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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON)) MlDFORIVittlkTBIBUXi "E very body In Souttiro Oregon Read The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by wrnFORD PRINTING CO. 57.29 North Fir St. Phone 2-611 HERB GREY. Adwertiain Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buiueu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mg An moepenaeni acwiyti Entered aa aecond cla matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ol aiarcn a. loai cincr-urPTTn! RATES By MaU In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six montha 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mo. 3.50 Sunday Only One year 3.50. OJ earner - - V . Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. ioia nm. r 1 Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent and on motor route: Daily and Sunday One year 115.00 Dally and Sunday One month las Carrier and Dealer Sc per copy All Term Caili in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion Connty " United Prea Full Leaaed Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU AVST-HbLmAY COMPANY INC. Office in New York. Chicago, De troit San Francisco. Los Angele. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver. BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL TLN NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the; file of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 18. 1946 (It was Saturday) Complete returns from Jack son county precincts gave In cumbent J. B. Coleman the Re publican nomination for county Judge; primary election held Friday. From Arthur "Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: All the sweet girl graduates and just as sweet boy graduates, will get their sheepskins the end of the month. 20 YEARS AGO May 18, 1938 (It was Monday) Staff members of the home economic extension service of Oregon State college to visit Medford. The weekend bivouac held by Medford National Guard units In Applegate area declared a success by officers. 30 YEARS AGO May 18. 1926 (It was Tuesday) Out of the numerous dresses entered in the Mann's depart ment store baby dress contest, Mrs. Joyce Norwood was first prize winner with one dating back to 1876. Dr. R. W. Clancy, local or chardist, named president of Medford's new fruit packing concern, the C and E Fruit Pack ing company. 40 YEARS AGO May 18, 1916 (It was Thursday Little enthusiasm marks prl mary campaign despite efforts to arouse interest. From Local and Personal col umn: Reginald H. Parsons of the Hillcrest orchards, left for Se attle on Thursday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 195S. Editorial Research Repeal 1. The White House walls un der their white paint are of stone, brick, or wood? 2. Only a few, about half, or a great majority of the substi tute teachers in large-city school systems are college graduates? 3. Famous Notre Dame uni versity is in Illinois, Indiana, Mi chigan, Ohio or Wisconsin? 4. The 1956 Democratic na tional convention p e r m a nent chairman will be Senate leader Lyndon Johnson, Speaker Ray burn, Harry S. Truman or for mer Vice President Garner? . 5. A cretin is a curtain mater ial, native of Crete, top of a vol cano, congenital idiot, or method of shipment? 6. Germans drink more beer per capita than any other peo ple; right or wrong? 7. Which one of these U. S. Senators had both legs amputa ted as the result of a war wound: Douglas (111 ), Symington (Mo.), Eastland (Miss.), Potter (Mich.), Kennedy (Mass.)? The answers: 1. Stone. 2. A great majority. 3. Indiana. 4. Speaker Rayburn. 5. Congen ital tdot. 6. Wrong. 7. Senator Potter. MAIL TRIBUNE Vote This is election day. Tt ia t.n hp linnprl n mninntv nf trip rponsfprprl vnfprs r . ---j cast their ballots early, and you naven t yet voted, do a. n at o p.m. CAMPAIGNING and electioneering are, quite prop- erly, banned on election day. But it is both per missible and desirable to suggest that there are a num ber of highly important Democratic, Republican If the individual voter does not assume the respon sibility of voting, the next man's vote becomes doubly important. E. A. 27 Years Twenty-seven years is service of a demanding and sometimes cantankerous public. That is the record marked up by Frank Farrell this week, when his retirement as Medford city attor ney was announced. It is a his equanimity and staying ies from the tedious clerkly chores of preparing long and minor ordinances to the verbal shot and shell of political skirmishes. CRANK'S enemies (and he has them any man who is a man has enemies) will tell you he's been too slow, has tried too hard to reluctant about providing services for the city. Frank's friends (and he has them, too) will tell you that he has taken the time to consider problems from every angle which could affect the city; that he has saved the city thousands upon thousands of dol lars, in court action costs, and that his sage advice, trie