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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORIViWrRIBUNE "vryon In Southern Oregon Head xnMiu ijaunK Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-38 North Fir St- Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W. BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second clasw matter at Jdedford. Oregon, under Act ol March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year 15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Carrier In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River, Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year 918.00 I Jail y and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Gfflctat Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County V nlted Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Office in New York. Chicago, de troit. San Francisco, Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis. Atlanta. Vancouver B C. N A T I O N A I EDITORIAL ' . TTTTTTTT NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 30 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 194B (Saturday) Local Elks to honor Old Tim ers Thursday night, Oct. 3. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Mighty hunters have started returning from the timber with 4-point, 4-ham bucks. RO YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 193B (Monday) George T. Frey, chairman of Jackson county Red Cross chap ter, issues plea for contributions to a fund for relief of families made homeless by the fire in the northwest. Medford Crater club's entry In the Yreka, Calif., pioneer pa rade yesterday awarded first prize. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1928 (Tuesday) Two more days remain In which persons may get Copco six per cent preferred stock at $94 per share, says D. G. Tyree, secretary. Bids for the concreting and trimming of the connecting can al between Fish Lake and Four Mile Lake opened by directors of the Medford Irrigation dis trict. 40 YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1916 (Thursday) Ten days open season for Chi nese pheasant shooting begins Sunday, Oct. 1. A pearl and amythest pendant attached to a gold chain, is the prize to be given the young lady receiving the most votes at the dance at the Cuthbert building Saturday and Sunday. SO YEARS AGO Sept. 28. 1906 (Friday) A meeting was held last night of Reames Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, after a two weeks vacation. From Local and Personal col umn: Contractor Schermerhorn started work on the addition to the Hotel Nash yesterday. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 1? Copr. 15S KdltnrtaJ Research Report 1. Vice President Nixon once worked in Washington as a civil service employee; right or wrong? 2. The U.S. adopted Its present Constitution the year it became formally independent of Great Britain; right or wrong? 3. Boulder Dam lies between New Mexico and Arizona, Ari zona and Colorado, Arizona and Nevada. Nevada and California, Nevada and Colorado? 4. "Love apples" Is an old term for Grimes Goldens. toma toes, persimmons, sweet potatoes. Honey Dew melons, or avocados? 5. Athletes as a whole do or don't live longer than non-athletes? 8. Which European capital Is on the Liffey River? 7. Miss Grace A. Goodhue married which of our recent Presidents? The Answers: 1 Right (for months in 1942). 2. Wrong. 3 Arizona and Nevada. 4. Toma toes. 5. Don't, as a whole. 6. Dublin. 7. Coolidg. , What is a City? (National Newspaper Week is Oct. 1 to 8) What is a city? Mostly it is people. But it is many other things too. It is the city council and city administration ; it is the schools, and the water distribution system ; it is the police and fire departments, the traffic control systems and the san itary and storm sewers. It includes the retail stores: shoes and clothing and food and furniture and appliances and jewelry and books and equipment of all kinds, shapes, sizes and purposes. It is lumber yards and lumber mills; steel com panies and packing houses and warehouses; it is auction yards and used car lots and new car dealers. "yilE city is the railroad track cutting through it, and the streets criss-crossing the town and high ways leading to the country. It includes taxis and buses and the airport It is cars thousands of cars, driving the streets and looking for places to park. It is candy stores and ice cream shops and drug stores and magazine racks. It is the library, and the hotels and motels. It is parks and playgrounds, and Bear creek winding by. It is hot asphalt in the sum mer, and green grass and trees. It is offices : doctors, dentists, osteopaths, optom etrists, chiropractors, chiropodists, naturopaths, law yers, insurance men, stockbrokers. DART of the city is the service industries, the banks, the telephone, telegraph, gas and power companies; the laundries and cleaners, the delivery trucks and service stations; the home-builders, con tractors, plumbers and electricians; the pest con trol iers and tree surgeons, gardeners and janitors. The city is organizations, hundreds of them: Rotary, Kiwanis, Jaycees, Chamber of Commerce, 20-30, Lions, BPW, Zonta, Rotana, and a long string of other service, fraternal, civic, trade, professional, labor or veterans groups, serving the interests and needs and desires of thousands. It is churches, nearly two score of them. It is theaters, the TV and radio stations. "THE city is vastly complex and interdependent. 