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ft FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. January 18, 1957 "IveryoM In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune Published Dally Except Saturday by MEDFOHD PRINTING CO "- North Fir St. Phop. 2-S14.1 ROBERT W RITOU Editor HERB GREY Adver-tnlnj Manager 9?S"-D LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLES JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Cirj Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OUVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, CircjlaUon Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act at Marcn 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year 115 00 Daily and bundaySix months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One year 14-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Cold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Dally and Sunday One montrj 130 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy m isina iaan m Advance Offlrlal Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OT AUDIT BUREAU uruKUJLAilOH WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle. Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C. NATIONA'. EDITORIAt. I assocFation "'MM Nf WSAEt PUBLISHERS J ASSOCIATION Flight 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 Jan. 18, 1947 (Saturday) Don Whalin is installed presi dent of Medford Active club. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Stockmen are busy throwing hay at their cows, which is what they cist it for last summer. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1937 (Monday) Ray F. Baker named succesosr to William S. Bolger, as manager of the local J. C. Penney store. Carl W. Norris is installed president of Medford 20-30 club. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 18. 1927 ITuesday) Starting next Thursday motor ists violating new parking rules and traffic ordinances will face arrest, police department announces. Dan Cale elected Big Erup tion, and Bob Deuel named Great Eruption at recent meet ing of Crater club. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 18, 1917 (Thuriday) s Eight farm loan associations of Jackson county elect T. E. Scanlon of Phoenix as president and C. A. Meyers of Medford, secretary. Dr. B. W. De Busk, University of Oregon, reporting on survey he is taking in Medford schools on retarded and overage pupils, says 23 per cent are overage and 8 per cent underage. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight la exceUent; five or six Is good. 1. At the outbreak of World War II did Gamelin or DeGaulle command the French forces? 2. Wisconsin was carved from which territory? 3. Give another title for the Biblical Book of Ecclesiastes. 4. Sir Galahad conducted a successful search for what? 5. The vessel or cup out of which Jesus drank at The Last Supper is known as The H--y G---1. 6. Copra is the venom extract ed from a snake; true or false? 7. Daniel Webster argued the famous Dartmouth College C-e. 8. Was Brunehild, of the Ger man enic "Nibelungen Lied, a male or female? 9. An amateur is one who cul tivates anything as a pastime. Is either a novice or a tyro an ama teur literally? 10. '"Germany must establish the basis of Aryan weltan- shauune." Hitler. What does "weltanshauung" mean? Answers: 1. Gamelin. 2. Illi nois. 3. The Preacher. 4. The Holy Grail. 5. Holy Grail. 6. False. From coeoanuts. 7. Case. 8. Female. Warrior-virgin. 9. No. 10. World rule. Visionary Picture? Picture this : Medford merchants are holding their annual "spring opening" showing of merchandise in connec tion with the Pear Blossom Festival in April. The parade has passed. Parking is not permitted on Main street between Front and Bartlett, nor on Central between Sixth and Eighth. For a period of several hours, these streets are blocked off and traffic is re-routed. The shoppers inspecting the spring finery are free to roam and wander as they please, across streets and intersections, with no traffic worries. May be there's a stieet dance. Maybe merchants have set up attractive displays in the middle of the street. THIS is fantastic, isn't it? But they're seriously suggesting that very thing for Eugene come their spring opening, with most of Willamette street (their main thoroughfare) closed off (although cross-streets would be operating). The suggestion was made by the head of the planning commission and the city's professional plan ning consultant. The idea is that even shoppers who would have to park some distance away would still be attracted by the parade and by the novelty of clear and unencumbered streets, and that both cus tomers and merchants would become enamored of the "earless" shopping sections which planners for see in the future. AXfELL, why not? Downtown areas are getting less and less inspired and less and less interesting, anyway, as traffic congestion continues to get worse. The huge j success of some shopping centers which put emphasis ! on pleasant walk-ways, surrounded by trees and i grass and fountains, with benches for the weary, and soft recorded music, has given some people the idea that the entire downtown area might well be treated as one great big shopping center itself which, m essence, it really is. And perhaps the visionary idea of a University of Oregon landscape architect, Fred Cuthbert, isn't so visionary after all. Long ago he suggested that mam streets be torn up and planted to grass and decorated with shubs, fountains and benches with out the eternal problem of waiting for signals and