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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) TverytxxJj in touUiern Oregon Read Th Mall Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday by MXDFORD PRINTING CO North f if St Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHl Editor FpTHB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aj second class matter at Mediord Oregon, under Act ot March 3, 1887 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 850 Dally end Sunday Three moe. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point, JacksonTllle. Gold Hill, phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy All Terms Caih In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County U nJ tgd PrsFuJ lLeasedW Ire MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU Or CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-H OLL I D A Y COMPANY INC. Offices In New York. Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION 7 v W NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 10 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO June 29, 1946 (It was Saturday) Klamath and Jackson coun ties" to hold a homemakers' vaca tion camp at Lake of the Woods July 17 to 21. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Piscatorial enthusiasts are showing up on the sports page in photographs of themselves and fish they caught in a lake "high in the Cascades." They all modestly ad mit they yanked out the largest fish ever hooked in the lake. 20 YEARS AGO June 29, 1936 (It was Tuesday) Oiling of Crater Lake high way begun by state highway commission crews. From the Local and Personal column: The Waterman lodging and boarding house will be un der new management July 1. The new management will cater to special and faunday dinners as well as regular meals. 40 YEARS AGO ' June 29, 1916 Ot was Thursday) Three men take big, stripped down Cadillac, and prepare to buck snow drifts on trip to Gov ernment camp; plan to dig path the width of the engine from Whitehorse to Government camp. Twenty-five cowpunchers and Umatilla Indians pass through today on way to Ashland and Pendleton rodeos. What's the Answer? Can You Gat 4 of iha 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report 1. Total cash dividends of U.S. corporations so far this year are (a) 5, (b) 10. (c) 15, or (d) 20 per cent higher than at the same time last year? 2. The Army, like the other armed services, has had a sepa rate flag of its own for years; right or wrong? 3. Moscow has 4,839,000 in habitants and Leningrad 3,176, 000; do Kiev and Baku, Russia's next biggest cities, have more or less than a million apiece? 4. A tarboosh is something worn on the head, kept in a broom closet, or spread on city streets? 5. Traffic - light (red-green) color' blindness affects more women than men, more men than women, or about as many of each sex? 6. The Mason-Dixon Line is be tween Maryland and Pennsyl vania, Maryland and Virginia, District of Columbia and Vir ginia, or West Virginia and Vir ginia? 7. A baseball player hitting for .250 gets a hit once out of every two, three, four, five, or six times at bat The answers: 1. Dividends up 15 per cent. 2. Wrong (no sepa rate Army flag until this year). 3. Less than a million (Kiev, 991,000; Baku. 901,030). 4. Worn on the head (Arab fez). 5. More men (S per cent) than women (1 per cent). 6. Maryland and Pennsylvania. 7. Once out ef four. MAIL TRIBUNE Wistful It Is entirely possible that we are impossibly vis ionary. But whenever we look at Bear Creek we see something other than a rather dirty, sluggish, unat tractive little stream cutting through Medford. What we see is a cleaned landscaped and lined with areas, and with mosquitoes We see a strip of welcome greenery and water stretching through the middle of a growing city, offer ing cool and fresh benison to the harried clerk, the heated shopper the distraught mother of small chil dren. JJUMAN NATURE, the processes of government, and the hard facts of water use being what they are, this rruiy never come to pass. But, it COULD if the people of Medford want it, and are willing to work for it. If, however, a four-lane highway is cut past Haw thorne park and down Bear Creek, this wistful hope will vanish forever. E. A. - Mamas Pay Check The old saying, "Woman's place is in the home," is being revised. Out of the 63 million or so employed persons in the United States today, about 21 million, or one third, are women. This is half again as many as were employed 15 years ago, according to a Fortune maga zine study. Nearly half of the married women in the 45 to 55 age group are employed. There are somewhat fewer in the younger age groups, the overall total is about 60 per cent. THE article says a graph American woman is "U - to work in the late teens and Der decreases later as children come along, and m creases again as the children get older. The larger number of with the later re-entry of market after their families have been raised, adds up to "a social revolution in the character of the U. S. la bor force, the magazine declares. e e e l nci M(is given aDOve constitute lurtner evi dence, if any were needed, that the United States