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oon o o o o o o o o FOUIl MEDFORD (OfliaOH) 'Everyone in Southern Ore go Eteadrf The Mall Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by yix-ur unu rmr ii.ij CO 27-21 North Viz St. . Phone 2-811 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertlsina Uanain GERALD i.ATHAM Business Manager kh- ALLt jm Managing Editor KARL H. ADAMS Cly Editor HARRY CHIP-MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE KTARCHER Society Editor DALE ETUCKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newipaper Brtered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1807 SUBSCRIPTION RATES toy Mail In Advance: Per Coot I0e Daily md Sunday One year $15 00 umiy ana ruiny rx months 8 00 liv and Sunday Three mos 4.25 bundy Only One year $4 20 By Carrier in Advance Medford Ashland Central. Point Eagle Point JacksonviUe. Gold Hill. Phoentx, jwiaav cove jrotrtie Kiver. Talent, and tin motor routes: ixniv and Sunday One year $18 00 Dav and Sunday One month 1 JO uirrter. ana uealerl lOe per copy All Terms Caah In Advance Hfrial Paper of the City of Medford 2UiQ ?ApL f kion County United pjwFull Leased Wjre SIEMJIKR OF AUDIT BUREAU KJW LlntULATIO.N Advertising Renresentatlv WFT-HOLIDAY mMPAOT FWf Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. S.m Francisco. . Los Angelea. oauie. r-onina bt. Louis AtianU ' Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL AsocfTLN jEsmnzsmmi riCr NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION iqht 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 Nov. 16, 1946 (Saturday) Firt woman to enroll at Piercy field under GI flight training program is Eldene Frenter of Central Point. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudgs Pot column: The fruit- men are in the throes of packing Christmas gift boxes, and all the plants are hives of industry. 20 YEARS AGO Not. 16, 1936 (Monday) A 1.500-acre timber fire be ing fought today on Williams creek about 10 miles southwest ef Provolt in Josephine county. Employers my procure infor mation on administration and operation of federal social se curity act at meeting at Med ford - postof f ice tomorrow. 30 YSARS AGO Not. 16, 1926 (Tuesday) Frederick T. Weeks, Pacific coast manager of Newell-Emmett Advertising Agency, San Fran cisco, in Medford today. In the drive for Red Cross funds about $2,751.55 is secur ed and pledged: quota for Jack son county is S3, 500. 40 YEARS AGO Not. 16, 1916 (Thursday) Checks totalling about $15,000 mailed from plant of Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Grants Pass, to sugar-beet growers in the val ley for crop payment. County court considering-calling special election to establish irrigation district. What's the Answer? Can You Get 4 of the 7? -Copr 155 Ediuirt&l Research Report 1. Vice President Nixon had a voting record in Congress generally considered liberal or conservative on domestic issues, or middle-of-the-road? S. About 20. 40. 60 pr 80 of 11 U.S. cars on the road have automatic transmissions? 3. In some states every single voting precinct on Nov. 6 used voting machines; right or wrong? 4. Average compensation for unemployment under social se curity is now more or less than $100 a month, or about $100? 5. Outer Mongolia. Communist state in the Far East, is under Russian or Chinese domination? 6. More old businesses -die every year than new ones are bora, or more new ones arf born Irian die, ' or is it about 50-50? . 7. C. H. Grennewalt is presi dent of DuPont. Sears Roebuck, U.S. Steel. N Y. Central, . Dow ' Chemical or General Motors? The Answers: Generally con sidered conservative. 2. About 40 per cent. 3. Right. 4. Some: what more than $100. 5. Russian, as of now. 6.: Many more new ones born than old ones die. 7. DuPont. , Siskiyou County Asks Baavar Trapping Stop - Yreka A letter was directed to the California Department of fish and Game Tuesday by coun ty supervisors here -requesting - that beaver trapping in Siski you county be prohibited, this seeson. "We have spent 20 years try ing ta get them started," Super visor W. T. Davidson said. He expressed resentment at the way in which the beavers are being eliminated. MAIL TRIBUNE Oregon s Tax Pro blem Here in Oregon, we're going to hear more about taxes before we hear less. Why? Because the state legislature has a real lollapalooza of a tax problem on its hands and it's going to take some tall figuring to get it worked out. Briefly, here is the situation: "OREGON voters have on five (or is it six?) occa sions voted down a sales tax. And a majority of the new legislature is on record against it, as is the governor-elect. The income tax surtax, passed by the last leg islature, raised a mighty howl when taxpaying time came around last April, and there remains strong sentiment against it. The proposed cigarette tax was voted down at the Nov. 6 election. Property taxpayers, already burdened with some of the highest real and personal property taxes in history solely for the support of schools and local government, are in no mood to accept a state levy which has not been collected for many years, although it is still technically on the books. A ND, although there will be a surplus of some $30 million or more on the books at the end of the current biennium, the rising needs for funds by state government will probably make that seem like a drop in the bucket. Welfare costs are rising; college and university costs are going up and demands are being made for greater state