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Newspaper Page TextFOUH MEDFORD (OBEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTubune "Everyone In Southern Oregon Read! The Mail Inbune' Publunl Daily Except Saturday BT MiUtOKD CO 21-23 NortJ)FlT St Phone t-gUl ROBERT W" RL'HL. Editor HF-KB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business VUnjucr ERIC ALLEN JR Manain Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN TeXrraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Siwrta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Inde pendent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Dally and Sunday Ona year $15 00 Dally and feunday Sis months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sunday Onlv Ona year 14 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roeua Biver. Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday Ona year f 18 00 Dally and Sunday Ona month 1 50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms cash In Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jacason County United Press Full Leaied Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago de- trolt san rrandsco. Loa Angeles Sesttle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C f AT I Oil A . t 0 I T 0 I lA s 1 A$TbcrA'i"eN "Tf'.l H I NEWS PA Pit PUtllSHIlS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. , 10 YEARS AGO March 27. 1947 (Thursday) J. Carlisle Crouch, chief rang er of Crater Lake National park, is promoted to assistant super intendent of Blue Ridge park way. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Farmers report everything is growing like they wish the weeds wouldn't. 20 YCARS AGO March 27. 1937 (Saturday) Tickets for the Shrine benefit dance Monday are being sold at the Oriental Gardens, accord ing to Paul B. Rynning, chair man. Federal and state aides con nected with the snow survey in Oregon will be in Medford Mon day to make a report on snow conditions here. 30 YEARS AGO March 27. 1927 (Sunday) The visit of V. T. Jackson of Roseburg, grand master of IOOF of Oregon, to Medford has been postponed. Edward C. Kelly, son of Judge and Mrs. E. E. Kelly. Medford, University of Oregon senior maj oring S law, is the only Jackson county student at the univer sity to be named on honor roll for last semester. 40 YEARS AGO March 27. 1917 (Tuesday) Blossoms of earlier varieties of fruit trees are advanced enough to be injured by frost, according to extension agents. Mayor C. E. Gates and Great er Medford club are guests of local veteran's organization at armory meeting. What's Your I.Q.? Nln or ten correct la superior: mt n or eight ts excellent; (Ire m tlx la good. 1. Which state touches only one other? 2. If cassino Is the name of a card game, what is a casino? 3. Bible. Was Abraham born In a great city? 4. Who was Mary Ball Wash ington? 5. Is yew an evergreen or de ciduous tree? 8. Are there any red-haired races of people? 7. Was Augustine Ruys. dis coverer of New Mexico, a Span iard or Englishman? 8. The Japanese surrender in strument was signed aboard which U.S. battleship? 9. "The very hairs on your head are numbered." Is this from Shakespeare or the Bible? 10. Two silver bars on an Army officer's uniform indicate what rank? Answers: 1. Maine. 2. In Italy, a kind of country home. 3. Yes. Ur. 4. George Washington's mother. 5. Evergreen tree. 6. No. 7. Spaniard. 8. Missouri. 9. ' Bible. 10. Captain. OTHER SIDE OF BENCH Thomaston. Cyi. (U.R) Judge John McGhee, who start ed his law practice 25 years ago, thought Junior Sparks, brought before him on a moonshining charge, looked familiar. Mc Gehee checked to learn where he had seen Sparks before and then sentenced his first client to serve 12 months or pay a $250 fine. I r3A School Equalization The Oregon State Senate on Friday will consider Senate Bill 64, the so-called "key district" bill for statewide school equaliziation. The measure is not a simple one, exactly, although its objectives are clear and can be stated concisely. It attempts to put into effect the constitutional man date for the state to "provide by law for the establish ment of a uniform and general system of common schools." We are perhaps too prone to think of the public schools as exclusively local ally, however, the responsibility lies with the state, which has delegated its authority to the local school boards and administrators and, to a large degree, local taxpayers. ABOUT 10 years ago, the state recognized its ICSJIUliSlUlUI, 1UI OL11UU1 kj CU1U SCIi up U1C Basic School Support Fund, which provided for $50 per census child per year at that time about one-half of the cost of "basic" education. Later the amount was raised to $80, where it remains today. Because of increases in costs, the $80 today provides less than 30 per cent of the "basic" education. There is in the legislature a proposal to increase this amount from $80 to $120 a 50 per increase which would bring the state's contribution up to about one-half of basic education costs again. The original intent of the basic school support law was to equalize educational opportunities and tax costs throughout the state. The school support fund was distributed on a formula designed to accomplish this. "WER the years, however, due to fluctuations in property valuations, the formula got further and further "out of line," to the point where today the rishest districts, best able to afford good schools, are ! receiving a disproportionate amount of the school fund. It is to correct this that Senate Bill 64 was written. It was prepared over a period of several years by