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Newspaper Page TextFOUR -MEDFORD (OREGON) "Everyone In Southern Oregon Readi The Mail Tribune" Puouanea Dally Except Saturday br MEDFORD PRINTING CO 27-29 North Fir St. Phone 1-811 ROBERT W BURL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manacer GERALD LATHAM Business Manacer ERIC ALLEN JR. Managina Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sport Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second claas matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy loe Daily and Sunday One year $15 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mo 4.25 Sunday Only One year S4.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Paint Eagle Point, Jacksonville Gold HiU. Phoenix Shady Cove Roirue River. Talent and on motor routes' Daily and Sunday One year f 18 00 Daily and Sunday One month liO Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy m lerrns asn in Advance Offiriai Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU ' Ur L1HUULA11UIM Advertising RonriBt-iti.. WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angele Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vanrrfitrer R c NATIONAL EDITOtlAt I assocITa'iSn NEWSPAPIR PUBllSHItS 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 12, 1947 (Monday) Annual pear packing school, sponsored by the Fruit Growers league and the Vocational Edu cation unit, will be held here July 14-26. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The latest automotive invention is a "tube less tire." This will be good news to thousands of car-less drivers. 20 YEARS AGO May 12. 1937 (Wednesday) Jackson county expenditures up to May 1, are 38 per cent below the budget allowances and 29.8 per cent of the budget. Jersey breeders of the Rogue river valley will hold a picnic and tour Saturday. ' 30 YEARS AGO May 12. 1927 (Thursday) C. C. Chapman, editor of the Oregon Voter, Portland, dis cusses general tax situation throughout the state at Lions club meeting. Pupils of Medford schools fa vor adoption of Meadow Lark as the state bird, according to Ore gon Audubon society survey. 40 YEARS AGO Miy 12. 1917 (Saturday) A 5,000-foot mountain pea in the vicinity of Jacksonville will be named by the Grizzlies after Will G. Steel, superintend ent of Crater Lake National park. Local chapter of the Girls N tional Honor .Guard holds first drill practice, under direction of Captain Vance. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. Charles Goodyear complet ed the process of vulcanization of rubber in 1844. Did he dis cover the secret of vulcaniza tion? 2. Is it correct to say "geisha girls"? 3. Bible: What was Paul's trade? 4. What immortal sentence was spoken by the patriot Nathan Hale on the eve of 'his execu tion during the Revolutionary War? 5. Is Iran in the Near East or the Far East? 6. What family of actors has been called "The Royal Family-" 7. Yehudi Menuhin is famed as a - 8. Which breed of cat is fa mous for being tailless? 9. "Either" means "one" or "the other of two," and is singu lar. Neither" is also singular: does it also refer to only 'two"? 10. "Better late than never." Livy. "For better than never is late." Chaucer. Whose is the earlier proverb? Answers: 1. Yes. about 15 years earlier; 2. No, "geisha" means girl or airls and it is unnecessary and improper to add girl or girls; 3. Tentmaker; 4. 'I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my coun try"; 5. Near East; 6. The Barry more; 7. Violinist; 8. Manx; 9. No; 10. Livy. MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence New York, N.Y., May 7th It is the same time, the same place and the same rooms, but it is not like getting home. Which is for tunate, for we were seeking a change. And from Main Street, Medford, to Madison and 69th, New York City, in three nights is QUITE a change. We stopped in Chicago for luncheon with an old friend and it was a beautiful day, for Chicago. Chicago isn't famous for its good weather. The "old friend" has lost little of his hair and none of his sense of humor. He has been spending his winters at the "Smoke Tree" in Palm Springs and related how he played a good deal of bridge. One night he had a new partner, a visiting Englishman about his own age, who was apparently quite a choleric old John Bull. It seems spades were trumps and when the Britisher refused to follow F.R.D. (NOT F.D.R.!) made the customary inquiry, "No spades partner?" "J.B." drew back, bristled, then leaning toward his partner said testily: "You play your game and I will play mine!" (We are sure Roy Pruitt, Medford's veteran bridge player and crack golfer will appreciate that, if no other members of the Medford bridge colony do.) He also had a good golf story. He was playing golf at Chandler, Arizona, also with an English man and" a caddy equally advanced in years. He (the friend) was having his usual trouble looking up and thus lousing up his shot. Noting that the venerable caddy seemed much concerned with the results also, he asked him how to correct it. The caddy deliberated for some time, looked F.R.D. over appraisingly, then remarked: "I think the best way would be for you to grow a long white