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o -1 IN fUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Zveryone in Southern Orecoo Reads The Mail Tribune" gibiuhed Dally Exceot Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor SERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS. Citj EditOT HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act oi March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c. Daiiy and Sunday One year 115.00 Daily and Sunday -Six months 8 CO Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.25 Sunday Only One rear 4-20 By Carriei In Advance Mediord. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shadv Cove Roeue River Talent and on motoi routes Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 Dally and bunday One month uu Carrier end Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash m Advance OMirtal Paper of the City of Medford Offirial Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Ot CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B.C NATIONAL . EOlTOtlAt ASSOCHATieN azznni cumi N EWSPA PER PUBIISHERS 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 April 12, 1947 (Saturday) - Plans for a campaign to raise funds for a YMCA building in Medford have been completed and members of a new building committee named. From the Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column; Horticul turists Fri. rebelled an attack by Jackson K. Frost, the well known April nuisance. 20 YEARS AGO Apiil 12, 1937 (Monday) Two air mail schedules out of Medford will be discontinued temporarily beginning on next Thursday, according to Postmas ter Frank DeSouza. Mrs. Effie Kurtz and Mrs. Lois Young, cochairmen for ob servance of national music week in Medford, receive notice from Gov. Charles H. Martin pro claiming the week in Oregon. 30 YEARS AGO April 12. 1927 (Tuesday) W. W. Allen elected president of Rotary club. J. Howard Rodda, well-known bicycle rider and representative . of the cycle trades of America, has arranged with local bicycle dealers a bicycle parade Satur day. 40 YEARS AGO April 12. 1917 (Thursday) The Medford public schools will be visited tomorrow by State Superintendent J. A. Churchill. Thirty thousand feet of lum ber is being hauled to Palmer creek and to the Blue League mine by its owners. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct la superior; sev en er eight Is excellent; five r six Is good. 1. In 1846 did the U.S. settle the "Oregon" boundary treaty with Great Britain or Canada. 2. Sir Walter Raleigh was convicted of treason in 1603 and died 15 years later. Did he die naturally in prison, or was he beheaded or hanged? 3. Bible: Who said "One of you which eateth with me sha'! betray me"? 4. Name the capital of Chile. 5. Who enunciated the "Four Freedoms"? 6. Sapodilla is the name of a musical instrument, a low-grade moron, or an apple-like fruit? 7. From which opera is the selection known as "Evening Star"? 8. Iceland is noted for its hot springs; true or false? 9. Which is the principal vow el in "arterial"? 10. "Our prentice Tom may now refuse, To wipe his s master's shoes." Farquar. Answers: 1. Canada. 2. Be headed. 3. Jesus. 4. Santiago. 5. Franklin D. Roosevelt. 6. Apple like fruit. 7. Tannhauier. 8. True. 9. "e". 10. Scoundrel. Eugene Youth Killed as Car Skids on Wet Road Eugene (U.R) Terry Lee Marshall,. 17, of -Eugene, was killed about 10:40 p.m. Thursday when the car in which he was riding skidded out of control on wet pavement near Noti and hit a bridge abutment With Marshall when the ac cident occurred on the Noti Vaughn road was Danny Nolan Tucker, 16. also of Eugene. Mar shall was thrown from, the car. Young Tucker was treated at a Eugene hospital and released. MAIL TRIBUNE "Kilroy Was Here Who was Kilroy? And what did he do ? The august New York Times recently devoted a long editorial to a fanciful discussion of this semi legendary character, so familiar to any World War II serviceman. Kilroy was ubiquitous. His trade mark, the slogan "Kilroy Was Here" sometimes accompanied by a little drawing of a long nose poking over a f ence was found everywhere American troops went. He left his mark on palm tsees in the South Pacific, on walls in Iceland, in men's rooms in Cairo, London, Tokyo, Panama, and, sad to say, in less-reputable places, too. lILROY (no one knows for sure who named him, "or how he sprang into full and happy life virtually overnight throughout the world) was, perhaps more than all the flags and slogans and emblems, the true embodiment of the American service man. His slogan had more than a tinge of ruefulness in it But it also had' humor, and a certain idealism. It might be roughly translated somewhat like this : "We're here. We don't like it. But we've got a job to do, and we'll do it the best way we know how. And if we're given half a chance, we'll have as much fun doing it as we can." This was seldom if ever voiced, but was implicit in the cocky slogan chalked on the bam near Casa blanca or the tomb on Okinawa. THE NEW YORK TIMES calls for revival of the Kil 1 roy spirit. It tells how, when a tug was lifted from the waters of the Suez canal, clearing it for traffic, on her bridge was scrawled "Kilroy Was Here." The editorial adds: "We need Kilroy. It is good to know that after his long vacation, which possibly he spent in the Antarctic, he is with us again. "Kilroy is Point Four. Kilroy is friendly aid to all