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o o O 0 O O o fOBKGON) "Ivaryona In Souuiarn Reads The Mall TrttnjM' O Published Dally Except Saturday t MXOFORD PRINTING CO 17-39 North rtr SL Phona i-glil BOBERT W RUKL. Editor KERB GREY Advertlsuia; Mans ear GERAU) LATHAM Busmen Manarai ERIC ALLEN JR. Manatfna; Editor EARL H ADAMS. Cits Editor HARRY CHIPMAN. Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWXTT Sports Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON. Circulation MKT. An Independent Newspaper Xntered aa second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dal it and Sunday One year 15 00 Daily and Sunday- Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4-23 Sunday Only One Tear 120 By Carrier In Advance Madford. Ashland Central Point. Eafle Point. Jackaonyllle Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rorue River. Talent and on motor routes: Dally and Sunday One year IIS 90 Dally and Sunday One month 1 30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Caalt In Advance Otflrlal Paper of the City of Msdfori Official Paper ot Jackson County United" Press full Leased Wire MEMBER Of AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DC Offices in New York Chicafo. de troit San Francisco Los Angelas Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL OITOIIAa t y ASSOCIATION ULM Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the filei of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 15. 1947 (Saturday) A long-range program to im prove fishing at Lake of the Woods will be undertaken this year, according to E. P. Ivory, president of Home Owners asso ciation. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The sun shone bright and balmy Thuri. and Fri. causing the Older Girls t dream of picnics and bring on a rain. 20 YI&18 AGO March 15. 1937 (Monday) Ernie's Casino on the Pacifc highway north of Gold Hill will be reopened Wednesday by Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Plummer, new owners and managers. Chief of Police Clatous Mc Credie and Capt. Lee Brown of the state police announce ac ceptance of City Patrolman James Maulding for position with state police. 30 YEARS AGO March IS. ft27 (Tuesday) U.S. treasurer issues check for Jackson county totaling $1,151, 962. 7-, in payment for a O&C land grant tax refund. Faster and earlier mail serv ice from Portland has been as sured due to a change in air plane schedules, according to Postmaster W. J. Warner. 40 YEARS AGO March IS. 1917 (Thursday) After three days of battle, a revolution is successfully effect ed in Petrograd, Russia. What's Your I.Q.? Nina or ten corrsct is superior; sev en cr eight is excsUent; tiva a six is good. 1. In 1837 the first successful screw in steam navigation was introduced by F. P. Smith and Captain E n? 2. Is the actual weight of ship denoted by its "gross ton nage" or its "displacement ton nage?" 3. "Bible: Does Mark 6:1-6 re fer to the "First" or "Second Rejection" of Jesus at Nazareth? 4. Who served as Vice-Presi dent in the first administration of George Washington? 5. Is a stethoscope used most by a machinist,' a musician, physician, or a physicist? 6. What is a cadaver? 7. Lord Haw Haw was a char acter in one of Dickens' novels true or false? 8. "Dry ice" is a popular name for what? 9. Does "calculate" mean to plan, compute, think, or express? 10. "Over the hills and far away" was the only tune that "a piper's son" could play. Name him. Answers: 1. Ericson. 2. Dis placement tonnage. 3. Second -Rejection. 4. John Adams. 5. TPhysician. 6. Corps. 7. Fait (h was a German radio propagan dist). 8. Solidified carbon dioxide gas. 9. Compute. 10. Tom. House Subcommittee OKs Columbia Channel Survey Washington (U.R) A resolu tion calling for a survey to de termine the cost of creating a 40-foot channel from Vancouver to the mouth of the Columbia ever won approval yesterday from a House public works sub committee. The resolution would author ed6 the Army engineers to make the survey at an estimated cost of $100,008. rJNNIW$PAPI C -AS$OCIATIOM J i MAIL TRIBUrTS Growth of Cities "Salem's pride is damaged," says the Salem Cap ital Journal. "Something which we have expected for several years has apparently happened," says the Eugene Register-Guard. c The basis of these diverse comments is the fact that the city recorders of the two cities have for warded their estimates of their own cities' populations to the state census board, and it is found that Eugene now has a population exceeding that of Salem by 169 people. Salem, after 100 years in the position, is no longer the second-largest city in the state, or won't be if the census board accepts the recorders' estimates with out major revision. t t m m pOUNTING noses in these two cities is an "iffy" proposition, however. . Eugene is permitted to include in its total the 5,000 or so students at the University of Oregon. Salem's total includes the inmates of the state hos pital (about 3,500) and the state penitentiary (about 1,500) as well as the 1,000 students at Willamette university. . . The census figures, therefore, (to not reflect the numbers of bona fide, permanent residents. And what of the future? The Capital Journal says "Salem has greater an nexation possibilities," a statement with which the R-G would disagree, for it says "Of course, with an annexation or two, there would be no doubt" as to which would be larger. It points out that some 32, 000 people live in the suburbs of