Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1957)
TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL-'TRIBUNE MIF0Rl)15h,TRIBUNE "Xveryon in Southern Oregon Read The Mail Tribune" Pubhhe1 Daily Except Saturday by MXDFORD PRINTING CO 27-23 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 aOEERT W RUHU Editor HJTRJB GREY AdTertisimi Manager GfcRAL-D LATHAM Buainesa Manaicer ERIC ALXfTN JR Manajrin Editor EARL H ADAMS Citr Editor HARRY CHJPMAN Teiearapb Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Societv Editor DALE ERIC K5 ON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claw matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 187 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moe 4.25 Sunday Only One rear $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Aihland Centra) Point Eajtle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roa-ue River. Talent and on motor routes: patly and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Deaierj 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Of fir ui Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Preaa Full Leased Wire MEMBER or AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPArTY INC Offices In New York ChJcaRo. de trott San Francisco. Lot Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITORIAL j ASSOCIATION lO" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Mediord and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribuns 10. 20, 30. 40 and 50 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1947 (Thursday) Dr. E. T. Hubbard,' Portland postmaster and state chairman for the infantile Paralysis March of Dimes campaign, is in Jack son county this week. From Arthur . Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A num ber of valley natives have de layed trips to the Southland, upon recipt of word, they can get as cold at home. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1937 (Saturday) Airplanes using the Medford airport in 1936 totaled 867 in addition to the United airliners maintaining six schedules daily. Work on Bear creek parkway started last week, according to Fred Scheffel, city superintend ent. SO YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1927 (Sunday) John Carkin, former Medford city attorney, will be speaker of the house m the Oregon legislature. Rogue river was higher in water flow this winter than in normal seasons, according to W. R. Coleman, state superin tendent of fish hatcheries. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 9. 1917 (Tuesday) Oregon State Poultry associa tion's annual show opens in Med ford today. County court appoints George Stacv of Beagle, road supervisor of district 12 to replace Lee Vincent. What's Your I.Q.7 Nine or ten correct Is superior: seT n or elsht Is excellent; five or tlx Is rood. 1. was New York's East River Bridge opened for travel before or after 1880? 2. Did Swift, Pope, or Ma cauley introduce the name "Ya hoo '? 3. What medicinal product is obtained from the bark of the chinchona tree? 4. Babylonia: Was king Jehoia- chin ever released from prison by Evilmerodach? 5. Is it permissible to award the Purnle Heart medal for frostbite? 6. Name the five senses. 7. What is the name for a pencil in which graphite is used for the writing material.' 8. Is Zaragoza in either Por tugal or Italy? 9. "If you knew John" is a converse statement of what? 10. Name the book in which Cervantes wrote "The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Answers: 1. After. (1883). 2. Swift, (in "Gulliver's Travels". 3. Quinine. 4. Yes. 5. Yes. 6. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch. 7. Lead pencil. 8. No, Spain. 9. "If John knew you, 10. "Don Quixote." RUSSIAN LUXURIES London (U.R) Radio Mos cow said today that television sets are a luxury in Russia be cause "there are not enough TV stations in the country." Other luxuries listed included automo biles, fine chinaware, works of art and Bokhara rugs. But radios. phonographs, cameras, sports goods, musical instruments and books "have become necessities, it said. No Panacea Following a series of brutal incidents involving teenage delinquents, largely in Portland but not limited to that city, pressure is building up for. an amendment to Oregon's compulsory school attend ance law. The thinking goes this way : The law was amended a few years ago raising from 16 to 18 the age until which students must at tend school, with few exceptions. This requires youngsters who are not interested in or not fitted for the higher levels of secondary education, to attend school against their wili. This group, a small minority, is bored, resentful, antagonistic and troublesome. They detract from orderly schooling for the major ity, and take out their resentments by acts of de linquency and trouble-making. If they were permitted to leave school at an earlier age, the schools would have one less problem, and the youngsters could get jobs and stay out of trouble. yHIS is all right as far as it goes. There is no question that there is a small group of students who