dodging cars. pHE Eugene Register Guard says: "As time goes on, we think, businessmen are getting over the idea that it helps them to have all the traffic in town passing their shops. They realize that few cars can park on a street like Willamette and that many drivers seek consciously to avoid driving on it. It's just too crowded, and parking is next to impossible. . . And people don't shop from moving automobiles." Let's see what happens in Eugene. E.A. Babies and Lumber Young people aged 20, 21 and 22 were born in 1937, 1936, and 1935, when the United States was just beginning to climb out of the Great Depression. They are the "depression babies," born when the American birth-rate was far lower than either before or after. They are, relatively, few in number, in com parison with those who were born earlier or later. To this far-off cause can be attributed, in large part, the fact that the lumber market, so vital to the prosperity of this area, is m the doldrums. INURING the late war years and the early postwar years, the lumber market boomed as the demand for lumber remained high and steady in the attempt to eaten up with the bunding which was not done dunng the war. There was a terrific backlog of de mand for new houses, for new business establish ments, and this demand for construction was directly reflected in the demand (and the price) for lumber, Wow, however, the backlog demand has mostly Deen sausiiea, ana Duiiamg activity nas aroppea down largely to the level of replacements, and the homes needed by the new families becoming estab lished. And the people who are establishing new homes are largely those who were born during the depres sion years and there aren't many of them. QED fewer homes are needed. Chou, Khrushchev, Macmillan, Nasser Figure in Week's News Chinese Red Premier Chou En-lai visited Poland and Hun gary, in Soviet Russia's behalf, trying to esta b 1 i s h a new united party line in the. Commu nist countries of eastern Eu rope. Reports came Eastern Eu rope that Ni- rnaries McCanu kita S. Khrush- chev, the Russian Communist leader, might soon take over the prime ministry. In that event it was suggested that Nik olai A. Bulganin, the present premier, would be made chair man of the presidium of the Soviet Union, or figurehead president of Russia. Harold Macmillan, Britain's new prime minister, completed his cabinet. He received a cor dial message of good will from President Eisenhower. Egyptian President Gamal Ab- del Nasser announced the "Egyp- tianization ' of all British and French banks and insurance companies in his country. His decree meant the virtual seizure of the companies. Chou En-lai Chou En-lai's mission to Po land and Hungary was a con fession of Russia s anxiety over the situation in satellite Eastern Europe. Chou was called urgent ly to Moscow for consultation. Chou then went first to War saw, then to Budapest, on what constiuted a "trouble-shooting mission. He spent five days in Warsaw, conferring with "independent" Polish Communist leader Wlady slaw Gomulka. It took him but one day to fix things up in Buda pest with Puppet Premier Janos Kadar. Chou succeeded in working out a formula under which Mos cow is supposed to remain the fountainhead of Communist doc trine. Tjbe most significant thing about Chou's mission, however, was a joint declaration which Woodburn, Clatsop Armory Funds Released Washington (U.PJ The Army today released funds for con struction of armories at Wood- burn and Camp Clatsop in Ore eon, according to Rep. Walter Nnrblad (R-Ore.) Federal expenditure will "be S92.000 at Woodburn and $25 000 at Camp Clatsop. Both units authorized 115 men, Norblad Raid. The government is paying 75 per cent of the total cost in each case, the lawmaKer iomq. TN ANOTHER few years, however, say by I960, A the new homemakers will be those born in the years 1938, 1939 and 1940, when the birth-rate in the U.S. started its swing upward. After them will come the "war babies," that surge of population that started in the early 1940s and which kept going up and up the same surge that has reached the public schools and created such a tremendous problem in accommodating them. So, from 1960 on into the future beyond, the demand for new homes (and for lumber to build them) will start an upward curve the end of which is not yet in sight. THE outline above is not, of course, the only reason for the lumber market slump. There are other economic factors too complicated for ready analysis and explanation. But it is the sinrie largest cause of the present depressed state of the lumber busi ness and in a few years it will be the largest single cause of another "boom" for lumber. There will, as a result, be another suree in the demand for stumpage, more pressure for higher rates of harvest, and the continued threat to our fu ture implicit in cutting more timber than we can grow. But, as the saying goes, "That's another story." ine point at the moment is that the present slump regieuaoie as it may be, cannot m the nature o: things last very much longer. E.A. By CHARLES M. MeCANN United Press Corrspondent The week's good and bad r.ewi on the international bal ance sheet: he and Gomulka issued. This declaration said that Communist countries were "independent and sovereign" nations. It thus up held Gomulka's freedom from Russian dictation. Khrushchev The reports that Krushchev might become premier implied that he retained the No. 1 posi tion in Russia's collective leader ship. If he took the post, Bul ganin would succeed Klementi Voroshilov, who at ,75 is ready for retirement. Sooner or later, former Premier Georgi M. Mal- enkov seemed likely to replace Khrushchev as Communist par ty chief. The first move toward restor ation of close Anglo-American relations was made promptly after Macmillan's assumption of the prime ministry. President Eisenhower sent him "warmest congratulations" and expressed "warm admiration" for him. Nasser Nasser's "Egyptianization" of British and French banks and insurance companies means that their stockholders and directors must by Egyptian citizens. Nas ser announced that other foreign banks and insurance companies will be "Egyptianized" in five years. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name end eddress ot 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 rot exceed 400 words. Best Place To Live Discussed by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON I Conn. Every state has one or l1L Roger W. Bab sun Editorial Comment REMEMBER G BY M IT'S BACK AGAIN It sounds like old times again around Washington. Guilt by association was well along toward joining such phras es as lend-lease, Marshall plan and five-per-center in that quiet land where outdated words go. But Joe McCarthy's back and he hasn't changed a whit. Perhaps he's even more efficient at prac ticing the art he invented, Mc- Carthyism. Here are some of the things he said at a press conference Monday: President Eisenhower is. sur rounded "by a motley crowd who are doing this country a great deal of damage." Of this group, Milton Eisenhower "tops the list." Milton came into gov ernment service "at the time that extreme radical left-wing group a number of them nam ed as communists were in there; he was as left as any of them since then." Asked to di vulge other members of the Pres ident's group he considers dan gerous, McCarthy said "Paul Hoffman, C. D. Jackson, Sher man Adams ... oh, I don't think I'll run down the entire list." That's just about the most compact job of guilt by associa tion McCarthy, the father of the technique, has ever produced. First, McCarthy uses the tried and true G by A opener. Milton was an assistant secretary in the Dept. of Agriculture when there were commies in the depart ment. Then, in case anyone missed the point, McCarthy says that Milton was as bad as any of them. That sets McCarthy up for the second movement in the refined G by A procedure, the sliding smear. He slides the small com mie label down over Hoffman and Jackson and Adams and on the backstroke splashes it over Ike himself. Anyone can con clude that if so surrounded, Ike is a dupe. Then Jolly Joe uses the old capper he used during the Army investigations. He says casually that ifs just too much trouble to run all the way through the list. The implication is that there is more to the list, and that it's ex- haustingly long. With no committee chairman ship to give him a stage for his one-man investigations, McCar thy has- to catch as catch can. And he has to use strong words to keep reporters listening. But being persona non grata with the administration gives him free dom in villifying its high brass He must still have a following. This sort of stuff attracts radi cals at both ends of the political spectrum. But we believe the followers decrease in inverse ratio to the strength of the words used. Albany Democrat-Herald. Babson Park, Mass. I am much interested in a Gallup Poll on six questions of where to live. I will not discuss the answers to three of these, namely which is the "Most Beauti ful State" or "which is the Healthiest" or "which is the best for a Winter or Summer Vacation." The answers to all these ques tions are most interesting. I, how ever, am not qualified to pass thereon. Of the six questions, Mr. Gal lup gives the ten first choices. Based upon the Law of Aver ages (ui which I have great faith), the following nine states appear in the answers to most of the six questions. These are California, Florida, Colorado Washington, Oregon, Texas, New York, Michigan, and New Mexi co or Arizona. Based upon my extensive travels and the opinions of thousands of friends, I honestly believe that every one of our ia states possesses to some ex tent all the six advantages men tioned in this poll. This means to me that every reader should continue to live in the state where he is now located. Look at the Record Statistics show that death rates and health conditions depend 90 per cent on the heritage and habits of us individuals and not upon where we live. The joy which we get from a vacation depends far more upon the peo ple we meet than the scenery we see. None of the things which we really want can be purchased with a railroad ticket! 1, however, should be an au thority on the best places to get a jod. II you mean now, the an swer is "probably Southern California or wherever airplane plants are located." But, when the fear of World War III is over, these same sections will suffer much unemployment. In fact, directly after a previous World War, 80 per cent of the bus and taxi drivers of Los An geles were said to be college graduates. Wages are higher when work is plentiful in some cities, but such work is likely to fluctuate more. Statistics indicate that the total yearly "take home" wages. adjusted according to living costs, are about the same in all 48 states. Again I say that in the long run a family does not better its total income by moving. One can get more comforts in Miami, Fla., than in Bismarck, N.D.: but I am sure the latter is a better place to bring up a family of children. Of course the future value of land varies with different states. Probably