Eugene, and that if onlv two of the more populous areas joined the ! city, the population would not counting the possibility of bpnngf leld, with some 13,000 residents, joining Eugene a possibility which seems remote enough at this point. yHE new count gives Eugene 46,482 and Salem 1 46,313. Portland, of course, is still first, and will remain so for the foreseeable future, because of its strategic position at the confluence of the Columbia and the Willamette, its port facilities, and the fact that it is also a major terminus for travel. Fourth city in the state estimated population of just under 22,000, up some 1,900 from last year at this time, partly the result of the Kenwood-Grandview annexation. It is doubtful that the new estimates will make much change in the ranking of the 13 cities in the state now having more than 10,000 people, except possibly Albany and Astoria. The state Blue Book lists them this way: Fifth, Klamath Falls, 18,300; sixth, Corvallis, 17,900; seventh, Pendleton, 14,500; eighth, Spring field, 13,250; ninth, Roseburg, 12,600; tenth, Astoria, 12,331; eleventh, Albany, 12,300; twelfth, Bend, 11, 900, and thirteenth, The Dalles, 10,600. TT IS interesting to watch the comparative rates of growth of the cities of Oregon over the past 26 years. Medford has almost doubled, from 11,007 in 1930. In 1940 it still had only 11,281 people. The big jump, of course, came between then and 1950, when the federal census gave us 17,305. Eugene in 1930 had it had climbed only to 20,838. Here, too, the big in crease was sparked by World War 11, and by lioU it had 35,879. But Eugene kept growing, and by last year the total was 44,406. Salem started m 1930 with 26,266. In 1940 this 30,908, in 1950 to 43,140, and in 1956 to 45,812.. ease THE most spectacular little town of 2,364, and which today is the bustling, lumber-manufacturing eighth city of the state with more than 13,000. Roseburg, too, has grown spectacularly, from 4,362 to 12,600. Most stable of the major cities in Oregon is prob ably Astoria, which climbed only from 10,349 to 12,331 during the 26 years. At one of the censuses, it dropped a few people, but later gained them back again. Bend and Klamath Falls each climbed in popula tion less than some of the others, Bend going from 8,848 to 11,990, and Klamath from 16,093 to 18,300. AS TO county population, only three are over the 100,000 mark Multnomah, Lane and Marion, in that order. Fourth and fifth are Clackamas (97,550) and Washington (74,120). They do not have any of the larger cities, but their population is accounted for by the fact that they are "bedroom" counties sur rounding Portland, where many metropolitan, work ers have their homes in smaller communities and rural developments. Sixth county is Douglas, with 71,830, and it is followed by Jackson, with 65,790 and Linn, with 20,120. THE state as a whole has climbed from 783,399 in x 1920 to 953,786 in 1930; 1,089,684 in 1940; 1, 521,341 in 1950 and 1,690,840 in 1956. The rate of population increase in Oregon has not been as rapid as it has been in either Washing ton or California, a fact freely discussed by politicians in both parties But with population still coming west, it is in evitable that more people will continue to come to Oregon. E.A. Friday. March 15. 1957 go over 60,000. This is rail, highway and air still is Medford, with an 18,901 people, and in 194U with an edge on Eugene, had climbed slightly to growth has probably been Mid-East Cuba, Hungary Take Spotlight in By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on Ik international bal ance sheet: Danger of new fighting be tween Egypt and Israel arose in the Gaza area in Palestine. United Nations forces took over the area from Israelis who had held it since their Sft! - n invasion of V " it October. With the 'sgz-1-h'Zl agreement of i the U.N., Presi- . dent Gamal Charles MeCann Abdel Nasser of Egypt named a governor gen eral to assume civil administra tive control. Israel objected angrily, and threatened to take military ac tion if Nasser moved troops into Gaza. Rebels Storm Palae Cuban rebels stormed the presidential palace in midtown Havana in an attempt to over- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS More on budget cutting: Secretary of Agriculture Ben son is working with budget bu reau officials in an effort to trim his department's record-breaking budget of five billion, 300 mil lion dollars for the coming fis cal year. THAT is quite a lot of money. What is it spent for? The answer to that question is rather interesting. More than half of the department of agri culture's budget goes into such programs as supporting farm prices, the soil bank land better ment plan, payments to farmers for conserving soil and water and subsidies to sugar and wool producers. THAT is to say: TVTnrp than fwn ViilHnn An. lars a year goes into programs designed to keep prices of farm products higher. On a per capita basis, each billion dollars taken out of the taxpayers' pockets and spent by government costs you as an individual about $6 so this two billion dollar expendi ture to bolster farm product prices costs you as an individual about S12. If you are the bread winner for a family of four, it costs you in the neighborhood of $48. TF THE spending of this huge - sum of money made American agriculture happy and prosper ous and comfortable, I think no one would complain. But does it? I wonder. We have come recently through a political campaign