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Newspaper Page TextI FOXJH MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforiSTrib uxs "Everybody In boutnern Oregon Keatu me Mail TriDune- PublLshed Daily Except Saturday by MELIf OKI) fKiiXl.-ti UU. 87-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6t ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY. Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Businesi Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Citv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PAJLE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Inriinr.dent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act ci Marcn j. icvi SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' -. t i ij9ncB Par fnnv T Hf Daily and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 6.50 Daily and Sunday Three mos. 3j0 Sunday only uno year - i a Morlfnrri Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Taient, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and ueaiers k p .vj All Terms Casll in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official rapcr oi jaensun United Press FuJlLeasedWire " MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Or Lmt-ULiiim-' . . -f ... i f i i 1 1 1 a v rnMPAWV INC lyllim 1 . ' . ' - troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Romano, at- i-oma. " -Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL IassocJatlqn I y J o Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Kistorv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 9. 1946 CIt was Tuesday) William H. Fluhrer returns from Chicago where he attend ed the national conference of general managers of the baking industry. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: H. Flew her, the demon baker, is back from an aerial scoot over the portion of the nation laying be yond the Rockies. 20 YEARS AGO July 9, 1936 (It was Thursday) The U. S. National bank which has a branch in Medford, reports a continuation of its growth. Montgomery Ward spent about $11,000,000 in the three west coast states, Oregon, Washing ton and California, last year for merchandise, H. L. Brown, Ward store manager, announces. 30 YEARS AGO July 9. 1926 (It was Friday) John D. Rockefeller Jr., stay ed in Medford overnight last night, this being one of his stops of the national parks. Bob's Lunch Room and Bakery opened for business this morn ing and has been serving the public all day. , 40 YEARS AGO July 9, 1916 (It was Sunday) The Hall Taxi company began operating taxi line to Crater Lake this morning and will leave Medford at 8:30 a.m. on Mon day's, Wednesday's and Friday's. Arrangements are under way for the entertainment of this year's State Editorial convention here Aug. 4 and 5. LOST THE TIME Miami (U.R) Schoolteach er William F. Cooke had a ready excuse for keeping for 10 days an expensive sports car an auto mo' ile Salesman let him take around the block for a trial drive. He lost track of the time, Cooke told police, because he doesn't have a watch. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955, Editorial Research Report ' - K rfiJig.-.u.Mia tr00' NEWSPAPER VV PUBLISHERS V-ASSOCIATION 1. Ford Motor Co. stock is up or down from the price at which offered to the public some months ago, or about the same? 2. Only state that touches but one other is California, Dela ware, Florida, Rhode Island or Maine? 3. The U.N. charter does or doesn't specify how a member nation may resign from U.N.? 4. The All-Star American-National league baseball game has been contested for (a) 4, (b) 14, (c) 24, or (d) 40 years? 5. Chairman of Senate com mittee recommending censure of Sen. McCarthy in 1954 was Symington (Mo.), Watkins (Utah) Johnson (Tex.), George (Ga.) or Bricker (Ohio)? 6. What the British call petrol is called in the U.S. kerosene, gasoline, natural gas, benzine or lubricating oil? 7. When some one is strasbis mic he's pigeon-toed, humorless, cross-eyed, deaf "or color-blind? The Answers: 1. Down. 2. Maine. 3. Doesn't. 4. For 24 years. 5. Sen. Watkins. 6. Gaso line. 7. Cross-eyed. ' Use Mail Tribune Want Ads MAIL TRIBUNE A "Package" Program One of these days and it should be soon the finance committee of the Medford city council will come up with its findings on how to finance a major development program for Medford. Preliminary estimates indicated that it will cost more than $2,000,000. Common sense shows that it is badly needed. A review of recent trends in taxation, and of the reaction by taxpayers, forecasts that it will have to be thoroughly sold to the voters of Medford. 'THE present thinking about the "package" program involves three elements. 1. An arterial street program, to cost approxi mately $1,656,000. This will provide more ways' of getting from one side of town to another, widen the streets which carry the most traffic to 'permit more rapid and smoother flow of automobiles, provide a more nearly integrated system of traffic signals, and generally make life easier (and less expensive in wear and tear, gasoline costs, and tempers) for the motorist. 2. A storm sewer program, to cost approximately $380,000. The need for this is pretty obvious to any one who has looked around Medford during periods of wet weather. It's a lot more obvious to residents who have high water in their basements and yards every winter. 