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O o Ooo O o c CO o o o O O FOUR MIDFORD (OREGON) Cyyryor in Southern Oregon WadTb e Maii Tribune" Publljhed Daily Exceot Satucy by MDFOKD PRINTING CCT 27-21 North Fir St. Phone 2jgl4ia HFP.H CY Arlvertlilng Manager KP.ALD lTHAil Buainew Manager ALLEN JR Managing Ed J tor EARL H ADAMS C:v Editor HARRYQjHq'Ma lefcrarh Editor RICHARD JA'ETT Soorti -ltar OLIVE STARCHER Sod- Editor DALE ERICKbON. CirniUon Mi A Indpndrnt Nv'oaper Entered u vcor clam matter at Medford Orejfon under Act of s March 3. lHrl -SUBSCRIPTION RATES jBp Mall In Advance- Per Copy 10c. Dany and S-nrtay One year 15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dailv and Sunday Three moi 4.23 Sundavj-fnly One vear $4.20 By Candor In Advance Medford Ashiand Central Point Eagle Point,' Jacksonville Gold HiU Phoenix, Shad V Cove Rorue River. Talent and f-W mot'T route: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dailv and Sunday One month UO Carrier and Dealer lOc per copy AU Terma Ca . gjijn Advance Official Paper of the City of Medforf Paper of Jaekaon County L'nited Fu Leased'7 Wlr MEMBER Or AUDIT BURZAU OF CIRCULATION Advertliinir Repreaentatlve: Vi'EST-HOLIDA Y COMPANY tSC Office In New York COcago. de trott San Franriaro. Lo Aneelea Seattle Portia St (Louu AtJkOt Vnro.iver BC Hrr- NATIONAL EDITORIAL i ASSOCIATION njjjHHfl.'ir.m Vat! NESPPER ttlSHERS SOCIAT?ON Flight o Tims Medford anf Jak;n County History fromt)?e files of The Mail Tribune ft. 20, 30, 40 and 50 years ago. 2 n 10 fcEAKAGO Dec. 12. 1948jTeriday) First plar for annual ban quet of Jackjon County Lincoln club madet a rffeeting of com mittfg members. n From p A Wi u r QPerry's Ye EmudggPot ccHimn; Th Out or Girls are now hieing to tne high hillsoto ri, id com ing home igith the ands as red as if they hadQ washed the, supper dishes. 2,KARS AGO? Dec. 12. 1936 Saturday) U. 5, Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota entertained at breakft in the Medford hotel by Mayor George Wc Porter. City officials fnd representa tives ft Medford service clubs congratulate ge Medford Zonta club at charter dinner at Med ford hotel. o o SO YEARS AO Dec? 12. 1925 (Sunday) Yreka r-omes a'jfficial stoj on the air inaij rsute, adue to fogs-jin Bedford 'area. Q . A study r field work on forage toj, ft-oduction is rtemg conducted by the Orcg oEx- periment ttition in different parts of Oregon. 40 YEARS ACfO 0 Dec. 12. 1916 (Tuesday) Sou'rrP Orego representa tives to state legislature, en dorses L. JS. Bean of Eureme for speaker of the hise. Irrig.a'j rs an ardent ad vocate in V. V. Barnum, a wefl known orjhardi. whose place lies between Medrd and Phpe- 80 TARS AGO Dec. 12. 1906 Wednesday) Citv council meets in an ad journed 'Ssion last evening, all members being present exsept Councilmen Demmer and John- SerStor Teller of Colorado In troduces jesolution in U. S. sen ate to aamit New Mexico as a state, independent of Arizona. Whal's Ycur I.Q.? Nine or"n correct It superior: tev en or elcht ' excellent; Jive or six Is rood. 1. Was Boabdil (a corruption of Abdullah), first or last king of Granada? . 2. The nickname of Henry Clay P r? 3. Do most Arabians claim descent from Cain, Abel, or Seth? 4. Boabdil was permitted to reign by cgnsenting to hold Gra nada as a tributary to which co monarchs? 5. Do boas live chiefly on small mammals and birds? 6. Are the great Seria oil fields in Borneo, Singapore, or Syria? 7. Is the proton the basic con stituent of all atoms? 8. Were Ziess camera lenzes originally made in Switzerland or Germany? 9. '-Lucious" is a corruption of delicious. Are both 'licious and sJycyus contractions of delicious? 10. "Good drynk thereto lycy us and fine." Relig. Antiq. What does "lycyus" mean? Answers: 1. Last 2. "Peace maker." 3. Seth. 4. Ferdinand and Isabella 5. Yes. 6. Borneo. 7. Yes. 8. Germany. 