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o FOUR MEDFORD (OREOON) MEDfORDTRIBUKE "Evvryona In Southern Oregon im Reidi Th Mail Tribune" PubUihed Daily Except Saturday by MTDFORD PRINTING CO 57-29 North Fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM. Bus mesa Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAX Teiegiph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OLIVE STAR CHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medidrd Oregon under Act x4 March 3, 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By MailIn Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Dally and Suntlay Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only One vear. 4-20. By Carrier In Advance Med ford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jaqfcsonvifle. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes. Dally and Survey One year $18.00 Daily and Sunday One month 140 C- Carrier and dealers 10c per copy AllTerma Cash in Advance 6ftVU." Paper or the City of Medforl Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MXMBE OF AUDIT BUREAU - OF CIRCULATION Advertlrfng; Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices In -New York Chicago. d trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL I ASSOCIATION vJ J NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 'ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mall Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 90 years ago. - I YEARS ASO Not. 22, 1946 (Friday) Annual Firemen's Ball will be held Thanksgiving night at Mer rick's ball roam with music fur nished by pddie Fitzpatrick and Ms orchestra. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A resident of the hill .regions towned yes. He reports lots of fine snow, and fears his coarse rheumatism will return. - 20 YEARS AGO Nor. 22. 1936 (Sunday) Annual Thanksgiving turkey shoot of Medford Gun club held at club's traps north of airport this morning., An exhibit of her oil paintings will be held this week by Mrs. Lottie Rogers at her home in Ashland. 30 YEARS AGO Sot. 22, 1928 (Monday) Medford committee of Tuber culosis association meets at home of Mrs. Lynn Smith, chairman, to,confec with Mrs. Alice Hollo way. Crater Lake chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ' celebrates seventh anniversary at luncheon in Hol land hotel. 40 YEARS AGO Sot. 22, 1916 (Wednesday) City council passes ordinance wquiring vehicles, whether mo tor vehicles or bHggies. to carry a white light in front and a red light Jb back. Republican County Chairman ert Anderson announces that campaign contributions totaled $1,009.26 and disbursements to talled $925.45 in .the county leav ing blance of $34.34. M TEARS AGO St. 22, 1906 (Thursday) J. A. Parker reelected presi Sant ef ttie .Commercial club $st night. The Ladies aid of the M. E. v church wfll hold a handkerchief '(! at tha Angle opera house to morrow. . - Hkal's lbs Answer? can xou uet. oi me it C99M. 1935 Editorial Enearcb Report 1. Secretary- oi State Dulles is older or younger than Pres. tosenhower; or the same age? j '2, Port Said is at the Mediter ranean o the Gulf of Suez end tt the Suei Canal. 3. Pres, Eisenhower's per cantager, of 'the 1956 vote 'for president ws or wasn't higher than that for any other Presi dent of this century? ." " 4- Total U. S. ecpnqmic and technical aid la Israel since 1948 has come to about $40, $140 or S400!BiUion or $1.4 or $4.0 bil lion? 8 s 5. A higher percentage of U.S. made' passenger cars' or tr-ucks Se,soid abroad, or is it about 50-O0? e6. Russia is .suppPsed to have a c very powerful, somewhat tk, or just abou,t averagr tjtrength submarine fleet? e7. Theoctote Reosefelt Mc Kojdin is Republican governor f Nw Hampshire, Maryland, Illinois, Wisconsin ,or Caliior nia? sTha aaswers: 1. 2Vi years old er. 2. Mediterranean sad. 3. Wasn't: Roosevelt's was Jnuch higher tn 1936. 4. About $400 million. 5. Much higher pei cantage of trucks .6. Very pow rl. 7. Maryland. j mail thibttne Warning to 5. P. Ever since the S.P. arbitrarily discontinued all passenger service between Eugene and Dunsmuir, Calif., the Mail Tribune has fought for its reinstate ment. During all that time the only newspaper coopera tion we received was from the Ashland Tidings and the Roseburg News-Review. But when the SP in its determination to become exclusively a freight line and thus increase its already large profits, decided to curtail its passen ger service south from Portland as well as Eugene, a different ox was gored and both the Portland Oregon ian and the Salem Statesman took up their 8 ounce cudgels against'-the reactionary policies represented by SP