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FOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) UNS "Everyone tn Southern Oregoa Reads The Mali Tribune" PublistiM Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO X7-2 North Fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W RUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC A i.i .FN JR. Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sporta Editor Ol.IVE STARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Mediord Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance Per Copy 10c Daily and Sunday On year (1500 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three moa 2i Sunday Only One year $4.20 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 S18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy All Terms Cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OI CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: ' WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY DJC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit. San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL E 0 IT O 1 1 A i ASSOCfA'ieN umiriimmii NEWSPAPER PUILISHEKS ASSOCIATION Flight or Time Medford and Jackson County History from the files of The Mail Tribune 10, 20, 30 and 40 years ago. 10 YEARS AGO May -3. 1947 (Tuesday) About $1,200 raised by Med ford Lions club during carnival for playground equipment at new city park. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The theft of a ladder is reported. The vandal better bring it back, or other steps will be taken. 20 YEARS AGO May 13, 1937 (Thursday) Richard Hayiburton, world famous traveler, lecturer and writer, speaks at Medford Active club meeting. Tentative plans for sponsoring a code regulating bicycle traffic in the city of Medford are pro posed by Medford 20-30 club. 30 YEARS AGO May 13. 1927 (Friday) Walter Leverette elected presi dent of directors of Medford Realty board. , From Local and Personal col umn: Henry Fluhrer returns to Medford from Portland on air mail plane. 40 YEARS AGO May 13. 1917 (Sunday) Oregon Governor James Withy combe will speak at Tri-State Good Roads convention at the Natatorium Wednesday. From Local and Personal col umn: J. C. Burch, president of Portland Cement company of Gold Hill is in Medford on busi ness today. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten rorrect Is superior: seven or eight is excellent; five or six is good. 1. The making of watches by machinery was introduced in 1850. Was the process also per fected that year? 2. The capital city of which State is named for the fourth U.S. President? 3. Bible: Simon of Cyrene helped Jesus to do what? 4. Name the author of "Peter Pan" and "The Little Minister." 5. What are homonyms? 6. Name the first U. S. Secre tary of the Treasury. 7. The correct, modern-day word for writing paper is station ery or stationary? 8. A catacomb is a special comb for grooming cats; true or false? 9. "One another" is used of "more than two." What two words are used to express "two?" 10. Did J. R- Lowell or Denis Kearney ((Big Denny) first use the expression "Horny-handed sons of toil?" Answers: 1. No. (1857). 2. Madison. Wisconsin (for James Madison). 3. Carry the Cross to Calvary. 4. James M. Barrie. 5. Words which, although pro nounced alike, differ in meaning and nearly always differ in spell ing. 6. Alexander Hamilton. 7. Sialionery. 8. False. (It is an un derground burial place). 9. "Each other." 10. Denis Kearney. Spokane Man Injured In Highway Wreck Calvin E. Smith, 51, Spokane, Wash., was reported in "fairly good" condition today at Sacred Heart hospital where he was taken after suffering injuries in an accident at Jacksonville on Sunday. State police said Smith was traveling west on Highway 238 when his vehicle went off the road and into a ditch. There were no passengers in his car. He, was taken to the hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Km MAIL TRIBUNE How's Business? The Oregon Journal has been running a series of articles on its front page, describing various towns in Oregon, under the general title "Oregon Eyes Its Second Century." The series is by Lamar Newkirk, the business edi tor of the Journal, who has made a flying trip around the state, visiting briefly in the major cities, and gath ering impressions of how each is getting along. The' newspaper may have gotten the idea from the far more inclusive and far more detailed series done a few months ago by the Pendleton East Oregonian. QUICK survey trips such as these do not give con clusive evidence, but they are valuable in that they do give quick and frequently accurate impres sions of an area's economy. Newkirk, for instance, talked to a cab driver, a banker, a lumberman, a fanner, and several merchants along Main street, and gathered some statistics on em ployment, bond sales and fruit and lumber produc tion. ' . His conclusions pretty well confirm what most people here believe to be true, that business is off this year from last, largely due to the continuing slump in lumber prices and production, but that despite this, agriculture, principally fruit, has carried us along in far better style than has been possible .in places more completely dependent on lumber. THALKING to businessmen in the city, we find a rather sharp difference of opinion. One of them last week said business was lousy "until we decided to stop crying and go to work. Now we have more business than we ever did before." He claimed he'd never heard of the economists' phrase, "self -justifying expectations," but that's what he was talking about. The theory goes that if everyone is gloomy and pessimistic, business will reflect that fact, and if people generally are optimistic and hard working, business, usually is-pretty good. " This is not, of