Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 20, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 . ft. ? - O '" FOUJ MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tveryons tn soutAern oregoa Readi The Mali Tribune" Published Dally Except Saturday bT MOFORO PRINTING CO 27-29 JorthJflr St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W "RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AL1JE.N JR Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CH1PMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor PALE EfUCKSON Circulation Mgr. An Inde pendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1837 SUBSCRIPTiOs? RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Deny and Sunday Ssix months B OO Daily and Sunday Three moa 4 -2S Sunday Only One year 14.20 By Carrier In Advance Med ford Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent nd on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 t-arrler and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Terms Cash In Advance Offli-lal Paper of the City of Msdlorl wuciaj raper ol aacason county United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de- trnit San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATION '. J D I T O I A i S I I AsTocrA'fSN kmnnig.'.n:iig rrfiafiL Nn I W S A t ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO March 20. 1947 (Thursday) Norm Worthington, athletic coach and physical education in structor at junior high school, resigns. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Tomorrow is the first day of Spring. The day and the night, will even steven, each 12 hours long, astro nomers say. 20 YEARS AGO March 20, 1937 (Saturday) Jackson County Chamber of Commerce has again been pub licized by the U. S. Chamber of commerce ior an outstanaing community service. Walter H. Leverette is elected chairman of Jackson county council of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland association. 30 YEARS AGO Mrch 20. 1927 (Sunday) County Assessor J. B. Cole man completes tedistrubution of O gnd C land grant taxes for Jackson county from $1,151,962. 74 received this week. New long distance station of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company is now in serv ice. 40 YEARS AGO March 20. 1917 (Tuesday) Utah-Idaho Sugar company closes campaign for acreage for' sugar beet growing in this sec tion this season, according to J. B. Pettingill, field superinten dent. From Local and Personal col umn: Wayman Birdsman of Eagle Point is a Medford busi ness visitor today. What's Your I.Q.? Ntne or ten correct Is superior; sev en ci eight Is excellent: live er six Is good. 1. Radar can be used on mer chant ships; true or false? 2. With what doctrine is "nul lification" associated in Ameri can history? jioie: ioan was ou, ouu, or 666 years old when he completed the ark? 4. What is the name for an ungelded male horse? 5. What is the name of the football stadium at New Haven, Conn.? 6. Name the body of water lying between India and Burma. 7. With the name of which American political figure do you connect the "Brown Derby"? 8. Wh was the father of Alice Longworth? 9. How many keys are there on a standard piano keyboard? JO. At what temperature does fresh water freeze? Answers: 1. True; 2. The doc trine of "Slates Rights"; 3. 600; 4. Stallion: 5. The Yale Bowl: 6. Gulf of Bengal; 7. Alfred E. Smith; 8. Theodore Roosevelt; 9. 88; 10. 32 degrees F. Eisenhower Against Own Budget, Coldwater Says Washington U.R) Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) said Monday night that he believes President Eisenhower is "against his own budget." But. Goldwater said that the 1958 spending budget of $71.8 billion is so "astronomical" in size that it is "questionable what can be done about it at the exec utive level. "Congress wiU have to deal with it," he said. Local Parking Districts The advertising boys tell us that repetition is im portant in advertising success. The geologists say that water dripping constantly on a rock will wear the rock away. The old maxim don't succeed, try, try again. - Let us, therefore, consider off-street parking. If you've tried to find a parking place down town, lately, you've probably ndticed that the situation is worse than it was at about tfk'is time last year. It reach- edits peak just before Christmas, than eased up a bit, anjfenow is getting tighter again, as these spring days bring the shoppers down town again. e DUT, last November, the voters of the city turned J down by a majority of 349 votes (out of more than 9,300 cast) an off-street parking plan. It called for the city to contribute a portion of its meter revenues, and for downtown merchants to contribute another portion through property assessments. The balance would come from revenue bonds, backed by the credit of the city. We've heard a lot of reasons why it was voted down, but the most prevalent one is because voters apparently thought it was up to th downtown mer chants to foot the entire bill as they would be the big?st beneficiaries. We supported the program because, while the merchants would get the most benefit, the public at large would benefit too. CO MUCH for local background. There is another way in which the city could go about it, and that is through the formation of a parking district, where revenue bonds would be back ed by downtown property, rather than by the full credit of the city. EujJJtne has a problem remarkably similar to the one in 'Medford, and the Register-Guard of that city discusses the parking district plan, as follows : The downtown area is where the off-street parking is needed. And it is a reasonable