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il FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) "Zveryoiw In Southern Oregon Hearts rne Man iTipgne PubUrtea Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North fir St Phone 2-4141 ROBERT W RUHL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERAi-D LATHAM Businen Manage ERIC AI.I.FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Soortt Editor OIJVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered a second clan matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday On year $13 00 Daily and Sunday Six month 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mot 4.25 Sunday Only One year 4.zo By Carrier In Advance Mediord ' Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routes- Daily and Sunday- One year $18 00 Dally and bunday One month 1-30 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms cash in Advance Official Paper of tb City of Medford miiciai riper or jacKson county United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C. NATION A I I 0 I T 0 I WTilHHIHIIJIJ 10" NEWSPAPIt PUBLISHES ASSOCIATION Flight o' Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 30 YEARS AGO lpril 7. 1947 (Monday) Fire escapes are being in flailed on several apartment Souses and business buildings, Jire Chief Roy Elliott reports. From Arthur Perry's Ye nudge Pot column: In many trpstate burgs, the parking meter ft superseding Bonneville dam Jectricity as a civic issue, and Caose for an election. OS YEARS AGO jil 7. 1937 (Wednesday) JSrst frost of any importance ttiff season was deposited last eight on the Rogue river valley 4 a minimum temperature of 31 degrees is recorded. . gree motion pictures of the U. . Navy will be presented in the Bedford armory tonight, accord ing to Ernest M. West, recruiting ofiicer here. YEARS AGO . (jQttil 7. 1927 (Thursday) , G. M. Raymond, for the past two years circuit court reporter under Judge C. M. Thomas, re signs. Bettv Stennett. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Stennett, will rjresent a Russian feature dance at the Masonic Dancing club ball tonight. 4 YEARS AGO Aril 7. 1917 (Saturday) Superintendent F. W. Carna han of the Blue Ledge mine is in Medford arranging for the camp and feed for stock. A "Home Guard" for Med ford and vicinity will probably be organized at once to assist in cases of emergency in "home service." Whal's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en cr eight Is excellent: five or six Is good. 1. In 1689 French Huguenots settled New Rochelle in which British Colony? 2. The purchase of which ter ritory of the United States orig inally was referred to as "Sew ard's folly"? 3. Bible: Is there any reference in which God teaches one to profit? 4. Are dragonfiies harmless to man? 5. Which flowering plant is referred to the "The Queen of Flowers"? 6. Name the only U.S. Presi dent who never married. - 7. Brogans remind one of a type of vehicle, shoe, or head gear? 8. The famous war corres pondent, Ernie Pyle, was a na tive of which state? 9. Do observation and observ ance have similar meanings? 10. "There was his barbarians all at play, There was -their Dacian mother he, their sire Butchered to make a Roman, holiday." Byron. What is a "Ro man Holiday?" Answers: 1. New York. 2. Alaska. 3. Yes. Is. 49:5. 4. Yes. 5. The rose. 6. James Buchanan. 7. Shoe. 8. Indiana. 9. No. 10. A day of carnage. MAIL TRIBUNE Marshal Should Be Retained Some things we understand. Many things we don't. Among the latter is the edict from Portland that the U.S. Marshal's office in this city be closed. This is the second time the attempt to oust Paul Hanlin, efficient deputy U.S. marshal, has been made. , . , The first attempt last year failed. This second at tempt should also. The plea of economy is rather absurd, except on the false basis of being penny-wise and pound-foolish. As the local Bar Association has pointed out with the marshal's office closed here, all services of process in civil and criminal federal cases will have to be made from the Portland office 300 miles away and will therefore result in unnecessary expenses not only to the legal profession, but to litigants and the gov ernment. Certainly if there was need for a marshal's office 40 years ago there is, with the material increase in business, litigation and population, greater need now. Deputy Marshal Hanlin has served as U.S. mar shal for 20 years and has done an UNDERstanding and OUTstanding'job. We agree with the Bar Association that he and his office should be retained. R.W.R. The Post Office Mess There is another thing In a country like this, mately $72,000,000,000, how can there not be suffi cient funds available to maintain a respectable and decent postal service? Yet