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From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A day1 of sunshine caused the Older Girls to activate spades in back yards, by placing their mates on the business end of same. 20 YEARS AGO March 6. 1937 (Saturday) Pacific coast pear growers meet to discuss a campaign to reduce present top-heavy stocks of canned Bartletts. Plans discussed by Town club for a northwest air tour in June with Medford as starting point. 30 YEARS AGO March 6. 1927 (Sunday) M. D. Field, general auditor of Copco, elected secretary of the company. Crater Lake National park gets considerable attention in the advertising program of the Multnomah hotel. 40 YEARS AGO March 6. 1917 (Tuesday) Miss Anna M. Turley, exten sion specialist in home econom ics of the Oregon Agricultural college, is spending four weeks in southern Oregon. Library receives shipment of documents and reports describ ing various activities of the state. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct It superior; tvw en or eifht U exce'nt: five six good. A -" KWhat color shirts were worn by '-Adolf Hitler's original fol lowers? 2. What sort of plane is the Globester? 3. Bible: Was Hezekiah a prophet? 4. Name the capital of Ar kansas. 5. A contest in which two teams try to spell words correct ly is called a "spelling . . ."? 6. In w,hat European city is the Champs Jllysees? 7. Spftin is bounded on the Owest by Portugal and what ocean? 8. "The Flying Dutchman" opera was composed by ? 9. tihould an apostrophe be used in the form "Yours sin cerely"? 10. "One brave deed makes no hero." Did Longfellow or Whittier write this? Answers: 1. Broern shirts. 2. An Army Air Transport Command C-4S4. 3. Yes. 4. Lit- tl Roci, Ark. . "be." 6. O Paris, France. . Allan. I. Richard pfrtr. . . lt Whittier. EisMtYir's Cough Said 'M Beftti' Washington (U.R) 'hit House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty Jid Tuesday that Presi dent Eisenhower's cough seems to be "a lile better." "He is not coughing as much as I've heard him cough in the past." Hagerty said. There still was no word on whether Mr. Eisenhower would make a trip to Arizona in an ef fort to cure the cough that has bothered him since inaugura tion. Mr. Eisenhower expressed a wish last week to go to a warm, dry climate for a few days "to get rid of this thing." mail tribune "Monogamous" Youth Our Potpourri column Sunday quoted "Informa tion," a magazine of the Catholic Paulist fathers, to the effect that the church is increasingly concerned about the "going steady" habits of American youth today. This comes at the same time as an article in the current Harper's magazine along somewhat the same lines, entitled "American Youth Goes Monogamous." The latter article, by Charles W. Cole, president of Amhurst college, records pretty much the same set of circumstances, but is less concerned than the author of the church article over the results. TR. COLE declares that a definite pattern of "mores" has arisen around the fact of "going steady" among college young people, and that they are as rigorous in their observance of this code as our Victorian grandparents were in the observance of theirs. The free-wheeling days of competition for dates, of the stag-line, of the "wallflower," are now gone, Dr. Cole states, and references to them in the pres ence of today's youth are met by incredulous and rath er disapproving reactions. He adds: "The philanderer of the 'twenties who dated a different girl every night and went out with dozens in the course of a year has disappeared. So has the prom trotter of ear lier times. A' clever girl today might conceivably have a male friend in four or five different colleges, but she would not be much admired if she had two at the same college. If she collected an array of fraternity pins from several boys I knew of girls in the 'twenties who had as many as seven she would be condemned by her aquaintances." rR. COLE concludes that it is too early to tell what ' effect the new unmarried monogamy will have on the stability of families, while the church publication saw in it "a serious occasion of sin," robbing young people of a variety of companionships, stunting emo tional development, and paving the wray for unstable marriages and broken homes. The college president sees a different possibility that the "fiercely monogamous premarital folkways" may serve to strengthen later marriages. Only time, and statistics, will show who is right. E.A. Imaginings Coming True Is mankind, in the foreseeable future, going to break the bonds of gravity, solve the innumerable problems of space flight, and take off for the moon and points outward from there? There is a growing body of scientists and engi neers who not only declare he is, but are hard at work toward that end. Development of the dreaded ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) is bringing the day closer. And an Air Force general the other day pre dicted that before long, any future battles are more apt to be fought in space than on the surface of the planet. THERE have been a couple of loud dissents from this belief, however. Dr. Lee De Forest, one of the pioneers in radio and electronics, pish-tushes the idea as nothing but a "wild dream worthy of Jules Verne." And he adds: "I am bold enough to say that such a man-made moon voyage will never occur regardless of all future scientific advances." He finds a strong seconder in the editor emeritus