course, universally true, and even when it does have a bearing on the economic facts of life, there are many other factors which also enter in. OUT it reminds us of the old story which goes some thing like this: John Jones sold hamburgers, the best that he could make, with top quality meat 'and buns, and fresh vegeta bles. He sold them by standing beside the road, waving cheerily at passers by, and calling out loudly how good his hamburgers were. He was very successful, and sold many hamburgers. After many years he could afford to send his son to col lege. There the boy majored in economics, and when he graduated he came home. He saw how his father made hamburgers out of the finest ingredients, and sold them proudly by the side of the road. "But Papa," the boy said, "don't you know we're in the midst of a great depression? Now is the time to re trench, to cut costs." . . , John Jones thought of his son, and his expensive college education, and foUowed his advice. No longer did he buy the best meat and the finest buns and the freshest vege tables, and no longer did he stand proudly by the side of the road, crying out how good his hamburgers were. People stopped buying his hamburgers. . And John Jones thought to himself, "By golly, my boy is right. There IS a depression on." It would be interesting to know whether the moral of this story applies to Medford, where as Newkirk says, "business generally is a little slower." E. A. . Impressive Work The black, white and grey of a newspaper engrav ing do not do justice to a colorful painting such as that by 16-year-old Peggy Richey which was repro duced on Page 1 of this newspaper last Thursday. The original picture, done in "mixed media" or several different kinds of ink and paint was an ex tremely attractive thing. The reproduction only gave a hint of the "feeling" of the painting, which was of birds in flight done in shades of white and blue. Miss Richey's work won a regional competition in a National Scholastic Art Awards contest, and she re ceives $100 from a greeting card company. The can-' vas is now on display at the Carnegie Institute. rUE to a combination of personal reasons, this spring we have had an opportunity to view a wide range of art objects produced by students in the Med ford schools. We have been vastly impressed. They range all the way from professional-caliber work such as the prize-winner mentioned above, to highly experimental pieces of sculpture in wood, metal, stone, plaster and composition, and paintings done in both conventional and experimental media. They have displayed talent, imagination and fine perception. They have also evidenced the fact that their instruction is not limited to the narrow confines of strictly reproductive, representational or pseudo photographic type art. - THERE'S an old saw about the lady who gushes "I A --- 'f lrv.i-.nT otrirfViTi-. t. "Uy-vi,4- ,- T . .Af uuii c iuiuw a-uLHiiig dUUUlriULy UUL 1 JU1UW VVIlitt Hike." In greater or lesser degree, that applies to about 99 per cent of the population. We know it does to us. We also know that we like what we've seen of the way Medford art students are working under the di rection of highly competent and imaginative and crea tive teachers. An appreciation of works of art, and, perhaps even more important in some ways, an understanding of what the artist is trying to achieve, and how, is some thing which will deepen an individual's enjoyment of life in all the years to come. It's a. far cry from the water washes, soap carvings and poster contests which were close to the upper lim its of art instruction in the schools a couple of decades ago. E.A. ' " - Monday, May 13, 1957 I HAVE SOME FOLKS WHO WOULD House. MAS. WADS is that little toiv- ksaded neighbor . 00V ABOUND? Matter of Fact FLAMINGOES AND HEDGEHOGS Damascus , Judging by every surface indication in this outwafdly lovely, inwardly tor tured little oasis city, Sy ria is due to move still fur ther along the road marked out by Egypt's -1 President Ra. -f malAbdel Nas ser. A Syria still Joseph Aisop more virulent ly anti-Western, in , appearance an Egyptian colony in all but the name, but with Soviet agents behind the scenes playing the puppets and pulling the strings, that is the present prospect. No other forecast is possible after the recent Syrian by-elections in which three new seats were cap tured by extreme left-wing na tionalists. In order to understand the real meaning of these elections, it is necessary to view them in the context of recent events. In brief, they were the immediate sequel of an extreme left-wing effort to prepare to take full power, which was rather nar rowly frustrated. The great figures of Syria's ex treme left-wing nationalists, the civilian leader of the Baath party, Ahram Hourani, and the famous head of Syrian Army in telligence, Lt. Col. Abdul Ham id Serraj, have long occupied positions only imaginable in Syria. Hourani is not a mem ber of the government and his Baathists and the allied Com munists are a small minority. Serraj is only a junior staff of ficer. But in fact each of them has long been , immeasurably more powerful than Syria's Pres ident Shuri al-Kuwatly. A NNOYINGLY, however, the politicians . whom Hourani manipulates, the senior Army of ficers who never make a move without considering JBerraj, may be intimidated, but they are not inanimate. For the last year or so, therefore, Syrian politics has rather resembled the surrealist croquet game in "Alice" witn Hourani and Serraj as the exas perated human players, and most of the other civil and mili tary personalities as the trouble some flamingo-mallets - and the unwinding hedgehog-balls. Using the flamingo-mallets to drive the hedgehog-balls through the de sired left-wing wickets has real ly been' a; very trying business. A great