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f FOUR MEDrORD (ORESOIT) "everybody in Southern Oregon Read XHe Mali TrlDun Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. RUHL. Editor CERA I. n LATHAM. Buiineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Ktutor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor KICHAHD JtwETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr, An Independent Newipaper Entered aa second class matter at Medlord. Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ttv Mail Tn irfvanc! Per COOV 10c. Daily and Sunday Ona year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six month 6 30 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 1.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. Bt Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor route: Daily and Sunday One year IU-0O Dativ and Sunday une monm Carrier and Dealer 5c per copy All Trm rh In Advance Official Paper of the City of Madford Official Paper oi Jtcnion loamy United Pre Full Leated Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION A ..rtldna pnrcnttive: WEST-HOLLLDAY COMPANY INC. Office In New York. Chicago. De troit. San Francisco. Los Angeiei, Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. B.C. NATI ONAl EDITORIAL jASOCTQN l.'.l.H M NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20. 30 and iO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 11, 1946 (It was Saturday) Jackson county Granges urg ed to snensor candidates for queen of Rogue River Roundup, sponsored by the Jackson Coun ty Sheriff's posse. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: C. Wig Ashpole, the McAndrews road tiller, was downtown Friday de manding rain without further . ado. 20 YEARS AGO May 11, 1936 (It was Monday) Ernest Rhoads of Grants Pass elected president of the South west Oregon Wild Life Federa tion. Valley residents say weather seemed hotter yesterday, but ac tually the temperature was four degrees cooler than on Satur day. 30 YEARS AGO May 11, 1926 (It was Tuesday) American Legion post to erect mess hall and kitchen for area Boy Scout troops seven miles from Ruch on Applegate. From Local and Personal col umn: The last event of school year which the public may at tend is tc take place Friday, May 14. 40 YEARS AGO May 11, 1916 (It was Thursday) Heavy frost predicted tonight if clouds clear; warmer weather forecast Friday. Jacksonville school arranging for industrial exhibit, May 16 and 17. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7T Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Strikes in public utilities are forbidden in all, some, none of the states? 2: Democratic national chair man Butler says he thinks the South will or won't run a third candidate for president in No vember, or has no opinion? 3. Imported residual oil is used for fuel in power plants chiefly in the East, South, Middle West or Far West? 4. Hell Gate bridge is over San Francisco bay, Chesapeake bay, the Mississippi at St. Louis, the East River in N.Y., or Dela ware bay? 5. The Federal Power commis sion now does or doesn't control prices at which natural gas is sold for interstate pipeline distri bution? 6. On an average day about (a) 200,000, (b) 1,200,000, (c) 2, 000,000 or (d) 5,000,000 Amer icans are off their jobs from sickness or other cause of absen teeism? 7. Queen Juliana is ruler of Belgium, a jungle country in Af rica, The Netherlands, Luxem burg, Denmark or Monaco? The answers: 1. Some of the states. 2. Says he thinks it wonf . 3. East. 4. East river at N.Y. 5. Does. 6. About 2.000. 000. The Netherlands. The highest temperature re corded in Honolulu in the past 60 years was 90 degrees in Oc tober 1891. The lowest was 52 degrees in 1902. MAIL TRIBUNE Vanishing Land r . The acreage of productive agricultural land gets smaller as the population This is another of theMnany problems of adjust ment which Oregon, and, indeed, much of the country as a whole, face as the economy and the birth rate keep rolling along. - We see it in Medford, as the city grows, as people reach out into nearby countryside for homesites and for industrial locations. We see it as wider and straighter highways are constructed for a right of way, even if only a couple' of hundred feet wide, when it stretches through orchards, fields and pastures, takes its toll of acreage. DUT CONSIDER the French Prairie area, in the Willamette valley north of Salem and west of Woodburn, where 5,000 acres are to be obtained for the construction of a new -Air Force base. That's some of the best farm land in the valley, and 5,000 acres is a big chunk to be lost all at one fell swoop. The nearby cities are looking at the develop ment with mixed emotions. Our agricultural experts tivity of the land remaining can be perhaps doubled ; possibly with new techniques of f ertilization, breed ing, and chemical treatment it can be trebled. CO, WE ARE TOLD, there's no need to worry about food production, which will be ample for "the foreseeable future." In light of the vast surpluses of farm products which have piled up in recent years, this sounds logical. The only thins: that bothers us, and it continues to, is this "foreseeable future" business. How far can one look ahead? To 1975, than 200 million can be expected? Or to 2006 when, in light of the nation's record of doubling its population every 50 years, we cajn expect some 340 millions? Or ZUon, witn tne possiDimy-oi oou mn.uuii