1 But looked at another way, the important way, it's pretty simple. The city is people people working and playing and worshipping; people with ambitions and aspirations; people with hope and people in despair; people who are happy and people who are sad. If it weren't for people the city would be noth ing a collection of purposeless walls and streets, quiet and dead. But there are people, and the streets and build ings are living things, vibrating with purpose and emotion and life, with birth, and, inevitably, death. e THIS, then, is the city, a sort of microcosm, which the newspaper attempts to serve as a mirror, as it also attempts to reflect the county, the state, the nation and the world. At times the mirror is cracked and faulty and splotched ; at times it is vivid and accurate. Always it attempts, to the limit of human ability, to reflect truly and fairly and comprehensively, with sympathy and understanding and without fear. . It does not always succeed, for newspaper people are like other people in human frailty. But they always try. E.A. About Smoking Our advice to older teen agers who are wondering whether or not to "give smoking a try" can be given in one word: DON'T. Most of the smokers we of age, particularly heavy lieve, give the same advice. Many of them would be mightily pleased if they again had a choice to make whether or not to smoke. By now they're too much in the grip of the habit to quit. If you never get in to the habit, you have no habit to give up. THIS is not to say that smoking cannot be a con genial habit. It most definitely can, although just why would be difficult to But if one has never sorrows of inhaling a lung-full of smoke, he never knows what it is he would be missing. And wTe have come to the reluctant conclusion that, in the long pull, the sorrows outnumber the joys. We have known countless people who have at tempted to free themselves from the smoking com pulsion, only to fail as the craving overcame their will power. Some cessful. Others simply have a feeling they ought to stop, but don't even try because either (1) they enjoy it too much, or (2) know THRE was a piece in the about experiments with chemicals designed to make it easier to stop smoking. Such experiments would never have been started unless there was a demand for something of mand has been increased by recent statistics which indicated that smoking and cancer of the lung tend to follow similar graphic Perhaps these chemicals will work; perhaps they are safe; perhaps they will permit some addicts to free themselves from the habit they hate and love at the same time. But the moral of the many smokers want to give up, the young man or woman thinking about smoking should take that as a warning, namely: Don t. Friday. Stptimbn 28, 1S5S know of SO or more years smokers, would, we be explain to a non-smoker. experienced the joys and strong-minded individuals are suc they couldn t. paper the other day telling the sort. Doubtless the de- curves. story, we think, is that if so E.A. - Oregon's Per Capita Income Slips Below National Average By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Per capita in come in Oregon has now dropped below the averaee income for the United States as a whole, accord ing to estimates made by U. S. News and World Report magazine. The average income in the state continued RobL smiu to rise over the past four years, but did so at a slower rate than in the country at large. The magazine, report ing on income gains made by all the states from 1952 to this year, showed that the average income nationally went up 10.9 per cent but in Oregon it -climbed only 4.4. per cent. In terms of dollars, the Depart ment of Commerce said that in 1952 per capita income in Ore gon was $1,824, compared with $1,727 for the country that year so Oregon then was enjoyi-g an average income greater than the nation at large. Slips Below Average This year, the magazine esti mated, the per capita income in Oregon is averaging $1,905, as against $1,915 for the country as a whole, which indicates the state has slipped just below the national average income. Only Washington state, of the Northwest states, showed up bet ter in income gains the past four years. Its per capita income went up 6.2 per cent to $2,031, keep ing it well above the national average. Idaho, on the other hand, dropped 2.7 per cent from $1,568 to $1,526, making it by far the lowest income state in the region. Montana went up 1.1 per cent from $1,780 to $1,790. The biggest income gainers na- tionally have been in the South and New England. States that have lost ground, in addition to Idaho, have been Wyoming (down 5.4 per cent), Arizona (2.1 per cent). South Dakota (2.7 per Communications Letters to the Editor must' bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of IS permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. More TV Complaints To the Editor: I just want to give Mrs. H. E. Johnson of Med ord a great big cheer, and if a few more of the TV audience would do the same and write a letter to this editor, maybe, and I say that with a little doubt, we would get some good pro grams. Whether or not, is to be seen. Mrs. Johnson says that down at KBES-TV station, they are dead. Well that is putting it mildly, as I will say they have been dead for quite some time, period. They talk about trouble on TV. All evening all I could read was: "Do not adjust your sets, trouble at station, stand by." Well how long do you ex pect the public to stand by? If they're having so much trouble at the station, why don't they do something about it? You can al