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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORDHTRIBUire riveryon In Southern Oregon Reada The Mall Tribune" ' tublijheJ Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 27.28 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL, Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Busineia Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Manaffing Editor EARL H. ADAMS. Citv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OUVE STARCHER. Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year SIS 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 0G Dally and Sunday Three mm. 4.25 Sunday Only One year $420. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland. Central Point. Eagle Point, Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year $18.00 Daily and Sunday One month U0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County Unl ted Press Full Leased W Ire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York. Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland. St. Louis Atlanta. Vancouver. B C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL JassocIitln TilHrlim.li.IIIM JNEWSPAFER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 12, 1846 (Saturday) Yesterday In some Medford stores butter sold for the high est price in the memory of the oldest clerks. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Horticul turists have started to see day light, as the pears will soon be all picked. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 12, 193S (Monday) First fail meeting of the Rogue valley chapter of the Reserve Officers association scheduled Wednesday. A banquet will be given in the Medford hotel Wednesday in honor of Lieut. Col. C. L. Tinker and Lieut. Col. Johnson of the Army air corps. 80 YEARS AGO Oct. 12, 1928 (Tuesday) Jackson county to receive $1, 152,543.22 from O and C land grant tax relief measure. Enforcement of Medford's new traffic ordinances commences. 40 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1918 (Thursday) Hugh Mitchell, state superin tendent of the bureau of fish eries, spent Thursday in Med ford on his return from the Elk creek hatchery. Wilson headquarters will be opened Friday In the Boyden building. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 12. 1906 (Friday) The annual Jackson County Teachers Institute will be held this year at Central Point, Nov. 12-14. From Local and Personal col umn: A. E. Reames is shaking hands with Medford friends to day. What's the Answer? Can Yon Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1933 Editorial Research Report 1. Adlai E. Stevenson is a graduate of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn State, Illinois or University of Chicago? 2. About one-fourth, one-third. one-half or two-thirds of all auto drivers in the U.S. are women? 3. Social security tax for old age retirement is now levied on first $3,000, $3,600, S4.200, or $4,500 of income? . 4. The U. S. Government does or doesn't pay the travel expens es of the U. S. team to the 1956 Olympic Games? 5. The "Little Brown Jug" harness race is held every year in New York, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois or California? 6. Spain is or isn't now a mem ber of U.N.? 7. A man is properly called a ruffian for being rough, right or wrong? The answers: 1. Princeton. 2. About one-third. 3. First S4.200. 4. Doesn't. 5. Ohio (city of Del aware). 6. Is (admitted in 1955). 7. Wrong. SCIENCE AGENDA DUE Portland U.R) Outstand ing medical specialists in psy chiatry, internal medicine and surgery will nead tne three-day scientific agenda at the 82nd an nual convention of the Oregon State Medical society opening Oct. 17 at the Masonic temple here. Compulsory Insurance We have all frequently heard the remark : "Why is it, when you're in an accident, the other guy never has any insurance?" Like all generalizations, this is not universally true, but too often it is the driver without financial re sponsibility either in cash or insurance who is at fault in an accident. Oregon's financial responsibility law was recently tightened, and now requires evidence of insurance or other assets from a driver once involved in an acci dent. DUT THAT'S tame compared to the law passed this year in New York state, which goes into effect with cars registered for 1957. It requires that ALL motorists and vehicle owners show evidence of financial security. It has teeth, too, ranging from revocation of both vehicle and drivers licenses to fines and jail terms. It is designed to protect the innocent victim of an accident, and to assure that the driver at fault will be able to assume his responsibility for any damages arising out of the accident. In New York, with some 5 million vehicle own ers and 6V2 million licensed drivers, it is estimated that about 700,000 persons do not now meet the requirements of the act. They will have to meet it by January or they won't get their vehicle licenses. THE MINIMUM requirement of the law is insurance 1 totaling "10, 20 and 5" that is $10,000 for in jury or death to one person in one accident, $20,000 for more than one person in one accident, and $5,000 property damage. For those rejected by insurance agencies, there is an "assigned