yeuymi The easy thing to do is to note the obvious fact that we won i be around to see this, so why worry If, however, we are concerned about the welfare 1 '1 1 3 . .1.11 J.,). l,i1,-J..,-,v, J4-r. -YYH oi our ennaren anu uui tiuiuciii imiuicu, it, o oumc thing to think about. E. A. Gardens, Dogs and the Law The citizenry of Medford have a sufficient quan tity of subjects to argue with each other about (fluor idation, highway locations, budgets, taxes and so on), and it might seem to be piling Pelion upon Ossa to breathe a word on another subject of controversy. But this is the season of the early gardener, who bemoans the untender visitations of the neighborhood dogs. - - ''THE BATTLE of the dogs has raged hot and furious in past years. This year, blessed quiet has reigned. It is, then, with some trepidation that we reopen the lists. In this we are motivated by the rumblings of the battle from elsewhere, including Portland where the Oregon Journal informs its readers: There isn't any compromise in sight between those who don't want dogs trampling over their flower beds, and those who like to be greeted by a dog with a wag in his tail. The Journal editorialist is sympathetic with the man who selects and edits You should see his desk these days. It's just about snow ed under with letters for and against dogs . . . For every let ter demanding that owners keep their pets on chains, there's another advocating the extensive erection of woven-wire, dog-proof fences. DUT is there no compromise? Will this fight rage on through the ages? Is there, the Journal to the contrary notwithstanding, no compromise? We believe we classify as a lover of dogs. Our late and much-beloved pet was an undisciplined, though friendly and unaggressive, pooch. And we didn't like the thought of chaining or confining him, for he was wont to roam (causing no damage, we hoped) on sniffing expeditions morning and night. Tieing or fencing him would have been, we thought, cruel. We still think so, as far as dogs not puppies are con cerned. At the same time, we think the dog-owner has a responsibility to his friends and neighbors and their shrubs and gardens. jyjEDFORD at present has no "dog law." Therefore, would it not be reasonable and fair to pass an ordinance which requires that all city dogs uncter a year (still in the training stage) and all those hereafter acquired, be confined cr kept under con trol? " In this way, no dogs would be tortured by unac customed imprisonment, (for a dog trained to con finement accepts it as the proper way of life), and most dog owners would be put to no sudden and man datory expense, in building fences or runs.' Yet gar deners and others with no canine friends would be assured that, over a period of years, their four footed tormentors would decrease in numbers and eventually be conspicuous by their absence. Any objections? E. A. Bus Segregation Hearing Under Way Montgomery, Ala. (U.R) A federal tribunal opens a hearing today on the suit of four Negro women seeking to declare state bus segregation laws unconstitu tional. The suit, which grew out of the five-month-old Negro boy cott of city buses here, was filed Feb. 1, against the city commis sioners, Police Chief G. J. Rup penthaj, the state public service commissioners, the city bus lines and two of its drivers. Defense attorneys claimed the Friday, May II, 1956 gets bigger. assure us that the produc when a population oi more the letters to the editor: federal panel has no jurisdic tion since the case has not gone through state courts, but Negro attorneys argued that the tribu nal can rightfully hear the case. Whatever ruling is handed down is expected to be appealed. What's your etiquette prob lem? How to tip? What to wear? When not to smoke? You- can find the answers in books on etiquette at the Medford Public Library. Gen. Gruenther Issues To Russia By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news oh the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, retiring supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization forces, gives Soviet Russia a grim, warning against attacking the Western allies. Any active aggression, he said in a press conference in Bonn, capital of West Germany, would be met at once by a four-way counter-attack with tactical atomic weapons. Airplanes, guided missiles, rockets and artillery would join in the Allied retort. Gruenther said also, in a speech, that Allied long range bombers would wipe out Rus sia's entire armament capacity later. President "Eisenhower, seeking to calm fears about Russia's intercontinental bomber strength, pointed out that the United States in addition to these planes, has its Navy air ram and medium-range bombers which can fly from foreign bases. Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson announced that the pro duction of B52 intercontinental bombers is being increased. 2. The . debunking of Josef Stalin echoed still in the Communist world. Red Poland announced that the death pen alty would be imposed in only the gravest crimes. The Polish government had announced pre viously that 30,000 persons held for political offenses would be freed. Communist Hungary said it would tear down its barbed wire and other "Iron Curtain" barriers opposite its Western frontiers. 