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o o o O rOXTB MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfokdSTribune "Xveryon to Southern Oregon Reatu Tht Maii inpune Publiaherj Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 37-28 North Fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HXBB CRY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buiineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Manatf-ca Editor EARL H ADAMS City EaTtor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second cla matter at r Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year S15 00 Dally and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4.25 Sunday Only Ona year $4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes' ly and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1 50 Carrier and Qayilers 10c per copy All Terms ash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United PressFull Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco. Loa Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver. B.C. NATIONAL EDITORIAL I assocTa'ign cionnz nun NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS J ASSOCIATION flight o' Time iledford ud Jackson County History from the files of The MdJ Tribune 10. 20, 30, 40 and 50 yeirsAo. (-3 0 TTJEJRS GO T.;J3. 1947 (Thursday) Jiniorand adult Workshops QOfMedford Civic theater held in thef hamhjr of commefct office. O From ,Art!iur Prry's Ye Smudge Tot celifihn: Many of OtlwO Older Girls have planted paoes and hope they ron't ufl them up in mistake for dande O Uonj later. 20 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1937 (Saturday) A display, illustrating the posi O tion OT the United States from a standpoint of national defense, placed in west show window of Jackson Couftty Chamber of Commctce. Seventy candidates will be In itiated Wjflnesday by Medford loctee of the Loyal Order of MoosiQ ft YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1927 (Sunday) Jackson County Chamber of O Commerce plans survey of com munity nffeas. O Carpenter's Self Service Shoe store will soon establish a busi ness in Medford. 40 YEARS AGO Feb. 13. 1917 (Tuesday) Abut 300 Republicans from Rogue Valley attend Lincoln Day banquet at Medford hotel. SocSlist party of Talent ar Qratfges lecture in Talent city hall nt weeVj C Vhaf Your I.Q.? TJ or t.n correct It upertor; tev eK (Hi clcht It excellent: five ar mix X cod. O o 1- The irst tiles for draining purposes were manuiaciurea in Geneva N. Y.; true or false? 2. ln Shakespeare's "Merry OrVis of Windsor" was William Page a schoolboy, father, or courier? 3. Bible: The Lord proclaimed that the two trumpets be made of what metal? 4. Does a common housefly bite? 5. What war did France fight In 1870-1? 6. To which General did the Japanese emissaries surrender? 7. What other official title does the S. President bear? 8. How does a female (non member of the armed forces) salute a passing flag? 9. Is the (jxpression "to settle the bill" a colloquialism? 10. Wrote Kipling: "An' they 're hangin' Danny Dever" when? 1. True ( 1835). 2. School bey. 3. Silver (Num. 10). 4. No. 5. Franco - Prussian War. 6. Douglas MacArihur. 7. Commander-in-Chief. 8. By holding her right hand over her heart. 9. Yes. 10. "In the mornin'." Argument Erupts at Christening; 5 Dead Jalapa, Mexico (U.R) A chris tening celebration erupted into a family argument with pistols that left five dead and seven wounded in the nearby village of Ayahualulco, police said to day. Authorities said Salvador and Rosa Perez were bitterly divided rr on naming theS son and each Invited relatives to the baptism to help theiS decide. The parents were among the wounded. The baby still has no name, police said, a MAIL TRIBUNE Valentine, Ninety-eight years ago the 33rd state of the Union. Tomorrow also is St. Valentine's day. This fortuitous circumstance we have always thought is a happy one. This of all 48, Oregon is and state. Happy birthday, Oregon!! Be our Valentine. E.A. Strength In Diversity Be true to your own maturity, to your own individual ity. Accept the good which may come from the ways of others; but do not be afraid to be different when greater good lies in your courage in being a non-conformist. The quotation above is the concluding paragraph of a column- printed in this newspaper recently. It is furnished to us by the American Institute of Family Relations, which generally offers sound advice on family matters. We reprint the quotation because it says some thing which needs saying these days, when there are so many pressures for conformity, for being, acting, doing just as everyone else does. COME of our best thinkers believe that one of the great strengths of America is its diversity. Freedom of religion would be impossible without diversity, and this diversity of religious thought of fers a "spiritual home" to almost everyone who has given the matter any serious thought, and who wishes to associate with like-minded people. Diversity and non-conf ormism in political thought, also, is a strength. For how else can the policies and principles of government be the soundest and best unless opened to the challenge of disagreement and criticism ? "The genuinely mature Individual . . . does not fear his own ideas, whether they be on cabbage or kings, the proper date for donning a straw hat or a choice of presidential candidates." This is not to say, necessarily, that one need