Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, September 14, 1956, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextrVOTJR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Zveryone In Southern Orefon Beafla The Mall Tribune"' tubliahed Dally IieeP- SardeT by irrnrmin PRINTING CO. 17-29 NorthTiLiE.h--2 'iTIRB GREY Alvertlsln Manafer GERALD LATHAM. Business ?f'er IrtiL AU.1.1 . .."-." EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.V. Teleirrapri Editor RICHARD JE'A'ETT Sporta Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. Anlndepepdent Newspaper . " rntered as second clsss matter at F- Medford, Oregon, under Act ot March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mall In Advance: Per Copy IK Dally and Sunday One year 15 00 Dally and Sunday Six monthe 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa. 4.23 Sunday Only One year M 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. . Ahland. Central Point. Eale Point. Jacksonville. Gold H1U. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rorue River. Talent, and on motor routes Daily end Sunday One yeer $18 00. Dally and Sunday One month 1-30 Carrier and Dealera 10c per copy All Terma Caih In Advance Official Paper ef the City of Medford United Preai Full Leaaed Wire ""MEMBER Or AUDIT BUREAU or CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York. Chlcajo. de trolt San Francisco. Los Aneelea. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. AUant. Vancouver. B C. 0a NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCII-AUC NEWSPAPER UILISHEKS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept .14. 1946 (It was Saturday) City authorities decide to Clamp down on motorists who pay no attention to "stop" signs on city streets. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Repub lican party is very confident of victory in November. If they start pulling some of the local slick tricks, on a national basis, they will make their customary emergence from the little end of the horn. 20 YEARS AGO Sept. 14, 1938 (It was Monday) To publicize "Gold Rush Days" to be held In Yreka. Calif., Sept. 25-27, a caravan of Yreka min ers and their girls will visit Meford next Sunday. 30 YEARS AGO Sept. 14. 192S (It was Tuesday) The long talked of Pacific air mail service. In which Medford Is the only air mall station in Oregon, will begin tomorrow morning. 40 YEARS AGO Sept 14. 1918 Ot was Thursday) Th 1918 Jackson county fair opened today with the largest exhibits of livestock, iruu. grains, manufactures and min erals in it history. Two public meetings are Hii4 for tnnieht. when ini tiative bills for constitutional amendments submitted to voters at the November election will be discussed. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 14. 1906 (It was Friday) J H Thatcher, district man ager of the Pacific States Tele phoning company, was here yesterday making an Inspection of the company i interests. D. F. Armstrong has just rec eived his first consignment of Vicfnr talking- machines and records, also a large stock of new and up-tcxlate music. What's ihe Answer? Can Ton Get 4 of the 1? Cepr. 1953 Editorial Research Report 1. President Eisenhower, if elected to a second term, could or couldn't constitutionally serve a third term beginning in 1961? t Most stolen-cars are recover ed, or about half of them, or relatively few? 3. Most women afflicted with rheumatioid arthritis got it when relatively young, middle- aged, or elderly? A TJar,al r,f th Taft-HartlCV ic riomanrierl hv the Republi can or Democratic 1956 plat form, or by both or by neimer: s A 4 rent letter rate goes into effect the coming Jan. 1. by ac tion of Congress this year; ngm 6. Red China is much larger or much smaller in area man the Soviet Union, or about the 7. Yaws are small boats, ever green trees. Asiatic oxen, a dis ease, or kind of sweet potato? . The Answers: 1. Couldn't. 2. Most of them. 3. Most when relatively young. 4. By tha Dam' ocratic. S. Wrong. 6. Much smal ler. 7. Skin disease. MAIL TRIBUNE Learn To Say "No" Fast A Medford housewife called the Mail Tribune of fice the other day in some distress to report on the activities of a magazine salesman. He had given her a "line" about needing "her vote," and then gradually led up to the magazine sales pitch. She said the combination of his glib tongue, in nocuous appearance, and confusing approach com pletely disguised his purpose, at first, and by the time he got around to demanding (yes, demanding not asking) that she subscribe to S15 or $20 worth of mag azines she didn't want, she hardly knew what to do. MOW this housewife is a pleasant, friendly, intelli- gent individual. She had read the repeated stories in the