3. Japan and the Philippines after years of bickering signed an agreement by which Japan will pay World War II repara tions totaling $550,000,000. The agreement opens the way for the resumption of normal relations between two countries whose co operation is important to Allied defense in East Asia. Worry Seen Possible Depression Cause By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Con tinually I am being asked: "What could cause the next Business v e p r e s sion?" It could be over build ing, too much buying, stock market or the un reasonable de m a n d s of Roger w. BabioD union labor; but I forecast the next depres sion, with its unemployment, may come from worry, fear, and exhaustion. Already worry .is causing ex ecutives to have heart attacks, causing wageworkers to demand pension security, causing house wives to get divorces, and caus ing almost everyone to seek more entertainment in order to forget their troubles. If too many peo ple get scared and stop buying, this will surely bring on bad business and unemployment. Most of us hesitate to discuss our personal religion for fear of being called "hypocrites." But at the risk of being so-called myself, I wUl this week make a confession: My education as a statistician taught me to seek the truth. Hence, when I became a Church member, I naturally sought to learn what Jesus taught. Among other things, I found that He taught us not to worry. One of His most emphatic teachings was to avoid "being anxious about tomorrow." I, therefore, have never allowed myself to worry. What The Birds Teach When Jesus held up the birds as an example for us to follow (Matthew, 6th Chapter, ' Verses 26 to 29), He realized that the birds are obliged to hunt their own food. God does not throw food in their nests for them, God even compels the birds to build heir own nests. Unlike most young people today, the birds build their "houses" and pay for -them before "getting married" and raising little birds. Jesus pever told us not to think about tomorrow, or not to pre pare for tomorrow. Read His parable of the Ten Virgins in the 25th Chapter of Matthew, Verses 1 to 13. It was worry which Jesus condemned. Therefore', I have constantly fought worry and conquered it when it faced me: First,' when I had an attack of tuberculosis Dr. Ralph S. Anderson CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Has Opened Offices At 100 MADISON PLACE Between Queen Ann and Jackson Street BY APPOINTMENT ONLY! PHONE 2-5997 on Allies Strength The Bad 1. The Cyprus crisis was brought to a new high point Field Marshal Sir John Harding British commander in chief, hanged two Greek Cypriote under his new policy of "force for force." One had been victed of murdering a Cypriot policeman, the other of wound ing a British civilian in the ex tremist campaign for union with Greece. The executions caused an outburst of furious . anger throughout Greece. Even before the hangings four persons had been killed and nearly 300 injured in riots by protesting demonstrators i n Athens. The rioters stoned the United States Information Serv ice offices and tried to attack both the British and American embassies. It was disclosed that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had vainly urged Prime Minister Anthony Eden to stop the executions. 2. Algerian rebels, shouting for a Moslem holy war, attack ed French farms, - settlements and military posts over a wide area. The French forces struck back with infantry, artillery and planes. The badly strained French government poured thousands of troops a day into the country. Premier Guy Mol- let planned to call 50,000 more reservists to the colors to rein force the army in Algeria. 3. Ugly-frontier incidents per sisted in Palestine despite the cease-fire agreements negotiated by United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Israel and its Arab neighbors exchanged accusations of border attacks. Each incident fanned the enmity which, before Ham- The 164-mile Garden State Parkway of New Jersey was the top highway in the nation from a safety standpoint in 1955. Al though 8,000,000 vehicles used the road, there were just - 10 traffic fatalities. Detrimental; and was "given up for dead"; then, during the Great Depres: sion when my many clients got scared and left me; and always when some personal misunder standing arose with some rela tive, or friend, or businessman. Two things I have learned to avoid worry and liquor one often leads to the other. Debt to My Wife Furthermore, I do not " give any credit to psychiatrists, or to pills, or to reading books. I give the credit to my religion and to Mrs. Babson who, until her recent passing, was my compan ion and counselor for half a century. I feel that those read ers who worry are ignoring Jesus' teachings. They, more over, must realize that worry is a vice which will harm them like any other vice or drug. Mrs. Babson, more than any one else, helped me to avoid worry by never talking grief to me after our evening meals. Neither of us ever "carried our troubles upstairs," so to speak. We never discussed anything after going to bed. If ever we had trouble getting to sleep, in stead of "counting sheep." we counted our blessings and the many things for which we have to " be thankful. Moreover, we have both tried to live naturally, pray sensibly, avoid keeping up with the Joneses, and have kept out of debt. Correct Decisions Let me guess as to why Jesus believed that worry is so dan gerous. I believe it was because worry prevents a person from making correct decisions. Our health, our jobs, our income and our happiness all depend