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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDwTRIBUNB ""Every uoay in ioi.ern Oregon Read The Msu iriDune PubUsned Daily Except Saturday by MEOKOHO FrtJNTING CO 27-2B North Fir St Phone 2-6.41 ROBERT W RL'HL Editor IIKRH CKEV Advertuuij? Manager CtRALD LATHAM Buin-s Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Rditor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHiPMAN Te.egraph EcUtOl RICHARD JfcWLTT Sports Editor OLIVE S1AKCHER Society Editor DALE ERlUKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper nered at second clasi matter at Medlord Oregon under Act ot March 3. 1897 " SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ey Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily nd Sunday One vear $12 00 Cily and Sundav Six month 6 50 Daily and Sunday Three mos 3-50 Sunday Only One vear S3.50 By Carrier In Advance Medtord Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent an 1 on motor routes. Daily and Sunday One year $15 Of) D:nlv and Sunday One month 1.25 Carrier and Dealers -5c pei copy All rerms Cash in Adv nce 6 (final Paper ol the City or Med ford Qf:::tal Pap JacJon ounty United PrVas Full k5 lre MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WF.ST-HOLLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago De troit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C ha1iona i editorial ! IassocFatlqn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medlord and Jackson County Historv from the files ot The Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and to years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1946 (It was Saturday) Official Navy moving pictures of the war will be shown Med lord Legionnaires at a special meeting of Post 15, Wednesday, at the Armory. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A number of new autos are mingling with the Main Stem mechanical rab ble and the 1930 vehicular vint age. 20 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1936 (It was Monday) ' The city council to consider tonight C. A. Hartley's bid for the paving Apple St. from Third to Fifth sts. Final instructions will be given Medford post's delegation to the American Legion conven tion at Roseburg at the post meeting Tuesday night. 30 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1926 (It was Tuesday) Jackson County Merchant's association urges business men to attend the "Trail Rail" meet ing in Eugene in August. Medford post 15 played leading role in the state legion conven tion at Marshfield last week. 40 YEARS AGO Aug. 10. 1916 ,(It was Thursday) Premium list for Jackson coun ty fair at Medford Sept. 13-16, issued. Bartlett auction market Au gust 9: New York, $2.66, 25 cars: Chicago. $2.90; Philadelphia. $2.80; Boston, ripe $2.90; green, S3.20. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copt. 1935 Kdttonal Rrsrarrh Rpnrt 1. To be elected President a candidate needs a full majority of the electoral votes or only more than any one else gets? 2. Average families with low cash incomes spend about (a) 10. (b) 25. (c 40 or (d) 55 per cent of it on food? 3. The WJatch Tower Bible and Tract Society is the governing body of which religious denomi nation? 4. Chosen is the native name for which country in Asia? 5. Which one of these has more circulation: N.Y. Times, N.Y. News. Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Bulletin, Los Ange les Times? 6. The Russian alphabet has the same number of letters as the English, or more, or fewer? 7. First man to set foot on the South Pole was Byrd, Peary, Nansen, Dr. Cook, Amundsen or Scott? The answers: 1. Full majority. 2. About 40 per cent is average. 3. Jehovah's Witnesses. 4. Korea. 5. N.Y. News. 6. More. 7. Amundsen. BE NONCHALANT Hartford. Ccnn. (U.R) If a wasp flies in while you're driv ing along, don't start swatting. Instead, be "hospitable." It's safer and chances are the insect will depart sooner. The Connec ticut State Safety Commission, in issuing this safety tip. said numerous accidents are attribut ed to motorists who try to drive and fight off insects at the same time. MAIL TRIBUNE OSP Anniversary With few if any exceptions, we have been favor ably impressed with the members of the Oregon State Police we have met. They have been uniformly courteous, helpful and, when occasion demanded, firm. In addition, the organization as a whole has com piled an enviable record of law enforcement, traffic control and crime detection. THESE remarks are motivated by the fact that the OSP last week quietly observed the 25th anniver sary of its organization. Gov. Elmo Smith, in com menting on the