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Newspaper Page TextV FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MedfordItribunb "Everyone in Southern Oregon "mm lot Mall xnoune Published Daily Except Saturday by mz.ur UKU PRIKTTNG Ctt 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-1.41 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor HERB GREY Arloert1ln M.n.ir GERALD LATHAM Business Manaser J.K1L ALLEN JR. ManaKini Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Teleffranh Ed-!.r-RICHARD JEWETT Sports OLIVE STARCHER Society Edttof DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second claaa matter at Mediord Orecon under Act tb March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Pr rjim Ifle Daily and Sunday One year S15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 429 &unaav only One year $420 By Carrier In Advanc Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Ciold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River Talent and on motor rautM Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 ana sunaav one month uu irrier and Dealers 10c per cony ah Terms Cash In Advance GflVUl Paper of the City of Medford "'"ciai r-aper ol Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York' Chicago, da- trolt San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATIONAL .IOITOIIAi. I ASSOCfA'ieN 0" NEWS PA PER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medfort and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 2. 1947 (Wednesday) Work has been started on dis mantling two buildings at Camp White recently purchased by th-e Medford Girl Scouts. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Stockmen report the grass was never green er, with no shortage of cows te eat it. 20 YEARS AGO April 2. 1937 (Friday) Spatz Brothers, prominent er chardists, announce the pur chase of the Sgobel asd Day packing plant on Seutti Fir st. Postal receipts far tfee first quarter of 1937 tetal $23,872. 27, as compared with $22,014.22 in 1396, according te SsstoRa'Sitor Frank DeSouza. 30 YEARS AGO April 2, 1927 (Saturday) Southern Oregon Bfctrk-i esw vention of Knights eif Pythias held in Ashland is iG$ie'e& sris cessful. The Jacksonville Fs1, 5ik& has been published f tfcs pas4 50 years, ceased im exist witJa yesterday's issue, accsT ito W. T. Bray, publisher. 40 YEARS AGO April 2. 191? (Men4y) Physical training ste departments of Medfwrd pafeJie schools will hold a pregracs f music, drills, folk games aEid exercises at the Page measss April 20. J. E. Larson, extension flj- cialist at Oregon Agricultural college, will speak in Medfeed this week. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; gasm en er eight Is excellent; s six Is good. 1. Hamilton and Stone applied the first particular kind of ra4i isotope to a clinical problem; i what way was it unique? 2. What are capons? 3. Bible: Sepphoris and Ti!8s7 ias, a few miles north of Naaa? eth, were on the Lake of (3 e. 4. Liverwort is a sausage, plant or disease of the liver? 5. Have any two identical snowflakes ever been found? 6. What Japanese war crim inal has been called "Tiger Malaya"? 7. Is Canada a member of the Pan-American Union? 8. Which state is nicknamsd "Lone Star State"? 9. Corporal (adj.) means bod ily (as bodily punishment). Spell a similar word meaning bodily (physical), the opposite of spir itual? 10. Wrote David Tuvill In 1638. "Honesty is the best" what? Answers: 1. It wai man-made by them. 2. Costraled roosters. 3. Galilee. 4. Plant. 5. No. 6. Tohoyuki Yamashila. 7. No. 8. Texas. 9. Corporeal. 