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FOUR MEDgORP (OREGON) UNE "Everyone tai Southern Oregos Bwa ine Mail inrjune Publisnea Duly Except Saturday by MZOrORD PRINTING CO 27-28 North fir St Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHL. Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALXEN JR. Managing Editor EARL U ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWrrt Sports Editor OIJVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered aa second clasa matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail In Advance- Per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year SIS 00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Daily and Sunday Three mot 4.2S Sunday Only One year t20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ashland Central Point Eagle Point Jacksonville Gold Hill. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rogue River. Talent and on motor routea Daily and Sunday One year (18 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1J0 Carrier and Dealer 10c per copy Ail lenns cash in Advance Official Paper of the City of Medford Official Paper of Jackson County United Press Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices in New York Chicago, de troit San Francisco Los Angeles. Seattle Portland St Loula Atlanta Vancouver B C NATIONAL EDITOR. At ASSOC C"-A I ON H.'IHI NEWSPAPER UBUSHttS 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 28. 1947 (Monday) Fathers and friends of Girl Scouts are needed to aid in the dismantling of the two build ings purchased by the Girl Scouts at Camp White. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: A Californ ian has married his mother-in-law. In this case, the climate is held more to blame than Dan Cupid. 20 YEARS AGO May 28. 1937 (Wednesday) Apple thinning in the Wing orchard on the Old Stage rd. starts according to Charles Wing, proprietor. Ninety per cent of Medford Corporation workers in mills and timber have signed up in the Employees Industrial Union, Inc. 30 YEARS AGO May 26. 1927 (Thursday) County court orders unit school plan placed on the ballot at special election in June as re quested by petitioners through out the county. From local and personal col umn: Allen Whillock, manager of the Golden Rule store, is spending several days in San Francisco on business. 40 YEARS AGO May 26, 1917 (Saturday) Petitions are being circulated in Medford requesting the ap pointment of former Senator Charles W. Fulton as U.S. sena tor to replace the late Harry Lane. Henry Barneburg sells 450 cattle to D. W. Parker of Kla math Falls for $20,000. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is exceUent; five or six is good. 1: 1869: Did both Wyoming and Utah (territories) grant wom en the right of suffrage? 2. Red flannel underwear is wanner than the same thickness underwear of any other color: true or false? C. Bible: Was Solomon's throne made of gold, ivory, or silver? 4. Is Louisville or , Lexington the capital of Kentucky? 5. Name the Indian - princess who married John Rolfe. 6. Diplomatic relations be tween the U. S. and Sweden are maintained by ambassadors or ministers? 7. Which state is nicknamed "Pelican State" and "Creole State"? 8. Name the five senses. 9. Is it proper to use "most" as an abbreviation or equivalent for almost? 10. 'A little learning is a dan gerous" what? Pope. Answers: 1. Yes. 2. False. Col or does not affect its warmth. 3. Ivory. 4. Neither. Frankfort is the capital. 5. Pocahontas. 6. Am bassadors. 7. Louisiana. 8. Sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch. 9. No. 10. "thing." Creative Writing Class To Meet Here Monday Students of adult education classes in creative writing will meet Monday, May 27, at 7:30 p.m., at 404 North Grape st. Mrs. D. D. Williams of Med ford, whose book, "Seavester," is available at the Medford pub lic library, will be a special guest at the meeting. The meet ing will be open to anyone in terested irr creative writing. In formation may be obtained by calling SP 2-2580. SI MAIL TRIBUNE Encouraging Support We have been much encouraged in recent weeks by the actions of voters participating in several im portant elections. It is evident that they have been interested in the questions raised, have thought through the financial problems facing the districts in which they lived, and that a majority of them have concluded that proposals placed before them should be approved. We refer specifically to the series of school budget elections in various parts of the county, and to the Berrydale annexation vote. TN THIS year of high taxes, high prices, a business and employment slump in Oregon, and "economy" drives at the local, state and federal level, it would have been too easy for voters to be stampeded into voting "no" without fully considering the conse quences. But, on the contrary, .voters In the rural school district, in the Ashland school district, in Consoli dated School District 6, and in the Phoenix and Eagle Point school districts, went to the polls and approved budgets for the 1957-58 school year. As is almost in evitable these days, the budgets were larger than in prior years. And in Berrydale, the voters faced up squarely to a series of most unpleasant alternatives. A majority of them picked annexation as he least unpleasant of these, and the only one offering an immediate solu tion to their rather serious problem. THIS is not to say that it is difficult to understand the feelings and motivations of those who voted "no" in these elections. It is easy, indeed. And one can entirely sympathize, while