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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford,tribunb "Everyone in Southern Oregon Readt The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North fir St- Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W BITW1 Mitm- HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon, under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year (15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8.00 Daily and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420 By Carrier In Advance Medford 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 Daily and Sunday One month 1J0 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy - m lerma t-asn in Aavance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County united Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in -New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vnrrnvr B C NATIONAL EDITOtlA. I AssocSVieN ll.'.l U M NEWS PA Ml rUBLISHEIS 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 May 5, 1947 (Monday) First local strawberries of the season will be ripe enough for market next week,-according to C. B. Cordy, county agent. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The Repub licans are blamed by a former bureaucrat for the high cost4of living, as it is called. 20 YEARS AGO . ; May 5 1937 (Wednesday) City council calls for election on $50,000 bond issue for recon steuction of paved streets. Future Craftsmen of. America will hold fifth annual appren tice-employer banquet in Med ford High school tomorrow. - - 30 YEARS AGO May 3, 1927 (Thursday) Songs by Miss Lucile Ames, local poetess and composer, will be a feature of the National Mu sic Week musicale this Friday In Medford. Medford Chamber of Com merce gets 200 new members during membership campaign. 40 YEARS AGO May 5, 1917 (Saturday) Jackson County Agricultural Defense council plans local food preparedness campaign, accord ing to County Pathologist Cati Concrete street crossings which made Jacksonville famous and barred tourists from the county seat will be removed in order to attract traffic rather than discourage it. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior: sev en cr eight Is excellent; .five or six Is good. 1. In 1844 were the first op erations in copper riming begun in the regions at Lake Superior, Erie, or Ontario? 2. Which is larger, an adult male or female black widow spider? 3. Bible: Was Nazareth a bar ren or fertile country? 4. A cannibal eats what sort of meat? 3. Montevideo is the capital of which country? 6. After the first World War, peace was declared between the U.S. and Germany during the adrninistration of Wilson, Hard ing, or Coolidgef 7. Whom did Calvin Coolidge succeed as President of the U.S.? 8. In what year did Christo pher Columbus discover Amer ica? 9. Is there a superfluous word in the following sentence: "In so far as I know?" 10. "An idealist is a person who helps other people to s be prosperous." Henry Ford. Did he say this in 1919 or 1949? Answers: I. Lake Superior. 2. Female. 3. Fertile. 4. Human flesh. 5. Uruguay. 6. Harding (1921). 7. Warren G. Harding. 8. 1492 (October 12). 9. Yes. "In." 10. 1919. Instant Coffee Prices Decline in Portland Portland U.R) A retail price drop of as much as six cents a pound for instant coffee was scheduled Friday following a price cut by most area dis tributors. Most retailers have been offering one pound jars of nationally advertised instant cof fee at $1.49 with four-ounce jars at $1.11 and two -ounce jars at 57 cents. MAIL. TRIBUNE Its Up To the Democrats Thanks to the single-handed and effective leader ship of State Senator Philip Lowry, Senate Bills 274 and 275, giving the state of Oregon SOME slight con trol over the "Friendly Southern Pacific" were passed. The bills went over to the House in due course, but have not, to date, even been reported out of commit tee, much less passed, and our information is, unless something is done and done quickly they won't be. Why? t Because the "S.P." rail lobby the most powerful lobby in Salem both from the standpoint of money and political "savvy" is doing everything in its book-of-tricks legitimate and otherwise to prevent the measures' survival. THEIR latest gimmick has been to gather in mem bers of 'the railroad unions to testify against "the measures, on the implied threat of dismissal if they refuse, when any accurate, impartial survey of the railroad brotherhood would show the employees: are as a whole, overwhelmingly in favor of the public con trols proposed. In fact when the measures were first presented, representatives of the railroad management, publicly declared they had no objection to giving the Oregon "P.U.C." powers similar to those that have been in force for many years in California, but when the legis lation was rewritten to conform to this demand, the "FRIENDLY Southern Pacific," true to f orm, repudi ated its former stand and proceeded to turn its big guns on what was left of State Senator Lowry's origi nal proposal the aim being to allow no advance in this field whatever. WHAT can be done about it? Wall o, v. many times, if the people the rank-and-file won't fight for their rights when they are endangered, they will never get them. And the only way they can fight for them in this particular case is to send such a flood of protests