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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Zveryoocy in ouir.crn Oregon Reads Toe Mau iTioune Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO ft-39 North Fir St. Phone 2-8I41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor EERB GREY Advertising Manager GEHA-UD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AXXEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor ' HARRY CHiPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT SporU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent NewspapeT Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act o Marcn a, iau SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $12.00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8.50 Dally and Sunday Three moe. 3.50 Sunday Only One year $3.50. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Aahland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes'. Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealer 5c per copy All Term Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper ot Jacuson unumj United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC. Offices In New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver BC NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION ! y J o NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and !0 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO July 11. 1945 (It was Thursday) Jackson County Sheriffs Mounted Posse and the Ladies Mounted Troop will hold a breakfast ride to Ehrheart Inn tomorrow. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: New autos are now scooting around with temporary bumpers made out of thick lumber. Due to the lum ber shortage, it was harder to get the two by fours than the auto. SO YEARS AGO July 11, 193S (It was Saturday) Medford planning commission holds public hearing on a pro posed ordinance regarding zon ing. United States War Veterans, In annual convention at The Dalles, invited to hold the 1937 conclave in Medford. SO YEARS AGO July 11. 1926 Highway Commissioner H. H. Van Duzer guest of honor at a luncheon Saturday at Medford hotel; luncheon given by R. H. Price, manager of Crater Lake lodge. Bartlett pears in the early districts. Central Point and Table Rock and River section will be ready for picking by July 16. 40 YEARS AGO July 11. 1916 (It was Tuesday) The road through Crater Lake rational park to eastern Oregon opened to travel. From Local and Personal col umn: Mrs. C. C. Lewis has re turned from a week's visit in Portland. What's the Answer? Can You Gt 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955. Editorial Research Report 1. The A & P operates slightly over (a) 400. (b) 1400, (c) 4000, or (d) 14,000 stores and super markets in the U.S. and Canada? 2. The 1956 California presi dential primary was chiefly a Stevenson or Kefauver victory or pretty much a stand-off? 3. Hodgkins Diease affects the heart, intestines, inner ear, bone joints or lymph glands and spleen? 4. Star of the first talking movie was Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valen tino, Al Jolson or Eddiie Cantor? 5. The old Roman system of numerals used (a) 5, (b) 7, (c) 9, (d) 11 or (e) more than 11 letters? 6. Which of these boxers is supposed to weigh the least: bantamweight, lightweight, fly weight, featherweight? 7. Fannie M. Farmer achieved fame as the author of what book? The Answers: 1. Slightly over 4000. 2. Chiefly Stevenson vic tory. 3. Lymplh glands and spleen. 4. Jolson. 5. Sevan. 6. Flyweight. 7. Boston Cooking School Cook Book. New Delhi, India (U.R) The government-owned Indian Air lines Corp. will buy six Russia Ilyushin-14 planes to replace its present fleet of American-made Dakotas, it was reported today. The contract calls for delivery of the S250.000 planes to begin in October. . MAIL TRIBUNE Notes From a Trip The liqtior store situated just south of the Oregon California border on U. S. Highway 101, along the coast, has two names. The traveler driving north sees the name as "Last Chance." The southbound tourist sees the name, "First Chance." The "great American tourist" changes. Years ago, he was a hardy, pioneer-type of indi vidual, with bedrolls, food boxes, camp beds and tents strapped to all sides of his open touring car. Later, as slicked-up, -streamlined automobiles without running-boards became the vogue, he became more sophisticated, stopping more often at a "cabin camp" than at a camp-ground. Nowadays there is a trend back to the original breed, and as a result, both types of highway travel ers are seen in ever-increasing numbers. Some of them flash by in their glossy cars, headed for the luxury, "motels," which are the modern-day successors of the cabin camps. Others, however, are going back to the bed-roll and food box or rather their modern ver sions, the sleeping bag and portable ice-chest. On the heavily traveled tourist highways, one sees station wagons (the neo-tourist cars) piled high with bedding, mattresses, pillows, thermos jugs and, quite frequently, small children and dogs. And in the public campgrounds, they fill up the camping space virtually every night of the summer months. There are also an increasing number of those modern nomads the trailerites. Highway pastimes also change with the years. Years ago, one made poker hands out of the num bers on approaching license plates. Today, highway speeds are frequently too great to see enough of the numbers to play this game. A new one is watching for