disagreeing. But it bears repeating, again and again, that if we are to have responsible, responsive, effective and efficient government to do for us the things we cannot do alone (and this includes the schools), we must support those who are working to provide these things for us. And this means approving the expenditure ot enough tax money to do the job the way we know it ought to be done for the greatest good of everyone involved. E.A. Arbitrary Cuts Curbed So many things happen so fast in the last days of a legislative session, it's too easy to lose track of some of the items of interest. We were glad to learn, then, belatedly, that Sen ate Bills 274 and 275, which grant the Public Utilities Commissioner additional authority over passenger train schedules in Oregon, finally passed both houses. They are now presumably awaiting the signature of the governor. THE bills were much-amended and watered-down from their original form. But they are a step to ward giving the people, through a state official, a say as to how a public carrier should fulfill its responsibil ity to the public. They can have no effect on present service or rather lack of it in southwestern Oregon. That mat ter is still pending settlement in the PUC office after extensive hearings. But they do provide machinery to prevent railroads from arbitrarily changing or cancel ing long established passenger service without a please, thank-you or by-your-leave. E.A. The Fish Stand Alone There is an old song which, if memory serves us, goes on about the farmer taking a wife, the wife tak ing the dog, the dog taking the cat, the cat the rat, the rat, the cheese, and the cheese standing alone. Up in Bend, along Mirror Pond that lovely stretch of calm water in the midst of a green park in the middle of the attractive little city the old song might be used again, with variations. ,4 The problem is the ducklings which hatch out about this time of year, and how best to protect them from marauding animals, chiefly dogs and cats. THE city has decreed that dogs be kept penned or 1 leashed during this period of time to protect the ducklings, not for the preservation of gardens, as is the case elsewhere. But a vocal faction was heard from which con tends that the unrestricted cats are more dangerous to the ducklings than are the dogs. That did it The Bend Bulletin has been full of sound and fury since, with cat-lovers andMog-lovers fighting in print, with another large contingent of duckling-lovers also entering the fray. THE cat-lovers contend that the cats don't really 1 hurt the ducklings, and that the dogs do. The dog lovers contend that not only do dogs fail to harm the baby birds, but, by chasing away the cats, they actu ally protect them. The duckling-lovers suggest that city policemen be equipped with small-caliber firearms to shoot at dogs and cats. About the only ones unaffected by this emotion packed debate (which soon will fade from view until another springtime makes it a live issue again) are the grown-up ducks, who take the fish in the pond, who like the cheese in the old song stand alone. E.A. Sunday, May 28, 1957 MMMM, C0 . . . .THERE'S MXAT LIKE HOTCAKES . (VTH LOTS OF PEANUT SUTTER ON 'EM'." Matter of Fact THEY'RE NOT SCARED OF IKE" Washington During last year's campaign, President Eis enhower often told intimates that he "didn't want to win by any fifty point four per cent. He wanted to "win big, big ger than last time." He had to win big, he said, to "finish the job." The job was to remake the R e p u b 1 i cn party into a Stewait Alsop modern par ty which would again be the majority party in the nation. In order to do this job, the Presi dent reasoned, he needed an ov erwhelming triumph at the polls. Such a triumph would serve as a clear signal to the Republican party to fall in line behind the Eisenhower kind of Republican prestige and authority to force his program of "Modern Repub licanism" through Congress. The President did indeed win big. The Republican party did not win at all it lost both Houses of Congress. After his big win, the President went ahead confidently to fashion a program and a budget embodying it, that would represent his kind of Re publicanism. And the Republican party in Congress, with a big assist from the Democrats, is now happily at work slicing the program into ribbons. 11THAT, then, went wrong with the President's theory, that a big win would give him what he needed to "finish the job?" For there is no longer any doubt about it. Only six months after his big win, President Eisenhow er is, in at least one absolutely vital respect, in worse trouble with Congress than Franklin D. Roosevelt or Harry Truman ever were. The New Deal died in the late 30's, and the Fair Deal was never really born at aU, but Roosevelt and Truman always got essen tially what they wanted from Congress on the foreign and de fense fronts. And it is precisely on these fronts, as the almost desperate tone of his speech on Tuesday night suggests, that the President's program is most gravely threatened. One explanation of what went wrong with the President's theo ry is contained in the rueful re mark of an Eisenhower associate and admirer: "They were scared of Roosevelt and even Truman. They're not scared of Ike." HE WENT on to recaU, with a certain nostalgia, Truman's delegation came to plead for a In the Day's News By FRANK I suppose that everyone who reads the news or listens to it as it comes over the air waves is aware that this 'world is full of problems. One of the tragic problems has been the case of little Hildy McCoy. LITTLE Hildy found