event, said: The Oregon State Police have earned the respect of the people of Oregon. They have attained a reputation, which is well deserved, as one of the nation's best law enforcement agencies. Citizens of Oregon are proud of them and their record. Such a reputation cannot be earned without top flight personnel, and this in turn depends on a leader ship which can attract, select, train and hold good men. Oregon has been fortunate in having such lead ership for its police department. THE DEPARTMENT was organized by Charles P. Pray, who is now living in retirement in Portland, and who came to the new department in 1931 from in dustrial security work and the FBL Pray, as superintendent, was an austere man, a disciplinarian, who nonetheless had a twinkle in his eye and a quiet sense of humor which his closer asso ciates sometimes- got to see. His influence is still felt in the department, for he insisted from the first on the highest standards of honesty, service, and integ rity, together with hard work and thorough training. The police succeeded to the duties of the old traf fic patrol, and many of its original officers came from the patrol s ranks, including the second and present superintendent, H. G. (bod) Maison, who took over when Prav-retired. . Others came from sheriff's offices and city police departments. Seventeen of the original members are still on the force, including Capt. Paul Parson and Lit. Paul Morgan, the two senior officers of the southwest ern Oregon district, with headquarters at Medford. THE DEPARTMENT is This one includes seven counties, Jackson, Jose phine, Douglas, Coos, Curry, Lake and Klamath. To tal personnel m the district tain and lieutenant. The Medford detachment has four sergeants (one assigned to game enforcement) and 15 officers. The organization has lines. Charles Stanton, editor of the Koseburg News Review, comments : Xs a police organization it observes a strict military re gime and discipline, which prevails from the highest rank ing officer to the newest rookie. The probationary period for new recruits serves to weed out within a short time those applicants who find themselves .unable to conform to the strict code, which has had an important part in pre serving the fine character of the organization. A S FAR AS Medford and without the constant and efficient aid of the state po lice, the Fascist movement headway in the early '30s months perhaps years put clown. Capt. Lee Bown (now of the department) was head of the local state police squad then, and the people of this community should always hold him in high regard, and with profound Gratitude,- for the courage displayed during a time many citizens, but the very foundations ot our lorm of democratic government were seriously threatened. Oregon is fortunate in in the caliber of the department which serves the peo ple as protectors of their peace and safety. E.A. Link With History Grandfather Elliott, who died many years ago, was a drummer boy in the Civil War. Had he lived, he would have been about the same age as Albert Wool- son, who died at 109 the other day. Woolson, too, was a Civil War drummer boy. Woolson was the last living member of the Grand Army of the Republic, the once vast and potent or ganization of Union veterans of the Civil War. He was the only surviving human link between the pres ent and the "boys in blue" who fought for the north during this nation's greatest tragedy. ..... THAT WAS a war which touched every family in America. We suspect that many families have memories of their own grandfathers or great-grandfathers who fought either in the blue or gray uniforms. Perhaps it is for this reason that the death of Al bert Woolson has stirred many Americans to think back, to remember, to reconsider the war which freed the slaves and preserved the union, yet which left scars still unhealed. His death underlines with poignancy the march of histoiy, the inevitability of change, the growth of the nation, the swift passage of time. ' A LBERT Woolson, who served less than a year in uniform at the age of 17, probably was not typi cal of the soldiers of the Union. Nor, in himself, was he an important figure, except in the sense that every individual is important. But in his last years he became a symbol and a reminder, the last human, tangible, living evidence of the North's part in the great upheaval that tore the nation apart, only to reunite it, greater and stronger. When the few last Confederate veterans who still survive are,, inevitably, gone, that war will truly be long to history. E. A. Friday. August 10, 195S organized in four districts. is 89, including the cap always been along military