premise Wat this area, by forming a parking district, should stand behind a bond issue without involving other property in the city. Ex perience has shorn in cities elsewhere that revenues from city-owned lots will pay off the bonds necessary to finance them. There are two ways in which such a parking dis trict could be formed : One is through a city charter amendment, to be voted on by the people ; the other would be through new legislation to permit such a project. THE GUARD points out that State Sen. Harry Boivin of Klamath Falls plans to introduce such a measure, and City Manager Bob Duff tells us the J League of Oregon Cities nassa rp. X 0. It would be a step toward the eventual solution of our problem. A somewhat similar bill was defeated two years ago because ofigj few minor "bugs" it in which could not be corrected in time. JThe city is now marking time on off-street park ing possibly because H the defeat of last fall's pro posal even though that defeat was far from over whelming or decisive. A report on what has been done so far is being prepared for the city council before any j ii . , i iurxner action is taKen. But we can't mark time much longer. Not only are the number of cars using the streete increasing, but the number of parking places are decreasing, and will decrease even faster when the arterial street program gets into full swing, with its ban on parking on some of our more important "main" streets. E.A. Cancer Victory Nearer Infantile paralysis is threat to health. Or rather, it would be, if people could Wfc pursuaded to get program, which has been in some other places. As a result, attention is shifting to other diseases, illnesses -which statistically are greater killers than polio has been. Heart disease is one ; rheumatism and arthritis are others ; cancer Researchers are at a nninta in nil thpco rncpQcoc - jaw . , , , , cuvenv aiuea uy mouern in tne coming years. TWO theories about cancer, announced in recent months, provide the basis for hope that within the forseeable future cancer can be conquered. On the face of them, somewhat contradictory. though, further research plementary, fitting in to to be developed. One of them, formulated by a researcher at our own University of Oregon the normal body develops serve as inhibitors to parent cells, preventing them from going wild and becoming cancerous in growth. The absence of these chemicals, in other words, causes cancer. Another thory holds that cancer may well be the product of a type of tiny virus. THE medical men who know the technical ins and outs of these theories probably will scream in anguish at this oversimplif ication, but that's apparent ly what they boil down to in layman's language. One or the other of these theories may be right, or both might, or neither. But the fact remains that all evidence points to the conquering of cancer prob ably within the next decade or so. And that will be an even greater victory, in terms of human lives, than the victory over polio. E.A. - Wednesday. March 20, 1957 says that if at first you may be able to help in its on its way out as a major going on the Salk vaccine more successful here than is a third. half - dozen "break-through" arm rorrmrlro nla now Aic , , . . tecnniques, promise ouiers the theories appear to be And they may be. Again, may show them to be com the same overall theory yet medical school, holds that certain chemicals which Ambitious Governor Of Michigan Moving To Lose CIO 'Label' "J By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Reports from Michigan indicated that Gov. G. Mennen Williams is making motions to rid himself of the CIO label. A nationally-advertised show of independence from his friends in the United Automobile Work ers would seem to be a pre-condition for any serious Williams Early Eisenhower .$ipporfer Worried About Party Change Charlotte, N.C. U.R) One of the earliest supporters of Presi d e n t Eisenhower is worried about the "administration's change of direction" since the November election. John S. Knight, one of the na tion's leading Dublishers. tolri the Charlotte Executive club Tuesday night that he is trou bled by the American people's "almost naive faith" in the President and by the "new role in which he appears." He said, "I am most con cerned with the Eisenhower ad ministration's change in direc tion since the President's reelec tion. Budget 'Shocker' "The new $72 billion budget was a shocker to all who be lieve, as I do, in holding down the expenses of government . . . but the President and Congress are now engaged in a buck pass ing contest to avoid taking re sponsibility. It is useless for Eisenhower to admonish both business and labor on the subject of inflation when the government itself, by its gargantuan expenditures, is contributing to inflation." Knight, a director of the Char- lottelpbserver. also is editor and publisher of the Akron Bea con Journal, the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press and the Chicago Daily News. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Foreign affairs stuff: Israel has just sent a freighter from the Israeli port of Eilat down the gulf of Aqaba to test the Arab claim that this body of watqp is an Arabian lake and therefore can be used by ships of other nations only with Arab ian permission. Reports reaching Tel Aviv (in Israel) as this is written say the Israeli ship has cleared the nar row straits of Tiran at the south ern end of the Aqaba gulf and is on its way out into the Bed sea. fVHY is that interesting? ' ' WpI 1 a ftnunlo rt uroalro son President Eisenhower asserted more or less casually at a news conference in Washington that the United States is prepared not only to declare that it -considers the Aqaba gulf an inter national waterway but IN TENDS TO USE IT. He added that this also applied to the straits of Tiran. He let it go at that, declining to answer any further questions. But the implication was clear: If an American vessel using this international waterway was shot at it would SHOOT BACK THIS is the point: If the straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba are international waters, ships of ANY nation are entitled to use them. IF an Israeli ship using these international waters is shot at from the Arab shore the United States will send an American ship through these waters and if it gets shot at it will shoot back. In other words, the United States will DEFEND the right of shipping of all nations to pass through these disputed waters even if it has to convoy its mer chant ships with warships. SO IT WILL be interesting to know whether the Arabs shot at the Israeli freighter that pass ed through the Aqaba gulf and the Tiran straits. If they did, the consequences may be serious. If they DIDN'T, it indicates that they are unwilling to pro voke the United States to direct action in the Middle East. In that event there is still hope that a settlement of the Israeli Arab quarrel can be reached by negotiation. TAYS, harbors and landlocked " waters are not considered' part of the high seas as defined by international law. A glance at your map will indicate that the gulf of Aqaba comes close to being landlocked. But if we chose to assert that -it IS international water, we would have good grounds for our position. The United States supreme court has declared that the open waters of our Great Lakes are "high seas" for cer tain legal purposes. Our Great Lakes certainly come closer to -being landlocked waters than the gulf of Aqaba. campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960. The UAW, a dominant force-in the Michigan Democratic Party, was one of the two dominant unions in the CIO before the AFL-CIO merger. Walter P. Reuther, the last CIO president, is president of the UAW and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. Seeks Sixth Term Williams has made some re cent judicial appointments with out consulting Reuther. Although Reuther was understood to sup port the appointments, he was reported miffed that he was not consulted. In Michigan, Williams' action was interpreted as a move to show he was not the handmaiden of the CIO, even though he still would welcome its support. Although Williams' political plans have not been announced, he is expected to run for a sixth two-year term as governor next year and is regarded as an aspir ant for the presidency in 1960. His appeal would be to the left wing of the Democratic party those who want to go on from where the New Deal and the Fair Deal stopped. His nomination would mean the party was swerving to the left. Must Woo Votes With President Eisenhower's program firmly identified with the middle of the road (a little to the left of it to some Republi cans), a substantial segment of the Democratic Party believes it must go left. This line of argu ment holds that the party must take an aggressive line to woo back the votes of the big cities, labor, Negroes and other minor ities which have" been slipping to the GOP. If this philosophy prevails in 1960, Williams could be the ben eficiary just as Gov. Averell Harriman of New York tried to be in his bid for the 1956 presi dential nomination. But to many in the Democratic Party now, Williams hews too closely to the CIO line to be salable nationally to farmers, southerners and oth ers not completely enamored of the goals of an aggressive labor movement. By 1960, Williams may have to compete with Democratic gov ernors like Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey, Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and others who could step out on the national scene in the next three years. IP Science Expert Advances on TV New York (U.R) A 10-year- old rcience expert correctly an swered the first of three ques tions leading to a $128,000 prize Tuesday night on CBS-TV's "The $64,000 Question." , Robert Strom, The Bronx, N.Y., won $64,000 on the show last week and $16,000 more Tuesday night by answering a three-part question. Next week he can try for $32,000 and the following week $64,000, bring ing the total to $128,000. He then has the privilege of trying for the maximum show prize of $256,000. Navy Cmdr. Edward Peary Stafford, Washington, correctly answered a $16,000 question in his "American literature" cate gory. Peary will return next week to possibly try for $32,000 and Robert for the $32,000 level of his three-part prize. On "Do You Trust Your Wife?" Erik and Helene Gude, Palos Verdes, Calif., won their 22nd consecutive trust fund con test, bringing their total win nings to $115,000. The win gave the Gudes win nings which assured them of weekly $100 checks for the next 22 years, assured them of a chance to defend their title and possibly win another $5,200 next week. Victim's Husband Points Out Suspect Portland (U.R) A mother and her son were held up in their home last night by a young robber who escaped with about $10. Later, police arrested a sus pect who had been pointed out by the husband and father of the victims, who was at work when the robbery occurred. - Police said Berry DeVault, 16, told them someone knocked on his door about 9:30 p.m. He said a man on the porch pointed a gun at him and ' entered the house. The youth was forced to take the man upstairs where his mother and baby sister were. The robber took a billfold con