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FOUH MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordUTribune 1veryon In Southern Oregon RtatU Tho Mail Tribune" Fubluhed Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-2 North Fir St. Phone a-6141 ROBERT W BUHL, Editor TTETRB GREY AdvertLnnff Manager GERALD LATHAM. Buatneaa Manager ER:C ALLEN JR.. Maiiafiine Editor EARL H ADAMS. Cltv Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWFTT Snort Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. CircuiaUon Mgr. An Independe nt Newspaper Entered as second cJaaa matter at Med lord Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year f 15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moi 4.25 Sunday OnJy One year $4 20. By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland. Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoer.ix. Shady Cove. Rogue River. Talent, and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 1JS0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Ofrir-tat Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson C'ou nty United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle. Portland St. Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B C -CD NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION U W NiWS fk tl PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30, 40 and BO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Oct. 24, 1948 (Thursday) Bud Turbough of Thompson creek probably will not enjoy eating the deer he killed last Friday; he had to kill it the hard way with an axe and hammer. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Due to the rains, farmers are behind with their fall plowing, and ahead with their coming to town. 20 YEARS AGO Oct. 24, 1936 (Saturday) Harvesting the pear crop of the Rogue valley completed this week with the exception of the winter Nelis pears and New town apples. Annual coat and dress mak ing school for homemakers en rolled in extension projects in Jackson county will commence Monday. 30 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1926 (Sunday) A meeting will be held to night to discuss the removal of the county seat. The "Toggery's sweeping sale of men's suits, overcoats and furnishings will continue through this week. 40 YEARS AGO Oct 24, 1916 (Tuesday) The Philadelphia Auc.ion company has been bringing home the bacon to the specula tors who have been buying box apples at prevailing flo.b. prices and selling at auction in Phila delphia. W. C. Lamed returns from a week's business trip to Portland. 50 YEARS AGO Oct. 24. 1906 (Wednesday) The high school department now numbers 88 as three mem bers were added Monday. The building boom in Med ford still continues; on the west side of the railroad tracks sev eral new buildings started in the past week. What's the Answer? Can Too Get 4 of the 7? Copr. 1953 Editorial Research Report 1. Washington, D. C. public schools were integrated or seg regated before the Supreme Court gave its anti-segregation ruling in 1954? 2. Who was the last previous vice president to be re-elected? 3. About 3, 8, 15 or 25 per cent of all American adult males are members of the Masons? 4. The elections in Alaska Oct. 16 were carried by the Demo crats or Republicans, or was it about 50-50? 5. Which state has the legend "Wheat State" on its auto tags? 6. Adam C. Powell. Negro Representative from N. Y., a Democrat, is for Eisenhower or Stevenson or has taken no sides? 7. Whiffletrees are found in forests, on sail boats, behind lunch counters, in stables, or at reunions of Yale alumni? The answers: 1. Segregated. 2. John N. Garner. 3. About 8 per cent. 4. Carried by Demo crats. 5. Kansas. 6. For Eisenhow er. 7. In stables (attachments on carriages for harness). SUBMITS RESIGNATION Portland U.PJ Clay Brown, president of M and M Wood Working company for the past two years, said today he has sub mitted his resignation to the new Simpson ownership, effec tive Nov. 1. MAIL TRIBUNE UN Forum, Not Arena Throughout the year there is. such a surfeit of special "days," "weeks" and "months" designed to do everything from selling more potato chips to achieving greater sympathy for underprivileged cats that we seldom get excited about any of them any more. We're not "excited" about United Nations Week, Oct. 22 to 28, either, but we are glad to have it as an excuse to pat the UN on the back. Whether or not the UN has ever prevented a major war is difficult to tell because you can't count wars that haven't happened. But the record certainly indi cates that several wars would have started had it not have been for the UN. "THIS, of course, is the chief and most important value of the United Nations the prevention of war before it starts, because we start talking rather than shooting. The UN, as organized at present, can't very well stop a war once it gets started, but it is a great moral force against war, simply because it is there, because it offers a spotlighted platform where the world can see and judge the positions of the disputing nations. The moral force which this exerts cannot be over estimated. We believe it has done more toward pre venting war than almost any other factor. And the annual budget of the UN equals the price of only a day or two of war. COME OF of the secondary functions of the UN the permanent and specialized