Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 17, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextTOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medfordtrib UNE "Zveryon tn Southern Oregon Muni me Mail Tribune Published DaUy Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC AM .FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H AX) A MS. City Editor HARRY CBIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor PALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second elaa matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance: Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year (15 00 Daily end Sunday Six month 8.00 Daily end Sunday Three moa 4-25 Sunday Only One year 4-20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotrue River. Talent end on motor routes Daily and Sunday One year S13 00 Daily and Sunday One month ISO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail lerma lasn in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OI CIRCULATION ArfuarHiln, Ranr.unl.H.... wr.RT-HAl IDAV rrjraA KTy? m. Offices In New York Chicago, de- iron, aan rranciaco. los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N A T I O N A I tOITOtiAi vil lAsTocfi'ieN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHEIS 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 17. 1947 (Thursday) Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, will speak at the first annual lunch eon of the Jackson County Ore gon Education association. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge. Pot column: A Calif ornia publication calls Crater Lake a "caldera." The Cham, of Comm. as yet has taken no ac tion. 20 YEARS AGO April 17, 1937 (Saturday) Starting the saw mill at Med ford Corporation, scheduled to-1 day, has been postponed -because of rain, according to General Eganager James Owen. Herb Grey, advertising man ager of the Mail Tribune, leaves for Portland to preside at annual meeting of Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Advertis ing Managers, of which he Is pre sident, r ... 30 YEARS AGO April 17. 1927 (Sunday) Edison Marshall, southern Oregon novelist, is in New York to see about the publication of his new novel, "The Deadfall," to be out this month. A musical show, to be directed by Charles Hazelrigg, will be given at the Phoenix auditorium Friday. 40 YEARS AGO April 17, 1917 (Tuesday) More than 90 local men sign muster roll to serve with the Home Guard company. New York Symphony orch estra will gives concert at Nat atorium. What's Your I.Q.7 Nina or ten correct Is superior; sev en er eight ts excellent; five er six Is good. 1. Was the first successful da guerreotype portrait made in New York or Paris? 2. In which New England State is Saddle Mountain? 3. Bible: Does the New Test ament specifically imply that salvation is open to both Jew and Gentile? 4. Who was the author of the fiopular novel of the 1920s, "Three Weeks." 5. On which Greek Island is SBerakleion? 6. The income of labor unions taxable under the Federal In come tax laws; true or false? 7. Name the only State in the Union whose name ends in "k." 8. In military practice what are "combined operations?" 9. Is the "t" pronounced tn hostler, hasten, or listen? 10. "My house is a c e which the King cannot enter-" Emer son. Answers: 1. New York (by Dr. Draper, 1840). 2. Massachu setts. 3. Yes. 4. Elinor Glyn. 5. Crete. 6. False. 7. New York. 8. Operations in which land, tea and air forces participate. 9. No lo. "Castle." STRICTLY FROM UNGER Detroit (U.R) City Auditor Irving J. Unger said today city employees apparently think De troit needs money more than the federal government. Unger said the city received about 100 fed eral income tax returns from mixed-up Detroiters, but "some body else thought of the income tax first." MAIL TRIBUNE Opportunity for Growth Over a period of years of watching the local Cham ber of Commerce operate, under exceedingly compe tent managers and conscientious elected officials, we have come to have a healthy respect for this organiza tion. One of the most frequently heard criticisms of the chamber, we are convinced, is unfounded. This is the question, "Why don't they get some new industry in here?" The question is usually asked in a tone of voice which implies that the chamber, somehow, is doing all it can to keep industry OUT. 1X7HAT do these critics expect? " For Chamber officers to go out and find a nice, valley-sized industry, and then twist the arms of the stockholders and MAKE 'em locate here? (See edi torial comment elsewhere on this page.) The decision for industrial plants to locate in one place as opposed to another is based on many factors. About all any Chamber can do is to make known, far and wide, the attractive things about Jackson county, and hope that these will tip the scales in our favor. This it has done, repeatedly. , It can't force any plant to come here. Nor can it change the circumstances which sometimes favor other areas over this one. Nor, by the same token, can it do much to prevent any plant from coming here if it wants to. THERE are two basic considerations which any large company must take into account in selecting a location for a new plant. One is "How about mar