President Donald J. Russell and his associates. This support was welcome and heartening, par ticularly from the Oregonian, whose influence is state wide. In a well written editorial entitred "More Than Arithmetic," our leading metropolitan paper con cluded as follows, quote : "It is encouraging to find that Mr. Russell's views of the situation finds dissent within his own industry. Recently the president of the Northern Pacific Railway, Robert S. Mac farlane, said that for railroads to raise public doubts about whether they wish to continue to carry passengers "is bad for our business and bad for employe morale." The N.P., said he, hopes to retain and build up passenger business with such innovations as lightweight streamlined sleepers, luxury lounge cars and uniformed stewardesses. "It is my belief that with favorable schedules, up-to-date equipment and top notch . . . service . . . Northern Pacific will be an important factor in long haul passenger business for many years to come." His observations are encouraging to those who believe a passenger train stands for something more than a string of figures in a company ledger." That's good doctrine. It adds another transcontinental railroad to the list headed by the public-spirited and prosperous Sante Fe, which also scorns the SP's selfish and de featist attitude as far as the maintenance of adequate passenger service is concerned. BUT the best comment we have read on this entire vn iIi-ao r nnpean rrav iwrW arv frw orm a Trrm tiro Q contained in a communication by Charles F. Cunning ham of 445 SouthJEast 67th Ave., Portland to the Ore gonian commenting favorably on this editorial. It is so much to the point and expresses so clearly the basis of this paper's complaint regarding the Southern Pa cific that we print it in full as.f ollows : WARNING TO RAILS To the Editor: I thought your editorial "More Than Arithmetic," which disagreed with Southern Pacific Presi dent Donald R. Russell's notion that allegedly "unprofit able" passenger service should be curtailed (not to mention his frank prediction that railroad passenger service will have been abandoned 20 years hence) was very good. Mr. Russell's opinions are obviously based upon the com pletely false assumption that railroads are primarily private businesses. Since it is obvious that railroads are not primarily pri vate businesses but public utilities which were given their rights of way and further.subsidized by the federal govern ment, it follows that the people of the United States are en tiUed to receive certain services in return for their gifts to the railroads. For a railroad suddenly to pretend that it no longer has any obligation to the citizenry other than to maintain only those services upon which it can make a profit is ridiculdns because the railroads did not supply all their own capita in the first place but were substantially dependent uponjgovernment subsidy. In my opinion, Mr. Russell's opinions are not only dead wrong but, should he be successful in putting them into practice, will only tend to bring about complete government ownership of the railroads. After all, if the railroads are allowed to abandon the shipment of their least profitable commodity (passengers), it is only one short step back to allowing them to set their own rates and refusing to ship other less profitable commodities. , Few of us at this date remember that, once upon a time, both our highways and our postal service were operated privately. The reason they are no longer operated privately is that it simply didn't work. Thus far we have been able to operate our railroads with some semblance of public owner ship, but the minute we allow these public utilities to start curtailing service, to the American people we had better start casting about for some system of government owner ship. That's what happened on the highways and that's what will happen on the railroads if they don't continue to pro vide all services needed. CHARLES F. CUNNINGHAM 445 S. E. 67th avenue. MO one WANTS public ownership of railroads. But if the sort of leadership represented by the Southern Pacific should prevail in U.S. rail transpor tation as a whole and be carried to its logical con clusion, then private ownership would so fail to meet the legitimate transportation demands of the public that the demand for such a radical change would in all likelihood become overwhelming. The fact that the SP is practically alone in its re vival of the "public-be-damned" policy, however, that such powerful railroad executives as the heads of the Sante Fe and the Northern Pacific oppose it and favor the retention and improvement