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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MZDFORD&TRIBUrTS "X very body to Southern Oregon Keade me Mau j.-npune Published DaUy Except Saturday by MtDrORD PttlfcTING CO. ST-aa .North Fir St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB CKCY. Adveruiinf Manager C ?:H A1.D LATHAM. Busineas Manager ZRIC ALLEN J. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor BARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa aecond class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ol March 1. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy loe. Dally and Sunday On year 112.00 Dally and Sunday Si month 6.30 Dally and Sunday Three moe. 1.30 Sunday Only One year $3.30. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aahland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jackaonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routee: Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.23 Carrier and Dealen Sc per copy All Terma Caili In Advance Olfldal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackion County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT EUREAU Or CIHCULAIIU. Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANT INC. Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL J ASOCTLN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS USOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filei of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 22. 1946 . (It was Saturday) Gold Hill infant and pre-school clinic to be held at Grange hall at Gold Hill June 24. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Louis Conn heavy title fight was a tame affair. Better open-air bat tles have been staged many times at Jackson county country danc es on Saturday nights with the winner walking Nellie home. 20 YEARS AGO June 22. 1936 (It was Monday) Municipal airport busy; used by 54 ships since Friday, not counting scores of takeoffs and landings over the weekend by the Byrd Antarctic ship. $0 YEARS AGO June 22, 192B (It was Tuesday) Big pageant, "Blazing the Trail," to be presented at the fairgrounds tonight. Synopsis of Characters: Period One The In dian; Period Two The Prospec tor; Period Threes The Settler. One hundred seventy - three students registered up to 2 p.m. yesterday at Southern Oregon Kormal in Ashland for six weeks summer classes in new building. 40 YEARS AGO June 22. 1918 (It was Thursday) From Local and Personal col umn: L. E. McDonald, manager of the Rogue River Elk Resort at the mouth of Elk creek, returned from a ,business visit to Portland last night, and today is in town gathering a crew of men to assist in finishing the resort so that it may be opened about July 10. Library furnishes room in basement for Congress of Moth ers and Parent-Teachers associa tion of Southern Oregon to open a bureau of education June 27. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 77 Copr. 1933, Editorial Research Report 1. Farm prices, on the whole, have gone up lately, stayed about the same, or declined? 2. Most Poles are Greek (Or thodox) Catholics, Roman Catho lics, Jews or Lutherans, or does no one religion predominate among them? 3. Yellow fever, expected to recur soon in Mexico, is trans mitted by monkeys, macaws, or mosquitoes? 4. Payments on the public debt after World War 1 reduced the total from a high of $26.6 billion to an inter-war low of $11 billion, $16 billion, or $22 bil lion? 5. The Communist party news paper in Moscow is Izvestia, Moscow News, Pravda, or Trud? 6. Inhabitants of the U. S. drank a total of (a) 60 billion, (b) 80 billion, (c) 100 billion, or (d) 120 billion cups of coffee last year? 7. Newly independent Moroc co has or hasn't joined the Arab League? The answers: -1. Farm prices rising since first of the year. 2. Most are Roman Catholics. 3. By 'jungle mosquitoes that have bit ten sick monkeys. 4. $16 billion on Dec. 31. 1930. S. Pravda. 6. 120 billion cups,, accqrding to Pan-Americas Coffee bureau. 