cannot, or will not, benefit from schooling beyond a certain level, and keeping them in school does detract from the rights of others. But the casual assumption that they "could get jobs and stay out of trouble" is too casual, too .easy, and not necessarily correct. The numbei of jobs which unschoolable young sters can obtain and hold is strictly limited. This is partly because they lack the training and experience- and perhaps the stability to be desirable employees. It is also because of the barriers placed in their way by well-intentioned laws limiting "child labor" which in this type of situation have an adverse effect on society, rather than a healthy one as was intended. FOR these reasons, dropping these problem kids from school is an easy "solution" which really solves nothing. The kids are still at loose ends, re sentful, bored and usually idle,.. which is a danger ous condition for undisciplined youngsters who have no basic respect for others It might be a step m the right direction. But we can't avoid "the feeling that anything which tends to give young people even recalcitrant ones a better grounding in the skills of society should be continued as long The world needs literate, not achieve this by forcing young people to attend school for "an added two year's. But it's a cinch we won't achieve it by tossing-these same young people out into the "cold, cruel world," either, particularly if they cannot find jobs. NO, THE solution to juvenile hooliganism and irln1f Vi -m-1 T nro mVm -fi-iY V.nf mortal rncc Tint Ko avlUlb ALJJitCKlllJlllj 1U1 W icily UlWl-lVl uw-u nuu nv in any easy panacea, in any snap of the fingers by the legislature, in any trick plan. It lies only in the slow, ward a society where individuals recognize and ac cept their responsibilities to that society. This sounds like an impossible idea. And yet if each generation is only a little more aware of its role than the a child is bom its parents are a little more aware of their responsibility in raising that child with a decent respect for the rights of others; if each time a new class begins the teacher is need to inspire m his charges the ideals ct citizen ship, of responsibility; of the enduring values that make life good if these things happen, we can hope for gradual progress. But, humans being what they are, it will, we fear, be painfully slow. b.A. Who's "Elderly"? When one is 10 years achieved 20 summers appears to be an adult, a "grown-up, presumably At the age of 20, of changed, and one then prime, and anyone of 30 agred a view no longer And so it goes. One's estimate of when the prime of life is reached changes with age. "Life begins at 40" is a consoling thought to those near that mile stone; at 50 one has barely reached full maturity, those who are there believe. Sixty is the beginning of the mellow middle years to A GE is a relative thing as a youthful reporter on a Salem newspaper found out when he referred in print to a woman of 51 as "elderly." She called his editor and with vigor That word is another which come too easily to but which are only relatively correct at best, and downright insulting at worst. , Others of the genre which have always appalled us are senior citizen, which are nothing more synonyms for "elderly" or to be opprobrious. We were glad to find our opinion substantiated by a group of men and women in the over-60 age bracket, one of whom asked "Can you imagine call ing Winston Churchill or Herbert Hoover a 'senior citizen'?" TPHE point, as we see it, is that, to paraphrase the saying about beauty, "age is as age feels." We know some people who are old in their 30s, and others who are sprightly in outlook, vigorous in mind and youthful in appearance in their 70s and 80s, and woe betide him who permits chronological age to obscure the facts of resiliency and spontaneity. If a man admits to being "elderly," that's his own affair. But let us not assault the dignity of ma ture years with silly euphemisms. E.A. Wednesday, January 9, 1937 and for society. as is humanly possible. intelligent people. We may oh-so-slow,, progress to one before it; if each time a little more aware of the of age, a person who has on the verge of senility. course, that viewpoint has regards himself as in the or more years as middle held at dO. those in the 60s. denied it. one of those invidious labels the tongue and typewriter, golden ager and oldster than sloppily-sentimental "old", and we deem them King Sand's Arab Acceptance of 'Doctrine' By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The visit of King Saud of Sau di Arabia to the United States is likely to give the new Eisen FTi bower Doc- trine-a big boost. Saud, about ft maining abso lute monarch in the -world, is a member "of "the Arab League, o f- Chnei ic ann which .Presi dent Nasser of IJgypt -regards himself as the leader. He also has entered into a military alli ance with Egypt. But Saud has kept himself somewhat aloof from the adven tures of Nasser and he is firmly anti-Communist. . ' Saud also enjoys an income of about S200 million a year in royalties from the Arabian American Oil Co., which ex ploits the vast Saudi Arabian oil reserves. He lets the United States maintain, at Dhahran, one of the most important air bases in the Middle East. --" The first Arabian reaction to the Eisenhower Doctrine, under which the President proposes that the United States shall com bat any armed Communist ag gression in the Middle East, Quotes From the News By UNITED Memphis, Tenn. Capt. Elwyn 1A draft classification: "Physically Presley is an can go. v ,; -.