Mail Tribune about itinerant magazine sales men who come through Medford on a regular basis, and she had all the magazines she wanted. Yet, despite this, the fellow's approach, his bellig erent attitude when she repeatedly declined any sub scriptions, his deliberate attempt to confuse her with a phoney line about "votes," reduced her almost to the point of tears by the time she finally got rid of him. TT SHOULD BE pointed out that there are a number of Medford residents who are bona-fide subscrip tion agents for magazines. Some of them do their so liciting by telephone ; others have a regular list of cli ents they serve. With them we have no quarrel. But we do despise the cheap, shoddy tricks of hucksters who, with no stake in the community, drift in one day and out the next, meanwhile badgering and bothering housewives with their phoney stories and faked "high school" or "veterans" or "help-me-win-a-prize" sales approaches. XHAT does one do about them? Woll fhotr'ro VironlHnrr no IflWQ pvppnf flip laws of truth, good taste some question whether the so-called Green Kiver i ordinances which some cities have, prohibiting ped- aiers, are cunsuiuuuiiai, in uiai uiey imjjuse a iiiiuia tion on the freedom of the individual. Some cities have found that one form or another of peddlers' licenses have been a satisfactory control. But Medford has no ordinance which provides any degree of protection from peddlers, as distinct from and often welcome make their living here. The difficulty is in distinguishing one from the other. It can be done, though, and a long series of doors closed and a firm "no" will do much to discour age the former. E.A. 30 Years in The Air Thirty years ago tomorrow two tiny airplanes, one northbound, the other en route south, stopped at the Medford airport. They were the first regularly-scheduled air mail planes flying Seattle to Los Angeles. It was a momentous day in Medford, that Wednes day in 1926. The Mail Tribune gave full coverage to the event (although the opening of the county fair received larger headlines). The arrival and departure of the planes and the ceremonies were recorded in detail even to reporting on the misfortunes of a mo torcycle messenger detailed to carry the mail from the airport to the post office and back. (A brake pin came loose, he missed the turn off Oakdale ave., and landed in a field.) THHE paper published letters of greeting from the A Portland Oregonian, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Francisco Bulletin, in which the import ance of regularly-scheduled air mail was emphasized. Edgar B. Piper, then editor of the Oregonian, in his letter to Robert W. Ruhl, then as now editor of the Mail Tribune, said: "Unquestionably the service will tend greatly to strengthen the very agreeable relationship of Portland and Medford, of the Willamette valley and southern Oregon; and to promote those mutual affairs that have for their ob jective mutual prosperity, good will and contentment. Suc cess to this end, and to your district." Medford was one of only seven stops on the route. It still is. But there have been changes. "THE planes of those first days of Pacific Coast air mail had a top speed of hour; today the planes are m the 300-and-up category, and with the jets due soon, they will be faster. The company was Pacific Air Transport. It sur vived and through consolidation became United Air lines, which still serves Medford, although now its regular stops total 80 cities, The airport in those days was a bumpy field near the present fairgrounds. Today it is a modem and efficient municipal field north of town, complete with control tower, building, and offices for three airlines. The two flights that day brought in about 4,000 pieces of mail, swelled by the number mailed by stamp collectors for "first flight" cachets. Today, the post office routinely handles a daily average of about 9,000 pieces of air mail. ""THE esiiy company was carrier in 1926, but it didn't, making it (and its airline in the nation, and cities in the nation to be for 30 vears. Noting the changes and and quality and speed and three decades, it is difficult to predict what sort of service we will have oO years from now, m 1986. Whatever it is, though jets or rockets or flying saucers Medford undoubtedly will still be on the route, benefiting from the speed and convenience of air traffic. E.A. Friday. September 14. 