a group of school men and others. Without going into the technicalities of how the measure would operate, it can be stated that it would call for uniform taxation throughout the state on a millage basis to provide a "basic" education for all children. . . If, in any locality, this millage would not 'raise sufficient funds to provide the basic requirements, the state fund would be apportioned to the less-fortunate districts on an equalization basis. THIS is the controversial crux of the measure, which also has other provisions regarding distribution of parts of the total school fund. It has been opposed by Portland educators, and by a few in eastern Oregon, who would not receive proportionately as much money under the proposal as they now do. (Recently a Klamath Falls group was asked why they opposed the measure. They replied "We oppose it on principle. It would cost us $500,000. And that's a lot of principle.") Both Portland papers But the fundamental principle of a unif orm system of common schools is written into our constitution, and the principle of equalization has long been a a part of our school laws. CENATE Bill 64 is designed to bring these principles into practical effect in the state today. It is prob ably not a "perfect" bill little legislation can be called perfect. But it is a by highly competent people, designed to do a job which needs to be done if maintain her historic standards of public education. If it is granted that the constitutional mandate for uniform common schools, and the precedent writ ten into law for equalization, are to be followed, then SB64 appears to be the taken. E.A. More Government Jobs Officials of the U.S. are appearing; before a House subcommittee on man power utilization to explain ed increase of 25 per cent during the next 15 months in the department's work force. They should have no great difficulty. The Soil Bank set up by Congress last year, with an annual $1.2 billion to distribute among farmers, probably accounts for most of the additional jobs. Other departments and agencies may have more trouble in convincing the congressmen that they need more hands. The Eisenhower budget, now under at tack from many quarters, calls for an increase of 73,000 federal employees. Rep. James C. Davis (D-Ga.), chairman of the House subcommittee, says that would add $360 million to the government pay roll. He suggests that the time may be at hand to put an over-all ceiling on government jobs or even to re duce them by 10 per cent. "The situation confronting Congress today calls for action over and above the ordinary," he said. During the first two years of the Eisenhower ad ministration 200,000 employees were separated from the federal payroll. This compared with 140,000 add ed during the first two years of Franklin D. Roosevelt The firings were labeled reductions in force (RIFs) but Democrats in Congress complained that job hold ers of their political persuason were being rolled out of office on the slightest pretext. Civil employees of the federal government now number about 2.5 million, as against 3.8 million at the end of the war in 1945. E.R.R. Wednesday, March 27. 1957 in character. Constitution have editorialized against it. product of years of study Oregon is to continue to approach which should be Department of Agriculture why they need a request Admission of Spain to NATO May Be Sought Soon by U.S. By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The United States soon may propose the admission of Spain to the North Atlantic Treaty Or- wi ii.ia ai ganization. cnain'i ad mission to the great Euro pean alliance against Com munist aggres sion is favored by the Eisen hower admin istration. Charles McCana Spain itself is eager to join. It would be surprising if Pres ident Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan did not discuss the question in their talks in Bermuda last week. Britain and France long have opposed Spain's admission to NATO. But it has been reported recently that they have changed their minds. At a time when some other NATO countries are trying to reduce their armed strength as an economy measure, Spain's addition to the 15-nation alli ance certainly would strengthen it. Urged by House Group The House of Representatives, Spectacular Probes Come Along Every 2 or By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) Spectacu lar Senate investigations seem to come along every two or three years. Teapot Dome . . . the midget in J. P. Morgan's lap . . . the mu nitions-makers . . . call up mem cries of the 1920s and 1930s. More recent spectaculars have involved "five per centers" in the Truman administration, the firing of Gen. Douglas MacAr thur, the Army-McCarthy brawl and the big time hoodlums who paraded before the televised Ke- fauver Crime Committee hear ings. Imposing Title The 1957 edition of the big Senate investigation is being conducted by a specially-created group bearing the imposing title, "Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor and Man agement Fields." The committee is particularly interested in rack eteering by labor unions and, at this time, in evidence of im proper activity by the huge Teamsters' Union and its hefty president, Dave Beck. These investigations regularly produce arguments about the limits of congressional investiga tions and whether committees abuse their powers. Beck invoked the Fifth Amendment and other constitu tional provisions Tuesday in re fusing to answer questions. He said, in effect, that he would prefer to take his chances in the courts where he felt his rights were better protected. In