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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNE "Iveryone In Southern Oregon Reads The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Excect Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 .North fir St- Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHL. Editor KERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ZBIC ALLIN JR. Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETf Snorts Editor OLIVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1397 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mcs 4 25 Sunday Only One vear H20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shady Cove Roerje River. Talent and on motor routes: Daily and Sunday One year $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month 150 tamer and Dealers 10c per copy Auierma cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU . OP CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt. San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C N ATI ONAI. EDITOIIAs T A$SOCfAlN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS 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 11, 1947 (Saturday) J. D. Allen, representative of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for, the western division visits Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: Valley trawberries are now ripe. Many robins got their fill of same be fore the growers. 20 YEARS AGO May 11, 1937 (Monday) Chief of Police Clatous Mc Credie issues warning to all per sons riding bicycles to stay off Southern Pacific platform at pas senger station. Clayton W. Lewis' of Medford is employed as bookkeeper by Medford branch of U.S. National bank of Portland, according to George Frey, manager. 30 YEARS AGO May 11, 1927 (Tuesday) About 75 farmers and dairy men meet at C. C. Hoover dairy farm, west of Medford, to watch demonstration by Prof. Reimer of the OAC experiment station, Talent. Congressman W. C. , Hawley, who is one of the Woodmen of the World, speaks at a meeting of the Rogue River valley Wood men in Ashland. 40 YEARS AGO May 11, 1917 (Thursday) A campaign for $6 million road bond election is in full swing. , Incubators at the federal build ing will be started next Monday with their full capacity of 500 eggs, according to Assistant Postmaster Warner. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; even or eight Is excellent; five or ' six is good. 1. Edwin Booth, in 1849, at the age of 16, made his first thea trical appearance. Did he murder a U.S. President later? 2. From whom did Jack Demp ey win the world's heavyweight boxing crown? 3. Bible: Did King Rehoboim, successor to Solomon, ever re pent his forsaking God? 4. What is the international radio distress signal for ships? 5. An author's narrative of his own life is called an . 6. Which two countries were In a formal state of war with Finland during World War II? J 7. Name the three great divi sions of Federal government set up by the Constitution of the United States? 8. Who succeeded Gen. Mar shall as Chief of Staff? 9- Is it correct to say in (or with) regards to?" 10. "By robbing Peter he paid Paul . . .-and hoped to catch the larks if ever the heavens should fall." Rabelais. Did 'Tie" want the "robber"' caught? Answers: 1. No. 2. Jess Wil lard. 3. Yes. 4. S.O.S. 5. Auto biography. 6. Soviet Russia and Great Britain. 7. Legislative. Executive and Judicial. 8. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. 9. No. "In regard to." 10. No. ROOKS BEAT LCJC Corvallis (U.R) The Ore gon State Rooks defeated Lower Columbia Junior college 11-2 in a baseball game Thursday. MAIL TRIBUNE How Far Does it Go? A young mother and her unborn second child it would have been a son were killed horribly in Med ford Wednesday morning. City police records show that three other accidents involving trains have occurred already in the 4y2 months of 1957. In one of them a pedestrician was killed. In 1956, according to records of the Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner, there were 10 train-vehicle ac cidents on railroad crossings between Stewart ave. and McAndrews rd. In 1955, there were nine such accidents, the PUC records show. "THE present speed limit for trains at all these cross- ings is 35 miles per hour, except 'at the Main and Sixth street crossings, where it is 10 mph. Estimated speed of the train in the accident Wednesday was 30 or 32 mph. In February of last year, the Mayor of Medford, at the request of the council, filed a request with the SP to reduce the speeds used by trains going through the city. It filed a copy of this letter with the PUC. The SP did not even acknowledge this request, ac cording to city records. The PUC acknowledged it, and placed it on file, also awaiting an answer from theSP. rANGEROUS speed by trains is not the only hazard Medford people face when crossing the tracks. Boxcars on spur tracks in many cases make it virtually impossible to see if anything is -coming on the main tracks. This is particularly true at the 11th st. cross ing, but also applies at Main, Sixth and Jackson streets. In addition, it is common knowledge, and easily provable, that the SP uses the technique known as "flying switches" .r that is, shunting cars down a spur after they are detached from an engine in many of its operations within the city of Medford, and even across street crossings. This practice, if we are correct ly informed, is frowned upon by the Interstate Com merce Commission, as well as the Oregon PUC, and anyone who has knowledge of safe railroad practices. These things are in addition to the unavoidable in convenience to traffic of trains blocking long lines of cars on city streets. This may not always happen at rush hours, but it always SEEMS that way. THE