effort to tidy up this untidy situation was made this winter in the form of an en ormous conspiracy trial organ ized by Col. Serraj. The details of the trial were what one might expect. A near-Communist, Col. Afif Al Bizri, sat as president of the court. After a long line of docile witnesses, . one courageous de fendant, Munir Ajlani, spilled the beans by publicly charging that he had only "confessed" under prolonged torture. And with rather splendid arrogance, the military court at one mo ment published . the suggestion that Hourani's "Coalition" Prime Minister, Sabri el Assali, had been guilty of perjury in deny ing any knowledge of the al leged plot with neighboring Iraq. , But the real point of the trial came at the end, when the son of a former president of Syria and member of one of the great est Syrian families, Adnan At assi; a powerful Syrian tribal leader, Hayel Surur, and three other very highly placed Syrians were actually condemned to death. If Serraj and Hourani had got their way if the death sentences had been carried out all the flamingoes and hedgehogs would have become absolutely rigid with fear. The croquet game would have been wonderfully simplified. The way would have been prepared for a final left-wing take-over. AT THIS point however, ap narentlv in Dart because of a plea made by King Saud to his old friend President Kuwatly, but also because of strong local feeling, - the - flamingoes and 1 ,1C L LIKE TO LOOK AT By Joseph Alsop hedgehogs began uncoiling all over the place. The death sen tences were commuted. Serraj and Hourani were infuriated. Serraj protested to his theoreti cal commander, Army Chief of Staff Nizam Ud Din. There followed the "affair of the Army transfers." With Ku- wately's initial support, Gen. Nizam Ud Din tried to. get Ser raj out of the country by sending him as military attache to Mos cow. The left-wingers in politics and the Army immediately mo bilized their influence. Serraj stayed where he was, at the head of Army intelligence, which means at the head of . the secret police in this country. Only the other transfers,, designed to mask Serraj 's transfer, were ef fected. . Such was the background of the election, in which all the power of the government and of Serraj 's agents was used to support the left-wing candidates like Riyadh Malki here in Da- mascus. The , left-wing victory was not glittering, but it was enough. It places Hourani and Serraj in position for another attempt to freeze the flamingoes and hedgehogs into total docility and the great upset in Jordan has provided the spur to fairly early action. (C) 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 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 On "Pointless" Letters" To the Editor: We read and enjoy most of the letters in your communications columns. As long as the subject matter is of common community inter est, with controversial sides, aU arguments and comments are of interest, worthy of column space and the study and consideration of all fair minded readers. I refer to such letters as those on Flouridation, Location of the Super Highway, The Al Sarena Mining issue, School Consolida tion, Weather Control, and manv others. However, recently we have had a rash of matter; "strictlv opinions" ,with no convincing, substantiating facts submitted, and the subject matter was that dearest to more DeoDle of all nations, and for all time, than any subject ever to be consid ered by man. . I don't think it necessary to mention the names of the writ ers of these letters or point out the misstatement of the few facts that were touched upon. Another corresDondent would justify the poisoning of dogs (at least the inference was that the poisoner was in some measure justified). I don't have the answer as to how to handle such matters but sincerely hope the Editor comes up witn something better than Drintine such "nnintless at best, and degrading as a modest way of expressing a verdict" letters m the future. John D. Bowdish, 4127 Colver rd. Medford, Ore. DURLING ON VACATION E. V. Durling is on vacation. Hi "On the Side" column will be resumed on May 27. STOLE FROM THE TILL GEO. N. TAYLOR , He stole cash from the till and kept mum about it. The air was blue with his -curses and he always lied as a cover-up. In time he heard of the perfect pearl. At that he sold his all and bought the pearL And the pearl was none other than Christ, 1 who was tempted at every point like as . we, yet He sinned not, Christ so loved that man, that He died to clear him. See that great throng 'who were once only scum? Christ loved and died for every one of them and when they opened their hearts to re ceive His as their Lord and Saviour, He gave them eternal life. Send for Four Steps Up. Geo. N. Tay lor, 2385 87th Ave., SW Porltand 1, Ore. Administration hoofing1 Many Politically Important Actions By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) What's new in Washington is the same old story that the Eisenhower team is still goofing its political skuU practice. For ex ample: By chance or de sign, the ad m inistration's April 19 re duction in Lyie c. Wilson w n e a t sup ports caught members of Con feress en route home for the Easter recess.. Some Republi cans complain that wheat state congressmen . had r no advance warning of the reduction. Thus, they had no pat answer for wheat farmers back home who instantly were demanding ex planations. ' -. Similarly, the administration too often strips its political gears on minor patronage , matters. The confirmation of a small town New England postmaster recently was stymied by a Dem ocrat who was not even a mem ber of Congress. The nominee's local Republican sponsors were increasingly . embarrassed b y In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS The Oregon house of represen