money is going to be. spent. He will find -that some items, such as those described, have gonef up by considerable amounts. Others have increased only slightly. A few have gone down. ; Some voters, will disagree with certain phases of the educational program. But it must be remembered that the program is designed to meet the needs of all children, insofar ;'as this can be accomplished within reasonable limitations. ; One man may say that band instruction is unim portant, but that physical education should receive more emphasis. Another would advocate more atten tion to practical, vocational subects, while still an other would maintain that the college preparatory subjects should be broadened'. V - .. "yITH INTERESTS and skills and biases as varied as they are, it would be impossible to gain unan imity on what is important and what is unimportant. What the budgeters must -do is to come as close as possible to satisfying each, with the probable result that no one will be FULLY satisfied. That is the way things work in a system where the final authority rests with the voters. It seems to us, in looking over the school budget this year, that a considerable measure of success has been achieved in presenting ' a program which is broad enough to cover the needs of everyone pretty well, without undue emphasis on any one segment.' . We believe it is a good budget, all in all, and mer its the support of the voters to whom it will be submit ted in an election June 1. E. A; . , . :; Still Hated A year and a half ago Oregonians decided the state should operate on Pacific Standard Time during the summer months. With this decision we have no particular quarrel, although an extra hour of daylight in the evening (and one less in the early morning) would have suited us fine, personally. - What irritated us at the time, and still does, were some of the arguments used against Daylight "Sav ing" Time. TESTIS A "misnomer," in. the first place. Nothing lis "saved." It's simply a matter of adjusting clocks. And.no "time" is "God's time", or "nature's time" or "sun time." Division of the day into hours and min utes is purely the work of humankind,-, and discus sions should be based firmly on that fact. .Perhaps DST would be more acceptable if it were called, more correctly, "Adjusted Summer Hours." But no matter what it was named it still presum ably would be hated by many, particularly farmers, operators of drive-in theaters and mothers of-small children. E.A. ' Wednesday, Mar 8; 1958 Budget District 49 (soon to be elsewhere in today's Mail of every taxpayer and child. been said, is a program and and cents. A careful inspec- r. - -increased income and part of the smallest millage in tne Diggest portion is me spent tor teachers add and increasing the salaries benevolent gesture of good attracted and retained by is, fierce, competition for teacners ana tne mea meet the competition. increase is in the capital of the budget. It goes from more children in the sys ' . .' Territories 'Rankle, Churchill is Reminded By CHARES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Winston Churchill, Britain's grand old man, is being greeted in West Germany today by signs like "Churchill, Go Home." Churchill arrives in Germany this afternoon to receive tomor row, in the , ancient city of Aachen, a prize for promoting European unity. The signs are a reminder to Churchill, and t? the world, that Germany wants back the terri tory which was handed over to Polish and Russian : occupation at the Potsdam conference in 1945.' This issue is one that is sel dom mentioned among the many problems that have arisen out of World War II. But it is one which the big Rails, Gas, Trucks Top Lobby Spending During 1st Washington (CQ) Rail road and trucking' lobbies, war ring over the nation's transpor tation policy, dominate the in creased first quarter lobby spending report for 1956. The Association of American Railroads representing 196 railroads in the United States, Canada : and Mexico tops the spenders with reported outlays of $46,402.59 for the: first three months of 1956. , ? In third place is the American Trucking associations national representative of 50 truck asso ciations with reported spend ing of $35,907.15. Second place went to the Joint Committee of Consumers and Producers of Natural Gas which reported spending $37, 686. Its spending is a reflection of the tremendous struggle waged in passage of the now vetoed natural gas bill. Total Over Million Congressional Quarterly's sur vey of official reports to Con gress shows 199 lobby groups spent $1,087,404 during the first three months of 1956. This com pares to $899,392 reported spent by 162 reporting organizations in the first quarter of 1955. . With one exception all groups that reported spending more thari $20,000 through March 30 increased their expenditures Fund Control Gives House Its Influence On Foreign Policy Washington, D. C The Ad ministration is working just as hard on the House as on the Senate to