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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MidforivSSTribuke "Every cosy in southern Oregon Reaas The Mali Tribune" Pucush'-d DaiJy Except Saturday by :.:ldforo pointing co 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6:1 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor TTERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAL.D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALi-EN JR. Managing F-ditor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soorts Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERIC'KSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at iledlord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1847 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year $12 00 Daily and Sinday Six months 6 50 Dru.v and Sunday Three iT.r 30 S in'iav Onlv One year 53 50 By Cir.-.er In Advance Medford Ashi;,nd Central Point Eagle Point. Jackwnvil.e Goid Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogje River. Talent, and on motor routes: lirnlv and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers 5c per copy Ail Terms Cashjn Advance oTliTiaf Paper of the City of Medford off:clal Paper of Jackson County 'Tnited Pressor ull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WF.ST-HOLI.IDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago. De troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle Portland. St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION femjimiw.miu.a SPAPER SHERS SSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County Historv from the files of The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and !0 years ago. 15 YEARS AGO July 18. 1346 (It was Thursday) About 2,000 persons attend the first open air concert by the city band., directed by I. A. Mirick, at city park. from Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Fine early fall weather the valley is hav ing this summer. 28 YEARS AGO Joly 18, 1936 (It was Saturday) Maj. Max C. Fleischmann was a Medford visitor yesterday, landing at the airport in his Lockheed Electra, specially tquipped cabin plane. H. C. Obye. assistant sup ervisor of the Rnaue River na tional forest, snys Samuel Clark, recreation foreman, and Hugh Ritter, district ranger, caught 56 catfish in 57 minutes at Lake of the Woods Friday. 30 YEARS AGO July 18, 1926 (It was Sunday) Active construction on annex of Community hospital scheduled to commence tomorrow under the direction of H. I. Stuart and son, local contractors. C. B. Howard has sold his in terest in the Howard and Grimes Stage line, operating between Medford and Klamath, to E. B. Henry of Klamath Falls. 40 YEARS AGO July 18. 1916 (It was Tuesday) Medford saving about $72 per month under the contract with California-Oregon Power com pany, according to a report recently compiled by the city electrician. There will be a farmer's picnic at the Central Point schoolhouse Saturday. Thai's Ihe Answer? Can You Get 4 of Ihe 7? Opr. 1955. Fdltorlal Research Report 1. Has any state chosen its presidential electors by Con gressional Districts within the last 100 years? 2. Most Americans carrying insurance for hospital expenses do or don't carry it also for sur gical fees0 3. Texas in 1952 voted for Eiseniv.wer. Stevenson or a third-party candidate for Presi dent? 4. Mrs Clare Booth Luce is or isn't U. S. nmbassador to the Vatican as well as to Italy? 5. The V. S. War with Spain came in the middle of the last century, late in that century, or early in this century? 6. ''Cow-pasture pool" was an eld epithet for polo, badminton, craps, billiards, golf, or bowling on the green? 7. Philip Nolan is better known as Who? The Answers: 1. Yes, Michi OBn in 1892; 2. Most do: 3. For Eisenhower; 4. Isn't; 5. Late in tfte last century; 6. Golf; 7. The Man Without a Country. ATOMIC SURGERY Los Angeles .U.R.; An atomic device, developed at the Uni versity of California Medical Center at Los Angeles by Dr. Donald E. Burke, has proved to be valuable in locating hard-to-find kidney stones during surgery- The device, called ''Thul-X." is being studied, as & substitute for less-effective X-ray. MAIL TRIBUNE Which Way Is North? North, from any spot on the face of the earth, is the direction toward the North Pole. At the South Pole, every direction is north. Since about the middle of the 15th century, man kind has used a magnetized needle to determine which way north is (or south, in the southern hemi sphere). This is possible because there are north and south '"magnetic" poles, or magnetic focal areas, which attract the needles. DUT THERE are difficulties in this and not all of them have been solved by science. For instance, the magnetic poles are not the same as the geographic poles in fact are hundreds of miles away. Because of this, compasses in most parts of the earth do not point directly north, but only approxi mately in that direction. In Jackson county, the differ ence between true north and magnetic north is about 19 or 20 degrees, out of the 360 degrees on the com pass. Only in the lake states and down through In diana, Kentucky, Tennessee and South