of passen ger transportation as a public service; added to an increased public demand for stronger controls over railroads both intra-state and national, renders any such outcome highly unlikely.' In other words enlightened self-interest promises to come to the rescue of the nations railroads, before any such selfish and reactionary policy as that held by the executive heads of the Southern Pacific can be generally adopted. R.W.R. California Election Record Catalogued Los Angeles (U.R) The personal papers of the late Ed ward A." Dickson, a record of California a.nd national election campaigns, are being catalogued at the University of California li brary -here. Dickson was once publisher of the Los Angeles Evening Ex press and. with Chijer RoweU, then editor of the SJM Francisco Chronicle, founded the Lmcoln- Roosevelt league that helped to I elect Hiram Johnson on a reform ticket in 1911. ' Thursday, November 22, 19SS A valuable portion of the col lection of newspaper clippings covering all phases of California and national election campaigns from 1893 to 1952. FIERY VISITOR Buffalo, N.Y. (U.R) Nine-year-old Gordon Rowe Jr., got a scare he'll never forget when a lightning bolt struck through the roof into his second floor bedroom, caromed off three walls and ignited the pillow, blanket and sheets on which he was sleeping. He wasn't hurt Today and By Walter WHERE ARE WE? The situation in Egypt is still in a state of crisis and there is as yet no present prospect of a settlement of t h e larger issues. The im mediate busi ness in hand it to get en ough of a truce to keep the conflicts at the canal and over Is rael from ex Waller LiDDtnans panding and exploding. Keep ing our fingers crossed, it looks as this is written on Monday, that the diplomatic action of the U.N., which is being conducted by Mr. Dag Hammarskjold, has made progress. For one thing the threat of open and large Soviet military intervention has, it would ap pear, passed. This has been fol lowed by another threat which is very serious indeed. It is that Egypt, with Russian prompting and backing, will think it good policy to let the reopening of the canal be delayed for a long time, long enough to bring about an oil shortage not only in Britain and in France but in the rest of Western Europe. If Col. Nasser can stand the squeeze on his own revenues from the loss of the canal tolls, he has in his hands a most powerful instrument for squeezing the whole Western world. There have been many signs, it seems to me, that this is in his mind. It is now reported that Col. Nasser has reached some kind of understanding with Mr. Ham marskjold about allowing the U.N. to participate in the clear ing of the canal. This Is very good news if it can be taken to mean that Egypt win cooperate actively in the enormous task of opening the canal. For without Egyptian cooperation, there is no NiOt t r Of FQCt Downgrading Tha Alliance Washington The human drama of the last event-crammed weeks has been greatly intens ified by the role played by President Eis enhower. The President, who used to be con tent in most cases to "let Foster handle it," has now become his own Secretary of State. Even before the unfortunate illness of Secretary DuUes, the President was already moving gradually in this direction. The Secretary's forced withdrawal from the scene then abruptly placed the entire responsibility in the President's hands. He has accepted it cheerfully and with alacrity. In this new role, Eisenhower has resolved differences of opin ion by personally dictating im portant cables at N a t i onal Security Coun cil m e e tings. He has sup plemented his normai diplo matic channels by p e r s o nal contacts " with foreign repre Stewart Alsop sentatives, as when he received the French Ambassador, Herve Alphand, as the White House, and when he talked at length by telephone with British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden at the time of the Suez cease-fire. He has read the riot act, too, when it seemed to him wise to set a new tone, as when he cured the first paroxysm of hysteria caused in Washington by the sud den Anglo-Franco-IsraeU move against Egypt, by sharply re minding his subordinates that we still had to remember who were our real friends and en emies. In sum, Dwight D. Eisen hower has been in day to day operating control of American diplomacy throughout this crisis period; and he seems likely to keep this close control even af ter Secretary Dulles' return to duty. THIS in itself is a criticaUy im portant development. In a rather curious way, moreover, it has already changed the whole painstaking, committee - ridden