dealing with cases involv ing contempt of congressional committees, the courts histori cally have taken a broad view of the investigating powers of Con gress. These powers are only im plied in the Constitution, al though they have been in use since 1798. A Legislative Purpose The courts generally have pre sumed there is a legislative pur pose in any congressipnal in vestlgation that is, an intent to collect information necessary to law-makig. The racketeering inquiry is directly concerned with whether there is need for tightening Taft-Hartley law pro- Legislative Srlem U.R A proposal for a constitutional amend ment to give each county at least one state representative has been tabled by the House State and Federal Affairs Committe follow ing a hearing here. Strong opposition to the change sponsored by eastern Oregon legislators came from the League of Women Voters, Young Republicans and Demo crats and the State Labor Coun cil. SalemfU.R) The Senate un animously passed a House mem orial calling on Congress to des ignate Highway 30 from Port land to Astoriaas part of the federal interstate system. The federal designation now ends at Portland. Salem U.R) The Senate ap proved unanimously divorce law changes including an amend ment to invaludate future "quickie" divorces obtained in another state. The amendment was aimed principally at Nev a d a 's speedy divorce system. Other changes would require a 60-day cooling-off period before a divorce on grounds of cruelty or habitual drunkenness could be tried and would permit re marriage 70 days after a divorce unless the case was appealed. Foreign Affairs committee on March 18 unanimously approv ed a resolution calling for the admission of Spain. The resolution, which is await ing passage by full House and Senate, was proposed by the State Department. It said that the department should "contin ue to use its good offices toward the end of achieving participa tion by Spain in the NATO or ganization. Britain and France have been cold toward Spain partly be cause of his totalitarian rule. But Franco is about as anti Communist as anybody could be. That is one thing in Spain's favor. Franco has an army of about 300,000 men, and could mobilize about 2 million if an other war broke out. The United States signed a military agreement with Spain on Sept. 25, 1953. Under this agreement the United States is constructing four big air bases and one naval base in Spain. Franco Can't Apply Franco can not apply for ad mission to NATO. But there is no doubt he would join enthu siastically if asked. Aside from the fact that Spain's entry would give NATO a needed lift at this time, there Senate 3 Years visions requiring unions to file financial reports with the Labor Department. It also has been suggested that legislation might be in order to insure democratic procedures in labor unions. The committee is further interested in determin ing whether there have been vio lations of income tax and other existing laws, and whether racketeering has interfered with interstate commerce and inflated the cost of goods bought by the government'. The current inquiry adds up to what is probably the rough est treatment ever given a major segment of the labor movement by congressional investigators. And imlike previous labor spar ring with Congress, this one has been blessed at least in part by some of the top leaders of or ganized labor. 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 witb an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Wonders About Mors To the Editor: It is common knowledge that the Labor Unions backed the Democrats in the election this year. They were especially active in Oregon in the behalf of Senator Wayne Morse. After the expose of vice and corruption that h: j come to light in the higher echelons of some unions it makes one wonder what they expected to gain from the Democrats for putting them in power. Also, if Wayne Morse was so naive as to think he could take their help with no strings at tached? Wayne Morse seems to be lying low lately whicl is very odd for one with presidential aspirations. Up to just lately he was often in the news, of our local paper, at least. Leila A. Morrow 531 North Bartlett st, Medford, Ore. Briefs Salem !U.R The House has unanimously passed a bill ap propriating $100,000 for surveys and design of a bridge across the Columbia river at Astoria. The bridge would be built jointly by Oregon and Washing ton. The Washington Legislature has already approved $100,000 for its share of the study. Salem (U.R The House has passed a bill limiting expendi tures of the State Board of Aero nautics to S221.000 after an argu ment as to whether the board was useful or not. Salem U.R) The Oregon House has defeated 35-22 a bill which would have required com panies to file an inventory re port with the State Tax Com mission. HE ROCK 'N' ROLLS Toronto (U.R) James Mil ne, 35, was cleared of a charge of driving under the influence of liquor when he told the judge he just couldn't help his rock 'n' roll. Milne told Judge Har ry Donley he had served five years in the Navy and "I have a bit of a roll when I walk. My toes turn out. One foot rocks one I way while the other foot rocks is the country's important strate gic position to think about. Shel tered behind the formidable Py renees Mountains, it might be come the last allied bastion in Western Europe if Soviet Rus sia's Red armies swept across Europe. Spaniards also point out that, if Spain joined NATO, its Can ary Islands off the northwest coast of Africa might provide an additional allied air base. The United States tias big air bases in nearby Morocco. But that newly independent country may become politically unstable in wartime. There is to be a big meeting of NATO foreign ministers at Bonn, capital of West Germany, on May 2. It .could be that Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les will raise the question of Spain's admission then. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Weather shenanigans: The worst blizzard in 30 years is sweeping the Middle West Eight states are affected, with the worst tie-ups in Kansas and Nebraska ... It is estimated that 7500 highway travelers are marooned . . . Drifts up to 18 and 20 feet high clog nearly all the highways of Nebraska and Kansas and parts of Colorado and New Mexico . . . Trains are stuck in the snow all over the area . . . The blizzard is moving eastward and heavy snow is fore cast for parts of Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and Lower Michigan. PRETTY rugged? ait a mimitp The greater part of this area lies in what the leadlines have been calling the 1950's Dust Bowl. Much of it is drought re lief rea. When the snow depos ited by the blizzard melts, it will do immeasurable good. There's a lot of water in 15 and 20-foot drifts. . Often people fail to count their blessings ' classing them, in th? discomfort of the moment, as trials and tribulations. ITfHEN news of the blizzard hit the Chicago Board of Trade this morning, wheat prices dropped. A lot of people will class that as a calamity. ' else it is It's the law of supply and de mand in action. The blizzard, bringing added inoisure to a large area of the nation's bread basket, will bring bigger crops of wheat instead of smaller crops of wheat. rpHE pity" of it is that instead JL of being CONSUMED these bigger crops of wheat will be stashed away in the already , ,j bursting warehouses, thus add- ing to the headaches of the tax payers. That's what comes of politics gone hog-wild. IN THE montljly publication of the soil conservation service, issued by the department of agriculture, a Boise, Ida., official of the service appeals to farmers and other people to PROTECT hawks, eagles, falcons and other birds of prey. He says: "The fast hawks, such as the prairie falcon, that are capable of catching game birds, feed very heavily on ground squirrels, bull snakes and other creatures that sometimes prey upon game birds and their eggs ... A fam ily of falcons, for example, catches enough destructive rep tiles and mammals each year to far outweigh the few game birds they may catch while hunting over an area." He adds that these birds, in cluding even the much-slandered eagle, are victims of what he calls "some of the wildest of fictions." 11THAT he means is that we suf fer grievous evils because WE KNOW SO MANY THINGS THAT AIN'T SO. That goes for politics as well as birds of prey. IN CLOSING, I'd like to call at tention to a sweet-looking, white haired old lady in New Hampshire who has a war on with the Boston & Maine rail road. She says it's a scandal the way the soulless corporation that runs the road lets the windows of its passenger coaches get dirty. By doing so, she insists, the company prevents the tour ists from seeing the lovely scen ery of New England. But Instead of PROMOTING A LAW to compel the railroad to wash its windows oftener She takes a b-ckei of water and a washrag and goes down to the station every morning and washes the windows herself! (There is talk of tossing her in the clink.) T S GOOD to know there are a FEW rugged individualists left in our land of the free and the home of the brave. Stops Heart Gas 3 Times Faster Certified laboratory tests provs IEU-ANJ tablets neutralize 3 times as muck stomach acidity in one minute as mony leading digastivt tablets. Get BELl-AMJ today fer the tastes! knewa relief. 2Sc Today and By Walter BERMUDA Our knowledge of what went on at Bermuda is, as this is writ ten, very meager, and so it is likely to re main until we have the com mentary from London and Washington by men who have been talked to off the record. Yet it would be surprising if anything sur Haucr Lippmano prising comes out that is not already indicated by the official communique. This says, if I read it correct ly, that the basic Anglo-Ameri can Atlantic alliance for the de fense of Western Europe is in tact and quite solid. The reduc tion of military forces which the British are planning to make is to be compensated by the Ameri can offer to supply new high powered weapons, such as guided missiles. Beyond this basic alliance, which is also the core of NATO, the old partnership is, as they say in diplomacy, fluid. For the Pacific and for Japan and as far south as Vietnam, there is no partnership but rather an Ameri can sphere of influence. In the Middle East and in Africa there is not a concerted policy. There are fairly well defined common purposes, and there are commit ments, which are not rigid or very strict, to consult. But there are very considerable differ ences of opinion as to what the situation really is and consider able differences as to what we ought to do. WE MAY say, I think, that at Bermuda the British con ceded that Western policy in the Middle East should for the pres ent follow the line laid down by the President and Secretary Dulles. This acceptance of Amer ican leadership was not, how ever, unreserved. Whatever may be said of Britain's loss of influ ence in the Arab world, it is a British vital interest to have ac cess to the oil of the Persian Gulf area. Although there were no warnings or threats of any kind, there was a distinct implication at Bermuda