7. Not yet. MAIL TRIBUNE QandA Very Interesting Coincidence: Tax receipts to Jackson county during fiscal year 1955-56 will total about $646,438, or just slightly more than the 638,- 147 "surplus" which apparently will be on hand at the end of the year. Question: Why was year? Answer: To protect the because the county really needed the money. Question: I3 this good public administration? Answer: No. QUESTION : Is there going to be a general county tax levy this coming Answer: No. Question: Why not? Answer: Because the Question : If there's no coming from? Answer: Most of it timber sale receipts on 0 & C lands within the county. QUESTION: Shouldn't the county levy a tax this year to protect its base? Answer: It doesn't need to. The tax base can be protected by a full levy each third year. Question: Why do we need to protect the tax base, if timber receipts pay most of the cost of run ning the county? Answer: If timber receipts fall off badly, the county may have to resume regular annual taxation. e e e e QUESTION: Then we can expect to pay a big coun ty tax every few years, whether the couny needs the money or not? Answer: Yes unless the tax base provision in the constitutional 6 per cent limitation clause is changed, or unless the county court decides that this roller-coaster finance program is wrong, and agrees to levy a smaller but predictable tax each year. Question: What are the chances for this? Answer: Under present circumstances, practically nil. E.A. Pats Honors Patrick Graham is a man of no small tenacity. And behind a gruff voice and a tough, Irish face, he is en dowed with a considerable quantity of the milk of human kindness. The opportunity to make these observations comes with the news that for the past five years the membership of Jackson County Post 8, Disabled American Veterans, has increased over the previous year; and that those years are the five during which Pat has served as adjutant and service officer. m m I T SHOULD be explained, perhaps, that member- shin in nuch an organization is larp-elv dependent on the effectiveness of the work done by the service officer. Three of the five most recent DAV depart ment commanders have presented Pat with certifi cates of merit for outstanding work in that position. This job deals largely with assisting veterans who need help, either financially, or in cutting through the reams of red tape with which the Veterans Ad ministration does its business. - e e e e AT THE recent DAV state convention, Pat Graham " was presented with his third certificate of merit, and in addition with a bronze statuette trophy in rec ognition of the fact that last year he was responsible for more members joining the DAV than any other one person in the state of Oregon. We are happy for this chance to pay our small tribute to a man who, in his own quiet way, has done a great deal for disabled veterans and their depend ents, and has done it without fanfare. E.A. Six-Bit Word Eclecticism is a perfectly good six-bit word which describes the philosophy or practice of picking and choosing the best in the fields of literature, religion, philosophy, medicine, art, music or what-have-you, rather than accepting an existing system or school or plan, without questioning the individual components. The word itself is under-used. So is its practice. For no system of thought, no professional disci pline, no school of practice has a monopoly on what is good or true. TTHIS is heresy. It is also the truth. A political eclectic is not the "vote-'er-straight" party man he is the one who votes for the indivi dual he thinks will do the best job under the circum stances, or for the measure he thinks is right, regard less of party dogma. A literary eclectic is not one who devotes his time and his enthusiasm to a period or a school to the ex clusion of others he is the man who finds truth and beauty in the best of each. An artistic eclectic is not one who confines him self to "the moderns," or "the great masters," but one who can accept or reject on the basis of his own be lief and tastes. rCLECTICISM implies skepticism as well as accept- ance. It also implies a certain toughness of mind and spirit, for it is easier to "go along with the mob" than it is to probe, oneself, for the verities in which one can conscientiously believe. And it is far more difficult to do so in the tightly organized fields, such as religion and medicine, than it is in the less formal systems and schools such as politics or literature or art. It is sufficiently difficult in any 'field, but it Days dividends of self-respect and a consciousness of in tellectual honesty. E.A. Friday. June 22, 195S there a tax levy at all this county's "tax base," not year? money isn't needed. tax, where is all the money from the county's share of Tax Cut Possibility Eyed If Slump Comes; Fiscal Tools Usable Washington (CQ) If signs of a business slump develop dur ing the next few weeks, you can expect renewed talk of a tax cut before Congress adjourns. The reason: the Treasury's prospective $4,000,000,000 sur plus in the cash budget, like the Federal Reserve's year-long pol icy of restraining credit, is a major anti-1 nflationary influ ence. If the money managers de cide that deflation is the greater threat, the factors favoring a pol icy of easier credit also will