support for schools; more institutions are being built, staffed, equipped and operated, and the operation costs in those already in existence con tinue to rise; increasing population is resulting in greater demands on the police and service agencies of government. Thus, the combination of rising costs (most of them legitimate), on one hand, and the disinclination of everyone for new tax measures, on the other, puts the legislature squarely in the middle. HTHE legislature, with a majority of Democratic members for the first time since the 1930s, is necessarily a largely inexperienced group legisla tively speaking. But, looking at the problem in another way, it brings in a lot of men with fresh viewpoints who may not let prior conceptions of the tax problem curtail and stultify their thinking. As a result, it is possible that some brand-new ideas for solving this impasse will be brought f orward to the satisfaction of a majority. TJM'ITH no prior indication as to what the legisla v ture's thinking might be (largely because cand idates for offices at all about taxes, except for those they were against), it would appear the legislature will have about five alternatives, or combinations of them, as follows : 1. Continue the surtax much as it is. 2. Revise existing income tax schedules. 3. Collect a tax on property. 4. Enact some form of sales tax. 5. Come up with something brand new in taxes for Oregon. IT SHOULD also be remembered that the legisla ture will have to do a pretty good job of pleasing the people with whatever they decide for the voters this month refused to give them the power to work out a tax program that is not subject to immediate referendum, thus delaying it for up to 18 or 20 months. Whatever the solution, and there will have to be one of some sort, it is almost bound to be a com promise, and probably entirely satisfactory to few. That's the way a democracy works however arriving at a solution which displeases the greatest number of people as little as circumstances permit. E.A. Handwriting As the proprietor of one of the most illegible scrawls in recorded history, we are interested to note that a couple of organizations, not ordinarily noted for their eleemosynary activities, have announced that they will offer six handwriting scholarships in three Austin, Texas, high schools. Way down at the bottom of the announcement, it says the winners "will be selected on the basis of a handwriting competition." But it doesn't say whether the winners will be the best writers or the worst. ME DEDUCE the winners will be the best writers (on the theory that competition will stimulate all students to improve their handwriting techniques). This may be the wrong way to go about it. Should not the scholarship go to the worst writers (on the theory that they need help more than the others) ? However this may be, the motives are laudable, for as the sponsors point out, "tremendous dollar and time waste can be traced directly to illegible hand writing." We only hope that the push-pull 'round-and-'round methods taught in the schools will not even tually erase any taint of individuality in the scripts of future writers. Meanwhile, we'll stick to the type writer both out of preference and out of consider ation for those with whom we communicate. E.A. Friday, November IS, 1958 levels were mostly reticent Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with a view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Doesn't Make Right To the Editor: Referring to your "Common Sense" editorial in Nov. 12 Tribune, may I offer another thought? . . . Nobody has, does or will, object, protest, work or vote against anyone con suming, giving to your children, grandparents or even your mother-in-law, all the sodium flu orides, you wish (unless some mentioned might do so). However, as shown by the vot ers of Medford, Nov. 6, 1956, most of the people did, and do, vigorously object to having Med ford's million dollar municipally-owned, pure mountain spring water contaminated by dumping poison or other foreign matter into it, where all must drink, whether or not. Please give flu oridation vote figures in Oregon places. Moreover, the AMA refused to endorse it (even though it has been claimed AMA did), "be cause fluoridation is not without its dangers," and damage to the human body in one way or an other. Too much evidence is on record now to justify any pru dent person to take further chances. Anyone can get this chemical for individual use who wishes it, just as Castor oil, Ex-Lax, vita mins of any desired name, letter or number, as most any drug may be obtained FOR INDIVID UAL USE, for a specific pur pose. No sane person (with or with out "common sense"), it seems to me, would ever consider admin istering any of the above-named, or any other drug, by dumping it into a city's water supply. Most don't need it; some are al lergic and nobody knows what might happen to all. Dentists or doctors can (and have offered to) supply sodium fluoride in liquid form, water doped with it, for home or schools; and dentists say it would cost about 10 cents per child per year, not 10 cents to 14 cents per week or month. One I know offered it free to his pa tients. In this way the dosage could be given with some degree of regularity. Some children drink far more than others. And voting, one way or an other, does not make fluorida tion of a city's water supply RIGHT. Voting simply makes it a political issue. It's not even educational. It is against the law of God and man for me to make you eat or drink what you do not want. Read again the AMA statement, p. 5, Nov. 4, Mail Tribune "It is not the province of the state to do something for us that is 'good for us.' " John E. Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave. Medford, Ore. Editor's note: If our friend and communicant will read again the anti - fluoridation advertisement which he quotes above, he will find the A.M. A. DID endorse flu oridation in principle (how else could it be done without prin ciple?), and that the doubting remarks are made by one uncon vinced doctor, NOT by the A.M. A. Other Side To the Editor: Re editorial, "Common Sense," Mail Tribune Nov. 12, please print the other side. Following letter from Na tional Fluoridation News, Oct. Nov., page 2: "Gearhart, by council action, added fluorides to our water sup ply in 1951. At that time Dr. Rex Baldwin, dental promoter, was mayor of Gearhart. He assured the council that fluorides benefit teeth and there are no 'harmful effects.' (At that time no studies were available purporting to prove the safety of fluoridation.) "There are many water users attached to the Gearhart and Warrenton water system who have no chance to vote on the issue. Unless they- can afford to dig a well they are forced to drink the water. Is that the American' way? "From personal experience my family knows of the intimida tion, threats and violence used against those who oppose fluori dation. Even local police use slander and smear to suppress the truth. "At school, my children are forced to drink the polluted wa ter or carry a thermos of fresh, pure water. I know of many Gearhart families who are car rying in fresh water to avoid the' fluoridated water. "My children are developing cavities in their teeth, in spite of the fluoridated water, a well bal anced diet and proper dental care. Their teeth show evidence of mottling (the first sign of chronic fluoride poisoning). "As a parent, I protest against this program of compulsion which is un-American. Who is going to assume liability for damage done? Furthermore, the methods of promoting by the PTA are not in accordance with American principles. "The PTA has adopted a pol icy of presenting only one side of the issue, with censorship of material presented. They stated, 'they will not allow any opposi tion.' "As a citizen and taxpayer I protest the use of public schools to promote this vicious program, under the guise of protection to little children's teeth." Robert M. Workman Gearhart, Oregon Also from Astoria, where flu oridation was started, December, 1952, by city council decision, Mrs. J. D. Snell reports burst, corroded and plugged pipes. A test of tap water by Charlton Laboratories, Portland, one of the most reputable of the west coast, shows not the 1 ppm which health authorities are rec ommending and consider safe, but 2 ppm of fluoride. Alice Black 812 Newtown Medford, Ore. Editor's note: The last word on fluoridation has yet to be spoken. But, with the observa tion that the residents of both Gearhart and Astoria voted to keep fluoridation after having tried it, we herewith close the subject in the "communications" column once more until it is officially proposed again. Is Black Really White? To the Editor: In regard to the article published Nov. 8 in the Medford Mail Tribune by the National Better Business Bureau entitled "Ladies Be Warned." Who are we supposed to be lieve? I would like to ask you, the reader, just a few questions. First, however, let me say that I am neither a cookware sales man nor do I advocate or endorse any particular brand but am just another citizen interested in the public health of all of us. 1. Have you ever noticed the pits or rough places on a piece of aluminum cookware after it has been used extensively? 2. Was it washed off in process of scouring, or was it removed by heat and pressure while cook ing? 4. Have you ever abstained from using aluminum cookware and then for example went back to the old aluminum coffee pot? The National Better Business Bureau assures you (the misled public) that the stories and tests of aluminum cookware in re garding an apparent clouded condition of water boiled in al -uminum are tricky and entirely false. One more question: When you see black do you call it white? The products and processes that the National Better Busi ness Bureau, U. S. Public Health Service, Federal Trade Commis sion endorse are generally con sidered authentic and trust worthy. Don't be misled by a salesman or even an organization as well known as those mention ed make a simple test yourself. Follow these directions careful ly. Take an aluminum kettle or sauce pan and clean thoroughly, scour it with a pad if you pre fer, then put a cup of water in the pan, add V4 teaspoon of bak ing soda, even less is alright. Place on burner and let it come to full rolling boil. Wait for the water to cool enough so you can taste it. Now go through the same procudure with a clean stainless steel sauce pan or kettle lollowing the same directions. Now taste the water from it after boiling. Any difference? Ask yourself the question, "in which would I rather cook my food?" This test should shed new light on eating for you and yours. Art Friesen 2690 Connell ave. Medford, Ore. Helpful Young Man To the Editor: When a young man high school age or not much older leaves his own ac tivities at half-past ten at night to change a tire for a woman he has never seen before, it deserves more than a casual "thank