Jackson county are con- that gained such incredible would have taken many instead of a few weeks to the deputy superintendent and skill and coolness he when not only the lives of many ways. Not the least is Bahson Talks About Food, Pills, Stocks By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. I have continually stressed in this col umn that the continuation of present pros perity depends upon the con sumers, or cus tomers of your local stores. So long as retail sales remain high, all is well, and hus bands will COn- Roger w Ramon tinue employ ed; but when you begin to re strict buying, then retailers buy less from manufacturers. The manufacturers then begin to lay off their wageworkers and retail sales are further reduced the "vicious circle." Hence, the busi ness cycle so-called turns downward until we have a de pression. Retail sales and employment have been kept up by extensive local and national advertising. The latter has been greatly aided by photography, color printing, radio, and now TV. Unless some thing unexpected happens to shake confidence, retail sales will be further stimulated by air conditioning and self - service. Some day a little oxygen will be fed into air-conditioning systems, which will be a great blessing to all. I, however, wish to refer this week to "pills" hich are being used so unnecessarily by wage workers, many of whom leave home without a real breakfast. The "coffee break" is the most apparent development in this line. The milk and sugar are real food; but the coffee is only a temporary stimulant lasting at most one half hour. Those work ing on continuous-line produc tion who must keep up with the speed of the belts often use dexedrine pills. These tend to keep one awake and supply "pep." They don't work with all people who really need better meals and more sleep. Astounding Statistics - But consider the following sta tistics on pills which are being used today not by sick people but those who are employed in factories, retail stores, and offices. The following figures have been supplied by Dr. Henry van Zile Hyde of the U. S. Pub lic Health Service at Washing ton. He says: Each year we dose ourselves with about 400 tons of barbiturates (a nerve drug), 34 tons of amphetamine a "pep-up" drug, and 7,000 tons of aspirin made into 19 billion five-grain tablets! In addition, there are bil lions of laxative pills sold. Much of this tonnage is con sumed by tired mothers prepara tory to shopping at a supermar ket or some other retail store. The final step may be to give pills, free, to customers as they enter the store! Such pills would keep them longer on their ach In The Day's Suez developments: TnHia'c WoVlflt .innr,,n,iAC that India will attend the London conference on the Suez crisis. At the same time, he tells the Indian narliampnt ho nnHttr. stands that EevDt (meanincr Nas. ser) can not and will not take part m the London parley. WHY not? The answer is reasonably simple. When Nasser, in a fit of pique because we refused to be drawn into a bidding battle with Russia to see who would put up the most money for his Aswan dam, grabbed the canal and said he d finance the dam himself out of canal revenues, he put himself out on a limb. Having done that, he will lose face if he takes part in a con ference whose purpose is to INTERNATIONALIZE the Suez. Dictators can't afford to lose face. M EANWHILE, Britain is as sembling an- air and sea armada to move troops to the Mediterranean. The British are also pushing ahead with their plans to hold the Suez confer ence, which is scheduled to be gin on Aug. 16. A British for eign office spokesman says it will be held regardless of how many of the 24 nations that have been invited refuse to attend. In a statement issued in Lon don, the foreign office says Brit ain intends to setUe the dispute peaceably. But, the statement adds, it is the intention of Brit ain, the U.S. and France to ASSURE that the canal shall remain open to ships of all na tions at all times. rpHAT brings us into the pic- ture. What are WE going to do? " At his press conference this morning President Eisenhower said he has every hope the Suez canal crisis will be settled by peaceful means. That brought from a reporter the suggestion that this might give the impres sion the President is against the use of force in ANY circum stances. Ike retorted that he had not said any such thing. He added that what we are trying to do is to substitute the conference table for the battlefield. I THINK we'll all join unhesi tatingly in President Eisen hower's hope. Conference rooms ing feet and give them courage to buy more goods. All of these stimulants are in addition