the peoples of the world who feel friendly toward us and who will work with us. . "If a new canal is needed, Kilroy will be there digging it. If anybody wants help in fixing up a harbor or running a road through rough country or setting up new houses for people who haven't any houses or draining a malarial swamp, they can call on Kilroy. He will be there. "He will be there In a spirit of joviality, not of conde scending kindness. He may be there sometimes with a swag er in his walk and his hat tipped over one eye. Kilroy is gay and good and wonderful and now that he has come back, let us hope he will never go away again." A ND the "good, grey Times" concludes its tribute to America's fightingest, buildingest, most useful pixie, with this: . "We lift a glass to Kilroy and all his comrades in all countries and in all peaceful avocations. We drink to the gusto, the strength and the handiness of good old Kilroy. The world needs him even more than it needs men of battle and men of programs and politics. Maybe the future lies in Kilroy, that jovial, shouting, democratic world." Amen to that. E.A. Polygraph Probably not many people could answer the ques tion, "What's a polygraph?" They'd be more familiar with the common name of the device, which is "lie detector." Actually, the technical name is correct; the popu lar name is a misnomer. A polygraph records a num ber of human bodily reactions, including breathing, heartbeat, perspiration, and so on; it does not detect lies. Actually, the "lie detector" is the operator, and he's only as good as his training and his understand ing of the reactions which his machine measures. e A POLYGRAPH may be a "lie indicator," because the act of telling an untruth can cause subcon scious changes in bodily reactions. But these vary from one individual to another, and the interpreta tions vary from one operator to another. - A sensitive person, for instance, could have reac tions entirely dissimilar to those of a hardened crimi nal. He might "work up a sweat," literally, in an at tempt to make his every answer meticulously accu rate. The other, with no regard for the truth whatso ever, and knowing the theory on which the machine operates, could deliberately cause misleading reac tions by channeling his thoughts properly. THE polygraph is a valuable aid in police work, and will remain so. But its results are not admissible as evidence in court, which is a good thing. For the results are not conclusive ; they are indicative. And they may mean one thing one time, and another, another time. Human beings, too, vary, and to use physical re actions as evidence of a man's intricate and sometimes devious thought-patterns is, at the present stage, nei ther just nor intelligent. E. A. Cancer One by one they are conquered, the diseases wThich have plagued mankind. Malaria, yellow fever, bubonic plague these are almost gone in much of the world. Tuberculosis is on the way out. So are infantile paralysis and typhoid. Of the killers remaining, cancer is the most feared and with reason. It can' be slow and painful and terrifying. DESEARCH is the answer, and research costs money. Much now is known about cancer. Much more remains to be learned. Research is nearing a "breakthrough" in the war on the disease. This is Cancer Control Month. For your own pro tection have a regular checkup by your doctor. For the protection of our children, and theirs, help the American Cancer Society with a check most of which goes for research and Friday. April 12, 1957 laughing, confident son of the Control education. E. A. USSR Suspends Bond Payments; Foreign News Highlights Told By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international bal ance sheet: Soviet Russia disclosed that it intends to suspend for 20 to 40 years the redemption of govern ment bonds totalling $65 billion. The suspen sion means that tens of m i 1 1 i ons of Russians will lose their en tire s a v i ngs. Every wage charies m. McCann earner in the Soviet Union is forced to sub scribe up to one month's pay a year to the annual loans. The disclosure of the proposed moratorium was -made by Nikita S. Khrushchev, Communist Party secretary. He said frankly that the government could " not af ford to repay the money. A test between pro-Russian and pro-Western factions in Arab Jordan approached a showdown when young King Hussein ousted pro-Soviet Premier Suleiman Na bulsi. Depending On Army Hussein, who has taken a strong anti-Communist position, is depending on the support of his army to make the ouster stick. Nabulsi has the support of the Jordanian mob element, easily roused to riot by his frequent anti-Western tirades. For the present, the situation Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserve the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Bees and Hoodlums - To the Editor: According to a report in last Sunday's paper, a newborn calf and cow were at tacked by a swarm of bees, some where between Ruch-and Jack sonville. They had called a vet erinarian, but the calf died and the cow recovered. Those things just don't happen unless said hive of bees was up set by either the cow or calf or something else. Perhaps, after 60 years of fooling around with bees, I don't know them yet. Lately, I was wishing I had some honey bees just like that. As long as I had the bees on my old home place, every spring there-was spray poisoning until in 1940, I had 48 dead colonies