method of U.S. policy-making. The truth is that an almost dei fied aura now surrounds the re elected President. "Ours not to reason why," is very much the attitude nowadays, even among the most independent minded policy-makers. Thus the future meaning of the President's decisions does not seem to have been studied very closely. In effect, a new American course in the world has been three quarters charted, without any really painstaking inquiries as to where the new course may lead. To be sure, the new course is mainly a matter of emphasis, thus far. The Western Alliance has been de-emphasized, and a strong new emphasis has been placed on the United Nations, and especially on the United Na tions General Assembly. Mean i I . I Will Ull ff ?-"-v wi annual Lit 3 Tomorrow Lippmann telling how long the work would take. PRESUMABLY, there will be some British-French-Israeli withdrawals now that the U.N. police force is beginning to build up in Egypt. For the effective ness of the U.N. force does not depend pn its size. It is not an army meant to be able to fight a war. The power of the U.N. force lies not in its numbers or in its armaments but in its pre sence in Egypt. Just by being there, at the canal during the clearing of the wreckage, on the Egyptial-Israeli frontier until there is a treaty, the U.N. police men will be a visible guarantee that fighting will not be re sumed. As soon as the basic opera tion has been started the U.N. coming in and the British. French and Israelis going out Washington should take in hand the problem of the threatened oil shortage in Western Europe. This problem can be solved, though it wiU take effort and money, and no time should be lost in making it plain to the world that we mean to see that the problem is solved. This is something about which the Pres ident can speak in plain and un- muffled words. HE OUGHT not, it seems to me, to stop with an emergency program to deal with the shutt ing off of oil shipments through the canal and through some of the pipelines. This whole un happy affair has taught us that the Western nations are depend ent to an unnatural degree upon an area of the world where their enemies are stronger than their friends. There is no greater task for the Western nations than to draw up a program and to take the measures which will free them of this dependence. 1956, New York Herald Tribune Inc. By Joa and Stewart Alsop while the President himself has taken great pains to assure the British and French governments that he wishes to he?.l the recent breach in the Western Alliance, and to strengthen the Alliance by all means possible at the very earliest opportunity. None the less, the mere change in emphasis already made is a gigantic new departure. For the last eleven years, the United States has poured out untold billions of dollars, has shed much brave blood in Korea, has made every kind of painful effort aU over the world, for the sole pur pose of building up and safe guarding and invigorating the Western Alliance. In the past, when the United States had to choose between the U.N. and the Western Alliance, the deci sion was always in favor of the Alliance. VOW, however, the choices are being made just the other way. This was exemplified by the dusty answer given the Bri tish and French when they asked for rather modest American help with their grave oil problem. It was again exemplified, and even more dramatically, when the President also refused to inter vene in any way in U.N. Secre tary General Dag Hammar skjold's negotiations with Egyp tian President Nasser. By this latter decision "to support the United Nations" (the official phrase), another significant step was taken in the strange pro cess of transforming Egypt's smashing military defeat into a smashing political victory. This Egyptian political victory is being achieved, it must be re membered, at the expense of our two chief Western Allies, Bri tain and France, as well as the expense of Israel, whose survi val this country is morally bound to guarantee. We may also wish, and the President certainly wishes, to conserve the Western Alliance, but the question is not whether we wish to conserve the Alli ance. The question is, rather, whether we shall be able to con serve the AUiance, after the other principal Western Allies have begun to suffer the pre dictable consequences of their Middle Eastern defeat. Copyright 1956 New York Herald Tribune Inc. DEER PARADISE Madison, Wis. U.R) Bow and gun hunters have killed 180 deer in the past two years on little Rocky Island in Lake Superior, according to the Wisconsin Con servation Bulletin. The island covers only two square