argue for a tax cut Right now, the Administra tion has its fingers crossed, its eyes glued to the economic indi cators. Business, as the experts say, is in a state of flux. Infla tionary pressures the bidding up of prices when demand out runs supply remain strong in some lines, while soft spots have Communications Letter to tbe 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 la permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to dit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. July 4 Warning To the Editor: The Fourth of July falls on Wednesday this year. So it is reasonable to as sume that the calendar will of fer some relief from the high death tolls of the last four Inde pendence day celebrations. It will in terms of actual numbers. But the death toll on Memorial day also a one-day holiday was 56 per cent high er than the normal Wednesday for that time of year. So we feel that the shorter holiday period doesn't warrant any complacency, or relieve us from making an all-out effort to keep the toll to a minimum. With traffic deaths up 10 per cent so far this year and a new all-time high record threaten ing, there is a real traffic safety emergency in this country. ' We are emphasizing, there fore, the need for extra stringent enforcement of traffic laws dur ing high-hazard hoUday periods, coupled of course with appeals to the good sense of individuals. We will greaUy appreciate your help in trying to hold down the holiday traffic toll. Paul Jones, Director of Public Information, National Safety Council, Chicago, 111. .. Litter To the Editor: It may be some wishful thinking, or is it the high grass of this tremendous grass year? But there does not seem to be the usual mess of litter-bug trash along the high ways as spring advances into summer. We have so many beau tiful roads, winding roads (so scarce in the checker-board pat tern of mid-west and east), that beckon away to snow-garmented mountains, the miles of lone ly desert lands, the verdant val leys and on down where, the mare's-tail and white-whiskered ocean waves pound the leagues of sandy beaches that, thanks to one-time Governor West, are free for the use of tourist and resident. (Chances are if McKay had been in they would have been a "give-away" to private interest cronies). It takes a grievous amount of tax-dollars, . expensive equip ment and endless man-hours of sweat and toil to build such roads. Surely we, the owners of these roads, can have the pride and. sense of clearliness to keep them free of our own per sonal litter? Too many people step from their daily shower or bath to toss away candy and gum wrapper, coke botUes and paper cups and, worst of aU, the filthy glowing stub of cigarettes that reduce our homes and for ests to ashes of discouragement. Some litter-bugs try for an alibi when claiming it gives jobs to people. It surely does, but how the highway workers hate to be pulled off of permanent road building to go along the highway with a nail studded stick and clean up other peo ple's filth. It takes six to seven days with two $4,000 trucks and six men just to clean up the road from Medford to Eagle Point at better than $70 a day. But the litter-bugs get caught up occasionally. A ranch-woman near Antelope creek told how she found a day-book among some rubbish dumped in her pasture field. The Medford con tractor had to go and clean it up, including the whole pas ture field. A license plate was found once in rubbish dumped along a beautiful coast highway, taken to state police in Port land, the owner was found and had the ornery and somewhat dangerous job of getting the stuff off the steep mountainside. F. J. Clifford, ' 1211 West Main st, Medford, Ore. ' developed In auto and other fields. These conflicting trends and the significance attached to them rather than any basic differ ence over policy explain the disagreement voiced by Secre tary of Treasury George M. Humphrey and other Adminis tration officials over the April 13 increase in the Federal Re serve discount rate, the fifth such credit restraining action within a year. "If it had been my responsi bility," Humphrey told the Sen ate Finance Committee, "I would not have made this last move." So far, however, Humphrey has not abandoned his opposition to a tax cut a powerful business stimulant despite his action May 17 in boosting the estimated surplus in the 1956 administra tive budged from $200,000,000 to $1,800,000,000. (The cash budget, which includes trust fund operations and determines the net impact of federal fi nances on the economy, will show the $4,000,000,000 surplus.) In combination and in step, federal monetary, credit and fis cal