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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Zveryona to Southern Oregon Read Th Mall Tribune" Publisnea Dail; Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 7-2 North Fir St Phage 2-8141 ROBERT W RUHJ Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Buuneaa Manage ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT S porta Editor OUVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON, Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second class 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 Dally and Sunday Six months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mot 4-25 Sunday Only One rear 8420 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville. Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rotrue River Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 150 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash 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 Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY tNC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOtlAi. I -N f T ASSOCATI0N fcwmiifiia'uini ft NIWSPAPit PUBIISHEIS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the fileg of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO April 26. 1947 (Saturday) Price cuts by manufacturers and retailers which have spread over the nation during the past week are beginning to show up In Medford and other coast points. Frost Arthur Ferry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Alfalfa will be ready to cut in a couple of weeks farmers report, "and Gosh! how they dread it. 20 YEARS AGO April 26, 1927 (Monday) . Medford schedules will be in creased as Boeing airplanes are released for immediate service and as traffic demands, accord ing t V. A. Patterson, president of United Air lines. New iotor repair shop and parking shed, replacing motor transport building recently de stroyed $y fire, is being built at the sTackson county fair grounds by the Medford CCC district. 30 YEARS AGO April 26, 1927 (Tuesday) Southern Oregon Dental so ciety plans health clinics for children for Jackson county. Drinking water from the Cen tral Point water system must be boiled due to contamination caused by a sewage leak, ac cording to County Health Of ficer L. D. Inskeep. 40 YEARS AGO April 26, 1917 (Thursday) . Rural School Supervisor Pet erson has been at .work among Jackson county schools carrying out industrial club work among school pupils. Potato auction at Page the ater earns S59 for local Red Cross chapter. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; Sev an or eight is excellent; five er six is good. 1. Chicago, 1854: Over 900 died of cholera during July. Did this cholera epidemic spread in to New York? 2. Applying a beefsteak to a bruised eye is the best way to reduce swelling; true or false? 3. Bible: After his resurrec tion did Christ appear before any woman other than Mary Magdalene? 4. Stones grow; true or false? 5. Name the book that is the best seller tf all times. 6. A vetsran must have over seas duty ki order to qualify for benefits urster the G.I. Bill of Rights; true or false? 7. To which government of ficial did some American Indians refer by the term "Great White Father"? 8. The Coudersport mine is famous for what? 9. Is the "h" silent or sounded In the word "prohibition"? 10. '"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt and vote, and raise the price of corn." Were these lines written by a 20th century writer? Answers: 1. Yes. 2. False. 3. Yes. 4. False, (actually they be come smaller). 5. The Bible. 6. False. 7. The President of the XI. S. 8. Its ice. 9. Either (silent is preferred). 10. No. Byron. 2f SIDETRACKED! London (U.R) Police arrested Ian Climie, 32, Wednesday for jay walking. Climie was found walking on the subway tracks between Paddington and Kings Cross stations to catch a train home to Scotland. MAIL TRIBUNE Crusaders It is amusing, if not exactly enlightening, to read our "one-party" Republican press on the presently all-absorbing problem of taxation. Most of the same newspapers, not so long ago were shouting from the house-tops for a state sales tax. One of them, the enterprising Corvallis Gazette Times, still is. It declares it not only opposes the Democratic tax program as now worded, but would oppose ANY tax program for the state not built upon and around the sales tax system. Such candor is rare and highly commendable. And as before stated in this department, while theoretically such a tax is a bad one, as a practical matter experi ence MAY prove it to be from a tax, solution view point a "necessary evil," so to speak. DUT what puzzles this department is that so many u of the papers in the state that agree with the Gazette-Times (but don't admit it) and that were a few years ago so strong for the sales tax, are now up-in-arms against the "withholding provision" of the Democratic tax program, as an iniquitous attempt to evade the "pure food and drug act" that is drug the electorate into thinking that such a method of taxa tion is "painless." This, as