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TOUR MEDFOHD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Xublishcl Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27-29 North Fir St- Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RL'HL. E4ltor HERB- GREY AdvertUlnc Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buitneu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR.. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OUVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ER I CKSON. Clrcu la tion Mgr. A n Independent Newipaper Entered as aecond clan matter at Med ford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 18S7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year (13 00 Daily and Sunday Six months BOO Dally and Sunday Three mos. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $4.20. By Camer In Advance Medford, Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold H1U. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. 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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: All over Oregon deer hunters are return ing home with no luck outside of getting home. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1936 (Saturday) The only herd of Brown Swiss cattle in southern Oregon is be ing developed by Dr. I. D. Phipps on his orchard on Crater Lake highway. Carl C. Donaugh. state direct or of "Roosevelt for President" club in Oregon, will speak at a Democratic rally in the party's headquarters on West Main st., Oct. 7. SO YEARS AGO Oct. 3, 1926 (Sunday) The air mail flight to Klamath Falls from Vancouver, Wash.. Saturday, was not made because of fog. Over 200 voters registered in the Chamber of Commerce last night, the final day of registra tion. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 3. 1916 (Tuesday) Mrs. Jennie M. Kemp, state president of the WCTU, speaks at Baptist church. There will be no session of the federal court in Medford for the October term, because of a lack of cases. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 3. 1906 (Wednesday) Medford city council conducts routine business, orders bills paid, and discusses water rates allowed Iowa Lumber and Box company. From Local and Personal col umn: A ner.- boy arrived at the home of J. A. Perry last night. Mother and babe doing well. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1955 Editorial Research Report 1. A President's death has nev er put into the White House a vice president as young as Nixon now; right or wrong? 2. The U. S. 10 per cent travel ticket tax is now removed for all foreign travel, or only that to distant points? 3. Which one of these is not considered an Arab state: Egypt, Turkey, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan? 4. Funchal is capital of which large island in the Atlantic Ocean? 5. Eligible disabled workers are getting retirement annuity payments now even if under 65; right or wrong? 8. Much more or much less is spent on TV or on magazine ad vertising, or is it about 50-50? 7. Which of these famous gen erals served as Army chief of staff: MacArthur, Marshall, Rideway, Bradley, Eisenhower? The answers: 1. Wrong; T. Roosevelt in 1901 was a year younger than Nixon now. 2. Only that to distant points. 3. Turkey isn't. 4. Madeira. 5. Wrong: pay ments begin next year. 8. Much more on TV advertising. 7. All of them. MAIL TRIBUNE "Politics" Is All of Us The word "politician" is in high disrepute, these days. It is bandied about like an epithet. Which is too bad. Politics is the art or science of government ; a pol itician (in its best and truest sense) is one skilled in that art or science; It is to our advantage to get the best possible men to make a career of politics. We do ourselves no good by using the term as one of opprobrium. 'THE TROUBLE is that we have come to apply the term commonly to the worst, rather than the best; of our public servants. And the phrase, "Oh, he's nothing but a politician," carries with it the implica ton that the subject is a no-good feeder at the public trough. Political partisans refer to office-seekers of the other party as "politicians," but to their own as "statesmen" or "public servants." Silly, isn't it? But the fact remains that each of us is a politician or should be if we take sufficient interest in our own government to find out what the problems are, and to vote intelligently regarding them. XME BLAME the misuse of the word "politics" f or another absurdity which is too current. This is the shying-away from "politics" by good, substantial organizations which should know better. Most of the service clubs have provisions in their charters which proscribe them from taking part in political activity, and which require them to remain non-political in nature. That's all well and good and