Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 25, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MDFOWVTRIBUKE "Xveryon tn Southern Oregon RcacU The Mali Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 NortbJTir St Phon 2-ll ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC a i -i .FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS Cltv Editor HARRY CHIP MAN, Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa Mcond claim matter at Medford Oregon under Act erf March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Id Advance Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only One rear 4-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Centra) Point EaKle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River - Talent and oa motor routes . Dally end Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday One month Carrier and Dealer 10c per cop? All Term Cash In Advance TflrUl Paper of th "city of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United jrea--Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY tNC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N A T I O N A ' EDITORIAL J f I I a sTo ca T f N T lazranracn NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the file of The Mail Tribune 10. 20, 30. 40 and SO years ago. 10 YEARS AGO Jan. 25. 1947 (Saturday) Service station- at Riverside ave. and Jackson St., formerly operated by Wyatt Drennan Jr., Is taken over by Cecil and Z. A. Griffin. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: F. (Hoot Man!) Faijweather and G. Port er headed south the past week, and expect to run into a num ber of localites, while away. 20 YEARS AGO Jan. 25. 1937 (Monday) Rural meetings on home sani tation and water systems will be continued this week, according to Mabel C. Mack, county home demonstration agent. History of Kiwanis Interna tional sketched by Otto Frohn mayer at club luncheon. 30 YEARS AGO Jan. 25, 1927 (Tuesday) Friends of public health urged to write to members of ways and means committee of state legislature asking it not to cut off welfare funds. Health officer Pickel says there is still smallpox in the county, although It has been kept at a minimum in the city. 40 YEARS AGO Jan. 25. 1917 (Thursday) First shipment of copper ore from Blue Ledge mine transport ed to smelter at Tacoma. State Biologist William L. Finley shows motion pictures of wild live at Page theater. Whal's Your I.Q.7 Nltw or ten correct Is iDpertor; -en or eight It ezceUent; (In tlx Is food. . 1. In 1774 did the Creek and Cherokee Indians cede land (Georgia) to the King ol Great Britain or Oglethorpe? 2. What is another name for the backbone of vertebrate ani mals? . 3. What Book begins: "The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by M i"? 4. Do oak trees bear fruit? 5. Are the "Plains of Abra ham" on the Asian, European, or American continent? 6. Was it King Charles who knighted the famous pirate Sir Henrv Morgan? 7. What is NLRB? 8. Who was the hero of Cole ridge's "Ancient Mariner"? 9. In formal speech is it prop er to say "a little ways off'? 10. "Since then, at an uncer tain hour, the agony returns, driving him to like the Wander ing Jew." Coledrige. Driving "who" on? Answers: 1. King of Great Britain. 2. Spine. 3. Malachi. 4. Yas. Acorns. 5. American conti nent (Quebec. Canada). S. Yes. ?. National Labor Relations Board. 8. The Ancient Mariner. 8. No "Ways" is colloquiaL 10. The Ancient Mariner. Klamath To Crack Down On Over-Age Juveniles Klamath Falls 4U.R) District Attorney Richard Beesley said today he would crack down on what he called "over-age juve nile delinquents" as a result of an incident at a Klamath Falls drivein restaurant Wednesday night. City police arrested two youths in connection with the beating of Donald Bethell, a 19-year-old atudent. Officers said two others were wanted in connection with the? beating. -- - MAIL TRIBUNE Good Job of Pioneering Jackson county is completing the first phase of a job of pioneering today. Before the day i3 out, it is hoped that nearly 8,000 children will have received their first anti-polio "shot" in a campaign which is the first of its kind in the state, and may well be unprecedented through out the nation. For the past two weeks visiting teams of doctors and nurses, who volunteered their time, have been visiting the county's schools, giving the shots to any one under the age of 20 who wished to have them. The shots are free. e THIS is the story: Each state has received federal funds to buy vac cine for those who cannot afford it. When Jackson county's public health officer, Dr. A. E. Merkel, attended a meeting of other health officers not long ago, he learned that this supply of vaccine was not being used, and that large quantities of it soon would have to be discarded unles3 used. . Pondering this situation, Dr. Merkel got the idea of asking the Jackson County Medical society to donate their time to give shots to all Jackson county residents under 20 desiring them. The society went for the idea, and things