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TOUR MEDFROD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Every ooay in Southern Oregon Head The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday 07 MEDFORD PRINTING CO. J7-29 North Fir St. Phone ROBERT W RUHI. Editor HERB GREY. AdvertislnR Manager GERALD LATHAM. BiutneM Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EAAL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP-MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE STAR CHER Society Editor DALE ERICK.SON circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act oi Marcn j. SUBSCRIPTION RATES , By Mall In Advance: Per Copy lOe. Daily and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily ana sunaay iw mum. Sunday Only One year $3.50. Br Carrier In Advance Mediord. Jacfctaonvllle. Gold Hill, Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year f 15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealer 5c per copy AH 1 trim iaaii ill nuvm.r Official Paper of the City of Medford O ffidal He per ol Jackson County UtedJPress Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF UKUULAUUJI WEST-HOLUDAY COMPANK INC Offices In New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St. Louia. Atlanta Vsivwver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION u o jf" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 27. 194S (It was Thursday) Harry Watson, 17-year staff member of Medford hotel, leaves for Klamath Falls where he will manage Wi-Ne Ma hotel. ' From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Pressure cookers are plentiful after the war-time scarcity. Now the pres sure is to get something for the pressure cooker to cook. 20 YEARS AGO June- 27, 1936 (It was Saturday) A small grass fire near the city reservoir was put out yest erday by the fire department's chemical crew before any dam age was done. New Pacific highway route over Siskiyou summit hoped to be finished before winter snow. '30 YEARS AGO June 27. 1926 (It was Sunday) National Guardsmen leave Camp White after two weeks of training; camp ends today. From the Local and Personal column: Plumbers are now busy setting in fixtures at the new high school building, which is in the last stages of completion. Grading of the grounds, which has been in progress for some time, is also nearly finished. 40 YEARS AGO June 27, 1916 (It was Tuesday) Jackson County Industrial fair planned for Medford about the middle of September. From the Local and Personal column: A report was circulated on train No. 15 that war had been declared and when the train arrived in Medford Mon day afternoon, the passengers swarmed out on the platform buying every afternoon paper to be had. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7T r Copr. IMS, Editorial Jtesearcn Report 1. The Air Force is aiming for a fleet of (a) 350, (b) 500. (c) 600, or (d 1.000 B-52 jet bombers by 1959? 2. Briscoe, Dort, Jordan,-Moon, Saxon, and Templar are names of discontinued lines of men's shoes, automobiles of early 1920's, or tobacco mixtures sold years ago? 3. Rumania is or isn't one of the countries behind the Iron Curtain? 4. Darlington Hoopes has been nominated to run for President bv the Liberal, Prohibition, So cialist or Socialist Labor party? 5. None of the 48 states pro hibits distribution of trading stamns: rieht or wrong? 6. Thf Mississippi river forms a boundary between states throuehout its course or along onlv oart of the course? 7. An atheist is the same as an apostic: right or wrong? Th answers: 1. New ?oal is 600 .B-52. 2. Automobiles of 1920s. 3. Rumania is. 4. Socialist. 5. Floht (onlv D. C. bans trading stamps). 6. Boundarr between states except in northern Minne sota and southern Louisiana. 7. Yrron? an atheist says ihsre is po God: an a an os tic says he doesn't know if there is or isn't. Oblivion The Mail Tribune's Washington correspondent, A. Robert Smith, keeps a sharp eye out for happenings in the nation's capital which have an interest to the peo ple of Oregon. In yesterday's paper he had an article about "something of interest," a bill which is designed to "turn over federal forests and grazing lands to local private interests or the states." CMITH'S story says: "The most valuable lands covered by the bill are the national forests and Oregon's O&C timber lands." And he. adds, "The National Lumber Manu facturers Association announced its advocacy of (the) bill in its directors meeting several weeks ago at Seat tle." We should think so!! The bill is an open invita tion to destroy the careful, long-range program of conservation and protection of the nation's forest re sources which date back to Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot. XE ARE glad to note that the budget bureau is op- posed to the bill, and that Smith notes it is doubt ful if any action will be taken on it at this session. We are less happy about the reaction of Wesley A. D'Ewart, assistant secretary of the Interior for pub lic land management, who said he is in "sympathy with the objectives" of the bill, though not in its pres ent form. As we see it, the measure is potentially one of the most dangerous to Oregon's long-range economy ever contemplated. gMITH describes the bill as follows : In the form in which' it was introduced, the bill would call