probably necessary if the groups are to attract a broad cross-section of the community, as they must do to survive. But this has led to a curious, head-in-the-sand sort of attitude which results in a pretense that politics the art, if you please, of governing ourselves is something apart from everyday life. It just isn't so. THHIS pretense has resulted in some colleges and uni versities prohibiting candidates for office from making "political" addresses on their campuses with the result that the poor office-seekers talk ban alities, and the students are barred by a silly rule from exposure to the very stuff of government. (This type of hypocrisy has been mercifully absent from Oregon campuses in the past year or two, after a few examples of political censorship were shown up for the absurdities they were.) It also results in some service clubs insulating themselves from the facts of life. yHE MOST recent instance of this attitude was at a Rotary club meeting in Coquille the other day, where Sen. Richard Neuberger was the guest speaker. Now Senator Neuberger is a controversial f igure in Oregon politics, but he IS a United States Senator, elected by a majority vote of the people of Oregon. His talk was in relation to the Eisenhower adminis tration. People have a right to know how he stands, and then to agree or disagree. But the Rotary "no politics" rule came in to play, with the odd result that the presiding officer, smack in the middle of the senator's talk, called him "out of order," and told him he could talk about those pro grams of the administration with which he agreed, but that he couldn't talk about those with which he disagreed ! ! ! TOR ADULT, presumably intelligent men to permit this sort of situation to arise is a sad commentary in a land where the ballot is the ultimate authority in the conduct of public affairs. A "non-partisan" rule listening to both sides would be entirely appropriate and proper, but a "non- pohtical rule, particularly when interpreted to mean a silly pretense that politics doesn't exist, or, if it does, is of no importance, is the height of something or other. "Politics" is NOT something that hangs in a void somewhere. It is the way you and I, and the guy next door, do things to get the sort of government we think we should have. The last thing we should try to do is isolate ourselves from it. E.A. Third Industry An estimated $141 million was brought into Ore gon this year by visitors from other states. That is a lot of money. It is more "new" money for the state than from any other single line of endeavor, except for two: lumbering and agriculture. It makes the "tourist industry" the m the state. THE total "take" this year is up from an estimated $127 million in 1955; the total number of visitors was estimated at 3,453,000, traveling in 1,096,000 cars, which were increases of 216,000 persons and 65,000 cars over the previous year. The travel information division of the state high way department also believes the visitors stayed long er than before, on the average, and spent more while here. The figures are significant, first, to service sta tions, hotels, motels, restaurants, and others. But re- member, the operators and cies live here, spend their money here, and contribute to the general health of the state's economy. That's why the "tourist industry" is important to all of us. E.A. Wednesday. October 3, 1956 third largest money-maker employees of these agen Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Hunting "Laws" i To the Editor: The following Game Laws and Regulations I found amusing, and thought you might too: 1. All deer hunters will sound horn at intervals of 10 yards when proceeding through any woodland. 2. Slow-moving hunters will keep to the right and allow fast moving hunters to pass. 3. A hunter about to stop and shoot wiU hold out his hand to indicate which direction he in tends to shoot. 4. Isolated hunters will be re quired to send up flares (colored) at intervals of 30 seconds. 5. Other hunters may shoot at the flares but not at the hunter. 6. All hunters separated from the main body - and wishing to move through the brush shall use a banner not less than 8 feet long and 4 feet high with the in scription: "Positively not a deer, elk, moose or other quadruped." 7. Any hunter mistaking a fellow hunter for a deer or oth er animal, and shooting at him and missing shall forfeit his am ateur standing, and be penal ized 25 yards for unnecessary roughness. 