we have Postmaster General Summerfield maintaining that if the appropriation for his depart ment is not materially increased, he will have to eliminate Saturday mail service entirely, and deliv eries to business to the pre-historic one-a-day basis. THIS passeth all understanding. The postal service is not operated for profit, it has never, to our knowledge, enjoyed a profit. It is a basic and essential public service to the inhabi tants of the richest country 'in the world, some 170,- 000,000 of them. It would seem obvious factory postal service, should be the No. 1 obligation of a Pastmaster General, and it should equally be the No. 1 duty of the Congress to appropriate a suffi cient amount to accomplish this. ONGRESSMAN Cannon, however, according to press reports, claims there . has been enough money appropriated; Postmaster General Summer field claims there definitely has not. Who is right? We don't know. But our guess is this present tidal wave for economy and reduction of taxes pronto and regardless bears a heavy responsibility. "IHETHER this is true or not, there is one thing " for sure, namely: - . . For the richest country in the world, with a record breaking peace-time budget, to find it impossible to give the people of the country the kind of mail serv ice they deserve because of lack of funds, is just another thing that doesn't make SENSE. Someone, some place has blundered terribly. If Postmaster General Summerfield is right, then the Congress should apologize he needs, immediately. If he is wrong then place taken by someone who is a better business man ager, and has a keener sense of public responsibility, in a most important federal post. R.W.R. . Sneezes and Tremolos We have often been impressed of late by the fact that no actor or actress, on the stage or over-the-air can give a reasonably accurate imitation of a sneeze. Even Jack Benny, so good in most directions, failed completely in this department of histrionics, the other night. The best he could do was to shake his head, enun ciate a loud, clearly enunciated and emphatic "KER CHOO" and wave his handkerchief, as a signal of sinus distress. We have seen a number of plays on stage, screen and "TV" but never yet a sneeze that was not a com plete phoney from start to finish. They successfully imitate most sounds, animal, vegetable, mineral and human in Hollywood these days, all the way from pestiferous parrots to prowl ing panthers, but never to our knowledge, has anyone in any cast come up with a successful and convincing SNEEZE. We are a bit fed up with "quiz and prize pro grams," but would gladly give an MT "Oscar" to any actor or actress who can deliver the goods to the satisfaction of our sneeze department. (And we would not disbar Jimmy Durante, who would seem to be physically exceptionally well equipped in that direc tion.) "IX7E HAVE another gripe in the field of entertain- ment, that is what, for want of a better term, we would call the "rock and roll tremolo." There are some notable exceptions Perry Como and Lili Pons, for example but by and large most vocal aspirants for the "Hit Parade," male and female, put on a tremolo that is completely off-the-beam, im proper, unconvincing and inane as the stage. sneeze. It isn't an authentic tremolo at all, it is purely physi cal, a sort of cross between the bleat of Mary's Lit tle Iamb, and a seasick cow suffering from a sudden and severe attack of ague. It blends with the music Sunday. April 7. 1957 we can't understand. with a budget of approxi that a modern and satis and hand over the money he should resign, and his Elbow-Bending in Washington Wanes Somewhat Writer Says By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The president's limousine Isn't the only thing that is slowing down in the na tion's capital this spring. Elbow bending and cheese dipping is also somewhat on the wane. At least the freeloading variety. Society reporters say the diz zy social whirl here ain't what what it used to be in the earlier days of the Eisenhower admin istration, when party giving and going hit a new peak. One big reason is that the incentive is gradually dimin ishing. People don't give fancy, expensive shindigs with plen ty of eats and booze just to keep the old town alive. Most of them have an axe to grind,' some one they want to influence, a profitable deal they want to put across, a bill they want enact ed, a government policy they want modified to their advantage. Party giving, in a word, has hit the lull for this reason as explained by one professional party major-domos: All Axes Ground "Everybody who had an axe to grind (with the administration) has ground it, Ike can't be president after this term so there's no use court ing the people around him. And nobody