agencies like wise serve to good purpose. A number of them, little known in the United States, are best-known in some of the underdeveloped nations where their services can and do make the dif ference between existence and living. They deal with such things as labor conditions; food supplies and agriculture; international civil av iation; banking and reconstruction funds; postal regulation ; interna tional telecommunications ; health ; refugees, and weather studies. They make the wheels of international trade and cooperation turn more smoothly. e SEVENTY-SIX nations now belong to the UN, thirty YY11A ftlOTI vrnmknv itIii iaimaJ ntlAn 1. a Lliau WIG UUJJ1UC1 VV 111111 JU11CU W11C11 LUG charter was ratified in San Francisco eleven years ago today. The UN is not a world government. (Some people think it should be.) It is, instead, a voluntary organi zation of sovereign states which have agreed to meet and talk things over, and to see that some things of benefit to all are accomplished. Its record over eleven years is a remarkable one even though it has not been universally successful in its objective of cultivating world friendship and co operation. That, perhaps, is too much to expect of any organization under present circumstances. But it has served as a balance wheel, a court of world opinion a forum rather than an arena. And that is important. E.A. Bucket The day may come when the old DC-3 will vanish from the nation's skies but it will be a long time off. One of our pilot friends, calls the dependable old planes the workhorse of the air. It's true, too. They could hardly be called the "Model T" of the planes, for they are fairly big and comfortable, but they've probably logged more miles carrying more passengers than any other aircraft in histoiy. I JNITED Air Lines this DC-3s, and will shift vairs which have become familiar to Medford resi dents through their regular use on most of the sched ules in recent years. We'll still be seeing the for West Coast will continue to use them for another year or so, before they switch over to a new turbo prop plane called a "Friendship," of German Fokker design made in this country by Fairchild ; and South west Airways will continue in addition to the Martin 2 - fJNITED is selling its DC-3s, most of them to busi- nesses for executive planes, and it is one measure of their durability and dependability that thev are getting about as much for or so rumor has it. About 11,000 of the "tireless" DC-3s were built between their advent in 1936 and about 1945, and it is estimated that at least half of them are still flying. Wherever pilots gather to of the DC-3 is pointed out and did do under all Its designer, Donald Douglas, recently received an award, which, as one writer tine to a flying machine that has been whining its way into man's affection since 1936 the stocky, sturdy, utterly dependable bucket of bolts known as the DC-3. E.A. Pilot Rock Youth Top PortlandU.R) Darrell Horn, 17, of Pilot Rock, took top hon ors in the 4-H beef showmanship competition at the Pacific Inter national Livestock exposition here yesterday. Horn exhibited a 136-pound hereford that he won at the show last year for his all-around skill in raising and showing beef animals. Runnerup was Steve Burnet, Wednesday, October 24, 1959 of Bolts week will end its use of over instead to the Con- "3s" for a while though. to use the Douglas planes 0 - 2s now in use. them as they originally paid talk about planes, the worth in tales of what they could conditions. put it, was a "tardy valen Winner at PI 15, of Moro. He and Horn had earlier been named as intermedi ate and senior age division champions. Junior 4-H showman was Bob Monahan, 12, of Con don. Top showman honors in the FFA division went to Gordon Wanner of Molalla. Reserve champion was Roger Rothrock of Pendleton. Communications Letters to th Editor must bear the unaer certain circumstances the use or a pen name or initial tot- publication it permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the riqht to edit all letters with a view to clarification ind condensation, not exceed 400 words. Answers Mrs. Padgham To the Editor: In your issue of Oct. 14. .was a letter from Jane Gillaspie calling attention to the fact that funds contri Cuted for the tuberculosis cam paign were being used to pro mote a campaign for fluorida tion. To say that such a revela tion was amazing is putting it mildly. ' However, the statement of Mrs. Henry Padgham of the Jackson County Health associa tion in attempting to justify this expediture by the fact th.it their char'er permits it, is still more amazing. It apparenUy tries to convey the impression that regardless of the purpose for which funds are solicited lier association can spend them as they see fit Letters received by me in the past in behalf of the Christmas Seal Sales (and I presume the same letters went to others) have i-tated specifically that the funds were to promote the crusade against tuberculosis. If the funds are being used for other pur poses than the fight against tuberculosis, then it should be so stated in the solicitation let ters. There are many contrioutors to this fund who do not favor fluoridation. Is it fair and above- board to use their contributions given for a specific purpose to further a cause to which they tre opposed? Fluoridation must be decider at the