pri marily upon making correct de cisions saying "No," or "Yes," at the right times. Our present and our future depend upon making correct decisions, and we 'cannot make them unless we are free from worry. One final thought: I make my important decisions only when I am "alone with God." I may be alone in an "Open Church": I may be quietly in my home garden; or in the N.H. woods; or by the seashore at Gloucester. But to get the cobwebs of worry from my old brain, I surely must be away from a telephone and from other people. Forgive these personal words of confession and warning. I would not give my column this week to such a subject except for the real pos sibility that "too much worry" could be the cause of the next business depression. Warning marskjold's peace mission, had tnreatened to burst into open warfare. Communications Letter to the Editor muit bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ol a Den name or initial for publication is Dermi tible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words Likes Present DA To the Editor: I would like to publish my feelings towards the election this coming year for District Attorney for Jackson county. As chief of the Forest Green Detective agency on vari ous occasions I nave been in contact with our present District Attorney Walter Nunley on crim inal court procedure, and I feel that he is more fair in his work than anyone else that I could name at the present time. If the voters of Jackson county want fair play they should vote for him. I know that he has made enemies throughout the county, but who hasn't, when they are in law enforcement? We have a very good sher iff's department in this county, but with the amount of taxes that we all pay, we can only provide a handful of deputies to work with the sheriff. You all should know by now that a man cannot be in two places at once, but in spite of hardships they have been doing a wonderful job in this community. I feel that if we all vote for Walter Nunley next term he will try to help in making law enforcement stronger for your protection. Do not miss going to the polls as every vote counts to help prevent crime in Jackson coun ty, for the safety of our families, and be sure to think twice when you vote as we have to have the right man in the right job to give us strong law enforce ment. Here is something else for voters of Jackson county to know: Walter Nunley does not go around kissing babies to get his votes. The time that it would take for that he is putting in his office working to.maintain peace in the community. So lets vote the right way. Forest Green Detective Agency, By Ray Koch, Chief, Box 425, Medford, Ore. West Side Route To the Editor: L. M. Bates is quite right in saying the freeway should go in on the west side, to save many miles of highway, many miles for the travelers, and many dollars for the tax payers. I would suggest an intersec tion, or a turn, just as the free way enters the valley floor, which is west of the present in tersection north of Central Point, and from there making as near as possible a bee-line to the proposed intersection at Talent. Entrances to the freeway could be worked out; like ly the one for Medford and Jacksonville at the point where it crosses the Medford-Jackson- ville highway. It would cut through no heavy residential areas or exceptionally expensive property, disrupt far less people, and the money saved in highway construction could be used else where for the good of the people. F. C. Corcoran Route 2, Box 520 Medford, Ore. To Honor Teacher To the Editor:' Will you please help us to reach all ex-students and associates of Mrs. Ina Pur sel? She has taught and been loved by three generations of pupils in the Applegate area. She also taught several years at Table Rock. On May 19 we want as many of her pupils as possible to come to a potluck dinner in her honor at the Ruch school gym. It will begin at 7:30 p.m. and those coming from Medford area can bring cake if they wish, or a salad, other than potato. They will need to bring their own table service. We would like them to bring also any pictures or clippings that she would enjoy in her memory book. For further de tails, phone 30-98574 or 98184. Mrs. E. Ramsay Route 1, Box 45, Jacksonville, ORuch PTA) 30- -2 31 EAST SIXTH ST. ; PORK BEEF PURE SLICED SAUSAGE ROAST LARD BACON In The Day's By FRANK JENKINS Important political news: Senator Walter George of Georgia 78 years old, with 34 years of continuous service in the U.S. senate behind him, one of the ablest, wisest, most pa triotic men in the congress an nounces formally that he will not seek re-election. YVHY is- that important news? There are two reasons: 1. We can ill afford to lose men of Senator George's caliber from the halls of our congress. 