policies can have a tremen dous impact on the American market place. Secretary Humph rey and other Administration of ficials learned this early in 1953, when they moved rather abrupt ly to hike interest rates and tighten the money supply in pur suit of the GOP-promised "sound dollar." Democrats charged that these steps aggravated if they did not precipitate the 1953-54 recession. Easier to Say Presumably, the Administra tion will act promptly to coun ter the development of anything like a general recession in this election year. But this is easier said than done, especiaUy when the economy, while working close to capacity on the whole, i. experiencing sharply conflict ing trends. The problem was put this way by Chairman William McChesney Martin of the BoardJ of Governors of the Federal Re serve System, in testimony be-' fore the Joint Economic Com mittee: , "We have always followed a policy in recent years of lean ing against the wind, whichever way we can determine the wind is blowing . . . We do not always know which way it is blowing but it is our intention to lean against it whichever way it is blowing, in order to minimize the forces of deflation when they are in the uppermost, and the forces of inflation when they are in the uppermost." By law, the Federal Reserve System is independent of the Administration. In practice, it must work in close cooperation with the Treasury. This division of powers and responsibilities could make for serious trouble if the Treasury and the Reserve pursued conflicting economic philosophies and policies. The last serious dispute over Treasury-Reserve relations came in the late '40's, when the Re serve's policy of supporting Treasury bond issues in order to keep interest rates low came under heavy attack because of its inflationary effect. Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder was blamed for pressuring the Board of Governor to support a policy against its better judg ment. The policy was revised in 1951. Made Exception In September, 1953, the Re serve reaffirmed its intention not to support government se curity issues. But on Nov. 30, 1955, at the Treasury's request, the Reserve agreed to make an' exception and buy $400,000,000 of Treasury certificates when the offering met market resistance. Sen. Paul Douglas (D-I1U, Chairman of the Joint Economic committee, charged that the Re serve acted "to bail out the Treasury and prevent the mis takes which they had made in gauging the market from becom ing apparent." In defending the Reserve's action, Chairman Mar tin said the "Treasury and the Federal Reserve are partners. We are trying to achieve the same general ends, and we each have a 50 per cent interest. We are not subordinate one to the other." Martin, a Democrat first ap pointed by President Truman in 1951 and reappointed Jan. 9 by President Eisenhower for a full 14-year term, underscored the Reserve's independence by the April 13 hike in the discount rate. But all the evidence Indi cates that the Reserve and the Treasury will be working over time to "achieve the same' gen eral ends" in the coming weeks and months a stable and grow ing economy. (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) BELL. MAN SILENCED Leiria, Portugal (U.R) Anto nio Faria, 58, was tolling a church bell for the dead in Pou sos Wednesday. Suddenly the clanging stopped. The swinging bell had knocked Faria unconscious. Communist Confusion Deepens Over Kremlin's Stalin Action By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad sews on the international bal ance sheet: The Good 1. Confusion deepened in the Communist world over the at tempt of the Kremlin to blame Josef Stalin for aU the crimes of the Soviet Russian dictatorship. The Italian and French Commu nist parties, largest in the free world, issued statements of pol icy accepting the Moscow line that Stalin was a villain. But both parties said Russia's pres ent leaders could not absolve themselves of blame because they were Stalin's active col laborators. The Stalin debunk ing campaign had repercussions, too, in the visit of Yugloslav President Tito to Russia. A joint declaration issued by the Krem lin and Tito emphasized that cooperation of Communist par ties must be based on equality. Its effect was that blind obedi ence by Communist parties to the Moscow line was no longer necessary. 