to the highballs and doses of whiskey or brandy taken regularly at home. The taking of such pills like buying on installment may not be harmful if properly con trolled. It, however, is dangerous for wage-workers, consumers or retailers to depend too much upon such artificial stimulants. Not only does their use serve only temporarily, but it is a dan gerous and unnatural way to get free from pain, fatigue, and other troubles. Those depending upon such should go to a physi cian for a "check-up" and learn how to eliminate the cause of their troubles. Importance of Good Food Surely the prosperity of the nation as well as or own well being could be benefited by the regular eating of more good food. Coffee will not take the place of oatmeal; ice cream sodas will not serve for healthy lunches; while hurried dinners or suppers may keep you alive, but not prosperous. We cannot get on with scant and huried meals any more than a furnace can provide power without suf ficient coal or oiL Although girls' beautiful com plexions are out of my field, yet I am told "on authority" that the money spent on cosmetics would give far more rosy cheeks if spent on more good food, fresh air, pure drinking water with more sleep. Let me fur ther remind readers of the old question: "How does the word "diet" read when we leave the "t" off? A Word To Investors Although I am an optimist on oils, chemicals, and certain other groups of stocks, yet I have con tinually kept in mind that some "unexpected event" may at any time happen. I wrote a column on this subject a few weeks ago. The recent sudden taking over of the Suez Canal by the new Egyp tian Government is an illustra tion of what I had in mind. Even in these good days this sudden event caused several billion dol lars to be knocked off the value of oil stocks and other interna tionally owned securities within a few hours. We are now living in a small world. Whatever our religion, color, or nationality, we are brothers together economically. Every investor in the world has lost money by this act of the Egyptian Government. These in vestors are asking themselves: If this can be done to one of the oldest and most conservative in vestments, Suez Canal stock why could it not be done to many other "blue chips? How- ever, all "unexpected events" are bearish. Some are very bull ish, such as the recent sudden adjournment of Congress until next January. News bv Frank Jenkins have many doors. You can go into them and you can come out again. And you can go back and try all over. But battlefields are FINAL. Once the shooting starts, it is terribly, terribly difficult to get ii sioppea. TPHE key to the problem, of course, is Russia. Is Russia ready to let the shooting start? If so, she will back Nasser to the hilt. So far, Russia has given no inkling of what she intends to do. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot 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 most not exceed 400 words. Want Bear Creek Route To the Editor: We are respect fully requesting that you use your influence in preventing the new 99 Highway from going through the west side of our narrow little valley, but urge the natural God given route along Bear Creek. Here are the reasons: 1. Along Bear Creek means the saving from destruction of much fine farm land and or chards and the taking of them from the tax rolls. Our narrow litUe valley can ill afford to lose more farm and orchard land. 2. As laid out, the West Side route would, as far as I can see, cut all orchards and farms diag onally, leaving pieces of land and orchards in shapes almost impossible to work and care for. 3. I am reliably informed that the West Side route would be much more cosUy. 4. Fewer people would be dis commoded by going along the present natural barrier already existing and which will always exist. Why make another? 5. In our personal survey of the population, going along Bear Creek is the favored route. Thanking you in advance for your anticipated consideration and cooperation. Bert R. Elliott, Julia R. Elliott, Route 2, Box 394, Medford, Ore. . Humphrey's Civil Rights Stand Now Threat to His V-P Chances By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Chicago (U.R) One of the swashbuckling crew who four years ago tried to thumb South- e r n conserva tives out of the D e m o c r a tic party now wishes he hadn't. He is Sen. Hubert Humph rey of Minne sota, a small, smart man, Lyie c uun wno nas a pret ty good chance to be nominated for vice president of the United States. Humphrey's pretty good chance would be considerably better today but for his record of left wing Democratic activity which was a successful