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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI "Everyone In Southern Orefon Heads The Mail Tribune" Puoushea Dally Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27 -28 North Tit St. Phone 2-8141 ROBERT W EUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manaer GERALD LATHAM Buaineaa Mauler ERIC ALLEN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sooru Editor OIJVE SI ARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON. Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered w 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 S15 00 Daily and Sunday Six montha 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moi 4-25 Sunday Only One year H20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River -Talent and on motor routes Dally and Sunday One year tl8 00 Dally and Sunday One month HO Carrier and Deaiera 10c per copy All Terms Cash In Advance Official Paper f the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OP AUDIT BUREAU OJ CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY. INC Offices in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta NATIONAL EDITOIlAi got I U I 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 Mar 6, 1947 (Tuesday) Return of seven men to duty at the local telephone office leaves only women personnel left in carrying on the strike at this point. From Arthur Parry's Ye Smudge Pot column: "FOR SALE 125 year old hens. Cheap If taken at once." (Ex change) They came west before the '49ers. 20 YEARS AGO . May 6. 1937 (Thursday) Standing Committees of Jack son County Chamber of Com merce for coming year an nounced by Olen Arnspiger, president. Medford CCC district will lose two companies in routine sum mer shifts, according to Major George R. Owens, district com mander. 30 YEARS AGO Mav R. 1927 (Friday) Snecial sale of sprinz wear launched at Adrienne Steward's shop on North Central ave. . . From Local and Personal col umn: Mrs. Leo Scott of Gold Hill is at Community hospital for medical treatment. ,. 40 YEARS AGO May 6, 1917 (Sunday) About 2,500 valley residents attend community field day and school meet at Eagle Point. . From Local and Personal col umn: C. P. Van. Houte, district superintendent of Pacific Tele phone company, is in Medford on business. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; sev en or eight is excellent: five er six Is good. 1. Was the first cotton-sewing thread in the U. S. manufactur ed in Pawtucket, R.I., or Char lotte, N. C? 2. What is ANETA? 3. Bible: To whom was Pilate supposed to have pointed when he said "Behold the man!"? 4. What lake and state bound 'Pennsylvania on the north? 5. In a debate, two kinds of proof may be presented; direct and . S. From what physical disab ility did Lord Byron, English poet, suffer. 7. Which State of the Union produces nearly half of the steel output of the U.S.? 8. Which city in Pennsylvan ia is the greatest hard coal cen ter of the country? 9. "Reverent" means feeling or showing reverence. Is it prop er to use it as a prefix, as in Reverend? 10. "Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be" what? Answers: 1. Pawtucket. R.I. (1794). 2. Dutch News agency. 3. Jesus. 4. Lake Erie and New York State. 5. Indirect. 6. Lame ness. 7. Pennsylvania. 8. Scran ton. 9. No. 10. "wise." Thom as Gray. Hoagy Carmichael Due On Campus at Eugene Eugene U.R) Composer Hoagy Carmichael will be on the University of Oregon campus May 17 as a guest master of ceremonies for the annual canoe fete. Carmichael's son is ' an Oregon student. Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. com mander in the war with Mexico, was known as "old Fuss and Feathers" because of his insist ence on military etiquette and discipline. -.1 1 mimiH'HMHi t l--ASSOCIATION MAIL TRIBUNE School Budgets Up The next few weeks will be crucial ones in the schools of Jackson county. On Wednesday, May 8, voters of School District 6C, which includes the large area around Central Point, Gold Hill and Sams Valley, will be asked to pass on the budget for the year 1957-58. On Monday, May 20, patrons of the Jackson county rural school district, which covers most of the county outside of first class districts, will be asked to pass on the rural school budget. On Tuesday, June 4, voters of the Medford dis trict will have up for approval the budget of the ex panded and consolidated Medford school district, which now includes what were the Oak Grove, West' Side, Dewey and Kenwood districts. IT SHOULD surprise no one that each of the budgets is larger than for the current year. The schools are expanding because there are more children to educate. This costs money for buildings, for teachers, for buses, for equipment. Inflation has hit the schools, just as it has hit everyone else. A dollar today won't buy as much as a dollar would a few years ago. This applies to teachers' salaries, and textbooks, and erasers, and building materials for the schools, just as much as it does to the family groceries. There is one other factor which is not inconsid- the standards of education. TTHE schools, by and large, ARE doing a better job of education today than they did a half-century ago. And educators who are worth their salt are doing all they can, constantly, to improve even further the kind of education our children receive. This is re flected in higher educational standards for the teach ers themselves, for one thing, and in both the breadth and depth of the curricula offered the youngsters. There is one other factor which is' not inconsid erable. 