tatives . has passed an already senate-approved bill designed to rid Oregon of slow-poke drivers. The bill would prohibit opera tion of a motor vehicle at "such slow speed as to impede or to block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic." Reduced speed would be per mitted when "required for safe ty" or to comply with police in structions. COMMENT? Let's put it this way: The law would probably do no harm. On the other hand, it is improbable that it would do any good. Why clutter the books with any more of that kind of laws? ADMITTEDLY, "slow - poke" drivers are a nuisance, espec ially on heavily traveled . two- lane highways. To a certain ex tent, they are a menace to safe ty in that they pile up traffic behind them to the point where somebody is likely to try to pass when there isn't room to pass. Danger lurks in all such situa tions. "; -. - - '' , . ' VOU can call a cop, of course if there is a cop within hailing distance. Or if no cop is within reach' at the moment, you can get the slow driver's number and . report him and have him ' hauled into court. In that event, you will have to ap pear as a complaining witness. That you probably won't want fo take the time and trouble to do. , So-- The chances are you will either possess your soul in pa tience and wait until there is an opportunity to pass with safety or you wiU get all steam ed up with impatience and go roaring around the slow driver and the string of cars piled up behind him, taking your chances of getting into bad trouble. Just you do now WITHOUT a law forbidding slow driving. TN CLOSING, let's bounce' from the subject of laws we could do without to Dizzy Gillespie. Sending Dizzy and his jazz band overseas to drum up good will for our country cost quite a lot of money. But, the state department tells a senate appro priations subcommittee that is digging into the cost of the en terprise, it really paid off. "To the young people in al most every country," the state department said to the senate investigators, "jazz represents freedom, vitality and a new kind of expression .... The depart ment believes that substantial benefits have accrued to the United States as a result of the Gillespie tours and those of sim ilar groups." . IN OTHER words, Dizzy "don us a lotta good". . That I wouldn't doubt. But I think businessmen will have to agree that there are a lot of things that might do them a lot of good BUT COST SO MUCH THEY CAN'T BE AF FORDED. Housewives will probably go along with that. Personally, I doubt if our gov ernment which owes 270 bil lion dollars can afford that kind of do-gooding. i failure to get their man on the federal payroll Finally Put Through ' The embarrassing stymie per sisted, nowever, until the nomi nee's Republican backers "be came sufficiently angry to put some real political heat on the White House through Postmaster General Arthur . E. Summer field. ' " " ' These ' are minor ' items,' per haps, but not necessarily isolat ed. They painfully annoy local Republican leaders who. may not want jobs for. themselves but who must feed their own. ego and home state prestige on .the appearance, at 'least, of having political influence in Washing ton. ." ," Executive departments and administrative agencies have been under Eisenhower's direc tion since Jan. 20, 1953., It still is necessary, however, for poli tical professionals . to . remind these Republican officials that a congressman likes to know, a couple of hours in .advance when hjs home town is to be awarded federal funds for some popular-local purpose. Foreknowledge enables a con gressman to break the good news to the folks back home in the hope that they will remember his . good- works next election day. . . . . U.P. Co r respo n den ts Predict Headlines United Press .. correspon dents around the world look at the news that will make the headlines. Secret ' Diplomatic 'insiders say the visit of King Saud of Saudi Arabia to King Feisal of Iraq marks the start ' of secret nego tiations to line up all Arab coun tries except Egypt and Syria on the side of the West. ... There will be no public' an nouncement of the move. But the word is that Lebanon and Jordan will be brought into the negotiations, . then other Arab countries., -v.. . .. One reason 'for the-new turn' is the visit Saud paid to Wash ington. . Another: -Pro-Russian, anti-Western elements outsmart ed themselves when they tried to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan.- -..' Pressure - Military manpower cuts may become .a hot issue in Washing ton sooner than expected. - The Pentagon, in ..its : estimates for the fiscal year which starts July 1, planned last faU to cut the armed forces by 150,000. to 250, 000 ment., The ; cut was post poned - because of -the delicate international situation and fear of the effect it would have on other Allied countries. But, De fense Secretary Charles E. Wil son is under increasing pressure to hold down spending, and the manpower reductions are due to come under renewed study soon. Missile Move Watch for Soviet Russia to protest to the United Nations Se curity Council against the sta tioning , of an American guided missile unit in Formosa,' strong hold of the Chinese Nationalist government. . . The Chinese Communist for eign office broadcast an angry protest against the action Satur day. But Red China is not a member to take the issue to the Security Council in its behalf.' Big Four Bid ' Soviet diplomats ' in., Bonn, capital of West Germany, are spreading the word that it would be nice if a Big Four "summit" conference could be held late this fall. The idea is that a brief meeting of President . Eisen hower, British Prime-- Minister Harold Macmillan, .French Pre mier Guy Mollet and .Soviet Premier Nikolai A. 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