of the Salem Capital Journal, who comments: "Yet numerous pseudo scientists have gone nutty on this crazy idea and even books and magazines are printed in a lingo of their own on alleged adventures in space flights where human existence is impossible for lack of oxygen to breathe. And the gullible have even bought 'first trip tickets to the moon' and areas in its sterile craters have been sold at fancy prices. And from there, of course, it will . be easy to fly to Jupiter and cruise the Milky Way 'sailing like the little stars round about the moon' with Mother Goose at the throttle." rR. DE FOREST and the to their opinions. But we have a hunch same category as those of lumbus, James Watt, the Edison, and a host of others who had crazy ideas which later proved practical. And the Jules Verne simile was unfortunate, too for his best known work the Sea, a title "which atomic-powered Nautilus age without refuelling. Soaring to the moon is than soaring through the skies was to our grandfa-then. TF IT IS a crazy idea, there are a lot of hard-headed men who are crazy, and hard cash to bring it true, oi the United States. More than a dozen commercial firms, such as Bell Telephone Laboratories, craft companies, are working in areas which contrib ute to the knowledge of f inn, Systems Laboratories, pose alone. And the department of space medicine has been established by the Air Force at the school of aviation medicine at Randolph Air Force base. The science fictioneers have fun with their imagi native concepts of space vuitjf nicjr c iiou jaLcij. 10 needing dUCdU Ul Uie SOI1U scientific achievements, which have had a way of making one generation's wild imaginings the next i. : i t- i Ti k Wednesday. March 6, 1957 Salem editor are entitled that their opinions are in the the men who ridiculed Co Wright brothers, Thomas was 20,000 Leagues Under recently came true as the completed just such a voy no crazier an idea, to us, who are spending a lot of including the armed forces General Electric, and the air space travel. At least one was founded for that pur and time. But a major diffi- About One - Requests to By Congressional Quarterly Washington (CQ) Almost half the requests in the program President Eisenhower has asked Congress to approve this year are old ones. Congressional Quarterly re ports that 77 of the 156 legisla tive requests the President has made in the seven weeks since Congress convened were sought in previous years. However, the President, based on past performance, still has at least 50 more requests to submit to Congress. He already has indi cated he will send special mes Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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 not exceed 400 words. Not Commission's Fault To the Editor: Real sob stuff: There have been several letters to "Communications" accusing home owners on the Bear creek freeway site of being sorry for themselves, having to give up their homes, etc. Well, this owner happens to be one of them for we know how this property was accumu lated. No one else wanted it, be cause it was in the Bear creek flood area. I needed a home so I took the chance. The writer paid for it partly by taking in washings, the mustering out pay of my young son who never came back, and the military allowance of an other soldier boy, all went in to pay for my home. I always wanted a home and this was good enough for me. In fact you couldn't offer enough money to make me willingly part with it. I now have a nice little fam ily orchard ready to bear,, no pear trees, tnougn. Then along came the high way commission looking for a site for freeway and our hon orable county court and plan ning commission recommended the Bear Creek route giving up Hawthorne park as well as our homes. The people over on Genessee street do not want it there either but are perfectly willing for the Bear Creek route. I protest against it coming through Medford anywhere. We are tax payers, spend all our money in Medford, now. have good credit records, and do not want to be dug under by the freeway. People, the highway commis sion is not to blame the county court and planning commission allowed this to happen to us. Mrs. Mary Morgan, 618 East Ninth st., Medford, Ore. From Grants Pass To the Editor: Have intended for some time to write to the Mail Tribune. Can't send it to our local paper as there is sure to follow, below the letter, edi torial comment to suit his point of view. He doesn't seem to know there are two forces only. working in the universe, con structive or destructive. It has been said "you are either for or against me." Seems to us our local paper is "agin" just every thing that is for the good of the most of the people. He predicted "The People" would show Sen. Morse they didn't want his kind in the Sen ate. He scarcely lets a week pass without castigating Senators Morse and Neuberger. His last editorial was meant to put Charles Porter in his place, ac cording to the editor's point of view. We.