DEATH of Mrs. Donovan, it seems to us, would juc ouiiiviciib juotiiiauwii lux laic; wjr vuuuvu bir a open the whole matter of train speed through the city. This could be done by filing a formal complaint and request for a hearing with the Public Utilities Com missioner. The safety practices or NON-practices of the SP would be an appropriate thing to consider at the same time. Perhaps we can find out how much author ity the PUC has over the utilities when it comes to matters of human life. The Southern Pacific has taken away this area's "main line" status: it has taken away the last, creak- j ing vestiges of passenger Ieave ; it has cut its freight service ; it chopped down the last remaining tree near Sixth st, and put up a billboard advertising beer. (And its first-quarter pro fits in 1957 were more than $14 million an increase of from $1.53 to $1.58 per share.) Does its "public be damned" belief also extend to human life? E.A. Bomb In the unfortunate "bomb scare" incident Tues day evening, the behavior of everyone involved was exemplary with the exception, of course, of the anonymous coward that made the threatening tele phone call, whoever he may have been : drunk, nut, or plain stupid jerk. The police officers and firemen, who handled the potentially-dangerous task of searching the building, and then the tiring and boring one of standing by for nearly four hours, deserve credit and thanks. So do the members of the public hotel guests and others who took the inconvenience and dis comfort in stride and with good humor. CO DOES Mrs. Betti Boyle, the capable Jackson hotel manager, who displayed courtesy, coopera tiveness and cool-headedness, in getting the 50 or so guests (not 15 as was incorrectly reported in this paper) and about 28 employees out of the hotel as 8 p.m. approached the time the anonymous calls said the "bomb" would go off. It is difficult to understand the type of thinking which would motivate such a senseless and useless action. Why should anybody in his right mind plant a bomb indiscriminately? Even more so, why should anyone make threats about a non-existent bomb? ""FHE authorities suspected this would be the hoax it turned out to be. But with human life at stake, they would not take any chances. Thus the building was searched, room by room, closet by closet, drawer by drawer. Then eveiyone was requested to evacuate, and were kept out f pr a full hour after 8 p.m. . The bomb disposal officers on the police force say they gained a healthy respect for the potentialities of bombs during their training period. The couldn't afford to ignore the possibility that somewhere, hid den in the building, there was a bomb. The comment on the situation we liked best was by Chief of Police Charles Champlin, who eyed the two fire tracks, the two fire department station wagons, the three police cars, and the 15 men standing by, (all at a cost of multiple hundreds of tax dollars) and said wryly "I suppose the guy that made the call is the kind who complains his taxes are too high." E.A. . . Friday, May 10. 1957 service without a by-your- Scare VlWTMB TO HELP YA LOOK FOR PlPB ? ALL I GOTTA CO B START SNIFFN' President, Congress Disagree on Amounts Needed for Cold War By RAYMOND LAHR Washington U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower and congres sional leaders agree the United States needs friends in the cold war. There is not much agree ment yet on how much it should spend to win and keep friends. On the second of his planned radio-TV appeals to the country Eisenhower will discuss, in the word of the White House, "Why mutual aid is so essential, to the winning of the peace." The administration's foreign aid program, now scaled down to less than four billion dollars, has been a prime target of the budget-cutting drive in Con gress. It also has been the item most often mentioned in mail to Congress complaining about the size of the President's nearly $72 billion budget. Needs Fresh Support So it looks as though Eisen hower will have to win fresh public support for the program if he wants to persuade Con gress to vote something near the amount he is asking. In his conference with con gressional leaders of both par ties Thursday , the President placed much stress on this na tion's need for friends and allies in the cold war with Russia. None of his listeners disagreed, Babson Is Bullish About Farming Future By ROGER W. BABSON Babson Park, Mass. Many farmers write to me complaining about the cost-price squeeze. They are dis- jks I couraged be cause for them tl2i :' the bottom 4V I " seems to have Pirl fallen out of f'Wi the farm mar- S pf thize with these people, MtiMJ but I suspect Bofer w. Babsim that many of Ihem have come upon hard tim es because they are not farming as well as they know ' ow. Also, many of them are not keeping abreast of new ideas and new crops. Tremendous changes have taken place in farming during my lifetime. When I was a boy, horses and mules furnished prac tically all the power on farms. Even as recently as 1910, there was almost no mechanization on farms. In that year the total farm population was 32,076,960. By 1950, this had dwindled to 25,058,000, a decline of 21.9 per cent. Most observers estimate the present farm population to be only 20,000,000. Thus farm ers and their families now ac count for only 11.8 per cent of our total population compared with 34.9 per cent in 1910. I predict that machines will continue to displace men on American farms. Hence, the smaller commercial farms will be hard put to survive. Howev- her, 1 do not believe farmers should be despairing of the fu ture. A good living can still be made on the farm by those who open their eyes to progress. Obviously, the trend is toward new crops and greater mechan ization, and there is no sense in bucking