1956 and decency. And there is the invasion of fast-talking the regular and legitimate door - to - door salesmen who a little over 100 miles per instead of seven. not the only scheduled air survived and the others successor. UAL) the oldest Medford one of the few continuously served by air improvements in the type cost of service over the pasf Suez Crisis Dominates Foreign News for Seventh Week in Row By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Sues In countries all over the world, the attempt of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to seize sole control of the Suez Canal dominated the foreign news. It was the seventh week of one of the biggest disputes since the end of World War II. Nasser rejected a plan, ap proved by 18 countries which use the great waterway, for a system of international control. Nasser called for new negotia tions. Britain and France, the countries most vitally concerned, refused. They said Nasser had nothing to offer. British Prime Minister An thony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet, meeting in London, decided to start an economic squeeze against Nasser. Little news items at once showed how the squeeze was starting. Typical was one announcing that the Egyptian National Air Line was forced to cancel its plane service between Egypt and Cyprus. The planes used are British and the supply of sare parts had been stopped. The next move was to call upon Foreign Suez Canal pilots, who are mostly British and French, to resign. British, French Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. As To Pensions for Aged To the Editor: One of your editorial writers Monday said he doesn't approve of pensions for World War One veterans. Said military service in time of war is an obligation of citizenship. Republican lawmakers think so. too, but shouldn't that also apply to General Motors who made a cool billion last year on war materials? I notice congressmen, senators and governors who do not be lieve in pensions for the aged are being retired straight across the board from the rock-ribbed coast of Maine to the "sunny" slopes of Oregon. Your editorial writer insinu ates one should get a college edu cation and make a fortune before he gets old. The fact remains many of us didn't. He writes as if we are not GI's that is our funeral. Could it be that this editorial writer is a young man himself who thinks old people ought to be arrested for allowing themselves to grow up without first making a wad of dough? He seems wholeheartedly agreeable that GI's should be amply awarded for "Giving the best years of their lives to the nation" but turns thumbs down on the doughboy. Could it be he is a bit selfish? He said "There is at present a tremendous and unfilled demand for well trained and weU edu cated people." Will he write another editorial and tell we oldsters who have trained and educated ourselves where we may apply for some of these jobs? This year more than a million men and women will reach 65. A third of them win be flat broke. Would the editorial writ er suggest what to do with these undesirables? Has he any idea as to how to dispose of them? Would he suggest digging a long trench and driving them in like so many cattle with hoof and mouth disease and covering them with a bulldozer? If so would he volunteer to drive, kill, or cover up? I think he should write anoth er editorial and let us know how he stands on some of these ques tions. Frank Strickland Cave Junction, Ore. (Editor's note: The editorial in question, among other things, stated: "To those who were wounded or disabled in the na tion's service, the nation owes help. But a few months' service in the armed forces should not lead a man to expect automatic financial security in later years." (The question of security in old age, for veterans and non veterans alike, and for both men and women, is a separate prob lem, and one which has been repeatedly and sympathetically discussed in Mail Tribune edi torials. We have taken the po sition, and still do, that through continued expansion of social security legislation, pension sys tems, and other means, including wider work opportunities, pro vision must be made for the support of ALL elderly people needing it not just those who happen to have spent a few months or years in the armed forces.) America's Natural Resources To the Editor: Two distinct and opposing philosophies exist about America's natural re sources. One is to use them to best advantage, avoid unneces sary damage and waste, main tain and perpetuate, so renew able natural resources may be passed on to succeeding genera tions in good condition. These and other foreign pilots handed in mass resignations. The job of piloting ships through the 101-mile canal calls for the greatest skill. It was fore cast the canal traffic would be all but paralyzed by Monday. The next move, endorsed by the United States, was to call for the organization of a Suez Canal authority by canal-using coun tries. This authority would take control of the pilots and