to Salem, and such a firm widespread demand for pass age of the legislation in question, that the House of Representatives will realize that if they fail to follow the lead of the State Senate, they will convict them selves of yielding to the rail-lobby blandishments and pressures, and deserting, what is so plainly the promo tion of the public welfare. "THERE is no doubt about how a majority of the people of Southern Oregon feel on this issue or the state for that matter and if the House kills the Lowry bills, either by smothering them in committee, or voting them down as the bosses of the "SP lobby" demand, the majority of that body will certainly as sume a heavy responsibility to be challenged eventual ly at the polls. As the majority of the House is Democratic, it is from this distance, hard to believe that many of the Democrats will choose to go on record, at such a time as this, in favor of sacrificing the public welfare to sel fish and completely mercenary private interests. ' R.W.R. What the Country Needs Many years ago Vice President Marshall acquired a certain fame by declaring what the country needed was a good 5-cent cigar. As a post script to the" text above, we would para phrase that dictum by declaring what the country needs today is a lobby of 5 million members. And that lobby should be devoted, in this state and nationally, to the public welfare and its advancement, as opposed to all lobbies or politicians putting their selfish interest above the interest of the American peo ple AS A WHOLE. . , "117E ARE entirely serious about this. vv We can, at the moment, think of NOTHING that, politically speaking at least, would benefit poor harassed and hard-pressed "Uncle Samuel" more. We grant all lobbies are not wicked. Even some of them, devoted to factual clarification of concrete pro posals, render a real public service. But they are the expection that only proves the rule. For as a rule, the lobbies both at Salem and Wash ington, D.C., but particularly the former, in all too many cases, find no organized resistance whatever and none they can't easily overcome, with the result that not the members but the selfish pressure groups really determine the sort of legislation that becomes the law of the state or nation. . - The net result is not a government "of, by, and for the people," but a government of, by and for the spe- ! cial interests, and that (to ment of the week) is NOT CUCH an organization could easily raise $5,000,000 annually at one dollar per head, and that we should think would be ample for such a lobby to func tion for it would have no axe to grind, no interest to serve but the public interest and no money to spend except for legitimate and routine expenses. All that is needed, as we see it, is a LEADER. . We won't say anything about the man or wom an we would select, but would welcome sugges tions and applications from, our readers at'any time. R.W.R. A Cure for Again returning to the tax problem, and anti-tax sentiment now sweeping the countiy, one of the main troubles we believe is a lack of imagination.' That is so few taxpayers when they get their tax bills, take the time to picture exactly what they are Sunday, May 5, 1957 be guilty of the understate- "free democracy" ! "Tax Pains f9 m SITTER GAYS DBNNIS FINE, BUT SHE'S BROKEN A SHOULDER STRAP NO SPRAINED HER AHKIS i Matter of Fact STAR SPANGLED BOA ,' Beirut Even in the lotus eating peace of this agreeable city, it is a nervous business try ing to add up the results of the superb re cent drama in little Jordan. The trouble is, the dangers that still men ace young King Hussein keep crowding Joseph Aisop into the fore ground of the mental picture. Worse still, just about the big gest of these dangers takes the nightmare form of a star spang led boa constrictor with the good grey head of John Foster Dulles. From a tangled Congres sional thicket, this fearful chi mera seems to be advancing on the young King with relentless affection.. Or does the bright gleam in the Dulles-boa constrictor's eye also reflect eager anticipation of the glorious things that will soon be said by the professional cele brators of the Secretary of State's diplomatic triumphs? One cannot he ahsnlntelv snrp- , but one cannot repress a twinge of suspicion either. ' SPEAKING very seriously, this darkling and fantastic image represents an all too solid real ity. One of the biggest dangers that threatens King Hussein really is the' public "embrace of the American State Department. Furthermore, if the embraces are administered in the standard Dulles manner, complete with military aid missions, press con ference remarks designed for Congressional consumption and the other familiar extras, then the final result wiU surely be death by strangulation. The whole point about the new position that King Hussein has. achieved by his own decis iveness and courage is that the King cannot maintain this posi tion except by adhering to a posture of genuine neutrality. He has to cope with an in flamed public opinion at home. He has to stand off clever pro Egyptian nationalist, demagogues who want nothing better than the smallest pretext to organize demonstrations against "imper paying'f or. Nor as they painfully add up the totals, do they have any inclination in that direction. They only know how' it hurts. Also how out of rea son it is. And how, if