the Albany Democrat Herald originally maintained, would be taxation-wise a capital-offense. THE estimable Roseburg-Review now falls in line behind the banner-carrying editor of the Albany paper, and presumably would also prefer flooded basements and sewage contamination, to paying the tax bill for eliminating them. Here is the "Review's" opinion of "painless" tax ation in general and the "withholding tax" in particu lar, quote : It is a vicious cycle. We should not be ignorant of the danger that accompanies the easy tax program. It is like taking dope to alleviate pain. The pain is eased temporarily but is never cured until the cause is eliminated. We'll never get economy in government while taxes are collected the "easy way." Every effort will be made to convince the voter that he is getting a tax bargain. The surtax will be cancelled, exemptions will be raised and, even though the Dooley for- mula doubtless will be adopted in compromise form, the blow will be softened by increasing the withholding rate and the average taxpayer will be happy. This doleful prognosis is headed "The End of Economy," which would, in the school of the anti- tax crusaders, undoubtedly be the "end of the world" the world at least of rugged individualism, private initiative and regular and unfailing ten per cent interest. . "117HAT is so difficult for this department to under- stand is this aversion to a form of taxation that would make the "average tax payer happy." At tax-paying time we admit we have never seen a really HAPPY tax-PAYER, but if the Democrats have devised a system that will make them happy, particularly as they PAY their taxes, we say more power to them. Let the good work go on and on. There is a consummation, as we see it, devoutly to be wished. The Roseburg paper disagrees. It says this would be a calamity, in fact it is in favor, quote : ". . . of making taxes such a hardship that the more difficult it becomes to collect taxes, the more economical the government will be." THIS paper can't qualify as a member of the "EX . ERT tax-payers league," and we grant such a solu tion of the tax problem has the virtue of novelty but we shall be greatly surprised if the idea spreads over this state or any other. For most of us, tax-payers and non-tax-payers if any alike wish to be happy and don't WISH to be pained. So it is hard to believe that many voters in this state, or any other, will go along with those jour nalistic sadists who wish to make the tax-paying sea son a more painful period rather than a lesser one. DUT the most puzzling point of all is, that these AJ same papers which are now so rabid against "pain less" taxes, were only a few years ago when the sales tax campaign was on, lauding that form of taxation to the skies because it WAS relatively PAINLESS. They supported it BECAUSE it would, as demon strated in Washington and California, "raise mil lions and millions," and the average tax-payer would hardly be aware of it. In fact, as final proof it was then stated that where a sales tax has been adopted the same has never been repealed. - This is hard to understand. If a sales tax SHOULD be adopted because it is relatively so painless, WHY should a withholding tax be so violently opposed on the same grounds? To this department that doesn't add up, or make sense. OOWEVER we don't wish tion in Oregon from the standpoint of newspaper unanimity. There is one notable exception to the chorus of condemnation of the present state administration's tax proposals. And this exception is probably, outside of Port land, the most highly respected and influential Re publican newspaper in the state, namely, the thought ful and conscientious Oregon Statesman, edited by former Governor Charles Sprague. The former governor is not exactly enthusiastic about the Democratic program, but he not only finds little to criticize in it, his final verdict is, it is good enough as a whole, to be called "REPUBLICAN." MOW if ANYONE, considering the source, can con - jure up a stronger commendation than that, we would like to have it, and would take pleasure in placing it on Page One in box-car type. R.W.R. - Thursday, April 25. 1957 for "Pain to misrepresent the situa mw ...1 i VtWfetT GONNA HAVE XOyWff, MISTER! Wfcfeg 8UIL0M' A f>VAyWROUGU HERE' Matter of Fact "RIGHT MONEY PLUS A TAX CUT" Wahington Any session of Congress is a drama in two acts, with the Easter recess as the in ter m ission. Act one of this s e s s i on, de spite the Beck hearings and the Eisenhow er Doctrine de bate, has been o n e 1 o ng yawn. Act two may perhaps be livelier. Stewaif Alsop One reason it may be livelier is that the Democratic leaders have obviously worked out an over-all strategy, with an eye to the 1958 elections, for deal ing with the dilemma which confronts them. The dilemma, of course, derives from the fact that President Eisenhower, with his program of "modern Repub licanism," has deftly made off with all the traditional Demo cratic issues. The Democratic leadership's proposed escape from the dilemma has been sum med up in the words, "tight money plus a