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rOTO MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Xverybody tn Southern Oregon Read! Tha Mail Tribun" Published Daily Except Saturday by 17-39 North Fir St. phone 2-8141 DnnrDT w nTTWT. 7S(tnr GERALD LATHAM. Business Maoagar BARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor KltnAJtu jWtu spurts mihw OLIVE ST ARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper' Entered aa second class matter at Mediord. Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUH SCRIPT I ON- RATES H Mail Tn Advance: Per CoDT 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 6-50 Dallv and Sunday Three mm. S.30 Sunday Only One year S3 JO. nv rrri in Advance Medford, Aihland, Central Point, Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove, Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year 113.00 Dallv and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealers Se per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford ornciai raper pi kikb United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION AUVri USUI ncyi c w ..... . WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. rvfirsa in New YorKL cnicago, De troit, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis, Atlanta, Vancouver. BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL Iassochtlqn 7 J NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the tiles of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. SO and t0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May 25, 1946 (It was Saturday) A street parade and servicer In city park will highlight Me morial day observance in Med ford, Col. W. H. Paine, in charge of arrangements, has announced. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: E. Kubli and Leon Offenbacher, Apple gate farmers, cowmen and men up and down the road towned Thursday. 20 YEARS AGO May 25, 1936 (It was Monday) The season's first limit catch of salmon at Casey's camp-on the upper Rogue was reported today by George M. Bower, Santa Barbara, Calif., sports man. A change In the United Air Lines schedule, effective June 1, announced by Frank DeSouza, postmaster. 30 YEARS AGO May 25, 1926 (It was Tu2sday) Medford Realty board reor ganized at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce building. At Monday night's meeting of the Medford American Legion Post, Commander John Enders of Ashland post was guest. 40 YEARS AGO Mar 25, 1918 (It was Thursday) A. R. Enyatt, who is drilling for artesian water on Frank G. Owens' residence property, has had success. The official vote of Medford gives Hughes 416, Cummins 375, and Burton 84. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Which two Cabinet mem bers didn't go to college: Secre tary of Defense Wilson, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, Postmas ter Gen. Summerfield, Labor Secretary Mitchell, Attorney Gen. Brownell, Agriculture Sec retary Benson? 2. Venereal disease Infects (a) 2,000, (b) 20,000, (c) 200,000, or (d) 2.000,000 teen-agers a year in the United States? 3. Johann Strauss composed about (a) 14, (b) 40, or (c) 400 waltzes in addition to "The Blue Danube"? 4. Rulers of which two Middle East countries are cousins: (a) Egypt and Syria, (b) Iraq and Jordan, (c) Lebanon and Yemen, or (d) Iran and Iraq? 5. The mockingbird is the offi cial state bird of Arkansas, Flor ida, Mississippi, Tennessee, or Texas? 6. A woman will run for Vice President of the United States in the November 1956 election; right or wrong? 7. Manfred B. Lee and Fred eric Dannay are joint authors of what series of detective stories? las afwvi; a F uiuuiu ib Gen. Summerfield, Secretary of Labor Mitchell. 2. 200,000 a year, according io Dr. E. Gurney Clark of Columbia university. 3. About 400 waltxes. 4. King Faisal of Iraq and King Hussein of Jordan. 5. Official bird of all five states. 6. Right (Socialist Labor party has nominated Mrs. Georgia Cozzini of Milwaukee). 7. Ellery Queen stories. 1 - - MAIL TRIBUNE Salt A gentleman whose name we failed to catch drop ped into the office a few election with a question : ing down some of the mud which go with a political campaign? It's a good question, but one without a ready an swer. It's a free country, after all, and the limits o: propriety have long been point during our biennial TF IT IS any consolation, A ent standards of political conduct are somewha higher than they have been last century, calling one s and a no-good was considered not only the thing to do, but a candidate who did not engage m such name calling was considered to be passing up a golden op-portunity. It is somewhat better usually wrapped in the toga ed as a deplorable necessity. The technique these days is more in the line of lifting things from context, put ting the worst possible interpretations upon them, and making unsaid implications. Yet, in the face of these techniques, it is a staunch candidate indeed who can keep his head and his tem per. X7E QUESTION the efficacy of even these toned- T down attempts at