- Cambridge, Mass. Hugh Gaiiskell, British' Labor party leader, believing Red China should be Security Council: "I believe the Chinese Communist government should be al lowed to lake its place because it there is more chance of the U.N. does. Hollywood Jerry Giseler, cizing police for trying to prove It is about time the police were proceeding with the mvestiga- tion of the kidnaping instead of Honolulu Plane Commander Calif., sending a frantic radio message that the stork was about to visit his airliner: "We're having a baby get a London Yemenite spokesmen predicting the Arab world would spring to their country's hostilities with Britain: "Yemen can make or break Western plans in Arabia." Alexandria, Va. Judge James N. Colasanio refusing to sup press a conviction of a Negro janitor accused of molesting two new ly arrived Hungarian refugee women: "The reason we have freedom In the Day's News By FRANK State Secretary Dulles goes before the house of representa tives foreign affairs committee to fill in details of President Eisenhower's new Middle East policy. Congressional Democrats and some Republicans have indicat ed they will have plenty of questions for him. GOP Congress man James Fulton of Pennsyl vania, for example, says he wants to know exactly how long the proposed stand-by authority will last and precisely where it will apply. VITITH no desire to be frivolous, " one might suggest that Con gressman Fulton might like to know PRECISELY what the weather will be at 8 p.m. next Christmas Eve and EXACTLY how many votes he will get the next time he runs for office. The point is that in situations as confused and "iffy" as the present struggle between com munism and the free world it isn't given to human beings to be able to look that far forward into the future with precision and exactness. About the best we can do is to guess as accurately as is humanly possible how Russia proposes to achieve her objective of destroying us and thus ex tending communism over the world. Our next step after that must be to figure out how "we will STOP her. That, it must be assumed, is what we are undertaking to do QECRETARY Dulles, explain- ing the new policy to the house foreign affairs committee, says it would be a disaster to the West to let' the "Middle East with its strategic location and its immense supplies of oil fall under Soviet domination. But. more than that, he adds, it would encourage the Kremlin to resort to force everywhere in the world. - That seems a reasonable state ment. TE MUST not, of course, go " all out for the Ike plan just because it's Ike's plan. That would be carrying partisanship MUCH too far. What the new plan amounts to is a new foreign policy for the United States. The purpose Visit May ranged from caution to open hostility. 1 J Imperialism Chief Fear The chief Arab fear -is that United States "imperialism" may move into the Middle East to take the place of the Britsh French "imperialism" which is being thrown off. Except in the case of Egypt, Arab comment on the Eisenhow er doctrine is now softening somewhat. King Saud has not committed himself to it. But his state visit to Washington on Jan. 30 cer tainly will give Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles the best possible oppor tunity of convincing him that there are no traps in their plan to make it harder for Russia to penetrate the Middle East. If Saud is sold on the plan, he will be able to exert a. great deal of influence in its favor among the leaders of other Arab countries. Saud actually is a much stron ger figure than Nasser. Nasser is noisy and spectacular, and has managed to make himself a nuis ance and a danger to peace. But he is bankrupting his country, already impoverished, in pursuit of his ambitions. Many Countries Hostile He ha earned himself the hos tility of many countries, and he has failed so far in his ambition PRESS Rowan on singer Elvis Presley's A-profile, and that's as high as you - ; -v - - ' admitted io the United Nations is the government of China and functioning effectively when it Marie McDonald's attorney, criti the actress' kidnap story a hoax: investigating Miss McDonald." Walker J. Lawion of Alamo, doctor quick." defense in the event of large-scale here is because we do not con- JENKINS of a foreign policy is to PRO TECT THE INTERESTS of the nation laying down the policy If it is to be adopted and backed up with all the resources we possess, including our lives and our property, it must be sound and wise. If it is to be SUCCESSFUL, it must be thoroughly understood by the people, whose lives and