out of 50 inside of two weeks. So a few years back; I got eight acres at the foot of Roxy Ann. There was no spray poisoning there, but the hoodlums, rats or whatever we may call them, tried to get some honey for nothing every cold winter's day. So after the first cold spelJ this last winter, about a dozen hive covers were partly or all removed, exposing the bees to the cold. If it happened to rain or snow, it would mean just a dead colony if not discovered in time or if the weather did not warm up. So later on, some brood chambers were knocked off and lying upside down. From one hive, four combs were miss ing. Three were found outside the fence along the road with the brood in it, but no honey. Three or four weeks ago, one Thursday night, it rained. I went up Friday. Two hives were upset. Friday night it rained again. So Saturday morning, two more hives were upset, up side down in two parts. On Mon day morning one heavy two story hive was lifted across a wire net fence and dumped up side down in two parts and there were car tracks going up in the road. Another lVz story hive was dumped upside down inside a barbed wire gate. Last week, while- checking over all the bees, I extracted three 30-30 flattened bullets. So to some innocent, poor teenagers, it's lots of fun to use those bee hives for target practie. I hope someday to have a high wild rose fence to keep all the hood lums, teenagers, young or old, out. In Friday's Tribune, a Mar garet Mary Fields protests about the juvenile- department action. She wants to circulate a petition for a state investigation in the juvenile: department activities. She'll have a hard time to get any signatures from the bee keepers in the valley unless it wiU make it tougher for the mis behaving kids, big or little, if they are caught after their mis deeds, they should be compelled to clean up the roadsides of cans, beer bottles or any trash that's been found and keep it clean for a certain length of time. If Jackson county has more boys at the MacLaren school, it's a disgrace to the parents of said boys that they never taught them right from wrong. It's up to the parents to give their boys and girls a kind and good under standing, not for the police. They are hired for the protection of society and should be given all courtesy in their difficult job and not be called just a d - - cop. Xavier Widmer Route 2, Box 186 . Medford, Ore. is confused. One thing alone was certain Jordan was nearing a crisis which mieht involve its 'existence. Prime Minister Harold Mac millan, after announcing a revo lutionary change in Britain's military system, presented to the House of Commons a budget which provided for individual and business tax reductions amounting to $364 million a year. Macmillan's program is based on the conviction that Britain must adapt its defense to nuclear warfare and must offer its peo ple perhaps the highest tax ed in any free .country some relief from pressure. Sukarno Makes Move In Indonesia, torn by revolt, 'Horse and Buggy1 Postal Service Told In Magazine Article Pleasantville, N.Y. The Post Office system "needs mechaniz ing and streamlining all the way through," a Reader's Digest article, titled "Our Horse and Buggy Mails," will say in the May issue of the magazine. This will not appear until April 23. But the magazine re leased a summary of the 5,000 word article by Wolfgang Lange wiesche when the magazine learned that someone in Wash ington without authority from Reader's Digest had made the article available to certain mem bers of Congress prior to the nor mal -publication date. Behind Europe "The present administration has begun some mechanization but we are years behind Europe," says the article which concludes with the appeal: "Let's create a modern mail system." - According to the article, which discusses Post Office methods, buildings and policies, the serv ice "uses the same methods of gathering, sorting and delivering the mail that it did 100 years ago" and mail is now "slower than it was before World War H." The Post Office is one of the country's top 12 enterprises in volume of business, and third in number of employees. But it steadily violates the business princpile of "stay ahead of the times or die," the article states. Funds For Research "The Post Office needs money for research and development . . . It's asking for four million dollars this year. That's chicken feed! Especially when, for lack of research, it spends beyond its income half that much a day! Porportionately, the Tele- In the Day's News ' By FRANK JENKINS Tax talk: The house of representatives has pushed its budget cutting past the billion dollar mark. Sev eral members predict that the total cuts will reach three billion dollars. IT SOUNDS interesting. ' But Tax-cutting is now in the TALK stage. Before taxes can be cut, spending will have to be cut. The congressional road ftom TALK of cutting spending to ac tual CUTTING of spending is a long one with many chuck holes along the way. piOR EXAMPLE: Appropriation bills normal ly get their first hearings in sub committees of the house of rep resentatives. From a subcommit tee, the bill goes to the main committee. From the main com mittee, it goes to the floor of the house. After the house has . disposed of the bill, it goes to the senate. Here it may be studied (and amended, up or down) by a sen ate subcommittee. From the sen ate subcommittee it goes to the main committee handling