get the Administration foreign-aid program through Congress pretty much unscath ed. After all, not only does the House . have equal power with the upper house in enacting any foreign-aid appropriations bill, but also the bUl must originate in the House. -" Until perhaps 30 or 35 years ago, the House was usually eclipsed by the Senate in work ing out foreign policy with an Administration. The Senate alone passed on treaties, and foreign policy was apt to be im bedded in treaties. Power of the Purse Today, however, any major foreign policy item . needs con siderable funds to implement it, and when it comes to funds the House in effect says to itself, "Ah, hah!" For instance, the U. S. may have entered NATO by means of a treaty ratified in the Senate, but without the funds voted by both branches of Congress, the NATO project would have necessarily been abandoned long ago. Last Feb. 20 Chairman James P. Richards (D-S.C.) complained strongly that the House Foreign Affairs committee had been ig nored by the State Department in deciding - to let a shipment of tanks go to Saudi Arabia. Thereupon Secretary, Dulles at his press conference eight days later assured the group that, he was always as available to con sultation with it as with the Senate Foreign Relations com mittee. In 1945 the House voted for constitutional amendment to give it- -equal power witn tne Senate in ratifying treaties. The proposal died in the Senate (nat- uraUy). Among those in favor of it was Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson. Editorial Research Reports. . Dr. Ralph S. Anderson CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Has Opened Offices At 100 MADISON PLACE v . Between Queen Ann and Jackson Street BY APPOINTMENT. ONLY! PHONE 2-5997 Lost to Germany powers have got to face some day. Poland and Russia regard the territory as ' permantly theirs. Germany never wUl agree. Churchill's visit is the first he has made to Germany since the Potsdam conference. The "Churchill. Go Home" J "r-l i,;n -kt lirnjf signs have been- painted on pub lic buildings in Aachen, faster than the police can erase them, by supporters of what is called officially the Association of Ger man Expellees. The association represents about 10 million Germans who were expelled from the' territory east of the Oder and Neisse riv ers which was turned over to Poland and Russia pending a final peace treaty.. - Quarter sharply compared to . the first three months of 1955. The only top spender with a decline was the AFlrCIO,. which, reported $39,025 in spending, .compared to a combined total of $69,331 for the same period in 1955, when the AFL and CIO were functioning separately. : The merged AFL-CIQ attributed its decrease to' "stepped-up" . effi ciencey of operation." The increase in spending of the . railroad group. and . the truckers signifies the stepup .in interest in legislative matters in presidential year lawmaking. For the first three months of 1955, the AAR reported spend ing only $13,175.58. The truck ers reported spending only $2, 288.21 in the first three months of 1955.. . Report Hikes Activity But that was before the Pres idential Advisory . Committee on Transport . Policy and Organiza tion April 18, 1955, recommend ed fewer controls on the trans portation-industry.- Neil J. -Curry, president of the ATA, said the report if carried out, "would ultimately -destroy . effective competition." . AAR President William T. Faricy termed the report- ''distinctly encouraging." In April; 1956,- 33 registered lobbyists were employed' by 25 railroad organizations. : Of the lobbyistssix -were employed by the AAR,- -one' by - a regional group,. 20 by .19 1 state railroad groups, and six by four railroad companies. : ATA has seven reg istered lobbyists; others work for its member groups. The stepup in railroad lobby ing . activity occurred in 1955 and 1956, with a substantial por tion of it: occurring- after-the transport report was made pub lic. The issue of controls is the hub of the argument in the back stage maneuvering. --of - -. AAR backs legislation to carry out the intent of the report. The truckers, meanwhile, -have been- supporting actively the highway expansion bill. - Al though approved by the House April 27, the bill still must pass the Senate. And the truckers are trying to prevent any "undue" increases in their highwayruser taxes. -. The. American , Farm Bureau federation, which shored up the Eisenhower administration op position" to the recently vetoed farm, bill,, . reported . spending $30,121 in the first three months to finish fifth behind the AFL CIO. Another reflection of the farm .furor was the eighth place status of the National Farmers union, which reported disburs ing $27,598,09 while supporting the Democratic drive to restore 90 per cent of parity price sup ports for basic .farm commodi ties. ...