10. "pol icy." HE'S NO SINNER New York a'U.R) The Appel late division of State Supreme court ruled Monday that Dar win Deen, 36, did not violate the Sabbath law when he painted his mother-in-law'i Louse on Sunday. MAIL TRIBUNE Advice to Mayor Schrunk As the "Portland mess" continues to be tried in the newspapers we might as well put in our two-bits-worth. S we give the following unsolicited advice to Mayr Terry Schrunk of Portland, to-wit : f OU, Mr. Schrunk, above everyone else, knew the - facts m this case. You KNOW whether the charge of taking a $500 bribe, for. example, was true or false., a faet or a "frame-up." If yoa know it was tke f&nme then why put year self a.ad t&e s&&& to wamQ8$ wMg, a trial? Would & ei& teistef la? pm, Ml -SB fisailLi, if you wo'uM simply eMofsg, 5i4! Ite'&ss? $ggl$ the isaerey of the &wfc? PROM all aecouflte yw vzm-&- rfiteMsIs tr& good. You obvio-udy Lave mmtf fc-yal friigimidta, what your punis-hm-e-nt would he is sthg tw tlg courts to deckle, but it fe re-asona-a-bk l ggswmie id would fog loss witJiewfc ftgM ftsa fsitlt Eai-J g guilty rtraiei. CO WHY e4 "fum-up' mi. gt ft tw wikf You are eoasnparaiively young, t-h.rg wrg fri ably estimating eireumi-tanees, tW k Fas-m t believe that after as-rvisg yo-ur ter-m ol prnkhme-nl, there would hm maay o your I'rknek ?,fw m4 wriS ing to help you. As stated this sdrie is gratuitous an& a &q sumption you A-1E guifty i charged in. & .pi-mi. pwj indictment. If you are NOT, a-iid yo-u ang m wfeo KNOWS then your eomr is plain ; fight fcke cfearge until the cows coime home, and every fadr-aidd and right-thinkinf citizen in the state, &h eQMvieedi l this truth, will help yo. TT IS UP to you. You know tk f &etg 'lueitey ifam - one ela can know the-m. Why not plot your eourag el SiCiieoH wr, Ssa fsswral ance with them? l.W.l. No Chang It is interesting to note that former Govme Elmo Smith has purchased the Cronise intereit iia t-h Albany Democrat-Herald. This impresses us m, in most appropriate and harmonious consumation. In fact we doubt that any readers of the Albany paper, not apprised of the ever suspect it. Our former Governor might change the nam t Albany-REPUBLICAN-Herald, for he sees red when ever he sees "Democrat" spelled with a capital "D," but probably he will do nothing even about that, for the present. And in all other directions he will, it may be as sumed, operate the Democrat-Herald as it has been operated under its former management, for many years. That is, it will b eientially a business operat-io-ia with more emphasis on the "profit and lous" kprt E&ent than on the news aiad editorial. "THIS is no mm. - A majority of newspapers in th country, fts.fr tkulaiiy in Oregon, follow the same procedure. They mail the "G.O.P." fla,f to their masthead in some eases even padlock it and throw away the key then go on from there, more concerned with what comes iato the office than what g oes out from the sanctum "sanctorum." And they, have a point. For unless the former keeps out of the red the latter can't keep going at all. The only point we wish to make is that some news f&pers overdo it. And under its new ownership the Albany paper will, in opinion, continue to be aie tiem. K.W.R. 'Think it Through" ii4'T off ri the lemws I sevwal sew poli-tdesl coEnmntatoir-s recently. Most the-m have di'eflly egapk$aae4 tk s-g'-n-feswesF hm&jmm k ve?. Vki& m fi4eu3tsi &m f eenrlei Mitkdi "Tiiiak it ThroHgfe" hj ee-rta-in S. W. Muit&n. We know nothing abwl Islutton except k esm't fee thm kea4 of the well kuwia S-t-Mk-ltroke-r &m sAstse fei itials are "E. M." lut he iam, wr-K $tvm ih New Ten4 st-c ehange poiiat-of-view. jlere is a sampk, qwfe : Last fall I read ttoat Mie.Fy A. Wal-!ase vas g.seag sJ fi? Ktr. Eisesbe-wer. Tfeis sit-rae'k rae as stra-S'ffe. Wbe.a F.D.K. diteked Caiet-us Jia&k Ga-naer f-sr Hien-y im. 1948, it ea.vw.esl ssjimy .essieerats severe pai-ia. B-ut fe&Ssise Kenry evea &t era Frniklii's nerves, so mmefo tfe-aot ke vsf-ais ditched is-r Tn3.5aa.s1 ia 1944. Wfeen Truraan Faia sat Feeieetion ia '48, Hen-ry raa wita t.We waging cewbey, Glera Taylo.r of Idaho, on a "Pfot p?e.ssive" platforsa, writtea cai-efly by the leftwing pref'es. ser, Rexfiord Guy Tugwell. Hr-mry thought that Harry w.as to ceaservative. Sa whea Henry raid fee wa-s supporting Ike, I saoid: "Glory be! The mans Fe5rsaed! Welcome home, Henry!" You remember Heary's fasaous speech in 1942 -whea be told