operation at the start and a political bust in the windup. Insofar as it has political significance, the record began mid-way in the 1948 Democratic National convention. Civil Rights Fight The conventioneers at that mo ment were confronted with a yes and no but maybe plank on civil rights which had been whompec up by a resolutions committee eager to avoid the issue and a fight. Humphrey challenged from the floor, proposed and won adoption of a plank which pro duced a bolt of Southern Demo crats who formed a state's rights party which nominated South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond for president. Thurmond won 39 electoral votes. Harry S. Truman was elected, however without a solid South and Humphrey was convinced fcs and his plank had brought about the dawn of a new political day. The senator had a hand in making the 1952 civil rights pre scription a bit harder for the South to swallow than his brew of 1948. But the new plank had not held the North and East for the Democrats although it again chipped away Southern support. Tried To Make Up Humphrey has devoted consid erable time, thought and effort in the past four years to squaring himself with Senate Democrats. He could not hope to square him self wholly with the extreme con servatives, but he did what he could. He latched on to Adlai E. Stevenson, the moderate candi date for the Democratic presi dential nomination. He opposes Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, who is standing fast in 1956 about where Humphrey stood in 1948-52. The senator did not pull out of Americans for Democratic Ac tion, (ADA) the fighting New Deal-Fair Deal splinter group which would teach the Demo cratic party to fly on its left wing. Humphrey had no part of ADA s public rebuke of Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas, and Speaker Sam Rayburn, Texas, for what the left regarded as re Congressional Quiz (Copyright. 195S Congressional Quarterly) Q W hen the Republicans convene Aug. 20 in San Francis co, they can boast that their con vention is unique in at least three respects. Can you name any one? A It wiU be the first GOP , convention to be held in the Far West, the 100th anniver sary of the first Republican nominating convention and the latest date a major politi cal convention ever has been held. It also will be only the second time the Republicans have convened later than the Democrats and the second na tional convention io be held in San Francisco. Q True or false: It will re quire more delegate support to nominate the Democratic Presi dential candidate than to nomi nate the Republican candidate. A True. The Democratic nominee must rack up at least 686Vi votes, but his Republi can counterpart needs only '662. But it's even worse than it looks. Because of the Demo crats' system of fractional voting, most delegates will have only half a vote. Each GOP delegate will have one whole vote. 231 PORK SAUSAGE iE Lb. actionary policies. The senator has made a lot of character with most of his Democratic col leagues in the Senate. They like and admire him. Stevenson obviously would be pleased to run with him this year if both could be nominated. Humphrey is a top campaigner, fit to take on the Republicans' Richard M. Nixon, and that isn't faint praise. The faint praise for Humph rey comes from way down South in Dixie where the court house Conflicting Catholic as For V-P are Washington (CQ) The fight for the Democratic Vice Presi dential nomination has turned into a public debate on the wis dom of putting a Catholic candi date on the national ticket. Congressional Quarterly ob tained a copy of a confidential memorandum that, supporters of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D Minn.) are distributing to lead ing Democrats. It disputes the claim of backers of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) that a Catho lic nominee virtually would as sure a Democratic victory in No vember. Humphrey, a Congregational- ist, departed from precedent last week and formally announced his candidacy for second spot on the national ticket. Kennedy, a Catholic, is bidding for the Vice Presidential nomination al though he has not formally an nounced his candidacy. Survey Claim The claim that a Catholic Vice Presidential candidate would all but win the Presidential election for the Democrats was made in a survey distributed by John M Bailey, Connecticut Democratic chairman and Kennedy backer. It, like the pro-Humphrey con fidential memo rebutting the claim, was meant primarily for the eyes of Adlai E. Stevenson, leading candidate for the Demo cratic Presidential nomination. Both Humphrey and Kennedy are