not or must never accept the ideas of others, for these may well be good. But it is to say that man should be free in the "marketplace of ideas" to choose for himself, without fear or shame, the ideas and ideals which he feels to be right. With this freedom, as with all freedom, goes re sponsibility. One aspect of that responsibility is to respect the freedom of others. The quotation attributed to Voltaire is probably the best guide-post to action when confronted with ideas which conflict with one's own : "I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it" E.A. Older The U.S. Department of Labor reports something which has been well-known to a certain group of Americans, namely, that once past one's 40th birth day, it isn't as easy to find a job. The reason lies, in large part, in the attitude of employers, the department believes. In many cases they are reluctant to employ older workers; and for a variety of reasons. But also, the department found after taking an extensive survey, there are other reasons. Among them are educational requirements, which often an older person cannot meet; too-rigid physical require ments ; lack of training or re-training facilities, and the job-seeker's own fear of looking for work, and his lack of experience and ability in selling himself to an employer. THE department of labor acknowledges this for the unhappy situation which it is, particularly in view of the fact that, quote : Experts who have really studied the problem, know that older workers are reliable, much more easily amenable to training than is commonly believed, work well, and are less liable to leave their jobs than younger persons. Throughout the nation there is a shortage of workers, despite the local situations of temporary unemployment which sometimes crop up. The man power experts believe that this shortage is going to get worse before it gets better. For this reason, it will become increasingly im portant to take advantage of these older workers, both for what they can offer as employees, and for their own satisfaction and dignity as members of the community. E.A. Legislature Salem U.R A bill to give state police a S600 pay raise was up for second reading in the Oregon Senate today. Another measure, to change the name of state police to the "Oregon State Highway Patrol" also has been introduced. Spon sors said the change would be in name only. The pay bill would boost pri vates to $4860 a year, sergeants to $6180 and captains to $7320. Salem (U.R) A bill intro duced by Sen. R. H. Chapman of Coos Bay which would make it a misdemeanor for an owner or custodian wilfully to abandon a dog or cat without making pro vision for its proper feeding and shelter was up for second read ing today. Salem U.R) A group of cpunty commissioners testified before the Senate Highways committee that they favored unit Wednesday. February 13, 1957 tomorrow, Oregon r-Dcame arises from the fact that, shall remain our favorite Workers Briefs development of U.S. 101 from Gold Beach to the California border instead of piece-meal de velopment. Salem U.PJ A resolution in troduced in the House provides for an interim committee to study the reorganization of state government with emphasis on elimination er consolidation of various boards and commissions. Salem (U.R) The House passed 33-23 a bill extending to June 30, 1959, the cutoff date for veterans of World War II to start their training under state educational benefits. Salem U.R) Superintend ent Paul J. Squier told a sub committee of the joint Ways and Means committee that the main objective of the new intermedi ate penal institution to be built near Salem would be rehabilita tion of young prisoners. . - Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words I.Q." Feature Errs To the Editor: I don't know much about my own I.Q., but I wouldn't give much for the I.Q. of the person who answered Satan" to question 3 in Friday's paper (Page 4). Suppose you look up Revelations 20:1, where it says: "I saw an angel come down from Heaven having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand, and he laid hold on Satan and bound him a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up." Mrs. A. Hofmann, Butte Falls, Ore. Faith and Works To the Editor: This is in reply to Evangelist William E. Brown. Christ did not abolish the Law. He fulfilled the Law and brought the Gospel. "The righteous shall live by faith." Romans. 1:17. We know what the message of the Law is, to those who live under it that every excuse may die on the lips of him who makes it and no living man may think himself beyond the judgement of God. "No man can justify himself before God" by a per fect performance of the Law's demand s indeed it is the straight-edge of the Law that shows us how crooked we are. Romans 3: 19-20. But now we are seeing the righteousness of God declared quite apart from the Law (Though amply testified to by both Law and prophets) it is a righteousness imparted to, and operating in, all who have faith in Jesus Christ. (For there is no distinction to be made any where: everyone has sinned, everyone has fallen short of the beauty of God's plan.) Under this divine "system" a man who has faith is now freely acquitted in the eyes of God by His gen erous dealing in the Redemptive Act of Jesus Christ. God has appointed Him as the means of propitiation, a propitiation ac complished by the shedding of His blood, to be received and