1 '. -: That is the fact that, year after year and all through the year, teachers and school administrators are under constant pressure to offer MORE to the stu dents, rather than less. And, since the schools are a re flection of the needs and demands of the community, the curricula have grown in response to this commu nity pressure. THE democratic form of government is based, and 1 is wholly dependent, on a generally high level of education. This presupposition is implicit throughout all our great documents of liberty. is in to govern itself. Without education a good, basic education the electorate cannot be enlight ened, and democracy, both as a whole and in its parts, will suffer. , This is the reason we hope, and hope strongly, that the voters of the county, who are being asked to pass judgment on the schools and the job they are doing with the great majority of young people, will study the Duagets presented to them. A NYONE who complains tion" about the schools has only one person himself to blame. The schools, generally speaking and with a few exceptions, have done their level best, against almost overwhelming apathy, to inform par ents, voters and taxpayers about their problems. We have seen teachers almost incredulously grate ful when a parent takes the time to express a sympa thetic interest in what the schools are trying to do. The budgets, as published, cover a great deal of activity in necessarily brief form. It is a sort of "shorthand" designed to give a general idea of how the taxpayers' money is to be spent during the coming year. Anyone who is interested in finding out just why they need the sums they are asking would find answers forthcoming cheerfully if they took the trouble to ask. . A SIDE from the needs of democratic government, there is one further great need for good schools. It was voiced in a speech recently by the President of the United States, who said : "Our schools are strong points in our .national defense. Our schools, are more important than our Nike batteries, " more necessary than our radar warning nets, and more . powerful than the energy of the atom. "This is true, if for no other reason that' modern weap ons must be manned by highly educated personnel if they are to be effective, and the energy of the atom can only be understood and developed by the most highly trained minds in the country." This is something we should all be able to under stand. This is something we can all do something about, through adequate support for the schools. The President also said: "The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest con flict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly har vest of arrogant and unreasoning minds." What better argument is there for strong, active, adequately-supported schools for America? E.A. Sun Again Shines On Battered Texas Dallas, Tex. (U.PJ Flood waters receded today from riv ers in the Texas flood belt and the sun blazed again. It was the second day of relief for the state after a' 19-day spell of violent weather. Slight danger remained along the Sabine river in parts of western Louisiana, but the floods that wreaked millions of dollars of damage in nearly every part of Texas appeared gone. Water still covered lowlands along many rivers, however. Flood crests along the Trinity and Brazos were surging toward the Gulf of Mexico, and during the two weeks it is expected to Monday, May 6, 1957 An enlightened electorate about a "lack of informa take them to reach the coast they will cause more lowland flooding. One million dollars has been authorized to the flood-stricken areas by President Eisenhower, and Gov. Price Daniel estimated the damage to public facilities alone at more than five million dollars. Within the boundaries of Cali fornia are the highest and low est points in the U. S. Mount Whitney rises to an elevation of 14,495 feet while Death Valley has a point. 282 feet below, sea level. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads The low Cost Way To Sell I cr- , Naw tve didn't have any : . nini :Lltl Akl'lW Matter of Fact THE PRESIDENT'S TASK Washington The task which j now faces President Eisenhower is easy to define but exceedingly d l f f lcult to perform. Sav ing the sub stance of his threat ened 1 e g i s 1 a tive program is only part of the job, and the s m a 1 1 er part is to re- Stewait Alsop create uie public image, of himself, which has faded so rapidly and mys teriously since his triumph at the polls, as the unchallenged leader of his party and the na tion. This is why the President is considering a plan to "take his program to the people." The plan which is being urged on him is not for a single broadcast, but rather a whole series of radio and. television reports a weekly "Eisenhower h o u r," lasting perhaps three or four weeks. The fact is that the Eisen hower program is in such bad trouble right down the line that a single broadcast cannot pos sibly save it. Competent Capitol hill observers predict flatly that it will take some sort of Presi dential miracle to save the two most important items on his do mestic program, the school con struction and civil rights bills, both of which seemed almost certain of passage only a few weeks ago. THE CIVIL rights bill prob ably received its death blow when the House Republican leaders made a deal with the Southerners to delay House con sideration of the bill until after the Easter -recess. The quid pro quo was enough Southern votes to kill Rep. Wright Patman's proposed investigation of the ad ministration's fiscal policies. As