for creation of federal-state land study commissions in every state which asked for one. Each commission would make a study Of government and private forest and graz ing holdings in the state and report recommendations for changes to the president. The president, under the bill, would then be compelled to "prepare a plan for the disposal of the lands recommend ed for disposal" which would involve sales to the highest bidder. In drafting this plan, the president would be direct ed to "provide that, so far as practicable, such lands shall be disposed of in tracts of such size and number and under such terms and conditions as will best serve the purposes of the federal government, the state, and the general pub lic, taking into consideration the predominant land needs, if such exist, of present land owners in the vicinity of such lands and the need of potential purchasers for a long-term, low-interest rate purchase program to enable them to pur chase such lands." ' , , ' Al - - THE Forest Service opposes the bill which, it said, "might result in possible large-scale breaking up of the national-forest system." It also questioned the bill's constitutionality,' inasmuch as the president would be "required" to follow a commission's recom mendation. Constitutionality or no, the bill proposes a gigantic "give away", which staggers the imagination. It could well mean an end to orderly natural resources management It could well throw the lumber industry into chaos, to the benefit of a few big companies and the extinction of smaller firms. JACKSON county's lumber industry increasingly is few large holdings which are being managed on a sus tained yield basis. If the national forest and O&C lands were opened up for sale to the highest bidder, it would do two things : 1. Destroy the federal timber-management and conservation control of the country's largest single re source, and, 2. Allow that control to go to the highest bidder, which means, obviously, the bigger companies. THE first of these results would tear away a pains takingly developed system of fire control, access road construction, silvicultural research, and efficient administration. The forests would suffer, no matter how conscientious the new owners might be, for they lack the resources the Forest Service has at its dis posal. The second result would mean that the small operator,- now almost entirely dependent on federal tim ber, would be squeezed out, and that the new owners, while presumably they would follow good forest man agement practices simply out of self-interest, would be under no obligation to do so. The proposal deserves just one thing oblivion. , E.A. What's the Time? What time is it at quarter-past midnight? And at half-past noon? These are two non-earth-shakine Questions which kalways tend to give us a slight headache. Quarter-past midnight is commonly given as 12 :lo a.m. But "a.m." (ante-meridiem) means before noon, so actually the symbols 12:15 a.m. indicate twelve hours and fifteen minutes before noon, instead of twelve hours and fifteen minutes after noon. LJALF-PAST noon, or 12:30 p.m., poses a similar "problem, for 12:30 p.m. (post-meridiem) indi cates twelve hours and thirty minutes after noon, in stead of a half -hour before 1 p.m. Perhaps they should be written 00:15 a.m. and 00 :30 p.m. Habit being what it is, they probably never will be, though. E. A. - CRICKET VIA TV London U.f5 , Australian Prime Minister Robert G. Men zies, a cricket fan, has a port able TV set in his. official limou sine so he can watch the England-Australia cricket game now in progress while traveling around London, the Daily Sketch said today. Wednesday. June 27, 1 958 Deserved Chicago U.R Neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. John O'Neil said it won't be the same when the O'Neils make their scheduled move from their west side home. The O'Neils plan to take with them their eight dogs, five cats, five parakeets, four pig eons, two love birds and three canaries. Guatemala To Get Tough With Opponents By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Guatemala's soft-spoken "strong man" has decided that it is time to get really tough with the enemies of his regime. H e charges that Commu nists, working u n d erground, are plotting a subversive movement. As the re sult. President Carlos Castillo Charles alcCann Armas has invoked a system of modified martial law. Police have fired on demonstrating students in Guatemala City, the capital. It is evident that CastUlo Ar mas has decided to try to sup press by force the growing un rest among workers and students in his little country which lies just south of Mexico on the Cen tral American Isthmus. Unrest An Inheritance The unrest is an inheritance of the extreme leftist regime of President Jacobo Arbenz Guz man, whom Castillo Armas over threw in June, 1954, with the Heart Association Lists Requirements for 'Club' A ' recent bulletin from the Oregon Heart association listed the requirements for member ship in the "Coronary Club." They are as follows: 1. Your' job comes first; per sonal considerations are sec ondary. 2. Go to the office evenings, Saturdays, Sunday and holidays. 