taining about $10 from Mrs. Her man DeVault and also Berry's wallet containing about 35 cents. . Mrs. DeVault hurried to a nearby restaurant operated by her husband who called police. Then he recognized the descrip tion as one of his cutomers and pointed out a suspect to police as the suspect was entering a car. Officers held Nelson Alfred a robbery charge. Anselment, 18, on $3000 bail on Saud Assuming Increasingly Big Role in Middle Eastern Affairs United Press Correspondent King Saud of Saudi Arabia is assuming an increasingly im portant role in Middle Eastern Saud is act ively building up his prestige as an Arab leader. And the build-up is be i n g made at the expense of President. Ga mal Abdel Nasser of Charles McCanp Egypt. Last week Saud was host to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran, which like Saudi Ara bia is one of the world's great oil producing countries. Premier Abdullah Khalil of the Sudan, which Nasser re gards as within his own sphere of influence, is visiting Saud to day. President Camille Chamoun of Lebanon is to arrive in Jeddah, Midgets Have Big Trouble Lining Up Reno Convention Reno, Nev. (U.R) The Midgets of America ran into big trouble today in struggling to hold their first annual con vention. "Things are lousy in Lilliput," said four-foot midget organ'zer Billy Barty. "Midgets have never gotten together before. The Elks and Shriners and automobile deal ers have conventions. Even the cotton-pickin' cotton pickers get together and match boll weevils. But how. do they do it? There are so many problems and they are so big. Convention In April The Midgets of America have scheduled their convention for the Riverside Hotel here on April 3-4. Nearly 100 have sent in their applications to attend. Barty listed some of his big troubles: The printer lost his tiny "Midgets of America stationery. This delayed the answers to the prospective delegates. The Civil Aeronautics board has so far failed to answer the midgets' demand for "half fare or ride free on big people's laps to Reno." Look Over His Head And Barty complained that the managers of the two major airlines serving Reno "looked right over my head" when he saw them on the street. For 15 cents I d caU my people to take their old places and ride secreUy in the little nooks and crannies of the air plane. They'd march on the air ports if I called them!" 'Wrong Door Raid' Hearing Continues Hollywood (U.R) A girl friend of film star Marilyn Mon roe went before a Los Angeles County Grand Jury today to tell what she knows about the "wrong door" raid against the blonde actress. Mrs. Sheils Stewart Renour was expected to be the first wit ness when the jury resumes its probe which also involves singer-actor Frank Sinatra and for mer baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Miss Monroe was staying in Mrs. Renour's upstairs apart ment Nov. 5, 1954, when a raid ing party, allegedly led by Di Maegio during his divorce bat tle with the actress, mistakenly barged through a downstairs door in the same building.. The Grand Jury is looking into possible perjury, criminal conspiracy and violations of the rights of privacy in connection with the raid. Neither DiMaggio nor Miss Monroe, who now is the wife of playwright Arthur Miller, were available for testimony. Both are in New York and declined to appear. Libel Law Measure Due Out on March 28 Salem (U.R) The Senate Judiciary Committee voted late yesterday to report out "do nass Senate bill 4 to repeal sections of 1955 law relating to damages recoverable in actions for defamatory statements pub lished in newspapers, magazines or other printed periodicals, or( by radio, television or motion pictures. But the committee decided not to pass the measure out to the floor until March 28. Meanwhile, the committee will confer with William F. Frye, Eugene attor ney who has made an extensive study of libel and slander laws, to work out a measure to protect publishers and broadcasters against "inadvertent libel." EARNED A MEAL Essex, Conn. (U.R) Volun teer firemen were extra hungry when they finally arrived for their annual banquet an hour late. They had stopped en route to douse a blaze. Affairs. w "(! ' U jlis sav. 1 ' Saud's capital, on Friday as a state visitor. Iran, firmly pro-Western, is a member of the Baghdad Pact, which Nasser bitterly opposes. Other In Arab League Both the Sudan and Lebanon are fellow-members with Saudi Arabia and Egypt of the Arab League, of which Nasser regards himself as leader. There is every indication that conferences of the Shah, Khalil and Chamoun with Saud will strengthen the position of the United States and its Western Al lies in the Middle East. Saud expressed his approval in principle of the Eisenhower Doctrine against Communist ag gression in the Middle . East as the result of his visit to Presi dent Eisenhower last month. Both Iran and Lebanon have approved the doctrine. Saud is necessarily siding with Nasser in the issue of opening the Gulf of Aquaba to Israel shipping, as a member of the Arab League and because Saudi Arabia, like Egypt, has a coast line on the gulf. But Saud seems to be steadily pulling away from Nasser on the long-range Middle Eastern situation. It is quite likely the United States is doing all it can, quiet ly, to build up Saud. FCC Nears On Toll-Television Washington (CQ) After two years of hand-wringing, the Federal Communications Com mission is ready to decide on controversial proposals for pay-as-you-watch television. The forthcoming FCC decis ion will have real meaning for the owners of America's 40 mil lion television sets, but it will affect most directly the pocket book