that particular subject. From the main committee, it goes to the floor of the senate. Anywhere along the line, it can be amended up or down. WHEN the senate as a whole ." finishes with the bill, it may differ from the bill approved by the house as a whole. In that event, it goes to what is known as a conference committee, com posed of members of both houses. This conference committee "rec onciles" the house and senate versions. The reconciled bill then goes back to both houses, which can accept or reject it. After that, it goes to the Pres ident for his signature. If he vetoes it, his veto canbe upset only by a three-fourths majority of the lawmakers. SO -You see It's a little early yet to jump to any conclusions about reduc tion of spending which, if an economy program is to make any sense at U, must precede reduction of taxes. If spending isn't cut, taxes can be reduced only by the reckless expedient of going deeper and deeper into debt. President Sukarno announced a 23-man cabinet of "experts" as his first move toward making his country what he calls a "guided democracy." His next step is to be the formation of a "national council" which will control the cabinet. There were indications that, in the end, In donesia would become a dictator ship under Sukarno. Britain, in its latest step to strengthen its commonwealth by giving its colonies home rule, granted the crown colony of Signapore a constitution. Singa pore will be called "the state of Singapore." It will have internal self-government. Britain wiU keep control of its foreign af fairs and defense against exter nal aggression. phone Company spends 18 times as much on research!" Wages take 75 per cent of postal costs. Mechanization would cut the costs, says the article, and enable the Post Of fice to stay on top of the maU flood. But instead of machines, men are used in "primitive pro cedures" that waste time, effort and money. "In other industries, the bigger the volume, the lower the cost," the article says. "But it's a technological law: you're supposed to work with machines bigger, faster, more efficient machines." Most maU sorting in this coun try is now done by hand, but the article suggests that much of it could be mechanized. It states that Holland began xperiment ing with letter sorting machines in 1928, and the Dutch Post Of fice now has 11 such machines each sorting 50 letters per min ute to 300 or more destinations as opposed to 25 per minute to 50 destinations by hand. Need New Buldings New bulidings in new loca tions on the outskirts, near airports are needed, with mid town buildings concentrating on local mail moving only a few blocks between sender and ad dressee. Helicopters could lift whole trailers full of mail be tween sorting plants and down town locations. Whether mechanized or not, the article says, a post office building should be "a sort of fac tory." It should be tall, so the mail can flow down from floor to floor, or else, it should be flat with a floor plan in which con veyor belts can fan out like rail road tracks in a freight yard. Instead, the article points out, we have "a Greek temple, vr at best a First National Bank" and many post offices date from the last century. Many were built during the depresison when the idea was to make more work" and designed "mostly to express the majesty of the fed eral government." The article ends by 'stating that "in the 20th century even this wealthy country can't sub sidize 19th-century mail systems indefinitely." . Metals Workers Vote To Accept Pay Boost Portland '(U.R) A strike of 3000 metal workers . against 27 plants was over today after mem bers voted to accept a 6V4 per cent wage increase. The strike started Monday over demands for a 10 per cent boost. The increase raised the jour neymen's rate to $2.52 an hour. All of the struck plans were to begin work again Friday. Editorial Comment BAN PINBALL MACHINES Recently Sheriff Strawn of Coos county rounded up pinball machines used illegally and de stroyed them. He persists in his policy of law enforcement. The difficulty is that the state li censes pinball machines "not used for gambling purposes." But when the sheriff's back is turn ed, or the policeman's the win ner may be given a payoff in money or merchandise from the proprietor. This prompts the Coos Bay Times to urge the Leg islature to ban all the pinball machines. Salem did this many years ago. and Portland finally got rid of these bandits after years of effort, including two elections. Other towns by impos ing high licenses, virtually be come partners in illegal opera tion of the devices. Control of pinball locations became one of the behind-the-scenes controversies in Portland in which the Teamsters' union became involved. This apparent ly led to ventures for other forms of vice. Now that pinballs are banned, this .racket is ended. Other forms of gambling persist as recent raids show, but they are not as common nor so open nor so much of a lure as the beguiling pinball or slot ma chine. We are glad to endorse the recommendation of the Coos Bay paper. Oregon Statesman, Salem. Quotes From the News By UNITED PRESS Chicago Harold E. Fellows, president of the National Asso ciation of Radio and Television Broadcasters, on TV's "coming of age": "It's like a parent who suddenly discovers his child has grown up." Nairobi, Kenya Greek Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, en the state of emergency