3. Take the brief-case home on the evenings when you do not go to the office. This pro vides an opportunity to review completely all the troubles and worries of the day. ' " 4. Never say NO to a request always say YES. 5. Accept all invitations to meetings, banquets, committees, etc. 6. Do not eat a restful, re laxing meal always plan a con ference for the meal hour. 7. Fishing and hunting are a waste of time and money you never bring back enough fish or game to justify the ex pense. 8. It is a poor policy to take all the vacation time which is provided for you. 9. Golf, bowline, pool, bil- Hards, cards, gardening, etc., are. Editorial Comment The Lamentable Cult of Glumness It may or may not be true thaU Adlai Stevenson has been ad vised to '"make at least one gram matical error a day." But it does seem to us that "the new Adlai" is a more solemn man than the Illinois governor who earned a reputation as a wit in 1952.. If Mr. Stevenson should win the Democratic nomination again, we hope he will not listen too closely to "advisors who insist that the candidate conform to the American tradition of solem nity. A dash of humor, a wry quip, placed in just the right spot, does not indicate that the public figure regards national problems lightly. Rather, we think, it shows perspective, an understanding that this moment in history is just that a mo ment in history. VTET the tradition persists. Who - ever saw a smiling picture of George Washington? And the years after the Civil War saw a generation of solemn presidents or so they seemed, although they could have been grinning like Chessy cafsbehind the facial brush that was popular in that era. William Howard Taft, a jolly fat man, was dead serious in his speeches. And Wilson, an egghead who set the Stevenson pattern of eggheadery, once said of the presidency.- "The office is much greater than (its occupant) can ever be, and about the most he can do is to look grave and self-possessed enough to seem to fill it" Even FDR, noted for his gaiety, tried to be solemn in his speeches. Nonetheless his two most successful political speeches were those in which he chided Republicans for "attacking my little dog Fala," and in which he linked the names of "Martin, Barton and Fish." , ALL these men, President Ei senhower included, are fol lowing the advice given a young man by Sen. Thomas Corwin, a former governor of Ohio and secretary of the treasury. He told this young man, "If you would succeed in life you must be solemn solemn as an ass. All the great monuments are built over solemn asses." The young man was James A. Gar field, the most solemn of the solemn, and he rose to be Presi-.l President Decides moral support of the United States. Arbenz Guzman and his fellow leaders were exiled. A number of leftists were executed. The Communist party was outlawed. But rank and file Communists remained active underground. They had the support of many workers, who had benefited by land seizures and other national ization decrees of the Arbenz Guzman regime. To them stu dents, who as in other Latin American countries are political ly active. Reds Inspire Demonstration Workers turned an officially sponsored May Day celebration on May 1 last into an anti-government demonstration. There was little doubt that the demon stration was Communist-inspired On Sunday, Castillo Armas an nounced the discovery of a Com munist plot to spread disorder as part of a subversive movement. Castillo Armas decreed a sys tem of modified martial law for 30 days. A few hours later, workers and students -demonstrated de spite the martial law. Police and soldiers broke up the demon a waste of time. 10. Never delegate responsi bility to others carry the load at aU times. 11. If your work calls for traveling work all day and drive all night to make your appointment for the next morn ing. : - If you meet these qualifica tions, send in your application. Consumer Prices Go Higher in May New York (U.PJ Consumer prices rose 0.2 per cent in May to the highest level of the year while the purchasing value of the dollar dipped one cent below a year ago to 98.8 cents (1953 eauals 100). according to the National Industrial Conference Board. The board's all-items con sumer price index now stands at 101.2 (1953 equals 100). Sharpest change over the month was registered by food, which advanced 0.7 per cent. dent. Monuments have been erected to him. . - Abe Lincoln was fond of a good story and told many, al though he usually kept them out of his public speeches. The story is told about two women travel ing in a railway coach during the Civil War. One declared she feared the South would win the war "because Jefferson Davis is a praying man." But, her com panion told her "Abraham Lin coln is a praying man, too." Ah yes," said the first, "But the Lord will think Abraham is jok ing." YET how wonderful it is that Mr. Stevenson, a few days after his defeat in 1952, could begin a speech by saying, "The other day a funny thing happen ed to me on my way to the White House." And Abe Lincoln, stung by Stephen A. Douglas' reminder that he had once tended bar, could retort, "Yes, but what the judge didn't mention is that while 1 quit my side of the bar, the judge has remained on his." And there is Harold Ickes say ing that "Dewey has thrown his diaper into the ring," and Alice Roosevelt Longworth saying that "Ike has thrown his halo into the ring." Once a Washington gossip col umnist "reported" that Al Smith had packed