tax cut." A number of Democrats, like Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minn esota, have long believed that the Democrats were missing a big bet by not making "tight money" their central issue. Sen ator Humphrey pled in vain with Adlai Stevenson last year to grab the issue and run with it. Now at long last, thanks in part to the astute management of Majority Leader Lyndon John son, the Democrats may have an opportunity to exploit the issue, with Senator Humphrey's namesake, Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, as the main target. , SOON after the Easter recess, Secretary Humphrey will be called as the first witness in a Senate Finance Committee in vestigation of the Administra tion's fiscal policies. Chairman of the committee is Virginia's impeccably c o n s e rvative Sen. Harry Byrd, whom Johnson per suaded to take on the investiga tion, is a close friend of Sec retary Humphrey. Even so, fire works are expected. Most of the fireworks are like--ly to be provided by Oklahoma's Sen. Robert Kerr, number two Democrat on the committee. Sec retary Humphrey is a cat most Democrats have feared to try to bell, largely because he is so able and forceful that any'politi cian who tangles with him is likely to come off second best. But Kerr is a combative man who has been a sharp critic of the Humphrey policy since early in the first' Eisenhower admistra tion, and he is perfectly willing to take Humphrey on. Kerr really knows the com p 1 e x subject of fiscal policy, moreover, as he demonstrated in a recent preliminary bout with Under Secretary of the Trea sury Randolph Burgess. Kerr genuinely believes that the Ad ministration's fiscal policies benefit the big bankers at the expense of small business and the rest of the country, and he will be no mean antagonist for Humphrey to face. FSOME ways, "tight money" is an ideal issue for the Dem ocrats. The Democrats are more united on the issue than on most others, since the conservative Southerners, with their agrarian background, tend to be easy money men. Moreover, the issue has traditional populist over tones, with its suggestion of rich bankers grinding down the faces of the farmers and small busi ness men. YOUR GIRL NEXT? GEO. N. TAYLOR Will your daughter join the thousands who make up the underworld? Comes fascinating stranger; auto; joy-ride; dope and forever after, you have but the empty chair and the pain in your heart. Now see God's watch-care for his people. He gives them eternal life and they shall never perish, nor shall anyone every snatch them out of His hand. And why? "That in th ages to come, God might show the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness to us thru Christ Jesus." See Ephesians 2:9. Call the family together daily and may you and Dad, by Bible reading and prayer, see them grow and by God-power stand. By Stewart Alsop The trouble is that government fiscal policy is so complex a matter that very few people understand it, and it is difficult to dramatize for political pur poses. This is quite aside from the merits of the issue - and some Democrats, like Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois, the Senate's only professional economist, are not at all sure that it is a good idea to adopt an easy money policy in the middle of a boom. Even so, it is about the only issue the Democrats have left, and Kerr and his allies will do their level best to put it across. They may be helped by witnesses who will follow Humphrey, esp ecially if Cyrus Eaton, Chairman of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail way, is called to the stand. Eaton is Secretary Hump hrey's bit terest critic in the business com munity, and his testimony might well make quite a sensation. IF ALL goes as planned, the "tight money" investigation will be the preview to a Democratic-sponsored tax cut. The tax cut is likely to take the form of a $100 increase in personal ex emptions. It is designed to antic ipate an expected Administration-sponsored, election-year cut in 1958f and at the same time to give the Democrats the desired coloration as "the friends of the little fellow." It remains to be seen whether the "tight money plus a tax cut" formula will work. But at the moment, though it may be bad economics, the formula looks like shrewd politics. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Briefs From The Legislature Salem (U.R The Senate Ag riculture Committee voted Tues day to recommend passage of House bill 495, calling for a usage audit of milk. The measure was amended by the committee, and if passed by the Senate, will go back to the House for concurrence. The amendment was made for a more effective administration of the measure by the State Depart ment of Agriculture, and had the endorsement of its sponsors, the Oregon Milk Producers Associa tion. Salem '(U.R) House bill 655 requiring replacing of top soil disturbed by dredging during mining operations also passed the House. Rep. Steward said the proposed legislation had had a stormy history in previous Legislatures. Little opposition was encountered this