-. Colorado Group Sixth . Sixth place among the lobby spenders is occupied by the Colorado River association, a California . . organization .that spent $29,942.51 in a vain effort to prevent passage of the Colo rado river storage project. The group reported spending $6, 810.42 in 1955. - . The Southern States- Indus trial council, a perennial top-10 spender, finished seventh with a reported outlay of $28,593.12, compared to $25,259.35 for the first -quarter of 1955. The Industrial council, organ ized in 1933, claims to represent about 2,000 businesses and in dustries in 16 southern states. The council says it seeks to "restore- and preserve" the Ameri can free enterprise system.-. (Copyright, 1956, ; Congressional Quarterly) ' These "expellees" number about one in five of the popula tion of West. Germany. They have their own little bloc of seats in Parliament. In their demand that the lost territory be given back, they are .supported not only by West Germans but by nearly aU of the 18.5 million Germans who live in the Russian-occupied zone. Tomorrow, the expellees in tend to hold a mourning service while Churchill is being given his prize. They have asked townspeople, to fly flags at half staff. - The award to "Churchill is the Karl (or Charlemagne) Prize, awarded annually to a man who has helped promote European unity. . It is . named for Charlemagne, the . great emperor whose tomb according to tradition lies un der the dome of Aachen Cath edral. The ."expellees" have nothing against Churchill himself. They admire him for his world war leadership even though he was their enemy. But they blame him for his part in the Potsdam con ference. They say that he has helped divide, not. unite Europe. Hence they say that Churchill has no right to the Charlemagne Prize. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government has tried to mini mize the protests. But Aden auer and all his. fellow leaders will insist, when the time comes, that Germany must get back its lost territory. . The issue will become, a big one whenever the unification of Germany is taken up finally, Now the talk is merely of unify ing the Western and Eastern parts of the country. But to Ger mans, there wiU be -no unifica tion until they -get back those 47,000 square miles of territory which - Red-ruled Poland occu pies not to mention the East Prussian territory which Po land and Russia hold between them. It is highly probable, too, if not certain, that some day, in one way or another,- Germany will get back- most of it. .- PGE Violating Oregon Water Law, Thornton Declares Salem U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said to day that Portland General Elec tric Company ' was violating water laws of Oregon In' con structing Pelton dam on the De schutes river. ' ' Gov. Elmo Smith had asked Thornton to rule on the legality of construction in view of the United States Supreme Court Pelton dani decision. Under Jurisdiction The attorney general reiter ated his view that PGE had sub mitted itself to the jurisdiction of the hydroelectric commission of Oregon and Oregon water law by making applications for a preliminary permit ana li cense. "These applications were de nied by the Oregon Hydroelec tric Commission and' Portland General Electric sought a review of the proceedings in the Circuit Court of Marion county, which review is now pending on ap peal before the Oregon Supreme Court,-" the opinion stated. "It must be conceded that the law is now well settled by the Supreme Court of the United States in the Pelton and first Iowa cases that the securing of a state permit is not a- condition SAVE SAVE We'll a . Dyke's Just Around the Comer from Penney 227 E. SAVE . SAVE 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. r Haircuts and Work To the Editor: It was good reading, showing as it did free dom of the press and editorial willingness to print as is, a re cent news release of our con gressmen huddled up in cloak room and corridor, huddles. It concerned the upping of hair cuts from 50 cents , to 75 cents'. Our Washington, D.C., lawmak ers seemed quite irked about it, though they, could still, .get' a 35 cent haircut, by taking a short walk to another building. Somehow or other, this just don't seem to fit in . with the $1.25 (or is it $1.50) they charge here, it's been so long since be ing in one of the modernized af fairs, where the barbers can be seen in the waiting chairs. It's not too great a strain on one's memory to hark back to the days of the 35 cent and 50 cent hair cut when the customers waited in the chairs, perusing the old Police Gazette or . listening to a foursome in attempt at some, harmony singing. But what aroused my think ing was that if our representa tives at Washington can eat in the restaurants there: at prices, comparable to that in the barber-shop, it -would seem they could get by on the $6,000 to $12,000 or more per year salary and other fringe benefits they receivei It may be rash specula tion, but if there was just a chance for me to serve a term there at the benefits mentioned, then there could be a real re tirement for me to the' easy chair, tall drink close at hand and feet up on a rest cushion, so often pictured but rather sil ly, for when one is used to work, it must be continued to a degree till life is done, if one is to con tinue in health and some pride of accomplishment, for the mere recounting what one has done soon loses its flavor. But it might be suggested to our congressmen that the new electric clippers in the deft hands of wife, mother, or some other, can make the-male quite presentable in strolling - down the avenue. - . r F. J. Clifford, ' -" 1211 West Main st., ' Medford, Ore. 