kets?" The other is "How about raw materials?" Each of these questions has many ramifications. Southern Oregon is not, and probably never will be, an ideal location for a market-based enterprise. Lack of population, and high transportation costs, pretty well rule this out. (There are a hundred or more areas in the nation which have larger populations than does the southern Oregon gion.) A resource-based industry is something else again. Any firm which uses wood consider this area, and as agncultural, as well as horticultural, products may turn into' a major enterprise. THERE is a third type of piuviucs iui a nco.ii.iiy, cunuuuuus giuwui, J-uii McNeil, manager of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, in a recent letter described it this way: "We are finding that diversified industry is becoming a by-product of the tourist industry. People who visited Oregon years ago are returning to live, invest their capital, establish their skills, and in some cases bring with them a small wood working factory, plastics plant, electronics plant, etc. People generate industry." This is the type of slow growth which is healthy, self-supporting and solid. There are dangers as well as benefits in the sudden moving in of a really big firm. McNeil adds: "Quite frankly, a 10,000-man industry suddenly dumped , in this valley could create serious economic and sociological problems. Such an event would bring on severe housing shortages, cause tax increases to provide new schools, cre ate serious sanitation difficulties, epidemic threats, traf fic dislocations, and complete disorganization of wise plan ning and orderly growth." TNDUSTRIAL concerns study these things in making location decisions. The Portland City Club bulletin some months ago reported that an Indiana city, worried because a major industry had passed it by, set out to find why. And these were some of the things cited by the company's directors in explaining why they had chosen another location: Too many houses showed a lack of upkeep. There was poor traffic control. The business district looked as if it had not been changed since 1900. The city's water came from a river, with a danger of pollution. Hotel and restaurant accommodations were inade quate and poor. The bridges had a decrepit appe&rance, reflecting a lack of community pride. Schools and hospitals were inadequate. - There was lack of zoning and planning. , "THESE are of concern to those of us who live here 1 already. It is only logical that they are also the con cern of those thinking of locating here. If we are to continue to grow and develop, we need to do more than just talk about "getting an in dustry" for the area. We need to maintain and im prove the kind of community climate which is attrat tive, not only to others, but to ourselves. Probably the one greatest economic need of this area is more non-seasonal employment. Year-around jobs, and "off-season" jobs, ance and stability. There are signs that this firms are now operating here that were not here only a few years ago. Others lney are operated by, and employ, steady, respon sible and community-minded citizens. It is this type of growth agricultural basic resources, and the natural physical attractiveness of the valley which offers the best long-range opportunity for a stable, healthv and happy community in Jackson county. E.A. Wednesday, April 17, 1957 - northern California re products could logically time goes by, processing of industry, however, which are needed to give us bal is on the way. Many small are coming in all the time. based on our forest and FF F7T r Don't let the cops find out what?" Soviet Russia Likely To Make Attempt To By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia is likely to make a determined new attempt soon to loosen West Germany's ties with the allied powers. The attempt may be timed to coincide with Russian German trade n e g o tiations, which are ex pected to start this month. In seeking a po Charles McCann litical agreement with West Germany at this time, the Rus sians would be able to take ad vantage of some new factors in the European situation. One is the drastic- new British defense program, which is based Editorial Comment A SKELETON LAID TO REST A community skeleton ap parently rattles around in the closet of every city the approxi mate size of Grants Pass. Tuesday evening the . Grants Pass version of this spectral bag of bones was dragged into full public view. And, as in every other city of our personal ac quaintance, the "skeleton" pro ved only a figment of public im agination. Ralph T. Moore, Sr., presiding over a meeting of Rogue valley citizens considering a pulp mill, among other industiial develop ment plans, came out flatly at the start of the meeting. He demanded if there possibly could be any truth in the rumor, com monly heard in Grants Pass, that this community had discouraged industry in the past. Not one person present ever had known of such discrimina tion. All had heard the rumors, attributed as usual to an un identified "they." L. C. Hansen probably touch ed the crux of the matter when he pointed out that, since he has been Chamber of Commerce manager, several high - pressure promotors have been turned down because they wanted Granst Pass business men to put up all, or almost all, the money for wild-eyed ventures of very dubious feasibilty. The promoters, of course, would take the lion's share of any proceeds. Business men would provide the money and be sackholders pardon us, we mean stockholders-in the corp orations. When we first went to The Dalles we heard a common say ing: "What this city needs most are a few fine funerals!"