name-blackening. The Oregon Journal, same problem, recently declared : We have had many evidences that the American people like fair play and resent mud-slinging. They have shown this sometimes even when the victim of attack really is un worthy .... We are now heading into a fall campaign which prom ises more than its share of bitter attack and counter-attack. Some people profess to enjoy this sort of thing, but we1 fail to see how people who think with their minds instead of their emotions can really enjoy it. WERE asked another question during the re- cent campaign, to the effect that the questioner didn t see how newspaper right in the middle of things, could appear so calm and unaffected by what goes on. "We are no more immune to righteous indignation than the next individual. But we attempt to look at things m a perspective which takes into account the historic character of American political campaigns, the personalities of the individuals, the fact that per sonal assault is becoming the calming assurance that, We find that taking all helps prevent a later necessity for aspirin. E. A. The Role of Sports We have the perhaps naive view that athletics in colleges should be amateur, rather than professional or quasi-professional. It seems to us that the gram at schools of higher learning or at secondary schools, for that matter is in an over-all program of well-rounded personal development. The exciting spectator sports football, are fine for those individuals who enjoy them and get something from them. But we long have had a given over-inflated values brand of alumni boosters. "THE RECENT action of A ence in lowering the boom on UCLA and Wash ington depriving them of tain future contests, (and of from) only tends to confirm this opinion. The violation of PCC increasing concern over a period of years, and the coaches and university officials who condoned the practice have nothing of which to be proud. Rumors of professionalism in college athletics have given rise to cvnicism and disgust. It is for this reason that the harsh action of the PCC, and the assumption they ,were acting on the basis of fact, appear justified. "THERE IS a possibility that the unpleasant business will not stop here, for other schools are under sus picion of comparable activities. It would be to the ulti mate welfare of the schools to get the thing into the open and thoroughly cleaned up. If, as a result, the importance of spectator athletics is somewhat lessened, it may be a blow to the"Siwash" boosters,' but it won't hurt our feelings nor those of the educators jvho have been at a loss how to counter professionalism in sports, and who have felt that it has detracted from the integrity of their schools. OERHAPS other aspects of the athletic programs can receive, as an allied result, a heightened im portance which we think they deserve. Some skill and training in such sports as tennis, golf, swimming, mountain climbing, skiing, handball, etc., etc. these will be of value and profit for many years to come. True, they won't pay for university sports palaces or coliseums from gate receipts. They might even take a bigger slice of academic budgets if the income from from spectator sports drops off. But they do have a role to play in the development of an individual as a balanced and rounded person ality. E. A. Jayne Mansfield Wins Chiropractic Award New York (U.R) Blonde ac tress Jayne Mansfield was award ed a scroll and citation today in recognition of "her vertebral pulchritude and other physical charms." A committee of chiropractors Friday, Mar 25, 195S Helps days before the primary How can we go about slow - slinging and name-calling stretched to the snapping contests for public office. we can reflect that the pres- in times past. During the political opponent a chea' today. The name-calling is of civic virtue and excus- in ruminating about the people, who are perforce less and less successful, and this too will pass. politics with a grain of salt true value of a sports pro baseball and basketball- feeling that they have been by the "good-old-Siwash" - e the Pacific Coast confer- eligibility to play m cer course the receipts there rules has been a matter of making the award announced "While Miss Mansfield unques tionably has pronounced phy sical charms in addition to her spinal appeal, we are interested solely in her vertebral align ment ..." I Week's Good, Bad News Listed; H-Bomb Drop Success Br CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. The United States dropped an H-bomb from a B52 intercon tinental bomber plane over lit tle Namu island in the western Pacific. The test was completely successful. It teamed the terri ble destructive power of the H bomb to the w o r 1 d's fastest giant bomber. Thus there was added to the American arsenal a new weapon which could de stroy any city, anywhere in the world, in answer to an attack Who Are Best Graduates? Babson Speculates on Tests By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass The practice now followed by the personnel departments