- along, with many others in this community subscribe to the Mail Tribune because we do not like a paper that sees absolutely no good in an op position party," as we think there is some good in both parties. Not judged as to whether it is good for us personally, but for the eood of the many. As an editorial writer, he is a far- cry from a police reporter, we formerly lived in Long Beach too, where he worked on the Fress Telegram. Thank you R.W.R. for your tnlendid editorials, also E.A. We do a lot of trading in the -itv of Medford. where we find a better selection and mostly cheaDer nrices. We always meet others from here who are shop- ninff too. We wonder when the local merchants are going to wake up to that situation? Mr. and Mrs. J. M. B., Grants Pass, Ore. (Names on file). Sunset Home Tn the Editor and anyone inter ested: There is a place on South Highway 99. that hs flowers and trees, good food and kindly care for those who have out-lived their usefulness and their bank accounts. (That is one of the haz ards of life.) It is a lovely place with no in stitutional odor, but an ominous name. Why call it "County Farm"? Why not call it "Sunset Home"? It faces the sunset, and is a home for those in the sunset of life. Their only home. E. B. M., Medford, Ore. Half of President's Congress Old Ones sages to the Democratic-controlled Congress concerning foreign aid, the Post Office Department and veterans. Above 200 These and other Presidential requests some of which also will be repeats are expected to push the total number above 200, a mark surpassed in each of the last three years. Mr. Eisenhower has indicated he will press harder this year than ever before to get Con gressional approval of his pro gram. His legislative batting ave rage has been declining steadily A Request from Georgia ro the Editor: I am writing this to try to find out who a cer tain lady was who befriended my wife and me at the Cali fornia-Oregon border. We crossed the border on Aug. 24, 1956 at approximately nine o'clock at night. She was going to see her parents who lived in California and take them some vegetables. She was very nice and wanted to give us some of the vegetables she had. We appreciated this so much that we want to find out who she was and send her some thing in return. Would appreciate any help you may give us in this matter. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Thomason, 1425 Thomason rd., Columbus, Ga. Favors Hells Canyon To the Editor: I'm for a federal high dam at Hells Canyon. Many figures have been quoted pro and con. Figures are many times only tools manipulated to serve a purpose, and I'm not in terested in them as such. The im portant thing in the long1 run is the principle. It is either good or bad for the majority of the people. It is morally and phys ically right or wrong. The private power companies and combines have run full page ads in the leading magazines and newspapers telling us of the thousands of stockholders who were sharing in the lucrative profits. Apparently, they . take great pride in this fact, and wish to give us the impression that they are not too private. This is good as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Every man, woman and child, regardless of color, creed or financial standing, should be a stockholder. And the only log ical way this can be done is for all of us' to build the dam through our federal govern ment, and to share equally in its benefits. Speaking of pride, the most lowly man among us should be able to visit Hells Canyon dam in his overalls and jumper, and say, "I own this great struc ture, and so do my children and their children. I helped to build it. I help to maintain it. and I have an equal voice in its man agement and disposal. I am proud ol it, and I'll protect it. I'll fight for it die for it if necess ary. And I will not have to be drafted. "Nor will it destroy my in centive and initiative. On the contrary, it will inspire me to help build other great structures like it, based on the true Amer ican concept of justice and equal ity for all." Guy G. Lake, Route 2, Box 547, Boring, Ore. Dulles Leaves for Australia Meeting Washington (U.R) Globe trotting Secretary of State John Foster Dulles takes off today for Australia to see what can be done about Communist subver sion in Southeast Asia. Dulles, whose last trip abroad was to Paris in December, is headed this time for a meeting of the eight-nation Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. The organization, known by its initials SEATO, is anxious to push a new campaign to expose Communist activities throughout the vast arc of Southeast Asia. SEATO warned in' an annual report Monday that Southeast Asia's greatest threat now is from Communist subversion rather than nutright aggression. The meeting, in Canberra, Aus tralia, will concentrate on this problem. Roseburg Man Sent To State Hospital Roseburg (U.R) Lloyd Geisler, 33-year-old Roseburg man, yesterday was committed to Oregon state hospital at Sal em. Geisler Saturday was found innocent by reason of insanity on a charge of -murdering his wife. Circuit Judge Charles S. Woodrich ordered Geisler com mitted to the hospital until doc tors there judge him fit to return to society. Approximately 4,000 separate operations are required to manu facture the parts needed for a watch. since 1953 when he "batted" .727. The Republicans controlled Congress in 1953-54 and the Democrats have been in control since. Congressional Quarterly's figures show the success of Pres ident Eisenhower's program in Congress: Number of Requests Percent Tear Requests Granted Granted 1953 44 32 72.7 1954 232 150 64.7 1955 207 96 46 3 1956 225 103 45.7 Already Congress appears less receptive of Mr. Eisenhower's wishes than it had been in the past. A possible additional ob stacle to the President's attempt to raise his "batting average" is his ability to succeed himself, thus theoretically diluting his influence over Congress. Two Turned Down But only two of his legislative requests have been turned down and they still may get approval on the floor. The House Veter ans' Affairs Committee ignored those requests by refusing to re port out a bill to raise the inter est rate on GI mortgages from 4V4 per cent to 5 per cent. One request already has be come law. It increases the total limit of Small Business Admin istration loans from $150 million to S230 million. One of the five Presidential requests that has passed one or both chambers but is not law yet also deals with the SBA. It would authorize an extra $45 million in loans for this fiscal year for the SBA and has been approved by the Senate and House. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS As this is written, Prime Min ister Ben Gurion of Israel has just taken matters into his ow.n hands and ordered Israeli troops out of the Gaza and Aqaba areas. His action follows a hectic week-end of battling to comply with United Nations withdrawal demands without toppling his own government into the ditch for getting out of this strategic territory that was won in battle by Israeli troops naturally arouses violent opposition in Israel. TEN GURION called Israeli ministers and political lead ers to his home one at a time After conferring with them, he sent the withdrawal order to his chief of staff without the formal ity of seeing either his cabinet or the parliament. Jerusalem news sources say his decision was based largely on assurance . contained in a mes sage he received from President Eisenhower on Sunday. TJE describes his order as an --"act of faith in United Na tions." Well, under the circumstances, it seems impossible that his faith could be misplaced. Presi dent Eisenhower has gone far out on a limb in practically or dering Israel to GET OUT with out guarantees that she wouldn't suffer by her action. It seems inconceivable that if Israel does get out she will be thrown to the Arab wolves. It must be remembered that there are TWO sides to this Mid dle East trouble the Israeli side and the Arab side. Before any thing constructive can be done, mutual faith must be established. OEFORE mutual faith can be established, Arab suspicions must be removed, as well as Is raeli suspicions. At any rate, we'll see what we'll see. THE action that has been taken so far has been taken in the name of United Nations. UN is admittedly a weak reed to lean on. It looks more and more like the basis of President Eisenhower's plan to secure a settlement must be to provide United Nations with the strength it must have if it is to act as the policeman in the Middle East. Bonneville Reports Top Gross Revenue Portland (U.R) Bonneville Power administration Tuesday reported the largest gross pow er revenues for one year since inception of the system. Administrator William A. Pearl reported to the Interior Department that gross revenues totaled $60,992,623. Net reven ues were $5,949,412 after all expenses including interest and depreciation BPA reported a gross capital investment of $1, 288,752,939 in the U.S. Colum bia river system, including the transmission facilities. Capital repayments to date, including $247,512,964 in current operat ing expenses and interest of $202,176,121 for the fiscal year ending last June 30 represent 15.69 per cent of the gross cap ital investment. Industrial customers account ed for more than 46 per cent of the revenue dollar of which aluminum industries represented $32.9 per cent. Hillsboro Food Service Plant Wrecked by Fire Hillsboro (U.R) Jossy's Food Service plant on Tualatin Valley highway in Hillsboro was destroyed by fire last night and owners estimated damage at close to $75,000. Russian Authorities Make Divorce Harder Than Staying Married Moscow (U.R) There is an I When the divorce bureau next old Russian saying that "To i door saw this grand appeal, it marry is not as simple as putting on your slippers In present day Russia, neither is divorce. Times have changed in the Soviet Union since the early days of the revolution when getting a divorce was as easy and na turally accepted as telephoning a friend. A married person did not even need the permission of his spouse, he simply notified the authorities and moved out. Divorce bureaus virtually competed with marriage bureaus for customers. The story is told that after the 1917 revolution an eager marriage bureau received permission to hang out a sign reading: "Workers of the world, unite." Indonesia's Chief U.N. Delegate Sees Ho Civil War There By RALPH TEATSORTH United Press Correspondent United Nations, N. Y. (U.R) Indonesia's chief U. N. delegate said today his people will never resort to civil war. Communism, he asserted, has little chance of overpowering In donesia. The Indonesian masses would block it, he said. These opinions were given by Dr. Abu Hanifah, chairman of the Indonesian delegation, in response to questions during an interview with the United Press. Personal View He emphasized that he was giving his personal opinions and was not speaking as an official of the Indonesian Foreign Min istry or as a U.N. delegate. Hanifah was asked about Indo nesia's so-called "Red menace,' wnich is causing concern in Western countries. ine communists have no chance on their own to overcome the government," he said. "The key words are 'on their own.' I don't believe I should go beyond that. "It would be difficult to make the Communist issue a general problem because of the