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Newspaper Page TextF0U3 MEDFORD (OREGON) MedpordTribune "Xveryone In SouWern Oreg-oo Beads The Mall TnburwT Publisnea Dally Except Saturday or MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North Ftf St Phone 3-8141 ROBERT W RL;HL Editor HERB GREY Adverusin Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manafae ERIC ALLEN JR Muidnl Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN TeleuraDft Editor RICHARD JEWETT SoorU Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSO.N CireulaUon Mgr. An Ind ependent Newipa per Entered as second elaas matter at ajediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTION RATXS By Mali In Advanca Per Copy lOe Dally and Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three moa 4-23 Sunday Only One rear M 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Aihland Central Point Ea(le Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roirue River. Talent and on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year 18 00 Dally and Sunday One month U0 Carrier and Dealer 10c per coot Ail Term Caah tn Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leaded Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY XNC Offices In New York Chicago, da trolt. San Francisco Los Angelea Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONA I. E D I T 0 I I A i. f I I ASSOC'fcN - gminiti'ii'nn NEWS PA PER UBUSHItS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 gears ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 13. 1947 (Thursday) Announcement of recent as signment of employees to VA subregional office in Medford is made by Manager Emmett F. McGraw. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Older Girls are getting ready to inflict upon their mates the tyranny of spring house-cleaning. 20 YEARS AGO March 13. 1937 (Saturday) Property taxes of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany in Jackson county, totaling $28,873.72, were paid today, ac cording to R. B. Hammond, man ager. With the advent of spring . weather the building program on the Rogue river national for est has been resumed. 30 YEARS AGO Much 13. 1927 (Sunday) Popularity of title insurance 1 sweeping the county, accord ing to Paul Janney of Jackson County Abstract company. S. E. Rothermel has been re tained Xff George Hunt as organ ist at Rialto theatre. 40 YEARS AGO March 13. 1917 (Tuesday) National conference commit tee of great railway systems in dicate there will be a progres sive series of strikes in the country beginning Thursday. From Local and Personal col umn: Circuit court was not in session today because Judge Cal kins was unable to be in Med ford. Hlrf a Tour I.Q.? Nine ar ten correct Is superior; sev esi ar alcfet is excellent; five as K 1. Was the first Episcopal curch in Louisiana erected in Ket Clans or Shreveport? V Ordinary air contains what percerrtaje of nitrogen? 3. Bible: Did God choose Jews as the "Chosen Family" because He lo?ed them more than oth ers? 4. What sort of objects do still life paintings portray? 5. It is colder at the South Pole than at the North Pole; true or false? 6. In what part of the United States is the town of Kodiak? 7. For what organization do the initials DAV stand? 8. A famous New England cape bears the name of a fish; what is it? 9. Is the "th" sound as in "broth" voiceless? 10. "Holiness is an architec tural plan upon which God buil deth up His living" what? . iw (1816). 2." About so per cent. 3.! No. 4. Inanimate objects. 5. True. 6. Alaska. 7. Disabled Am erican Veterans. 8. Cape Cod. 9. Yes. 10. "Temple" Spurgeon. Mayor of Sutheriin Killed in Accident Roseburg ;U.R A one-car ac cident late yesterday claimed the life of Claude Kesner, the mayor of Sutheriin. State police said the pickup truck Kesner was driving ,crashed into a large highway sign, struck the highway divi der and then careened into a utility pole near Sutheriin on Highway 89. - MAIL TRIBUNE Budget Problems This is the season of the year when budget makers get headaches. They have a reason. In conscientiously attempt ing to keep the services of school districts, cities, the county, ana otner taxing units ai tne nign ievei resi dents need and want, they are also faced with the hard fact that there is just so much money. And it i3 a fact sometimes obscure, but none theless a fact that a "big budget" in total is not an entity in itself; rather it is the sum of a lot of smaller needs and demands. TTAKE the city budget committee, for example. Last year they were confronted with a total budget of something over $600,000. This year the requested total undoubtedly will be more than this, not even considering the special outlays outside the general fund which the voters have approved. This results from two principal reasons: 1. The growth of the city, both as to area and as to population. 