of large corporations to secure the best graduates from high schools and colleges is ab- solutely wrong. They interview those gradu ates whose Boger W. Babson marks place them among the highest 10 or 20 per cent of their class. This custom may disrupt the entire class and spoil some of the grad uates. When a graduate, or any one else, gets the idea he is "in dispensable," it is a dangerous situation. . The marks which one receives in high school or college are largely due to memory. These marks are no index of industry, loyalty, or even common sense Educators preparing examina tions try to devise questions which determine "judgment," but the students learn the ques tions and answers in advance. This even results in judgment tests being determined largely by memory. Memory is very im portant; but it does not take the place of judgment, loyalty, integ rity, or the fundamentals which make and break corporations. $64,000 Questions Educators are greatly disturb ed over the fabulous question tests which the radio and televis ion chains are operating. To have a horse jockey become the leader for data on art; or to have a cob bler secure such a reputation for his knowledge of opera; or to hear of others of these "mirac les," is very disturbing. Yet, they get far better results from these jockeys and cobblers than from many professors or ex perts on the subject. I forecast that these results will complete ly revolutionize educational me thods, standards, and tests. Eith er the nation is missing the in tellectual capacity of thousands of unknown and humble people, or else the professors and ex perts are standing on very thin ice. Quiz Kids? Educational leaders are giving the "Quiz Kids" much thought and worry. The 10-year-old boy who answered questions on the stock market naturally interest ed me greatly, since I have given my entire life to stock market problems. The answers given by this kid could not be matched by any member of the New York Stock exchange. But how much will it amount to? My organiza tion wiU spend considerable time and money watching this 10-year-old hoy. All I can say now is that I once employed the man who had been the youngest to graduate from Harvard college, up to that time. He could perform wonder ful feats in mathematics. I felt he would be a great aid for Bab son's Reports. We, however, could not keep him at work on the things for which he was best fitted. He had a hobby of collect ing street car transfers. I have in my library a book which he wrote on the subject. Finally, he refused to do anything but run a lawn mower. Yet he received very high marks in college. Newsboys Are Worthy If I were an employment man ager, I would make a study of newsboys. A successful newsboy must have a fair memory. He must have courage, initiative, honesty, and industry. I have a friend, Harry B. Taplin of Wel lesley, Mass., who is making 231 MUTTON ROAST 191b. on the United States. It was re ported that in further tests, next month, the United States might set off another new weapon possibly an H-bomb warhead at tached to a pilotless missile. 2. President Eisenhower had some comforting words for Americans who fear that the free world is losing ground to the Communists in the cold war. He said that troublesome new problems were rising in West East competition, economic as well as military. Things are far from perfect, he said in a Wash ington press conference. But, he held: "I think there is too much pessimism . . . we are making study of newsboys. Certain qualities must be possessed . by all boys (and girls) who deliver newspapers to homes. I especial ly, however, have in mind those boys who hold the busy locations on downtown street corners of our big cities. I have never made a study of these boys, but my hunch is that they often become very successful in business, if given an opportunity. I wish ev ery newspaper in which this col umn is published would make a study of its newsboys. It is useless to discuss the great problem of education in a column such as this. I, however, wish to leave with readers two thoughts: (1) That there is something fundamentally wrong with our present educational system of marking and promoting. These radio and, television exhibits should make many college pro fessors and trustees shame-faced. (2) If you have a boy or girl of good character and habits who graduates in the lowest 20 per cent of his or her class, don't be discouraged. The chances of such graduates may be just as good as if graduating at the head of their high school or college classes. Communications Lctten to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis lible. 