ways see the commercials okay, but when it comes picture time, there's always trouble. Why don't they get some good tech incians down there? They always blame the network, never the station. Why don't they give us some good shows? The shows we have been getting lately are sure the bunk. For awhile we had some pretty good ones, but they took them all off and gave us a bunch of repeats and what have you. There are a lot of people who depend on their TVs for their only recreation and are unable to go elsewhere for entertain ment, so for goodness sake do something about it, if not for our sake, do it for theirs. It's like Mrs. Johnson says, we are the ones who buy the products that are advertised on TV, so let's all get busy and write in and see if we can't get some action. CBS Hollywood TV Station asked the public to write in and tell them what programs we like. What's the use of writing in, if you don't recognize the letters and do something about it? At first it was that they couldn't get the sponsors, but now they have all kinds of them, so why the bum shows? Some are so old that you can't even understand them when they talk. So come on all you TV listen ers and write a letter and let them know that we the "Listen ers" of the TV audience are the ones to be pleased. Blaine F. Smith Gold Hill, Ore. Morse Action Praised To the Editor: In the heat of the current political campaign it is nice to note a touch of courtesy extended from one party to the other: Senator Morse had a half hour program scheduled on KBES-TV the other night from 8:30 to 9 p.m. The show was all set to go on when a call from New York informed the station that the network desired to cent), Nebraska (10.3 per cent, worst drop in the country) and Kansas 3.2 per cent). Biggest gainers have been New Hampshire (18.8 per cent), Vermont (17.8), Alabama (17), Massachusetts and Georgia (both 16.7), and Florida (16.2). Other states that picked up at a rate above the national average were North Dakota, Minnesota, Illi nois, Indiana, Oklahoma, Arkan sas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten nessee, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine and Connecticut. One noticeable fact about the fastest gaining states is that some of them were suffering from relatively very low per capita incomes m 19o2, and the gains they have made since then leave them still well below the national average and below Oregon although for them the gain was quite good. South Increases This is particularly true in the South. Alabama had an average income of $1,045 in 1952, and this year it is estimated at $1,223 for a 17. per cent gain. This is also true of Vermont, which went up from $1,403 to $1,653. But, then there are other states, such as Massachusetts, which made real gains. The Bay state went from $1,919 to $2,239 for its 16.7 per cent rise. New Jersey shot up from $2,113 to $2,402 for a 13.7 per cent gain. The 11 western states as a group have done poorer than the rest of the country the past four years. Three showed i declines, and none measured up to the average national gain. Only California came close, with 10.2 per cent gain which made its average income of $2,363 by far the highest in the West. Although Oregon has slipped below the national average, only 16 states have per capita incomes higher than Oregon's. They are California, Connecticut, Dela ware, District of Columbia, Illi nois. Indiana, Maryland, Mich igan, Massachusetts, Nevada New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Washington. a pen name or initial for publication Letters submitted for publication must place a speech by President Eisenhower in that time period and would they please move any thing that currently occupied the time? A frantic call was placed to Morse headquarters in Port land to ask their permission for the move and the Democrats quickly o.k.'d it. They had every right to refuse as the time was advertised in the Medford paper but they were courteous enough to grant it. This courtesy should happen more often! Earl Heims Advertising Agency, 835 SW 16th ave., PorUand, Ore. What Plopped Like What? To the Editor: May 1 quote? Medford Mail Tribune, front page story, Sept. 23, 1956: "Three Malheur County Re publicans who issued a challenge this week that they would de bate anyone regarding Senator Wayne Morse's deserving to rep resent Oregon in the U.S. Sen ate had their answer Saturday . .The Democratic senator heard of the challenge and sent the following message, I person ally will come to Malheur coun ty at an arranged time to debate according to your challenge or any other issues with any ol you. all three of you at once, Douglas McKay himself or any combination of persons you may desire. I would prefer a question that would compare the records of McKay and myself. Letter to the Editor, Mail Trib une, Sept. 25, 1956, signed by Mary Kelly:, Senator Morses swift, per sonal acceptance of the long dis tance challenge of three Eastern Oregon big shots . . . must have plopped like a cold wet fish in the center of the boisterous trio's rosy dream." Mail Tribune, Sept'. 