property are at stake. That can come about only through full and unhmted discussion. In this NECESSARY discus sion no punches should be pull ed and no politics should be played. MOVING over from the grave Ioes of human nature, I suppose you are aware of the hullabaloo over Princess Grace's and Prince Rainier's impending, baby. Reporters and camermen arid commentators are ganging up around the toy palace in the toy principality of Monaco. Presently, they are seeking gos sip. The big prize, when the baby arrives, will be the FIRST PICTURE. That will be a scoop of the first magnitude, and it is reported that sizeable bribes are being offered to palace re tainers all the way up from scullery maids to the first lord of the royal bedroom. Anyone who can hide a camera and sneak a shot of the infant seems to be eligible for backsheesh. gNOOPING? Inexcusable invasion of priv acy? Sure! But I'll risk a bet. I'll wager you're reading the stories, instead of skipping 'em. .That's why the reporter and the cam eraman and the gossip writers are converging on Monaco. D ISGUSTING? Let's not go that far. It's just ol" human nature. We hu man beings are built that way. Before losing faith in human nature, it's well to remember the ancient jingle: "There's so much good in the worst of us "And so much bad in the best of us "That it ill behooves any of us "To speak evil of the rest of us." Assist to make himself the leader of the Arab world. He may easily outsmart himself and be ousted by his present followers. . ' Saudj impressive 6 foot 6, hawk-nosed, fearless, sits secure ly on his throne as ruler of about 7 million Saudi Arabians and more than 900,000 square miles of territory. His oil revenues en able him to maintain a fabulous court. It ought not to be too hard for Eisenhower and Dulles to con vince King Saud that the United States aims solely at opposing aggressive Communism in the Middle East. There are indica tions that Saud does not approve the way in which Nasser is mortgaging his country to Rus sia. It is likely also that Saudis visit will result in a new agree ment covering the Dhahran air base. New Anti-Filibuster Affempt To Begin; Defeat Predicted By HERBERT FOSTER ' United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) A group of Northern senators seized on part of an advisory opinion by Vice President Richard M. Nix on today for a new and probably doomed attempt to curb filibust ers. At the same time the group proposed a dozen civil rights bills many past victims of filibusters or threats by South ern senators. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey CD- Minn.), said he would introduce a resolution this afternoon de claring that.Section 3 of Senate Rule 22 in unconstitutional. He said he would ask for an immed iate vote. Section 3 allows unlimited de bate on a motion for the Senate to consider any bill. Southern ers can use this device to talk civil rights measures to death before the bills are even formal ly before the Senate for a vote. Southerners Ready Southern Senators huddled Tuesday and were ready for the move. Under Senate rules, Hum phrey's call for an immediate vote could be countered by de bating it.v.ntil 11 a.m. (PST) when - his motion would auto matically "go to the Rules com mittee. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D Ga.), said, "I think we are ready for any contingency." - Humphrey said his resolution co-sponsored by Sens. Joseph S. Clark (D-Pa.), Paul H. Doug las (D-Ill.), and Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) would "focus atten tion on the unconstitutional as pects of Rule 22" in light of Nixon's advisory opinion last Friday that Section 3 is uncon stitutional. Nixon said the sec tion denied the majority of the Senate in a new Congress the right to adopt Senate rules. Elvis Presley Gets 1A Draft Listing Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) A pre induction physical report which will make singer Elvis Presley's draft classification 1A was mailed to his draft board today. Capt. Elwyn Rowan said the singer passed his pre-induction physical with ease and "quali fied for 1A." However, Rowan said it would probably be six months or more before Presley is called in serv ice, despite the top draft-eligible classification. Have You CLEARANCE DYKE'S Kefauver Again Loses Bid for Foreign Post By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) For the fourth time, Sen. Estes Kefau ver (D-Tenn.) has lost out to a senator with Jess seniority in his bid for a coveted seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee. Kefauver was passed up Tues day in favor of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) to fill the only current vacancy on the committee. Kennedy, Kefauver's unsuc cessful rival for the Democratic vice presidential nomination last year, has been in the Senate for four years, Kefauver for eight. Rule Cracking Up The time-honored seniority role for doling out committee assignments is cracking up among Senate Democrats. Thus, the Senate Democratic Steering committee voted 14-0 to give the foreign relations seat to Kennedy, despite Kefauver's senior claim, in making a new set of committee assignments. Republican senators, who en force the seniority rule much more strictly, expected to com plete their committee assign ments today. During the four years that Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas has been Democratic floor leader, the party leadership has been bending the seniority rule. Johnson has fought for a policy that every Democratic senator, even a freshman, should, have at least one "good" committee. Disappointed Kefauver, who had not waived his seniority, said he was dis appointed. "Of course, I do not blame Sen. Kennedy for trying to bet Nixon Observes 44fh Birth Date Washington - (U.