is at a high point in productivity, over-all prosperity and employment With 63 million persons at work, and relatively few on the unemployed list (and most of these only temporarily out of jobs), it can be seen how important to the overall economy the feminine workers are. If they should suddenly all Kitchen, America would be THE FACT, which has been stated here before and doubtless will be again, ough workers, under present conditions, to fill the demand. And this applies endeavor, not just a few. Teachers, engineers, doctors and a few other pro fessions have loudly proclaimed how badly they need additional practitioners. And it is all true. But it is also true in most other occupations which need skilled, educated and trained personnel. I7TTH THIS SITUATION, it is little wonder that v Mama finds it easy and attractive to go back to work again when the youngsters are old enough to look after themselves. It may not be the best possible situation with regard to home atmosphere and youth' ful training and supervision, but it is a fact, and one we re going to have to live An opportunity for interesting, stimulating work, coupled with the extra income needed to support to day s ever-nsmg standard es to create the situation. In view of the need for workers, the situation has July A note from the National Safety Council reminds us that mere than 400 persons were killed by fire works in 1903. In 1955, only one person died of in juries from fireworks. This, of course, is progress. At the same time, progress sometimes takes a lot of fun out of life fireworks, for instance. 'ITU'E STILL BEAR a small scar on one hand suffered from a malfunctioning bit of July 4 explosive many years ago, and we d hate to see our kids expos ed to similar dangers. But, doggonit, it was fun. What we're leading up to is the fact that the pres ent younger generation will have its first chance, lo cally, m a number of ysars to watch a really bang-up (no pun) fireworks show next Wednesday. The high school stadium is being ngged up for a variety of spec tacular displays. The fire joining m. ' A good time a THE NOMINAL FEE which will be charged spec- tators will go to a good cause, too the continuing support of the YMCA summer camp at Diamond lake, For a number of years the camp has been under written by various projects and donations, and it is hoped that the July 4 fireworks show can be put on a successful annual basis, with the proceeds each year going into the camp fund. In short, this is a project which anyone can enjoy m the knowledge that fireworks (salely supervised) have not vanished from the of admission not only will guarantee a good show, but also will help out the worthwhile camping project. E. A. Friday, June 29. 195S Vision - up creek, with the banks paths, benches and picnic eliminated. of the work cycle of the shaped," that is. manv eo early twenties, the num- women at work, coupled older women into the labor decide to go tack to the in a real bind. . is that there are not en to virtually all fields of with. of living, have joined fore productive and skilled much to commend it. E.A, 4 Show and police departmeots are should be had by all. e e scene, and that the price Continued Over Destalinization'Good News' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the International bal ance sheet: The Good 1. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said In Washing ton that the whole Communist world had been shaken by the official Soviet Russian disclosure of Josef Stalin's crimes. Speak ing at a press conference, Dulles said that non-Russian Commu nist parties had shown "a very high state of dissatisfaction" with the present Kremlin leadership. . . The ties that have . . . bound these local Communist parties to the Kremlin have been very much shaken and loosened," he said. Dulles assert ed also that there is even "grave discontent and dissatisfaction" in the Russian party Itself. He hinted that the leadership of Nikita S. Khrushchev, leader of the party, might have been weak ened. 2. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chief of staff of the Air Force, did some plain speaking after his arrival in Moscow on a visit to the Soviet air force. He said at a reception that the United States "completely disbanded' its armed forces after World War II. It was then necessary. Twin ing said, to build the forces again for the Korean War. "We are not going to reduce again until we are sure of world-wide arms control," he said. 3. The United Nations Secur ity Council rejected a demand by 13 Arab and Asian countries that it debate the issue of French Babson Reports Ways Of Market By ROGER W. BABSON I Babson Park, Mass. The only way I have made money in the stock market has been by sell- ing stocks and taking profits at times like this, deposit ing the money in banks, and waiting until the bottom of the next de cline. Wh en the market crash finally Roger w. Bmbton comes, I buy stocks. In this way I am not a specu lator, but am like the ice man in the North who gathers ice in wintry weather and stores it up for people to use during the summer. This same principle, in reverse, applies to those who can fruit and vegetables in sum