th?t trend. Over-Production Temporary Right now farmers are the vic tims of their own unusual abili ty to coax record yields-per-acre from the soil. Better seed, im proved fertilization and irriga-: tion, and more efficient spread ing, cultivating, and harvesting machinery have increased pro duction. During the war our farmers rose magnificiently to the challenge to provide food and feed for our allies, and now they are temporarily in trouble. At present we are growing at least 5- per cent more products than we can sell. In an effort to keep our farm surpluses from becoming too burdensome, the though they were not ready to accept his program as the exact formula that must be followed for the next year. Eisenhower also was reported to have described the foreign aid program as an investment in peace which actually should be viewed as an economy when set against possible alternatives. In this connection, he faid it was cheaper for the United States to help other countries maintain armed forces than to put more Americans in uniform. Presented Strong Case A number of congressional leaders reported that the-President presented a strong case. But none admitted being ready to change his mind. Eisenhower formally reduced his foreign aid program by some $500 million in Thursday's con ference. This $500 millon reduction was originally offered almost a month ago in a letter from the President to Speaker Sam Ray burn. It was part of a set of sug gestions for cutting administra tion budget requests by $1,858, 000,000. But Eisenhower indi cated then that the sum of his proposed cuts . would not trim more than about $600 million from his overaU $72 billion spending budget. government spends huge sums on price support programs, the soil bank, and foreign distribu tion schemes. All these meas ure: have helped to some extent, but they are by no means cure alls. I am disturbed by the fact that too many farmers take un due advantage of this govern ment help by deliberately over producing. However, I am firm' ly convinced that this over-pro duction is a temporary problem, Research the Answer Research has performed won ders for all other industries. I forecast that it will also perform wonders for agriculture. Chem istry, industry, and agriculture, working together, gave us hy brid corn and varieties of the soybean which would grow in our country. This combination sponsored the research that pro duced a new dwarf variety of castorbean said to yield as much as 2,700 pounds per acre if the soil is properly irrigated and fertilized with nitrogen. Also, a new combine harvester - huller has been developed which will gather tall or short castorbeans without waste. I predict a profit able future for castorbeans, with output reaching as high as 350, 000 crop acres. A stimulating flow of new re search ideas has emerged from the recent annual Chemurgic Conference of the Council for Agriclturaf and Chemurgic Re search. Thij organization and others like it are facing up to the real farm problem, which is not over-production but under-utili-zation and waste. . Industrial Uses We should be proud of the progress agriculture has made in our country. But there is still much to learn about soils, irri gation, and weather. Crops such as castorbeans and sesame seed will become big business before long and I : forecast that other big new cash crops are coming. But I want now to call special For Information Leading to Recovery of 12-lb. Cub Bear Stolen Monday Night From Rainbow Motel PHONE TRinity 8-2441 Russian Industrial Revision, British Arms ChangeTops News By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on. the international bal ance sheet: Russian Communist leader Ni kita S. Khrushchev presented to the Supreme Soviet the parlia ment of the Soviet Union his plan for a drastic decentraliza tion of government control of industry. The Khrushchev plan was de signed to increase efficiency by relaxing the rigid control which had been exerted over Russian economy by the scores of indus trial ministries in Moscow. Under it, 92 self-contained eco nomic control councils will be set up in areas throught the So viet Union. Thirty-one of the Moscow ministries will be abol ished. Prime Minister Harold Mac millan promised West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer that despite its revolutionary shift of defense to a nuclear Communications Letter 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 Grieved About Sunday To. the Editor: This is not a "pet peeve," but a sincere grieve to very many of Medford and vicinity's good people. The things that make any com munity desirable are its most commendable qualifications as measured bv riehtpnns stjinrtarrfc of judgment. There are churches ana new churches in Medford and district, but a too large ma jority of residents are improper ly affected by the standards ev ery true church teaches, namely law'- abiding righteousness. Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any' peo ple." A challenging contrast is given in Isaiah's third chapter, most assuring to the righteous ones, but the doom r f the un righteous. "Say ye to the right eous, that It shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked; it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." Also in ZeDhan- iah 2:15 we read of "the rejoic ing city that dwelt carelessly," and according to that record it was a fatal attitude. - For example, to name but one or two very common but very objectionable Dractices ernwine in proportion to our growing population, the disregard for the Lord's day. Stores, market rent-alls, second-hand stores, fruit and vegetable vendors, and some of almost all kinds of busi nesses are running full scale on the Lord's day, while radio ad vertising is sandwiched between religious programs. TTebemiah. the