risk" pool, supervised by the state, which spreads the insurance on high-risk insureds among several companies. Other methods include" posting $25,000 in cash or a property bond to show financial security proof. But without one or the other, a New Yorker can not drive. THE NEW YORK law is somethng of a departure. Only one other state, Massachusetts, has a com pulsory insurance law for all drivers, although other states have modified versions, as in Oregon. Interestingly enough, insurance men generally do not look with favor on compulsory insurance, feeling that it is a step toward governmental control of their business which is an understandable attitude. They fought it in both Massachusetts and New York, unsuccessfully. But, perhaps more important, they are attempting to work out ways in which the same end protection of the innocent driver can be served without the compulsory feature. One such is an "unsatisfied judgment" provision in liability polices, which, when an insured is the inno cent party in an accident but cannot collect damages from the other driver, will pay him damages to which he is entitled. IT IS A FACT, however, that the, uninsured driver remains a menace on the highway, and the New York and Massachusetts laws are a reflection of the popular feeling that something whether ittbe legis lation or a broadening of insurance coverage through other means must be done. Being able to drive a car on today's crowded highways is a privilege not a right and should be limited to those who can drive safely, and who can be made responsible for their actions. E.A. Farm Forestry The state department of agriculture has issued its annual report on the total value of gross cash farm in come in Oregon last year. As might be expected, cattle and calves, wheat and dairy products led the list, with $61,852,000, $46, 069,000 and $45,740,000 incomes, respectively, re ported for them. The fourth-largest farm income-producer, how ever, might come as a surprise to some people. It was forest products, which brought farmers a total income of $22,387,000, which topped the fifth-largest, eggs, by more than a half-million dollars. THE FIGURES are a significant reflection of the im 1 portant growth of "farm wood lots" in recent years, and how, if they are managed properly, they can become a source of substantial farm income. - In Jackson county, farm wood lots are chiefly lo cated in foothill areas, where the edges of farms lap over into wooded country. But in the Willamette valley, as anyone who has driven through it knows, the farm wood lots are fre quently bits and pieces of old forest land which were "missed" during the early days when trees were cleared off hit or miss and as fast as possible to provide acreage for crops. FARMERS with substantial wooded areas have three choices. They can let the woocf lots stand as they are, which would provide them with no added income ; they could sell them all as stumpage, or they could take a leaf from the silviculturists and "man age" their wood lots to provide a modest but contin uing and long-range income, by placing them on a "tree farm" status. Progressive farmers have found that with a plan ned program for harvesting of the trees, they can in effect "eat their cake and have it too," with the ben efits both of having the trees as well as a continuing source of income. And the fact that forest products is now f ourth in the list of farm income producers, and is up nearly $5 million in one year, is proof that farm forestry is good business. E.A. Friday. October 12. 1956 Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address or the writer, although under certain circumstances the use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. not exceed 400 words. Truck Tax Answer To the Editor: In answering the questions contained in a fuU page ad in the Medford Mail Tribune, as part of my speech last night in the Esquire The atre, I inadvertently overlooked the charge that I voted for a 1000 per cent increase in truck tire taxes. This charge is com pletely and absolutely false, and I ask this opportunity to state the facts of the case. In 1955, I supported the Gore bill (S. 1048). It contained no provisions for taxes whatsoever. The Fallon bill, introduced in the house in 1955, did propose heavy increases in truck tire taxes. That biU never reached the senate because it was de feated in the house. However, I worked against the Fallon bill while speaking for the Gore bill in the senate. Furthermore, members of the Oregon Trucking association know that I was opposed to the Fallon bill. In 1955, I introduced an amendment that the ATA sup ported, which provided that Ore gon rules on sizes and weights of trucks be kept in effect. My amendment passed the senate and became part of the road bill that was finally passed this year. In 1956, a new road bill was introduced in the house, again known as the Fallon bill. It passed the house, and when it came to the senate, I supported various amendments that modi fied it. The senate version of the Fallon bill was supported by aU trucking and logging groups. It contained only moderate in creases in gasoline taxes. I was opposed as were many other senators to any increase in tire and gasoline taxes. Because of our efforts, we were able to pass