knows yet who they ought to start making up to." Among those who give parties for the fun, or prestige, of it, the number of invitations they send out is going down because the cost is going up. The men who make the parties click, the caterers, have jacked up their prices 10 to 15 per cent on the average over last year to reflect ris ing prices' in food and drink. A. Robt Smith Job of Picking Five 'Greatest Senators1 Studded With Danger Washington (CQ A spe cial Senate committee is sched uled to climb out on a limb May 1 and name the five greatest Sen ators of all time to a Senate Hall of Fame." Mail already in shows the se lection committee will not be able to please everybody; prob ably nobody. The nominees must be dead a requirement that has not cooled the ardor of the pub lic nominators. A Vermont Yankee, for in stance, wrote the committee it had better pick Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, the president of thj Confederacy during the Civ il War and a Senator in the 1840s and 1850s. A Texan said the committee must not overlook Mrs. Rebec ca L. Felton of Georgia. He maintained Mrs. Felton should be named one of the greatest even though she wasn't, a Tex an because she was the first woman Senator. She served for only two days in 1922. And a Birmingham, Ala., res ident, wrote that his state's John Tyler Morgan, a Democratic Senator from 1877-1907, was an all-time great because "this grand old man alone conducted the longest filibuster in the. his tory of lawmaking which re sulted in defeating (in 1890) the vicious Force Bill, keeping the Northern bayonets from watch ing over Southern ballot boxes." The Alabaman added that the Panama Canal should be re named the Morgan Canal be cause it was the Senator's idea in the first place. ' , See Protests On top of the deluge of mail from the public come suggest ions from historians and current Senators, few of which agree since the Senators generally want to honor someone from their state and party. No matter whom the committee picks, the protest is sure to be deafening. It is entirely possible the Sen ate itself will be unable to agree on the five greatest Senators. Charged with selecting the nominees for the "Hall of Fame: are Senators John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Mike Mansfield (D Mont.), Richard B. Russell (D Ga.),. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio). They are officially called the Special Committee on the Sen ate Reception Room, because portraits of the five greatest Senators if they're ever se lected will hang there. The reception room is just off the main Senate chamber and is usea Dy senators to receive guests. Impressively appointed with two glistening chandeliers spraying light from the high ceiling to the colorful tile floor, the room has five blank oval spaces designed for portraits. Asked if the five ovals dic tated the number of Senators to be named to .the "Hall of Fame," Charles Clapp, selection commit and the song about as well as putting a dunce's cap on the skull of a mad elephant if you can. What is the big idea anyway? A proper tremolo should not be so" difficult to cultivate. But the run of the mill tremolos todav in the juvenile vocal field particularly, contribute about as much to the pleasure of the listening audience as a cat fight among the "shiners" in the Philadelphia Philharmonic. And one of the worst and most amazing features of all this is, that the moronic performers seem to rest under the delusion that this sort of musical atrocity is surefire with the auditors, and puts them the vocalists on the first rung of the ladder leading to permanent tame and mink coat aitluence. It is all veiy depressing. - We should think some of the "pros" would se about concocting a CURE. R.W.R. catered cocktail party for 100 persons for some thing like $265 plus the cost of liquor, an expen sive variable which depends on who is invited. This year the same spread wiU run about $300, still without the intoxicating cost of beverages. If you think everyone who throws a party on this scale must be in the chips, the caterers can tell you you're wrong. "All of us are having trouble making collec tion," confessed one. "This is one of the most difficult years in the business along those lines. People can't borrow money as easily as they used to." So it looks like the time has come to soberly stop calling it a tight money policy. Another Omen There's another good omen for those who like to see "high society" encounter troubles. In the realm of those who thrive on being in "who's who" here in Washington there is a fel lor who devised a license plate system whereby the big shots get the low numbers and the little shots get the big numbers. One newspaper even prints the