3. An off -street parking program, to cost approxi mately $600,000. Without this, the arterial street pro gram would be, at least in part, self-defeating, for without more "terminal facilities" (as the experts call downtown parking lots and spaces) what good would it do to make it easier to get downtown in an automobile? THERE is a probability that a fourth component, a 1 $112,900 program to enlarge and expand certain overloaded segments of the tem, will be included. Totaling these, if all projects are included at these first estimates, we arrive at the figure of $2,748,000. Over a 10-year period it works out to $274,890 per year. This is a hefty sum of third and one-half of the total budget ior iy5b-5. Would the voters of Medford cast their ballots in favor of increasing their don t know. W'HAT we do know is that it would be a wise idea fr molro euro that Trio omnnnfs ncVprl mo as small as they can be and still do the necessary job. Medford residents have shown, time and again, that when a reasonable request is made for tax money to perform a necessary function, they are willing to pay the bill. If it can be demonstrated that each of these items is reasonable and necessary, we believe they will again show that willingness. If there is a question about one or more of the items, that question might well cause all of them to be defeated. That is the disadvantage of a "pack age" program. But the "package" approach, on the other hand, has the advantage of clarity and speed a way to solve four pressing problems at one time. A S WE see it, the package method should be tried, for all the improvements in it are badly needed, as any realistic appraisal will indicate. Members of the council and of the citizens' budget committee, who reviewed 'the plans put forward for off-street parking, are a bit dubious about that $600,000 item, and fear that resistance to it' might damage the chances for overall success for all. We think they may be underrating the common sense of Medford voters, most of whom are motorists and who are aware that better parking facilities are needed badly and soon. A T THE same time, we have long felt that the down town business and professional people who have "carried the ball" for a parking program have a heavier responsibility for leadership in this field than other elements within the city, for it is they who will benefit most directly and most immediately al though the benefits will, of course, ultimately be shared by all. If the $600,000 parking item is too big a chunk for the city fathers to swallow, we would like to see explored the idea of a combination program, with a portion of the cost borne by the bond issue, and the rest by previously-suggested contributions by down town businessmen and property owners, through in creased and readjusted business license contributions, and a commercial property license contribution. The program as a whole is important if Medford is to continue its progress and growth. E.A. Good The Fourth of July fireworks show at the high school stadium last Wednesday night was one of the best events of its kind we've ever seen. . The police and fire departments jumped into the fun with both feet (particularly the red-underwear-clad firemen who looked to be having as much fun as anyone). E. M. Tucker's display of old-time cars was fascinating. The handling of the fireworks was expert and, commendably, done with an eye toward safety. THE YMCA and its organizations are to be com mended for the show, which thrilled both the older spectators who haven't seen such a show in years and the younger ones, who never have seen one. As one father said aftenvard, "Well, they're going to HAVE to make it an annual event now. The kids won't let 'em stop with one." That a show like this can be combined with such a worthy cause as helping keep the YMCA summer camp on a sound basis is a good omen. E.A. ' Monday, July 9, 1956 trunk sanitary sewer sys money. It is between one- taxes by this amount? We Show Wild Ducks Grain; Wildlife Laws Enacted Washington (CQ) Congress has formally invited wild ducks to peck away at its mountain of surplus grain. The invitation is in the form of a bill passed by both the House and Senate. It received the President's signature July 3 to become official. The only obstacle in sight is from the ducks themselves. Will they turn their bills up at the grain nobody else wants and keep right on eating farmers' crops during their North and South migrations? The Fish and Wildlife Service plans to find out as soon as the bill becomes law. The Service will spread grain along migra tory routes, especially in wild life refuges, in hopes of decoy ing the ducks to dine there in stead of in farmers' fields. Other Wildlife Laws In other wildlife legislation important but not likely to swing the election Congress so far this session: Declared all-out war on the sea lamprey that has been de stroying trout and whitefish in the Great Lakes by the ton. Agreed to spend almost a mil lion dollars to encourage trout and bass to breed in captivity. Passed a bill to let Eskimos sell walrus tusk in the raw in stead of requiring them to carve it up into ivory trinkets first. Agreed to build dams to make sure that Georgia's Okefenokee swamp stays wet enough to pre vent fires there. Serious Purposes Despite the off-beat nature of the bills, they have serious pur poses behind them. Millions of dollars ride on the success or failure of the bill to feed wildfowl surplus grain and the one to wipe out the sea lam prey, for instance. Wildlife Service officials say that migrating ducks and geese have become a tremendous pest to farms along migratory routes, especially in California. By the thousands they