his bags and was leaving for the Vatican where he was to be FDR's personal rep resentative. The story was not true. The President wired Al Smith simply, "Unpack." TF IT is true that great political leaders have been, for the most part, humorless creatures, it is just as true that some of the worst of the world's leaders have been as humorless HiUer, Mus solini, Robespierre, Cromwell. The tradition of solemnity may be laid no more at the feet of George Washington than at the feet of Oliver Cromwell. The witty aside, the humorous view of a solemn problem, is of fensive to those who regard hu mor as mere joke telling. These people, humorless themselves for the most part, fail to understand that humor is not only a means of making people laugh; it is also an unsurpassed means of making them understand. Eu gene Register-Guard. - stration with clubs and gun butts. On Monday the government learned that university students planned a parade in protest against the martial law decree. The government warned the stu dents sternly that the parade would not be tolerated. Never theless, the students turned out. Three Students Killed Police fired on them. Three students were killed and 19 wounded. Castillo Armas has charged several times that Communists were plotting to overthrow him. Now, apparenUy, he has decid ed to try to break up the leftist movement if he can. It is indi cated that a number of oposition leaders including newspaper edi tors may be exiled. Castillo Armas is convinced that Communism is a real danger not only in his country I Tut in the whole Western Hemis phere. He predicted In an inter view with the United Press last Feb. 2 that the Reds will make a determined attempt this year to strengthen their position. He urged that all 21 American re publics work together against Red infiltration. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Back in the pleasant litUe farming community of Eldora, Iowa, in its lush setting of corn and soybean fields and blue grass pastures dotted with sleek cattle and fat hogs, they recently held a Farm Day, and the promoters of the event were fortunate. They got a couple of Big Names fnr thoir nrnpram Rerrfttarv of Agriculture Benson and Dem - ocratic Presidential Candidate Kefauver. So the country folk are poured in from all around and the merchants were happy be cause in addition to listening to the debate that is the big event of-the day the visitors .would stock up on their needs for the next week a busy one in this season of the year back in the Corn Belt. SECRETARY Benson led off the debate. He told his hearers it will take the NEXT THREE YEARS to get the new farm soil bank into full operation. In his grave, sincere way, he sought to establish the fact that the new soil bank program won't be any get rich quick scheme that its purpose is to get American agri culture back onto a basis of bal anced supply and demand. " He concluded his explanation of the soil bank with this state ment: "We have measured our farm policies on the basis of WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE FARMER AND THE NATION not on the political applause meter." SENATOR Kefauver said: "The lack of leadership which the (Eisenhower) adminis tration has so deplorably demon strated in meeting the farm crisis is again being mirrored in the timid and reluctant manner in which the new 1956 farm act (in cluding the soil bank) is being administered. "Reliable calculations indicate that as much as a BILLION eight hundred million dollars of addi tional farm income THIS YEAR could result from proper admin istration of the farm bill. Farm ers will not get this aid (this year) if the delaying, bungling policies of the administration continue." T ETS put it this way. Secretary Benson knows that if we are to SOLVE the farm problem we must quit sub sidizing surpluses to hang o"er the markets of the future like a dark thundercould. He knows that if American agriculture is to be saved it must be got back to the point where supply and demand are in a reasonable state of balance. He knows that will take time. Senator Kefauver wants EV ERY POSSIBLE DOLLAR POURED INTO THE FARMER'S LAP THIS YEAR, so that in gratitude for the handout the farmer will VOTE DEMOCRAT IC in November. That is putting it pretty ruggedly,- but it is about the essence of the big political debate in El dora. F CONCLUSION, let's quote a paragraph from the business news of today: "The automobile industry is reported to be working its way out of the most difficult situa tion it has faced since before World War II. Estimates from Detroit are that the inventory (surplus) of new cars in dealers' hands will be down to 700,000 by July 1. In March, the industry had an inventory of more than 900,000 cars." rTVE this a thought: Suppose that in March the government had stepped in and BOUGHT UP.AND STORED the surplus of automobiles. In that event, where would the automobile industry be now? THE answer is short, but not sweet: It would be IN A PICKLE. . Major Airlines Face Probe of Fare Lists Washington (CQ) The big United States airlines are about to stand trial for the first time in 18 years. The question: Are the major domestic passenger lines gouging the public by charging excessive fares? A "guilty" verdict, besides bringing down fares, could usher in a new era of commercial