a result of the delay, the Senate, Southerners, brilliant , parlia mentarians to a man, should be able to prevent passage of any thing but the most meaningless sort of civil rights legislation. And the school bill has been mortaly wounded, if not killed once and for all, by the furore about the budget. On the foreign and defense front, sharp cuts are consider ed dead certain in the foreign aid bill, the foreign information program, the State Department budget, and even the defense budget. On the foreign aid bill, for example, the question is not whether the President can save the biU intact, but rather whether he can hold the cut to a billion dollars or less. Indeed, some of his advisers are dubious about the whole plan for "going to the people." Thev argue that he wiU be mak ing a futile charge of the Light Brigade, doomed to inevitaDie defeat, and thus compromising his prestige rather than en hancing it. There is certainly something to be said for this view. Under the best of circum stances, it is exceedingly dif ficult to stampede Congress with appeals to the voters. The elderly men who really run Con eress simply bottle up legisla tion committees unti the impact of the Presidential eloquence has worn off. And these are the worst of circumstances. THE REPUBLICAN revolt against the President's pro gram has passed weU beyond the muttering stage, and it has spread from the extreme ngnt- wingers to the moderates. In the Republican cloakrooms, -the phrase "Modem Republicanism' is spat out with almost as much disguest as "New Dealism" used to evoke. And Senate Republi can Leader William Knowland has in effect assumed leadership of the revolt, with his attacks on the budget, the foreign aid program, and the school bill. Congress as a whole, more over, is in no mood to be stam peded. A Democrat summed up the findings of men of both parties during the Eastern re cess "The voters want Con gress to do just three things, cut the budget, cut taxes, and go home." The President has his job cut out for him, if he hopes P' - '''' , fun! Mo wants to sit oh AT By Stewart Alsop to change the voters' minds in time to save the substance of his program. YET, THE proponents of the plan to go to the people con tend that it's central purpose is not only to better the chances of this or that item of legisla tion. Another object is to undo at least some of the harm done by the President's initially weak response to his own Secretary of the Treasury's attack on his own budget an episode which ap pears in retrospect a major turn; ing point in the second Eisen hower administration. In the process, it is hoped, the notion that the President has suddenly succumbed to wild-eyed New Dealism can be dispelled, and the brewing Republican revolt damped down and controlled. IN A larger sense, the real ob ject of the exercise will be to re-establish the President's fad ing authority by moving him front and center on the national scene "To remind people," in the words of one proponent of the plan, "that Ike is still the boss man. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Editorial Comment FOR A LADY D.A. Portland's vice and corruption problem boils and boils.' Rare is the reader, we dare say, who can explain from one day to the next' just what it's all about. But one fact stands out. Some thing's got to be done. A Portland man writes a letter to the Oregon "Journal to make a suggestion that makes sense down this way. Now that Portland's looking for a new district attorney, he says, why not pick State Senator Jean Lewis? Mrs. Lewis, certainly one of the outstanding members of the last two Legislatures, is a lawyer, a public servant of ex cellent reputation and a hard worker. Also she's a Democrat, a requirement for the person appbinted to fill District At torney Langley's shoes. The last time Portland got into a mess it looked to a lady legislator to clean house. It found Dorothy McCulough Lee, an outstanding member of the Legislature, and elected her mayor. Portland was never so clean as it was during Mrs. Lee's administration. And way back in Oregon his tory we find the story of the time Gov. Os West sent his sec retary, Fern Hobbs, to clean up Copperfield, the wickedest town. on the Snake River. Eugena Register-Guard. SOUND SENATE TAX VOTE The Oregon Senate showed political courage and good sense in defeating, 22 to 8, the vari able ratio property taxation bill. This measure had a pie-in-the-sky political appeal. It would have offered a $2000 exemption on residences occupied by own ers. And it would have slugged double that of other property. . But these ratios, destroying present law requiring equal as sessments among various classes of property, would have thrown local taxation into chaos. One bill which should be con sidered, however, to relieve property taxes' on the aged and needy, has been proposed to the Legislature by the State Tax Commission. This is H. B. 220, which would exempt $7500 from the true cash value of a homestead owned by a person 65 years of age or over who de rives less than $2500 total gross income in a year. Passage of this bill would provide real re lief to a large group of eldery citizens who really need it, with out throwing the local property tax structure out of gear Port land Ortgonian. . COLUMNIST'S LICENSE? We are in receipt of an un usual communication from New York, signed only "A former resident who wishes he was back." The letter contained a clipping from the Broadway column written by.Danton Walker for Democrats1 Different In, Out of Congress By RAYMOND LAHR United PrM