the new California li cense plates, which have three large letters as pre fixes for the numerals. The combinations of letters sometimes are wonderful. DAZ is seen frequently in Del Norte county. But we also spotted AEC (Atomic Energy Commission?), DUK, and others equally sug gestive. We kept looking for IKE and VFW and DAV, but never saw them. We hope whoever is in charge of se lecting the letters is careful, for some three-letter com binations, if not screened, could be embarrassing. A night under the Redwoods can be an exhilara ting experience. It can also be somewhat unnerving for one not used to camping out. The family secretary of health, education and welfare made careful inquiry as to the incidence of bears before the sleeping bags were rolled out, and was assured (1) that this wasn't bear country, and (2) that bears are more afraid of you than you are of them. (The second answer fell on unhealing ears.) During the night, however, we heard garbage cans clanking in the darkness, and remembered watching bears in Crater Lake National park tumbling them over each night. In the stillness, we wondered if (1) and (2) were correct, after all. The culprit, we found later, was a raccoon who made the rounds each night. ' Miles and miles of Highway 299, winding over the Trinity mountains between Areata and Redding, are under construction, and frequent waits for "pilot cars" to convoy travelers are necessary. At one point, construction men were preparing to blast an outcropping of rock. As we sat and waited, a truck rolled by, jouncing over the construction de bris, with six boxes of dyanmite riding on the tailgate. The man riding with them casually caught one just as it tipped and started to fall to the ground. A veteran highway construction man, at a mid-afternoon break, complained loudly that he'd been moved up on the mountain" to drill blast holes, that he'd been given a map showing just where to drill, and that "out of 9,000 feet of construction, the blankety blank fools picked out that one spot to drill, and it was right on top of a skunk ! !" Some 10 or 15 miles north of Weaverville, along a winding, dusty mountain road, with "civilization" far behind, one rounds a jouncing curve and finds a large, neatly painted sign : "Children at Play." The tiny, unincorporated community of Trinity Center, though barely large enough to show on maps, boasts a sign, "Trinity Center Muncipal Airport," in the middle of town. The airstrip, leveled on gold dredge tailings, serves Forest Service fire patrol planes, and the aircraft of logging companies. The Trinity mountains, known as the "Alps" in their higher elevations, are beautiful and spectacular. But the family secretary of HEW claims that Mt. Ash land and Wagner Butte are just as gorgeous. And, to the homebound tourist, she's right, of course. E. A. Warped Thinking We can't understand and we're glad we can't the thinking of an individual who would set off a bun dle of dynamite near downtown buildings. His moti vations must be strange and his thinking warped. The reference is to last Wednesday's "bombing" at Rogue River, in which the post office, a variety store, and the office of the Rogue River Times were damaged, and several persons escaped injury or death only by luck. DISAGREE with many of the Times' editorial " and news policies and methods. But wre join all right-thinking people in our abhor rence of the type of mentality that could use dynamite in a town's business section as a means of retribution or vengeance toward one concern. And it looks as though what could be what it was. We hope the police authorities are successful in their hunt for the crim inal or criminals responsible. E.A. Wednesday. July 11. 1956 Iberian Penninsula Air Seen 'Insurance1 Against Loss By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States is taking out some valuable insurance against the possible loss of its mil- itary bases in North Africa. First, it is speeding up the construction of the air end na val bases which Spain granted it under a n agreement signed in 1953.. Charles UcCann oeconaiy, 11 is preparing to take advantage of the offer Portugal has just made to give it the use of two big Portugese bases. A United States military mis sion opened talks in Madrid to day with Spanish and Portugese officers on developing and co ordinating the bases for strategic bomber planes. The Spanish and Portugese bases will be valuable in them selves in the defense of Western Europe under the North Atlantic Treaty. Offset Morocco" Baiei But they also are calculated to offset to a great extent the pos sible loss of the five big bases in Morocco in which the United States has invested about $410, 000,000. The Iberian Peninsula, which Spain and Portugal occupy, is only eight miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from North Africa. It is separated from France by the forbidding Pyrenees Moun tains. Portugal is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiz ation. Spain is not, partly be cause of the opposition of some NATO members to Generalis simo Francisco Franco's regime. Both countries are intensely anti-Communist. Neither main tains diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. The United States bases in Morocco were designed as out posts of the NATO defense sys tem. Planes based there could hit the Soviet Union. From the aspect of ground defense, the bases would be safe even if an attacking Russian army succeed- Wheat Marketing Quota Election Set For Friday in Area A