9. Yes. 10. Delicious. MAIL TRIBUNE . Booming Economy o . Economists "are not infallible. Who is? But they are trained to make educated guesses a to the future, and more and more in recent years they have been proving that their research and their slide-rule conclusions are getting more accurate all th time. A majority of them are now convinced that, over the next couple of decades anyway, the nation will ciSntisue to' boom, and at an accelerated rate of growth. .They have differed only as to its extent and speed. TTHIS is not to say that there will be no downs as well as ups for there will be cyclic changes, and there will b- temporary and local dislocations. (There is evidence to show that Oregon western Oregon in particular is undergoing a sort of "mild depression" at the moment; with the lumber market at a postwar low.) But the economists see signs that in the medium long run the American -economy will grow at a fan tastic and accelerating pace (always barring, as they say, a major war, which would throw everybody's calculations out of kilter). With the economists in general agreement, busi ness is majving plans for what may turn out to be the greatest expansion in history. o TTHE telephone industry both the giant, nationwide Bell system, and the independents which operate a much larger share of the total number of telephones than is generally realized is one segment of the "economy which puts virtually no limit on its expan sion potential. Why is it so confident of the future? Well, for one thin?, the economists say that any 0 chance of-a major, 1930-type depression is just about gone, and for a number of reasons, chief among them the direct and indirect controls over the economy j now in the hands of the federal government, the de I pression-born attitude of government responsibility for economic welfare, and the improved know-how in handling economic policies. The expanded rate of growth of the population is another built-in factor stimulating the economy as a whole. A host of new technical developments is even now increasing productivity to new levels. Average take-home pay is up, and with it a demand for new products, and more of them in other words a higher standard of living. ALL of this is cumulative. " And the economists agree that before long the United Stales will be pouring out goods and services a a rate of $500 billion, compared to today's rate of sorne $400 billion. Early in 1955, President Eisenhower forecast this magic point would be reached in 1965. Other esti mates see even higher levels 10 years from now. A congressional committee predicted a rate of $535 bil lion by that year. Others range upward to a figure of 635 billion in 1965, which would result if the average growth of the last two years were projected forward. X7HAT floes all this add up to in human terms in terms that you and I and our wives can under stand?' For one thing it means jobs will be going begging particularly in the skilled and semi-skilled trades, ;J and in the professions until the labor force catches up with the demand. For another, it means that the average income of Mr: and Mrs. America will increase. It probably also means a more frenzied pace, a stiffer level of competition in business, and a higher premium on 'executive ability. Conceivably, it could also lead to an easier, more relaxed life in the non-business world ; a higher level of education, and a growth m intellectual, moral and spiritual skills and values. If this is true, perhaps the benefits will outweigh the rather obvious drawbacks implicit in this picture. We hope so. E.A. Shastonians It would be interesting to know, really and truly, whether or not the sponsors of the "State of Shasta" are dead-serious in their efforts to carve a 49th state out of northern California. Our hunch is that they ARE dead-serious in their objectives but that their objectives are less the crea tion of a new state of the union than a new state of mind throughout the rest of California. '"THE movement is not new, as Frank Jenkins pointed out in his column yesterday, when he reported the "State of Shasta" idea is about 100 years old. And just 15 years ago there was agitation for the formation of a "State of Jefferson," including several southern Oregon counties as well. All of these have been reflections of economic needs, not political ones. The current movement may be the result of action by the California legislature designed to bring northern California water to south ern California, although the sage Charles Sprague of the Statesman thinks it may be a movement to drama tize the need for roads in the big, lightly-populated eight-county area. do not predict any success in the formation of " a State of Shasta. (Look at the trouble Alaska and Hawaii have had with far better cases for state hood than the Shastonians.) But it is a pleasant divertissement to watch the gyrations of the pro-new-state publicists and their co horts. And it is a mighty relief from much of the doom and gloom rews of the world In recent months. E.A. Wednesday. December 12, 1936 Nehru May Seek Improvement in U.S.