miles. So the average kill has been 45 deer per square mile ijer year. "And there are still deer left," the publication said. UNITY TRUTH CENTER Sunday Devotional Service and Sunday School for Children 1 1 a.m. Regular Center Activities: Thursday Midweek Service 7:30 p.m., Friday morning Study Class Class 11 a.m. All classes, activities and Sunday Services now held at th HOLLY BUILDING Katherine Bosworth, Leader In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS What's the world situation to day? It's touchy. The experts think the anti Stalinists in the Kremlin (Krus chev and Bulganin) are probably under severe attack by the pro Stalinists headed by tough old Molotov. The stakes in such a struggle are high because the big question to be decided is who will hold the reins of pow er and who will get shot against the wall. That's communism for you. fPHE showdown may come next week, when the central com mittee of the Russian commu nist party meets in Moscow. The central committee is the chief policy maker for the communist party which runs Russia, al though it numbers only about 10 per cent of the population. WOULD a shooting battle be tween Russian factions be good for us? It could be. But The gang in power might start a world war in the hope of STAYING IN POWER. That's the big danger. THIS much can be taken for A granted: On every U.S. base and every U.S. warship within reach of Moscow the pilots are alerted and their engines are warmed up. And their bomb bays are full of bombs. Grim? Well, we mustn't be caught napping. That would be fatal. LET'S turn to something pleas anter. In Oregon, sales of U.S. sav ings bonds ROSE 7 per cent in. October of this year over Octo ber of 1955. Total sales for the state in October of this year were $3,761,938 as compared with $3,515,035 in October 1955. Why is that good? The answer is simple. T'HE more money the people save up the more money will be available for loan to those who want to build new houses to live in and new factories to provide employment for our people. There is a lot of talk about "tight" money, and the politi cians would have us believe that all that is necessary to relieve the tightness of money and cre dit it to wave a wand. It -isn't quite that simple. Money is a commodity. When it is scarce when the demand for it exceeds the supply it is high-priced. And hard to get. When it is abundant, it is lower-priced and easier to get. Money is abundant when peo ple save more than they spend. It is tight and hard to get when people generally spend more than they save. That's the long and the short of it. TN THE state of Oregon as a - whole, the people increased their purchases of savings bonds in October of this year over Oc tober of last year. The increase, as already stated here, amounts to 7 per cent. In the five principal counties of Southern Oregon Douglas, Josephine, Jackson, Klamath and Lake savings bond sales in October fell behind sales in October last year by 9 per cent. But in Klamath and Lake coun ties they increased better than 14 per cent. The increase in Lake county amounted to 14.7 per cent and in Klamath county by 14.2 per cent. COLORED NUMBERS Sherman, Tex. U.R) Jerry Bell, a junior at Austin College here, has a system which he says enables him to remember telehone numbers by the hun dreds. The 20-year-old student associates each number with a color white for one, blue for two, etc. He says he knows every phone number in his home town, Gainsville, Tex., along with the numbers of every stu dent at the college. Like your doctor, we are at your service In time of need", 24 tour a day, seven days a week, Sundays and. Holidays included. O DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgras FUNERAL DIRECTORS Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of tfte 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. For Fair Deal To the Editor: You can include me in, all the way, with last week's M-T editorial on a fan deal for log-haulers. Several years of my life were given to the interests of that hard-work ing, long suffering, generous- hearted tribe, riding in their big diesel - powered logging trucks with them, eating with them in cook-shack or sharing lunch in the timber, sleeping with them; yes, and grieving with them for a still form on a waiting stretch er in some back-of-beyond col umned forest hall, far from where some kiddies will stare in wide-eyed wonder at a moth er who will weep for the loss of her protector, shelter and bread winner. Items in the daily paper tell of it in tragis regu larity. Yes, it is a chance business when men must fight great con centrated weight with the