got rolling. Dr. Merkel obtained the vaccine, a schedule was worked out, the cooperation of the schools was asked and obtained, registered nurses volunteered to help out at the vaccination stations, the cooperation of press, radio and TV was sought to inform the public, and that was that. A NNOUNCEMENT of the program attracted state- wide attention, and other counties are now following suit. Jack Major, state representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (March of Dimes), recently visited here to get the details as to how it was done to relay them to other areas. The state medical association is taking data on the program to a meeting of the American Medical Association, to serve as a model of what can be done. The thing that is so impressive about this busi ness is the complete cooperation which has been obtained. Doctors, nurses, school officials, the local polio chapter and not least the public, whose con tributions to the "March of Dimes" made the whole thing possible, and whose eagerness to protect their children made it effective all these deserve a re sounding "Well done !" THE shots given 'during the past two weeks are the first in the recommended three-shot series which give the most complete protection against poliomyel itis. The second shot in the series will be given later, on the same basis as the first, again entailing the active cooperation of everyone. The two-shot series will give a considerable de gree of protection it is hoped enough to virtually eliminate much danger of contracting polio this summer. The third shot, the so?called "booster," will be left up to the individual families to provide for their children as they wish. While it may not be necessary, it is said to be highly desirable, and those in charge strongly urge parents to follow through. Anyway, the start of eveiyone involved, from first-grader baring his arm for the needle. E.A. When Gas Was Rationed The stories of gasoline rationing in Great Britain and France, some droll, some almost tragic, recall the sony days of A-cards and A-coupons, of T-stamps and X - cards over here. Gasoline rationing in the United States was a "hot" rather than "cold" war expedient. And its necessity was constantly being disputed. In its inception over here, the gasoline rationing program was voluntary. And its purpose, initially, was to save not gasoline of which there was an abundance everywhere but rubber. A curfew was imposed on East Coast filling sta tions in the summer of 1941. A FTER Pearl Harbor, the sinking of tankers off American shores by German submarines made the situation worse. So on May 15, 1942, an emer gency rationing plan was put into effect for the eastern seaboard. The program affected 9,000,000 motorists in 17 states. President Roosevelt also proposed a national speed limit of 40 miles an hour later reduced to 35 and made mandatory more to save tires than p-aso line. Meantime the rubber situation had begun to gei serious. SALES of new tires had j.y-ii, ana tires nad been put on rationing on Jan 5, 1942. Retreads were automobiles on March 2. nauea production or cars Then on Sept 10, F. gasoline rationing effective Dec. 1 to conserve fue and rubber. A movement 90-day postponement gathered strength under the teaueiMiip in opeaKer earn Kayburn or tne House, But the DTOiect was ahanrlnnpH when tha PrPsiHpnr. on Nov. 26, ordered nation yu me bcaeuuiea aate. The basic ration was week in March, 1944. Gasoline rationing ended on Aug. 15,-1945, after the Japanese Surrender. E.R.R. rridty, January 23. US 7 any vaccinated youngster the program is a credit to Dr. Merkel to the scared on the East Coast but been frozen on Dec. 1L rationed on Feb. 19. and All automobile companies on if eb. 2, 1942. I). R. ordered nation-wide in Congress to obtain a - wide rationing into effect reduced tn twn callrms New Defense Concept Develops in More U.S. Aid Needed By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Great Britain's proposed substantial re duction of defense spending is likely to invite greater United States contri butions of de fense money and manpower to collective se curity. British De fense Minister Duncan Sandys wilLarrive here i-yle C. Wilson this weekend to discuss defense problems with U. S. officials. Sandys comes at the invitation of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. The trend of discussion was in dicated Thursday by Prime Min ister Harold Macmillan in the House of Commons. Macmillan said that the United Kingdom's defense burden must be light ened that it no longer is bear able. The British put much thought and money and their trust and confidence in an air borne, fire-brigade defense the ory. It was that hotshot and mo bile armed units could arrive al most anywhere quickly, like the Marines, get things well in hand. The fire-brigade defense the ory blew up in the recent British armed action against Egypt. The fire-brigade was conceived as a big stick in support of British policy, the United Kingdom's No. 1 political weapon. The fire brigade