product of years of experience, has been of .immense value to the voters and taxpayers or Meoiora. e e X7E COUNT ourself among Frank Farrell's friends. Disagreements of-the icies, procedures, opinions when measured against his more than a quarter-cen-tury of loyal service to Medford. Frank's reputation, built throughout the state, ac knowledges him to be one of Oregon's outstanding city attorneys, an early mover in the League of Ore- " . . . . m t j i gon Cities which has done so much ior emcieni muni cipal government, and a man of upright integrity and unassailable honesty. "We feel we can speak tip our hats and say Good "New Wonders The Air Commerce Act 30 years ago Sunday. One of the most fascinating bits of reading we've run across in a long time is Aeronautics Administration CAA says it "is setting its wonders to come in 1965. THE ADMINISTRATOR J Qof-iviATnTifY Villain occ headed approach is to let your imagination run wild, Otherwise, you'll soon find you are thinking in obso lete terms." Among other things, the CAA looks for the fur ther development of planes up (such as helicopters or other vertical take-off types, including convertiplanes); those which need only a short run to get into the air; planes designed to take advantage of the jet-stream winds four miles in the sky, and, as likely as not, others not yet dreamed of- . . QREAT CHANGES in traffic control will have come about at the end of the next ten years. Radar will come into increasing use. (A radar in stallation for Medford is in the long range plans of the CAA, incidentally.) An extension of the use of radar, known as the radar beacon, will be added to the nation's skyways. One pilot has described this as a means of "printing my name on the radar scope." Automatic data link is another component of the changes foreseen. This is an automatic system for keeping tabs on position, speed and altitude of planes in the air, relaying this to ground stations,, and then feeding it back to pilots, along with traffic control in structions. A LL THESE electronic devices, used to keep planes " from crashing into the ground or each other, would be almost beyond human capability to control and use efficiently if it were not for the fourth com ponent of the new systems computers. These mechanical brains, which can do compli cated mathematical formulae in a fraction of the time it takes humans, will be used to correlate data, keep track of it, and issue instructions, all within seconds. - THESE devices are made necessary by two things. The- first is the ramdlv-mrmritiricr vnlnmo nf air traffic. CAA rroiections from about 9 million hours 1312 million in 1965. The second is the raniri planes, which is putting jets in the over-1,000 miles per hour class into the same air as 100 miles per hour i 1 j. 11 neucopters ana puaaie jumpers. A larrre air-snare is nnw rpnnirpd fnr tfco factor planes. It is believed, with uie amount 01 air space can be reduced, thus permit ting more planes to use the air Baf ely. E. A. Friday. May 18, 1938 j o this is a reminder that if so quicKiy. rne polls close races to be decided on the and non-partisan ballots. a long time to spend in the remarkable testimony to - power m a job which var avoid litigation, has been snappy and effective legal past over methods, pol fade into insignificance i for the city, Frank, as we Luck, and Thanks. E. A. was passed by congress a news release by the Civil to mark the event. . lhe planning sights on new of the CAA says, "In this T10 nr.1v roa nctif niirn. which can take off straight indirntp tlmt tfcia -anil on flown in 1954 to about , . diversif ipatinn in tvnpa nf the use of the new devices, Russian Manpower Reduction Offer Falls Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: -The Good 1. Soviet Russia's latest move in its sweetness and light cam paign fell flat. The Kremlin an nounced it would reduce its armed forces by 1,200,000 men. Allied leaders recognized it at once as an obvious attempt to weaken their defense coopera tion. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said that by put ting the demobilized men into industry and agriculture the So viet government might increase its war-making power, not re duce it. Gen. Alfred M. Gruen- ther, Allied supreme command er in Europe, said that the promised reduction would not lessen the might of the Commu nist bloc because of the develop ment of nuclear weapons and other new instruments of de struction. French Premier Guy Mollet, arriving in Moscow for a state visit, announced firmly as soon as he stepped from his plane that France will remain faithful to its alliances. 2. President Sukarno of Indo nesia, a leading "neutralist," made a good impression on his arrival in Washington to visit President Eisenhower. No im portant agreements were ex pected. But the hope in Washing ton was that Sukarno's suspicion of the "imperialist" West might be softened. 