waste, graft and indolence could be cut out of the tax departments, local, state and na tional, how drastically the levy would be reduced. Therefore . CO WHY wouldn't it be a pious idea to pin to each tax statement an ITEMIZED" account of where that tax money has gone and will go. That is So much for paved streets, so much for fire and police protection, so much for health sanitation, schools and of course the prevention of war, by main taining a modern atomic army, navy and air force. (Imagine what the alternative, another war would cost!) - "IX7HEN Mr. Average Taxpayer buys a new car he seldom complains about the price for he sees what he wants, knows what he gets, and the deal is satisf actory or he wouldn't accept it Not so with taxes. - , V Mr. A. T. doesn't see the water mains, or the sew age disposal plants, or the night prowlers that were picked up by the police in front of his home. He only sees that "Gord awful" tax bill and fumes and figures about how he is going to pay it. W1 'ELL fortunately for the government, Mr. Aver age Taxnavpr nsiisllv nnvs it. slnwlv hnt snrelv O I J J XT V ' J . forgets it, and probably keeps his temper pretty well in the area of taxes until tax-paying time comes around again. Then away he goes on the war path again. r ' LJOWEVER we have little hope such a smart and clever scheme will ever be adopted. And we think we know the reason why. It would take so much added clerical work and add so MUCH to taxes! Everyone in the present state of the public tax mind at least, would be against THA'T! ' R.W.R. - By Joseph Alsop ialist interference." He has just defeated the forces in his own country which would have made Jordan an Egyptian satellite "neutral for"- the Soviet Union. He can be anti-Communist, as he outspokenly is. But he cannot be" neutral for" anyone, includ ing the United States. . THAT means he cannot safely be pressed to receive deputa tions like the Richards' mission, which he has in fact now refused to receive. That means he cannot safely be pressed to adhere to the glittering public declara tions, like the Eisenhower Doc trine, which are now so favored in Washington. That means, in short, that he cannot safely be pressed to please the Senators of the Appropriations committee (and thereby makes the State De partment's life easier) by giving regular public imitations of a school boy reciting the oath of allegiance. All this was made rather glar ingly apparent while the crisis raged in Amman. There was one moment when it appeared that the State Department's strange pressure for an invitation for the Richards' mission would result in a really macabre victory for American diplomacy. The same groups that would have led the riots if Richards had come, made a bargain to invite Richards and recognize the Soviet Union at the same time, presenting this decision as neatly balanced. Fortunately, this bargain, which would have made the State ultimately responsible for Jordanian recognition of Mos cow, fell through when Khalidi Cabinet fell. But the episode was a sharp little warning all , the same. So was the censorship by the King's supporters of Secre tary of State Dulles pro-Hussein remarks at his last week's press conference. TTNFORTUNATELY, the ugly fact remains that King Hus sein cannot pay his army without an annual subsidy from some where amounting to between 30 and 40 million dollars a year. He would never accept money from Britain again. He cannot get money from Egypt or Syria, al though they have promised him money. Kmg Saud of Saudi Ara- In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Ho! Hum! Everybody is TALKING tax reduction, but so far nobody is doing much in the way of CUT TING SPENDING which must precede tax reduction if bur country is to remain solvent. IN Washington this morning, Senator Prescott Bush says congress is in danger of going off the deep end in its attacks on the budget. He thinks reckless talk of sweeping budget cuts will create the impression that Re publicans are backing down on their 1956 campaign promises. He adds: "The job requires a surgeon's scalpel not a butcher's meat ax." HMMmmmmm! Senator Prescott Is a Re publican. He wants the GOP to stay in power: If it doesn't, HE might lose out. SENATOR Lyndon Johnson of Texas charges on the senate floor today that the administra tion Is "talking out of both sides of its mouth." First, he says, it asked con gress to cut the budget .... and then it appeals for RESTORA TION OF CUTS that have al ready been made. SENATOR Johnson is a Demo crat, he'd like to see the Re publican administration discre dited so that the Democrats would be returned to power in the White House as well as in the; congress. In that event, his personal power would be enhanced. THIS we must keep in mind: In Washington, everything is dominated by politics. Washington lives on politics. WHY all this double talk? It's quite simple. The pol iticians haven't yet been able to make up their minds which way the cat is going to jump. - They all want to be on the popular side. Until they are able Editorial Comment SHOULD TRY IT The Jackson county Juvenile department has asked the coun ty budget committee for a sub stantial increase in funds for the following year. Percentage wise, the increase is about 81 per cent. In dollars and cents, it is from $19,000 for this year to the proposed $32,000 for