landed, evidently to rid Egypt of the Nasser government. Eden Out Instead It was British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, however, who resigned instead. British pride and British prestige wereevere- ly damaged. U. S. diplomatic pressure compelled the British and French invaders to with draw from Egypt. All of this has caused Britons to take a new, cold and suspicious look at their Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of tha 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. not exceed 400 words. Wait, Wait, Wait! To the Editor: Several letters addressed to your column con cerning the inefficiency of the operating of the local welfare of fice prompts me to add my nick el's worth to the same attitude and ability of those employees of the office of the State Unem ployment Compensation com mission. I moved here from the East some three years ago, bringing with me almost 15 years of good, sound experience. I want more than anything to make the val ley my home. I can fully appre ciate the fact that employment, as a whole, is seasonal here and in similar locations; that is not my complaint. But, when that period of time comes, as now, when a person after ex hausting all efforts to locate em ployment on his own, finally turns to our local office for as sistance, he usually expects the usual reply of "Sorry, nothing at the moment." But these "fix tures of the state" give, and have given, for the past six weeks the "stock" answer of "are you still at such and such an address and is your phone number the same? we'll call you if we hear of anything." Who do they think they are kidding? They wouldn't know a job if it was staring them in the face' I think about three-fourths of them should get off their fat chairs and spend more fruitful Russ Warning, Polish Suez Dispute Top News of Week By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Soviet Russia warned free countries all over the world that they would risk attack by nu clear weapons, in the event of war, if they let the United States station atomic mili tary units on their territory. W 1 adyslaw S S"t i M uomuiKa, ru- rhiriei McCmnp dent commu nis t leader, won a landslide vic tory in a national parliamentary election which was regarded as a critical test of the strength of his regime. Defying the United Nations, Isreal announced it would re fuse to "evacuate the Gaza Strip and positions on the Gulf of Aqaba which it occupied in its attack on Egypt. It was feared that Egypt, in turn, might stop the clearing of the Suez Canal which it blocked when Britain and France attacked the canal zone. - " ' t 1 Britain defense achievements, commit ments and general posture. The January issue of London s thoughtfully edited Economist now hints at what may be in British official minds as they survey the wreckage of Great Britain's Middle East policy. The Economist suggests that British defense has become vastly over extended; that Great Britain no longer can pose or perform as the global defender of the em pire, its territories and its trade routes. The magazine argues that Great Britain has been carrying more than its fair share of the global defnse burden. ."But the problem is not just to cut defense," the Economist states. "The need is to reshape it in the cause of efficiency as well' as economy." Great Britain must not act alone, however, the article ar gued, in defense matters. The Real Choice "For," it continued, "if we cannot go it alone in war (as in Egypt), it follows that we should not go it alone in either arming or disarming. Britain has not the choice between being a first class and a second-class power such terms are nearly obsolete but between becoming an effi cient member-state of a Western power block or nothing. "The main point that emerges from a frank admission of the present ineffective multi-purpose composition of our forces is that defense should be integrated with our allies m each opera tional area, not just some of them." Integration in each operation al area! There is the germ of a new idea of collective global se curity. The Economist boldly suggests that Great Britain soon must invite others most likely the United States to share the costs and hazards of holding such empire bulwarks as Hong Kong and Singapore. Letters submitted for publication must time in canvassing tha Medford area of employers for jobs which could be given to the pea- pie who come in day after day instead of the stock answer of you know what." - A person unemployed in the valley needs immediate assist ance. The program for unem ployment' benefits should be worked over, too. I personally was laid off because of season ending last December but tried to find employment on my own until yesterday, when I finally applied for benefits, which, ac cording to law, are mine, having been paid by former eligible employers. Now, and according to the information given me by the locaf office it will be almost four weeks before I receive check. According to them, must abide by the "waiting pe riod" as set