polls, but if its passage depends upon such questionable methods as are be ing used in this case, then it deserves defeat. Howeve , the sad part of the whole story is the fact that an old and worthy cause, the cru sade against tuberculosis, has been tarnished by the actions of a few overzealous persons It remaini to be seen whether contributions to the Christmas Seal Sales will be given as free ly in the ruture as they have in the past. A. J. Curry 906 West Main st. Medford, Ore. Wants Him to Try Farming To the Editor: The prosperity banner wiiich Ellsworth is wav ing in Southwest Oregon looks mighty moth-eaten when you consider the family farmer's in come is down more than 25 per cent from 3V4 years ago and that his mortgage debt went up $2.4 billion in the same period. If Ellsworth had the farmers' interest at heart he should have done something during his 14 years in office, not try to tell us how rich we are two months before he hopes to go back to Washington. It was Roreburg's Ellsworth who continually voted against making funds available for the Rural Electrification Adminis- tiation so mere farmers could get the benefits of low-cost elec tricity. And on this point I like the stand taken by Charles Porter of Eugene who should be sent to Washington so Ellsworth can try a little farming out here under the 'estrictions he helped set up. Porter has gone on record for Eld to the family farmer and no one but Ellsworth and a few rabid GOP selfish interests would say. we don't need it. And don't let Editor Ellsworth tell you the Soil Bank will lift Western Oregon into a bright spot of his prosperity. . . we just don't do '.hat kind of farming out here, Harris. Our stake in a healthy agri culture requires that we lift the ltstraints put on the REA pro gram, farmers' home adminis tration, soil conservation; farm ctedit programs, agricultural re search and other important farm programs which have lagged un der the GOP rule. We need policies which pro mote wider distribution of in come, full employment, full pro duction and full consumption . . but we won't get these things with stumt ling-blocks like Ells worth screaming "socialism ' every timi. ihe farmer needs a Lelping hand. Thanks to Ellsworth, Western Oregon is one of the dark spots of the "spotty prosperty' 1 he does so much io promote. It's long past the time we need a man who understands our prob lems and will work for us. That representative will be Charles O. Porter. Wanda Kare, Talent, Ore. Ouoles the Bible To the Editor: I would like to get in my two bits worth be fore election on this water quest-on. I have been in Medford a-most three years. I like it here and own my own home. God has given us pure water, why tamper with it? Do people think God made a mistake when He made the water pure? The Bible says (St. Mark 7:37) He hath done aU things well. But the way some people want to change things you would think God needed a dictator. The people who want fluoride in the water 1ft them have it handy and a ink as much as they want, and not force it on others As for me I do not want it. If name and address, of the writer, although Letters submitted for publication must fluoride is put in the water, my home will be for sale. Etta Graham 319 South Peach st Medford, Ore. More on Fluorides To the Editor: Anyone inter ested in this movement to put fluoride in this city's water sys tem may write to Washington D.C., to get tioth sides of the question. So you don't have to depend on local discussion if you don't wish to. But the most important adver sity of this project is this: that each and every one has the per sonal right to choose his own medication or preventive. I have always heard that, even your own doctor cannot lawfully force any medicine or treatment on you if you strongly object to it. I was at this fluoride meeting at the court house last Friday, And to be sure I had not been misinformed, I asked the doctor and the lawyer that was there, if this was really true, and they both- said it was true. So why then, is it thought proper for the majority of lay men to prescribe for the rest of us laymen, when your own doc tor cannot infringe on your per sonal rights? They wouldn't think of getting mass vaccinations of any or all kinds in this crude manner. It just don t make common horse sense. The parents are largely to blame if their children have more than the average cavities in their teeth. So let them get the treatment for this, in the way it has been Dointed out many times. "Maybe they can t all aiiora to." you say? They afforded sweets in excess, did they not? Mary E. Atkins 1634 Orchard Home dr. Medford, Ore. Whv Ike and Wayne? To the Editor: The public ODinion noils seem to be indi cating that Oregon will reelect both Morse and Eisennower. i wonder how many voters real ize what the effect of this ticket splitting will undoubtedly be. Those Morse supporters casting a vote for Eisenhower are voting for a veto of the High Hells Can non muiti-Dumose dam bill Morse will sponsor next year, and the President's disinterest m the many other aspects of con servation of our natural re sources that Morse will be work ins for. In addition, Eisenhower wouia be the first President constitu tionally barred from seeking re election, as a result of me iaia Amendment enacted several years ago. His greatest strength, H the ranks of his