2. The natural (and laudable) desire of the city departments to do an ever-better job. DUT where is the budget committee to draw the line? Where are they going to say "This far we can go, and no farther"? They have heard the building department point out that the size of the city has expanded almost 100 per cent, and that more building inspectors will therefore be needed; that a $2y2 million hospital is building and a $5 million retirement home presum ably soon will be, so more money to perform adequate inspections for the safety and welfare of the people will be required. The police department points out that the an nexations call for at least one more police "beat" meaning a minimum of five more men and one or two more cars. The department asks for a $30,000 increase to properly protect the peace and safety of the city. The public library points out that circulation of books has increased 40 per cent in the past two years, and that more personnel and more books are impera tive if proper service is to be maintained, at an added cost of several thousand dollars. e A ND so it goes. Each department has something it wants and needs to perform the services people want and deserve to have. So a man with an adding machine totals up these requests, and finds to his far higher than the one for out an across-the-board cut, either of the budget total, or of the departmental budgets, is neither equitable nor intelligent. It could cut into the bone and muscle of the city's services in an attempt to slice away "fat." No, the budget committee, if it is to keep the budget total within the bounds of income and tax payer tolerance, must go over the budget item by item and line by line. If in this process they cannot keep the budget within limits, then they will have to go to the people and ask them to approve an added tax to provide the needed equipment and services. e e THE same general procedure is followed at all levels of government the school districts, the county, the state, the federal government. Everywhere the public officials entrusted with pro viding governmental services are caught in this dilemma the mounting costs and demands on one hand, and, mounting taxpayer resistance and diminishing returns on the other. An additional fact that complicates this is that the taxpayer complaints are seldom against single budget items, but against the total. All they know, and often all they care, is that their taxes are high, and they don't like it. But they have not studied the situation sufficiently to make constructive sug gestions as to where money could be saved without impairing the functions of government. e e e fN the other hand, groups are active in making demands for the expenditure of more money for special purposes. Often, case for the need they cite. And the supporters can bring considerable pres sure to bear for their approval. It is the combination of items, as opposed to general and non-specific pro tests AGAINST high budgets, with which budgeters and legislators have to contend. THE results, more often special-pleaders advocate. the generalized pressure against higher taxes becomes so strong that budgets are trimmed, sometimes with intelligence and discrimination, sometimes not. It is in the latter case essential and needed services can be hurt. Artrl nrrwornmontal i - - n wanted by people, and most of them are willing to pay for them within reason. Folice and fire protec tion, good streets, roads and highways, efficient ad ministration, welfare services for the aged and needy, schools at all levels, library services, institutional and hospital care for those needing it, honest and speedy justice in well-run courts, health protection, stimulation and reasonable regulation of trade and commerce, assistance to agriculture, protection of natural resources all these are proper functions of government. They are good and beneficial functions, too. Some times, in considering all that the state, county and city governments do, we feel that the carefully spent tax dollar is the biggest bargain we receive. E.A. Wednesday. March 13. I9S7 dismay that the budget is the current year. they can make an excellent this pressure FOR specific than not, are approval for But the time comes when that the danger lies, for connoc APT. noaAaA orirf ---w v. Dulles Statement Leaves No Doubt About U.S.-China Policy By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has left no room for doubt about United States policy to- ! an ji us ward Commun ist China. There has been specula tion, off and on, for a long time on the possibility that the United States might soften its atti tude toward the Red government of Peiping. But Dulles, in a statement to members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, now meet ing in Australia, said emphatic ally: The United States means to continue its recognition of the Chinese Nationalist government in Formosa. It will not recognize the Com munist government. It will continue to oppose the Charles McCano 'Soul-Searching' Now Under Way by Both Political Parties By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) The Democratic National Committee is circulating a 1956 election au topsy calculated to scare any Democrats who think their can didates should be shoo-ins in fu ture elections. This document is one symp tom of the soul-searching now going on among both Republi cans and Democrats about how to approach elections in which the name of Dwight D. Eisen hower will not appear on the ballot. Democratic National Chair man Paul M. Butler told Balti more Democrats last week end that their party cannot assume it will win in 1960 just because Mr. Eisenhower will not be a candidate. The same warning was contained in Democratic Sen. John F. Kennedy's Life magazine article, in which the Senate Committee To Hear Spitzbarl Explain State Fair Salem (U.R) Manager Leo Spitzbart will be asked to ex plain the intricate workings of the Oregon State Fair to the Sen ate Agriculture Committee be fore it acts on a bill to put the fair back under the State Depart ment of Agriculture. The committee held