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 Very Grateful To the Editor During the re cent primary election campaign I was not able personally to get around the county as much as I would have liked because of the amount of work we had in the office. For that reason I feel that I am very much indebted to all those friends who gave so generously of their time and energies to help me and to fur ther the interests of law enforce ment in our county. I would particularly like to express my appreciation to all the members of my "committee," to the members of my own staff in the district attorney's office, to the officers and employees of the various county offices, and to the law enforcement agencies, for their loyalty and friendship during the campaign, which mean so much to me per sonally. Lastly, the support of this paper and the Ashland Daily Tidings, and the approval of the people of the policies which I have adopted, and the effort which I have made as district attorney towards consistant and effective law enforcement, makes me feel a little humble and very grateful. Walter D. Nunley District Attorney for Jackson County Appreciation To the Editor: The Blue Star Mothers, Chapter. No. 2, Med ford, wish to express their grat itude to the public for" their gen erous response to the sale of blue daisies" on the streets of Medford, May .18 and 19. We also wish to thank the city officials and merchants of Med ford for their cooperation, when the state convention of the Blue Star Mothers was held here in April. They especially wish to thank the Medford Mail Tribune for the publicity given both events. Mrs. Fred Middlebusher Blue Star Mothers Chapter No. 2 Medford, Ore. EAST PORK LIVER SIXTH ST. PORK SAUSAGE 196. Lb. is Hailed progres, although it is slow and tortuous and, at times, disap pointing." 3. The visit of President Su karno of Indonesia, a leading Asian "neutralist," to the United States promised to bring good results. In his speeches, Sukarno criticized the American military aid program. But he also had many friendly things to say. He showed a warm, appealing per sonality which won him friends. There seemed reason to hope that he would return home with a more favorable view of Amer ican policy. The Bad 1. The increasing friendliness of President-Premier Gamal Ab del Nasser of Egypt to the Com munists caused serious misgiv ings in Washington. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ex pressed regret at Nasser's recog nition of Communist China. President Eisenhower, at his press conference, said that he thought Nasser was making a mistake. Nasser, the next day, announced that he had accepted an invitation to visit Chinese Red Premier Chou En-lai. It was announced also that Nasser would send a military mission to Peiping, the Red capital, led by his defense minister. 2. France seemed heading to ward another of its many cabi net crises. Pierre Mendes France, co-leader of the govern ment coalition, resigned from his post as vice-premier because of disagreements with Premier Guy Mollet over Algerian and other issues. Mollet announced that he would demand a vote of confidence in a debate next week on North African policy. He was expected to win it. But his shaky government appeared to be getting steadily weaker. 3. The Cyprus situation got in creasingly explosive. In London, special guards were given cabi net ministers and the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth, in fear of assassina tion attempts by Greek Cypriots enraged by the murder of a Turkish policeman in Cyrpus, stoned Greek shops. British troops intervened to prevent new outbreaks. The Cypriot ex tremists called out school chil dren, including girls six years old, to insult and stone British soldiers. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Big "news" in the papers. This paragraph will explain it: As a plain tourist. Harry Tru man is seeing Europe. In Italy the other day, he looked over the Salerno beachhead. He re marked that the bloody battles there and at Anzio during World War n were in his crisp phrase "totally unnecessary and planned by some squirrel-head ed general." OY! Did that start something! Tn nrapHpallw rn fimo nt nil the wires and the air waves all over the world were spitting and crackling like the fur on a cat's back when you stroke it during a thunderstorm. The static was particularly violent in England, for it was a British general and a British field marshal who planned and executed the bloody Anzio land ing, and it was a distinguished British prime minister who urg ed this thrust at the "vulnerable underbelly of the Axis" which, you wiU probably remember, didn't turn out too well. The British general who com manded the British Eighth army during the operation sputtered: "-The man (meaning Truman) is talking absolute nonsense." 