2. It seems probable that Sen ator George will be succeeded in the senate by Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge who is just about everything that Senator George isn't. YfORE important political news: In Ohio, Governor Frank Lausche wins the Democratic nomination for U. S. senator. Re publican incumbent Senator George Bender wins the Republi can nomination. Both were unopposed in yes terday's primary election. IVHY is that important away ' ' out here in Oregon? Well, it's like this: Senator Bender is a Republi can. Governor Lausche is a Dem ocrat. He is a very good and a very able Democrat. He is a very POPULAR Democrat. He has been elected FIVE TIMES to the governorship of Ohio. He is so popular. Republicans as well as Democrats respect him that his election isn't at all improbable. SINCE he is a GOOD Democrat, whv uuniilrl that Vio Look at it this way: . Senator Bender is a Republi can. Governor Lausche is a Dem ocrat. On matters of strict party policy such as supporting or op posing the administration Sen ator Bender will vote with the Republicans. Governor Lausche, if he becomes Senator Lausche, will vote with the Democrats. Going on from there It seems altogether probable that President Eisenhower will be reelected. Personal respect and liking for him are great and his policies are popular. But President Eisenhower ALONE can't carry through his policies If his policies are to be carried through to completion, he must have support in the congress. it is conceded by everyone that membership in the next sen ate will be VERY narrowly divided between the Republicans and the Democrats. Hence what happens in Ohio COULD deter mine what will happen to Presi dent Eisenhower's policies. : THAT brings us home to Ore gon. . - It could happen that the next senate will be so narrowly divid Nautilus on View For Hudson Residents Groton, Conn. U.R) The submarine Nautilus, first vehi cle in history to use atom pro pulsion, will shove off tomorrow for New York to let folks along the Hudson get a look at her. Viewers ' on . the Manhattan and New Jersey shores as the big submarine steams (yes "steams" is correct) slowly up and down the river Sunday aft ernoon will see history being made. The Nautilus can't move a foot without setting a record. She's as revolutionary as the Monitor was in naval warfare. For one thing, since she first went to sea on Jan. 17, 1955, she has cruised 30,000 miles 5,000 miles further than the dis tance around the world and she hasn't been refueled yet. Health Convention Draws 200 at Bend Bend (U.R) Some 200 per sons were here today for the Oregon Public Health associa tion convention which opened yesterday noon. Dr. and Mrs. John H. Water man of Portland received the 1956 association award for out standing service at the organi zation's annual banquet last night. Dr. Waterman is director ofthe mental health section anc7 Mrs. Waterman is psychiatric social worker with the State Board of Health. ; j Upper and Lower Canada were reunited as on Dominion Feb. 10, 1840. News ed that Senator Morse, if he is re elected, WILL HOLD THE BAL ANCE OF POWER IN THE SEN ATE. In that event, the Eisenhower policies will be doomed, for it is a reasonable certainty that in every critical vote in the senate Morse's vote will be cast against President Eisenhower. State Rights in Sedition Backed Washington (U.R) Sens. Jo seph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) and Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.) today backed bills to grant states the right to prosecute sedition cases. The Senate Internal Security subcommittee opened hearings on bills by McCarthy, Bridges and others aimed at wiping out a Supreme court decision that only the federal government has authority over sedition. McCarthy's bill would pro vide that no U.S. law would de prive states of the right to en force their own anti-sedition laws. Bridges is sponsor of a similar bill. Other similar meas ures also are pending in the House. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D.-Va.) in a Senate speech yesterday, urged Congress to provide that no federal law on any subject would "preempt" the field from state law unless Congress spe cifically ordered it. Byrd said the court's "pre emption" doctrine should be voided "before the states are re duced to the status of provinces completely under federal law construed only by federal courts, perhaps contrary to the intent of Congress." The Supreme court ruled April 2 that crates do not have the power to prosecute Commu nists and others for conspiring to advocate violent overthrow of the federal government. Harriman Raps Housing Program Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) Gov. Averell Harriman charged today the Eisenhower administration's public housing program served "not to construct but to restrict" critically needed housing. The New York governor loos ed a speech prepared for deliv ery at a lunch of the Middle At lantic Regional Council of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, In conference here. The housing problem is "na tionwide in scope and conceded to be a national responsibility," Harriman said, "yet it is at the federal level that the housing program has faltered." He said that at least two mil lion houses a year are needed "to make a dent in our accumu lated housing shortage." "Yet, in the face of our de teriorating housing standards the national government has re instituted the tight money policy of 1953 to control, among other things, home building," Harri man said. "By increasing interest rates on mortgages, the policy has en larged the group that cannot af ford new housing." An estimated 96 per cent of the people of the U.S. have re ceived some form of dental ex aminations or care. Have You Ever Seen A BANANA TREE With Real Bananasl SEE the Mother Tree of the Ba nana Plant, flourishing on Senator Harris Ellsworth's desk. MAY 13th Potted Plants Tropical Plants for Planters Corsages N Bouquets Also ... Bedding Plants for the Gardening Mother We Give S&H Green Stamps Rogue Valley GREENHOUSE 625 Franquatta Aa. Phono 2-9384