'No Give Away?' To the Editor: Our editor, in his zeal to pin the "give away" charge on Mr. McKay, seems to have overlooked a. statement at the beginning of the Harper's article on give aways. This state ment: "To investigate let alone prove or disprove these charg es is a job beyond the scope of one article," tends to make the article of slightly less - conse quence than our editor would have-us believe. - - : In reading the portion of the article covered by Sunday's edi torial, one finds no mention of any extenuating circumstances behind these "give aways" no reason, except the implication that "Big Business" was the pol- precedent to the granting of a license under the federal power act," the opinion continued. "The granting of the federal license does not override effect ive state law, and it is judicially recognized .that - the federal li censee assumes the risk of com pliance." Thornton told the governor: Until otherwise decided by the Supreme Court of Oregon I must advise you that the Portland General Electric Company is violating the water laws of the state of Oregon by constructing the hydroelectric project at the Pelton site on the Deschutes river. - SAVE . . . SAVE . . . Mother's Day Gift? YCDIH CARPET! Give Her n ..-L; Hneavy iug wusmun to Match! Patterns Quality BROAD LOOM to Choose from! Nothing Down 3 Years to Pay FLOORCOVERING FURNITURE SAVE . SAVE . . . icy maker for McKay's . interior department. ' ... Perhaps we should ask a few .questions before' accepting' the Harper's article as an r "over whelming and unanswerable in dictment of the McKay adminis tration." (1) What adverse effect will exploration for oil have on wild life in the refuges? To what ex tent will discovery of addition al oil reserves balance these ef fects? , . .... ' . . (2) What was the end result of the Senate sub-committee in vestigation of the Al Sarena case? " . (3) What are the terms of the fifty-year option granted Inter national Nickle Co.? Would de velopment of a large nickle and copper deposit justify this lease? (4) Much- has been written and said on both sides of the Hells Canyon controversy. If the author had talked to advocates of private power development instead of Senators Morse and Neuberger, it might not be class ed as a give away. (5) Is $35,000,000 the current valuation of the synthetic fuel plant? Wa it sold by open bid? (6) What effect has the abro gation of the "wheeling" 'regula tion had on "preference" groups? What were the ten recommenda tions by Herman Kruse? John O. .Rector, , 214 West Jackson st. Medford, Ore. Thanks Ex-Customers ' To the Editor: PerhaDs I should title this "Medford Wom en" as that is mostly what it is about. Seven years ago I started the Curb Service Bakery route here in Medford, and was owner and operator of same until May 1. this year. Quite naturally my business was mostly with the . Medford housewife. And I want to say here and now that they are the finest group of customers that any man ever had in any ' busi ness. Now in saying this I do not wish to omit the very fine men customers that I had too. Though . they were in the minority,- the quality was the same. ' '' Now a word about my exper ience. During my seven years as operator of the Curb Service Bakery route I did many things that one might not connect with a bakery route service. To men tion some of them: There was the time I helped a very fine old gen tleman plane off a door to make it fit; I. fixed leaky.; faucet;; I have held the baby' while the mother took a minute to tend to other urgent business;' I took l8dies to get a pass key - when they, were locked out of their apartment. One mother was locked out of her apartment with two , .small children inside, but we made a dash for a key and all was well. I have also delivered messages and carried packages, all - of which I considered in the line of duty, to try to give good service to .a very wonderful group of good honest customers. May I emphasize the word honest. In seven years I was not "beat out," if I may use the expression, of ten cents by these fine Medford people. : It has been a great pleasure and a "wonderful experience and now that I am going into the real estate business, I want to say I have thoroughly enjoyed it. . ;- May I now submit this small bit of thanks to my many cus tomers. Marty Barnett, , 608 Stewart ave. 1 . Medford, Ore. SAVE . . . SAVE 5 m ti OPEN TONIGHT TILL 9 6th Phone 2-5168 SAVE . SAVE