in which the plight of the Ameri can farmer was described by the politicians as little less than tragic. Can an agricultural pro gram that costs more than two billion dollars for price-propping devices AW) STILL LEAVES AMERICAN FARMERS DOWN TRODDEN AND UNDER PRIVILEGED be described as a success? I doubt it. CAN the agriculture depart ment's hlirlcrof ha mqtapi. ally? Secretary Benson and his aides say the job is difficult be cause the bulk of the depart ment's expenditures come in the field of supporting farm pricesd an xarm incomes and so large numbers of lawmakers, with an eye on the farm vote, are de manding BIGGER rather than smaller federal spending for agricultural supports. Secretary Benson thinks some budget trimming could undoubt edly be done in the fields of agricultural research and mar keting because the politicians are not so directly interested in projects of that sort. But, Mr. Benson contends, the best help government can give to farmers is io aevise ways, through re search and education, to help farmers to produce more effic iently and more cheaply. So he himself doesn't want to cut fields which he regards as genuinely promising. rpHE secretary of agriculture thinks the school lunch pro gram is one place where some cutting could be done. Its pro posed cost in the next fiscal year is 100 million dollars. What it amounts to is giving government-owned food surpluses to schools so that free or at least low-priced lunches can be served to school children. But here again he runs into opposition from political sources. LL of this helps to explain "why budget cutting isn't a simple thing. Over a period that now is runnine into its third decade, our people have been taught to think of Uncle Sam as a big-hearted old benefactor who scatters largess among all his people and delights in doing so. At the same time, we have been taught to think of this largess as manna from heaven that costs nobody anything. We hate to give it up. And We fail to recognize that in the long run it all comes out of our pockets. Week's News List throw President Fulgencio Ba tista. At least 36 persons, in cluding an American tourist by stander, were killed in a two hour battle before palace guards routed the invaders. Hungarian Communist author ities took extraordinary precau tions to head off a threatened new uprising in face of indica tions that anti-Communists plan ned an outbreak today. Warned by the arrival of troops and tanks in Budapest, underground leaders distributed leaflets urg ing "all freedom fighters to re frain from any action on March 15. Gaza When Israel, at the demand of the U.N., withdrew its troops from the Gaza Strip area on the Israel - Egypt border, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion said that he would not tolerate ' its reoccupation by Egyptian forces. Troops of the U.N. Emergency Force occupied the area. Tips on Shopping Given by Babson By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. I have i already given hints as to buying real estate. That is: (1) Determine I in which direc tion your city is growing best and with the best houses East, West, North or South. (2) Then drive out the main road in that di rection. Buy Eoger w. Babson when you come to the first good land offered by the acre not by the foot. I have also told those who are deter mined to bet at horse races to bet on two or three of the horses which have been coming in "sec ond '! Now let me give some hints to women shoppers. I forecast that discount houses will constantly become a greater factor in merchandising. They have lower overhead than the big department stores and are worthy of the attention of every sharp shopper. Like all else in this world, they have their ad vantages and disadvantages. They can usually give you lower prices on all articles. On good furniture, textiles, and other merchandise which does not need mechanical servicing I rec ommend that they be patronized. I, however, cannot now recom mend them for electrical appli ances, such as stoves, television sets, and perhaps washing ma chines, which need servicing. Sales of "loss leaders" should be carefully watched. These have an economic use in merchandis ing in order to get customers into a store. A merchant can well afford to advertise and sell one article below cost, to get you into the store in the hope that you will also buy something else upon which he will make a good profit. A couple shopping with patience who will study the ad vertisements can (during the year) secure most of their goods from these "loss leaders" for aDout one nan xneir regular re-1 tail prices. Anniversary Sales But here is perhaps my best tip when one of your reliable stores has an anniversary sale, make a note of it in your diary. If you don't need to buy anything at that time, write down when it will come next year. (It must always come the same week each year). Every month some store is having an anniversary sale. Care ful shoppers fill all their needs at these sales. Instead of form ing the habit of trading at only their favorite store, they shop around at these different Stores awaiting their anniversary sales. There also are "white sales," when you can get bargains. Most of these occur in the summer; but I am told that the real bargains come at the very end of the win ter.. There are special sales where manufacturers are over stocked or are about to change styles or models. Watch for them. Watch your newspaper adver tisements for real