mer when they are about to spoil. We all perform a real service and are entitled to be rewarded. We have the courage to sell stocks or buy fruit when others lack the courage to do so. People who go with the crowd make conditions worse. Those who go contrary to the crowd are in a position later to make conditions better when there Is much un employment, no new building, and when commodities are sell ing below cost. Another Service Others make money in the stock market by performing another kind of service that is by helping new industries when they are unpopular and taking profits when these industries ma ture and are popular. Those who follow this second program have the additional advantage of diversification. They also al ways keep their money working, whereas, under my method, my money is idle about a third of the time. Buying into new Industries each year and selling the stocks of a few maturing companies re quires much research. Any in vestor who desires to follow such a program should be pre pared to pay an investment counselor for selecting these new industries. Furthermore, al though General Motors, for in stance, has been a gold mine. yet there have been scores of other automobile companies which have gone bankrupt. It is necessarv both to eet into the right industry, and also to buy the stock of the right company within that industry. University's Program Although swapping maturing industries for new industries is exceedingly profitable when done intelligenUy, very few in dividuals or even institutions have the ability and courage to act on this principle. One col lege, however, has had a most interesting experience in this connection. I refer to Wisconsin university, which, on its typical board of conservative coUege trustees, had also some bright chemists and engineers. These younger men so failed in getting the conservative board to adopt a more courageous investment policy that they formed a sep arate trust The Wisconsin Alumni Research foundation. They got together seven men who contributed S80 or so apiece, making a total of S585 to start with on Jan. 1, 1926. They in creased this small sum by the purchase and sale of "growth stocks" so that, at the present time, this $585, with accumu Red Dissatisfaction rule in Algeria. The vote was seven to two, with Nationalist China and Yugoslavia abstain ing. The council majority took the view that U.N. interference could only impede a settlement of the dispute. The Bad 1. Riots and strikes, and re ported assassination plots, threat ened trouble In several Latin American republics. In Guate mala, the government said It had unearthed a Communist sub versive plot. Four persons were killed in anti-government riots, undoubtedly fomented by the Communist underground. In Guatemala City. The govern ment Imposed a state of siege, comparable to martial law. In Peru, riots accompanied a na tionwide strike by 100,000 un ionized workers. The govern ment was compelled to suspend constitutional guarantees. Strikes broke In the big copper and ni trate mines in Chile. There were reports of plots to assassinate President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba and President Juscelino Kubitschek of Brazil. 2. Anti-American parties won a parliamentary election in Ice land, where the. United States has important air bases. The anti- American coalition, which de mands that United States forces be ousted, failed to win a major ity in parliament. But the Com munists now hold the balance of power. Officials in Washington said that the United States will withdraw if a formal demand is made after the formation of a new government. 3. Extremist violence intensi fied in Cyprus at a moment when Profiting lated dividends and profits, amounts to over $17,000,000 with a market value on Dec. 31, 1955. of $36,000,000. Approxi mately $6,000,000 received from patents and royalties they gave back to the university for new buildings and increased salaries. I might also give the names of individual clients which my organization has helped along these same lines. I could also cite a member of my family who during 50 years increased $600 to over $1,000,000 by putting the dividends and profits back into newer industries when they were unpopular and selling these when they became popular. Meanwhile the fund was kept well diversified with only comparatively small amount in each industry, so risk was pretty well eliminated. All this re quired, however, considerable work as the entire fund was turned over probably once in 10 years. In this case, no attention was given to general market con ditions or to the investment cycle. Communications Letter to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters witn a view to clarification and condensation, not exceed 400 words. Brief for Idaho P.C. To the Editor: Idaho Power Co's. plan for development of Hells canyon: Navigation A minimum flow of 5000 c l.s. as requested by the Corps of Engineers has been planned. Flood control Floods from the Snake come principally from the Salmon and Clearwater riv ers which enter downstream from Hells Canyon. Complete control for every recorded flood through Hells Canyon is pro vided for. Irrigation No dam