full list of 1200 low numbers and sug gests the reader should put it in his glove com partment so that when he is driving along be hind a low number, he can tell whose exhaust he is smelling. The fatal flaw of this version of the elite so cial register is that everybody in society and pol itics wants in on the act, so the list gets bigger and bigger. The presidentially-appointed commis sioners who run the city can't resist this pressure. This year they increased the list 200 more num bers. They even gave one to George's Radio and Television store, which should please everyone who doesn't qualify by having blue blood. tee staff member, commented wryly: "I think that had some thing to do with it." The committee, other than pointing to some of the names most often mentioned for the honor, admits it hasn't gotten very far in deciding whom it will recommend. But while the committee is still a lone way from agreeing on its nominations, offers to do the portraits are pouring in, des pite repeated protestations that it is much too early to think about painters. Names frequenUy suggested to the Senate committee are Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jack son, Stephen A. Douglas and Robert A. Taft. Several letters have suggested Edmund Ross, the Senator whose vote saved Andrew Johnson from impeach ment. (One man wrote Kennedy that he thought he had read about Ross someplace. He had in Kennedy's own book, "Pro files in Courage.") No one expects to see the por traits on view any time soon. Even if the committee can make up its mind by May 1, it is un likely a majority of the 96 Sen ators from 48 states will get to gether easily on the five great est of their predecessors. Agreeing" on the five greatest Senators of all time may touch off the biggest disagreement RPpn on the Senate floor in a Ions time. (Copyright 1957. Congressional Quarterly) Editorial Comment IN DEFENSE OF NO. 321 One regrettable side angle to the labor and racketeering hear ings in Washington the past few weeks has arisen because too many people are willing to tar evervone with the same brush. Because the Teamsters union has figured prominently in the hear ings, there has been a tendency to blacken all Teamster locals. This newspaper holds no brief for those Teamster leaders particularly Beck and Hoffa who find tnemseives in not wa ter. But there is a big difference between the national picture and thp lnral one. Most of the Teamster prob lem locals seem to be "trusteed locals, operated by the interna tional union. Local 321 or tne Teamsters, headquartered in Bend, controls its own affairs, and from what we can deter mine, controls them wisely and honestly. The local also has been gen erous in making the time of its secretary, Hugh Cole, available for a wide variety of community projects, which he has perform ed well. Bend Bulletin. Last spring society matrons would toss a eood Matter of Fact THE DEAD END STREET Washington If anyone were so rude or so imprudent as to swing a cat on the Democratic side of the Senate aisle, he would be likely to hit several actual or potential Preside n t i a 1 candidates. Their names are legion the , perennial stewait Alsop jveiauver, ui -rr F r course, Morse ot uregon, trore of Tennessee, Clark of Pennsyl vania. Lausche of Ohio, Mon- roney of Oklahoma, perhaps Kerr of Oklahoma too he got the hankering no-one ever loses in 1952. But the names most fre quently and seriously mentioned are those of Lyndon Johnson of Texas and John Kennedy of Massachuetts. There are two reasons why there is already so much talk about this enormous gallery of potential candidates among the Senate Democrats. For one thing, there is an extraordinary paucity of real Democratic tal ent outside the Senate. For another, the Senate Democrats by contrast include many able men, of whom Johnson and Ken nedy are perhaps the ablest; Yet history suggests that it would be an . excellent odds-on bet that not one of the names listed above will ever grace the White House. Of all the dozens of distinguished men who have sat in the upper house just one -the undistinguished W a r r en Harding has moved direcUy from the Senate to the White House. Aside from the wholly accidental Harding, since the Civil War only two ex-Senators have reached 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Benjamin Harrison and another accident, Harry S. Truman. And in all that time neither party has nominated a sitting Senator, other than Harding. rfiHE SENATE, in short, is vlr- tually a dead end street as far as the Presidency is concerned. If you consider the cases of Ly- don Johnson and Jack Kennedy, you can see why. Johnson is the ablest Majority Leader in a long time. His many admirers claim he has the stature needed in a