3. Independence negotiations in London between Britain and delegates from its crown colony of Singapore were saved tem porarily at least from collapse. The negotiations broke down because of Britain's insistence of keeping control of internal security.' The conference was formally ended. Later, David Marshall, Singapore's chief min ister, announced that he wanted to resume the talks and make new proposals. The Bad 1. Communist China scored two important- successes. Great Britain announced that it - in tended to relax some of its re strictions on the shipment of strategic goods to the Reds. These restrictions had been im posed by the Allies because of the Peiping government's ag gressive policies. Prime Minis ter Anthony Eden had tried vainly for months to get the United States to agree to a re laxation. Because of Britain's desperate need of foreign trade, Babson Sees Good 'Future For Well-Managed Rails By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, " Mass. Rail roads are still considered as a rather undesirable stepchild in this country. Abused, brow- beaten, dis c r im i n a t- e d against they seem to be on the re ceiving end of whatever ill fortune can be thrown their Rocer w. Babion way. Does this mean that railroads will ulti mately disappear from the Am erican scene? Despite-the heavy taxation of the rails to finance highways for competing truck and bus lines; despite the ' failure time and again to increase fares and freight rates so that the roads' expanding operating expenses could be covered; despite union restrictions which encourage make work" jobs, the rails have managed to survive. No longer a transportation mon opoly, its roadbeds are paral leled by fast-moving busses and autos. Huge trucks race beside freight cars, mile after mile. In the air, passengers and freight move over tremendous distances at five times the best rail speed. But two world wars showed the necessity for a strong rail network. In World War" I, the government found it necessary to take over the job of placing the rail system in a sound condi tion. By World War II, manage ments had completed several years of building up the physical property of the rails. They were in a good position, .to handle the sudden sharp expansion in pas senger and freight traffic which followed our entry into the war. Cost-Cutting Progress Young blood is currently lack ing in most rail managements. In several cases, however, virile managements have succeeded in cutting costs, through mechani zation and automatic controls. New diesels, piggy back freight cars, use of electronics in freight classification yards and signal ing equipment have helped earn ings. Efforts are now being made to put new life into the passen ger business by developing ultra-modern high-speed trains. I forecast, however, that these ef forts will fail to recapture more than a relatively small percent age of the business lost to other forms of transportation. In the matter of finances, also, aggressive managements have succeeded in cutting down un W wieldy bigh-intereit bond capi Flat, Writer Says Eden decided to go ahead on his own. The second success was the recognition of Red China by the Egyptian government, leader of the Arab nations in the Pales tine dispute. It was reported that other Arab countries might fol low Egypt's lead. 8. The pro-Greek revolt in Cyprus continued unabated. An ger in Greece, which . wants Britain to give up the island, blazed after the hanging of two Greek Cypriots convicted as as sassins. The British ambassador in Athens was warned, because of the possibility of "personal danger," to stay away from a 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 ell letters with a view to clarification and condensation, not exceed 400 words. Stay As We Are ' To the Editor: We would like to know just who are these busi ness men that prefer the free way on Genessee st. It's hard to believe that any group of them would try . to run through the city. In the first place they couldn't stop to spend that nickel at our business houses unless they left the freeway at one end or the other of town. Again if it's so important, why not send it down Seventh st.? Maybe they could arrange some sort of stand so we could grab travelers as they passed through. We're all here and have been for years, like our homes and neighbors. Were not trying to shove the free way on others, and just why have you the right to put it on us? Surely there's a way around the city. That hill road they say would affect the hospital. That road is over a mile from the hos pital site. If it's as noisy at that distance, what will it do to those of us left here? We will not only lose our neighbors but the value of our homes will be af fected, so we cannot sell and get as good as we have. We can't map out the road but there's surely enough land avail able on one side or the other of Medford. The city could be by passed. Please let us all stay as we are. Mrs. John Soliss 111 Genessee st. Medford, Ore. talizations. Corporate reorgani