beard, and then stand on it!" Chicago has wonderful Lake Shore drive and in spots is a beautiful city, but anyone judging it from a train window com ing in and going out as we did would never suspect it. In fact it is about the most sordid, trappy and depressing metropolis in the U.S.A. from that viewpoint. We hated to leave the "City of Portland," .so" clean, courteous, and thinly populated, but never suspected what a complete and shocking change the New York Central and our old friend the "Commodore Vanderbilt" would be. It wasn't from the frying pan into the fire exactly but it was from one of the finest trans continental trains to one of the worst. No wonder Promoter Young has taken the NYC from the red to the black. The demand is so strong there are two sections running an hour apart and if there were any unoccupied seats we failed to note them. The dining and club cars the same, noisy, dirty, confused, and the prices at least in the diner were 25 higher and the food less than half as 'good. As for the road bed Lord we grant a high speed is maintained, but anyone susceptible to "car sickness" should never ride on the C.V. They use life belts on planes and are putting them on some of the new cars, but the Commodore Vanderbilt furnishes the type of transportation that REALLY needs them. In sharp contrast to the Union Pacific, everything is too crowded and hectic to THINK of good considerate courteous service, much less give it. We know what is the matter with the NYC just as we know what is the matter with the "Friendly SP" altho neither the two railroad chiefs or many of the long suffering travelling public will believe us. The "matter" is briefly: the fixed policy of both rail roads is not how to best serve the public but how to best satisfy the stockholders and the big bankers. It is with both not a question of public service, but solely a question of PROFITS! Commodore Vanderbilt in fact originated the idea; when he was told about cer tain public demands in the line of better service, he coined that long-surviving phrase "The public be DAMNED." And he meant it. The logical outcome of persistence in that policy is public ownership and operation of railroads, but all that sort of talk is dismissed as "creeping socialism." We don't want public owner ship either, but if it comes railroad heads such as those in control of the SP and NYC, not the long-suffering public, will be to blame for it. ; This is our first trip to New York in three or four years. It is still an incredible place, one must really see it to believe it and even then one is in the fix of the King of Siam who really did not know if what he knew to be true really was. It is a place where everyone knows the price of things but no one knows their value. That is not original with us but we have forgotten who coined the phrase, tion. It is a supremely materialistic Babylon and yet the more one really comes to know the place the more obvious are the excep tions. One just has to live from day to day and not become too an alytical or subjective about it, or he won't get the enjoyment he should out of it. As always at home or abroad the weather is important. We might say that ever since leaving the Weather Bureau has done a perfect job. It is a bit on the hot side in New York as this is written, but the sun is setting in a cloudless sky, and above the sky scrapers (wonderful term!) the big passenger planes are coming in from the Pacific Coast and starting out. Under the heading of "coincidental" intelligence the Leonard Carpenters, formerly of Medford now of Carmel, California, arriv ed by plane the day we arrived by train and as chance would have it, took our old rooms at this hotel on the 6th floor while they flew us up to the 15th. It is cooler and quieter up here and one can feast on the greenery of the tree tops in Central Park only a block away. When the grand children come down from Mt. Kisco, the zoo at the park will be a great "escape." Later: Just returned from a stroll down Madison Avenue and back. Much the same as things were four years ago. A few chang es however; the Madison Ave. busses are 15 instead of 10 cents; the dress shops appear a bit more distaff side ; women old and young are smokmg on the streets as before only more so; and both sexes pay no heed to red lights but only to the traffic. They go against the "light" whenever a free space appears, and why more pedestrians aren't killed is as much a mystery as it was in 1953. One reason we believe is the cross town traffic is too congested to go fast, the average pace is so slow and the NY pedestrians are such artful dodgers, that casual ties are exceedingly rare. The number of French poodles and well groomed dachshunds seem about walk (for a pedestrian) is close to Matter of Fact Defense: Put Up or Shut Up Washington A dramtic pro posal which could revolutionize American defense planning is under serious c o nsideration by the top De fense Science Board and Secretary o f Charles W i 1 son. The plan is simply to take the ancient 1 A A 1 - 1 Stewait All op o a i n e s ue- tween the services, which have so long plagued the defense ef fort, out of the realm of theore tical argument, and subject the services' claims and counter claims to actual, physical, put-up-or-shut-up tests. Takeone example. Air Force spokesmen have long claimed that the Navy's huge super-carrier program is a waste of the taxpayers' money. The carriers and their huge supporting task forces, the Air Force claims, are sj vulnerable to nuclear attack that they would be blasted out of existence in the first days of a war. Sunday. May 12. 