- Well, we remained in The Dalles long enough to be pallbearer at many of these funerals,. When we left for points south some persons still were complaining that a "few old fogies" were holding back the city's progress. In Bend it was the same. There we heard the charge voiced, repeatedly, that business men of that city were satisfied with things as they were, and opposed to any expansion, in dustrial or otherwise. Of course that was pure hog wash. Bend business men only this spring raised a substantial amount of money for a Chamb er of Commerce program aimed at industrial expansion. Now, in Grants Pass, we hear the same old lament. "They" don't want anything to locate here. "They" want Grants Pass and Josephine county to stay just as it is. "They" are afraid of competition from new busi ness establishments. We really are glad that Chair man Moore finally has exorcised the ghost in our community closet. Now everyone can get down to work in earnest at the task of building a bigger and better Grants Pass and Rogue valley. The spirit shown at Tuesday night's meeting would indicate a sd lend id start has been achieved. Grants Pass Courier, Loosen West's Ties on a shift to reliance on nuclear weapons. ' This development, coupled with the possibility the United States as well as Britain might withdraw from Germany some troops assigned to the North Atlantic Treaty forces, thor oughly alarmed German Chan cellor Konrad Adenauer. Another factors is the contro versy aroused in Germany over Adenauer's insistence that the new West Germany army must get tactical atomic weapons. The atomic weapons issue is sure to figure largely in the campaign for the.West Germany parliamentary election set for Sept. 15. It has long been apparent that one of Russia's big objectives is to make some kind of deal with West Germany. The biggest obstacle against such a deal is Russia's refusal to agree to the reunification of Germany. Considerable interest has been aroused In Western European capitals by two Russian remind ers of the so-called Rapallo treaty. Reminder Published This treaty, which constituted one of Russia's all-time big dip lomatic victories, was ' negotiat ed at Rapallo on April 16, 1922. Twenty-nine European coun tries met at Genoa, Italy, on April 10, 1922. They included the victorious allied government of World War I, most of the de feated countries including Ger many, and Bolshevik Russia, which had left the war in 1917. The chief aim of the confer ence was to restore relations with the Bolshevik regime. Last week the Russian Em bassy in Bonn, the West Ger- Minority Reports On Compensation Bills Defeated Salem (U.R) Minority re ports on a package of three "bills increasing rates under the workmen's compensation pro gram were defeated by the House and majority recommen dations of the committee on la bor and industries were adopt ed. Rep. Edwin E. Cone, Eugene Republican, attacked the bills as costing too much, especially for farmers and the lumber industry. He said Oregon al ready had one of the finest in dustrial accident programs In the country under present rates. Bills Defended Rep. Don Willner, Portland, Democrat, defended House bills 260, 450 and 502 as being fair to both injured workers and em ployers. He said rate increases like those proposed for partial disability were less than the increase in cost of living since 1951 when the original rates were enacted. Opponents of the bills said Oregon rates and benefits now compared favorably with Wash ington and California, but. Rep. Robert Klemsen, St- Helen Dem ocrat, said the state should not concern itself with ether states and concentrate -on bettering conditions for Oregon workers. Senate bill 162 enabling pri vate and parochial schools -to receive free textbooks even though they did not meet state standards was re-referred to the Education Committee, for' furth er study. Engineers Estimate Portland Bridge Damage Portland U.R) Engineers said Tuesday that damage to the Hawthorne bridge from its "col lision" with two drifting ships Sunday is expected to run from 830,000 to $50,000. - The second of the two vessels, which broke loose during a Sun day gale, was pushed free from the span Monday. The first was moved Sunday. Limited traffic was moving over the bridge. Democrat Predicts Summerfield's Win May fLose By RAYMOND LAHR United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) "Sum merfield has won a battle, but he'll lose the war; you can be sure of that." This observation came from one of the shrewdest Democrats in the Senate after Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield had won his two-week battle with Congress for additional funds for postal operations this year. The remark was another way of saying Congress reacts with anger whenever it feels it is be ing asked to handle legislation