Correspondent Washington U.P.) Demo cratic leaders outside of Con gress sound much less concerned with demands to cut President Eisenhower's budget than do Democrats in Congress who have the hot breaths of the voters on their necks. This was one inference to" be drawn from what was heard at the week end series of meetings and conferences attended by Democrats from throughout the country. . There was complete agreement among Democrats in and out of Congress that the administra tion is floundering in its maybe- lt-is, maybe-it-isn t-too-big atti tude toward the budget. Trumaa Speaks Up When former President Tru man spoke of the 72 billion dol lar Eisenhower budget, he in vited the Democratic majority in Congress "to tear the thing to pieces." But he also said: "Our national economy is strong enough to support a budg et of the size recommended by the President if that is what it takes to do the job, and all this talk about it bringing on a de pression that will curl your hair is just plain nonsense." Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, a prospective candi date for the 1960 presidential nomination, said Democrats keeping faith with their plat form will not "cooperate with Republican reactionaries to meat-ax the Eisenhower budget." the New York Daily News. One item in the column states: "Gin ger Rogers stands to make mil lions from her property in Ore gon, where she has 690 acres, because of recent community de velopments." The unidentified Courier cor respondent asks, apparently with incredulity: "Is this possible?" Frankly, we have no inside knowledge of Miss Rogers' in vestments in Oregon, aside from the fact that she reputedly owns considerable property along the upper Rogue' river. We can't imagine her. making "millions from any development in the area of her ranch holdings, al though they admittedly are valu able. She may have other hold ings in Oregon of even greater potential value, of course. If Miss Rogers is so fortunate as to cash in on real estate in vestments, all the more power to her. As they might say in Hollywood, "It couldn't happen to a nicer person." Grants Pass Courier. SOME UNSUNG HEROES Some unsung heroes are doing some unpleasant jobs this time of year for their fellow citizens. They are preparing budgets for counties, cities and school dis tricts. They have a task to perform the results of which cannot please , everybody. To please everybody would be impossible. They could go part way by ac ceding to all requests from ad ministrators and department heads and pressure groups, which would please them, but the result would displease the taxpayer. They could reduce services to the point that a de crease in taxation was possible and that would make many tax payers happy, but it would bring shouts of protest from the peo ple responsible for providing the services and those who bene fitted from them. So, you see, the man on the budget committee is darned if he does and darned If he doesn't. The responsibility of the budg et committee member is identical to that of the man who serves in the legislature at Salem or in the Congress of the United States. All must carefully weigh the demand and requirement for services. In many cases the value of the service greatly outweights its cost in taxes. In other cases it does not. People who have served on budget committees and in legis lative bodies have learned that if a governmental service contrib utes' to the welfare of many there is likly to be very little grumbling about "Its cost. So, while tax millage never can be overlooked by the people who are digging into county, city and school budget figures, the need and demand for certain services must first be considered. It is that need and demand that must override all other considerations of budget makers. If the need and demand are genuine a way can be found to meet the cost. . At this budget-making time we would like to offer the thought that most citizens of the U.S.A. receive for the dollars they pay in taxes far more than they could get in any other coun try. They get police and fire pro tection, school buildings and teachers, highways and streets, military protection, institutional care for the mentally ill, funds to care for welfare cases, recrea tional areas and programs, pro tection of natural resources, re search programs in many areas, domestic water supplies, and much more. The American tax payer getg a lot for his buck. The budget maker toils to be sure that he squeezes every pos sible service and economy out of the buck. For that we offer him abundant thanks. Pendleton Eut-Oregoniaa. View of Big Budget Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 and 1956 Democratic presiden tial nominee, . included similar remarks in his prepared text for Saturday night's $100-a-plate dinner' although he did not de liver them. However he did not repudiate this statement: Sees Tax Reduction "... If the Democratic Party, which has stood so brilliantly in our time for the constructive use Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address of 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 right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Nice Words To the Editor: We have lived in Medford for the past year and a half and enjoy your paper very much. It has been our ob servation that you give a good account of the news and events in Medford and Jackson countv We also have noted that you arc not the first to jump on the wagon when someone or some group is criticized by someone. L I refer to the Coos Bay Times claim that information has