of telling Madame Litviaev, "the object of this war is to make sure that everybedy ia tfee world has tfee jafivileg.e of drinking a quart ef Milk every day." Henry soon denied that he wa,s serious about putting such a heavy burden oa our cows, but he did insist that T.V.A.'s and such like should be built all over the globe and that "the world is ONE family with ONE future." On January 21st last, in Washington, D.C., a very im portant official said: "We accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere . . . high will be its cost." Neighbor, it sounded like Henry. But it wasn't Tuesday, April 2, 1957 1 Alfa change in owners-hip, will Soviet Russia Showing Concern Over Guided Missle Situation By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia seems to be ser iously alarmed over the guided missiles situation. It is now clear that Russia's warnings to Norway and Den mark against establish in g atomic -weapons bases on their terri'tor.y are part of ia pattern. It is quite probable that a Simi'laF &a.rn $n e .m.a v, to mJ 'Seat Suo q Q ;QharIevMcCan iesi Germany. aSn'M iFnancei. iBr.es ide'n-t i'e-ift&F & Pr.tmie MmHsvCejF Jfer-silid' $$aea& to &Mimme4i M-aipeh 2i, a thfe ewd' f- tfeitr eiB.fFe'Hise m 'ie'r-Hief , feat fee VRited Stat Mriea'l'd wi-aik-e "sejrt'ai'n giMiiie. ffliJ? s)ite-sJ" aiv-ailaifeite i Birit-aiiia. Iwead'y Ia jE-e)r.miany Btoit ews be-iape t'kasS, ft fe it Biiited Sitates 'trsip.s iia e- a.teFHie waTfee-ad's. Use latest seattdai: a Friday Presite(t Si ifoessr-eF, seeikiiiiig a-eu.pie mi d'ajas eif eoniBpara-tJ-ve pe4'a.x.atfea frra tte griiKid f Ms aimi'tt-edly grkkiV isiig jfe, feie-adied si-u-t forawa Wa-sfa-iosi.g-tora fey ar fm tows fsairisa mof e-ttysfewg. ome?eeVug&e stosiig mug loke Fei.dien-t's ea.v (4 r i e m by 9 a&E-pe-J siervkag mom) Mt i w,? to T sai-ks ia a SS-mite aaisne. Ke-wsi-ssi&a feUswkkg !a.kia isi $sm it-!iiiss? ut SIoE:t,ga.iiKiei? e e a js fiSIaoj-f-fe'Hid) polke e-a5 es-it ia &r-mt mi tfei&sa aad naafc them sCib w disnsi Mipk ui.n ti-1 ttoe-y seiaek&d- tisig StaH'tigiSiRsaef eusi'tgr &ad t-litey weipe f'Wi0-wg t'tee 'P-Fe's-idemt. Tle wiiee Fapiiied tfeia.t t'key d-idia't aPe wttm tke 3ae-S;-Ra.ie.iii we-re fellei-wiiiiig. A Few-sara t'fe.&B a'stoeSi: ""Why d'0i't 5aa siiswsf imsSt fee Fjresid.ent?" The psliee Fetpilaied: "'Beca-u-s.e toe's g fesjif iss .gsirafd's with h.isn." jli AT'ER m, te &e&8B&m a-sfeed s JTesident lisenliis wer's mews seere-taory Sames 1-I.a.gier-ty afeowt the ;iaeid'&nt and toe re fused eo'tfimeat. They q,ue-ried the Katieaal Sa-fety eQBeil ia Chis a:g9 and ttoe KatiMal Safety C.UH'Ciil refused eemm&nt. They jumped Caiptain Dayhff i the Motgomery 6u-nty ipoliiee a-bout it, wanting to kmow if M.r. Eisenhower is expected to ontey ttee speed laws,. Baytoofif r&plied: "Th.e Fpe.s-idieiB4 is- higgm than I am. The memimtem&eak t IffeF-y-liand s4a4e .plic.e, ia aw-er to a si'inila? gur-y, ssei: "14 tfee -Fes(te5i!ii iaEo?s t 'Sjgissifl, ke gaia ih." S0 MUCH iter fiie ewaaaf. poli-tieians to& k itp. OREGON'S De-m-.epat eaater Neufeerge.F e r i t i e ised the speedia.g up the Presdde'B-tia.l car and called it "evident dis regard of the speed laws ad elemental public safety." Arizona's Republi&an gieM-tor Barry Goldwater went a little farther and said the trip was "too fast for anybody." Be sug gested that if President Eisen hower gets i.a a hurry toe stould take to the air, vsteee tfe-ee is less traffic." 5TTHAT are the fae-te in fim asss?? I wouldn't btw. ut Aft&r t'toe prty ar-ri'V'e.d Pje P-residen't's farm, tfee Mt g.omery eoumty peti-se efei-ef gall ed Hp news seeeefesFr Ma.g&Fty to tel'l- ham that .the President's d' t i v e v "did Eth.iFiig wr-amig." 'Miagep'ty, de:elin.in.g to go into $ etai'l, merely e-xipiairaie-d that "sometimes the sec-Fe-t se-rvfee wnts to M.GWK WMB &m& PEN1F FAST." jFT SOUKEg Mtee a, tesuipr-sit -Sii a toape't. Aaywa-y, fet's etese a e ia-&i'd:e.n-t with tw-e Fa-fehes? ms' e 1 1 k-roe.w.n iu&tatiBE. 