zations, reduced inventories, and the dropping of small, money losing branch lines also have boosted income. Finally, the ICC has lifted . the rails out of the poor stepchild class by authoriz ing more reasonable rate in creases during the past few years. Bails Sound The "bread-and-butter" activ ity of the rails continues to be in the heavy-commodity type freight. Efforts to promote pas senger and ether income with gadgets and door-prize promo tions will not prove permanent ly profitable. Those roads which stick to doing what they can do best, and with the greatest prof it, will win out in the long run. Management success will best be demonstrated by how well it controls total labor and material costs. The faster growth of the South ern area of the United States has been the principal factor in the impressive gain shown by the roads operating in that region. There is, nothing in sight to indi cate an end to this superior growth factor. The Eastern "gravity" coal roads also have an impressive year. I forecast that in the light of world conditions, the outstand ing rail group will be the trans continental roads, especiaUy those with major operations in the South, Southwest, West, and Northwest. Their freight traffic is heavy and weU diversified. Their finances are strong, their prior liens weU protected. Management, in most cases, is improving. I forecast that some transcontinental rails, especially those with substantial holdings of land, mineral rights, and se curities, will prove to be sound investments. They are in a posi tion to benefit from any sharp expansion in business activity. At the same time, good manage ment should enable them to ride out any temporary interruption in the longer-term ' growth trends. Dr. Ralph S. Anderson CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Has Opened Offices At 100 MADISON PLACE - Between Queen Ann and Jackson Street BY APPOINTMENT ONIYI PHONE 2-5997 reception for visiting West Ger man President Theodor Heuss. 3. French troops fought full scale battles with Arab rebels in Algeria. Bitterness intensified not only between the French and the rebels, but between the reb els and the Jewish population. French civilians killed six Arabs in Algiers. Fifteen Jews . were wounded by a bomb thrown into a cafe. There was.no indication that a basis might be found for negotiations by which France might grant home rule to Alge ria and end the rebellion which is draining men and money from it. Letters submitted for publication must Freeway Objections To the Editor: How many Med ford -citizens know that the free way, as planned through the city limits, will be 150 feet wide at base with retaining walls on each side of the fill, nearly 20 feet high? It must be high en ough to allow an underpass at East Main and Jackson sts. We need more open cross streets, certainly no more bar riers. It will not only be ugly it could be dangerous.' Monoxide seeks the lowest level and it would descend to the people who would be forced to stay near the freeway because they could not sell their homes for enough to buy elsewhere. I hope we have not become so money, mad that pears are more valuable than happy homes. Mrs. Martha E. Gregory Mrs. Verda Atwell 118 Genessee st." . Medford, Ore, -. Freeway Proposal ' To the Editor: In regard to the proposals for the new free way, may I suggest a ramp near where Central ave. South joins Riverside, then an elevated road way without parking for two way traffic from said ramp to another ramp north of the Big-Y store. This should take care of forseeable . traffic for many years to come and would not de stroy any real estate values. A concrete dividing strip in the center between opposing lanes, two to three ieet high and full length of . said elevated road way, no access roads to enter or leave except at intersection of Crater Lake highway. Also no pedestrian traffic of any kind to be permitted; one-way traffic on lower level as is, and two-way Ihrough traffic on upper level. It seems these engineers hatch up a scheme every now and then that has no regard for where the money is coming from. My plan would, I'll . grant, cost a large sum of money but there are very definite advantages, particular ly lower cost. ' . Now for another proposal. I understand there are plans for doing some road building from Butte Falls to Klamath Falls via Fish lake,' Lake Creek-Eagle Point highway. The existing road is very rough and part of it is quite steep. I suggest a new route for part of the way up what is known locally as Juniper Ridge, where an existing logging road follows an old logging rail road grade. This would make for a longer but not quite so steep grade. Forest service and coun ty engineers please take notice. Floyd R. McCabe Mt. Pitt Star rt., Butte Falls, Ore. Candidates Night To the Editor: The Medford League of Women Voters wishes to express its sincere apprecia tion for your very fine coopera tion in publicizing the decent 'Meet Your Candidates" night at Hedrick Junior High school. Many people learned of this event through your paper and we feel that the large audience present that night was due to the publicity prior to the event. The attendant news coverage of the event was especially fine and we want you to know that we appreciate what you have done, that we thank you for the work entailed, and that through your coperation "Meet Your Candidates Night" was very suc cesssful. . . , Laura N. York Corresponding Secretary. 