planned for construction in this reach of the Snake River, either the high federal dam or Idaho Power Co's. dams, would store one acre-foot of water for irrigation. This section of the river (Hells Canyon) is below the point where there is any need for the storage of irrigation water. There is ap proximately ten million acre feet of irrigation storage already in existence above Hells Can yon. Recreation The proposed high dam would have a water level fluctuation of some 280 feet. These great variations of level would render almost im possible any practical use of the shore line for summer homes, picnic spots, or camping areas. In the plan for .three dams only the upper dam, the Brownlee, has a fluctuating leveL The Ox bow and Hells Canyon dams have" fixed levels, providing a scenic and boating paradise! The above information was taken from a report published by the Idaho Power Co. It may not be a true representation of the facts concerning the Hells Canyon controversy, but in this report there is absolutely no mention of socialism or commu nism, either creeping or other wise. - John O. Rector, 214 West Jackson st., Medford, Ore. the British government planned an attempt to renew negotiations on the future of the island. Ex tremists who demand that Cy prus be given to Greece bombed the automobile of a United States consular official. They had killed a United States vice coun cil In a bombing on June 16. At tacks on Britons and on Greek and Turkish Cypriots continued. GOP Has Big Stake in Steel Wage Washington (CQ) A steel in dustry wage raise, if won with out a strike, would be good news for the Republican party. Steel plants are the nation s biggest employers. Steelworkers should be good targets for the Republican prosperity theme. Their wages have Increased about one-third in the past three years, and are to be even higher after this year's contract fight is over. But a long strike could wipe out most of these accumulated gains and threaten employment in other industries, aepenaent on steel, as well. Sen. George H. Bender (R-O.). was just expressing the general GOP concern June 23 when he urged federal government inter vention in the deadlocked steel contract talks. See GOP Boost The Republicans feel that la bor peace and continued pros perity in the steel industry would be a tremendous boost to their chances of regaining con trol of Congress. Already, the GOP holds more than half the Congressional dis tricts where 1,000 or more steel workers live. A Congressional Quarterly sur vey located 206 such districts That's almost half the national total of 435 districts. By com parison, an earlier CQ survey found 118 districts with 1,000 or more auto workers. Actually, the "steelworkers" category includes workers proc essing nonferrous metals like copper, lead, zinc and aluminum, too. About three-quarters of the workers in the category are in steel plants, and they are tied closely to men in other metal plants through the United Steel workers of America (AFL-CIO). The 206 districts where 1,000 or more of these workers live are represented in the 84th Con gress by 97 Democrats and 109 Republicans. : -15 Changed Hands Fifteen of the districts chang ed hands in 1954. Democrats picked up 13 and "Republicans two. However, the really big steel districts those with 10,000 or more steelworkers have been remarkably stable in the past two elections. None of the 23 districts switched in 1952, but remained 15 Democratic, 13 Re- a pen name or initial for publication Letters submitted for publication must From an ex-Oregoniaa To the Editor: As an ex-Ore- gonian I look with interest and affection on everything Oregon does and stands for. One of the things that pleases me most is to observe the activities of Wayne Morse in the Senate. He is a great rugged individualist from the same political stock pile that contributed Senator Borah of Idaho and Senator George Norris of Nebraska. I hope Oregonians will keep this dedicated man at the business of representing a great state in our Senate. Ken McCormick, Editor in Chief, Doubleday & Co., 575 Madison Ave., N.Y.C. INDIAN AID PROPOSED Washington-U.R) Sen. Wil liam Langer (R.-N.D.) a foreign aid critic, Thursday proposed that some of America's own In dian tribes get in on the foreign aid program. Langer introduced an amendment to the aid bill which would earmark $50 mil lion for economic aid to the Apache and Everglade Indian tribes. m &I35? '6&?8C3 2 31 SMOKED Ham Hocks 15 Lb. In The Day's News Fran j.nkiM A Purdue University econo mist, taking a look into his crys tal ball, announces this morning that by 1979 Americans will have an average income after taxes of $12,000 a year. He forgot to add a prediction as to HOW MUCH THE $12,000 WILL BUY. A BUSINESS consultant of one of the big Chicago banks (name of A. M. Strong) tells a forum sponsored by the Illinois Manufacturers' Association that Contract publican. In 1954 one switched to the Democrats. The Democrat with the big gest steelworker constituency, 50,385, is Ray J. Madden of Gary, Ind., a New Deal-Fair Deal Con gressman who's had labor's sup port and financial help In his seven successful campaigns Adjoining Madden's district is the Illinois 