with a gun at its head. Denies Policy Trend Congress caved in quickly and gave Summerfield his sup plemental funds after he carried out a threat to cancel Saturday deliveries and other postal ser vices But the resentment will man capital, published a re minder of the Rapallo treaty and suggested a revival of the Russian-German "Spirit of Rapal lo" in establishing "good will." Tuesday, the Russian govern ment newspaper organ Izvestia published an editorial which said the anniversary of the Ra pallo treaty reminded many Germans, "anxious over the fu ture of their country . . . how fruitful good relations between Germany and Russia can be." In the Day's Hews By FRANK By FRANK JENKINS As this is written (about mid morning on Monday) two key congressional leaders have agreed that a postoffice money bill will be passed by both the house and the senate. Chairman Cannon of, the house appropriations committee says he expects no difficulty when the house today takes up the measure to give Postmaster Gen eral Summerfield another 41 million dollars. Senator Willis Robertson, who heads the senate appropriations subcommittee that handles postal funds, expresses the belief-that the senate bill pass the bill ap propriating the 41 million and send it to the White House possibly by late Tuesday. TT should be explained that the log jam could probably have been broken Monday but for a situation you won't understand fully unless you have been in Washington for the opening game of the major league base ball season, when the Washing ton club meets some other major league club this time the Baltimore Orioles. Col. R. G. Emmens Appointed U.S. Air Attache in Japan Air Force Col. Robert G. Emmens, formerly of Medford, has been appointed United States air attache in Japan, it was learned here this week. He will begin training in May. Col. Emmens, son of Mrs. J. J. Emmens, 1443 East Main st., is deputy wing commander at the Myrtle Beach, S. C, Air Force base. He was honored there last Friday at a wing re view. He and his family will leave Myrtle Beach in May, when he will begin a nine-month foreign service training course at Georgetown university, Wash ington, D. C. He expects to begin his duties at Tokyo about June 8, 1958. Born in Medford Col. Emmens was born and reared in Medford and entered the Air Force after graduating from Medford High school. He participated in the famed Doo little Raid over Tokyo, and in 1943 was held prisoner in Mos cow with a group of Air Force officers. While there he com piled, his observations into a book, "Guests of the Kremlin." He took over duties at the Myrtle Beach base as first com mander of the base when it was activated in July, 1956. This as signment came a year after he was selected to head an Air Force liaison group to supervise construction progress of the Myrtle Beach base, and to, estab lish relations between the mili tary and the community. Earlier this month, he was named "Civitan of the Year" by the Myrtle Beach chapter of the In ternational Civitan club. His wife is the former Miss Justine Miller, daughter of Mrs. A. H. MUler of Medford Col. and Mrs. Emmens have three children. the War linger and could be reflected in the way lawmakers handle other postal legislation this year. Some suspicious minds in Congress wondered if Summer field's action was part of a gen eral administration policy to build a backfire to check House and Senate efforts to whittle & few billions off the budget. And when he appeared before a House committee Tuesday, Summerfield was asked whether his action was an attempt to muster support for his long-stymied request for increases in postal rates. The question drew a quick, curt denial. GOP Concerned The potmaster general has been a crusading zealot for his recommendations over the pat four years without persuading Congress to approve them. Summerfield's attitude toward his own budget was causing some concern among Republi cans in Congress even before the current row over his extra appropriation for this year. Aft er the House made some cuts in his requested appropriation for next year, he warned he would have to curtail some set vices unless the Senate restored the money. At one of the weekly White House legislative conferences a GOP congressional leader sug gested Summerfield's approach was not the best way to do bus iness with Congress. President Eisenhower was re ported to have chilled the dis cussion with a comment that his postmaster general was a dedi cated public servant. JENKINS On that day, by long tradition, the congressional mill practical ly shuts up shop and aU mem bers of both houses, along with the President and most of his cabinet, show up at the ball park to root for the home team. This is THE DAY, and minor matters such as appropriations to keep the post office running will have to wait until the game is over. "IVfEANWHILE xix Further cutbacks in mail service go into effect, to con tinue for the duration the duration being until congress votes the money. Effective to aay, post office windows are open only ZVi hours, as com pared to the normal 10 to 11 hours in most cities, and mail deliveries in the larger business districts have been cut down from the usual three per day to two. CO- U As of