referendum on wheat mar keting quotas will be held in Jackson county Friday, July 20, Charles E. White, chairman of the county Agricultural Stabili zation and Conservation com mittee, reminded wheat growers today. All growers who will harvest more than 15 acres of wheat for grain in 1957 are eligible to cast ballots, he said. Quotas do not affect farmers with smaller wheat acreage. White said all growers should have received notice of the farm allotments for the 1957 wheat crop, but should questions about the program or local voting places arise, farmers may con tact the local ASC office. If Approved If at least two-thirds of the farmers voting approve quotas, they will continue in effect for the 1947 wheat crop, and a grower who exceeds the larger of the allotment or 15 acres of wheat will be subject to mar keting quota penalty on his "ex cess" production. Under quotas, White said, the available price support to farmers who have complied with wheat allotments will be between- 75 and 90 per cent of parity. If more than one-third of the farms voting disapprove the quotas, no quota and no penal ties for excess production wiU be in effect. But the available support on the 1957 wheat crop will drop to 50 per cent of parity. The vote will not affect acre age allotments, which will con tinue in effect regardless of which way the vote goes. Legis lation provides that wheat al lotments shall be in effect each year except in time of emer gency. Marketing quotas are direct ed to be proclaimed only years when the supply exceeds normal by 20 per cent or more, White said. The supply or wheat avail able for 1956-57 is actuaUy 71.4 per cent above the normal sup ply, he said. Ava Gardner Denies Plans for Wedding London (U.R) Film Star Ava Gardner denied today that she is planning to marry Dom inican playboy-diplomat Porfirio Eubirosa. "There is absolutely no truth in the report that I am to marry Porfirio Rubirosa," she said. "I met the gentleman once in Madrid and dined with him on another occasion in Paris with other people. "These are the only two oc casions on which I have ever seen him." Miss Gardner said she had no plans to see Rubirosa again. FT ed in overrunning Western Eu rope. But, also from the ground defense aspect, the Pyrenees would be a formidable barrier. When the danger of a third World War seemed great a few years ago, Spain and Portugal were talked of as a possible last bastion of defense against a Russian sweep across Europe. Planes based there could hit Russia too. Morocco Atmosphere Turbulent It is by no means certain that the United States will lose its bases in Morocco. But the situa tion throughout Northwest Afri ca is turbulent, and likely to Eisenhower and Nixon TickefSeenCampaign Of Century By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington XU.PJ It will be Eisenhower and Nixon again for the Republicans and the 20th century's roughest presidential jvmt& camnaien so far. Vice Presi dent, Richard M. Nixon is as as sure now of r e n omination as is President E i s e n hower, assuming they both live. That Lyle C Wilson was " pression Mr. Eisenhowers con gressional conferees carried away from Gettysburg Tuesday. That is the judgment of Repub licans in general on Capitol Hill. Nixon returns today from his swing through the. Far East as Mr. Eisenhower's No. 1 ambassa dor. "I never had any doubt," said Sen. Frank Carlson (R.-Kan.) when asked about Nixon's re nomination. "No doubt," echoed others who were sampled for Republi can opinion on Nixon s political future. Seconded by Hagerty The Republican leaders who conferred Tuesday with Mr. Eisenhower said they took it for granted that Nixon was to be named again for vice-president. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty quickly backed them up. "I think it is very clear," Hag erty said in response to a query. Nixon probably will be the next important visitor to the Gettysburg White House to re port on his journey. And the time has come for these two men unpredictably teamed by poli tics to begin planning their cam paign strategy. Nixon will press for a bare-knuckled attack. The drama of the coming cam paign and some of the bitterness arises from the arithmetic of their ages. Nixon, aged 43, wUl be on the ticket with a man of 66 years and whose 70th birth day would pass before the end of a second term. And the No. 1 man has suffered a heart attack and major surgery in the past 10 months. , Top Campaign Issues The stark possibility that Mr. Eisenhower will not survive a second term and that Nixon would succeed him has been tagged by leading Democrats as a top campaign issue. Back there in the 30s and 40s there were whispers, no more and they were promptly condemned of Franklin D. Roosevelt's physical infirmity. But it never became an openly discussed issue, nor did the polio he suffered appear to curb FDR's spirits of vitality. But a candidate's health and life expectancy will be hotly disputed in this campaign, with medical opinion as you like it. All of this puts Nixon in an un precedented spot for a second man. The vice-presidency 'uni formly has been an obscure po sition, more often than not a dead end. Nixon, however, has become a powerful and controversial figure on the American scene. He is admired and applauded; hated and despised. His rise in national politics to the House Communications Letten to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion. Letters submitted for publica tion must not exceed 400 words. Let's See, Now . . . To the Editor: Reference is made to the article the other evening headlined "Wild Ducks To Peck at Surplus Grain . . ." Let's see, now . The govern ment buys the farmers' surplus grain in order to keep the price up. Then the Fish and Wildlife Service spreads this grain along migratory routes, hoping the ducks will eat it instead of the farmers' crops. Then the farmer has more saleable yield from his crop. That means the govern ment has to buy more to keep the price up. Then Let's see, now . Richard Graham, 288 Gresham st., Ashland, Ore. Bases remain so for a long time. The United States acquired its bases in Morocco by direct agree ment with France. The newly independent Moroccan govern ment has announced that it does not recognize this agreement. Sultan Mohammed V has offered to negotiate a new agreement with the United States. But it is certain that his price will be high. Further, the value of the bases has been reduced because of the unstable internal situation in Morocco. Hence, the Madrid talks which started today assume additional importance. Forecast and Senate was at the expense of notable New Dealers, each well to the left of center. Nixon's campaign discussion of Roosevelt-Truman administra tion handling of the problem of Communist infiltration of gov ernment enraged Democratic leaders. Mr. Eisenhower, how ever, has loaded his young asso ciate with praise and grave re sponsibilities. Unified Effort Said Only Way To Stop Stevenson Victory Washington Adlai E. Steven son now seems so far ahead for the Democratic presidential nomination that probably he can fail to get it only if the other as pirants cooperate against him. And gang-up attempts against the front-runner usually have proved successful m the past only if the ganger-uppers were united in (1) hostility to him and (2) the tactics to be used against him. Thus in 1880 former President U. S. Grant failed to go over the top for a third (non-successive) nomination because practicaUy all the anti-Grant Republicans were convinced that the party couldn't win with him, would win with somebody else. In 1888 front-runner John Sherman of Ohio was defeated by the unified intrigues against him, some of them m his own state. Two-Thirds Rule In 1912 the Democratic con vention leader in the earlier bal lots, Speaker Champ Clark, was ultimately defeated only by the two-thirds rule (he did achieve a majority), when the anti-Clark delegates got together behind Wilson. But in 1932 the two chief candidates opposing F. D. Roose velt were former nominee Alfred E. Smith and Speaker John N. Garner, and the Smith and Gar ner factions were bitterly hostile to each other. In 1940 when the Republican nomination went to a dark horse, Wendell L. WiUkie, neither Dewey nor Taft had been very far out in front. In 1948 the Stassen, Warren and Vandenberg factions had little in common with the faction behind Sen. Robert A. Taft, poor second to Dewey on the first ballot. And in 1952 Sen. Estes Kefauver was really out in front only by de fault, with some of his delegates prepared to ditch him once the chips were down. In 1956 some Kefauver dele gates would rather see the nom ination go to Stevenson instead of to Harriman if their own man can't win. Many delegates who'll vote for Harriman aren't anti Stevenson, certainly aren't pro Kefauver. And many delegates who'll vote at first for favorite sons from the South would pre fer to have Stevenson get the nomination than Harriman or Kefauver. (Editorial Research Reports). Cyprus Civilians Killed in Ambush Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Two civilians were killed in an . am bush of their car on the Lar-raca-Limassol road today. The latest victims in, a cam paign apparently designed by extremists to keep the populace of this key British-held Mediter ranean island off the roads were an Armenian and a Greek Cy priot. Their car was sprayed with automatic fire at close range. Today's ambush was the third such attack on civilian cars in 10 days. NEW, MODERN VAULT Cleaning, Glazing, Remodeling Frances9 Furs Formerly Frances Dallaire 11 CO Crater Lake Ave. Telephone Remains 2-6526 Hot Dry Weather in State Brings Threat f Fire in Forests All the teaching, preaching, and appealing to "Keep Oregon Green" that has been going on during rainy weeks of winter and spring, from now on will be tested. The sudden change of temperatures this week, going up to over 100 degrees, also involv ed a change in humidity. From now on there will be fire weath er in Oregon. If the forests do not burn if Oregon's timber stays green it will be because: 1. Every person who goes in to the forest as camper, fisher man, hiker and mountain climb er, pours water on every camp fire until there isn't a tiny living ember left to hiss. 2. Every motorist who travels a forest-bordered highway con siders it a misdemeanor to throw from the car a lighted match or burning cigarette. 