time. Salem (U.R) With only one dissenting vote the House voted to memorialize Congress to grant statehood to Alaska and Hawaii during the current ses sion o' Congress. Salem '(U.R) The House vot ed 54-5 to establish a seven man interim committee to study ef fects of the termination of fed eral control over the Klamath Indian reservation in August, 1958. The resolution previously passed the Senate. Record 6,283 Persons Tour UN Headquarters United Nations, N. Y. U.R)- A record 6,283 persons paid to tour the United Nations head quarters Wednesday. The throng broke the April 23, 1955, record of 5,739 visitors. Since the guided tour service was established in October, 1952, a total of 3,253,458 persons have paid to be taken through the U.N. Building. SL Russia Carrying Out Military Build-up in Satellite Nations By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia seems to be car rying out a big military build up in the Communist satellite count ries of Eastern Eu rope. The build-up is reported to include the construction of rocket and guided missile bases in Czech oslovakia,' East Charles McCann . Germany, Po land and possibly Hungary. The superhighway Autobahn which extends across East Ger many is being improved so that parts of it wiU serve as land ing strips for jet fighter planes, according to one report. Troop Build-up Reported . Russian troop reinforcements are said to be moving into some of the countries concerned. In others, according to dispatches from West Germany, . garrison troops are being replaced by fresh units from Russia, which would be more trustworthy in event of trouble. , While this is going on, the So viet government also is conduct ing a somewhat puzzling and contradictory diplomatic cam paign. This includes threats to Allied countries of frightful destruction in event of war, bids for better Morse Plans Fight On Further Curb To Douglas Region Washington, D.C. Senator Wayne Morse (D-Ore) today branded as "another attmpt to put the lumber industry of the Douglas fir region at a further competitive disadvantage," the efforts to impose new restric tions through the American Lumber Standards Committee of the Department of Commerce, The Oregon Senator declared that , the imposition of restric tions on maximum moisture con- tent, which are supported ' by some competing softwood reg ions, would result in increased costs for Pacific Northwest lumbermen, both for production and transportation. "Oregon and Washington have long been subject to a number of disadvantages imposed by big business," Morse said. "The railroads have maintained rates that often make it difficult for our products to compete. For a number of years the railroads failed to supply boxcars when they were urgently needed." To Fight New Effort "We have long fought this dis crimination," he added. "Now apparently another effort will be made to cripple our lumber industry, and I shall fight it with vigor." Emphasizing the detrimental effects on the lumber industry caused by the current policies of tight money and credit, Morse said that "this administration has perpetrated a series of deeds designed to disrupt the entire housing program needed for the people of our nation as well as the lumber industry." As an example, he cited the FHA attempt in 1956 to rule out from FHA financing west coast lumber covered by improved grade stamping procedures. "Now another effort, apparent ly with some disguised admin istration blessing, is about to get underway which will hurt the western lumber industry," he declared. "Frankly I do not know why this industry should be so singled out for discrim inatory treatment." "I serve notice," Morse con cluded, "that any action which is unreasonable to the west coast lum.ber industry shall have my wholehearted opposition, wheth er it starts within the Depart- m e n t of Commerce or else where." The Therapy of "GRIEF" More and more common in magazines and literature there are appearing articles based on the therapeutic value of grief; not only of grief itself but in giving outward expression to that grief. For a long time now people have gone under the impression that it it a sign of weakness to allow any of our emotions to come to the surface where they can be seen by others. Now it is being recognized that burying one's feel ings is harmful both physically and psychologically. These is a cleansing quality in tears. That is why a funeral service, which allows the release ofpent up feelings, provides an honest therapy for sincere bereavement. DAY OR NIGHT PHONE 2-8030 Chapel Mortuary Across from the Courthouse Frank Morgan Harold Snodgrass FUNERAL DIRECTORS relations with the big Western powers and hints of important concessions in the current United Nations disarmament negotia tions in London. What the whole business adds up to, it is difficult to figure out. But for one thing, it looks as if the Soviet government is really worried over the threat it would face, if war came, from the bases the United States and its allies maintain in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries. Fear German Uprising