a bill that had the endorsement of the trucking and logging groups. It is a sad thing when the people responsible for the smear ad are willing to stoop to false hood in a desperate attempt to mislead the voters of Jackson county. I am confident that such smear attacks will boomerang against them and make thous ands of votes for me. Thank you for the very fair treatment you have given me, both in your news and editorial columns. Wayne Morse, . U. S. Senator. Against Parking Measure To the Editor: You, the voters and taxpayers of Medford, have, or soon will be, deluged with propaganda concerning the off street parking bill. You will be told that over a half-million dollars will be re quired to complete this program and that it will not cost the tax payers a penny but in fine print, you are asked to O.K. the city's request to dig into the tax payers' pocket if the proposed program does not prove to be self-liquidating. In time the city hopes to have about 275 metered off-street parking spaces. Even being op timistic about the income from these meters they will be a long way from their goal in the 10 year period. Hence the fine print. Vote yes and you, the tax payers, are obligating yourselves into picking up the tab for the unpaid balance. Another neat feature of this bill allows the city to assess part of the cost of acquiring, clearing and improving the property for parking to adjacent businesses. And where will most of these lots be? Next to or near small businesses resulting in undue hardships on these places of business. The result failure for many, thereby giving more business to the large downtown places who won't have adjacent parking lots to pay for but who will benefit the most from such action. We therefore ask you to think twice before you saddle yourself with higher taxes by setting the city up in a money losing ven ture. Vote NO to Motor Vehicle Off Street Parking Ammendment No. 51. M. J. Olsen Member of The Small Busi ness Committee Opposed to Off-Street Parking Bill. Rt. 1, Box 325 Medford, Ore. Answers Ellsworth To the Editor: I was astound ed to read in the Oct. 5 Mail Tri bune Mr. EUsworth's statement that "the new -administration has brought a climate favorable to the smaU businessman." The Eisenhower Commerce Department says that small busi nesses starting today have only a 50-50 chance to last two years, and the odds against survival for ten years are four to one. New business starts are 49 per cent below the 1949-52 average and the share of small, business in U. S. industrial assets has dropped 22 per cent. But the most significant fact of small businessmen is what has happened to profits under the present administration. The busi nesses with assets of over $100, 000,000 have had their profits in crease by 61 per cent, those with assets over $1,000,000 are up 45 per cent. On the other hand, smaller businesses with assets under a million have seen their profits decrease 13 per cent and the smaUest businesses, those with assets under $250,000, Letters submitted for publication must have seen their profits plummet 52 per cent. Apparently Mr. Ellsworth in discussing the recession in the lumber industry failed to men tion the effect of the "hard money" policies of the Eisen hower administration and of his own responsibility in cutting the housing bill from 13o,000 family units to 35,000 units. Mr. Porter is willing to meet Mr. Ellsworth on any platform, anywhere, any time, to discuss these important issues and oth ers where the voters have the right to know the facts. M. E. Norton Jackson County Chairman Porter for Congress Com. Box 85, Phoenix, Ore. "Short and to the Point" To the Editor: Having to fight for High Hells Canyon Dam is as ridiculous as having to sue for any insurance you have al ready paid for. The trouble with our world is that we are spend ing our money, time and effort on re-establishing what is al ready and rightfully ours. Thank God true statesmen like our Senator Morse haven't stopped fighting or we would lose our shirts. Sue Jackson 2017 S.W. Second Ave. Portland, Ore. What Ike Said Before 1952 To the Editor: "It is my con viction that the necessary and wise subordination of the mil itary to the civil power will be best sustained and our people will have greater confidence that it is sustained when life long professional soldiers, in the absence of- some obvious and overriding reasons, abstain from seeking high political of fice. This truth has a possible inverse application. I would regard it as an unalloyed trag edy for our country if ever should come the day when mil itary commanders might be selected with an eye to their future potentialities in the pol itical field rather than exclu sive judgement as to their mil itary abilities." "Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated, and, in its true sense, a noble one." "In the American scene I see no dearth of men fitted by training, talent and integrity for leadership. On the other hand, nothing in the interna tional or domestic situation especially qualifies for the most important office in the world a man whose adult years have been spent in the coun try's military forces. At least this is true in my case.' This statement was taken from a letter given to Leonard V. Finder, publisher of a Manchest er, New