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon celebrated his 44th birthday to day with a heavy day of work and his wife away from home. The family's traditional, but simple, home celebration won't be held until Thursday because Nixon's wife, Pat, was out of town for the day on a personal trip. But they will gather quiet ly then with their two daugh ters, Patricia, 10, and Julie, 8 for a, little get together at home, Nixon was born Jan. 9, 1913 at Yerba Linda, Calif. When he first was nominated, for vice- president in 1952, he was only 39 the youngest man ever put up by the GOP for the post. However, he is not the young est vice president in history That honor belongs to Democrat James C. Breckenridge, who served with President James Buchanan. Eight Hungarian Refugees Sent Back Washington (U.R) Th United States has sent eight Hungarian refugees back to Austria for giving false infor mation to immigration officials. The justice Department an nounced the action late Tuesday as Rep. Francis E. Walter (D- Pa.) charged that many Hun- gar, an refugees admitted to the United States did not receive the thorough screening which the law he helped write requires The refugees were the first to be returned to Austria since thousands began arriving by plane during the Christmas sea son. Checked OUR Prices In Our JANUARY Carpet! Linoleum! Tile! Terrific Buys! U Vacua: - -.."-s FLOORCOVERING 227 E. 6th Phone 2-5163 ter this position," he said, "but I am interested to learn that sen. iority is a rule that may or may not be applied by the Senate leadership in deciding the rights of senators." Kennedy would succeed form er Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) on the foreign relations group. The steering committee named 89 -year -old Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-RI) to succeed George as chairman of the com mittee. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial tor publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit aU letters with an eye to clarification and condensa tion letters submitted tor puoiica ion must not exceed 400 words The "Giving" Problem To the Editor: Sure is hard to know just what to do in these drives for money to help out in obviously worthy causes. We try to contrioute to every one. even though it's sometimes little more than the widow s mite. So, when one drive is ended and here is another with its plea for help, being a part of the com munity we feel that giving is an almost must, for such is our way of life, to help one another. But there is that "inner self," warning to be careful, that feel ing sorry for others is quite ail right but it's also important to think of one's self, that an ac cident around home or out on the now lethal highway with a doctor and hospital bill will make the little bank balance dis appear like the snow-flake in the dark river. So, we get aU mixed up when it became known that some of our contributions to "TB" were used in a controversial health issue that health authorities felt was all right but the majority of voters thought otherwise. Now, we're all mixed up again with information mat former Allied commander in Europe, Gen. Alfred M. Gruenth er, retired, has been found per manently '40 per cent' physically unfit, and so 40 per cent of his retirement pay of $11,487 per year goes tree of income tax. But, the Red Cross evidently considers him worthy of the $30,000 a year salary that goes with that high office. Maybe my thinking is all twisted up but it does seem that a man 40 per cent physically disabled could retire comfortable on $11,487. If he is unfit for army duty, how can he be con sidered fit for the involved duty of Red Cross work, that demands so much or does it? F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st. Medford, Ore. Eternal Reward GEO. N. TAYLOR "No man can come to Me ex cept God who sent Me draw him and I will raise him up the last d a y." Christ's word John 6:44. You pray for them and God draws them to Christ. There they see Him in death for their sins. Yes, pray God to draw your lost to Christ who died for their sins. Slip out in the evening and pray as you walk. Pray under your breath, if need be. But pray God to bring your lost to see Christ in death for their sins. Pray for the lost. So you earn eternal reward. This Message sponsored by a Scappoose family. adv. SALE?