1957 whoever did had keen percep Medford last Saturday morning elaborate and attractive to the the same and the place NOT to the curb. RWR. By Stewart Alsep HPHIS charge was made most -- recently in testimony before a House committee by Secretary of the Air Force Donald Quarles and the Air Force Chief of Staff, Nathan Twining. The Quarles Twining testimony enraged the Navy, the more particularly be cause both have since moved up in the Defense heirarchy, Quarl es to Deputy Secretary of De fense, Twining to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. (The Quarles testimony ensures, incidentally, that he will move all the way up, to replace Wilson as Secre tary of Defense, only over the Navy's dead body.) In testimony before the same committee, former Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas and Chief of Naval Operations Ar leigh Burke hotly denied the Air Force claim. They contended that a Naval task force would be difficult to locate at sea; and that even if located, the task force's powerful air defense would prevent the attacking planes from destroying the big carriers. This is the Navy line, as it has been for years, ever since the Air Force first began attack ing the carrier program. The k Okay,okav but when i gbtbg m qdma ( HAVE HOT DOGS FOR BREAKFAST " purpose of the plan submitted to Wilson (which was largely originated by former Assistant Secretary of Defense Clifford Furnas) is simply to settle such ancient arguments once and for all. A NAVY task force, for exam ple, could be given the mis sion of launching simulated carrier-borne attacks on the East Coast of the United States. The Air Force would be given the mission of finding and destroy ing the task force before it could perform its mission. Modern techniques for simulating com bat conditions, proponents of the plan contend, are such that sev eral such tests" would rather con clusively settle the hoary dis pute one way or another. Other disputes also need set tling. The Navy now charges (as it charged of the old B-36) that the Air Force strategic bombers, the B-52 and B-47, are far more vulnerable to interception by modern jet fighters than the Air Force admits. This charge is the main basis for the Navy's claim that other means of delivering the nuclear weapons, like carrier-borne planes and submarine-launched missiles are essen tial to maintain this country's long range striking power. Again, this dispute could be subjected to a put-up-or-shut-up test, by pitting the Navy's su personic interceptors against the heavy .bombers. Other such tests could also be made the ex pensive air defense Dew Line Today and By. Walter POPULARITY AND POWER The President has been at a loss to understand why, after his enormous victory in November, he has run in to such heavy opposition in Congress. His majority, h e teems to think, was a national man date from the people which ought to be Walter Uppmann obeyed not on ly by the Republicans in Con gress but by the responsible Democrats as well. Yet, in fact, there is virtually no connection between the pop ular vote for Eisenhower in No vember and what the Congress is willing to vote for now. The Republicans in Congress are led by men "like Mr. Know land and Mr. Bridges who are opposed to the President on many of the critical issues of the budget and of foreign policy. The Eisenhower Republicans, as Sen. Francis Case put it, are those who greatly admire Presi dent Eisenhower and resolve most of their doubts in his fa vor. They are a small minority. The Democrats, who gave the President such effective support after they won control of Con gress in 1954, are now a partisan opposition preparing for the Congressional elections of 1958. In Congress today the practical politicians who manage the two parties are acting on the assump tion that the voters will not pun ish them if they oppose the President and will not reward them if they support him. Thus, despite his great per sonal majority, the President has no party behind him, and he finds himself unable to trans late his popularity into the hard cash of practical political power. TN THE famous broadcast of Feb. 29, 1956 when, after his recovery from his heart attack, he explained his decision to run for a second term, the President was already concerned with this problem. He knew he had not succeeded, as he had hoped to, in rallying the Republicans be hind him. "The work," he said, "that I set out four years ago to do has not yet reached the state of development and fruition that I then hoped could be ac complished within the- period of a single term in this office." p could be tested under battle con ditions, and so could the Air Force forward base system, which the Navy claims is a sit ting duck for surprise attack. THE IDEA of