8. Any hunter shooting at an other and hitting him shall ' be considered guilty of profession alism, and have his license sus pended for 60 days. 9. In circumstances where two hunters shoot at each other at the same time and both miss, both shall proceed to the nearest zoological garden and leave it to the keeper to decide which looks the more like that animal. The hunter so designated shall return to the heavy brush and allow the other man to take five shots at him. 10. It shall be the duty of the warden to place stuffed heads (deer, moose and elk) on trees at intervals of every 500 yards in all forests so hunters will know what they look like. 11. The placing of soft hats, collars and sports shirts on the animals to confuse other hunters shall be considered unsportsman like. 12. Whenever a hunter thinks he sees a deer, elk or moose, he shall blow a police whistle three times before firing. The test is this: If it really is a deer, elk or moose, it will rise and ask for a cigarette. 13. All hunters shall at all times obey the traffic laws gov erning deer hunting and care fully observe the signals. 14. Red light in the traffic tower shall be interpreted as meartfng deer ahead, but only open to east or west bound hunter. 15. Green light indicates deer ahead, but only open to north or south bound hunter. 18. No hunter shall bag more than two deer, four game war dens, or five innocent bystand ers in one day. Good hunting. Arthur H. Peterson, Star Ranger Station, Upper Applegate, Ore. Wanted Humane Society . To the Editor: In most coun tries, Oct. 4 is World Day for Animals, the day dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals. We are urged by most humane societies to think, speak, act for suffering animals. Kindness to animals is surely one of the greatest virtues; above all, because of their helpless ness and dependence upon man. All the finest men in history have believed this. The great re ligions, too, have taught the Oneness of all life and the vital importance of extending love and compassion to every fellow- being without exception even the very humblest. Unfortunately, much cruelty still persists and is practiced in so many ways. Unwanted pets are dropped on the roadside or left to starve and run wild as an indifferent owner moves to a new residence. Animals die slowly in traps that torture them. Unenlightened farmers are cruel in exterminating benefi cial animals like hawks, skunks and snakes to name but a few. Cruelty to livestock, kicking, striking and transporting ani mals in overloaded trucks with sharp corners and protruding nails, is as yet too prevalent. We had an editorial recently on the cruelties practiced in the slaughtering of animals. Then there is bull-fighting and many other forms of so-called enter tainment where helpless ani mals are exploited. Progress can be made in reducing pain, ne glect and fear imposed upon so many pets and other animals by thoughtless, callous p e o pi e through a properly functioning humane society. Let us have one Mrs. Ruth Johnson, South Pacific Highway, Phoenix, Ore. CONSTRUCTION SLATED Portland (U.R) Spokesmen for the Lloyd Corp. said today that, major construction on the S25 million shopping center plan ned for the Holladay park dis trict of Portland will begin early next spring. About one out of seven work ers in the U. S. is rated as skilled labor. A Man of Stature To the Editor: Oregon has contributed many phases of worth to the total magnificence of these 48 states, but none greater than its gift of Wayne Morse to the U. S. Senate. We, in Nebraska, because we have allowed ourselves to drift into a stage of total traditional ism, are'virtually unrepresented in that all-important body. For sooth, since the passing away of our Sen. George Norris, who like Wayne Morse was representative of the common peoples' interest throughout the nation, we have become notorious as a negative voting state! We have placed the Hruskas and the Wherrys in places of power, with shame de served. As things stand now, we have to depend upon Senators from Oregon and a few other en lightened states. We owe much to Oregon's voters. This is but one of the many testimonials that need to be written. We in Nebraska need Senator Morse in there, despite the dis pleasure of Mr. Eisenhower. We need him to safeguard our pub lic power . . . our one-house legislature, our water rights, our labor standards. We need him to give his powerful voice and his great humane heart to the cause of our farmers everywhere . Oregon, Nebraska, and all. We need his great statesmanship in the greatest deliberative body in the world, for there is no guarantee that international af fairs will continue to wallow through warlike, but warless, behavior. Wayne Morse, in the estima tion of earnest, observing Ne- braskans, has attained a stature that is a living reminder of the need to have about 16 of our senators elected from the entire U.S.A. and called Senators at Large. He and Kefauver and Douglas and Magnuson' are the type who are in there fighting when fighting needs be done. Though we who have the "againsters" fronting for us in Washington hardly are in a posi tion to advise other states what to do . . . still