own party, l as been his enormous personal popularity and the coattaili that popularity provided for tne tie- publican candidates who reject his views on basic issues, ine lact that his running-for-Presi- e'ent days would be over the moment he were reelected un derscores the fact that the Old Guard of the GOP would no longer have any political use for him and would withdraw even the token, faltering sup port it has given him so be- "rudeinsly during tne first term. Morse supporters who vote for Jke are then giving their ap proval of the Nixon-Dirksen- McCarthy-Jenner faction whose international and political phi losophy is 30 years out of date. To those people wno sun ukc ke, I say you cannot vote for the man without voting tor me ReDublicari party, so let's let Ike retire gracefully to his Get tysburg Farm instead of allow ing him to be a snowpiece ignored by his own party. Mrs. Maxine E. Johnson 174R S.E. Poplar ave. Por'land, Ore. Against Dictation To the Editor: Who outside oi Oregon has the right to tell the Oreeonians who should repre sent them in congress? We are the people and we can vote for who we please. We need a presi dent, not a dictator. Our great president Franklin D. Roosevelt called us fellow Americans. We Oreeonians have a reputa tion for independence. When the Chinese Exclusion law went into effect, some people expected riot ing. President Cleveland tele graphed to Governor Pennoyer to raise the militia ready to keep peace. Governor Pennoyer tele graphed back and told Cleve land strongly to attend to his own business. The dictator foisted Nixon on to the Republicans. Let it end there. Charles W. Sherman Kerby, Ore. Titoist Revolt in Poland Puts Molotov in l-Told-You-So Soot By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The Polish revolt against So viet Russian domination has put "old Bolshevik" Vyacheslav M. 1 Molotov in a very nice spot. Every time anybody in the Soviet in ner leadership mentions Po land, Molotov is in position Cbarles Mccano to say: "I told you so." Whether Molotov will be able to capitalize on his position at In The Day's JIHE fire in Poland is getting! A hotter. Gomulka. the leader of the Polish communist party, has is sued a virtual declaration of independence from Moscow and has denounced the misrule of the past 12 years. The Yugo slav (Tito) communist press says Kefauver Drives For Michigan's Electoral Votes Detroit, Mich. (U.R) Sen. Estes Kefauver, (D-Tenn.), pick ed Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and the administra tion's "big business" policies as his chief targets here today in a one-day drive to capture Michi gan's 20 important electoral votes. The vice presidential candi date, swinging into the nation's auto-making center, charged that the Eisenhower administra tion has been . "fattening the treasuries of the giant financial empires while the American people have been lagging be hind." Kefauver, in this industrial ized area where unemployment is a sore subject, pointed out that General Motors' profits soared 113 per cent between 1952 and last year, while the auto workers wages have creased only 14 per cent." In remarks prepared for de livery at a business and profes sional men's luncheon, Kefauver accused the Eisenhower admin istration of trying to establish 'a stop-gap election eve prosper ity." He charged that Wilson, form er General Motors president and now defense secretary, "has cooked up a deal with Curtiss Wright to tide it over until aft er election day." Kefauver referred to defense contracts for Curtiss Wright fol- 18wing Curtiss Wright's taking over the stock of Studebaker Packard. Snow Blankets Northwest Area By UNITED PRESS A blanket of snow four inches deep covered parts of the North west early today and a cold out break dropped temperatures about 30 degrees. The snow resulted from a strong disturbance which moved northeastward through the Central Plateau and Central Rockies. Rock Springs, Wyo., re ported the largest snowfall four inches. Snow flurries continued at a number of points in Idaho and Western Montana early today while scattered showers were reported southward into Ari zona. The only other precipitation rain in the nation occurred in the Northeast, but amounts were light. Near freezing temperatures were, common early today over the Northern Plateau, Delta, Utah reported a reading of 33 degrees, compared with a 67-de- gree reading early Tuesday. Strong southerly winds, now- ever, kept temperatures in the 60s over the plains as far north as Southern South Dakota. Con siderable blowing dust was re ported throughout the Central plains were winds with gusts exceeding 50 miles per hour were "recorded. Portland U.R) Mayor Fred Peterson received a letter from President Eisenhower yes- ! terday in which the chief execu- . tive expressed his thanks for the welcome given him on his visit to Portland last week. She's wearing the new, astonishing Sono tone 79 hearing aid entirely ct the earl No card down hr neck Nothing in her hair-do Nothing on tho body No fussing with eyeglasses To discovor tho secret of how you too can hoar o whisper and be inconspicuous with a -ounce hearing aid, call, or send (or free information. SONOTONE C. R. ADAMSON, District Manager 839 EAST JACKSON Phone 2-590 the expense of Nikita S. Khru- thchev and Premier Nikolai A Bulganm and whether he wants to remain