Hampshire, newspaper. The man who sent this-letter the man who wrote it and the man who termed it as "Final and "Irrevocable" was Dwight D. Eisenhower, on Jan. 23, 1948. Of course everyone knows that he changed his mind, which is unimportant when compared with the statement which is 100 per cent true. Evidently there are Repub lican candidates in Oregon that do not agree with Mr. Eisen hower when we see the manner in which they are trying, to woo veteran votes using past military records as evidence of political knowledge and know-how. Cer tainly all veterans can be proud of their service to this country but it should be remembered that there are men like Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roose velt that were never in any mil itary service but gave their lives for their country as surely as any soldier. Ken Corliss 1564 Myers lane Medford, Ore. The War Veteran's Viewpoint To the Editor: There is a defin ite pattern running through let ters to the editor, in campaign literature, and in the snide re marks of Republican campaign ers that indicates a planned at tack emanating from Republican headquarters against top Demo cratic candidates because for honorable reasons they necessar ily served their country in time of war in other capacities than in the military services. In short, they are being attacked with the implication that they lack patri otism or loyalty simply because they are not war veterans. This is most unfair and a shab by form of smear attack that is also a direct insult to the vast ma jority of the citizens of Oregon who are likewise without mili tary service record, and honor ably so. After all, 80 per cent of our entire population in this country are non-veterans. Are they, too, to be discredited be cause of this? The very thought is repulsive! As to veterans, themselves, they have long ago learned that non-veterans are among their best friends in the halls of Con gress, state legislatures and high administrative offices, while far too often their fellow veterans are among their most vigorous ODDonents. An example of this is Con gressman Walter Norblad, was the only member of the Oregon Congressional delegation to vote against the Veterans Pension Bill HR 7886, while his non-veteran Oregon colleagues voted for it. Too, It was President Elsenhow er, a veteran, and Gen. Omar Bradley, a veteran, who gave the veterans the anti-veteran philoso phy of the so-called Bradley re port At our state level, Elmo Smith and Mark Hatfield, both veter ans, voted in the 1955 session of the Oregon legislature to kiU SJM 5, a bill urging Congress to enact legislation to provide a pension for the aging veterans of World War I, while their oppon ents for the respective offices of Governor of Oregon and Secre tary of State of Oregon, Bob Holmes and Monroe SweeUand, non-veterans both, voted in sup port of veterans. Many more ex amples could be given. . Obviously, it would be as ab surd to judge a candidate for public office on the basis of "vet erans" or "non-veterans" ts it would be to judge him on the way he parts his hair, if any, and we veterans are well aware of that fact. What is the candidate's posi tion on the issues, his general character, his reputation for hon esty, integrity and ability these are the things that count. Norman R. Howard War Veteran and State Representative. W. W. (Bill) Campbell Legislation Chairman Veterans of World War I, Department of Oregon Portland, Ore. More Gold Tales To the Editor: When the old Greenback mine, located on Tom East creek, a tributary of Grave creek, around 25 miles north of Grants Pass was at high produc tion in 1897 and 1898, so, the saga goes,the bullion taken from the mine at month's end was pro cessed into three small bricks, amounting to around $7,000 each. The manager had a span of driving horses hitched to a spring wagon, after loading the gold in a hand satchel prepara tory to driving to the bank to meet the miner's payroll. Tossing the bag in the rear of the vehicle, the hostler and his companion hit up a lively rate of speed over mountainous dusty roads. Having driven to within several miles of Grants Pass, the two men were hailed down by the shrill voice of the farmer who had picked up the bag of gold that had bounced out of the open rig a few miles back in the cloud of dust. Another episode was in the mystery sale of an $800 nugget from the old China gap "pocket" found by Chinese on Syxes creek in the early days, above Wimer. Seems like the core of the shal low deposit was almost all in one single chunk of gold. Anyhow the subtle method was to slice the chunk into three parts before taking it to a bank for sale. It is reported the gold buyer, being somewhat skeptical too, held back the first trophy until the entire three parts were eventu ally bought and matched togeth er perfectly. Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman Medford, Ore. Foods For Winter To the Editor: A short while back, an M-T editorial comment ing on the sharp coolness and extra heavy dew of a morning was full warning that summer was on the way out with the coming of autumn and winter time. As we older grow, the sign language of changing seasons is of increasing interest and more noticeable, some very odd. Like a recent morning when that homey sound came to me, scrap ing of the breadboard sound- language, telling of hot biscuits for breakfast, the kind made from the flour bin and leavened with sour-dough starter. Now a nicely browned biscuit of this kind, weU anointed with butter and sugared-honey (the poison oak kind that makes you immune to the vile weed, s'fact, tried it myself) and you've really got a breakfast. We both recalled those joyous days of long ago, 'specially of a Sunday morning with luxury of sleeping late, we listened to the promising music of Ma scraping the bread-board that meant hot biscuits for break fast. Mighty soon now along with frosty mornings, sour-dough pancakes will be a-coming. Top ped off with ham or bacon fry in es and water eravy. you have L"laripin good eatin'." Born and raised in gravy-dish Michigan, it sure was heart-Warming to find the same here in Oregon. Up in the northwest, like Washington state, the gravy dish is not so well known. It is most noticeable how food habits of our youth stay with us. Foreign people here, Italian par ents especially, try so hard to have their children, boys most ly, marry into Italian families. This way they will have the food they are used to which is so conducive to a happy married life, with much less reason for recourse to the weary way of divorce. There's the old story of the young bride who just could not prepare a pot of beans like the husband's Ma used to. One day she chanced to scorch them. She didn't care, was mad anyway, put them on the table. Her young husband's face lighted up as with smacking lips he said, "Oh honey darling, you've made 'em right at last, just like Ma used to fix 'em up." F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st Medford, Ore. Babson Lists Views On 4-Day Work Week BY ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass., Al though I am not, and never have been, opposed to unionism as such, I m u s t take up the cudgel against the r e c e ntly merged AFL CIO's forth coming drive for a four-day week rather than increased wages, as an nouncedby president. Roset W BabtoD George Meany, For years, labor has striven not only for higher wages and more fringe benefits; but also for shorter hours. Today's stand ard 40 hour week is a far cry from the conditions that pre vailed not so very many years ago, when the 12 hour day was common practice, six days a week. Those back-breaking, soul destroying times are gone for the U. S., and I am sure that no one regrets their disappearance. But how far can the pen dulum, with safety, now swing in this new direction? I well realize that, as a result of our unprecedented technological and industrial development, it is no longer necessary for men to work the interminable hours of yester year in order to produce suf- ficent goods to meet modern day requirements. But this change must continue to come slowly. An Ill-Timed Move Of course, if Labor's drive for a temporary shorter work week had been launched back in the depression days of the early "thirties," I would have felt dif ferent about it. At that time mil lions of unemployed were walk ing the streets looking for jobs. If the working hours of all who then had jobs had been reduced, there could have been jobs for everybody. But what might have been right then, as a temporary expedient, could be seriously detrimental today to the wel fare of all our people. Since our economy is a vibrant and rapidly growing one, I can see great potential danger in producing less during an impend ing greater overall demand. Workers would have to produce W Editorial Comment STEVENSON FOR PRESIDENT The Republican party has told us that they have no man other than Eisenhower they think can win. Their only chance, they are telling us, is with a 66-year-old man who has had two serious ill nesses within 18 months. They are asking us to send again to the most important office in the world this man who, if he were in any other capacity, would be retired upon the demands of his family, his physician and his close friends. And, on top of that, they are telling us that we can gamble on his tenure because they are giving us as his succes sor, should he be unable to com plete four years of service to us, a man they think is fully equip ped to lead this great nation, vice president Richard M. Nixon. In a few words, this party is saying to us that it is so bank rupt of talent that it cannot offer to us a man in good health and full vigor and fully capable of leading these United States. They can only offer us an ailing man. And they cannot give to us a trusted and tried man to succeed this man if he should falter. They can only present to us a man who has not gained the trust of Amer icans, a man who is openly mis trusted by many, a man who has never proved to the American people that he has the qualifica tions to guide them in the office of the Presidency. That is the best the Republi can party can do in 1956. It is clear that that party cannot re gain control of the House or Sen ate in 1956 and it is asking the people to retain its control Of the White House with these candi dates. The people do not, and will not have to accept this offering. The Democratic party has again' given them the opportunity to support one of the best prepared men for the Presidency in the history of the country. This