3. Every woodsworker sees to it that no stray spark from his Big, Small Opposed on Washington (Q) Oppos ing small business and big busi ness interest groups are bracing for a Senate showdown on a bill to curb price concessions to fa vored customers. The small business groups claim the bill should pass, say ing it would deal a blow to monopoly by closing a loophole they say the Supreme Court opened in the Robinson-Patman Act, a measure designed to pro tect the little businessman. Opposition to the price con cession curt already approved by the House is led by oil com panies, railroaders and some steel men. They say the mea sure is a "serious attack on the free enterprise system.' Administration spokes men from the Departments of Com merce and Justice have come out against the bill. However, the Federal Trade Commission, most of whose members were appointed by President Eisen hower, is backing the measure. The White House itself has taken no stand. Key to Controversy ' Key to the controversy is the legal interpretation of the Rob inson-Patman Act sections on price discriminations. The Act permits a manufacturer or job ber to give a customer a price concession "in good faith to meet an equally low price of a com petitor." In a 1951 case brought against Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, by the Federal Trade Commission, the Supreme Court ruled the good faith" defense covers even cases where the price con cessions give one customer a better deal than his competitor gets. The bill passed by the House -would permit the Court's "good faith" interpretation to justify price concessions unless the ef fect of the price discrimination is "substantially to lessen com petition or tend to create a mon opoly." This limiting phrase, the bill's backers say, would restore the original purpose of the Robinson-Patman Act which was to permit the small businessman to compete against his larger com petitors. Importance Indicated Neither side on the fight will say flatly what the bill means tc the average customer, con cerned mainly about the price he pays for goods. But the man euvers and counter-maneuvers on the bill indicate the import ance they attach to it. The bill was introduced in the House in January, 1955, by Rep. Wright Patman (D-Texas). It was mired in the Judiciary Anti trust subcommittee until May 21 of this year, when Patman employed the rarely-used parlia mentary device of a discharge petition to bring it to light. He obtained the necessary 218 signatures (a House majority) on the petition, which discharged the bill from the jurisdiction of DRASTIC REDUCTIONS - BIG BARGAINS July Clearance PLflYT CHILDREN'S OFF! NeedleCraft 211 East Main St. cigarette or power saw gets a chance to start a fire. 4. Every logger "shuts down" his operation when the humidity reading gets in the neighborhood of 30. 5. Every forest officer and public official charged with di rect responsibility is on the job night and day. 6. The general public now ful ly understands and fully sup ports forest fire prevention as one way to maintain the princi pal payroll and the greatest sin gle economic and recreation re source of the Pacific Northwest. Regardless of weather, man caused forest fires can be kept to a minimum if everyone takes care and cooperates. Remember, the first test is in preventing the second is quickly reporting and extinguishing the forest fire. Let's all KEEP OREGON GREEN. (Keep Oregon Green association.) Businesses Price Bill the committee that had held it and cleared the way for early floor debate. Just three days after the dis charge petition was filed, the subcommittee approved a simi lar measure sponsored by Chair man Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.). On June 11 the House ap proved one amendment to Cel ler's bill, making it identical with the measure Patman intro duced, and then passed it, 394-3. The overwhelming margin brought cheer to the Anti-Monopoly Conference, an informal alliance of 10 organizations joined in support of Patman's bill. In this group are the Co operative League of the U. S., the International Association of Machinists (AFL-CIO) and trade groups of tire dealers, retail druggists, grocery and candy wholesalers and ., retailers, pe troleum retailers, farmer co-ops, food, fruit and vegetable dealers. Action By Opponents'. The House vote also brought into action opponents of the bill, led by oil companies and their trade associations. The National Oil Jobbers Council, for In stance, called on eight officials of state and regional jobber or ganizations to testify against the bill before the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee. . :,. . Other opposition came from the Association of American Railroads and the Jones-Laugh-lin Steel Co. The measure seems certain to win approval from the Senate Subcommittee. Four of the seven members are sponsors of an identical Senate bill. But Chairman Jomes O. Eastland (D Miss.) of the Judiciary commit tee has not taken a stand on the bill and Administration opposi tion may cost it some Republi can votes, if it comes to the floor. But the groups backing the bill think they have "the best chance in years" to win their battle. (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) Directors Consider Hospital Committees Ashland Directors of the Southern Oregon Memorial hos pital association this week con sidered committee work and ap proved the general committee plan suggested by President John Cotton. Nine committees wUl be asked to work with the hospital board in planning a new hospital in Ashland. Among them will be committees on site, hospital plans, present hospital, public relations, Hill Burton fundet Special foundation fund grants, finance and legal relations. Appointments to the commit tees will be made at the next board meeting. Cotton said. al though the regular meeting is the second Monday each month, several special meetings prob ably wUl be held. Our Big Sale Children's Play Clothes is in Progress Now Come in and sea There' Shorts Pedal Pushers Swim Suits Play Dresses T Shirts and Many Other Items. Stamped Goods Children's Wear Phone 3-1011