made effective in ourselves by faith. God has done this to dem onstrate His Righteousness both by the wiping out of the sins of the past (the time when He with held His Hand), and by showing in the present time that He is a just God and that He justifies every man who has faith in Jesus Christ .What hap pens now to human pride of achievement? There is no more room for it. . . .We see now that a man is justified before God by the fact of his faith in God's appointed Saviour and not by what he has managed to achieve under the Law. . -Are we then undermining the Law by this in sistence on faith? Not a bit of it! We put the Law in its proper place. . . .Now if a man works his wages are not counted as a gift but as a fair reward. But if a man, irrespective of his work, has faith in Him who just ifies the sinful, then that man's faith is counted as righteousness, and that is the gift of God. Ro mans 3: 21,31. and 4: 4,5. Gloria Dey, 333 Cross st., Medford, Ore. Suitcases Needed To the Editor: I wrote an article to an Eastern newspaper about fishing and hunting in Oregon. I just received a letter from them. They said we like your article very much but tell us one thing, why does an Oregon fisherman and hunter always have to carry a suitcase? We must have a suitcase with us at all times to carry our fish ing licenses, hunting licenses, tags, tickets and stamps. Everything that runs we must tag. Everything that flies we must paste a stamp on. Everything that swims we must have a ticket in our pos session. Now for that you must carry a ticket, a punch and a type writer to give the date, time and river. That requires you to carry a clock. You must carry a 100-ft. tape measure to measure the restrict ed areas below a dam. Last fall I went over to my cousin's place at Tule Lake to hunt ducks. I shot two mallard ducks, and before they hit the ground a game warden rushed up and asked me if I had stamps. "Sure I got stamps, I got two kinds which Jo you want? I got S and H green stamps and Gold Arrow stamps," I said. "You know what I want. I want the kind you buy in the Post Office," he said. So I rush ed over to my suitcase and got two 3 cent stamps. "Now what are you going to do, mail them? I want stamps with ducks on 'em," he said. "Then paste these on the ducks and you will have two stamps with mallard ducks on them." I got home with my ducks. Everett Acklin Box 233 Ashland, Ore. Babson Concerned for Independent Retailer By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. I am concerned about the fate of the independent retailer in today's highly competitive markets. He is not keeping pace with chain store operators who spend large sums of money on new equipment, new lighting, i n t e nsive ad vertising and promotion. Roger W. Babson Independent ijiciunaius musi pay just as much as the lareg chain opera tors for advertising space in newspapers and magazines. Of ten they must pay more propor tionately for goods they stock because they cannot buy in such large quantities as the chains. Also, independent retailers are faced with increasing demands for higher employee wages and greater fringe benefits after these concessions are obtained initially by employees of big stores. Too many independent retailers have already suc cumbed to these pressures. These chains have helped mightily, however, in bringing down the total cost of distribu tion. Their savings in buying, in window dressing and display, they share with their customers. They have made and are making a great contribution to the bet terment of the American way of life. What They Can Now Do The independent merchant who prefers waiting on custom ers to waiting for his turn at golf has little to worry about. There always will be a demand for this personal attention on the part of certain customers. They are willing to pay for this per sonal attention as well as for credit and delivery. Of course, the independent merchant must be willing to advertise and se cure a good location with plenty of show windows, always kept attractive. To believe, however, that he is destined to be pushed out of business by department stores or chain stores or mail order houses is a mistaken idea. Retailers can further be help ed by the plans of the United In formation Service, with head quarters at 6 Maiden lane, New York City. This service enables consumers to learn quickly (any time between 6 a.m. and mid night) where they can get any desired merchandise. This short ens the time between the con sumer's reading of an advertise ment and his getting into a re tail store. Cutting this time in half has the effect of doubling retail sales. Furthermore, it en ables a group of merchants to save the expense of keeping open evenings by cooperating to concentrate evening inquiries through one channel. Importance of Distribution The rapid rise of our country to a position of world power and the simultaneous expansion of our industrial economy give ample evidence that we can pro duce above and beyond our needs. The war needs of our selves and our allies provided a challenge in production. Wealth in abundance, in the form of goods and services, we have learned to produce. However, we have been prac tically standing still in distribu tion, except for the development Soviet Russia Developing Big Campaign to Sap Allied Unity By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is developing a big diplomatic campaign in an obvious attempt