reluct ance of the people to accept Communism. It's up to the peo ple whether they like it or not." Would Have Last Word He said 80 million Indonesians would have the last word on ac ceptance or nonacceptance of Sukarno's concept of a "guided democracy" under which the Communists would be represent ed in the government. He noted that the people were "not yet too willing to agree toatally with the president. Hanifah said he looked at the present Indonesian crisis some what as a physician looks at a patient. "As a doctor, I must not look at one symptom only but at the disease," he said. "In that way the therapy can be found." Morgan's Removal Demanded in Letter Salem U.R) Rep. Graham Killam, a Portland Republican, today demanded the removal of Oregon Public Utilities Com missioner Howard Morgan. Killam protested to Gov. Rob ert Holmes the dealings of Mor gan with labor union officials as revealed in Morgan's testimony before the Senate Labor Rackets committee last week. Killam wrote Holmes: "Since the Washington, D.C., inquiry concerning certain officials and labor people from Qregon defi nitely establishes the fact that your Public Utilities commis sioner, Mr. Howard Morgan, was involved in an illegal transmis sion of an offer from the Team sters union to support you finan cially in your campaign for gov ernor in turn for your appoint ing one of their people as liquor commissioner, and since he fail ed and neglected to turn this in formation over to the attorney general or the proper district at torney, I must at this time ask that you demand his resigna tion ..." 22nd ANNIVERSARY. We again renew a pledge which was first made 22 years ago, and repeated each year since. We regard this pledge as a sacred obligation. 1 A Kt C. M. Litwiller "Always to serve our clients as their needs require and their wishes dictate; to put service before price; quality before profit. To be guides and counselors to those we serve, seeking always to act in their best interests. To be honorable and fair in all our dealings and never to violate what once we have promised. LITWILLER , Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close put up a gigantic sign spying: You have nothing to lose ut your chains." Honeymoon Over In those days Soviet authorit ies recognized marriage by co habitation. But in 1944, the care free honeymoon of the revolu tion over, divorce was condemn ed, obstacles were placed in the way and a concerted campaign began to persuade young soviet couples to stay together. In a young married couples' club in Stalino, Ukraine, today a notice proclaims in bold black letters, "no divorced people ad mitted.- Membafs of the club work at staying happily hitched. They hold discussions on such sub jects as how to deepen love and respect, avoid jealousy, bring up children and share the house work. According to the Konsomol (Young Communist) plan, if a martial rift develops, the un happy couple is showered with the contempt of follow members and expelled from the club. Walk 'Public Plank' Since 1944 only registered marriages have been recognized. Either husband or wife, or both, must submit an appeal to a pure ly advisory people s court. This court hears complaints and tries to help patch up the quarrel. If it fails, the case goes to a higher, regional court. A waiting period of 12 to 18 months ensues before a decision. But meanwhile the couple "walk the embarrassing and hu miliating public plank" by print ing an announcement of their coming divorce in the newspap ers. The authorities hope that pres sure of public opinion will dis courage the couple from press ing their case. A study of Mos cow newspapers shows an aver age of 618 divorce announce-1 ments a month. At the official exchange rate, it costs $100 to get an announcement printed. Bills Provide For Suspension Of Public Officers Salem (U.R) Two bills pro viding for suspension of any public officer against whom an indictment, has been returned for corruption or malfeasance in office, any offense involving moral turpitude or violation of oath, have been introduced in the Oregon House. One of the bills from the com mittee on state and federal af fairs deals specifically with dis trict attorneys and authowzes the attorney general to assume the duties of a' suspended district attorney. Gov. Robert D. Holmes had asked for legislation embodied in today's bills. Would Have Power - Under the district attorney bill the attorney general also would have power to suspend or remove deputies or other em ployees and to appoint substi tutes. The district attorney or any other suspended public officer would still receive pay until he was convicted of the offense. The governor would have the power to appoint public officers pro tern until the indictment had been disposed of. He could de- i clare the office vacant upon conviction or upon expiration of, time for appeal. Excluded from the list of per sons the governor could suspend would be civil service em ployees. PICKED WRONG CAR Denver U.R) Eleven-year-old Richard Jackson faced with a whipping for naughtiness, de cided to hitch-hike to New York. Four miles out Smith road, with 50 cents in his pocket and a 60 pound knapsack on his back, he gratefully accepted a ride from motorist Gordon Dolliver. Dolli ver drove him to the Denver county jail, where Dolliver is . warden, and called the worried Jackson parents. . y s -'t Mrs. Litwiller J sfwrtri ?- - - "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."