an extend ed hearing yesterday afternoon on Senate bill 302 to abolish the State Fair Commission and put the fair back under the Agricul ture Department where it was before the 1951 Legislature cre ated the commission. Sen. Dwight Hopkins of Imb ler, who co-sponsored the meas ure with Rep. R. E. Schedeen of Gresham, said the purpose was to get the emphasis back more to the agricultural area of the fair and less to the so-called car-: nival area. J Ed Randall, who operats a service station near the fair grounds, complained that prices were too high for concession stands and in recent years ha couldn't sell snow-cones or cot ton candy because he had to go through a "Portland syndicate'' which told him, and others in cluding church groups, schools and fraternal organizations, what they could or could not sell. R. A. Jennings of Eugene, who distributes such items as slicers and peelers, complained that he couldn't get a good location for his booth at the State Fair, and wanted the fair put back under the Agriculture Department. But Rep. Eddy Ahrens of Turner, who said he had been connected with the State Fair for 25 years, said the attendance had increased steadily and so had the exhibits since the fair went under its own commission in 1951. Harley Libby of Jefferson, president of the Oregon Farmers' Union, and Elmer McClure, mas ter of the State Grange, said their organizations favored the bill, while George Dewey, execu tive secretary of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation, said his group had taken no stand one way or another on the bill. Portland Man Sentenced To Life Term in Prison Portland U.R Leroy Ded- rick, 32-year-old convicted mur derer, was sentenced to life im prisonment yesterday by Circuit Judge Frank J. Lorvergan. Dedrick was convicted last week of the first degree murder of Mrs. Nehoma Seegar, 39, Portland. Testimony during the trial said Dedrick had stabbed the victim 14 times in the wake of an argument over foodTTe had been served at tne woman s home. admittance of the Chinese Red regime to the United Nations. Dulles' statement seemed to be a carefully considered pro nouncement of a policy which will continue for the foreseeable future. The Reason Why One reason for the statement probably was that Red China shares the embarrassment of So viet Russia over the way the de motion of Josef Stalin from Com munist sainthood got out of hand. Dulles apparently felt that this was no time to do any favors to one of the two great Communist powers. But his blast against the Chi nese Reds marked a definite hardening of policy. It has been more than seven years since the Communists over ran China and sent Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek to seek refuge in Formosa. With each passing year, there is less possibility that Chiang ever can achieve his dream of Massachusetts senator said the Democrats need new ideas and new faces. Can't Project Popularity On the other side of the poli tical fence, Sen. George D. Ai ken (R-Vt.) said in a New York speech Tuesday that the GOP must remember it is "a Republi can party, not an Eisenhower party." Aiken said Mr. Eisenhower was elected because of personal popularity and faith among the voters that he could best pro vide leadership for peace. But Aiken added Mr. Eisenhower could not translate that popu- larity into victory for other Re publican candidates. The Vermont senator suggest ed his party needs better public relations and a generally smart er operation at national, state and local levels. Plan Regional Meetings The GOP national organiza tion decided this week to hold regional conferences this spring to seek out "grass roots opinions on political issues." This pro gram was intended to provide an early start for the 1958 con gressional campaign in which the GOP currently is" conceded only a longshot chance to win control of the House and Sen ate. The Democratic study, based on the 1956 vote, draws no line between the party's bright pros pects in 1958 and the greater uncertainties to be faced in the 1960 presidential election. It notes the Democratic con gressional victory in 1956 has been interpreted as a sign of superior "basic party strength." But it warns of signs the party is losing strength. The current soul-searching in dicates neither party is taking much for granted in preparing for 1958 and 1960. Kennedy's and Aiken's pre scriptions probably will be fol lowed by many other proposals for remodeling the two parties for the political contests ahead. 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 Thanks. From Girl Scouts To the Editor: The Rogue Val ley Area Girl Scout Council wishes to thank Mr. Allen, Mr. Vroman, Mr. Grey and Mr. Adams for the help and advice you all gave in making the Girl Scout Birthday celebration an unusual success by helping to focus attention on the organiza tion and program for the girls. The benefit that such opera tion gives to an organiza tion that works largely with volunteers is greater than you realize, I am sure. Mr. Grey and his advertising staff made the ads so attractive and full of meaning, and one can well understand the time Mr. Adams spent in shaping up the news items. We feel that he did an excellent job coordinating the many topics. The very few mistakes made in re-shuffling will only serve as 3 guide (if and when we are asked to ex plain) which will will also show how thoroughly our readers scrutinize the contents of the six pages. It was a thrill to look through