4th, which includes Chicago's big steel area and some suburban towns. It is the Repub lican district with the largest number of steelworkers, 22,704. Three times, ex-school principal William E. McVey has defeated labor-backed Democrats by roll ing up suburban pluralities to offset his 7 to 10,000 vote deficit in Chicago's industrial 10th Ward. Similar Problem In Pennsylvania's 25th Dis trict, Democrats, with a big as sist from the Steelworkers Un solved a problem similar to that faced m McVey s district, Despite the estimated 34,902 steelworkers in Bessemer and New Castle, Democratic candi dates never had been able to overcome the pluralities sur rounding rural areas turned in for the Republicans. But in 1954 Frank M. Clark, a former steel union president, became the first Democratic winner since 1938, by an 8,500-vote margin. Republicans hope to regain Clark's district in November, and seven others like it, where the Democrats' 1954 margin-of vic tory was less than 5 per cent of the vote and steelworker fam ilies hold a theoretical balance of power. In six of these eight districts, Republican hopes are buoyed by a relatively large Negro population, subject to spe cial GOP appeals this year on the civil rights issue. Democrats have their eyes on 19 Republican - held districts where the proportion of steel worker families is greater than the winners' 1954 margins. Mc Vey's is one of these. But Demo cratic hopes are tempered by the realization that their candi dates have probably been receiv ing the bulk of the steelworkers votes aU along. Significant gains will, have to come from other sectors of the population. Senate Races The steelworkers can have big voice not only in House con tests, but in four Senate races where Republicans are defending seats: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illi nois and Maryland. The main basis for Republican optimism in the big steel dis tricts is the rise in weekly pay in the past three years. Earnings of steelworkers jumped from $71.24 a week in 1952 to $9330 a week last year. The increase has continued in the first half of 1956. Barring a strike and the steel plants have been struck only 12 hours in the past three years! the ouUook for the industry is continued prosperity, at least through election time. (Copyright 1956, ' Congressional Quarterly) HOUSE of North of Gold Hill AT On Display - One of the West's Finest Collections of Gold Dust and Nuggets Summer Hours - 8 to 7 Under Founder' Management Sine 1930 EAST SIXTH ST. Pure Lard 2 LBS. PORK Sausage Lb. the shortage of doUars is. one of the greatest present obstacles in international commerce. He adds: "The dollar shortage has prac tically closed our markets in leading Latin American coun tries and is affecting our sales in most countries of the world." SUPPOSE you'll snort scorn fully and want to know who the heck ISN'T AFFECTED by the shortage of dollars. We could all use quite a few more. Restrain yourself. What Mr. Strong is talking about is international trade not American spending. The only way foreigners can acquire American dollars is by selling their products to Americans. This upper bracket business consultant means that as of now we aren't buying enough from other countries to enable them to get dollars enough to buy from us as much of our products as they need and want to keep the balance of trade even. TRADE, you know, is a TWO J-1 WAY street. It has to be that way. If all the streets were one way streets, it wouldn't be long until aU the cars were piled up at one end of town. The result of that would be a MESS. It works the same way in the case of trade especially inter national trade. If all the trade goes one way the result is a mess that eventually snarls everything up. THE point is that if we want to spll fnir Ktimliieps tn fnrpicn nations our present huge farm surpluses, for example we'll simply have to buy enough of what other nations have to sell to enable them to get dollars enough to buy (and pay for) what we need to sell to them. SIMPLE, isn't it? No. IT ISN'T! It's frightfully complicated. and only a few experts really understand it. . But it is extremely important. "Itf ORE about business. We've been hearing a lot lately about "tight" money. (Money, you know, is a com modity, and it responds to the law of supply and demand, the same as other commodities.) Along that line, this little squib about savings deposits is inter esting and significant: "Savings deposited in the na tion's 527 mutual savings banks increased 162 million dollars during May and reached an all time high of 28 billion, 901 million dollars. The national as sociation of mutual savings banks says the May increase was 29 per cent more than the gain of 125 million dollars in May of last year." WHY is that important? ' WeU, BEFORE ANY MON EY CAN BE LOANED SOME BODY MUST FIRST SAVE IT UP. ' ' The more money the people SAVE, the more money there is to be loaned. AND- . The person who saves up some money is HARDLY EVER sorry he did it. It's almost sure to come handy sooner or later. FILMS IN by 10 a.m. OUT by 4:30 p.m. S&H GREEN STAMPS ANDER'S Photo Shop 232 I. Main Ph. 2-3646 MYSTERY Open Throughout The Year SLICED Bacon Lb.