battle between two groups of powerful business rivals. Most support for subscription television has come from owners of the three licensed experi mental systems: Zenith Radio Corp.'s "Phonevision"; Skiatron TV Inc., "Subscriber-Vision"; and the International Telemeter Corp.'s "Telemeter". Primarily opposed to the idea are the three big radio-television networks and the motion picture theater own ers. An early round in the batUe was won last month by the op ponents of pay TV when the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce committee agreed to shelve for now a staff study urg ing "large-scale" tests of un sponsored fee television. But Commerce Committee Chairman Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.) says he and a ma jority of his cqmmittee "agree generally" with the staff find ings, even though they won't take any action on them, at least until the FCC issues its ruling that FCC Chairman George C. McConnaughey promises "in the very near future." FCC Studies Report Meanwhile, the FCC is study ing the staff report, and it either can agree with its conclusions for tests, go all out for the sub scription system or turn thumbs down on the toll proposals. The committee staff study urges that tests of subscription television be held in "a repre sentative cross-section of test markets" over a long enough period of time for the promot ers to set up equipment, develop programs and assess the public reaction. Under the staff plan, the fee television shows would take up "some percentage" of the broad casting time of existing tele vision stations. Promoters would be directed to keep costs to the public for the test programs at "the absolute minimum." Further, the producers would be limited to programs of the traditional "box office" variety, features that cannot be produced by ordinary sponsored television. The report adds this warning: - Warning Given "Subscription television Is doomed to extinction unless it can provide a new service with out material damage to free tele vision." 1. The program is coded or "scrambled" by the transmitting station to prevent general re ception of the telecast Serving All Who Call With sincerity and deep re spect to the departed, Litwil lers' have served faithfully for 22 years, at prices exception ally moderate. Iritis Saaatl C. M. Litwiller Remember ... We are Ashland's only locally owned funeral home. We have no branches. We devote our full-time to Biv finest funeral service, at less cost than obtained elsewhere. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Nasser Is a showy, dramatic newcomer to big-time Middle Eastern affairs. He is mortgaging the ecciomy of his poverty stricken country to Russia. His personal position as Egypt's leader is insecure. Saud's position is stronger than that of any other Middle Eastern leader. His country's im mense oil resources have been one factor in keeping him from following Nasser in an anti Western policy. His good sense, in contrast to Nasser's hip-shooting tendency, is another. Will Nasser Go? There are signs that the United States may be coming around to the British-French position that Nasser must go. It certainly is hard to see how his downfall could be very harmful to any body but himself and Soviet Russia. Russia seems to be aware of the changing situation. It has been reported that the Soviet government intends to name Dmitri Shepilov, recenUy re placed as foreign minister, as ambassador to Egypt. It was Shepilov, before he took over the foreign ministry, who nego tiated the sale of Communist arms to Nasser. It is interesting that Russia also has presented the shah with a glamorously furnished air liner. Decision 2. A device attached to the television, set enables the own er, for a fee, to decode or un scramble the programs he wants to see. Favorite decoding devices are coin boxes and punch cards. Advocates contend subscrip tion television would make avail able, at a fraction of box office prices, such features as current movies, plays, operas and top sports events programs be yond the budgetary scope of sponsored television. It would, they say, broaden the public's range of program choice and enable small local sta tions to compete with the large network outlets. By improving the level of television programs, fee television would increase the audience for both sponsored and subscription offerings. '25 Cents to $2 The developers estimate fees for subscription programs would ' range from 25 cents to $2. Decod ing attachments, they say, can be added to television sets for about $25. Opponents deny any reai ad vantages can be expected from fee television. The only certain effect of in troducing the new system, they say, would be to force the pub lic to pay for a service that tra ditionally has been furnished free. The backers' talk about opera and bJet in the living room is just so much talk, they add. Opponents say the economics of subscription television would keep its producers from offer ing "cultural" treats of limited audience appeal. Instead, they argue, fee television would rely mainly on established programs that appeal to the mass audience. It would make every effort to outbid television for the top at tractions, thus forcing the view er to pay to see programs which are now available without charge, opponents contend. All these arguments, and many more, have been laid be fore the FCC in about 70 vol umes of testimony over the past two years. Now the commission ers are ready to weigh the evi dence and decide whether to make every set owner in the country his own television spon sor. (Copyright 1957. 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