to weaken Al- 1 i e d defense cooperation. Last Friday Premier Niko lai A. Bulgan in sent a letter to West Ger man Chancel lor Konra'd Adenauer hol ding out hope of German un- Chartei McCann fication if he would abandon his ties with the Western democracies. Now Foreign Minister Dmitri T. Shepilov has sent notes to the United -States, Great Britain and France outlining a six-point proposal on policy toward the countries of the Middle East. The Soviet government also has asked that the foreign min isters of the United States, Can ada, Britain, France and Russia attend personally a disarmament conference to be held in London next month. It is reported In London that Russia intends to announce some sort of a new disarmament plan at that meeting. While this campaign is being pursued, the Soviet government is making threats to Britain, France and other countries that they will be targets for atomic weapons if a big war breaks out. It looks as if the campaign may be the brain child of Shep ilov, who succeeded Vyacheslav M. Molotov as foreign minister last June 1 and is spoken of as a coming man in the Soviet rul ing circle. T mb( i ft' mmmm of the chain "5 and 10" variety stores, the chain supermarkets, and the chain drug stores. There, however, is much more to be done. Selling Goods Abroad In addition to making plans for easier and cheaper move ment of our production into our own domestic consumer chan nels, I forecast that we will also take steps to sell more Ameri can-made products abroad. These products are urgently needed in many parts of the world where disease is rampant because of food and other defi ciencies. However, no plan has yet succeeded which would make surpluses in some nations avail able to needy people in other nations, without upsetting the economic balance between indi vidual countries or groups of countries. We must help solve the prob lem of the growing imblance be tween the "have" and the "have- not" nations. Communism has made great strides in Europe, Asia and Africa largely because Soviet leaders have been so suc cessful in pointing to the "sel fish and wasteful" living stan dards in the U.S. American mov ies shown abroad are largely re sponsible for this. Positive steps toward solving the problem of international distribution would thereby remove the greatest grievance upon which Commu nism feeds. Rotarians Honor Area 4-H Winners Local 4-H achievement win ners were honored at a Medford Rotary club meeting Tuesday. Honored were Miss Margery Hatton, home economics exten sion agent; Mrs. Everett Gibson, president of the county 4-H leaders; Jerome Peterson, Cathy Carroll, Dale Smith, Donna Brown, Carl Skyrman, Sharon Coffman and Bob Hayes." Charles Elmore, Applegate, one of the Jackson county 4-H representatives at the National 4-H congress in Chicago, showed slides of the trip, made by the 20 4-H members from Oregon. Harvey Fields sang Battle Hymn of the Republic and was joined by a chorus of Rotary members. Rotarian Jimmy Dun levy read the Gettysburg ad dress. Rotarian Hal White was pro gram chairman. Ike Asked To Name Negro To High Court Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower was asked Tuesday night to appoint a Negro to the Supreme Court. Tomlinson D. Todd, director, producer and moderator of the Sunday eight-station network radio program Americans All, asked the President in a tele gram to make the appointment. Todd, whose program is aired by the United Broadcasting Co., said he took the occasion of Lin coln's birthday to request that a Negro be named to succeed re tiring Justice Stanley F. Reed. , "The time is now ripe for an emancipation of colored Amer icans from the category of exclu sion to one of inclusion on the United States Supreme Court bench," Todd said. Shepilov went to the foreign ministry after having been edi tor in chief of the newspaper Pravda, the official organ of the Russian Communist party. He was not a newspaperman. He was put into his new post after a long career as a Com munist propagandist. Handsome, disarmingly friend ly, more than six feet tall, he is in decided contrast to the dour Molotov. A Cover-Up Plan Shepilov's campaign if it is his undoubtedly is aimed partly at covering up Russia's own embarrassments in its rela tions with its fellow Communist countries in Eastern Europe. But it probably is aimed also at taking advantage of a period in which the Western Allies, be lieving that the danger of a third world war is Increasingly re mote, are trying to reduce de fense spending. Bulganin's letter is unlikely to get very far with old Aden auer. Under him, West Germany is certain to maintain its ties with the Western Allies. Nor is Adenauer the man to believe that Russia has any intention of agreeing to the unification of Germany. It appears unlikely also that Shepilov's note to the United States, Britain and France is likely to deceive the govern ments of those countries. Would Frustrate Doctrine The six points Shepilov out lines would have the effect of frustrating the aims of the new Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East while leaving Rus sian free to engage in subver sive activities. The note calls for the "liquid Evidence Piles Up Showing U.N. Due For Scrutiny by By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Consid erable evidence is accumulating that the United Nations is due for a long and maybe chill look by the American peo ple. This organi zation of 80 member - na tions was ac corded a spe cial place among the Lyle C. Wilson generally accepted pillars of freedom and representative gov ernment along with religion, good works, free public educa tion, home and mother. Now a magnificently reared GOP Speakers See Strengthened Party And Better America Washington U.R GOP leaders at Lincoln Day dinners across the nation Tuesday night forecast a stronger Republican party and a better America. GOP National Chairman Meade Alcorn Jr. said at Pitts burgh that the Republican party will "fight for every seat" in next year's congressional elec tions. 