Presidential candi date he has, if you will, a Pres idential smell. Provided the President survives his second term, the much younger John son's heart attack will be no bar to the White House. Yet the fact that he is a Sen ator is a big, solid bar. As a Tex an, Johnson had no choice but to lead the fight last year to free natural gas from Federal control. As a Southerner, he has no choice this year but to oppose Northern proposals for civil right legislation. Both positions will alienate Northern Liberal support and the labor-backed Northern Liberals, though they do not dominate the Democratic Party as they once did, still ex ercise a veto power over candi dates. AS Majority Leader, more-; over, Johnson suffers from a special liability. In a time of prosperity, the Eisenhower Ad ministration has shrewdly abort ed every traditional Democratic issue. Although Johnson on most issues is a liberal by any fair test, the Northerners tend to blame the currently Democratic sterility and frustration on his "conservative" leadership. Kennedy has great ability, as well as great appeal for the vot ers (the ladies especially) and un limited financial backing. His Catholicism is no bar to the nomination, any more than John son's heart attack indeed, a good case could be made that his religion is a political asset. Kennedy is certainly an am bitious man, but he is also a real ist, with a sense of history. He POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) One Richard Studwell of Flossmoor, 111., recently wrote the Chamber of Commerce here for some materials a request which is both common and rou tine as far as the chamber goes. His letter is as follows: Gentlemen: I am making a survey of the United. States. I have chosen your city for THE WILD WEST. Please send to: Deposits at Branch Bank Show Decline Quarterly statement of condi tion figures released by the Med ford branch of First National bank of, Portland show that on March 31, 1957, deposits at the branch ' were 826,326,965 and loans were $11,935,914, accord ing to C. E. Hedberg, vice presi dent and manager. Comparable totals for the Medford branch March 31, 1956, Were $30,296,139 for deposits and loa"s totaled $12,736,008. The statements showed that on March 31; 1956, deposits at the First National and its 74 statewide banking offices were $764,700,115, loans were $429, 130,115, and resources were $849,C15,416. By Joe and Stewart AIsop is quite aware that the Senate is the worst possible jumping off place for the Presidency. Al ready, his vote against rigid par ity has alienated farm groups, his vote against Colorado River development has caused doubts in the Northwest: his pro-civil rights stand has endangered Southern support; and his failure to dance on the political grave, of Sen. McCarthy (who is still popu lar among important voting groups in Massachusetts (has an gered the Liberals. - ETWEEN now and 1960, as a ID Senator, he cannot avoid poi soning still more political wells. In the circumstances, he might seem weil advised to emulate Knowland of California, duck the Senate when his term ex pires next year, and try for the Massachusetts governorship. But to do so would alienate the Ital ian voters who support the pres ent governor, Foster Furcolo (with whom Kennedy has al ready had a damaging row) and thus might end his political ca reer. It would be a mistake to un derestimate either Kennedy or Johnson. But the above suggests why the hurdles which have proved too high for them, too; and why the Democrats' 1960 candidate is likely to be, not a familiar face from -the Senate, but some yet faceless man. (Copyright 1957. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS At his news conference on Wednesday, President Eisenhow er said in reply to a question that he certainly hopes there can be an income tax cut before the end of his second term. But he declined to speculate as to just WHEN a reduction may be possible. . ; LETS put it this way: Reduction of federal taxes can come about (wisely and safe ly) only if and when there is a reduction in federal spending. WHEN will that come about? Material reduction in federal taxes can come about ONLY after it has been demonstrated in several elections that heavy spending is no longer popular with the voters. As long as the spenders get RE-ELECTED, we will go on spending. THAT suggests another ques tion: . When will people begin to vote against heavy government spending? I'll try to answer it: People will begin to vote against excessive government spending whenever they begin to realize that the money taken out of their pockets by exces sive taxation would have broueht them MORE in the way of comforts and satisfactions IF THE MONEY HAD BEEN LEFT IN THEIR POCKETS FOR THEM TO SPEND. LOOK