the best purchases for speculation are' in the West Coast States and the Southern States. In making purchases of homes, however, put more money into the land rather than into the house. Well-located land in any part of this wonderful country should continue to be come more valuable from year to year; but any house is becom ing less valuable each year un less money is constantly spent to keep it up to date. Three Recommendations To those who are determined to move, I suggest you consider for investment or employment a capital city of one of the 48 states. None of these 48 cities have ever defaulted on their municipal bonds. Owing to the large number employed by the various state departments, there is very little unemployment even during a depression. Due to pen sion systems which most states have adopted almost every family feels secure about its old age or the possibility of sickness. Most important of all is the fact that taxes can be collected from the entire state to support the capital city, whatever general business conditions may be elsewhere. Cities having State Universi ties are also to be chosen. These likewise are supported by taxes from all the state. They are rapidly growing. Your children get a college education at a low cost as well as a good "boy or girl friend." I also like cities which have non-fluctuating but constantly growing industries. The insurance business is a good Illustration. Business is always good in such cities as Hartford, more of such cities. However, your future depends upon you, rather than upon where you are located. Hence, my advice is to avoid being a "rolling stone"; but make good where you now are. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The big story in America to day concerns spending. President Eisenhower sends to the congress the biggest peace time budget in American his tory. It calls for expenditure by the government of the United States of 71 billion 800 million dollars in the 12 months of the year beginning on July 1, 1957. That is two billion nine hun dred million dollars more than was budgeted to be spent in the current fiscal year, which will end on the 30th day of this com ing June. CO much for spending. Let's take a look now at the amount of tax money expected to be taken in. The President anticipates that the government's income in this period will come to about 73 billion 600 million dollars. If all goes as planned that is to say, if the government spends no more than the President esti mates and takes in as- much as he estimates there will be a surplus of about one billion 800 million dollars. This surplus could be applied IF it materializes and IF it were decided to do so to the reduction of our rather stagger ing national debt. POOD? It's better, of course, than going further into the red. But it would be better still, everything onsidered, if we spent less and paid off more. U.S . Need Is Repentance To the Editor: The furor ovar the so-called Eisenhower policy for the Middle East reminds one more and more of the fable "of the Emperor's New Clothes. When one stops to analyze it, there is really nothing new or dynamic or dramatic about it in short, there's just nothing there. The United States is al ready committed by endless pacts, agreements, and alliances to defend virtually any nation attacked by the U.S.S.R., and to undertake to buy friends through economic aid is a bank rupt and hopeless idea. Notwithstanding our recent actions in the U.N. and else where regarding Suez, we are still indissolubly tied in with Britain and France in the minds of most Arab peoples, and justly or not, share the undying hatred they harbor for colonial pow ers. Their proverb, "Theenemy of my enemy is my friend" is very revealing, where their atti tude toward Russia is concerned We live in a new era of revo lution in which men of every race and creed seek to cast off the chains that, bind them and to establish once and for all the supreme dignity and worth of the human individual. This was the spirit which inspired our founding fathers, and were we able now to approach it with clean hands and pure hearts, we would be able to seize the lead ership from Russia and call all mankind to go forward with us to claim the promised land of peace and freedom. But the vic ious doctrine of racial super iority which has crept in, now has so far undermined the very foundations of our democratic structure that we are rendered incapable even of putting our own house in order, much less of leading the world. The spectacle of state govern ments once more defying fed eral authority as they did in pre- Civil War days, while Christian clergymen are imprisoned and their homes and churches dyna mited for the "crime" of seek ing by legal and non-violent means to secure and establish justice for their people, presents a sorry picture which even the most backward and illiterate na- I tions of the earth can interpret without difficulty. Our paramount need is not for a new policy but rather for acts of individual and collective repentance. Without them, doctrine for darker-skinned peo ples will ever achieve the ends we desire. Grace N. Pearson, Route 2, Box 50, Jacksonville, Ore. advice: "Hello, this is Mrs. Mc- Swat. The men of my family want corn beef and cabbage for dinner. What shaU I serve with to have a balanced meal? We have public stenographers. consulting engineers, bookkeep ing service, even people to ad- ise us how to decorate our homes, why not a service for our health? Think about it, you stu dents who are mulling over the choice of a career. Joan