-Red China Relationships By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru is about to make a strong attempt to improve relations be- "aT" tween the Unit ed States and Com munist China. Nehru, In dia's "neutral ist" leader, is to arrive in Was h ing ton Sunday on a long-scheduled Charles Mr nn visit. His program is still incom plete. But it is expected that he will go to Gettysburg for at least two days of informal, inti mate conferences with President Eisenhower. There may be talks in Washington too. Nehru has just played host to his good friend Premier Chou En-lai of Red China. It is known that the future of United States-Red Chinese rela tions played a big part in the numerous conversations Nehru and Chou held. Feels Cooperation Needed Dispatches from India leave no doubt that, on the basis of these talks. Nehru will try to sell President Eisenhower the idea that he ought to seek an agree ment with the Peiping govern ment. v It has already been arranged that Chou shall go back to India as soon as Nehru returns home, to get a first-hand report of Neh ru's talks with the President. Nehru feels strongly that co operation between the United States and Communist China would benefit both countries and would remove any threat of war in the Far East. Nehru would like to see the United States recognize the Red Chinese government. He also feels the admission of Red China the world's biggest country in point of population to the United Nations is essential. The United States, like-many other free countries, never has Conqressional Quiz fCopyrleht, 195S Congressional Quarterly) Q Recently all 10 members of the President's Cabinet sub mitted letters of resignation. Was it because: (a) they opposed his Middle East policy; (b) they were dissatisfied with their sal aries; (c) they were making a traditional gesture of courtesy; (d) they wanted him to appoint younger men? A (e). Throughout the his tory of the United Stales, it has been customary for Cabi net members to offer their resignations to the President who appointed them at the be- ' ginning of his second term. Q Of the 10 original mem bers of Mr. Eisenhower's Cabi net, only three have been re placed. Can you identify them? A Secretary of Labor Mar tin Durkin resigned in Sep tember, 1953, and was re placed by James P. Mitchell; Mrs. Oveia Culp Hobby, first Secretary of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, resigned In July, 1955, and was replaced by Marion B. Folsom: Secre tary of Interior Douglas Mc Kay resigned in March, 1955, and was replaced by Fred A. Seaion. Q Three men who currently sit in the Cabinet once sat in the United States Senate. Can you name them? A Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks served in the Senate briefly in 1944. and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles did so in 1949. Secre tary of Interior Fred A. Sea ton was a Senator In 1951-52. Q True or false: Oveta Culp Hobby was the first woman to serve in the Cabinet. A False. Mrs. Hobby was the second woman to do so. The first was Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secre tary of Labor. Q What office did Postmast er General Arthur E. Summer field hold before he went into the Cabinet? - A He was Republican Na tional Chairman during the 1952 political campaign. The national party chairman in re cent years generally has turned up as Postmaster Gen eral in the Cabinet of a Presi dent whom he helped to elect. Other Presidents, besides Mr. Eisenhower, to follow this practice were Harding, Hoov er, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Truman. Q P resident Eisenhower broke a long-standing tradition at his first inauguration. Did it concern: (a) his dress; (b) the site; (c) the day? A (a). Mr. Eisenhower re jected the high silk hat which had been standard in augural head covering since 1853 and wore a homburg instead. He also chose a short morning coal instead of the standard cutaway. r recognized the Red Government which conquered China in 1949. Technical State of War In fact, the United States and Red China are in a technical state of war because the Korean ar mistice has never been followed by a formal peace treaty. The United States also is the chief sponsor of a tight Allied embargo against- the sale of strategic goods to Red China. The