we venture the plea . . . Keep that trustworthy man in there. Walter Gabriel, 617 South 18th, Omaha, Neb.. Appeal for Help Tn the Editor: I do not know if you can do anything in this matter. If the DeoDle of Medford knew the circumstances of this needy family they would help. Both father and mother are in the Community hospital. The father was hurt in the woods and hie loo ua nut in a cast. This ac cident happened three months ago. An operation has been nwessarv on his lee recently. The mother was nursing, trying to keep the family, but just a few days after his operation she too went to the hospital very sick. They have three children in school. They 'are in need of help. Some have helped already. Bills are stacking up on them and they are not able to meet them. Those wishing to help may call Jacksonville 9-8133. (Name on file), Jacksonville. Scholarship Checks Mailed Evanston. 111. U.R) The Na tional Merit Scholarship Corp. today announced that checks to taling $515,000 have been mau pH tn 558 merit scholars, and to the colleges and universities of their choice. The winners were chosen from among 60,000 high school sen iors who competed for the first merit scholarships. Those named to receive the scholarships sur vived two rigorous college apti tude tests, the scholarship cor poration said, had outstanding hieh school records, and many were teen-age leaders in their communities. The scholars were free to se lect any accredited college or university, and to choose any course of study. Harvard was ihr most rjODular amone the scholarship winners, NMS re ported, with Massachusetts in stitute of Technology second. Spventv-two ner cent of the winners were boys. Sixty-eight per cent of the boys and 13 per cent of the girls chose engineer ing and the physical science yprsj Happy Hotpoint Says: aHlr'-' ALL HOTPOINT Washers are S-& ALL porcelain, inside and out. p 7y s "Hotpoint Makes ONLY Hotpoint r '. "sk Appliances" CITY APPLIANCE 127 No. Central Ave. Phone 3-5306 Good Record of Canal Piloting Seen Point in Nasser's Fayor By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Egypt will have at least one strong point in its favor when the United Nations Security Canal dispute Friday. That is, that canal traffic is moving n o r mally under Egyptian di rection despite the walkout of about 180 for eign pilots. Caajles M. HcCfcnji It was predicted that calam ity would result when the pilots quit on Sept. 15 because of Pres ident Gamal Abdel Nasser's at tempt to seize full control of the world's most important canal. Nasser was left with about 80 Egyptian and Greek pilots and a scattering of others, not all qual ified to handle ships of any ton nage. Calamity may come, especially when bad weather sets in. But as of now, it has not. Minor Accidents Occur There have been a few acci- In The Day's Something's cooking at Yalta again. The big shots of communism are ganging up there. Tito of Yugoslavia and Kruschev and Bulganin of Russia have had their heads together for days, and they have been joined by Hungary. Western diplomats are saying the gathering is concerned with DEEP IDEOLOGICAL CON FLICTS within the Soviet bloc of nations. MfHAT'S biting them? " . This is my (admittedly optimistic) idea of it: They are worried by the know ledge that communism is of itself SO FOUL that in time it must fall of the weight of its own foulness. A WORD more on Yalta. It rates as Russia's top winter resort. It's where the Rus sians who can afford it come in the winter season to escape the cold. It is located on the southern tip of the Crimean peninsula that sticks out into the Black Sea. Its latitude is about that of Fargo, North Da kota. FIORMER German Grand Ad- miral Doenitz (a top bracket member of Hitler's Nazi gang) has just been released from the Spandau war crimes prison after serving a 10-year sentence as a war criminal. KBE5-TV Will Show Educational Programs Portland (U.R) Education al television will come to Oregon for 13 weeks starting Friday on an experimental basis. The television committee of the state's system of higher edu cation arranged for the kin escope recordings from the na tional educational television cen ter in Ann Arbor, Mich. The programs selected are "The Finder," from the St. Louis educational TV station for chil dren 9 to 12 years; "Spotlight on Opera" from the University of California extension service, and "The Painting" featuring crea tion of a work of art on the air by Artist Ciegfried Reinhardt. Stations planning to show the series are KOIN-TV, Portland; KVAL-TV, Eugene, and KBES TV, Medford. Nyssa Processing Record Sugar Beet Crop Nyssa (U.R) Processing of a record-breaking sugar beet crop got underway in the Nyssa- Nampa area yesterday when the j Amalgamated Sugar factory i here started operations for the season. General Manager Jed Lewis niH that