that Britain would follow American leadership in dealing with the Arab states as long as, but no longer than, its vital interests are not sacrificed. Heavy Snow Blessing To Farmers in Iowa Editor's note: The blizzard which : paralyzed the Great Plains -blessing to many drought-stricken I farmers. In the following dispatch, an Iowa farmer tells what it meant w him. Creston, Iowa 4U.R) The gi gantic spring snowstorm put drought-stricken Southwest Iowa farmers in "aretty good shape for spring planting," a farmer said today. "That moisture will help a lot," Harold Cochrane said. "We eot a little over two incnes or moisture out of it and most of it will sink right in." Two weeks ago, Cochrane re ported the ground was so dry in this area that farmers digging post holes had to pour water into the holes to enable them to dig out the dirt. 15 Inches of Snow Then the spring storm hit, dousing the area first with rain and then burying it under a snowfall that measures up to 15 inches. "I sure was glad to see that moisture," Cochrane said, "al though I didn't care much for the way it came," adding that his farm buildings were flanked with 10-foot drifts. "But," he said, "When you're in the shape we wr2 in, I guess you have to be satisfied with second best." A good spring rain would have been better, he said. Before the storm hit, he said farmers nee' d a two or three inch gentle rain to put the ground in good shape for planting. Just About Same "We'll get just about that out of this," he said. "We got about one inch of rain before it started snowing. Then we gc-t 10 inches of snow and that should give us Plan For Tomorrow An ever increasing number of the prudent and thoughtful are finding it well to plan to day for the inevitable needs of tomorrow. C M. Litwiller Today's thinking may be done clearly . . . unhurried by time or the overwhelming of grief! Pre-need arrangements fully explained without obligation. litwiller f-:r Funeral t" V Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close Tomorrow Lippmann A most important conse quence of Bermuda is that the President and Mr. Dulles, having been conceded the right to lead and to administer their own rather than an agreed policy, have now become definitely re sponsible for the consequences. They are already responsible, as a result of their one-sided pres sure, for the security of Israel. Beneath the bland and polite surface of the Bermuda com munique, one can read that they have acquired the same kind of responsibility for the security of British, indeed of Western European, vital interests in the canal and the oil of the Middle East. a THE problem of negotiating with Nasser is, we have come to realize, inordinately difficult because, as things have devel oped, we have deprived our selves of the power to bargain with him. We have given him a guarantee that we will not use force. We have given him spe cific proof that we will not al low Britain, France and Israel to use force. We have conceded that the U.N. has no independent authority and that it can act only with his consent. We have given him reason to believe that there is little likelihood of our agree ing to use sanctions against him. On the other hand, we have very little to offer him as a reward for substantial concessions. Under these conditions it is unfair to epect Mr. Hammar skjold to wring from Nasser the concessions which Nasser is un der no pressure to concede. The Administration is well advised, no doubt, to try to negotiate with President Nasser through Mr. Hammarskjold. But we must never lose sight of the fact that while Mr. Hammarskjold may be the most acceptable nego tiator, he has no bargaining pow er of his own beyond that which the United States possesses. WE OUGHT NOT, therefore, to ' allow the world to think that we have abdicated our own responsibility and are leaving everything to Mr. Hammar skjold. For it is only as we ac cept the responsibility of restor ing our power to bargain with Nasser that Mr. Hammarskjold can be expected to negotiate suc cessfully. (Copyright New York Herald Tribune Inc.) about another inch or so of mois ture." He said most of the melting snow will soak right into the ground because the frost was gone and little water would run oK. The snow was melting fairly fast as temperatures stayed above the freezing mark. Three-year Drought Cachrane farms 160 acres and has been hurt by a three-year drought. The Geological Survey reported several weeks ago that the drought situation in this area would become "very acute" un less there was above-average rainfall this spring. "We still need good spring rains lor a good crop, cocn rane said. "But this moisture sure will help quite a bit and we should be in pretty good shape for spring planting." Iowa Agriculture Secretary Clyde Spry said "for a certainty, the snow will give crops a good start" in the drought area. It would cost "one million dol lars to pump this much moisture over the farm land through irri gation pipes," he said. ONE FOR THE BIRDS Los Angeles (U.R) Mrs. Beverly Jurman, 29, won a di vorce Tuesday after she told the judge her husband, William, 35, flew into a great rage because our baby lovebirds scattered seeds on the kitchen floor." TV OR NOT TV Muskegon, Mich. (U.R) f Guy Stiffler thinks one of his neighbors doesn't like television. Stiffler complained to police on' Tuesday that someone had climb ed onto his roof and cut the wires connecting his TV set to its antenna. r-&- Jjv u Mrs. Litwiller Vfi JFSf iJ n' iiaaafi I'ltsf nl f ' i n i "It is better to know us and not needus, than to need us and not know us.