Further, though Communist ruled East Germany seems to be quiet and tough "Stalinist" leaders are in control there, the Russians seem to fear the possi In the Day's News By FRANK Watch Jordan. Something is boiling there that could blow the lid off. lyHATS cooking? Dispatches tell us Egypt and RUSSIA have opened up an all-out propaganda war in Jor dan, calling on the Jordanian people to stand united in opposi tion to an "Anglo-American plot" against them. The immediate purpose of the propaganda campaign is to get former premier Nabulsi a PRO RUSSIAN, back into the driver's seat in the little Jordanian king dom. Young King Hussein, who is anti-Russian, tossed him out of office the other day. VHY is Jordan so important? " A look at your map will tell you. Poverty-stricken little Jordan, living on handouts from its Arab neighbors, touches on every important country in the Middle East. It has a long fron tier with Israel, which the Arabs yearn to destroy. - Key District Bill Amendment OK'd Salem '(U.R The House Edu- cation Committee Wednesday night adopted an amendment to the so-called key district school bill to ease its effects on dist ricts that stood to lose millions from the original version. The amendment was written by Rep. John Mosser of Wash ington county and was adopted by a committee vote of 5 to 3. The key district battle has ranked second only to taxes1 as a source of controversy at the 1957 Legislature. It arose from the state's effort to revise the formula under which it distrib utes state aid to school districts The original key district bill would have resulted in sharp fi nancial losses to Portland schools and to several eastern Oregon districts. The first ver sion would have resulted in a $2,750,000 loss of revenue to Portland schools the first year of operation. Under Mosser's plan, Portland would lose about $900,000 in state aid. Portland legislators on the committee op posed the Mosser amendment. As amended, the bill would subtract a $4,500,000 fund from total state school monies, which total about $40 million. The bal ance would be split 50-50, half distributed on the basis of prop erty evaluation and the other half distributed on the key dist rict mills ge formula. Portland would still be used as the key district. A 'PLUG' NICKEL Fulton, Miss. (U.R) O. R. Cooper rode into town Wednes day and tied his horse to the nearest thing to a hitching post a parking meter. He returned later to find a parking ticket tucked under the bridle between the horse's ears. Cooper forgot to put a nickel in the meter. bility that an uprising might break out there at any time. It must be remembered, too, that the satellite countries have become economic liabilities since the Polish and Hungarian re volts, and that they are likely to remain so. Hence it may be that the re ported build-up of military strength and striking power in the satellite countries is largely defensive. It may be also that the recent optimism over the possibility that a start may be made toward disarmament is justified. That would mean that the So viet government is ready at last to agree to limited aerial inspec tion of military facilities. JENKINS If shooting started in the Mid dle East, Jordan would be stra tegically important. rjNE more point: If shooting starts in Joran, Israel is expected to STRIKE INSTANTLY. In every armed, clash so far Israel's tough, dis ciplined, do-or-die army has lick ed the socks off its Arab op ponents. To the Arabs, that is a sober ing thought. It may be a sober ing thought to Russia.' TACK to the home front and " spending and taxes: In a speech to the Rochester New York Rotary club. Presi dent Eisenhower's welfare secre tary, Marian Folsom, says the President's record peacetime budget is quite in line with a growing and prosperous nation. He added that it's only natur al that the budget should in crease as a nation grows. 1" ETS take a look at the other side of the picture. The government says ' this morning the, U.S. cost of living index reached a new record high in March for the seventh con secutive month. The report added that the PURCHASING POWER of the average factory laborer's pay check DIPPED in March for the second month in a row. THAT is to say: , Fnr t.wrt mnnthe in a mw the cost of living has risen fast er than factory wages. Factory wages, of course, can be RAIS ED but that simply means speeding up the inflationary spi ral. What that means is that the kitten chasing its tail will have to run faster in the vain hope of catching up with it. TNSTEAD of spending more and more as we get bigger and allegedly more prosperous, wouldn't it be better if we started paying off our debt and reducing the tax load which in itself tends to force prices high er and higher? New weapons against heart disease People can, perhaps, absorb stress or the high-fat diet most Americans eat. But subject a person to both stress and fat: heart disease may result. InMayReader'sDigest, learn how improved methods of de tection and treatment, plus a sensible diet, are reducing cor onary attacks. 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