you." This happened to me last night in Medford. I am as helpless with a bumper jack as are many women. And in many years of driving it has never failed that some kindly person once it was a young woman comes to my rescue. Not one of these people has ever been willing to accept a cent for the service. I think that the fine, generous and thoughtful acts of our young people do not receive as much recognition as they deserve. This letter is written by way of saying "thank you" to the lad who changed my tire and indirectly to the many like him who are always ready to be helpful. (Miss) Frances Clink 659 Liberty st., Ashland, Ore. Voters Wronged To the Editor: Just one week ago the people of the United Stales were casting their votes for the people who they thought were more capable of filling the offices that they were running for. Three of the absentee ballots never reached their destination although the ones who did not get them were registered and voted in the primaries. One was a spastic paralysis case who has always voted from the time she became 21 years of age. when she was where she could get a ballot. The other was an 87-year-old grandmother, who should have not been out in the damp weath er such as it was on election day, although she walked to the polls !n the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS 1. Egypt asks Russia for IM MEDIATE dispatch of Soviet volunteers (which are Russian troops in disguise) to Egypt. 2. President Eisenhower says the United States will OPPOSE ( 'probably" through the UN) the introduction of any new military forces into the Middle East. These announcements came only minutes apart on the tele type. Presumably the President's statement . was prompted by Egypt's request for Russian troops. TTere is the probable way of Nasser's request: He apparently took a terrible beating in the brief fighting with Israel and believes that without Russia's military help HE is sunk. Like all cornered despots He moves to precipitate a war in the hope of saving his own skin. AT UNITED Nations in New York one high Western delegate says this morning of Egypt's move for Russian vol unteers: "This means war." At his press conference in Washington a few minutes later Ike expresses confidence that the Middle East crisis, as well as the one in Hungary, can be set tled through United Nations. The New York Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade are inclined to agree with the President. Trading in stocks picks up a trifle at the opening, with prices moving irregularly. Grains open steady to firm on the big board at Chicago. If owners of securities had be lieved war is inevitable, their inclination would have been to sell for war is bad for business. If grain traders had believed war is coming they would have been inclined to buy for war stimu lates demand for food. TAoes it mean war? " Let's put it this way: If Russia is ready for war or feels that war serves her pre sent purposes better than an un easy peace there will be war. "Que serat serat," as the French and one of our popular songs say. A BRIEF from Hungary: Russian troops are taking Hungarian rebel prisoners out of Hungary in sealed railway cars. These poor devils are pre sumably destined for slavery in Siberia. The Russian communists are going back a thousand years to and cast her vote to prove she was a good American citizen. The other lady is a bedfast patient due to a paralytic stroke, although her mind is as keen as ever. Are we, although we are ' so handicapped, supposed to give up our rights to act and vote as American citizens? The one who was supposed to see that ,we were to receive our ballots .was reported to have said it took too much of her time to see that we got our ballots and also pick them up." Are the human beings of to day too busy that they cannot give up a few minutes of their time, to prove that we have and always will have, according to our legislature, a say in our gov ernment? If not the country is sure turning more towards Com munism every day. This letter has no connection with the owners of the home where we are staying, but is be ing dictated and written by the ones who are so unjustly wrong ed. Miss Marjorie Devoel Mrs. Flora Devoel Mrs. Pauline Noel 12 South Orange st. Medford, Ore. Thanks From Liitrell To the Editor: I would like to express my sincere thanks to you and your staff for the loyal support extended me during the recent campaign and election. and to the citizens of Jackson county. I am truly grateful for the vote of confidence in returning me to the state legislature. I will continue to serve all of the people of Jackson County to the best of my ability. ' E. A. Littrell WITH m I 1358 fe Skid 111. Km? See or Call 7fU W. rtrh Offish, ' Election Means Mt?e Inflation, Ebb son Say BY ROGER W. BABSOH Babson Park, Mass. Now is the time to read the dangerous promises of all of last week's successful can didates. These promises make more inflation inevitable, due to the Employ ment Act of of 1946. This was a vicious act. Ray D. M li r -p h y. Botei bidimi c h a irman of the Board of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, has an ex cellent article in the Commercial and Financial Chronicle of Oct. 11 demanding that this Act be amended. I, however, cannot im agine President Eisenhower and the new Congress making such amendments until it is too late. Until then, those who now receive pensions, life insurance, social benefits for the aged, and social security can be severely, hurt. . Not