Carolina is the difference, or "declination," approximately zero. A S IF THIS weren't confusing enough, the amount of declination varies over a long period of time, and yearly, and to a lesser extent, daily. In Jackson count-, it can change as much as 2'2 degrees during one year. It can also change during magnetic storms, or because of local conditions. Also, the areas of uniform declination are not uni form in shape, size or much of anything else. There are isolated spots in some areas of uniform declination where a compass can be quite a few degrees off. East of Lakeview is one such spot, ihe average declination in the area is 19 degrees east, but within a , hundred-mile radius readings of 5.7, 32.4, and points j in between, have been made. Compass readings accurate to a hair are not as im- portant in traveling on land as they are in ocean navi gation, lor the average outdoorsman in this area, it would be safe and close enough to use a 19 or 20 de gree east declination in getting out of a "lost" situa tion. THE SCIENCE of magnetics is as ancient as history, and the Greeks were familiar with the properties of the lodestone. Despite this, less is known, very likely, about what magnetism really is and how it operates, than is known about the inside of the atom. But it is vitally im portant to today's civilization, for without magnetism electricity the lifeblood of today's electronics age could not be generated. Scientists are hard at work exploring the myster ies of magnetism, its relationship to gravity, and the odd and thus-far unpredictable things it does, and there is reason to believe that they are making pro gress From behind the cloaks of military security, busi ness secrecy and scientific verbiage, one gleans hints of fabulous developments on the way. Ancient al chemy's "lodestone" may be the clue to the culture of the 21st century. E. A. Costly The state of Georgia recently passed a law which provides a maximum $1,000 fine or a year's imprison ment for dumping rubbish along the highway. . A deadpan report we have seen says there has been "a noticeable reduction in this type of offense" since the law was passed. "THE STATE of Idaho has no penalty, and there state authorities say the stuff is getting higher and and deeper. Oregon has a law which prohibits the dumping of junk along public roads and highways, but it is a diffi cult one to enforce, for unthinking people in a fast moving car are difficult to spot or to trace. But it's no laughing matter, even for those people who don't particularly care if roadside beauty is de spoiled. Those who DO care don't like it a bit, and ac cording to one insurance company, the cost of clean ing up the thoughtless ones' messes ranges between -$15 and $50 per mile per year. This makes it every one's business. OREGON'S highway commission, with which we sometimes agree and sometimes disagree, has done good work in seeing to it that green barrels are spotted at strategic locations along the highways, where there is room to turn off. It is the work of but a moment to stop long enough to drop in an accumula tion of trash. . But we have nothing but contempt for the rude and revolting habit of dumping garbage, paper, beer bot tles, cans and similar refuse along the rights of way. Perhaps things are getting a little better, slowly, as a continuing program of education and appeal takes effect. But one wonders when he reads of a report from Oregon on those trash barrels : "It has been necessary to relocate some of the bar rels due to local residents filling them with garbage." E. A. Water Hazards The weather has been hot. And it is, therefore, natural for youngsters to seek relief in cool water. But there should be a word of warning irriga tion ditches and Bear Creek are not safe. They are dangerous for two reasons : The threat of drowning in swift, unfamiliar and unsupervised waters, and the danger from disease. We urge parents of youngsters who are swimming-bound to know where they are going and to veto trips to the polluted and dangerous creeks and canals of the lower valley. E.A. Wednesday, July 18, 1938 Refuse Nehru's Comment on Russia's Satellites Surprisingly Critical By CHARLES M. McCANK United Press Correspondent Indian Prime Minister Jawa harlal Nehru has come up with a surprisingly critical c o m ment on Soviet Russia's satel lites. Many of Nehru's state m e n t s on world affairs are critical of the United States and its allies. Charles Mccann Often he seems blind to the glaring faults of Communist regimes. But during his visit to West German Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer this week, Nehru found fault with Russia for keeping its grip on eastern European coun tries. His criticism was indirect. It also was mild compared to his free-swinging criticisms of West ern policy. Nevertheless, it was clear. Asked About Colonialism Nehru was asked at a press conference in Bonn whether, in his opposition to "colonialism," he found that system operating only in non-European countries. "Isn't there colonialism in Eu rope?" his questioner said. "If a person hopes for freedom for overseas colonial countries, sure ly that