might of concentrated power in na ture's grim back-yard. For logs must be placed just so on the logging truck to load limits tnat the trip will pay but not too much or there will be loss and grief at the weighing scales. All this with the new steel reach replacing the old wood ones, extra safety binders and steel bunk-stakes in place of the old time "cheese-blocks" with the one chain holding the load on the bunk, the log-haul truck is well nigh the safest vehicles on our highways and a vital fac tor in our economy. If the average driver on our highways would observe any where near the same courtesy that log-haulers observe like swinging wide to let traffic by on long adverse grades etc., high-' way driving would be much safer and thereby more enjoy able. A high log load is a scary thing, coming up over a hill, especially to travelers from un timbered lands. So too are our river ferries that a few timorous ly creep onto, unmindful of the many cars and trucks that use them day in and day out. Ac cidents do occur on them and bridges that replace them, but they are all necessary to this booming far-west country. To those who care not to fight then way in and be a part of it, then fetire to the comparative safety of the quiet eddy, for it all de pends what one is used to. F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st Medford California Brush Fire Out of Control San Bernardino, Calif. (U.R) A 10,000-acre brush fire burned out of control on an eight-mile front east and north of here to day despite efforts of a small army of firefighters to stop the advancing flames. Forestry officials extended the time when they hope to control the blaze to Saturday when a wind shift fanned the partially controlled fire into new inten sity Wednesday. The gusty winds spread two fingers of fire into a single front and sent it roaring into an unin hibited area four miles from the mountain community of Running Springs. Rangers said there was no immediate danger to the re sort area. In four days, the blaze has caused the death of one fire fighter, inflicted severe burns on seven others and destroyed a powder plant, five homes and numerous other structures. JOKE Knoxville, Tenn. U.R) A Knoxville News-Sentinel head line read "U.S. Finding Way to Cut Fall-out," referring to the radioactive substance. It wasn't long before an unidentified tele phone caller asked the city desk: "Are we going to go from sum mer right into winter?" Day or Night ' To Hunters To the Edor: To the army of hunters that will go oi On a day or two to complete the slaughter of our few renftining q deer. Twff dues were repfcrgd seen in the Silver lake area. 1hS gam commissiarP sells $15.00 tags for that area. Go gettum boys. All aver arte state it e O same. Controlled areas, special O reas, hant them down. I you can't get them in the siAimer range go aff 'em ii, their win-0o ter range. The bucks are ot Oj edible now but who cares atout that. They make good targets. c Also, they are in the rut, not so shy. They stink to high heaven, but' one can cut off the horns if one does a quk job, and h&s a strong stomafh. The doesr carrying next, year's fawn crdp. That makes it more spoigting. Not all huhters cap kill two at every shot. It is iirie we all didOjia shooting. Fire barrage of pro test at the game commission that will jar then aloose from the present forn& of management or mismanagement. T w e not y years ago there were three sjeer to one iow. And vhre hunters O nrjw to one f 20 yrs ago. I still believe in the firJ grade rule if you hav threeap"prs and take away two, only one re mains. e o If this letter save the life0 of one poor rain down stinky bik, then I- will have been well paiicj for the effort. o G.H.B. Prospect, Ore. O O e Explanation Saves Day for Glad Driver Tulare, Calif. U.R)2-A O O HBh- way patrolman finally offeftd an explanation that saved the day when iVillian Glad, of Belle ville, 111., almost got into trouble O introducing himself. Glad Sound the front end of O his car aestlgd in the trunk of a vehicle driven by LouisoPgado, c of Los Angeles, when he cafte to a sudden stop at a signal light in Tipton, south of here. When he realized there wasn't much doubt as to who was at fault. Glad stepped over to Prado and said: O "How do you do? 1 Gd2" Prado replied angrily "You're glad? ftu mash in my nice car, and you're glad?" 0 . OKllY jbS Shopping TJayi Til Christmas! Ctf RISTMA5LF5Te GETTING' LOWBJ. AND UONGEH?" 8 1 FOR .FUNDS TO. COVER 'ALL YOUR CHRISTMAS . NEEDS SEE I amUM'sr none miift I PACIFIC 1 IHBUSTRIAtv DiaJc Hans, Manacfer o 16 S. Central Ph. -wo- o oO O OO o O O 0 Q Q ' 9 O Q G O o o G p O O O o O O