been withheld from the public by the Coos County school superintend ent. Having lived in Coos county for a number . of years I have noticed that the Coos Bay Times is quick to cast the first stone. Would like to add that in the year and a half we have lived here our opinion is that the Medford Police Department is very polite, conscientious and honest. They should, like the rest of us, be considered inno cent ' of any wrongdoing until proved otherwise. We have paid our share of parking tickets too! Rolf Holmstrom, 1005 North Central ave. Medford, Ore. Needs Answers To the Editor: Under "Com munications" of May 1, a J. M. van der Maas writes about Sat an and religion. I really think he badly needs answers. . So I may directly answer him first of all with two questions. You pretend to know better about God and religion and Jes us Christ than the millions ot Catholics and ' Protestants alike. So answer me this silly question, what was first, the chicken or the egg? No. 2: What is it, it has a mother, grandmother and grandfather but no father? AIsj Christ was the only man that foretold of his death and burial and to rise again' of his own ac cord. You yourself in all ypur wis dom will never do that. You probably never heard of th Miracle of Lourdes in France or the Lady of Fatima in Portugal or St. Nicholas von der Flue in Switzerland, who had eaten nothing except the blessed Host for about 20 years, or the present Therese Neuman in Bavaria. She, too, is on the fast already for many years, no water, no food, except the daily commun ion in the local parish church. True, Satan tries his best to get the rest of the world under his claws through irreligion May God have mercy on you, for you did not know what you were saying or writing. Xavier Widmer, Route 3, Box 186 ' Medford, Ore. Schrunk Arraigned in Circuit Court Friday Portland U.R) Mayor Terry D. Schrunk was arraigned Fri day before Circuit Judge Charles W. Redding on a charge of conspiracy to commit the felony of subornation of per jury. ' At request of the mayor's at torney, Edwin Hicks, the court granted Schrunk until next Fri day to plead or otherwise move against the indictment. Dse Mail Tribune Want Ada FUNERAL SERVICES In Every Price Range Since 1908 PERL Funeral Home 'Phone SP 2-6675 of government to promote the general welfare, now tries to out-Republican the Republicans on the issue of budget-cutting, it is going to be hard to take us seriously again as the party of the people," These comments came after House Speaker Sam Rayburn had told a breakfast for visiting Democrats that Congress would cut three to five billion dollars from the administration budget and clear the way for tax reduc tion. Rayburn's was the voice of the Democrats in Congress and it dif fered from the emphasis given by such men as Truman, Ste venson and Williams. The dif ference suggested that the liberal wing of the party still wants to put achievement of its projec tion of New Deal policies ahead of a lower budget. In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS World affairs note: Secretary of State Dulles, speaking in Bonn, captial of-. Western Germany, warns the Nato nations against over-optimism. He tells the Nato ministers, who are assembled for a con ference, not to become "to hope ful over reaching a disarma ment agreement with Russia." THAT MIGHT be accurately classed as the understate ment of the year. Trying to make a disarma ment agreement with an inter national racketeer would be a good deal like - trying to spin a rope out of beach sand. LIVENER-UPPER item from the teletype: Cupid's arrows have proved more powerful than diplomas at Ohio State University at Colum bus. They've been having a hot spell back in the Midwest and university officials had planned to hand out the sheepskins at 5 o'clock on the evening of June 7, hoping it would be cooler at that hour. They got a terrific protest from the members of the gradu ating class many of whom had planned to be MARRIED that evening and couldn't rear range their wedding schedules! OPTIMISTIC thought out here ; where the tall trees grow: The more marriages, the more homes; the more homes, the more houses; more houses, BET TER TIMES IN THE LUMBER INDUSTRY. B UT LET'S get closer to home. I wish everyone in the beauti ful fisherman's-heaven Rogue River valley could have xread Charlie Stanton's piece entitled "A Fisherman Is Born." It was more than just a column in a newspaper. It is GREAT writ ing. It is a classic in father and son literature. CHARLIE is the editor of the Roseburg News-Review. He is my business associate and till-death-do-us-part close personal friend. We've been working to gether for nearly 30 years. Throughout these three decades, we've been : arguing "until we rattle the rafters. And After every argument We've cemented more tightly the bonds of personal friendship and confidence. - I WON'T try to brief here his charming little essay which most newspapers call and edi torial and our newspapers call a personalized opinion column. I just want to say it is the ten der and affectionate story of a boy who worshipped his father and a father who loved and trained and TRUSTED his son. In all the world, there is no relationship quite like that. If every boy could grow up in such an atmosphere, there would be NO juvenile delin quency. At PERL'S every family may make funeral ar rangements which are in keeping with its means. A selection of service for every price range is of fered to satisfy individual preferences end to meet all financial circumstances. Convenient Terms? Certainly!