great reformer, in the 13th chanter n?rl "What atril 4. this that ye do, and profane the jsaDDatn day?" Read 15 to 21. God does not come down. Car ry Nation style, to force the clos ure oi bunday-desecrating busi nesses, or to smash bottles in our Deer and wine selling Sunday open markets, but as sure as God keeps books these wrongs are Deuig recorded against those who put the bottle to then neighbor's lips, and break God's law by profaning His day! Both sellers and buyers are responsi ble, and will be held account able to God. Ecc;esiastes 8:11 says, "Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." Will atom bomb fall on us? What reader will venture a neg ative answer? The lives and the souls you save may be your own and your neighbors. " H. R. Bulman, Route 1, box 316a, Medford, Ore. attention to the need for putting more farm products and resi dues to work in industry. President Eisenhower is alert to this need. Some months ago, he appointed a Commission on Increased Industrial Use of Agri cultural Products. Its report should be made public within the next month. I urge farmers to study carefully and to follow it up with action. Over the long pull. I am bullish about farming in this country: ; L& -CITY B3ARKET North Hiway 99 OPEN UNTIL Betty Crocker Cake Mixes All Flavors 3 forSC weapons basis. Great Britain will maintain a "regular, mo bile, highly-trained force" on the continent of Europe as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Though reduced in man-pow er, Macmillan said, the British force will not be reduced in actual strength. Macmillan's assurance was giv en to Adenauer during a three day conference in Bonn, the West German capital. It was announced in Wash ington that the United States would station an atomic missile unit in the island of Formosa, stronghold of the Chinese Na tionalist government. The announcement meant that for the first time the United States would establish a mili tary base in Formosa, which about 100 miles off the Communist-held mainland of China. Italian Premier Antonio Segui resigned after the right-wing So cialist Party of Giuseppe Sara- gat withdrew from his cabinet. The resignation came after months of wrangling between In the Day's News By FRANK Foreign affairs stuff: Thousands of Frenchmen in Algiers BOOED an American diplomatic car during a V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) parade. The car belonged to the Amer ican consulate in Algiers (Algiers is the capital of Algeria, in North Africa). It was taking part of ficially in the parade to cele brate the end of the fighting in Europc.lt flew a small American flag from its front fender. Many of the Frenchmen stand ing along the parade route booed as the American car passed. by. Some shouted: "Algeria ; is FRENCHi" -- A WORD of explanation is in order here. The Arab peo ple of Algeria, who were con quered by the French in 1830, are in rebellion against French rule. They want to run their own affairs, as they had done for cen turies before the French con quered them. Many Algerian Frenchmen are accusing the United States of friendship to ward the Arab rebels. AT THIS point, let's quote a little history. , In ancient times, Algeria was known as Numidia. It was a Roman colony with an advanced civilization. But in A.D. 440 the Vandals swept in and ended the prosperity of Numidia in a bath of blood. In the 600's the Moslems con quered the land. Moslem Arabs began to settle there, and the Islamic religion took hold. ,In Coca-Cola Bottling v' " - "Vfc I Iff v II Half Way Between Medford and Central Point 10 P.M. INCLUDING SUNDAYS WEEK END SPECIALS No. 2 Klamath I Potatoes 50 (r!CB)c lbs. the various Italian political par ties and inside the parties them selves. A long period of political in stability . was threatened. Janos Kadar, the Communist puppet premier of Hungary, an nounced a cabinet reshuffle which brought some additional "Stalinists" back to leadership. Speeches in the Hungarian parliament, after the announce ment, included denunciations of Imre Nagy, who served briefly as premier during the historic revolt of last October, and of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Ro man Catholic primate, who has been a refugee in the American legation in Budapest ever since the revolt was crushed. . . Dispatches from Vienna sug gested that Kadar might be pre paring to put Nagy on trial for hostility to Russia. The Khrushchev plan for de centralization of Russian indus trial control will affect the lives of millions of workers all over the Soviet Union. It was one of the biggest de velopments in 40 years of Com munist rule in Russia. JENKINS 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella drove the Moslem. Moors from Spain and many of them settled in Algeria. Then In 1830, a French consul was insulted by the Moslem ruler of Algeria, and the French invaded and conquered the country and took over its government. Al geria was under French military rule until 1871, when a civil gov ernment (dominated by French men) was set up. It should be added that the conquered Algerian Arabs have hated their French conquerors ever since, and have staged many rebellions of which the present one is merely the latest. So there you have the story of Algeria. T ET'S now get back to the boo ing of Americans in Algeria by Frenchmen who accuse the United States of friendship for Arab rebels. Probably it is a good thing for US. Maybe, from our standpoint, it" is the best thing that could .have happened. WH Y? Well, it COULD drama tize us to the world at large as the friend of all the peoples throughout the world who want to run their own affairs. That is our RIGHTFUL posi tion. . -. .-' Company of Medford Mothers Day Chocolates 1 lb. and 2 lb. boxes Tnn7 IIiiil. Ji! -i if in ly. v3--vc i n