only large investors will suffer. Already our own Government Bonds (the 21,i's) have declined from 106 to 91. The banks and insurance com panies need not suffer. They re ceive deposits and premiums in "phoney" money, but most banks and insurance companies are adopting automation to get on with fewer employees. Cer tain real estate and some com modities, such as natural re sources, may for a while benefit from inflation. But the gr.eat mass of honest people w.jll nlrim ately suffer and President Eisen hower will not prevent it. The Cost of Living Readers should be interested only in what -their wages, pen sions, social security, and bank deposits and insurance will buy. We should forget all about dol lars and think only of what can be purchased in terms of food, rent, clothing, education, enter lainment, etc. I definitely fore cast that the cost of living will gradually increase durtng the next four years of the Repub lican Administration. The promise of new highways, the time when captives in war automatically "became slaves that being the custom of the time. Editorial Comment " EXPERIENCE DOESN'T PAY One thing that seems as sure as life and death about the Re publican party is the inability of its leadership to learn some of the practicalities of grass rogts politics. Within hours of a sig nificant defeat at the hands of Oregon Democrats we find some of the leadership baok in the old game of telling the voters what they want without giving the powerful . electorate an op portunity to -.make up their own minds. GOP leaders apparently didn't realize that injection of Interior Secretary Douglas McKay into the Oregon Republican primary election was the starting event in a series which eventually found the GOP submerged with a majority of its office seekers at the November 6 general elec tion. Ail of this is brought to mind by a story out of Washington, D. C, on the view by top party leaders that First District Con gressman Walter Norblad has emerged from the 1956 election as the GOP strong man in Ore gon. The officials are already thinking of sending Norblad home to take over the governor ship from Governor Bob Holmes two years from now. Thought is being given too, they indicate, to his continuation on from that office into the Senate against Neuberger in I960. This is fine with us if it turns out to be the way party people and voters in Oregon want it. ! But, let them decide and not j make the mistake again of hav ing nominees and candidates dic tated out of the national com-1 mittee. If they don't there will ! continue 'to be revolt among the ! independent thinkers of the Ore- i gon Republican party and dom-: ination of our state and national I offices by Democrats. News-1 Register, McMinnville. ID KEY homes ites on the rogueo m n o Rogue Valley Land Co. p Q Medford Phone 3-3641 jit 5 3 slum clearance, and othertjvorthy projects will air-tost mare than expected. Wrien you p under a new stel bridge on one of these new highways, rememberothat from0 1946, when thP ESipltfjr- ment Act became law, to the present0 time, the wice of steel has just about doubled. Certain ly the $utomoble industry and most of the urease in all plant capacity depend oio steel, feeel and related industries employ 80 per Sent ofoour mass production workers. Interesting Statistics The expenditures which cf) depend on governme. money will rnntinu. hnt ynonrfitrM for products bought on install ments may suffer. Here are seme more figures to thinlg,over. Since 1939 the government debt hai increated from $40 billion fto $275 billion resulting' in an in crease in the money supply from $63 billion to $213 billion and private debt has risen from $125 billion to arour.d $530 billion. The great surprise to econo mists is that the cost of liviCJt has not gone up more during this period. The mainreason is the new inventions and installation of ne machinery reducing the need for hand labor, wentors not government or bank officials --deserve thanks that the cost of living is no higher than it is to day. Nevertheless, I forecast that automation, including electron ics .and nuclear power, will be come great industries. All read ers will be greatly interested in George R. Harrison's books, "What Man Be" and "Atoms In Action." What About Sjocks? The N Y. Stock Exchange for the first time in history is urg ing that savings be put into stocks now instead of into sav ings banks, life insurance, and other such standard investments. Only the future ran tell whether this advice is good. Fg) the past ten years the prices of stocks have been advancing, but how long will this continue? For every prison who now buys stocks other person, equally wise, must Ifc selling these me stocks. What would happen if all persons should decide now to sell instead of to buy? Finally, let me remind readers that the cost of plant, book value, 'and various other statistics do not determine the value of a stock or the price which you re ceive ifchen you want the cash. Ultimately, the price of a stock depends upon the earnings. In flation increases costs for cor porations as well as for individu als and governments. Eisenhow er's re-election cannot prevent dividends from being cut. Re duced dividents mean that the U. S. must increase taxes. ONLY 37 Shopping Days Til Christmas! CHRISTMAS LIST GETTING LONGER AND LONGER? FOR FUNDS TO COVER "ALL YOUg, CHRISTMAS NEEDS . . O SEE - I PACIFIC , INDUSTRIAL Dick Hans, ManagerO 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 3- m fa! 0o 1 O