testing the con flicting claims of the serv ices is of course an old one it goes right back to Billy Mitch ell. But both Generals and Ad mirals tend to regard with hor ror all such proposals. They argue that the tests might give an enemy valuable infor mation; that real combat condi tions cannot be duplicated; that the tests are sure to be weighted in favor of one service or an other; and so on. Actually, their basic fear is that cherished stra tegic concepts and cherished budgets will be upset in the process. The resistence to the plan for actual tests is so fierce that the whole thing may come to noth ing in the end. But, both for bud getary reasons and because the new weapons have knocked so many old strategic concepts in to cocked hat, there is also heavier pressure than ever be fore for a serious new evalua tion of American defense plan ning. Obviously, the best way to make such a new evaluation is not in theory and on paper, but in actual tests in the air and on the sea. Thus the proposal Secretary Wilson is now con sidering may yet transform and vastly improve the defense of the United States. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. Tomorrow Lippmann What was this uncompleted work? It was the conversion of the Republican party to what it has since become the fashion to call "modern Republicanism" to a "program," as he put it in his broadcast, that "adapts gov ernmental methods to changing industrial, economic, and social conditions." He thought that he had not brought about this adaptation because four years were not a long enough time, and that he could bring it about in his sec ond term. But as a matter of fact, his political power is de clining, not increasing, and he faces more trouble to drum up support now than he did in his first term. ' CTHE decline of his power is no doubt connected with the fact that he can never run again. But why is it that he has not been able to translate his great personal popularity into effec tive political power? Franklin Roosevelt became the undisput ed leader of the Democratic par ty in his first term. Why did not President Eisenhower? There are, so it seems to me, two main reasons. The first is .that he had never understood, or at least has never been willing to believe in, the measures by which practical pol iticians translate popularity into power. He has wanted to remake the Republican party in the fif ties as Roosevelt remade the Democratic party in the middle thirties. But he has never been willing to break the eggs that are needed for the omelet. He has hoped that the Republicans who did not share his views would have a change of heart, that his own sincerity and gen iality would win them over. He has never been willing to do what practical political leaders have to do, which is to fill the posts of command with men who share their views, to defend and to reward their supporters, and to put out or put down their opponents. TTE HAS thought of himself as accomplishing his hopes for the Republican party by stand ing above that party. From that eminence he would be the radia tion of his popularity change the course of American political history. This image of the presi dency has in fact done much to increase his personal popularity. He has kept aloof from the con- 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 Demands Safeguards To the Editor: Enclosed is a copy of a letter to P.U.C. in Sa lem, as to the lack of safety in Medford city limits re railroads operations. I feel more such good editorials are indicated to arouse the citizens of our town to de mand action by authorities for proper protective measures, such as train speed limit of 10 miles an hour within our city limits, and safeguard rails at ALL crossings, and an over-pass or under-pass at the important intersections. M. J. Fowler, M.D. 815 East Main Street, Medford, Ore. Dr. Fowler's letter to the Pub lic Utilities Commission fol lows: t As one of the vitally inter ested, aroused citizens of Med ford, Ore., I urge your immedi ate thorough investigation of the auto-train crash here on Wed nesday, May 8, 1957. I plead for restricting safety measures to be enforced, upon ALL RAIL ROAD ACTIVITIES within our city limits, in agreement with the excellent editorial fron- our r-wspaper, enclosed. M. J. Fowler, M.D. 815 East Main Street, Medford, Ore. When Do We Do Something? To the Editor: I have just read the account of the tragic death of a Medford woman at the Stewart Avenue railroad cross ing, and since I was born and raised within half a mile from this particular place, I have taken a special interest in the account. WHEN are the city of ficials and the people of Med ford going to do something about the crossings in my home town? Surely this tragedy would have been averted if the city, with perhaps the co-operation of the Southern Pacific, had pro vided underpasses. The same thing could happen at the Sixth and the Main Street crossings where there are traffic signals at the next intersections. And during the fruit season, how many times does one find that it is impossible to cross the tracks at any of the not too numerous crossings? During the war years I. lived for a .time at Abilene, Texas, which