take responsibility for canal traffic, leaving the canal itself under Nasser's control. But Egyptian cooperation would be essential, and Nasser called the plan hostile. Egypt was not the only trouble spot in the Mediterra nean sea. There were ugly Incidents along the frontiers of Israel and its Arab neighbors. In one, Jor dan said Isrelis wiped out a bor dor police station, killing 19 men. Violence spread again in Brit ish Cyprus after Greek Cypriot extremists refused to lay down their arms under an amnesty offer. There was serious fighting in French Algeria. There was little news on the good side. There seemed hope that Japan and Russia might reach an agree ment to establish diplomatic re lations pending the conclusion of a peace treaty. Under this agree ment Russia would support Ja pan's admission to the United were the Gifford Pinchot-Grover Cleveland - Teddy Roosevelt teachings. The other is to grab all pos sible, high-grade, exploit, despoil get immediate dollar profits as fast as possible for personal use. Matter-of-fact, the present, and self, are about the only consid erations. There is one other line of thought perhaps lack of thought. This is by people in different about what happens to America s natural resources. Perhaps they are happy, so "why worry about who does what to anything." "Posterity never did notfnn for me." Through the political spoils system Americas natural re sources were squandered by the very men under whose guardian ship the people entrusted them to be guarded against looters. Railroad promoters, timberland grabbers, et al, with surplus cash, persuasive attributes, of dull or no conscience, had laws made by palm-itching, bribe-receptive lawmaking politicians. (Jay Gould was quoted as say ing: "We own the land. How we got it God knows. And we're going to keep it if we have to bribe every Senator and feed the hungry Congressmen. ) Land Grants, Homestead En try, Timber and Stone, and other Congressional Acts were so de bauched and misused for plunder that the results bore no resem blance to the purported inten tions of the Acts. The July, 1946, Higgins Lake, Michigan, lum bermen's committee resolved that "the federal government should block out 11,000,000 Michigan acres, plant to forest trees and protect till large enough to harvest." Also that "states should be custodians of federal forest lands as it's so much easier for private operat ors to get them from states than the federal government." The 19o3 Timberland Exchange bill was to turn National Forest lands over to private operators. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce urges such maneuvers. Note present threats to National Parks, wildlife refuges, etc.; the looting NOW of American In dians and their lands. Unhealed scars still bleed on millions of acres in Michigan alone, and newer sores fester on every western state, caused by greedy lumbering operations. History records no aborigines ever having destroyed their own future welfare; only "greedy businessmen. John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., Medford, Ore. Telegraph Rates Set for Increase Montreal (U.R) Telegraph rates between Canada and the United States will be increased 10 per cent by this country's two major communications sys tems starting Sept. 24, it was announced today. The Canadian Pacific and Can adian National Telegraph com panies said the increase was in line with a similar boost by Western Union in the United States. The cost of telegrams be tween Canadian points remains unchanged. Press rates will continue at one-third the full rate during the day and one-sixth the full rate at night, with a minimum charge of 75 cents. Ohio is the fifth largest coal producting state. Nations at the General Assembly to be held in New York in No vember. Russia vetoed Japan's application at the last assembly. Maj. Gen. Clark L. Ruffner, chief of the United States mili tary assistance group, announced that American tanks, guns and ammunition were pouring into West Germany as fast as the Ger mans could handle them. The weapons, supplied under a $1 billion aid plan, will arm West Germany's 500.000 man fighting force, which will be a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion defense system. French and West German en voys announced that after long negotiations, they had practic ally setUed the last points in dis pute over future control of the Saar coal region. Editorial Commenf WASHINGTON VOTE MEANING With the exception of those in Massachusetts and Rhode Is land, primary election is Nov ember 6 when the president of the United States will be chosen. With the exception of Maine, whose reputation as a political barometer is slightly tarnished, the most significant