opportunities. Auction Sales Auctions have existed for the past 3,000 years. They regularly took place in the great public market places of Athens, Rome, and Venice. Many jewelry stores hold daily auctions in most large cities today. Of course, all stock exchanges work on the auction system. Until recently, however, I have hesitated to recommend that my readers buy at store auc tions. Certain cities, however, are now holding mammoth and reli able auctions publicized by tele vision. Then, wherever you are, you have the privilege for one week of buying a duplicate of any article sold at the auction at the same price at which it was shown and sold at the auction. One of the most famous of these auctions is operated three times daily, except Sundays, at Clear water, Fla., under the name of "Howard the Trader." While good stores have but few regular customers, this auction will have from 5,000 to 10,000 people daily. It is amazing. Either these auctions can revolutionize re tailine. or else they will flop. Only the future can tell. I now 'don't even guess. Nasser, who regards the U.N. occupation as temporary, named a governor general to organize Egyptian control of civil affairs. But Israeli leaders believed Nasser might plan to move Egyp tian troops into Gaza later. They left no doubt that if he did, Israel would attack. Cuba Fidel Castro, 30, a student leader who had been living in exile in Mexico, landed a small force of rebels in Oriente Prov ince, in the extreme eastern part of Cuba last October to chal lenge the rule of Batista. Since then, the rebels have been hold ing out in the mountains against strong army units. The rebels who stormed Ba tista's palace in Havana Thurs day were believed to be allied with Castro. Cuban authorities charged that both groups are supported by former President Carlos Prio Socarras, now in Florida, whom Batista ousted in 1952. Finally, I recommend to every housewife either the Consumer Reports from Mt. Vernon, N. Y., or the Consumers' Research Bul letin of Washington, N. J. (non profit monthlies). They make im partial reports as to the compar ative quality of all nationally ad vertised products. Hatfield Raps Holmes For Break of 'Faith1 In Transfer of Office Salem '(U.R) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield accused Gov. Robert D. Holmes of a "direct break of faith" when his newly appointed director of motor vehicles "requested" transfer of the gas tax collec tions and refunds functions from his office to the Department of Motor Vehicles as of 5 p.m. to day. Hatfield termed the request for transfer at this time "untime ly and uneconomical" but he said he had no choice but to comply with the request. Bill Would Resolve Problem The secretary of state said that Senate bill 33 now before the Legislature "would resolve the whole problem with maxi mum economy." He added: "Because Senate bill 33 is before the Legislature, it seems untimely for the proposed action to be taken so hastily although the - director of motor vehicles was within his legal right to do so." The new director is Frank Johnson, former Coos Bay lumberman. Hatfield added: "The sum mary fashion in which the re quest was made is a direct break of faith on the part of the gov ernor as recorded in his letter Goyernor Warns State Educators Portland U.R) Delegate to the Oregon Education Associa tion meeting here last night were told bluntly by Gov. Robert Holmes that their job is to edu cate the youth of the state and they are in danger of losing rec ognition in that respect. "I feel certain that you are in danger of becoming known as tax experts, accountants, budget jugglers and financial planners instead of being known by your ancient and most hon orable title, teachers of Ameri can youth," the governor told the group. He told the delegates that in continually talking of taxation and districting problems they "are implying that you are ex changing your ancient and most honorable craft for a business that really belongs at the local level to the school boards and at the state level to the Legis lature." The governor said questions regarding what the added money would do for the child are going unanswered while the educators talk in general terms of needs. Some 3000 educators from throughout the state are attend ing the state OEA convention here which opened yesterday. 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At his news conference this week, Mr. Eisenhower said his "new Republicanism" had "noth ing whatsoever to do with big budgets" but rather sought the greatest possible economy. In a New York speech last week end, an old conservative. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks, said . modern Republicanism is just what it used to be only dressed in up-to-date fashion. More on this subject was heard in a speech here Thursday by Arthur Larson, director of the U.S. Information Agency, who is recognized as one of the most articulate philosophers of the new Republicanism. Denounces Comparison Larson took a dim view of the "rather superficial inclination on the part of some people to equate modern Republicanism with the 1958 budget." He acknowledged that protests against the budget are jamming congressional mail boxes but said there were "many to me of Jan. 29 in which he agreed to the assignment of tech nicians by his own finance de partment to study gas tax admin istration. That study hasn't been completed yet but the actipn is preceding the determination