'Modern Republicanism is the engine that gives power, force and direction to a program de signed to meet and solve the problems of today," Alcorn said. Party of Inclusion He called the GOP the "party of inclusion" with room for all interested in good government. He called, the Democratic party tne part of exclusion ana di vision. Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton at Boston called on all Republicans to band together to regain control of Congress. Seaton said 58 per cent of those voting last November cast their ballots for President Ei senhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. To Attract Voters "And we mean to make such a record in these next two years i and present such a ticket in the congressional races of 1958, that this time, as a party, we will at tract a similarly overwhelming percentage of the voters," he said. Vice President Richard M. Nixon at Hackensack, N.J., said this year's New Jersey guber natorial election would be espe cially meaningful "insofar as 1958 congressional elections are concerned." Nixon said the New Jersey election "coming as it does in an off year and also in one of the key industrial states of the nation . . . will undoubtedly have considerable national sig nificance." Elizabeth, N. J. (U.R) Trou bled by birds and beasties? The Union County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals advised today that feeding grain soaked in whiskey to un wanted pigeons, squirrels and skunks will "immobilize" them so SPCA wardens can pick them up. ation of foreign bases" in the Middle East, meaning United States bases. What Russia may propose at the London disarmament meet ing, whether or not the foreign ministers attend, remains to be seen. It may be predicted with some certainty that it will sound important but will not offer the necessary guarantees against the danger that Russia would be able to cheat if the Western Al lies agreed to abolish nuclear warfare and tear up their de fensive alliances. But Shepilov may figure that, while Soviet enticements may not deceive the Western Allies, it costs nothing to try. I J Ml II CONFIDENCE- For over 22 years we have endeavored to merit your confidence, and your continued approval of our efforts is most gratifying! With all our C. M. Litwiller interests 100 local, and with charges that are exception ally moderate, we confidently assume the next decade of service to and for the Rogue River valley. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close . t-1 ' -f" Americans 12-year-old, the UN more like ly than not must prove title to the special place freely accord ed it at its inception in 1945. The earliest end sharpest com plaint against the United Na tions was in protest against the use to which the Soviet Union was permitted by the UN Chart er to make of its veto power. A Dead Stymie The Communist veto was and is always a potential dead stymie to UN council action against major Communist felonies any time, anywhere. The UN coun cil was able to move in the 1950 Korean crisis only because the Soviet Union delegate earlier had walked out in protest on another matter. To the veto aggravation now are added others to which Re publican Senate Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.) invited pub lic attention in a speech here before a university audience. The principal points made by Knowland against the UN to which he is a United States dele gate, were these: The trend toward UN ac ceptance of a double standard of international morality. The trend toward bloc vot ing in the UN. o The aforementioned Soviet use and abuse of the veto. , Compliance Big Factor - Perhaps the most serious dam age to the standing of the United Nations in the United stales has been its failure or inability to obtain compliance. Among the nations which have flouted the UN council or assembly recent ly are, in addition to Israel, the Soviet Union on Hungary; India on Kashmir, Egypt on Israeli use of the Suez Canal. Considering the foregoing. Knowland made a statement which, also, is remarkable: He said that on its record so far, no free nation "dare rk its security on the United Nations' ability to function effectively." If so, there soon will be many to urge that the UN does notQ justify its existence, to say noth ing of qualifying as anchor-man for U.S. foreign policy. That is the vital role assigned the UN by Presidents Truman and Ei senhower, in turn. TONIGHT! Mar t HYI.IAII APPEU1AU c Wednesday- ( 0 What Price Souls "The Cheapest Thing in America" Thursday There is no Difference "What We Look Like to God" Friday o j The Land of BegmningC! Again and Featuring ... Johnny Bisagno and his Golden Trumpet Crusade and Choir Special Musical Package First Baptist Church North Central at 5th 7:30 P.M. Mrs. Litwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us." 1