avia tion by forcing the Civil Aero nautics Board to open the sky to new competition. The CAB, a powerful five-man federal agency which rules com mercial aviation, last month an nounced it would investigate passenger fares charged by the 13 main domestic airlines. The investigation, the CAB said, was prompted by the high profits air lines made in 1955. Congress to Decide In the upcoming court of in quiry, the CAB will sit as com bination prosecutor, judge and jury whiie the Air Transport association wiU do much of the defending for the airlines. The 13 airlines to be investigated are members of the association, an active trade organization. But the decision likely to count the most will be the one Congress makes from outside the CAB hearing room. Some of the lawmakers like Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.), chairman of the Senate Small Business committee, and Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chair man of the House Judiciary com mittee, already have urged changes in aviation policy. Other Congressmen will not make up their mind until after the CAB investigation. Congress could demand a change in CAB policies and, if that failed, could amend the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938. 1 The Act prescribes conditions for issuing flying certificates and setting fares. Sparkman said. Certainly there is room under the law to establish additional trunk lines There is definitely need for more competition. Sparkman added that the trouble Is not the Civil Aeronautics Act itself, but how the CAB has been administering It. Said "Rubber Stamp" Celler said, too, that more competition was essential. don't believe the CAB has been abiding by the antitrust laws. They have been more or less rub ber stamping everything the Air Transport association has pro posed." Just what Is the situation re garding airline profits and com petition? CAB figures show that the air line business is booming. Profits after taxes for the industry as a whole averaged 11.8 per cent in 1955. The CAB considers 8 per cent a fair profit when figuring mail pay. The profits after taxes for the 13 major airlines individually in 1955: American, 14 per cent; Braniff, 11 per cent; Capital, 21.6 per cent; Continental, 7 per cent; Delta, 11.4 per cent; East em, 13.4 per cent; National, 15.1 per cent; Northeast, 7.3 per cent; Northwest, 10.7 per cent; Trans World Airlines, 8.9 per cent; United -8.7 per cent; Western, 14.9 per cent. The 13th airline Colonial, lost 9.6 per cent, ac cording to the CAB. The overall profit trend shows a sharp climb up to 1951 and then a slight recession. The prof its averaged by years for the 13 airlines; 1946, -1.5 per cent; 1947, -2.9 per cent; 1948, -1.7 per cent; 1949, 6.1 oercent; 1950, 11.2 per cent; 1951, 14.6 per cent; 1952, 14.2 per cent; 1953, 11.3 per cent; 1954, 10.4 per cent; 1955, 11.8 per cent. "Not Excessive" ft The Air Transport association says those profits are not ex cessive when figured over the No Other Starch Gives You The Vano Touch That Means So Much Perfect Starching Easier Ironing No Sficking No Scorching No Lumping j No Mixing No Boiling No Guessing No Waste -s - I If you're not using Vano, you're working too hard! long run. But Trans American Airlines (formerly North Amer ican), the most vocal of the non scheduled airlines trying to get CAB permission to fly regularly, says they are and dares the CAB to let it enter the field and prove it. The CAB has full power to regulate airline fares and to de cide which airlines shall be certi fied for passenger traffic. It has started three fare investigations in the past, but none has ever gone to the hearing stage. The CAB, in addition, has not certi ficated any new airlines for domestic passenger service since the Civil Aeronautics Act was passed in 1938. Its own defense of this closed sky policy was given to the Sen ate Small Business committee last year: "While a review of the Board's decisions in route pro ceedings would appear to sug gest that no opportunities exist for a new carrier proposing do mestic passenger trunkline serv ice to obtain a certificate, the Board does not believe its past decisions can be interpreted as foreclosing the possibility of en try by new cariers into the trunk line field." Sees Dangers Asked by the Committee then what was the big danger in ad mitting new arlines into the do mestic field, the CAB said: "The dangers of unrestrained compe tition are many, but the primary danger is the liklihood that there would not be any stability m the services available, and many im portant points and entire areas might not be served at all." With the fare investigation keeping the issue in the public eye. Congress appears certain to make the CAB justify that posi tion or change it. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Colgate's new aerosol type insecticide kills mosquito roaches 3ITfS and other bugs faster, easier JLjf) thanary g)V Bother type VVS hue killer t and It smells good, too KEEM IOOMJ ntff Of RY1NO ItOtCTI long eii Kan-Kil Bag Killer n easy to use DO spray sun necessary, no fuss, no mess! . . . Just press the button. Kan-Kfl Bug Killer is noo inflammable... contains no DDT... and it smells good, too. Leaves no typical insecticide odor. 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