26, 1956: "Senator Wayne Morse has moved to clear up what he called a 'misunderstanding which seems to have developed in Malheur County . . .' Morse said he did not intend 'to be diverted from the issues by taking time out from my campaign to discuss with McKay's campaign hench men, false attacks upon my record.' " What plopped like what, Mary? Dick House 207 Fluhrer Bldg. Medford, Oregon Ho7, Rain, Dust Hit Snake River Valley Ontario (U.B The Snake River valley was struck by a hail and rain storm yesterday afternoon with winds estimated 35 to 40 mph. No serious damage was re ported, although visibility in many parts of the valley was reduced to zero due to heavy clouds of dust which accom panied the storm. Suez Policy Week's Balance Sheet By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent This week's good and bad newt on the international bal ance sheet: Sues A disagreement on policy in the Suez Canal dispute gave further evidence this week of a potentially dangerous breach in the unity be tween the United States, Great Britain and France. Britain and France jointly asked the United Na tions Security Council to Charles M. Mctuu consider the situation caused by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's attempt to seize exclusive con trol of the canal. Nasser countered with a com plaint to the council that "some powers, particularly France and the United Kingdom," were en dangering peace. The 11-nation council, a sort of U.N. executive committee met in New York to discuss the two communications. Britain and France, with the WWkMll'MILHHUy Future of Oil Stocks Discussed by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Since its high in April, the Dow-Jones industrial average has faUen from a peak of 521 to 490 recently. The oils have been one of the leaders in this decline. This, however, is only natural , i . l l lV 31115 mey nou .'fwi pre v iously Rutei w. union Deen among the best performers. I will now discuss some reasons for this decline. Wall Street reports to me that the "insiders" are selling, that is, those who are supposed to be 'in the know." You cannot blame these insiders for diversifying, or at least storing up reserves for the payment of estate taxes at the time of their death. They can now buy, at 92, Government 2V4 Bonds which will be ac cepted at par for death-tax pay ment. There also is fear with the present surplus of oil that the income-tax consideration given oil companies may be taken away. This could easily happen if the price of gasoline increases much more while there is a sur plus. The oil companies are also watching what has happened to the coal companies. The feeling is that sooner or later the oil producers may also suffer. Long-Term Outlook Although oil will have com petition from power generated in other ways, oil consumption will increase for many years to come. Demand for electricity is constantly rising, the availability of new hydro-electric sites is de creasing, and the plants gen erating electricity constantly de mand greater fuel supply. Al though coal consumption as a whole is declining, the efficiently operated mines near the big pow er houses are making money. This means that holders of coal stocks should carefully check the operating costs and locations of the mines in which they are interested. Although most coal stocks should probably be sold today, there are doubtless some which should be purchased. It is reported that more can dles, more kerosene, more gas, and other fuels are being used today than at any time in the past hundred years, notwith standing the tremendous expan sion of electricity for power, lighting, and heating. In fact, I recently heard of a young man who has developed a profitable business supplying hardwood for fireplaces. Anyone desiring to start a new business chain today might well own hardwood lots near several large cities and deliver a standard quality of hardwood, under a special trade name which could be nationally advertised! I am willing to fore cast that a hundred years from now perhaps a thousand years from now people will be burn ing candles on their dinner tables and hardwood in their 231 SMOKED Ham Hocks 15'lb. Ivupi -l"ll - n Disagreement Tops support of Australia and Bel-i gium, denounced the Egyptian complaint as slanderous and de manded that the council refuse to consider it. But the United States refused to go along. As a result the council agreed to hear both the Anglo-French and the Egyptian cases next Thursday or Friday. The vote was 7 to 0, with Britain, France, Australia and Belgium abstain ing. While this was going on, Brit ish Prime Minister Anthony Eden and French Premier Guy Mollet met in Paris to consider joint policy in the entire Middle East a policy of their own. Palestine Strong Israeli army forces In vaded Arab Jordan in a night at tack on border defense posts. The Israeli government said the attack was made in retaliation for a series of attacks made by Jordanians. A U.N. truce team counted the bodies of 38 Jor danian soldiers and policemen and of one 12-year old girl on the scene. U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold warned that the explosive Palestine frontier situ ation must be brought under con trol "rapidly." He indicated that he might soon ask the Security Council to take action. fireplaces! Privately, I believe that It Is the fear of uranium as a source of heat which is causing many investors to take profits on their oil stocks. The possibilities of peacetime uses for uranium are greatly increasing. Ten years ago it was thought there was only a limited amount of uranium; now we are told the supply is almost unlimited. Therefore, uranium can become a standard source of heat for the production of electricity. In fact, there is a possibility that boilers, turbines, and perhaps dynamos will some day be eliminated. I forecast it will be possible to generate electricity direct from uranium. This, of course, would cause an industrial revolution. When we add