must hold true for . . . colonialism also in central and eastern Europe?" Nehru replied that the word colonialism is used in two senses. It took its meaning from the iff GAO Serves as Police Agency; Keeps Tabs On Federal Spending Washington (CQ) The po liceman Congress appointed 35 years ago to patrol federal spending is busier than ever on his bureaucratic beat. From an office building six blocks from the Capitol, employ ees of the General Accounting office keep track of the execu tive department for Congress. In most instances, this means strict GAO audits of expendi tures. In their day-to-day operations, the 5,800 GAO employees under Comptroller General Joseph must: Many Duties Approve the transfer of ap propriated funds from the Trea sury to executive departments and their expenditure by the de partments. Decide the legality of pro posed spending. Settle about 240,000 claims a year by and against the govern ment. Develop improved govern ment accounting methods. Audit the books of executive agencies and, in most cases, com pel the repayment of funds im properly used. Investigate the operations of the executive departments, seek out and report cases of ineffi ciency and fraud. Prepare about 5,000 repots a year for Congress, including one of more than usual significance a summary of GAO audits and investigations for the cur rent fiscal year that is used by the Appropriations committee in weighing department fund re quests for the coming fiscal year. Influence Expands As the federal government has increased in size and its ex penditures have advanced, GAO's influence as the watch dog for Congress also has ex panded GAO is responsible only to Congress, and its chief, the Comptroller General, serves one 15-year term at a salary of $17, 500 a year. Although the Comptroller General is appointed by the President, the nomination must be approved by the Senate and he can be removed from office only with the concurrence of Congress. In addition, GAO is one of the few government agencies that takes in more than it spends. In fiscal 1955, for instance, its ap propriation was S32 million and its collections were more than S55 million. Suggestions to ex ecutive agencies save the gov ernment many more millions each year. As is to be expected, there is controversy about the way in which GAO's considerable pow er has been exercised. Surpris ingly, Campbell says the oppo sition has not come from the executive agencies whose activi ties GAO checks. He says, "There's not been one agency head who hasn't said to me. i 'We're glad to have your people come in.' " Congressional Criticism But there has been criticism in Congress. GAO's investiga tions divisions was reshuffled last year after two Senators called for a probe of its handling of a "conflict of interests" case. Campbell's appointment in 1955 was strongly opposed by i some Democrats. His three pred- colonial system of the 19th cen- tury, he said. "This particular meaning, I think, does not apply to the countries referred to in eastern Europe," he continued. "One can say that they stand -under a certain domination. Perhaps they are under the contrel of an other country. ! Opposed To Force "I certainly think thait every country should have the full op portunity to be free. Bat how, is a different matter ... I also think that force should not be used." If Nehru thinks that' every country should have the oppor tunity to be free, he certainly means Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the rest of the countries Russian Cfommu nism holds in subjection. Nehru is conferring today and Thursday with President Tito of Yugoslavia and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, fellow neutralists, at Tito's Brioni Island retreat on the Ad riatic sea coast. That issue of the Soviet satel lites is pretty certain to come up for discussion between Tito and Nehru. The Tito Viewpoint Tito has some views of his own on the satellite question. Yugoslavia itself was a satellite until Tito's break with the late Josef Stalin. The Kremlin itself now agrees with Tito's view that "different paths to socialism" are po.'isible. That is just what Titoism ntcans. It is pretty clear that, with Stalin being downgraded, Tito ecesors had worked in or for Congress, but Campbell, a 56 year-old New Yorker, has been a private accountant and Colum bia university official. President Eisenhower, under whom he- had served at Columbia, named him to the Atomic Energy commis sion in 1953 and 18 months later tapped him for the GAO job. While serving on the AEC Camp bell voted for the controversial and now defunct Dixon - Yjates power contract. Democrats questioned wheth ed the ex-administration offi cial would be on Congress' side in coming controversies. But only 10 days after he was con firmed, Campbell testified in opposition to the administra tion's bond - financing plan for highway construction. A month later he criticized the financial record of the firm selected by the AEC to construct the Dixon Yates facilities. Again last Au gust, he upheld Congress' view in a fight with the President over commercial activities of the Defense department. Asked about