1. "CaesaF's wife ia b s t e ajfeewe saspici'Sia." 2. '"Le-t hipa wto is s-it'tos:i!st sia sa'sit the firs-t stoaie." pEKSON ALLY, I dswb-t if Fres- ideal Eiseai-wer wuld K-se Ms hig.h position ju-st to ride rough-shot over tfe.e speed la-w-s. I HOPE these newsmen and S-enatar Neuberger a-nd Senator Goldwater HAVE NEVER HIT IT UP OVER THE SPEED LIMIT WHEN NOBODY WAS LOOKING. iiii tMil f IT I B&SSt h Ito Dap Hews FRA.N-K JiE'N'KI'NS QUITE true, it was President Dwight D Eisen hower. That is only one sample of the rising po litical tide emanating from the ranks of the right wing of the GOP, against their once sacrosanct leader. The Hutton service is brief, well written, and to the point, from the NY STOCK EXCHANGE point of view. ' We just don't happen to like that point-of-view enough to pay for it. R.W.R. , Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin sent a letter to Norwegian Pre mier Einar Gerhardsen on March 21 warning him that Norway would face catastrophic attack by H-bombs if it continued to let its territory be "utilized by ceE tain big power aggFessive circles to set up military bases against the Soviet Union." Bulganin seat a similar wara ing to Premier H. . Hansen f Denmark last Friday. It will be noted that Bu'lgandin's warning to Norway was serot teree days before the Bermuda annoynGeme-at that guided mds si'Ies w.o.udg' fee mtg$& &?9&S$&e to B'Fita'in'. ''Ftttd'tctsf' AT 'P?gn igjU'l'ga'B'in-, 'h-siwe'v-e-F, meeMmeSi tfeait &mriem tfoaps. eqiu-iip.p.ed wi't'h atoiie we.aipons w.e'Fe to fee site'tioned' in wornam'" t sntpies awd t'togst ttoe new West eFFHfl.a ariiny ad ethe? Jvewrfeh Attenittc Tpea'ty isirees wepe to fee SiMipjpiWied wH'h ateraae weajp.- 'h'i sitote-Biiien't apparently Vias tskie F&suJit ia part ef a es-s lio-a-k wfe-ieh NAT gua't-fcnaipitiiG'S tried te eve-r viip. -a Ma'FCh 14', Ak Mapsfoal t-toe Earl .f B'an4oira, eii!iii.and.in.g tfee S.ad Allied Tactical Air Force in Germany, a-nnouaieed that his feaii.fee-rs would fee equipped witta fesetdteai- ateaai-e weaponis stoo-a. Matter ol Fact Vim B-WLLES WHiITE PAP'E Vastiiagto-n it is not tfee usu aJl fonetoia of a pjs.iitic-a.1 pepoirt- to review books, but ecasieN a.llj- a book e m e s akung which is also important niews. Such a book is "JohM Foster D'ulles: A Bk)igra.pihy" by John Eo-b-iasoa B-eal of "Timie" Mago- Slt-W..lt Alsop zone. f toe book is news for two F&a sss. First it eontains a fascin-at-iiaig aeeo'Unt f what had previ ously been .nly rumored or su-s-peeted- a ealculated decision by ge&FetaFy Dulle-s to force a stoo-wdo-wa ia the Middle East, f fee aeeou-nt ef this startling epi sdie is uadoubted-ly based on in terviews with Dulles himself. !8ecnd, the book will no doubt have important international re-pereu-ssio'n-s, since it not only Oipeoas all the old half-healed wound's eaused by the Suez cri sis, but also po-urs great d-ollops if salt ia them. ' r Ttoe Beal bock is thus likely to eause as much BproaF as the aeeO'TOit based on interview with E).ulles of the Dulles "brink of war" th-nory, by anctheF "TkoBie" FE-aa, J-aes Shep-ley. jjfST MIS iatroiuetism Beal, shile 4 farnaally absolving D-ulles of rsapoiH'sibility f'er the book, satos that "it benefits from per-s:oa-l iiBterviews wit-h him which piFO-vidied ia-sigh't ia-t his official gistisia, wtokh I t-toak him." E;&p:eaitedly B e a 1 dieserib&s .u'l'le-s' viejys with an authority w-h-ieh . aeuid only have ceme f'Fom sueh . "personal inter views." The book will certainly ke regarded, therefore, as a kind of pe-r-sonal Dulles White Paper on his Middle East policies; un official but authentic. . 