'TlHE ensuing ruckus shook Harry considerably as sim lar ruckuses have shaken many a man who spoke his mind too freely and regretted it when his words got into print. He prompt ly said he DIDN'T SAY IT as many another man has done when his spoken words turned out to be none too wise. ' The' correspondent who quot ed him says he DID say it that he wrote down the words as the ex-President was speaking and that his memory and his notes agree. JID he say it? wouldn't know. But it cer tainly sounds like him. Also It may be true. The Anzio SLICED BACON 3 5 Lb. J Calculating Candidate Campaign Costs, Hard, But They Come High Washington (CQ) Cal culating the cost of the Presi dential primary campaigns of Adlai E. - Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) is dif ficult if not impossible. In addition, potential nomi nees like Sen. Lyndon B. John son (D-Texas) and Gov. Averell Harriman (D-N.Y.) are spending little, if any, of other people's money and toting up the cost of their activities is impossible, un less they take the unlikely course of disclosing the figures. ' Democrats acquainted with the problem of financing an ac tive campaign estimated the cost of one day's operation at a mini mum of $500. Included are mini mum figures for cost factors like rent ($20); personnel salaries ($285); transportation ($75); liv ing expenses ($30); telephones ($40), and miscellaneous things such as mailing, lighting and heating $50). These averages do not include other costs such as advertisements and radio and television broadcasts. Disclosure Not Required The main reason the Demo cratic candidates do not discuss the amount of money raised and spent in their behalf is simple: There's no law requiring dis closure. In addition, as Kefauver pointed out Jan. 12: "It's noj the practice to do it." Nathan Minow, a member of Stevenson's law firm, May 10 told Congressional Quarterly there would be no disclosure be cause "for one group to do so and have another group keep their figures unpublished would cause embarrassement of those who had contributed to the group which publicized their figures." Col. William A. Roberts May 8 said the national campaign headquarters for Kefauver so far had collected and spent about $125,000. He estimated an addi tional $200,000 would be needed to keep the Kefauver organiza tion operating until the Aug. 13 Democratic convention. Minow said the Stevenson forces mailed out 60,000 pieces of literature in January to per sons who had written Stevenson since he was a Presdiential candidate in 1952. . From this, Minow said, came 12,000 re sponses. He said 90 per cent of landing was no shining military success, as every GI who was there will testify. T THINK I know just how Har- x ry came to do what he did. As a boy,, he grew up in the rich bottom lands of the Mis souri river, where the paper hor nets flourish. These hornets, which' pack a powerful wallop, build oval paper nests; which they hang to the boughs of the trees. No Missouri bottom boy who ever lived could resist the temptation to heave a rock at these nests. And practically no boy who ever followed his impulses and heaved a rock at a paper hor net's nest came off without get ting badly stung and wishing after it was all over that he hadn't done it. And then throw ing another rock at the next one he saw hanging on a tree. . I'll bet Harry heaved a rock at every paper hornet's nest he ever saw. HE'S like that And Somehow One can't help feeling a sneak ing liking for the cocky little rascal when he cuts loose one of his characteristic verbal hay makers. One just naturally ad mires outspoken people except when they speak out with some biting crack that ruffles ONE'S OWN dignity. That is a different matter. " ANYWAY, I'll bet that Harry wishes now he hadn't said it just as every time when he was rubbing turpentine on the painful stings of the paper hor nets he wished he hadn't thrown a rock at the nest. WAINSCOTT'S Main at Riverside m these contributions were under $10; the total raised from this first mailing was $82,000. Since then, Minow said, there has been no disclosure of the contri butions received by Stevenson. Loosely Knit The campaigns conducted by Harriman and Johnson have not necessitated the raising of large amounts of money. Their organi zations are loosely knit groups of personal friends or political allies whose activities are paid for by the candidate himself or do not require expenditures of money. The figures made public rep resent only part of the cost They do not include money raised in the states where candidates have campaigned or been entered In the primaries. The money raised in a state and spent there usual ly is not carried on the books of the national campaign commit tee. Handling the money and other activities of the candidates in 1956 is a corps of experienced, "old pro" politicians. For in stance, Kefauver's principal ad visers include J. Howard Mc Grath, former Democratic na-i tional chairman, and F. Joseph (Jiggs) Donahue, onetime head of the District of Columbia board of commissioners. Stevenson's principal advisers include veteran Pennsylvania political leader James A. Finne gan; former Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter and former Assistant D e f e nse Secretary Anna Rosenberg. DeSapio In Charge Harriman's strategy is being guided by New York National committe member Carmine De Sapio, a veteran of his state's political activities, and George Backer, a wealthy New Yorker and former N.Y. Post publisher who has long been regarded as Harriman's political deputy chief of staff. Johnson, In his recent rout of Texas Gov. 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