the bias changes against him, Campbell says, "If anything, it's the other ivay around we've been unfavor able to so many administration proposals." Claims Progress Made Campbell says he is "very sat isfied" with the first 15 months of what "will be my last job, probably." He says "tremendous progress" is being made in im proving government accounting methods and tightening Con gress' control of the purse. GAO's main problem now is a shortage of skilled personnel, particularly qualified account ants. Campbell has launched a major recruiting program through college and profession al socities to remedy this situa tion. If he can add 200 men to his force of fiscal agents, Campbell feels certain GAO can perform its police job and assure Con gress the executive agencies asre obeying the Constitutional in junction that "no money shajl be drawn from the treasury bot in consequence of appropria tions made by law." (Copyright 1956. Congressional Quarterly) Wee Willi Hitches a ' XJ V REST INSTEAD I yUr yOUKTcLtPHONE BOOK. Y I'M TIRED OF RUNNING lTN v y THROUGH THE TOWN Y? - A? ' hopes to increase his personal influence in some of the Soviet satellite countries, especially in Bulgaria and Romania. There are indications that he would like to be the leader of a Balkan bloc of Red states. They would still be tied to Moscow, but more loosely. From Nehru's statement on colonialism, it appears that he might go along with Tito's view point that a spread of Titoism among the satellites would be fine. First Warship Sunk By Bomb From Air Just 35 Years Ago Washington It was 35 years ago this Saturday .that "Billy" Mitchell proved for all time that bombs from planes could sink a modern battleship. This was the former German "Ostfriesland." It had survived the great naval battle of Jutland in World War I, was protected by many com partments and heavy armor, had even been called unsinkable. Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service William L. Mitchell after the war vociferated incess antly, before Congress and in the press, that battleships had become outmoded because air planes could sink any "in exist ence or that could be built." He was fighting, generally, for much greater stress on air power in our defense system and, specifi cally, for a separate Air Force of equal status with the Army and Navy. Tested Claim Congress finally allowed Mitchell's claim to be tested against German warships that had been turned over to this country. On July 13, 1921, his airmen sank a destroyer in 19 minutes with 300-pound bombs. A cruiser, the "Frankfurt," sev eral days later succumber to a shower of 500-pound bombs. But the Naw Brass said, "Wait till they come up against the real McCoy." They came up against it on July 21, off Hampton Roads, Va. A laree cart of the Atlantic Fleet was on hand. So were nav al, military, and Congressional dignitaries. Seven planes made a run at the "Ostfriesland witn 2,000-pound bombs, the largest then in existence. And in a little over 20 minutes, before the seventh bomb had been dropped, the battleship was under the waves. Continued Crusade Nevertheless, a joint board re porting on the tests averred flat ly: "The battleship is still the backbone of the Fleet." The Army and Navy heads, both civ ilian and military, came out for only a little more attention to the plane as a weapon. Mitchell continued his cru sade, was court-martialed in 1925 for insubordination, was suspended for five years on half pay, resigned from the service, in 1946 was awarded, posthum ously, by Congress a medal "in recognition of his foresight in the field of American military aviation." Editorial Research Reports. 35 Disease Cases Reported Last Week Thirty-five communicable dis eases were reported to the Jack son county health department for the week ending July 13, accord ing to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician. Cases reported were measles 15, Medford four. Phoenix four, Ashland three, Gold Hill three and Rogue River one; trench mouth one, Ashland; chicken pox six, Medford three and Trail three; influenza two, Medford; nfectious hepatitis two. Eagle Point and Ashland: mumps four, Ashland two, Medford and Eagle Point one; and infectious mono nucleosis one, Ashland. New York's Philharmonic symphony orchestra is said to be the third oldest in the world and is the oldest in the United States. Winkle Ride , 1 J- k 1 V 1 Used by 9 out oi 10 people as a guide to those who sell or serve ( Pacific Telephone Mill- - - - In Tfie Day's News More on these American boys of ours: Seven-year-old William Daniel Enger is in a San Diego hospital this morning suffering from ser ious burns because he climbed an electric company's supposedly boy-proof fence yesterday and touched a copper bar at a substa tion in the enclosure. The bar carried a high volt age. The contact caused a short circuit that automatically cut off the current and saved his life, but his shirt and some of his trous ers were burned away. It was a close call, but it is believed that he will recover. WHY did he do it? I wouldn't know, but I'll risk a bet. I'll wager he did it be cause the fence was a CHAL LENGE. By