'Bea.1 Gonfiden-tly de-scribes the ma'a-ner of Dulles' withdrawal ef the American offer of aid to Egypt in building the Aswan Dam as a ealculated slap ia the faee for Egypt's President Nas seF, . eensciously designed to bring on 3 show-down. The B;eal account should be read in full, s-inee it is an authoritative re port of oae of the most amazing e-xercises in diplomacy in recent history. But the following ex eerpts give the gist: Fo.r Dulles, a moment of cold war climax had come. It was necessary to sail Russia's hand in the game of economic compe tition, it was necessary to make the demonstration en a grand scale. Nasser- combined the r-ight tmin.g the right geography and ttoe right OFde-r of magnitude far a- truly major gambit in the Gold war. Why did Dulles turn do-w-n Nasser so brutally, without a e-hanee to , save face? Siace the issue involved more than sply d:enyig Nasser money for a dam, a polite and concealed re buff would fail to make the Fea-lly important point. It had to fee fsrthright, carrying Ms own-built-in moral for neutrals in a way that the ormolu of applied propaganda would not cheapen." F SHORT, Dulles withdrew the American offer as insult ingly as possible, not in a mo ment of temporary aberation, as many thought at the time, but because he planned it that way. Real's version of the Dulles West German spokesmen fol lowed up next day with a state ment that American troops in Germany were equipped with atomic warheads. -This really was no secret, but the fact never had feeea announced officially. Both United States and British headquarters in Germany were apenly displeased a.t the state ments of LoFd Bandon and the West ermaa spokesmen, and tried to sht ofi discussion of them. The Russians s.eena to foresee a time, however far ia the future, when gided missiles and other atomic weapons wilsl be stored Feady fo.F use Tt&X only in West er-m-any and Britain but in Nor way, enmairk and ether coun tries which belong to the North Atlam-tic Treaty Organization. Certainly, the Russians have s.H3-e Fea-soa to worry. But there is n-o need for them to worry seriously unless they foresee the poss-ifeility that Russia itself Might start World War III. Such a war might be started deliber ately, a.s a matter of Communist asggressive policy. Or it might be started by the sort of tragic fe-luniders that involved Adolf Hitler in a world war which he did not plan. Hitler just overstepped a clearly marked line. So might By SUewor-t Alsop !ecisioa to force a showdown parallels almost word for word the version of the decision pre viously offered by still another "Time-Life" man and Dulles ad mirer, former Presidential ad viser C. D. Jackson. When the Jackson version of the Dulles decision was made public, it was widely assumed that it was in fact the Dulles version. Now there can be no reasonable doubt of it an expe rienced reporter like Beal could not conceivably describe the Secretary of State's reasoning and motivation in such authori tative detail simply by guess work. Beal makes it clear, xnoreover, that Dulles was aware of the dangers invo'ved in forcing a showdown- 'As a calculated risk the decision was on a grand scale, comparable in the sphere of diplomacy to the calculated risks of war taken in Korea and Formosa. But his experience at sailing in diplomatic waters con vinced him that the breeze would be better if he took a new and independent tack." rpHE chapters which follow, -- which also clearly benefit from "insight into his official action," are designed to prove that the Dulles decision to force a showdown was a brilliantly successful diplomatic coup. This proves a trifle difficult, even for so able an advocate as Beal, since it is uncomfortably obvious that the Middle Eastern "breeze" h-a-s not been better, but a great deal worse since Dulles forced his showdown. The difficulty is overcome by the simple device of blaming ev erything that has gone wrong on our Allies while die Dulles pol icy was "moral," and "consistent and purposeful," our Allies' poli cies were both stupid and dis honest. This theory of the crisis, which deserves further examina tion, will be studied with pained attention abroad, in view of the authority with which the author clearly speaks.. Copyright 1957, New York Herald Tribune, Inc. Macmillan Appears To Have Quelled Revolt London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan appeared today to have