now It looks like the postal service will get back to normal within the space of a few days quite certainly by the end of this week. But the political battle over who kitfed Cock Robin can be expected to roar on for quite some time. OREGON'S Senator Neuberger says he places the responsi bility for the post office de partment's shortage of funds on Budget Director Percival Brund age. He thinks the budget bu reau should have given the post master general permission months ago to ask congress for the money. That may be true. At least, it provides a convenient scapegoat. But it is hard to let the con gress off with a wholly clean slate. In the whole long ruckus ever the postal service, the con gress had open to it two courses of action: 1. It could Increase postal rates and make the department pay its way. 2. It could subsidize the postal service and charge the deficiency up to the taxpayers. It did neither. It let the situation drift along until . the . postmaster general took the bull by the horns and announced that if he didn't get more money he'd trim down the postal 'service to meet the funds on hand. That's about the size of it. 9 jumi; a In Scenic Surroundings The setting and decor of Lit willer's beautiful Mountain View funeral and wedding chapel, attracts the attention of the passerby and the ad miration of an interior inspection. M. Litwiller LITWILLER Funeral Home . Mountain View Chapel Hwy' 66 at .Normal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close ; -,vJ C. 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 reserves the rteht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Grown Ups. Not Teenagers To the Editor: I read the article about the' poor man com plaining about his bees, and being so sure that teenagers were to blame. Did he ever stop to think that it might have been grown ups? We live in the country, and many a day we've seen cars with trailers looking for a place to dump their trash and cans and they weren't teenagers. Also we happen to live next to the Medford Irrigation Si phon, they are planning on building a new one underground. In the past weeks there have been several different gangs of surveyors out to sight a new location for the new siphon. These men trespassed On our property, chopped down what ever happened to be in their way (including one of our plum trees) dug test holes, left them uncovered so anyone could fall into them. Never asked permis sion, just went ahead assuming they had rights on our land. They were not teenagers. Also the Rogue Valley ditch was re paired this winter, V4 dozen of so men were working ; on it. They threw all their luncb papers and what have you on my neighbor's property and you should see the mess. I will sure sign Mrs. Field's petition, the trouble with the police, they think and act just like Jack Webb. Why should the teenagers clean up the roadsides of cans, beer bottles and trash? 'The grownups threw them there, and if the kids did it, it's because they've seen the parents do it. Mrs. Alyce Veach, Route 1, Box 37, Eagle Point, Ore. Up To Th Parents To the Editor: Another "first"' has been added to the valley's accomplishments. We now . have , more boys in the state reform school than from any other part of the state. We will soon have our own penal institution for wayward and delinquent youths. The symptoms, have been de veloping for a long time, , that something is wrong with our child training programs but lit. tie was done. To begin with it has been made too easy for delinquent parents; society , too readily -, as sumed their responsibilities at a tremendous cost to the tax payer. This doesn't help the child to become law-abiding. Laws, sucfi as prohibiting the sale of indecent magazines to minors, would not help when parents buy the salacious liter ature Too little effort and thought have been given to start and keep a child on the right track. "As a twig is bent so the tree -is inclined," and the train ing must begin at an early age so must start in the home and parents must assume the re sponsibility. Schools must in clude-every child in a physical education and sports program. Courses, more manual arts classes perhaps, must be added that will be attractive to the minority group that are now bored and become trouble mak ers. The years of enforced schooling should correct the antagonism so that they will be able to take their place as use ful citizens. Churches and Sunday schools should give children more of a philosophy based on Christian ideals, something practical la character building. This is more important than large edifices. You are right, it will take time, but if each succeeding gen eration of parents becomes aware of their responsibility to raise each child to respect the rights of others, and if obed ience is enforced in the home, then it will be easier for the child, to become a happy, law abiding citizen. Just because this all sounds like an impossible idea taking years to accomplish is no reason for not making a start. After all the degeneration process was a long time getting to this stage of chaos- Mrs. O. P. Smith, Medford, Ore. 3724 Jacksonville hwy. Mr. Litwiller jjilii, ii. ins ii ii ii II ' 4 "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."