to be seen But certainly, from the Bol shevik viewpoint, Molotov has been right about the danger of "Titoism" ever since President Tito of Yugoslavia broke with the late Josef Stalin in 1948. Shared Stalin's Hatred Molotov fully shared Stalin's hatred of Tito for rebelling against Soviet dictatorship over the East European satellite coun tries. Molotov was thrown out of his post of foreign minister to make it easier for Khrushchev and Bulganin to make friends News By Frank Jenkins this morning that ALL Polish workers are behind the new independent-minded red leader ship in Warsaw. There are reports that men have already been killed x and wounded in clashes between the two factions of communists. A Western source in Berlin says Russia has pulled some of her crack motorized divisions out of East Germany and has sent them into Poland. iS TO what to do about what seems to be happening in Poland, the Kremlin commu nists have two choices: 1. They can MOW 'EM DOWN with guns. 2. They can seem to give little. The Kremlin communists have the guns to mow 'em down with, but mowing 'em down might so inflame the other communist satellites as to put into their minds the thought so vividly ex pressed by our Patrick Henry: "Give us liberty or GIVE US DEATH." Not only the Poles but the Czechs have not hesitated in the past to DIE when death seemed preferable to oppression. fTHIS is the significance of this Polish business: If it is what it seems to be, it can indicate that communism is finally breaking up into KINDS OF COMMUNISTS, just as there are kinds" of other people. Up to now, there has been only one kind of commu nist and that is the Kremlin kind. The other kinds have been shot before a wall. The importance to us of "kinds" of communists is that various KINDS of communists will tend to split up into DIF FERENT KINDS of thinking. That is what we hope will hap pen. If the different kinds of communists get to fighting with each other they won't have time left to FIGHT US. VUHAT will happen? ' ' Nobody knows. We'll have to wait and see. "fEANWHILE The stock market In New York turned mixed and hesi tant in early trading this morn ing. Pivotal issues fluctuated from fractions to a point. Turn ever was light. Brokers said Wall Street was weighing the events in Poland over the week end. flN THE other hand . The grain markets In Chi cago opened on a BURST of BUYING. After the opening bulge, prices slipped back a little and then bounded forward again. Grains ranging to more than a cent were scored in most cereals and rye jumped as much as two and three-quarters cents at one time. HOW come? Well, in the modern world, the stock markets tend to weak en on news indicating that war might break out somewhere in the world. Modern war means rigid regimentation of business. War, on the other hand, his torically means HIGHER PRIC ES FOR FOOD PRODUCTS. n u, SHOPPING L DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS So. Oregon's Complete Toy Store Open Tonight The TOY HOUSE 317 EAST MAIN with Tito again. It can hardly be doubted that the Polish rebellion and the prospective rebellion in Hun gary will strengthen Molotov in the Soviet Communist Party Presidium which rules Russia. There is talk now that Khrush chev might be ousted from hii job as first secretary of the Communist Party. If he went, Bulganin might go with him. In that event, Molotov might or might not get either the prime ministry or the Communist Party leadership if he wanted them. It is quite possible that, at 66, he does not want either post and would prefer to remain a vice premier and top policy mak er. Hit Durability Emphasised Molotov's present position of strength emphasizes his dura bility in the tough game of Com munist power politics. He is a comeback trtistof note. He was premier from 1930 to 1941, when Stalin took over that job to direct war policy. For a while, from 1939 to 1941, he was foreign minister as well. He continued in the foreign min istry until 1949. Then he was "demoted" but remained one of Russia's several vice premiers. It turned out that Molotov really was detached from an active cab-, inet post to take charge of So viet Far Eastern Dolicy. After Stalin's death in 1953, Molotov was called back to the foreign ministry. His loss of that position last June certainly wai a demotion a slap in the face for Tito's benefit. Molotov Was Right Now, it is apparent even in Moscow that Molotov was right all along in his warnings against Titoism. What is surprising is that Khrushchev and Bulganin thought they could relax the Soviet grip on the satellite coun tries without asking for trouble. In Poland especially, hatred of Russia not merely of Com munism is inbred. One of Molotov's strengths is that he has been around, a lot for years, attending internation al conferences.. He has seen something of the world. Khrush chev and Bulganin have been going around for the last couple of years. But their background is almost incredibly narrow. All through their careers, they have seen a distorted picture of the world from inside the Kremlin That is a basic weakness in Soviet leadership, and a cor responding strength in Western leadership. COURT SESSION SET Pendleton U.R) The Oregon State Supreme court will hold its annual eastern Oregon ses sion here next Monday and Tuesday. 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