imposed by Britain on his native Cyprus: "The only right road for finding a peaceful, democratic and just solution for Cyprus will be open from the moment the stale of emergency on Cyprus is abolished." New York Negro newspaper publisher Dr. Clilan B. Powell, on his invitation to a gathering of distinguished Virginia natives, signed by Virginia Gov. Thomas B. Stanley, but apparently issued in error: 'Until I get a withdrawal from the governor I will not con sider disregarding the invitation. If the governor doesn't want me to go I will have to withdraw." . Washington Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield, on his threat to suspend Saturday mail delivery is Congress fails lo grant him extra funds: "It goes into effect Friday night and nothing can stop it except money from Congress." Babson Sees Growth For Citrus By ROGER W BABSON Babson Park, Mass. When a very small boy I remember my father driving his horse and buggy to Salem 15 miles away, to get an or ange for his very sick aunt. Those were the days when no Christmas was com plete un less we found a n orange i n the toe of the stocking which Borer W. Babtun we hung by the fireside before going to bed on Christmas Eve. I remember later one orange was given by the public school principal as a re ward for having perfect attend ance for the entire school year. In 1900 the entire state of Florida produced only 1,000,000 boxes of oranges. In 1923, when I first came to Florida, produc tion was only 10,000,000 boxes. This year it will be 95,000,000 or 100,000,000 boxes. With barjies continuing to be given orange juice as their first food and with continued heavy ad vertising, nothing can stop the demand for orange juice. Furth ermore, there have been great improvements and developments in the industry. When I first came to Florida winters only, "whole fruit" was shipped out of the state and sold. Then, about 25 years ago, the the co-operatives were devel oped and jome orange juice was then , canned This, however, al ways had a little bitter taste. Some 10 years ago the "frozen concentrate" was invented. This gives exactly the same taste as the fresh juice and has greatly increased the consumption of or ange juice as well as the health of the entire nation. The American Habit Most orange juice is drunk just before breakfast. This means that the frozen concentrate must be mixed with water and thoroughly melted some ten min utes 'before serving. This has caused a growing demand for a new product known as "chilled", orange juice. As soon as this juice is squeezed from the orange it is stored and- transported to the large cities of the North in refrigerated trucks at about 40 degrees temperature, so that the juice holds its perfect flavor. It is then put in paper cartons and delivered by the dairy companies along with the morning milk. As a result, the housewife can lie in bed ten minutes longer. This is taking like wild fire. Although citrus fruits can 'be safely raised in only a small part of Florida and the United States, yet there is competition between Florida, Texas, Arizona, and especially California. The latter state, however, is grow Standard Oil Public Relations Chief Dies San Franeison U.R) G. Stewart Brown director of riub- lic relations for Standard Oil of California was fmmH ripari in his home Thursday night, apparent ly a suicide. Introductory 4JP offer! ' ONE WEEK ONLY RICHFLAT WALL PAINT Interior Rubber-base MEDFORD PAINT CORPORATION 906 N. Riverside Industry ing so fast that orange groves are becoming more valuable as" home sites and citrus production is decreasing. Keeping Up To Date All of this competition results in constantly improved quality and in keeping the price within the reach ot all families. Hence, with the constant growth in pop ulation, demand will continue to increase. But North America is not the only market for citrus juices. Foveign governments are also recognizing their great health value. The English government is buying the juice in a super-concentrated non-refrigerated form, like molasses, and distributing it to its babies to supplement a small supply received from Spain, Italy and other Mediter ranean sources. To get good pro ducts, however, these countries must import phosphate and other fertilized chemicals, most of which come from Florida close by the center of the Florida cit rus industry. This gives Florida an advantage over all the world. Opportunities Elsewhere I, however, am not telling this story about the citrus industry just to boom Florida. I am tell ing it to show what a group of farmers can do by uniting in co operatives gnd getting the help of research and advertising. The citrus industry has never . had subsidies or price guarantees.. It has fought its own battles with out any limiting of acreage or government loans on, surplus crops. Why cannot the farmers of our Central West and South do the same thing with their surplus corn, wheat, cotton and other products? Henry Ford once said to me: "When the farmers wake up and quit crying on Uncle Sam's shoulders they can find a great use and market for their products as raw materials in in dustry." Agriculture needs a great leader like Henry Ford and then national advertising which the humble citrus grow ers of Florida are giving their products. CASH FOR TAXES If YOU HAVE taxes, insurance or other obligations to meet come in and see us. 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