quelled a Conserv ative party revolt over his al leged "subservience" to the U-n-it-ed States. Right wing critics in his own party, if not the Laborite oppo sition, apparently were molli fied Tjy the Prime Minister's spe-ech Monday in defense of his actions in the Bermuda confer- : ence with President Eisnnower. Both the Tory backbenchers and the opposition Labor party 1 had accused him of bowing to j American" pressure on such vital ; issues as Cyprus and the Middle j East. I Some 126 rebellious Tories got j together after the speech and ! withdrew an anti-American res- j olution they introduced last No-; vember after American pressure forced Britain to withdraw from j Egypt. . ' ! "The Premier's speech satis- j fied us that things are not that bad," one of the Tory group said. ' Line of Automobiles Stalled by Sleeper , j Nagatuck, Conn. (U.R) Po-1 lice who investigated a mile- j long line 01 nonKing auimoDues found Samuel A. Perry, 32, in the first car. He had halted for a stop sign and fallen asleep. Texas Election Today Could Swing Control Of Senate to GOP By PRESTON McGRAW United Prest Correspondent Dallas, Tex. 0J.R) A lone Re publican faced a horde of 18 Democrats today in a Te"xa;s spe cial election that could swing the precarious balance of power in the United States senate. A total of 20 candidates sought the post. If bad weather prevails today, a vote as slim as 600,000 may decide whether Republicans or Democrats run the Senate. The winner will fill the position held by interim appointee William Blakely of Dallas. Blakely filled in for Price Daniel, who became governor in January. There are 21 months remaining in the term. , Bad Weather Threatens At present, Democrats fill 49 seats in the Senate. If a' Republi can wins today, it will even the balance at 48-48 and give Vice Vice President Richard M. Nixon the tie breaking vote. Robert Johnson, general man ager of the Texas Electibn Board, hoped for about 800,000 less than half the eligible vot ers in Texas, to go to the polls today between 8 a.m. (EST) and 8 p.m. However, the turnout may be cut by thunderstorms, which are predicted for most of the state today, and snow in the upper Communications Security Cards For Youth To the Editor: What a perfect ly grand lift it is to read of a schoolboy Like the one over Sams Valley way, coming to the de fense of the teacher, the one who had corrected him, while par ents of other children were try ing to have the teacher fired for trying to bring their children into- some sort of school disci pline. It takes a high degree of courage for a student to come out in defiance of the popular trend of criticising school-heads, blaming them for trouble in cor rective methods they the parents should be doing. It is much the same with the police who have great difficulty in laying hands on young scamps up to deviltry, catching them red-handed. Then, what is the payoff? All too often, the parents, instead of digging at the reason of their children getting into trouble, berate the officer for dragging their young sters into such shame. Even though the kids confess their guilt, the parents will have no part of it, that the poor dears were likely third-degreed into it. This kind of thing came to me some years ago in the Oak Grove district south of Portland when away on a field trip, some boys swiped new building lumber at our home, rutting it into short lengths for their nearby den- cave. Well, this could 'be under stood, but not the boys refusal to bring it back and denying tfiey ever got it . at my place, even when the ring-leader's fath er was shown identical markings between that in: the cave and at oi'- place. No, his boy was "not guilty and that was that. So, what is the answer? In Switzerland, author i t i e s are making a test run in a city, bar ring all children under 18 years of age from the movies to see what effect if any this has on the rising tide of youth-crime there. Seems like an improvement on this would be something- in which