election re sults are found in the state of Washington. There Gov. Arthur Langlie was running unopposed for the Republican nomination for U.S. senator and Sen. Warren Mag nuson, the incumbant was runn ing unopposed for the Dem cratic nomination. Such contests are "popularity" contests but Washington, it must be remembered, has the so called "blanket" primary. Every voter, including the independ ent, gets a ballot and votes to determine who shall be the party nominees. In other words, the Dem ocrats and Independents could have voted to make Gov. Lang- lie the Republican nominee or Republicans and Independents could have voted for Magnuson. Under these conditions, the fact that Magnuson polled more votes than Langlie in every county except on small one, and In total votes had a 3 to 2 edge, means that Langlie and the Republicans are in trouble in Washington. Washington voters have a rep utation for being selective and this apparent trend does not mean Eisenhower cannot carry the state as he did in 1952, but it should also be remembered that no Republican senatorial candidate had a stronger in dorsement from Eisenhower and the national party than did Langlie. Oregon Journal. COLLEGE EXPANSION The scope of the expansion program which lies ahead of Southern Oregon college within the next several years is hieh- ry encouraging. Right now construction is un der way on the half million dollar physical education plant and work has started on recon struction of the present Memor ial court into an attractive stu dent union building. This week the state board of higher education authorized a substantial expansion in the acreage of the college campus and gave the "go ahead" on drafting of plans for a new men's dormitory and a new commons, or dining room. Each of these structures will cost an estimated $300,000. Federal funds will also be sought for preliminary plan ning for a new science building which will be just to the west of the existing campus. Also on the construction pro gram, and now No. 1 on the state board's priority list, is a new central heating plant for SOC. Funds for this will be re quested from the next legisla ture and may also be sought for the science building. Even if the entire program can not be carried out within the next several years, 1957 will see completion of the new physi cal education building and the student union and a start of construction on the new men's dormitory and work on the cen tral heating plant is likely to get under way during the com ing year. Sometimes living as close as we do to the college, we fail to recognize the substantial growth which is taking place on the campus and is to continue for the next several years. Ashland Tidings 231 EAST SIXTH ST. PORK PURE MUTTON PORK LIVER LARD, 2 lbs. ROAST SAUSAGE 19 V 29c 19.b 29 .b Babson Predicts Suez Won't Bring On War Babson Park, Mass. The Egyptian trouble will not re sult in any war. Sir Anthony Eden and Guy Mollet, Pre mier of Fran ce, who have been criticiz ed as being "s o f t," may feel that this is a good op portuntiy to show their auger w Babson real strength. At P r e s i d ent Eisenhower's last press conference he stated clearly that all nations should respect "the sovereignty of Egypt as it applies to the Suez Canal." This insures that the United States will not get into the squabble. Since that is ap parently all Nasser demanded, there is nothing to fight over except regulations and toll charges. President Eisenhower made clear that the Interna tional Treaty of 1888 gives many nations rights in and to the Canal in perpetuity; but that this does not mean that Egypt internationalized her sovereign ty. From a legal standpoint it is much like a city which gives a street railway or bus company Museum Visitors Represent Many States, Countries Visitors to the Jacksonville Museum in August numbered .7,541 and came from 38 states. Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Eng land. Finland. Denmark, and Korea, according to the muse um's monthly report. Attendance for August, 1955, was 5,731. The total attendance since the museum's opening, July 10, 1950, to Aug. 31, 1956, was 229,527. During August this year 1,809 persons visited the museum during the two days of the Gold Rush Jubilee. Gifts, Loans Gifts and loans to the museum for the month include: From H. H. Brecht, a citation signed by John J. Pershing, 1919, newspaper and letter pertaining to application for purple heart; From Kenneth Lamb, a brass bullet mold, a scraper for a sluice box probably used by early Chinese miners, and a patent medicine bottle; From Mrs. Mabel Wagner Kin ney, a picture of Mrs. Jacob Wagner, a - letter written by Jacob Wagner to his brother and sister from California in 