the section, noting with grati tude the sponsors. I have re ceived many telephone calls with most complimentary re marks on the contents and the beautiful job done by the Med ford Mail Tribune. Again our sincere thanks for your help in making this "once in a lifetime" report to our "public." Mrs. Scott Davis Public Relations Chairman Rogue Valley Area Girl Scout Council, Inc. invading the mainland and throwing out the Reds. The Communists represent about 500 million people. The population of Formosa j totals about 8 million, most of whom would be happy if Chiang and his army went to China or any where else. The Peiping government has been trying to find some means of getting the United States into a direct conference, in which Dulles would meet Chinese Com munist Premier Chou En-Lai. Also Ask Peace Talks The Communists also have been broadcasting messages about the desirability of peace talks to high officials of the Chi nese Nationalist regime, includ ing. Lt. Gen. Chiang Ching-kuo, the generalissimo's eldest son and possible political heir. There also has been talk of an international agreement un der which there might be "two Chinas." This somewhat nebu lous idea would imply that both Nationalist China and Commun ist China might be recognized and that both might be members of the U.N. In addition, there is the ques tion of Japan's future relations with Red China. Japan so far, ! under successive Dremiers. has adhered to a pro-American pol icy, and has refused to recognize the Peiping government. But China offering unlimited pos sibilities of trade, is Japan s next door neighbor, and Japan needs foreign trade. The day must come when Japanese-Chinese re lations are closer. But there hardly can be much effective criticism of Dulles' statement of policy. The cold war is on again. The Moscow and Peiping governments are ene mies of everything the United States stands for, Minimum Noise Levels For Motor Topic of Committee Salem U.R) House bill 599 requiring the Department of Mo tor Vehicles to set minimum noise levels for trucks and other motor vehicles and prohibiting vehicles from running with "cut out" or deficient mufflers was thrashed over by the House Highways Committee yesterday. Keith Cobo, chairman of the Oregon Motor Court Association legislative committee, favored the bill as efficient and enforce able and said that proper muf flers do not reduce truck power or raise trucking costs prohibi tively. Industry Said Aware Trucker representative Bob Knipe said the industry was very much aware of the noise prob lem, but would like to see an interim committee set up to study the whole noise picture be fore action was taken. ' Rep. John Kerbow, Klamath Falls Democrat, said that 80 per cent of the trucking companies were making a good effort to re duce noise to acceptable levels. Motor Vehicles Department of ficial Don Neave testified that the department was not now equipped to set up standards and enforce them. Bert Ogden of Consolidated Freightways testified that their big rigs complied with Ameri can Trucking Association stand ards which set 125 sones as-the outside noise level for accept able operation. He said new trucks were now tested to be I sure they came within the limit. Truckers Favor Rating Briefs From The Legislature Salem '(U.R) The Democratic controlled House Committee on State and Federal Affairs has recommended House passage of a measure calling for an inves tigation of pardons practices of Gov. Robert D. Holmes and re cent Republican governors. Salem U.R The House has turned thumbs down 32-26 on house bill 419 which would have provided for an exchange of in formation on real and personal property between the tax com mission and county assessers. Salem U.R The House Judi ciary Committee has recom mended for passage two bills to abolish capital punishment. Gov. Robert D. Holmes called for abolishment of the supreme penalty during his inaugural address. Salem U.R) A bill which would have prohibited sale of automobiles on Sunday has been tabled by the House Judiciary Committee. Stops Stomach Gas 3 Times Faster Certifitd laboratory tests "" ifU,-a tablets asutraliis i time as moos stomach acidity la ens minute as maay tooling dlosttivo tamers. Cot ItU-aNS May far la ftotast tawaa nlM. life Age-Old Dream Nears Fulfillment: States of Europe By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Correspondent Bonn, Germany (U.R) You can stand on the bank of the i swift-flowing Rhine these days and actually see a United Europe in the making. Tugs flying the flags of five nations struggling against the current, towing long strings of barges loaded to the waterline on this busiest of European wa terways. Their cargoes are the coal and steel of the smoke blackened Ruhr headed for the inland ports of France. In a few years, when a canal on the Ktiine s Moselle Kiver tributary is realized, the barges will return with iron and steel from the smelters of French Lorraine for the Ruhr rolling mills. Late this month in Rome, six West European nations will sign treaty to weld a community of 160 million people in a single great trading area comparable to the United States. It calls for the gradual, pro gressive abolition of tariffs and trade quotas between France, West Germany, Italy, the Neth erlands, Belgium and Luxem bourg plus the sharing of all peaceful development of atomic energy. Great Britain has "as sociated" itself with the plan. Age-Old Dream There are many European statesmen who see this as