sole diplomatic contact between the two countries ha3 been maintained in Geneva, Switzerland. In Geneva, the Low-Income Tax Form Simpler This Year; Revenuers Preparina By ROBERT E. MORISON United Press Correspondent Washington U.R) If you made less than $5,000 this year and had less than $100 in out side income, stop making extra worry for yourself. Pay your taxes the simple, easy way. Use form 1040A, the punch card which a bureaucrat can riffle through a machine in stead of shuffling by hand. The Internal Revenue Service reported with consternation to day that some six million per sons went to all the trouble last year of filing regular tax form 1040 when they could have done the job with the simpler punch card. That made more work for both sender and receiver. To make sure this doesn't hap pen again, the tax agents are sending punch cards to this low er income group this year. Of course, some individuals who get them may find that their deductions total more than 10 per cent, the maximum al lowed by the automatic punch card. In that case the revenue service advises using form 1040. The tax collectors, however, figure this won't apply to many people in the below $5,000 bracket. Double Dose Mailings of the tax forms be gin about the end of this month You'll be getting yours about the same time the Christmas bills start coming in. Each form will be accompanied by a do it yourself booklet or sheet. In The Day's In Sweden's capital city of Stockholm this morning brass fanfares sounded out solemnly to mark the award of 1956 Nobel prizes to eight scientists and a poet. More than 2,000 persons, In cluding the king and queen of Sweden and members of the royal family, witnessed the event. A breathless hush fell over the audience assembled in the great hall of the Stockholm Concert House when the winners entered by a side door. It was an impressive occasion. VyHO were the winners? ' Of the eight scientists, FIVE were Americans. One was a German. One was a Russian. One was a Briton. WE'RE hearing a lot of talk "to the effect that the United States is losing out in the scien tific race with Russia. The 1956 Nobel science awards don't bear out that contention. What are the Nobel awards? There are five of them in five different fields: 1. For the most important dis covery or invention in the field of physics. 2. For the most important dis covery in chemistry. 3. For the most important dis covery in physiology or medi cine. . 4. For the most distinguished literary work of an idealistic na ture. 5. For the most effective work in the interest of international peace. WHO was Nobel? ' He was a Swedish engi neer, the son of an inventor. He was the inventor of dynamite. His first discovery was a nitro glycerin explosive which, near ly a century ago, terrified the world almost as much as the atomic bomb in our time. So he went to work to make a safe and USEFUL explosive. Dynamite was the result. While his discovery was in the nitro glycerin stage, Nobel was re garded with horror as almost a public enemy. His discovery made him rich, and in his will he set up a fund of S9. 000,000 to be used to award the Nobel prizes annually. All his later life, he suffered from a feeling of guilt at having created a substance which caused so much death and injury in the world. The Nobel prizes rep resented an effort at atonement on his part. IN the later part of his life, he worked on synthetic rubber, artificial silk and many other similar products. He was also fond of literature, and wrote several novels and plays, none United States ambassador to Czechoslovakia and the .Red Chinese ambassador to Poland have been meeting about once every two weeks since Aug. 1, 1955. These meetings concern the release of American prisoners still held up by the Chinese Com munists. The talks have resulted in no progresss for many months. Discussion of "related matters" is on the program for the Geneva meetings. But the United States wants the prisoners freed before it talks about anything . About 18-million wage earn ers will get the 1040A punch cards, six million more than a year ago. Some 27,251,000 will get the longer 1040 forms. About 3.6 million forms will go to those who must file an estimate of in come and pay their tax quarter ly. Another 6.7 million packages will go to businessmen who gel extra forms for such items as capital gains. And another 18 million tax form packages will go to farmers. A Few