supporting Stevenson. The pro - Kennedy survey claimed a Catholic Vice Presi dential nominee would add 132 electoral votes to the Democratic column, even if "he could get no more than those 'normally Democratic Catholics' who voted for Ike in 1952." That would be "enough when combined with the Solid South to provide a majority of electoral votes," Bailey's memorandum claimed There are 531 electoral votes; 266 are needed to win. Rebuttal The Humphrey forces' rebut tal, distributed by political scientist and author Louis Bean, raises these questions: "Will non-Irish, Catholic groups . . . swing against Ike be cause an Irish candidate is the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate?" "How will the candidacy of an Irish Catholic for Vice President affect the party in Protestant areas ... a host of states of rural non- (or even anti-) Catholic orientation? For a non-urban, pro-farm . Catholic, maybe; but for an urban,, Boston intellectu al who so duplicates rather than complements Governor Steven son, the prospects seem doubt ful." ' Bean's study disputes two basic claims of the Bailey re port: That there is a "Catholic vote" and that Catholic candi dates ran far ahead of Steven son in 1952. Bailey claimed that if Ken nedy "brought into the Demo cratic fold only those normally Democratic Catholics who voted for Ike, he would probably win New York. Massachusetts, Con-1 LINOLEUM -FORMICA-TILE - -r Formica Drainboards a Specialty! lowest Installation Cost F.H.A. Financing ESTIMATES WITHOUT OBLIGATION PHONE 2-5168 Dyke's Floorcovering - 227 E. 6th EAST SIXTH 5T, SLICED BACON LEG O' MUTTON Lb. Lb. gangs and the voters up the creek forks remember all too well the Humphrey of 1948-52. They've never heard of the Humphrey of the past four years who has changed his mind considerably about the place of the South in the Democratic party. It would be asking much of the Southern conservatives this year to accept a civil rights plank which they don't like along with two sweethearts of ADA such as Stevenson and Humphrey to head their presidential ticket. Views on Candidate Presented necticut, Rhode Island, Pennsyl vania and Illinois for 132 elec toral votes. "If he also wins the votes of Catholics who shifted to the Re publicans in 1948 or earlier, he could also swing New Jersey, Minnesota, Michigan, California, Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, Mon tana and maybe even New Hampshire for a total of 265 electoral votes. Sees Catholic Vote Catholics, the Bailey report said, "vote not as union mem bers or farmers or women or old people, but as Catholics . . . There is, or can be, a Catholic vote; and it is apparent that a well-known Catholic on the Democratic ticket would allo cate to that ticket an extraor dinarily large portion of that vote." The Bean memo concedes that most Catholics have voted Demo cratic but says "the evidence shows that what held them to the Democratic party was not their faith but their status as poor, underprivileged city dwel lers." It cites studies to show that the same proportion of Catholics and Protestants one in five left the Democratic party to vote for Mr. Eisenhower in 1952. The pro-Kennedy memo says Democratic hopes rest on major urban areas in 14 key states. "The Catholic voters in each of these cities can usually determ ine the Democratic margin in those cities; the size of the Demo cratic margin in 1 those cities usually determines whether these states' go Democratic; and whether these states go Demo cratic usually determines Wheth er the Democrats win the elec tion." Sees New Victories A Catholic Vice Presidential nominee. Bailey's report claims. would win the key cities "as Al Smith did, and begin a new era of Democratic victories without costing' even the few electoral votes Smith did." Along with the religious issue, the pro-Humphrey memo raises questions about Kennedy's ap peal in the farm states, described as "the single largest area of po tential anti-GOP sentiment any where In the nation." Kennedy has voted consistent ly for the Administration's flex ible support program, while Humphrey favors rigid 90 per cent farm price supports. The po-Humphrey appeal says the "candidate must be one who stands forthright" on the farm issue and "is able by his per sonal efforts to dramatize the Democratic party as the farm ers' party." Stevenson, it says, "has not yet done this. He is essentially an urban and urbane intel lectual as far as the farmer is concerned." Nominating Kennedy, the memo says, "would be but to put two dinner jackets where one grew before. Farm votes cannot be won this way." (Copyright 1956, Congressional Quarterly) BEEF LIVER 29 Lb.