small city is separated by. railroad tracks BUT each crossing is provided with an un derpass and at that time Abi lene had approximately the same population that Medford has now. Perhaps we might take a troversies which arouse opposi tion and cause unpopularity. But, though it has increased his popularity, it has diminished his influence. For men do not follow leaders who do not lead, and they do not care to be shot at while their commanders are appeasing their foes. THE second big reason why he has not succeeded in becom ing the leader of a regenerated party is that, quite sincerely and genuinely, he has incompatible objectives. He would like to be a "modern Republican" in pro moting welfare measures and an internationalist in foreign pol icy. But he would also like to be somewhere between Secretary Humphrey and Senator Byrd when it comes to paying for modern Republicanism. . On the one hand he would like, as he said in his accept ance speech to the San Francis co convention, to make the Re publicans "the party of the fu ture" and to meet the "new kinds of challenge of Federal and local governments: water supply, highways, health, hous ing, power development and peaceful uses of atomic energy. With two-thirds of us living in big cities, questions of urban or ganization and redevelopment must be given high priority. Highest of all, perhaps, will be the priority of first class educa tion to meet the demands of our swiftly growing school age pop ulation." But while meeting these big challenges, he would like at the same time to reduce rather than to expand the functions of the Federal government and to avoid somehow the rise in Fed eral expenditures which is un avoidable if the challenges are to be met. THIS incompatability within his own philosophy has come to a head in the present budget. As presented, the budget reflects a cautious and moderate attempt to meet the challenges and to act like the modern Republican party which he desires. But as this means money, and therefore a big budget, it runs counter to the other side of his philosophy. As a result, he presented a mod ern Republican budget and then did not defend it against its un modern Republican critics. It is not easy for him to have his cake with George Humphrey and also to eat it with Arthur Larson. (Copyright, 1957 New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) POYLUCCC (By M-T Staff and Contribution) Jack Creager, the obliging telephone company manager, tells us there's been a little con fusion, but not much, in the re cent change-over to the use of exchange prefixes for telephones hereabouts. Most people have discovered by this time that in calling a number in their own exchange (from a SPring number to an other SPring number, for in stance) it isn't necessary to dial the prefix letters. It is necessary, however, in dialing to another exchange. We're glad the transition was made smoothly. And perhaps, for some of us forgetful folk, it's a good thing the prefix isn't always necessary. It's a good thing, too, for the nice lady at the telephone office who receiv ed a call for Jack Creager the other day, and asked the caller to dial him at another number. She politely gave the caller the number 2-6101 and like the In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Bulletin from Washington: The education and labor com mittee of the house of represen tatives has approved a one and a half billion dollar federal school construction bill. The committee vote was 20 to 9, including considerable sentiment in the house for fed eral aid for construction of schools. flUESTION: l If this bill should become law, how much would Oregon get? Let's do a little rough figur ing. Oregon has approximately one per cent of the population of the United States. So with out knowing what the exact formula for the distribution of the school construction money among the states may be it can be assumed that Oregon would get about one per cent of the federal dole. One per cent of $1,500,000, 000 amounts to 15 million dol lars. THAT, admittedly, isn't hay. But Before concluding that this 15 million dollars would be a free gift from kind old Uncle Sam, let's take a look in the horse's mouth. In other words, how much might it cost us to accent the gift? - ON that point, some figures compiled by the National Tax Foundation, Inc., are interest ing. These figures show that for every dollar received from the federal treasury in 1956 Ore gon PAID BACK to the federal treasury, in the form of federal taxes, the sum of 96 cents. That is to say: Out of each dollar received in 1956 from our good old uncle, only FOUR CENTS was manna from heaven. It doesn't amount to much, does it? LET'S put it this way: If this billion and a half is appropriated for school con struction in the states and if Oregon gets one per cent of it or 15 million dollars we will pay back to Uncle Sam (on the basis of our experience last year) $14,400,000. That would mean that at the best the net avlue of the gift would be only some $600,000. And quite a little might be squeezed out of that in the pro cess of sending our dollars to Washington and then getting our share of them back. All in all, it looks to me like it would be better for Oregon to pay for the schools she needs out of her own pocket and be done with it. lesson from the Texans. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to Mr. Donovan and I think It should be accompanied with the sympathy and the apologies of every citizen of Medford. Mrs. C. M. J. I (Name on File) Sandy, Ore. More "Dynamite"? To the Editor: Someone has said "Religious argument is dy namite." Here is a spiritually poetic bombshell by Margaret Locke, McMinnville, Ore., which,' though' it may not con vince the skeptics, agnostics and infidels who pit their hearts and minds against that of their great Creator, will at least expand their thinking powers: O skeptic, can you make a star Like those that gleam in heaven afar?.. Can you make a honey bee? O skeptic, can you make a sky? Can you make a bird and make it fly? And can you make a tree? Can von make a lilv fair. v - An ocean wide, or sunset rare? Or create a being line you? And let me say, until you can Believe in God,' poor, puny man Believe that He is true. Eleanor M. Johnston, 1620 Ferry St., Salem, Ore. rest of us forget to give the SPring prefix. Our city editor never seems to get flustered, or harried, or particularly bothered, no matter how high the pressure of newsroom life becomes. Ha takes it all in stride, walking slowly, talking slowly, and ' getting a tremendous amount of work done. We learned the secret of his equanimity the other day, when he comment- ed. "I'm glad I'm too stupid to have problems." The copy of the Mail Tribune destined for the Neva Clarke residence at 904 South Thirrl St., Jacksonville, disappeared each day quite regularly for a time recently, baffling both the occupants of the house and Trib une Carrier Gordie Kirtland, who was careful to dace it ir. the box on the fence. The mvsterv was solved th other day, though. Young Kirt land saw a small, part-toy Shep herd dog laboriously reach up, to the box, extract the paper,' and trot away with it. It de veloped he had a growing cache or old Mail Tribunes. Bette Hoskins. our corrcsnnnii. ent who told us this storv. savs it's hard to decide if he was just being a dog-goned nuisance, a faithful reader, or a new sub scriber. One of Medford's prominent citizens has been losing weight. Asked how to do it. he declared. "It's real easy, and you can eat anything you want as long as you don't swallow.". Some i time ago we (in our capacity as Potluck editor) re ceived a long, ungrammatical and involved note from a young man of our acquaintance, tell ing about an experience he had in Ashland one time earlier this year. It seems he was in a music store, and was approached by an officer who started question tioning him. Our young friend started to explain, then began "dropping names" to the offi cer, because, he said, "I found out it isn't who I am, but it is what I know about what some body else is which gets the mes sage across." The officer apparently thought the young man was' somebody else a situation the , victim found distasteful, because, "It's just that I don't think I'm the kind of boy who would look like somebody else, . particularly the kind of person wtio would make a meterman act hesitant." For some time we have been confused about the little town in northern California known variously as "Hilt" and "Hilts." Some maps show it one way. some another. The postal guide uses the "s" and postmarks from the town also have the "s". Mrs. H. H. Chapman, our Hornbrook correspondent, was in town yesterday, and told us most people there are con futed, too, and that she be lieves "either or both" names are correct. It was named aft er the early-day Hilt family. Wilmer Hilt, son of the town's founder, lives in Ashland, she reported. We speculated that before it was a town it was known as "Hilt's place," and that when the town grew up. some peo ple continued saying "Hilts." dropping the apostrophe, and others dropped the "s" alto gether. If anyone wonders how the MT's facelifting and remodeling job is coming along, it's com ing along fine. Should be com pleted in another week or two. Meanwhile, the saws continue to whine, the hammers to pound, and the staff members to be confused. The job superintendent, who doubles as business manager, says he may have to print maps for us so we can find our way around until we get used to it. Boyer Speaks at Tillamook Meeting Robert Boyer, Medford attor ney and Democratic state chair man, was guest speaker Satur day at the third in a series of ge ographic conferences in Tilla mook for Democratic county chairmen and workers. Host for the meeting was Ed Riddeiusch f county chairman. The session was geared at con ditioning the party for the 1958 campaign. Boyer urged county leaders to plan $5 a plate dinners to fill county coffers. He also empha sized the need for Democratic' organizations to raise money on a precinct level. REPORTS ON SELF Napoleon, Ohio (U.P.) Police did a double taken when a 19-yea'r-old .youth walked into the police station to report a gas station robbery. Sharp-eyed of ficers noticed that the teen-ager had injured his hand. They final ly got him to admit that he cut his hand while breaking into the station.