Extras In addition to mailings to these five groups, the Government Printing office is grinding out an extra 42 million 1040As and 105 million 1040s for distribu-. tion at the 900 Internal Revenue offices. These are for persons who need more than the two they receive or are not on the Internal Revenue mailing list. The so-called "tailored mail ing" originates from Internal Revenue's two big processing centers at Kansas City, Mo., and Lawrence, Mass. The 1956 forms . will have somewhat larger type for easier reading. And there is one change on the form 1040A. The taxpay ers using the punch card may compute his tax and send along a payment on anything he may owe above his withholding tax instead of just filling out the form and waiting for a biU. However, the taxpayer using this form may, if he chooses, let Internal Revenue figure his de ficiency or refund, just as he has in the past. News by Frank j.nkim of which were highly successful or popular. They account, however, for his award for the most dis tinguished work of an idealistic nature, which was won this year by Spanish-born poet Juan Ra mon Jiminez. (Don't pronounce it JIM-i-nez. Nobody likes to have his name pronounced wrong. The correct pronuncia tion is He-MAY-nes.) TN this modern world, we don't pay too much ' attention to poets. There was a time, how ever, when poetry represented almost 100 per cent of all litera ture. That was back in the centuries when almost no one could read, and the literature of the day was provided by the minstrels and the jongleurs who recited their poems to assembled listen ers. The French, who have a great literature, wrote almost no prose until about the closing decades of the 17th century. Back in those days, people wanted rhythm with their literature. Polio Kills Boy After Vaccine Shots Seattle (U.PJ The Health Department Tuesday reported the death of a 15-year-old boy from poliomyelitis and said he might be the first in the nation to die of the disease after re ceiving three doses of Salk vac cine. James Thompson, Mount Ver non, Wash., died Nov. 29 of bul bar polio at a Bellingham hos pital. He had received three shots of the vaccine, the final one in August. Dr. Lucien Coquet, Skagit County health officer, said the boy apparently was one of the comparatively few persons who do not respond to immunization. "It never was claimed that Salk vaccine is 100 per cent ef fective in providing immuniza tion," said Coquet. Exams Announced for Substitute Clerk The civil service commission has announced examinations for substitute clerk for the Phoenix post office. Applicants must reside within the delivery area of the Phoenix post office or be bona fide pa trons or employees of the Phoe nix post office. Additional information and ap plication forms can be obtained from any post office. It is estimated that 3,500.000 persons left American farms to dwell in cities in the period 1940 to 1950. Problem of Seen Major 1957 in Washington Washington (CQ) Ma tion and what to da about it js certain to provoke major debate on Capitol Hill in 1957 as the nation's boom .keeps rolling along. o With the cost-of-living index at a new high of 117.7 up 3 per cent since February after thee years of relative stability and with credit increasingly tight, the perennial tight-vs.-easy mon ey dispute is expected to flare again even before the 85th Con gres convenes in January. On Dec. 10, Rep. Wright Pat man (D.-Tex.) is scheduled to open a two-ctay hearing on mon etary policy before the Econom ic Stabilization subcommittee of the Joint Economic committee. Lead-off witnes "will be Elliott Bel editor of Business Week, wbo proposed recently that Con gress create a National Econom ic council to coordinate? mone tary and fiscal policies of the in dependent Federal Reserve sy tem with those of the Treasury. View Squeeze o Patman and other members of Congress contend yiat the six successiva boosts in tfie Tederal Reserve discount rale since April, 1955, hae helped to squeeze small businessmen out of the money market bV raising the cost of borrowing. Defenders of Reserve policy say thai the strong demand for funds from an" economy running et cajuicit,' rather than high interest rates. accounts for the tightenigg of credit all along the line. As for the doubling of the discount rte from iy2 per cent to 3 per cen in 16 months, they say it vas essential to keep pace with mounting inflationary pres sures. Both