to this the possibility of harnessing hydrogen, the results could be fantastic. I understand that some of the oil companies are already acquir ing holding of land rich in uran ium. Furthermore, all oil com panies have records of their own drilling and must have drilled areas. Therefore, do not sell all oil stocks for fear of uranium competition. When uranium be comes a real substitute for oil, some of the oil companies will be able to supply uranium. All oil companies will not be caught unprepared for change, as were most coal companies.. Significant News It is reported that the Koppers Co. and Kennecott Copper Corp. have already asked the Atomic Energy Commission for permis sion to refine uranium ores and sell the product direct, as they would sell coal and oil. This is something that all investors should watch. As the war scare passes. Congress will compel the AEC to permit, under license, the treatment and sale of uran ium. A demand for small re actors should then follow. For this demand both the Westinghouse and General Elect ric organizations are now pre paring. Some of their engineers believe that the heaters in our homes will some day be dis carded and replaced by uran ium heaters. They further fore cast that a small amount of uran ium can, by the "self-feeding process," be made to last several years. Shipping is sure to turn to this fuel. Probably airplanes will follow, and ultimately (perhaps) automobiles. I am only a statis tician, not a physicist, but I ad vise that the stocks of the manu facturers of small reactors, household heaters, and other utilities may be better buys than the uranium itself. Pendleton Newspaper Moves To New Building Pendleton 4J.R The Pendle ton East Oreeonian will move into its new $150,000 building this week end. New home of the newspaper is a one-storv building at S.E. Byers and Second streets. The newsoarjer will occupy me 100xl26-foot structure under terms of a 50-year lease. EAST SIXTH ST. PORK SAUSAGE BEEF ROAST lb. of News Speculation over a visit by Soviet Russian Communist chief tain Nikita S. Khrushchev to "neutralist" President Tito of Yugoslavia was intensified when Tito flew back to Russia with Khrushchev. Allied diplomats were mysti fied. They were sure that Khrushchev was trying to cook up something. They did not know what. Pilot Russia got some bad news when a young Polish air force pilot broke from a formation flight and raced his plane to Denmark's Bornholm Island in the 'Baltic. It was a new model MIG15B, with extra radar . equipment. "It's really some thing very special," a Danish air force officer said. Danish experts started taking the plane apart to send it to Copenhagen for de tailed study. That means that Denmark's partners in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are going to get some top-secret in formation on Russian plane de velopment. !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Supply and demand note: Hog prices lost 25 to 50 cents at markets in the Eastern corn belt, ending a week of advancing prices. How come? Sixty-two thousand hogs were on sale at the twelve major mar kets, compared to 58,000 last Thursday. When there are more buyers than sellers, prices are almost sure to go up. When there are more sellers than buyers, prices are pretty certain to go down. A California legislative com mittee studying air pollution in Los Angeles has been told (by Dr. Clarence Mills, professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati) that 845 deaths have been attributed to smog. But Dr. Lester Breslow of the Cal ifornia state health department says his department's studies will not back up Dr. Mills conclu sions. He insists that while smog may contribute to lung cancer it can't be tabbed as a killer on the basis of current evidence. FCIDENTAL note: As the hearing went on, Los Angeles experienced its heaviest smog attack of the year. IlfHAT to do about smog ' which is unpleasant, whether or not it is a killer? I expect that if people scat tered out more and ganged up less there would be less of the eye-stinging stuff to contend with. But the census records in dicate that smog or no smog a lot of people would rather gang up in Los Angeles than to scat ter out somewhere else. And L. A. of course, would MUCH RATHER have them gang up. SENATOR Albert Gore of Ten nessee says he plans to give the nation this year its first cur rent picture of how much money is being spent in a national elec tion campaign and where it is coming from. Senator Gore is chairman of the senate elections committee. He says this morning his commit tee's principal means of getting the campaigning spending pic ture across to the public will be open hearings in Washington. These hearings will be held from October 8 through October 10. The national campaign commit tees of both parties will be called upon to give a full account of their contributions, pledges and sources, as weU as their actual spending and their obligations to spend. He added: "My tentative estimate Is that approximately one per cent of the people provide about 98 per cent of the campaign funds. I think this constitutes a danger to popular government." IS that true? I wouldn't know. My personal opinion Is that what the public wants to know is HOW MUCH IS BEING SPENT AND WHERE IT IS COMING FROM. Given that knowledge, accurately and im partially, 1 think the voters will be competent to draw their own conclusions and make their own decisions. And I think the side that spends TOO MUCH will lose the confi dence of the voters. . SLICED BACON lb lb.