students, like the one over Sams Valley way, could feel a pride of accomplishment. A something similar to the social security card we grown-ups must carry. It could be a "youth se curity" card in a cellophane pro tector, with attached safety pin the youngster's mother could pin to his under clothing in front where it could be flipped to view to gain entrance to movies, soft drink youth gathering places or any selling youth literature. The displaying of such cards could carry a discount to movies and Counsel With . . . Mr. insurance Fred Brennan Fred Brennan Or Call Mr. Friendly Bill Fish Phone 2-4940 MEDFORD INSURANCE AGENCY 27 NORTH HOUY St. Panhandle. It is the tornado sea son in Texas, and thunderstorms frequently herald twisters. Johnson estimated the eligible vote in Texas at 1,980,830. Democrats fear their vote may be split so many ways the minor ity Republican vote will slip in ahead of them. . Hutcheson Faces 'Field' Thad Hutcheson, a 41-year-old Houston lawyer, is the Republi can candidate. He has been en dorsed by President Eisenhower and Nixon as well as the state Republican organization. H. J. Antoine Sr., a real estate man from Bastrop, is also run ning as a Republican, but the state committee disowned him and he apparently has made no campaign. Five Democrats are widely known through previous races. They aire Congressman-at-Large Martin Dies of Lufkin, Ralph Yarborough, an Austin attomev; State Sen. Searcy Bracewell ;sf Houston; Agriculture Commis sioner John White and former"' state Supreme -Court Justice James P. Hart. ; Dies is regarded as the lead ing candidate of conservative Democrats. Yarborough, three times an unsuccessful but strong candidate for governor, is con sidered the liberal wing leader." The state Democratic committee has not endorsed any candidate. such like, a special fund making up the difference to such operas tors. When found guilty of wrong-doing, the school principal or police could pick up the card for a week or two. A clean youth-security card could be of much pride to the holder, also parents. F. J. Clifford 1211 West Main st. : ' Medford, Ore. Criticizes Water Dept. To the Editor: I agree with E.R.R. in your editorial column, telling the taxpayer to wake up. They should wake long enough to take a look at their water de partment, and I believe they will stay awake. We had enough water to sup ply Medford and 50,000 men sta tioned at Camp White. After Camp White was gone, the water department had sold so much water, that we had to be put on watering hours, although the charter which gives them the right to sell excess water also says the city has prior right. At the request of the water department and with the prom ise, our water rates would not be raised, we voted for another res ervoir and the water department continued to sell more and more water. This water was sold at a high er rate than th;j citizens of Med ford were paying,, but this reve nue did not benefit the taxpayers of Medford at all even though it " is a Municipal water department. When Medford citizens have received no benefit from aU the water sold why should we now pay more because the water de partment is cutting the water rate of a portion of these people? This raise will amount to $S per year for every ' family in Medford. This will add up to quite a sum. This water fund is kept separate. Not one thin dime is used, to help carry the burden of the heavy city expense. ; Any properly managed water system should be able to show (after 30 years) a good profit as well as improve the department. How can the, water depart-' ment raise cur water rates, after they told us they would not be raised if we voted for the res ervoir which we did! If we had not voted to provide this extra reservoir there would not have been so much water for them to sell. Cleo Canoose -55 Ross Court v Medford, Ore. Insurance cost, Is low indeed, But if you doubt it, Better plan, To ask the man, Whose home burned, Without it. . J"i.,.m m.,..a, )'M '. 1 Bill Fish