indications arp that hp- tween 500,000 and 600,000 tons j of beets will be processed this i JOE SMITH ESCORTS ADLAI Jersey City, N.J. U.R) Adlai Stevenson was escorted to his car after a speech here by Police Inspector Joe Smith. courses, NMS said, with physics the most popular of the physical sciences. Oregon winners included: John P. Van Dyke, Medford, Cal Tech, electrical engineering. dents. All were minor and ap parently none was due to im proper piloting. Pilots have arrived from the United States, Russia, Greece and other countries to start training for canal work. Dispatches from Cairo which there is no reason to doubt, say that about 37 ships a day are moving through the tricky wa ters of the 10-mile canal which links the Mediterranean and Red Seas. The previous daily average was 41. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi will be able to cite this fact when the Security Council invites him to speak in its debate. Another strong point in Nas ser's favor will be the danger ous division between the United States on one side and Great Britain and France on the other about Suez Canal policy. Blames United States Britain and France are keenly aware that Nasser, when he de creed "the nationalization of the internationally owned and op erated canal, blamed the United States for his action. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had announced the with- News sy Frank Jenkins He refuses to answer newsmen's questions as to whether he will seek a new political career in Germany. He merely answered: "Such a man as I can have only one task to remain silent and feel his way back into the world." A BOUT aU that can be said for Doenitz is that he took the wrong road and has suffered for it. Suffering sometime brings out good qualities in a man if he had any good qualities to start with. At any rate, Doenitz's future in Germany is up to the Ger mans. We have no business butting m. Buttinskies are always re sented. IIHAT the world needs above " everything else at this mo ment in history are leaders with courage. I can thing of two now that Churchill has entered the shadows of retirment. One is Chancellor Adenauer of West Germany and the other is Pres ident Eisenhower. Both of them have chosen the HARD WAY. Adenauer has stub bornly refused to become a dem agogue. He has waved no magic wands. In every crisis, he has told the people of West Germany that their only way out of their troubles is to work and save. Under his leadership West Ger many's recovery from the ruins of war has been amazing. PRESIDENT Eisenhower, fac ing the political fact that loss of the big farm states can spell defeat for him, had the courage to veto a farm biU that was based on bigger subsidies and more handouts from the treasury which would have in creased farm suspluses and has hewed to the line that the only hope for American agriculture is to get rid of the surpluses that hang over the markets of the future like a dark thunder cloud. To do that, he says, we must make overproduction less attractive rather than more at tractive. In a time when soft money has its appeal for everybody he stands firm for hard money. That takes political courage. WEDNESDAY SPECIALS OPEN TILL BOYS PANTS Corduroy Denim Gabardine etc. Values to $2.50 Now $1.50 Values to $4.50 Now $275 JACKETS 'STiir Reg. $2.95 Denim Now $1-95 Lined Corduroy or Poplin Values fo $4.95 Now $3.00 GIRLS SLACKS Sizes 10-14 Reg. 4.95 Now 3.00 re a" i m i to ALL BUS?? SLASHED TO NeedleCraft 21 1 East Main St. drawal of the proposed United States aid to Egypt in building the great Aswan Dam, Nasser's dream of bringing prosperity to his impoverished country. Britain and France were ready to use military force to keep the canal open. The United States rejcted that idea. Instead a series of schemes was proposed by Dulles to insure international control of canal traffic and, if Nasser refused to agree, to put an economic squeeze on Egypt. These schemes have been pro gressively watered down. Now 15 canal-using countries have formed in London a "Suez Canal Users Association" to handle the Suez situation. But nobody seems to know what the associ ation is supposed to do or can do if Nasser doesn't cooperate. Solution Appears Dim It is most unlikely that either the Security Council or the U.N. General Assembly, which holds its annual meeting in New York starting Nov. 12, can do any thing to solve the dispute. Russia can veto any action against Egypt in the council. The Asian-African bloc of na tions, and' the Soviet bloc, can prevent the necessary two-thirds vote by the assembly in favor of any action they oppose. Hence the outlook is either for a compromise betwen the canal users and Egypt or a long-range economic battle. It is indicated that a compro mise is quite possible still. 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