lead ing to fulfillment of the age-old dream of a United States of Eu rope. Such men as Germany's Kon rad Adenauer, Britain's Winston Churchill and Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak have long counseled that the nation's of a disunited Western Europe must so com- Vehicles Truckers said they, favored the sone rating which covers only sounds that can be heard by a human ear whereas a de cible rating also measures sounds higher and .lower than the ear can hear. Also discussed by the commit tee was House bill 610 providing that the Portland-Salem express way shall be designated "Willa mette Freeway" and the Port-land-T routdale throughway shall be cajled "Columbia Free way." Porter- Yett, contractor who built a large section of the Portland-Salem through way, said he favored retaining the names R. H. Baldock Freeway and Banfield Expressway for the two roads. NAM President Tells of Pressure Jacksonville, Fla. U.PJ Ern est G. Swigert, president of the National Association of Manu facturers, charged today that the administration has "yielded to pressure" to spend any fed eral money available. The Portland, Ore., industrial- 1st also said he sees "onlv trouble ahead" in the Mid-East crisis, which he charged was created partly by efforts of for mer President Truman to "cap ture the Jewish vote in New York City." The West Coast businessman made his remarks at a news con ference here. He said the country could be on "the threshold of the greatest prosperity ever attained by any country in the history of the world." "But that is not going to hap pen if we continue to deprive industry of capital through our tax system and if we continue to turn over to government those functions that the people can and should handle themselves," Swigert added. Swigert said some $8 billion could be trimmed safely from the the budget now before Congress. The Better Service C. M. Litwiller Mt. Off street parking Quiet Location At Cemetery Entrance i-t- iii i rn V L.I I VYIL-LXK Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close United 1 bine or wind up sooner or later as dependents on satellites of the two giants the United States and Russia. There are growing siens sow that their advice is being heed ed. France and Germany have never been on better terms than today. Bustling Germany, with a surplus of capital but no col onies, has agreed to join France in putting up $200 million for development of the agricultural and mineral wealth of French and Belgian territories in Africa. The "Euroatom" project is aimed at meeting the critical electric power shortage that threatens Western Europe's in dustrial progress. . Britain Switches Britain, long commonwealth- minded, now is switching course and seeking means of linking up with the continental common market to create a free trade area with a population of 250 million. Premier Harold Mac- millan has given it his backing. Scandinavia, long aloof from European union, is having aec ond thoughts about being left out in the cold. Even so, economic cooperation is a matter far different from political unity among nations with proud histories, different languages, clashing ambitions. traditional hostilities. The one modest attempt at political union has not been a real success. It is the Council of Europe, a body of 15 states intended to serve as a European parliament. In the main it has been not much more than a de bating forum. But Churchill, Adenauer and others are convinced that Eu rope must unite or go under. Some think it may come in 10 years, some in 20, but there is a growing conviction that it is inevitable. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs: Egypt says (Monday) that an Egyptian administration will take over responsibility for the Gaza strip IMMEDIATELY, and diplomats at the UN fear this means a new Middle East crisis. An American spokesman at the UN says the United States expects the UN force in Gaza to stay there indefinitely. TTAVING spanked Israel, it looks like we'll now have to spank Egypt. When one is run ning the world, there's never a dull moment. PRESIDENT EISENHOWER'S budget chief, Percival Brund age, tells the magazine U. S. News and World Report that a treasury surplus of from five to six billion dollars is POSSIBLE iur uie ousiuess year Deginimig July 1, 1958. It sounds good, but there's an IF in it. What he means is. that there can be a surplus IF we don't spend too much. QUESTION: WILL we spend too much? Answer: We will unless those who are running our government get the idea that spending too much is no longer a sure-fire way to win votes. j rjPEAKING of spending J U. S. Civil Defense Admin istrator Val Peterson tells the congress that 98 per cent of American city dwellers may die in a surprise atomic attack unless shelters are provided. He adds that he has asked the President to approve a 32-bil-lion-dollar shelter building pro gram. LET'S do a little analyzing. It seems probable that if surprise atomic attacks come they will come at night. It seems equally probable that warning of suth attacks will be very brief. If those probabilities are real, it looks like the people of the big cities would have to spend EVERY NIGHT in the shelters in order to be safe. THAT raises a question: Would they do it? If not, the 32 billions would be wasted. Beautiful View Chapel W.. iis i l ssaasaaal Mn. Litwiller No processions through streets Better service lower cost 100 Locally Owned "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."