next year. On the surface, this looks like an unreasonable : request, yet after hearing a discussion by bia has helped greatly, but not to put too fine a point on it, King Saud is in hock. ' That means the money must come from the U.S., but must be granted without the customary rigmarole that aid recipients are required to go through. The ideal solution would be to find some means of passing the cash through the hands of King Saud, which would cement the Hus-sein-Saud link and incidentally drive Egypt's President Nasser close to madness. Whatever is done will not be easy for the Eisenhower Admin istration to do without the cus tomary boa constrictoring. But the guarantee of Jordan against Israel was a first action of real courage and decision. Perhaps it is not too much to hope for a second action of equal quality. Copyright 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Wants an Eye-opener To the Editor: To Mr. Von der Mass, who is so confused about God: How can you believe ' in God if you do not believe his word? Could men have written so perfect a book that could have affected every nation of the earth? Truly the Scriptures were inspired by ' God, " who would want mankind to hear of his ex istence, if only for .nan's salva tion. You apparently believe in an immortal soul. (You stated that "only the form dies.") Is this not the Bible's teachings? But if you do not believe God's word then you must believe sin ners and Saints both get equal rewards, that we can sin pr not as we desire. God's word clearly states to go to His Kingdom instead of ever lasting damnation, that you must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Saviour and repent of your sins. Those who do not believe in the Virgin birth, Christ's death for mankind, and his glorious resurrection, shall not be saved! Jesus Christ is not only God's Son manifest in the flesh, but He is God himself, stated clearly in His Word. I will pray for you that your eyes may be opened, that you will see that your soul's salva tion depends upon believing the truth of God's word. Dorothy Elder, "A Shady Cove, Ore. P0TIUCK (By M-T Staff and Contribution) The long arm of the law reached out and tapped three Mail Tribune staffers last week. Our favorite society editor got fined, three bucks. She parked her car just outside , the office one day, then got so embroiled with visitors and 'phone calls she forgot it, and got to thinking she'd parked it down the street where they haven't put parking meters yet. At the end of the day she searched and searched, and was just about ready to call the police to report it stolen when she found it in front of the of fice, with a gay little summons on the windshield. Another offender was our fa vorite bookkeeper, who also parked in front of the office for "just a minute," and forgot it long enough to get one of those handsome orange tickets. The third transgressor got off easier, but it wasn t easy. This reporter (also a female) parked to figure out which IS the popu lar side, they'll, have to go on talking out of both sides of their mouths. That's about the size of it. F's a tough problem there can be no doubt about that. For a long, long time, it was quite obvious that a majority of the people liked heavy spend ing. They figured that the more money government spent the more money would be floating around loose. The more money floating around loose, they reas oned, the better their chances would be to get hold of some of it. But There are signs that the ordi nary, average voter is beginning to realize that if the tax collec tors TOOK LESS MONEY OUT OF HIS POCKET he'd have more money left to spend for himself. That complicates the political situation. Mrs. Kay Crowell, county ju veriile officer, this expenditure might be a very good investment for the county. - During i the last year, Mrs. Crowell ind one assistant were available for juvenile work, but for a part of. the year, the post of the assistant officer' was va cant.. This shortage meant that in many cases little more than cursory work could be done. Under the proposed budget, there would be three assistants to Mrs. Crowell, plus an office stenographer. This would result in a little more than doubling the present staff and should per mit much more extensive work on juvenile problems. We pause right here to point out that the so-called juvenile problem, in almost every situa tion, has its roots in a family problem, which complicates many situations. There is no. set formula in a juvenile case; each is different, caused by different environments, different family backgrounds and influences and some of the most difficult cases come from homes where there is no financial strain or stress. 'While we dislike advocacy of higher costs in county govern ment, a one year trial of a better staffed juvenile depart ment should prove whether the additional expenditure . is justi fied. At the end of a year the budget ' could be reduced if worthwhile progress could not be shown. Ashland Daily Tidings. ASKS FOR FAIR PLAY Labor has thrown much more support to Democrats in recent years than to Republicans. Whether that becomes embarass ing to individuals depends pretty much on the. circumstances sur rounding the support. Just be cause Morse and Neuberger got support from the teamsters should carry no more imputa tion of smear than for other can didates, like Eisenhower and Paul Patterson,.