up by law, to "waif to prove 1 am unemployed. I am unemployed! Ask my landlord; the butcher, baker and candle maker! Wait, wait, wait! Disgusted Fines, Suspended Terms Given in Gambling Cases Portland U.R) Fines rang ing from $10 to $100 and sus pended 30-day jail sentences were meted out to 10 men here yesterday after they were found guilty on gambling charges. The 10 men were arrested last Dec. 22, Russia's warning on establish ment of American atomic weapon units in foreign coun tries mentioned specifically Great Britain, France, West Ger many, Italy, Turkey, Iran and Japan. President Eisenhower had said in his budget message to Con gress on Jan. 16 that the United States intended to establish atomio bases abroad. The Russian warning, issued through the official news agency Tass, was regarded as directed primarily against the new Eisen hower Doctrine to combat Communist aggression in the Middle East. . . It was one of many such Rus sian blasts. But it showed the concern of the Soviet govern ment over the doctrine and the vast system of American bases all over the world. Communists There was a threat that both Communists who oppose Go mulka's indepedent attitude to ward Russia and anti-Communists who want a complete break with Moscow might boy cott the Polish general election. But 94.14 per cent of the eligi ble voters went to the polls. Of these, 98.4 per cent voted for Gomulka's candidates. It was a singular situation In which the Roman Catholic in the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, the tiny principality of Monaco (area 370 acres, a little more than a half section, only a fair-sized farm in southern Oregon) is celebrat ing the birth of a royal princess who will rule Monaco unless she has a brother later. It's just possible that her royal father Prince Rainier (pro nounced Ron-YAY) might have preferred a son. Kings and princes have felt that way about it all down through the centuries, altnough history lists plenty of queens who have been just as able as kings. But, in Monaco's case, there is one advantage to a girl. A boy would have called for a royal salute of 101 guns which would have taken about all the ammunition the miniscule prin cipality has stored up in its mili tary stockpile. A girl . takes a salute of only 21 guns, which leaves a little gunpowder over for emergencies. TF PRINCE Rainier felt any disappointment over the sex of his heir (I think the diction ary sanctions use of the world 'heir when it applies to a girl who may inherit a throne) he didn't show it. He describes the baby as "very beautiful just LOVELY" and her ex-bricklayer Ameri can grandfather, who already had five granddaughters and no grandson, says: "I think it's won derful, and I'm certainly just as happy with another grand daughter." I'd say that any father or grandfather who wasn't de liriously happy over a lovely little girl ought to be taken out and dropped in a pond. pRINCE Rainier's subjects are going wild with joy. They are kissing each other in the streets. Cannon are booming, sirens are walling, church bells are pealing and champagne corks are pop ping. There are reasons for their joy reasons other than the natural happiness they feel be cause their prince is happy over the addition to his family. The birth of an heir (in this case an heiress) to the throne SAVES MONACO FROM GOING BACK TO THE FRENCH. If it had gone back to the French the Monagas- ques would have had to PAY TAXES and the Monagas- ques have enough French blood in their veins to cause them to look upon paying taxes as t calamity of the first magnitude, ITOW come this going back to "France business? Somewhere back in the cen turies, the French got their hands on Monaco, but respect for the ancient lineage of Monaco's hereditary rulersj the Grimaldis, who trace back In a direct line to the year 968, impelled the French to decree that "as long as a Grimaldi sits on the throne of Monaco the Monagasques shall be free and independent, but when the Grimaldi line is broken Monaco must come back to France. In that event, the Monagas ques would hava to pay French taxes. WHY don't they have to pay ' ' taxes now? That is a story all iy Itself. Mnnam live on tourists and gambling. The gambling brings the tourists, me lounsis ao we gambling and the principality of Monaco reaches in and takes a drag out of- every kitty. Out of this drag, it pays its govern mpnt PYnpnsea including SUP porting Prince Rainier in the style to which Urlipaiais nave become accusiomea. Most of the people of Monaco work in the hotels ana tne re enrti that are sustained bv tour ist money. If the home folks are cauaht gambling they? are Election, clergy urged support of Communist. Had Gomulka failed to get a big vote, his regime would have been dangerously weakened. As it is, he has been strengthened against attacks by those Communists who want to get Poland back under the thumb of the Soviet government. Sues The U.N. had given Isreal until Thursday midnight to eva cuate tha Egyptian territory it occupied in its invasion of the Sinai Peninsula. - A few Jiouri before the dead line. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announced that the Israeli forees would hold the Gaza and Aqaba Gulf areas unless he received guarantees that they would not be used by Egypt for attack. Egypt had threatened that un less the Israelis got out it would stop the work of clearing the Suez Canal, and thus (iirther delay resumption of oil and other shipments. LoPAaFuT. IHDUSTRIAIr U S. Cwittal Hi J-S301 Tax-Free Bonds Eyed In Babson By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. It is the first time for several years that have felt free to recommend any specific , - I stock or bond. a t - i - . jflrinil exPlain the (.'-VS I mention of I n o n - taxable V&r? I bonds which Hi4f I 1 made in my Xy I recent fore cast for 1957. Rcter w. Babson There is a big difference between stocks and bonds. Stocks own the equity in a corporation. Profits go to the stockholders after pay ment of interest on the bonds and other indebtedness. This may be much or none, and it fluctuates up and down. Some people make lots of money by buying stocks at the right time; while other people lose every thing by buying them at the wrong time. Bonds on the contrary are the same as a mortgage on your house. The interest on bonds is a prior claim. Usually their price does not fluctuate as widely as the price of common stocks and the interest is almost always paid. Hence, they are much safer to buy than are stocks. In addition to U.S. Gov ernment Bonds, there are three other important types of bonds: (1) "Full Faith" State and Muni cipal Bonds, which are the safest investment you can buy and whose interest is non-taxable. (2) Corporation Bonds, which of the same company are safer than the stock of that company, but their interest is taxable. (3) Revenue Bonds which are issued by your state, city, or town, but your interest payment depends upon the earnings of a state turnpike, or upon your local gas, water, or sewerage system. This interest, however, Is not taxable Today's Prices All bonds are cheaper than they have been for over 20 years. Buy almost any today and you should have an excellent investment. But by proper se lection, with the help of an in vestment counselor, you should be sure to make money particu larly by purchasing selected non-taxable bonds: Buying good severely reprimanded and if they do it again they usually get the bounce. The rulers of Mon aco are fully aware that gamb ling thrives on suckers and they don t want their subjects to fall into the sucker class. Nevada has somewhat the same thrifty attitude. It en courages tourists to hop to it in a big way the bigger the. bet ter but frowns on the practice of gambling among the home folks. Discussion non-taxable bonds is just like discovering gold in your own back yard. No reader of this columns remembers me ever saying this since the panic of 1929-1932. - But here is something else to remember. The income you get from any stock, corporation bond, or even U.S. Government Bond, is taxable. Practically everyone must pay a Federal Tax of at least 20-25 per cent of all dividends and interest re- ceived except from State, City and Town Bonds, and special non-taxable authority issues which include these Turnpike Revenue Bonds. Here is what this means to you. Whatever your income, you can 'save 20-25 per cent. If, how-. ever, you are in a higher income tax bracket (say 50 percent), 4 per cent on any of the above bonds could net you the same as 8 per cent on taxable stocks. If your income is $50,000, then tha interest on these 4 per cent tax- free bonds equals 16 per cent in taxable income; while those having incomes of $80,000 get an equivalent yield of 25 per cent on their money after all taxes. Seems too good to be true; but it is true! Fly in the Ointment Why doesn t everybody with large incomes buy these bonds now? It may that they are wait ing for lower prices due to tho fear that many more new Turn pike Bonds are coming on the market. Or it may be due to fear of the competition which these present turnpikes may take from the new U.S. Government high ways. Surely I do not fear such competition. If you believe that automobile riding is going to be less and that the automobile business is 'going to pot," then don t buy these tax-free Turnpike Bonds. If you believe World War III is soon coming, when gas again will be rationed, you are justi. fied in being cautious: But I be. lieve such fears are now fool ish. Hence, I say, "Buy seasoned Non-Taxable Turnpikes and buy them today." New York Teacher Wins Money on faan Show Milan, Italy U.R) A New York City English teacher worr $51? on an Italian television quiz show Thursday night i He was Charles Haines, 28, who teaches English in Turin. Haines was the first foreigner to appear on the popular "Leave or Double Your Money" program since it started more than -year ago. Haines answered the first set of 10 questions dealing with the --"ti category of the United States. comes M michwghotne.'. Mm it aw lib V I J-