2. A committee of three for Babson Views Outlook For Farmers in 1956 By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. F r o m present early indications, Moth er Nature may be of some assist ance this year to h a r a s s ed g o v e rnment officials not to mention ov- e r b u r dened t a xpayers in reduc ing farm sur- pluses. My first survey of Rofer W. Babion the 1956 crop outlook points to the low est prospects in eleven years. Here are some of the highlights. For the third successive year, total production of wheat prob ably will fall short of the billion- bushel mark. Output of winter wheat the main crop may be in the vicinity of 670,000,000 bushels down 5 per cent from a year ago and well below av erage. If the spring crop amounts to about 253,000,000 bushels, as I expect, the total U. S. crop of 923,000,000 bushels would be the smallest since 1943. However, since the total July 1 carryover threatens to top 1,000,000,000 bushels, total supplies will still be burdensome. Kye is doing well in some areas, less so in others. Its over all condition as of June 1 was 78 per cent of normal, compared with 74 per cent on June 1, 1955 and with the 10-year average of 82 per cent. This could mean en outturn this year equaling or exceeding the above average crop of 29,187,000 bushels pro duced last year. This would be sufficient for all requirements. Corn and Soybeans It is uncertain at this writing just wnat effect the govern ments sou bank program will have on production of corn and soybeans this year, but my fore cast is not very much. "Last spring, corn farmers indicated that they intended to plant an acreage' of 3.5 per cent smaller than in 1955, when the crop amounted to 3,184,836,000 bush els the sixth largest of rec ord. Given favorable weather conditions, I believe the Corn Belt wiU "go to town" again this year. Meanwhile, I forecast high er average prices for old-crop corn, and lower prices for new- crop corn this faU. Last spring farmers indicated intentions to plant a record 21, 760,000 acres to soybeans up 10.6 per cent from the previous 1955 record. Nothing has since occurred, as far as I know, to materially alter those intentions. If weather conditions remain fa vorable, the 1956 crop of soy beans could easily top 400,000,- 000 bushels and set a new record for this wonder bean. Total sup plies for 1956-57 should not, however, prove burdensome, in view of the government support programs and an expected heavy volume of . total consumption. Some price weakness could de velop this faU, with recovery to follow. The U. S. cotton crop is mak 2 31 I j5KrVX m i PORK LIVER 1 9 Lb. eign ministers of the North At lantic Treaty Organization met in Paris to study means of strengthening the 16-nation al-i liance. Russia's "sweetness and light" campaign has made most member countries less defense minded. The job of the foreign ministers was to draft plans to broaden NATO to Include econ omic and social as weU as pure ly military cooperation. 3. Premier Guy Mollet won an overwhelming vote of confi dence in the French National Assembly on a big old-age pen sion bill. He had previously won confidence votes on North Af rican and general policies. His new victory gave promise of greater French political stability and thus strengthened the West ern Allies. The Bad 1. Russia staged a big propa ganda show to start off its an nounced plan to withdraw 33, 500 occupation troops from East Germany. In the presence of Al lied military observers, 87 war planes wore flow off to Russia. This show was to be followed by one in Moscow Sunday when Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Unit- ing generally favorable prog ress. It is too early in the season, however, to form any hard and fast opinion as to the final size. Possible insect damage must be reckoned with between now and harvest time. Plantings this year were officially restricted to a total of only 17,437,000 acres. As recently as in 1951, farmers planted 28,195.000 acres to cot ton. No record crop will be grown on the relatively small 1956 acreage, but it may turn out to be larger than the cut in acreage would indicate. Farmers in recent years have learned the art of intensive cul tivation of "getting the most- est out ol the leastest." It is a safe bet that Dixie will follow this procedure in cotton this year. Even a reduction to only 10,000,000 bales would not go very far toward cutting the mil lions of bales in government hands. The cotton problem is stiU far from solution. Farm Price Outlook in the past several years, American farmers as a whole have taken it "on the chin' pneewise. In the last few months, however, the average of farm prices has been edging up ward. Barring a severe business recession, which I am not now forecasting for 1956,. I believe that the farm price decline for this cycle is about over. The Soil Bank plan and other remedial measures yet to be found and applied should go far toward correcting the errors of the past in agriculture, although