- who also en joyed their support. Nor is it fair or accurate to impute to the Oregon senators any condoning of Beck's misdeeds either by word or by silence. We protest ed the inference in testimony that the teamsters controlled the late Governor Patterson and in the interest of fairness protest the inference conveyed in the Tucker report on Morse and Neuberger. Salem Oregon Statesman. THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER We could -not put power quite at the bottom of the totem pole of all water uses. Fortunately, running water through a turbine doesn't use it up, and the pro duction of power doesn't neces sarily conflict with all other uses, although some conflicts are inherent. There is contro versy in our region as to how our rivers should be developed. On both sides of the controversy, however, there is recognition that water is a thing to be cher ished and not to be wasted. As time goes on, this will become more apparent to all of us. Ore gon Journal. down the street next to a fire hydrant. Now this particular hy drant is near the corner, and the street space next to it is marked off, in dim but still vis ible yellow lines painted on the street, as a legitimate parking place. , When she found her summons she hit the ceiling. On the ad vice of some of her colleagues", she dashed out, took a picture of the hydrant and the yellow lines, and marched" td court Fri day morning to : plead "NOT guilty." The judge (also a woman; this story , abounds in them) found her guilty of violating the ordi nance, but, because, the city's paint ; job was misleading, sus pended the fine. This wise Portia confiscated the picture, and re ferred it to the city engineering department with the admonition to stop misleading parking-place-seeking citizens and quick. At a Municipal Court hear ing last week (yes, the same one), the judge asked a young man. accused of violating the basic rule, how fast his speed ometer indicated he was go ing. He replied. "I don't know. The speedometer doesn't work." The annual convention of the Oregon State Association of Plumbing and Heating Contrac tors foregathered in Medford on Fridav. flnrl held its nnenino r-ar- emonies in the Medford hotel in the afternoon. On the program, the Hon. John Snider, Mayor of Medford, was listed. Now you should under stand that LAST year the group met in Astoria, and this year's program was copied from the one used last year. Someone for got to do a bit of proofreading, so the Mayor of Medford was listed, as making .the delegates "Welcome to Astoria." . -. Mayor Snider, never at a loss, dutifully welcomed the delegates to Astoria, praised our salmon fishing industry pointed out that the new governor of Oregon comes from nearby Gearhart, and concluded by telling them: ' "If you're arrested, call me. I can't do anything about it, but I'd like to find out how you're getting along."- . - ' - x . A little more than a week go. the Mail Tribune was cooperating like mad with the telephone company, pointing out lo everyone that new tele . phone numbers should be used after Saturday. Much of the staff also was busy changing the telephone numbers in the - classified advertisements. So where did an OLD number ap pear in Sunday's paper? On Page 1. that's where, remind ing people to call the office if their papers were late. - On . Thursday, an editorial about water resources was writ ten for Friday's paper. At about 5 a.m. . Friday, a pipe in the nearby Holland hotel broke, and water cascaded down into the printing department of the news paper, running all over the floor to a depth of several inches in some places. 'After "swamping" out the water, a weary business man ager complained to the editorial department: "Let's have no more editorials about WATER resources." We don't know the name of the man who had a pari in the) program at Hawthorne park after the Pear Blossom parade; who was complimented by a stranger, and who said to the stranger "And who might yon be, sir?" But we have it on good authority he looked a bit embarrassed when the Strang . er replied, "My name is Bob Holmes. I'm governor of Ore. Some times we get a little scared of police officers. For in stance, what kind of a crystal ball do state officers use? Last week an officer was driv ing along the highway, and saw a very ordinary car, being driven in the ordinary - manner, by an ordinary-appearing driver. For some reason the officer became suspicious, and stopped the car. The driver, on questioning, ad mitted he had stolen the car in another state, but it hadn't even been reported missing yet. Asiced how he knew this par ticular ordinary-looking car was "hot," the officer said, "Well, you just GET that way after you've been in this business for a while." Our Illinois Valley corres pondent reports a "low blow" lo that rapidly-growing area. in the form of a letter re ceived by a drug store there, addressed to "Grave Junc tion, Oregon." The rights being gained by women in Pakistan was men tioned last week in a Kiwanis club talk here by Capt. M. Yasin Raja, Pakistanian army officer now working with track coach BUI Bowerman at the U. of p. Pakistani men, he said, are somewhat reluctant to see wom en have too much freedom. "Women lead the men in the United States," he said, and add ed, "We don't want t- to hap pen in Pakistan."