the Administration and Congress are certain to call for steps to ease the credit squeeze on small business. Shortage of mortgage funds fflj home builfi ers prompted action to spur the flow of credit by raising interest ceilings on FHA insured mort gages. But the administration's overall concern stiU rests wifh the forces of inflation. Biggest Problem ' c According to the new chair man of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, ur. rtaymonct j..sauliier, "how to avoid the upward movement of prices" will be our bisgest problem for several years. Saafc nier's appointment has increased speculation that the administra tion may ask Congres for atand? by authority to impose consumer credit controls. He helped0to ad minister the Federal Reserve's regulation W, covering the terms of installment buying, during the Korean war. 0 Last January the President asked 'Congress to "study theo problem" but the legislates de cided to await the -results of a study by the Board of overttops of the Federal Reserve systenV. That study is nearingjompletion and may decide whether the ad ministration asks Corrgress to re new the authority which expi?e& 111 liftli.. a Ironically, the .case for install ment buying controls was stronger last January, whn a study was suggested, than ft Is likely to be next month, wfien the President's Economic report may argue for a grant of stand by authority. From January, 1955, to Jaftu-'l ary, lsse, total consumer cjedit outstanding jumped by $6.2 bili lion or 20 per cent! The increase. in installment credjt alone was $5.4 billion, of which $3.6 .bil lion was in automobile paper--a rise of 36 per cent in one year. Meanwhile, dispqsable personal income was rising by only about 6 per cent. iitia ONLY 70 Shopping Days Til Christmas! WOW! More Christmas Bills? Don't Worry! Make Your Christmas Merry with CASH from onaai or none rmma PACIFIC 'A INDUSTRIAL Dick Hans, Manager 16 S. Central Ph. 3-5308 Inflation Issue in This sumer year, by contrast, con credit outstanding (ad increSsed by only $2.2 billion through September, wgh autos counting freabout )lf of Tne rise. Although totaamount f credit outst.idin had passed the $40 billion mark, thesrate of increase had sloed perceptibly trogi the hectic S6)0 Tnillion-a-monfh pacg of 195. Saulnier has pointed out iat irfbst of the instailrr&nt debt in curred by consumers during the 1955 buying eush will be paid g off next year, pgssily provok ing anotler credit - financed spiurge that would add speed to the wage-price spiral. In such an event, tlj aministgajjon's bat tle to hold the line might be aided b ai'ority to set mini mum down payments and max imum time tergis on insta;Jlment purchases. 0 Congress, ever reluctant to grant the Executive branch ad ditional control powers, is not ikely to get verg exftted about stsaidb authority unless tne ad ministration makes an all-out eia ford to ifcrsuade the0legislatrrs its necess.gAn such an ef fortwould meet defermined re- slstance from many0 business spgkfismc who agree wfth WiP liam J. Cheyney, Executive, vice prsident of $Vie National Founr dation forQ Conftimer Credit? Say$ gheyney, in Nation's Busi ness: Q O "The very existence of stands Sy Jegislatio is a deterrent to production o . . No one would feel qiite free toinvest huge sins of mftiey in making fin ished products only to have those products bilked up in in ventory, witS'Vio purclser, by a sudie$ aftDliotir- of federal control." Q Copyright 1956, Congrtysional Quarterly) o OSfAChapJef Holds Christmas Dinner About 75 members, farrSiei and friends of the Iedford chap ter, Oregoe Sc8ol Employees association, attended the annual Christinas dinner respntly in the caf etefia Oof McLoughlin JuniWr High School. Guccis included Elliott Beck en, assistant frhool superiniid ent; Mrs. cVirgin0 Wait, ca teria superior; and personnels of trie ci school cafeterias. . Christmas sonfj; were present ed by eighth and ninth cgrade girls under tlft aectior? of Rargpton BarlMv, of QHedrick Junior High seffool. o o V Pf rtabls built & t b ccfrried, .made to depend on... wherever fun fakes yovl o O Man-sized picture So light that v.n a slip of a girl on corry. Th Holiday UP wtighs only 2 lbs, has a 14" picture .tub., diagonal mtasurtmsnt. It's a magnifiont Magnavox specially built to cosr i"' " ,abi mod.l with a hondl.. Wid grok f duc-tajo? d.corotor colors. 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