its height and the tightness of its construction, it said to him: YOU CAN'T CLIMB ME. It was a dare. He took it. Editorial Comment A WELL-SPENT $42 The old saying that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound he reworded in Bend. Here S42 worth of prevention has been worth hundreds of dollars worth of cure. Last December Police Chief John T. Truett grew weary of using so much time tryinS to stem the flow of bad checks through the business houses of the city. The merchants were losing money by the nunareos wucn these boomerang documents circled back into their tills marked "no account here" and such. A good many passers were arrested but most of them dis appeared like the morning dew. The chief had some placards printed for use in the stores. The placards informed strangers that finger prints would be re quired of anyone wishing to cash a check. The merchants placed the placards in prominent spots, usually near the cash register. Most honest people are not fussy about finger prints but a crook shuns them like a burnt child shuns a fire. Today, Chief Truett was asked for the results of his S42 expen diture. The records show there have been only three bad check complaints since January 1. The merchants are ahead hun dreds of dollars, the prisons have fewer inmates, many other cities are now following Bend's example. Bend Bulletin. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address oi 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. Mosquito Plague To the Editor: We have read some surprising and unusual statements in the Mail Tribune. but one that we believe would take the rag off the bush was the one by Dr. Merkel, that there were "fewer mosquitoes than usual this year." It seems evident that the doctor has not been out in the Table Rock district. Since the article was pub lished, several have expressed their desire to take the doctor for a 15 minute walk through some of our fields and pastures some evening about sunset. And if that wouldn't convince him that we have mosquitoes by the millions, he might talk to a few of the mothers of young children and babies that are being tormented day and night by an unnecessary nuisance and health menace, and who are very unhappy over the intoler able situation. It is not a very wise policy neither politically nor economic ally, to keep people too unhap py too long, and it would seem pertinent that our Board of Health do something to eradicate this nuisance and health men ace. John L. Nealon. Route 2, Box 279, Central Point, Ore. ( PERHAPS THE ) FOR TAXICABS ) YELLOW PASES ) IT PAYS TO LOOK. V WILL HELP ME ( (IN THE "CLASSIFIED" PART A Jenkins 1JE shouldn't have done it Tha achievement wasn't worth the , risk. But let's take a look at this challenge business. The modern -jet fighter is a challenge. By its blinding speed and its unbelieve able mechanized complications it says plainly to every prospec tive pilot: YOU'VE GOT TO BE GOOD IF YOU'RE TO BE MY MASTER. That is a dare. Tens of thousands of American boys take it. OUPPOSE they weren't willing to accept the challenge. Suppose Russian boys WERE willing. In that event, Russia would conquer us and we'd become slaves. We'd have security, of course. The security of the slave ' is the nearest approach in this world to guaranteed security. If the slave does his master's bid ding, he will be taken care of.. But who wants security at the cost of FREEDOM? , T'M not arguing that we should -A encourage our American boys to go out and take every fool dare that comes along such as climbing 1000-foot towers to see how it looks from the top look ing down, and getting over the protective fences that are placed around dangerous modern instal lations such as electric substa tions. Things like that are admitted- ly silly. The achievement isn't worth the possible cost. Some how. I think, we must provide BETTER challenges, more RE WARDING challenges. Better ;-, ways of spending leisure time " than climbing high and dang erous towers and getting over protective fences just to see if it can be got away with. Certainly we mustn't crush out the spirit of adventure in our youth. To do that would be to bring to an end the America that we and our forefathers have known. Siskiyou County Assessment Listed Yreka An assessed valuation of $37,406,690 was announced Monday for Siskiyou county, an increase of $1,387,915 over last year despite fire and flood dam age, and a drop in livestock pro duction. County Assessor L. D. Taylor said about half of the increase, $605,000, came from increased assessments on Southern Pacific Land company timber lands. VMost of the remainder," said -r- Taylor, "about $250,000, came from increased Tulelake farm r : land values." The assessor said the gross H county valuation was $39,295,-T 725, with $1,889,105 in exemp- : tions, and an estimated $15,500. 000 from the public utility roll -for a total of $52,906,620. Taylor pointed out that most of the fire damage would show , in next year's roll, since millions of feet of burned logs now being - salvaged will be removed from next year's roll on March 1. ..r. 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