flock down on the fertile fields of the Sacra mento, Imperial and San Joa quin valleys, finding growing gram and vegetables so tasty that they stay for weeks instead of continuing their flight to na tural habitats. Under the bill sent to the President June 26, any com munity bothered by the migra tory towl could get grain through the Secretary of Inte rior, from the Commodity Credit Corp. to use as a decoy. The Wildlife Service intends to su pervise the program to guard againt duck baiting, putting out gram to get ducks within shoot ing distance. The feeding experi ment would last three years. Lamprey War President Eisenhower .m a d e the lamprey war official June 4 by signing into law the bill au thorizing it. The chief weapons will be electrocution devices and lamprey poisons. The lamprey, sometimes call ed a vampire eel, is native to the ocean. It is an 18-inch eel-like creature that first struck in Lake Ontario, presumably by swimming in from the ocean via the St. Lawrence river. Shortly , after the Welland canal by passing Niagara Falls was opened, the lamprey pro ceeded upstream into Lake Erie and then to Lake Huron. Fish and Wildlife Service sta tistics show that the lamprey ate up 870 tons of lake trout in Lake Huron alone between 1935 and 1951. One lamprey eats between 20 and 40 pounds of fish in his 18 months of adulthood. Adjournment Seen July 28 by United Press correspond ents around the world look ahead at the news that will make the headlines. Getaway Day Congressional leaders aren't saying it publicly or officially. But they've privately set their sights on the week end of July 28 at the adjournment target date. Some members still say the session can be wound up by July 15 or 20. But most of those close to the realities feel they still need another three weeks and are planning accordingly. Atomic Outpost American intelligence may deny it. But London insiders say that at least two United States Air Force Lockheed U2 jet planes are operating in Britain. The U2 is on the secret list. But it's known to be a big flying lab oratory. It can't break the sound barrier. .What it can do is fly to extremely high altitudes, above 60,000 feet. What are the U2s up to in Britain? Taking read ings, they say, on the radioactive content of the air atomic out post duty. Russian atomic mush room clouds are their soup. Trouble for the Reds American observers in For mosa predict a series of local up risings in Red China soon. Intel ligence reports from the Communist-ruled mainland say that rumblings of discontent among the ill-fed masses are growing louder. No big scale revolt is possible now. But spontaneous To Peck at In 1945, the lamprey reached the most inland of the Great Lakes, Lake Superior. Natural ists theorize that the lamprey got through the locks of the Soo canal by attaching itself to the ships sailing through them. Prolific Breeder With each female lamprey lay ing 61,500 eggs the one time in her life she spawns, the locust proportions will wipe out the $10 million a year fishing indus try enjoyed in the lakes unless checked. The law authorized a two-front attack by the U.S. and Canada on the lamprey and co ordination of fish research for the lakes. The U.S. expects to pay $1.8 million just to fight the lamprey in the next three years. Electrical fences will be strung across the streams the lamprey swims up to spawn. A warning tickle of electricity will cause other fish to bypass the fence, but the boneless lamprey will swim into it and be electro cuted. The Fish and Wildlife Service has spent about $1.7 million experimenting with elec trocution and other weapons since 1949. But the Service is even more optimistic about a chemical which has been developed after 5,000 tries. It seeps into the mud where the lamprey larvae devel op for five years and kills them without hurting other water life. Hatchery Appropriations In an opposite approach, Con gress passed and the President signed into law two bills to build fish hatcheries, one in the Pisgah National forest in North Carolina and another near Miles City, Mont. The Pisgah hatchery is esti mated to cost $375,000, with $96,000 of the amount going for homes for the trout and $50,000 for homes for the men to take care of them. The legislation was requested in order to keep the number of fish ahead of the fishermen in the 1,200 miles of park streams. The Miles City hatchery would be used to breed 10 mil lion fish a year, mostly northern and walleye pike, bass, blue gills and catfish. The fish would be stocked in farm ponds with out charge in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, California and parts of North Dakota and Wyoming. ' Walruses Another wildlife bill passed would amend the 1941 Walrus Protection act by permitting Alaskan Eskimos to sell walrus tusks and hides. It would allow also non-natives of Alaska to shoot more than the current one-walrus-a-year limit, provid ing he hunted with a paid na tive guide. Current law permits natives to shoot only the walruses they need for food and clothing. The ivory tusks from the shot ani mals can be exported from Alas ka after they have been carved into trinkets, but no other part of the animal can be sold The bill is designed to give the native economy a lift. A ma ture walrus tusk is worth about $100 in the raw state and the hide about $120. Assistant Sec retary of Interior Wesley A. D'Ewart told Congress that lim its on the amount of hides that could be exported would protect the walruses from widespread slaughter. Okefenokee Swamp . A bill to keep the Okefenokee National Wildlife refuge in Georgia wet awaits Senate ac tion before it can be sent to the President. It would authorize dams to control the water level Congress outbreaks by villagers and peas ants are likely. Air Safety Look for the Airline Pilots association to step up its demand for restoration of the govern ments old Air Safety Board as the result of the Grand Canyon disaster. The ASB was an inde pendent three-man group that used to investigate air acci dents. President Franklin D. Roosevelt abolished it in 1940 and turned its functions over to the Civil Aeronautics board. The pilots always have felt that the CAB, which makes safety rules, ought not to investigate acci dents which might be due to its own faulty regulations. Steel Strike Echo The steel strike has set auto mobile men to intensified study of a possible substitute for steel as the basic passenger car mate rial. But they agree it's a mat ter for the far future. None is in sight now. Toothpaste Suntan Lotion Mosquito Repellent Sundries Magazines Film We Have It. Surplus of the swamp and the construc tion of fire lanes. Fire between October, 1954, and June, 1955, swept over 284, 000 of the 329,000 acres in the refuge, killing much of the wildlife there. Biggest problem is the peat bogs. They go to a depth of 15 feet and burn for months once they catch fire. Democrats Ponder Man To Deliver Keynote Address Chicago U.R) Top Demo crats huddle today to decide who will deliver the keynote address at the national convention Aug. 13. At least nine party leaders were under consideration for the duty. The final selection was to be made at an afternoon meeting of the convention and arrange ments committee called to order by Democratic Chairman Paul Butler. Most likely candidates for the job appeared to be Sen. Henry M. Jackson (Wash.) and Sen. Robert S. Kerr (Okla.). Both were said to be acceptable to the groups supporting New York Gov. Averell Harriman and Sen. Estes Kefauver for the president ial nomination. Other Possibilities Other men seen as the possible keynoter were Sen. John F. Ken nedy of Massachusetts, Sen. Hu bert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Gov. Frank C. Clement of Tennessee. All three are back ing Adlai E. Stevenson's bid for the nomination. Also mentioned for the key- noting assignment were Govs. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, George Douglas of Illinois and Rep. John McCormack, House majority leader, of Massachu setts. This was expected to be the final meeting of the arrange ments committee before the con vention gets underway at the international amphitheater. Sen. Morse Raps School Bill Defeat Portland (U.R) Sen. Wayne Morse flew back to Washington Saturday but not before firing a parting shot at the coalition of Representatives that killed the school aid bill in congress last week. "The defeat in the House of Representatives of the school construction bill is a blow to the children of America and is also a great disservice to the security of our country," Morse said. He added that it is of vital im portance to this country to keep ahead of Russia in "brainpower,1 something "many people who are opposed to federal aid to educa tion do not seem to understand." "I shall support President Ei senhower to the limit on this issue," Morse said. "In fact, I hope he will urge Congress to re main in session if necessary be yond its planned adjournment date until it passes the best pos sible education bill." Sen. Morse had spem a week in Oregon, vacationing and con ferring with his campaign lead ers. Uphill Fight Seen On Postal Rise Bill Washington (U.R) The Eisenhower administration today faced a tough fight to get its $430 million annual boost in postal rates through the senate. The house passed the bill Fri day night after a hot, partisan fight. . With congress expected to ad journ inss than a month, the administration faced an uphill fight to pBCvent the measure from dying in a Senate Post Of fice committee pigeonhole. Com mittee Chairman Olin D. John ston (D-SC) is a strong oppon ent of the postal increase. In the house, the bill had the support of Post Office Commit tee Chairman Tom Murray- (D- Tenn). The house passed the contro versial bill on a 217 to 165 roll call vote. AN ILL WIND Dennison, Mich. U.R) George Morren and Ruth Schol- ten were forced to postpone their wedding plans when high winds destroyed the groom's $4,500 house trailer in which they plan ned to live. The winds also ruin ed the bride's trousseau plus other personal belongings and wedding gifts. MARKET II 1202 North Riverside OPEN EVERY L ttjS. NIGHT TIL M fe&. MIDNIGHT In The Day's Our air force chief of staff General Nathan Twining has just returned from an eight-day visit to Russia where he seems to have been given an unusually good look at the Russian air power. He reported to President 'Eis enhower, and following his con ference with the President he told newsmen that in his opin ion we are ahead of the Russians now in the QUALITY of our air power,, and should be able to stay ahead of them. He added: "It is possible, of course, that Russia might sur pass us in air power by 1960 IF WE DON'T KEEP MOVING." pRESUMABLY we will keep V moving. With world condi tions what they are it is incon ceivable that we should stand still. That would be like sitting your porch and sipping a lemonade and reading the fun nies while a flood was roaring down the valley toward your home.) THE dispatches this morning say it seems unlikely that ad ministration