at it like this: The federal budget for the next fiscal year totals just un der 72 biUion dollars. Let's as sume that there are about 160 million people in the United States. If you will get out a pencil and some paper and divide 72 billion dollars by 160. minion people you will, discover that the pe- capita share of next year's federal taxes (assuming that the budget remains in the neighborhood of 72 billion dol lars) will be about $450. If you have no dependents, your per capita share of the cost of running the U.S. government during the next fiscal year will be about $450. If you are the breadwinner for a family of four, your share will be about $1800. Richard Studwell, Flossmoor, Illinois. We're not quite sure whether he wants Medford or the Wild West to be sent. Anyway, should it go freight, express or parcel post? A prominent Medford resi dent is back in circulation fol lowing a major operation. During convalescence he re ceived a memento of which he is proud a lie clasp on which are a few words proclaiming to the world that he no longer has a specific portion of his anatomy. Know what a common cold Is? We thought we did until last week, when we received a press release which says that a com mon cold "Is now defined as a mild, self-limited, respiratory ill ness, without fever, character ized by catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membranes of the nose, the sinuses, and contigu ous structures of the upper res piratory passages." Now you know. A service club member, last week proved that he knows the ropes regarding the ways v of service clubs, when he gave a report on a project of which he was co-chairman. He said, resignedly, "I suppose, if we do a good job, it means we'll get another committee chair manship." He could have add ed, too, that one of . the best ways to be assigned a tough job is to be absent from a meeting. We are increasingly disturbed, in a minor sort of way, with a sort of usage which is becoming more and more in vogue, which doesn't make it correct. Until about 1939 or 1940, World War I was called simply the "World War." But when the next one came along, and no obvious name for it presented itself, peo ple started calling it World War II which made the "other" war World War I. If we. recall cor rectly, Time magazine started this usage. Anyway, the name World War II is well established. But more and more people are- writing them World War 1 (which is all right), and then going on to write World War 11 which is wrong. . We may get to WW Eleven some day (which God forbid), but we're not there yet. A city fireman attended a committee meeting last week in a place where there wes a fireplace in which a fire was briskly burning. Presumably because of his experience and conditioning over the years, he politely turned down a chance to sit by the fire. The Bend .Bulletin comes up with proof that it's not a good idea to throw trash on the high way. It tells of a motorist who tossed a magazine out of the car; The action was spotted by a state policeman, who gave chase, stopped the offender, charged him with messing up the high way (a state offense) and, in checking by radio with head quarters to find out 'what the bail should be, found the man was a suspect in a forgery case, and carried him away to jail. The moral, obviously, is that it doesn't pay to toss rubbish out of the car. 'Jimmy Dunlevy was wel comed as manager of the Rogue Valley Country club in a recent issue of the club's monthly bulletin with a head line which declares "Dunlevy Adds Weight to Administra tion." Anyone knowing Jim my will be bound to agree and in more ways than one. i In a refrigerator we know. about last Monday morning were two bowls, one containing hard boiled eggs for the students lunches, and the other fresh eggs. The 1 1-year-old made her own lunch that day. At noon in the cafeteria, fol lowing a bad habit learned from her father, she tapped her lunch eon egg against her head to crack the shell. The egg, taken from the wrong bowl, splattered all over her head. Since it was April 1, it was impossible to convince her this was not an "April Fool" joke. Hot news from Page 1 of the Medford Hi-Times, publi cation of Medford High school: Realizing the need for trans portation, the Southern Pa cific railroad has decided to construct a spur line until a proposed subway can be finished. This independent branch " of the i SP's crack streamliner, "The Whistle Stop," will parallel East Jack son to Valley View. From Val ley View the commuters' spe cial will highball down Spring street and' then pursue a cir cuitous route to Crater High school. Time schedules will be distributed when former MHS students register. . The story was published ' under an April 1 dateline, of course. i