517 West 10th st., Medford, Ore. . Danville, IU. (U.PJ Thieves who stole a piggy bank contain ing some personal papers from the Kenneth Hinton home re turned the papers Thursday but kept the piggy bank. Matter of THE RACE Arbil, Iraq Here in this strange land of Iraq, history al ready made is almost oppresive- F"-11" 1 1,1 i ly prominent. This city of Arbil, for in stance, is none other than Ar bela of the his tory books. Near here Alexander the Great inflicted final defeat on .useph Aisup uanus, great King of the Persians, who fled hence alone into the wilds of Khorassan and there was mur dered. But Arbil was already old when its people saw the Mace donian phalanx, for this is quite probably the most ancient in habited place in the world. Throughout its span of countless centuries the little city has liter ally built itself up, out of the surrounding plain, on its own ruins. And the "modern" city walls (only a couple of hundre l years old) spring from the dizzy verge of a man-made mesa a hundred feet in height. History has a trying way, however, of never coming to a halt. And here in this remote province of Northern Iraq, where the great King's golden-armored guard broke and fled before Alexander's spearmen, another battle is now being fought in the eternal struggle between Evt and West. Or perhaps it is more correct to say that a race is being run here, between the destruc tive effects of social change in this ancient land, and the con structive effort of the new Iraq's boldly conceived, oil financed development program. THE race is of vast importance, for- Iraq, with its Western orientation, is the chief protec tion of the vital oil sources on which Britain, Europe and the Western Alliance squarely de pend. If Iraq changes sides, the whole Western position in the Persian Gulf and even in Arabia will soon become untenable. It is the development program that his counted on to keep Iraq on a steady course. Here, if you like, is history in the making, in the most dramatic form. For the aim of the' devel opment program si nothing less than to undo the damage done by the heirs of Genghis Khan, who found what is now Iraq a rich, well-irrigated land sup porting a population of 25,000, 000, and so ravaged the irriga tion system with their batUes that four-fifths of the people died of hunger. The very canals that may first have been traced out in the time of Hammurabi, the lawgiver of old Babylon, and were destroyed by Hulagu Khan or Timur the Lame, are now to be brought into use again. 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But irri gation is only one part of the de velopment program which is showing its effects in many ways hereabouts The province has an energetic governor, Ishmael Hakki. All the flaUand below the mesa, where modern Arbil is spUling out onto the plain, is dotted with 'Governor Hakki'a construction projects. In one place, a new 300 bed hospital is slowly rising. In another is the headquarters of the German refugee doctor, whose mobile clinic is the first of three motor ized health units to serve the more remote villages. Several schools have already been fin ished. Two more are under con struction. There is even a little park, where the suburban citi zens take the air and schoolboy! study their books. All these are signs of change in a way of life that has hardly changed since the time of Timur the Lame. But there are other signs of change, too, of a very different nature. The old system here is essen tially feudal so feudal that one of the provincial grandees used to murmur the warning, "I have 10,000 rifles," whenever the gov ernment in Baghdad seemed to disregard his wishes. But there was something very like a peas ant uprising in Arbil province two years ago; and when this happened the grandee had to plead with the government for protection against those very rifles he once used as a threat. , COMMUNIST organizers, in spired by the Tudeh party in the Iran, were in many of the villages then. There was a move ment to take the land from the rich Agas who live in Arbil City, here was even one deputy in parliament from Arbil prov ince with known Communist .leanings. By a great deal of persuasion and some pretty sharp pressure, Governor Hakki set the province in order again. All is outwardly peaceful now. All the same, beneath the sur face, the pressures and the ten sions still exist. The peasants still want the land the Agas own. 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