1852, the muster roll of Company D Second Regiment of Oregon Vol unteers, a quit claim deed from Charles M. Bishop to Jacob Wag ner and John McCall in 1863, a deed dated 1860; power of at torney from John McCall to Jacob Wagner in 1865, a cer tificate for 40 shares "Ashland State Normal School No. 33, 1887", certificate for widows' pension for Indian wars, a letter from Col. George B. Currey in 1865, and a statement from Wag ner and Anderson to Reames brothers of Jacksonville in 1882; Other Items From G. T. Applewhite, an old bedstead; From John Gribble, a horse shoe that had been used by high stump tree fallers; From J. M. Payne, two blocks of dead ash tree with the imprint of what appears to be boxing gloves in their centers: From Lloyd Brough, an iron; From Mrs. Sutherland Robin son, a collection of 62 pieces luster jugs, cups and saucers, cranberry hobnail, Westward-Ho and other jugs and teapots; From Bill Kayser, an old tele graph keyboard with receiver; From John Levine, a 47 piece rock collection; From Mr. and Mrs. Curtis, an 1800 newspaper and a fan made of paper and paper money. '51 MERCURY A beautiful one-owner Mercury with radio, heater, and Mercomatic. This a Premium Car in every detail. It has very low mileage and carries our $RQ5 1st Choice Warranty uw PARSONS MOTORS DODGE - PLYMOUTH HEADQUARTERS 817 N. Riverside Next to Bowling Alley - Phone 3-4421 a permanent franchise, but with out relinquishing sovereignty or ownership of its streets. The city may make regulations and fares as it desires, so long as it does not "take property without due process of law." Five Nation Committee The committee of five neu tral nations is in Cairo conferr ing with President Nasser. The chairman of this committee is the Australian Prime Minister Menzies. I forecast that the final agreement will recognize the sovereignty of Egypt, but that nothing will be done to serious ly harm the Suez Canal com pany, which has the franchise to operate the canal. Like all dictators, "President" Nasser must do something rad ical to show his power and keep his job. However, the one thing Egypt needs most other than better character is more mon ey. The new toll rates, which like nearly everything else, are passed on to the ultimate con sumer, will give Nasser the need ed additional funds. What Nasser Fears Neither Egypt, nor the other countries which are benefiting from American dollars, want to be guilty of "expropriation." They know this would frighten away American, English, and French investors. There are, however, other arguments the committee of five could use with President Nasser. For in stance, more than one half of Britain's oil imports come through this canal. It the canal should be closed, other sources of supply would be available from Venezuela, West Indies, and the United States. For a short time only, the use of oil In England and France would need to be rationed. Within a year new pipelines could be built to carry oil direct to the Mediterranean. This pipe line would be from Haifa on the Mediterranean to the Gulf of Aqaba. Furthermore, with an in crease in tanker capacity, Eng land and France could temp orarily return to the old route around the Cape of Good Hope. This Suez scare will awaken na tions to the need of more tank er capacity so that they will not again risk being cut off. Doubtless Nasser remembers what the airlift did in bringing oil, food, and other necessities into Berlin several years ago when Stalin tried a stunt similar to Nasser's. In fact, it is a fair question whether the Suez Canal would be built today, with the possible competition of air trans port, electrical transmission, and big tankers. Suez and The Stock Market Although there may be sev eral good reasons for taking profits today on stocks, certainly the Suez scare is no reason for selling stocks at the present time. What will ultimately create a crash in the stock market will be some totally un expected event which no one can now forecast. Therefore, I repeat my fore cast that England and France and Egypt will arrive at a peace ful settlement; but whatever happens, the United States will keep out of any fighting. Fur thermore, we will continue our present policy of withdrawing troops from Europe and reor ganizing our fighting strength to conform to the new nuclear policy. Austrian Province Hit by Heavy Floods Innsbruck, Austria (U.R) The Austrian province of Tyrol has been hit by heavy floods for the second time this year. Raging waters of the Ziller River, fed by heavy rains, cut off the village of Rum and filled the valleys with uprooted trees and boulders. The situation ap proached that of last- month when floods killed at least 10 persons and devastated roads and crops.