some small and inefficient farm ers may get hurt in the healing process. Editorial Comment HYATT LAKE For a long time there has been confusion as to whether the upper reservoir of the Tal ent irrigation district should be spelled Hyatt or Hiatt. Some maps show It as Hiatt and others use a "y" instead of "i". This week The Daily Tidings asked Walter Hoffbuhr, secre tary manager of the Talent irri gation district, for the official spelling and Mr. Hoffbuhr re ported that both the Talent dis trict and the bureau of recla mation have used both spellings. However, he advised that in the future, both official bodies have agreed to spell it Hyatt, since that was the way the Hyatt family, which owned the ranch at the lake site spelled its name. In the future, as far as we are concerned, it will be Hyatt lake, but we suspect that for a long time a lot of folks will also spell it Hiatt. Ashland Tidings. THE MAIDENS Ten of the "Hiroshima Maid ens have left lor nome. four teen remain, but by September they will have left, too. As the girls, truly new women, go back to Japan, they end a story that we like to think of as peculiarly American. The girls, 25 of them counting EAST SIXTH ST. MUTTON ROAST BEEF TONGUE trt IV IV Lb. ed States Air Force chief of staff and other allied guests were in vited to attend a celebration of Soviet aviation day. Both dem onstrations were potentially dan gerous propaganda moves. The first was calculated to weaken Allied defense determination the second to impress waverers with Russia's aerial might. 2. Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri T. Shepilov made a big bid to increase Russia's in fluence in Egypt. In Cairo, Shep ilov offered Egyptian Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser a $420,000,. 000 loan to help finance the great Aswan Dam. Shepilov at tended a ceremony in Cairo marking the end of British mil itary occupation of the Suez Canal Zone at which Commu nist weapons supplied to Egypt were paraded. 3. While Great Britain con sidered a plan to renew nego tiations on Cyprus, violence in the island continued. Twenty British soldiers died as a result of a forest fire set by Greek Cypriot extremists whom they were seeking in the mountains. Greece, which demands that Britain surrender Cyprus, start ed intercepting British airliners flying over its territory, alleg ing that they had deviated from prescribed air lanes. It was reported in London that Turkey is prepared to land troops in Cyprus if necessary to keep Greece from getting it. Joint Committee Approves Projects Washington ' (U.R) A Sen-ate-House conference committee confirmed allocations today for work on new navigation pro jects in Oregon. The money was allowed in a compromise version of a public works appropriaUon bill for fis cal 1957. A $1,450,000 allowance for planning on John Day dam, vot ed by the House, was confirmed by the conference committee. The committee also went along with the Senate in allot ting $226,000 for work at eight locations on levees on the Low er Columbia river. Money was allotted for one new start in Oregon along with additional money for some other Oregon projects. The1 committee allowed $225, 000 for the Chetco river project, $1,650,000 for Cougar reservoir, $300,000 for planning on Green Peter dam, $2,125,000 for Hills Creek dam, and $100,000 for planning on Holley reservoir. MOVE COSTS JOB Sanford, N. C. (U.R) When Alderman Sam Davis moved to a new home here, he moved him self right out of office. His home is outside the sixth ward and by. law he must live in the ward from which he was elected. one who died last winter in New York, were horribly burned when the first atomic bomb was dropped on their home city in 1945. Disfigured and crippled, they numbered among the living dead too hideous to be happy or useful 'in a world that puts so much stress on appearance. They were the most horrible vic tims of the dawn of the atomic age. Thanks to Norman Cousins. editor of the Saturday Review, the 25 were brought to America with American money. They were treated by American doc tors. American plastic surgeons practiced their wonderful arts on the disfigured faces and bodies of girls who had repre sented the enemy a decade earlier. As the girls stood beside their plane this month, they no longer hid their faces and their arms. Some still bore scars, but they" were not the disfiguring scars they had worn for 10 years. What other country, we won der, would take in its own war targets in this manner? Is there another naUon where people of good will would have been so ready to let by-gones be by gones? We doubt it. Eugene Register-Guard. PORK SAUSAGE 29 Lb. Lb.