time that man, Adlai Stevenson, is washed clean of a record that was not of his making and he comes to the people in the full greatness that is his. This newspaper believes the American people have a rare op portunity to elect a truly great man. We are firmly convinced that Adlai Stevenson would be one of the great Presidents of all time. He has been tested in gov ernment and his record is one of courage, enlightenment .and full understanding of all that our highest office demands. The Democratic party has not forsak en its responsibility. It has given the people its best man. . The East Oregonian believes that all this age calls upon the people of the United States to do what Adlai Stevenson can lead them to do. (Pendleton East Oregonian.) CUTTING SERVICE ON THE SHASTA We are glad to note that the California Public Utilities com mission has ordered an investiga tion of Southern Pacific's an- 20 per cent more during the four work days to compensate for the lost fifth day. Unless further automation could make up the difference, they would merely be holding their own as far as production is concern ed, rather than increasing it to meet expanding requirements. Increased use of automation is a slow and expensive develop ment. It cannot happen in four years or eight years. A Step Backward We are living in prosperous times. Our people never had it so good. We are practically fully employed at high wages; our purchasing power is enormous and our every-day living needs tremendous. To retard produc tion under such circumstances would be little short of a crime a move contrary to that which has made America great AU material prosperity stems from increased character and produc tion. "More things for better peo ple at right prices" is a key to our continued economic well being. I forecast that our No. 1 Pub lic Enemy continues to be the threat of further inflation over the longer term. Today's 52-cent dollar is one of the chief reasons why we must pay around $3,000 for an automobile that only a few years ago cost about one third as much. The best way to lick further inflation or to forestall it is by increasing pro duction, not by producing less. Inflation is the result of an un balanced ratio between output and consumption. We can boost consumption by intensifying and improving advertising and sell ing efforts, but there is no way to compensate for lost output. This will be of great importance if we are faced with more competition from foreign goods. Decreased production is a direct threat to Mr. and Mrs. Consumer. It means fewer goods and higher prices. The proposed shorter work week is ill-timed and impractical, under present conditions. We cannot remain prosperous by producing less, but only by producing more. Ten years from now, further machinery developments should give us a four-day week; but it cannot safely come at once. nounced plan to reduce service on the Shasta daylight train be tween Portland and San Francis co to three trains a week. Service is now daily in both directions. The authority of Oregon's Public Utility Commissioner Charles Heltzel over such sched ule changes is challenged in a suit now awaiting decision by the Oregon Supreme Court, so he is evidently in no present position to move in the S. T. case. Before the schedule is reduced, the railroad should be required to show the extent of its losses and even if it shows them we doubt that it is justified in re ducing this service on its main line. Every business institution renders service that does not pay, as part of its over-all opera tion. The Capital Journal deliv ers several thousand papers daily on rural motor routes that do not pay their operating costs plus the cost of the newsprint because we think this is part of our job, to serve the people of our area. Doesn't a railroad which is now prosperous, as shown by its operating statements, owe a similar responsibility to the peo ple whose patronage makes it prosperous, even if the prosper ity is contributed by freight rather than passenger revenues? We'd like to see a determination on this point by a commission representing the public before the trains are taken off. Salem Capital Journal. Hearings Slated On $P Service Salem (U.PJ Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel said Thursday he was preparing to hold hearings on the adequacy of passenger service under a new schedule announced by South ern Pacific for its Shasta Day light run. Southern Pacific has announc ed a three round trip a week schedule for Shasta trains in stead of the previous daily runs. Heltzel said the commission has power to hold hearings and made a determination with re spect to the adequacy of exist ing passenger service. But he added that a recent Circuit Court decision, now appealed to the State Supreme Court, ruled that the commissioner had no power to suspend time tables reducing railroad passenger serv ice prior to a hearing. A similar procedure was nec essary in the case of the South ern Pacific Rogue River trains and In a case involving the Port land Traction Compar.y inter urban passenger service. Salem (U.R) The State Agri culture Department has called a hearing Oct. 23 to amend certain Oregon standards for commer cial jams, jellies, fruits and vege tables to conform with new federal regulations.