of policy based on study. Additional Personnel Needed Hatfield said he had no choice but to comply with the request but declared: "The present con solidated staff performs both constitutional and statutory func tions of the secretary of state, With the requested separation. however, hiring of additional personnel by both departments will be required as a result of unnecessary duplication and overlapping." Senate bill 33 relates to the transfer from the Department of Motor Vehicles to the secre tary of state of the adminis tration of ORS chapter 319, which includes provisions relat ing to the motor vehicle and use fuel excise tax. Tax Appeal Board Under Discussion Salem (U.R) Establishment of a three-man board to hear tax appeals instead of the State Tax Commission has been discussed before the House Taxation Com mittee here. Now, an aggrieved taxpayer can take his case to the county board of equalization, then the State Tax Commission, and, if he is dissatisfied with the com mission's decision, he must go to Circuit Court. The board, suggested by Sen. Ben Musa and Rep. Katherine Musa, The Dalles Democrats, would be an independent review ing body whose members would be appointed by the governor with consent of two-thirds of the Senate. Sen. Musa told the committee his idea was to create a body to mediate between the taxpayer and the commission and take the judicial function away from the commission. "A taxpayer is now forced to go to the same cop who arrested him," Musa said. Work To Continue on Replica of Mayflower Brixham. England (U.R) Union leaders announced today that work will continue on the replica of the Mayflower even if some 200,000 shipbuilders go on strike Saturday as planned. "It is a goodwill gesture to shipyard workers in America," one union official said. FREE Spending fallacies" in identifying the Pres ident's budget with "modern Re publicanism." The same tyne nf T?sniiV,i;,r, ism, he asserted, has prevailed for four years while government admitted some of the current budget's features, like federal aid for schools, might inflate the budget. But he noted that de fense costs, veterans' benefits and similar costs accounted for most of the total. in the face of Democrats clamor for the administration to tell where the budget mieht ha cut, the administration gave Con gress a taste Thursday of whaVio expect. Housing Administrator Albert M. Cole annnunrpH hi. agency's budget request was be ing trimmed by $200 million. Ap parently only part of this would have been spent in the next fiscal year anyway. Cole said his proposal was the first of a series from the administration to hold down spending. Other Chopping Areas Recommendations still to come may call for putting off reclama tion projects here, flood control works there, and less drought relief some place else. Congress may or may not willingly accept suggestions for cutbacks that can offend local blocs of voters. A substantial segment of the lawmakers wants at least, first, to take a tuck in the administra tion's $4.4 billion foreign aid program, which Mr. Eisenhower has said is vital to national se curity. Sen. John L. McClellan (D- Ark.) came back Thursday with his plan, passed three times by the benate and killed three times by the House, to improve congressional machinery -for handling the budget. With 59 co-sponsors, he intro duced a bill to set up a 14-mem-ber House-Senate committee on the budget. This committee would be given a professional staff and charged with the re sponsibility of coUecting infor mation for the congressional ap propriations committees and recommending ways to achieve economy. Chancellor Favors Community College Measure Passage Salem (U.R) Dr. John R. Richards, chancellor of the State Board of Higher Education, ap peared before the House Educa tion committee yesterday to fa vor passage of House biU W which sets up a community col lege program for Oregon. "I believe firmly in a junior college system which is an ex tension of the public school sys tem," Dr. Richards said. The community college bill, sponsored by Rep. Ole Grubb, Bend Democrat, and others, would enable school districts to set up two-year junior colleges with approval of the State Board of Education. Dr. Richards said that when junior colleges are run by higher education bodies, too much em phasis is put on courses leading to a third and fourth year of col lege and not enough on a two- year course 'to meet local needs. Records Are Good Most junior college students do not transfer to other state schools for more education, Dr. Richards said But he said Cali fornia studies showed that when they did, their records were bet ter than members of the junior class of the state university. As for financing the commun ity college program, Dr. Rich ards said localities must con tribute to their schools, but that state aid also should be substan tial. He told the committee he thought the most orderly way to obtain the state money would be out of the basic school sup port fund which he hoped would be increased. The chancellor said he saw no chance of friction between his board and the board of educa tion even though the Board of Higher Education would be pass ing on courses and instructor qualifications. The State Board of Education would actually ad minister the colleges. "We won't try to dictate courses," Dr. Richards said, "but we'll be tough in setting stand ards of instruction." 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