Benjamin, Gold Hill, Ore. TTOW much will this budget "--cost YOU, as an individual? Its average cost to every man, woman and child in the United States will be $416. It will be divided this way: Out of each tax dollar, 59 cents will go for national secur ity (armaments and military and economic aid to our allies.) Ten cents will go to pay interest on the national debt. The farm pro gram will take seven cents of each tax dollar. Another seven cents will go for veterans' bene fits. Two cents will go for pay ment on the national debt. The remaining 15 cents of the tax dollar will be spent for ALL OTHER federal programs. HOW do the people in Wash iiurtnn mpmhpM nf trip pnn- gress, members of the Presi dent's cabinet, etc.) feel about this biggest of all budgets in our peacetime history? Treasury Secretary Humph rey makes it clear to the report ers this morning that he would LIKE to see the budget smaller. He tells them: "If congress can find ways to CUT the budget, I would be very glad to see it." He adds: "Unless the government cuts expenditures and taxes within a period of time, we'll have a depression that will curl your hair." QUESTIONED by the news men, Republican Represen tative Gross of Iowa agreed with Secretary Humphrey that fail ure to cut spending and taxes will lead to a depression and then added: "Why wait until next year to start cutting? Why not do it now?" Democratic R e p r e sentative Thomas Abernethy of Missis sippi (tossing in a little touch of politics) says: "The Presi dent's budget is cold evidence that Eisenhower economy is a myth." THIS question in closing: When will congress start CUTTING spending?. This is the answer: "Whenever the people start VOTING THE SPENDERS OUT." Not UNTIL then. San Francisco U.R) The Securities and Exchange Com mission has charged that the J. Henry Helser and Co. invest ment counselling firm had failed to comply with a federal order in its dealings with some 6,000 clients. A Hot Tip From B. K. To the Editor: One of the lit tle-known mineralized regions in Jackson county is the Wagner butte area, especially at its higher elevations, although it has been known by former pros pectors for yielding both quartz nnrl nocket cold for nearly a century. One of the hazards is the short season that is free from snow in the summer months. In former years, old miners have ground sluiced on the slopes of Wagner ith eood results, using snow water available from the early spring run off. Some areas are as much as fix miles bv foot or trail from end of a dirt road, so consequenUy thorough iob of scientific pros pecting has lagged. Only the hardier old time mountain men have really spent any amount of time to scratch the surface of the - area yet. Adventure and reward awau. the prospector. j Bert Kissinger, 520 Boardman Medford, Ore. Lutherans Render Thanks To the Editor: We are indeed very grateful to you and your staff for the fine services you have rendered our newly estab lished congregation Ascension . Lutheran. We have passed the Christmas and the New Year's celebration and perhaps can get down to a normal way of life. We realize that without the fine coopera tion from your paper we would be quite helpless in our cam paign. As humans we, too, are rattier slow in recognizing the importance of a local paper such ' as yours in assisting the work of the Kingdom of God. We, too, deal with human beings and since we are in the same cate gory, the tendency to err is still the same. We desire to continue calling upon your assistance in the ad vertising of our church's pro-, gram in this community and, hope we may have the same cor dial spirit in 1957 as was shown so generously in 1956. On behalf of Miss Ruth Zach--er, our parish worker, and my self, we say thank you for every consideration. : Elvin S. Tollefson Pastor Ascension Lutheran i Church i Medford, Ore. How About Diet Problem? To the Editor: In Sunday's Potpourri Mrs. Starcher men tions that American home makers are reputed to have scant knowledge of good "nutri tion. The reason for this she has actually given a few lines earlier when describing the constant bombardment of contrary opin ion concerning proper eating. Under the circumstances how can the housewife be other than confused? Someday, perhaps, some enter prising college graduate in die tetics instead of accepting a con ventional position in hospital or school, will open up a private office where for a fee, a house wife can check her daily menu by telephone to ascertain if she is feeding her family correctly. It could even be part of the Pub lic Health service with house wives, restaurateurs, etc., buy ing memberships for. say, ten than 18.2 million since the last dollars a month for ten calls for official census in 1950. Population of U. 5. : Set at 169,419,000 : Washington (U.R) The' population of the United States reached 169,419,000 last Dec. 1. the Census Bureau estimated Thursday. . The preliminary figure, which included members of the armed forces serving overseas, was more than 2.8 million higher than at the same time last year. The bureau estimated the U.S. population has increased more Inglish-built Ford Dftfux Anglla Sedans-Convs. Station Wagons Vans 4 & 6 CYLINDERS ' os M 33 miles par gallon. AMAZING ECONOMY U.S. SHIFT AND nmNGrLZSSZ. OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE MAXIMUM SAFETY" -fat plckupr toady corntrlngi 10-M. ft trunk capacity. all MmI Inttgrtji Why wait? Immediate delivery! A FORD PRODUCT Sold and serviced through selected dealers oi FORD MOTOR CO., Dearborn, Michigan CRATER LAKE MOTORS MAIN AND FIR - MEDFORD