critics will be silenc ed by General Twining's opinion that all in all we are doing pretty well. One of these critics is Sen. Henry Jackson of the state of Washington, who is a member of senate subcommittee that is digging into the subject of rela tive air strength of the United States and Russia. He says he has some pointed questions to ask when General Twining ap pears before this senate group. I THINK it would be a good idea for us ordinary voters to keep our fingers carefully crossed on this air strength business until after the first week of this com ing November. It is a highly explosive politi cal issue, with the Democratic strategists seeking to make it appear that the Eisenhower ad ministration is deliberately en dangering our country's future in order to save a little tax money. ; That was the political idea back of the recent addition of somewhat more than a billion dollars to the administration's estimate of the funds needed for keeping our air power up to par in the present fiscal year. T ET'S also keep this in mind; If the situation were re versed that is to say, if the Democrats were IN and the Re publicans were OUT AND TRY ING TO GET BACK IN the GOP politicians would be doing Indian Relocation Services To Open Portland (U.R) Don C. Fos ter, Portland area director- of the Bureau of Indian Affair, said today that two Indian relo cation services will be opened in the near future in Oregon. One of the offices is to be opened at Warm Springs Agency and the other at Klamath Falls. Foster said Indian families and individuals who want to re locate away from reservations to metropolitan' centers will be able to get information on the relocation program and to file applications for relocation at the new offices. The Warm Springs Agency of fice will serve the Warm Springs, Umatilla, Celilo and Burns-Paiute colony Indians in Oregon and any Yakima Indians who are interested in relocation. The Klamath Falls office will handle work under the Klamath Termination Act and is scheduled to open Aug. 13. LONG HAIR Hamden, Conn. (U.R) To protest a 25-cent hike in the price of haircuts, a group of Hamden men formed a "Once-a-Month" club. The . president, James Mclnnis, said the organi zation's 11 members promised to restrict themselves to one hair cut a month. "No haircut is worth $1.50 with or without a tip," he added. Since 1908 . PERL Mortuary o Phone 2-6675 FINER FUNERAL SERVICES In every price rang News Frank Jenlcfn exactly what the .Democratic politicians are doing now. That's politics for you. T'D LIKE to offer a little more advice to non-political readers of the news. Keep your fingers crossed on this federal aid to the school business that is stirring up such a ruckus in Washington these days. It also is heavily loaded with politics. It appears that because of poli tical maneuvering (such as the controversial amendment deny ing federal school aid to states which permit classroom segrega tion) the school aid bill is dead for the present. If so, it is fortu nate. Federal aid to the schools a dangerous experiment in any event, and it is doubly dan gerous when the purpose back of it is the garnering of racially conscious votes. Communications Police Cooperation To the Editor: We wish to commend the Central Point, Medford and Jacksonville police departments for their ability to work hand in hand whenever the need arises. Without the po lice, the Economy market in Central Point, which' we own, would have been completely flooded. " As it happened, there was very little damage done, in a matter of seconds after the Cen tral Point police discovered the water, and being unable to reach us by phone, the Medford police department was contact ed, and in turn the Jacksonville police notifed us of the water condition. We are eternally grateful to all three police departments. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Anderson Jacksonville, Ore. Liked 'Primer' To the Editor: I take this means to commend the Mail Tribune very heartily for pub lishing in last Tuesday's issue the page "Primer for Ameri cans." It was, indeed, a worth while public service. Our good old American prin ciples are today being discount ed not just by the rabble, but by too great a segment of those who hold places of responsibil ity and leadership. It is there fore most pleasing to note your heartening presentation of the fundamentals of Americanism, and it is our hope that a great majority oi your readers paused to read them once more and meditate upon what they should mean to every one of us. Amer ica needs true Americans today as much or more than ever in its history. -- Thanks a million. Paul W. Hornbeck ' 308 Fluhrer Bldg. Medford, Ore. Up From Death GEO. N. TAXLOR Christ, the Son of God, created all things and without Him was nothing made that was made John 1:3. In due time man was created and created free from sin. And he was warned that if he sin ned, he must surely die. Yet he sinned in the face of that warning and he died. So death passed upon all men. For Adam, our first parent sinned and died and from that day all have sin ned and died. But God so loved all men that He sent Christ, the treasure of his heart, to take your sins and die for you. Believe down in your heart that Christ is your Lord and Saviour and God gives you eternal life. Then when you sin, confess your sin and God forgives you. He for gives on the ground that Christ died for that sin also. 1st John 1:8-9. Sum it up accept Christ m as dying for all your sins and God gives you eternal life. adv.