a foster father and mother who loved her, adored her built their lives around her. But legal tangles de veloped. Seeking to escape these tangles, Little Hildy's. foster par ents fled from city to city, from state to state. They finally settled in Florida. There were efforts to extradite them from Florida and take them back to Massachusetts to face charges of kidnaping the child they have reared from her infancy. Then Florida's governor Leroy Collins denied the extradition petition, and his decision can't be appealed. Hildy's foster par ents immediately filed proceed ings in a Miami circuit court for her adoption under Florida laws. It was thus and nearly six years of court battles and hiding out in different cities to escape the serving of legal papers came to a close. By Stewart Alsop lame duck Texas Congressman who had opposed the Truman policies. "That S.O.B.," Truman remarked crisply, "is not going to get any job with this govern ment as long as I'm President." He recalled also how Truman summarily fired Louis Johnson as Secretary of Defense not because Johnson's policies were disastrous, but because Johnson had been criticizing the Adminis tration on Capitol Hill. Truman and Roosevelt were politically vindictive by instinct, bacause politics is a vindictive business, and both were profes sional politicians to their bone marrow. But when President Ei senhower's Secretary of the Treasury criticizes his budget, the President goes shooting with him. And when the Republican minority leader opposes the President on issue after issue, the President remarks mildly, as he did at Wednesday's press con ference, that Sen. Knowland sup ports him on most issues. The president is quite right, of course, that he cannot force Knowland to resign as minority leader. But Knowland has reas son to be "scared" of the Presi dent all the same. Knowland or so everybody believes wants very much to be President. What ever happens between now and 1960, it is almost inconceivable that Knowland could get the nomination over President Eis enhower's active opposition. So Knowland ought to be thorough ly scared of offending the Presi dent. But he clearly is not. e rriHE impression is almost uni--1 versal on Capitol Hill that the President hates to use his power to punish and reward, and this is why "they're not scared of Ike." But this is only part of the reason, of course; another reason is that the President's enemies in both parties, frustrat ed Democrats and unreconciled Republicans alike, are convinc ed that they have at long last a good heavy stick to beat him with. The stick is the desire of the voters to sink happily back into what Time magazine has dubbed "the new normalcy." Shrewd politicians with both ears to the ground report unanimously that this reversion to something like the national mood of the 20's is entirely real, a political phenom enon of major proportions. Strangely enough, the Presi dent himself, the nation's reas suring father figure, the living symbol of "peace and prosper ity," has done far more than any other individual to create the national mood of complacen cy he is now belatedly fighting hard to 'dispel. (c) 1957 New York Herald Tribune Inc. JENKINS WHAT we call "extradition" goes a long way back Into history. What it involves is the handing over by one state or country to another state or coun try of persons accused of crimes. It is closely tied up with what over- the centuries has been known as the right of sanctuary arose in the darker ages of the world when political offenders meaning in those days persons who came out on the losing side in struggles for power could be chased all over the world by political enemies who sought their lives. But, as so often happens, crim inals began to take advantage of sanctuary in an effort to escape punishment for their crimes. So the process of extradition was developed to head that off. ANYWAY, by refusing to ex tradite her foster parents from Florida, Governor Collins has made it possible for little Hildy ivIcCoy to go on living in a home where she is loved and cherished. That is a happy ending for her story. . Communications Letters to the Editor must bear the name and address ot the writer, although under certain circumstances the use of a pen name or initial tor publication is permissible. The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with view to clarification and condensation. Letters submitted for publication must not exceed 400 words. Bronco-Busting Officers To the Editor: This is written in appreciation to Medford's bronco busting police officers, who, with skill, good nature and devotion to duty rounded up our two stray calves Thursday. I was at the hospital with my husband when the calves got loose, and when the officers fi nally corralled them, so I don't know their names. But I'd like them to know of our apprecia tion and for Medford people to know what fine officers they have to serve them. Mrs. BiU Medcalf 1031 Narrgan st. Medford, Ore. Memorial Day To the Editor: Another sacred Memorial Day is fast approach ing. The vast army of Union Veterans who fought the Civil War has passed from our view. The gleam of their campfires can be seen no more. But in the hearts of us, their daughters, it glows with a brighter fervency as we live to appreciate their sac rifice. Let us not neglect on this sacred day to wend our way t their final campground and there, amid the rows of white headstone tents, with pride and loyalty, plant the flag of our na tion,, the bright-hued symbol for which they bled and died. And on those lowly green mounds, tenderly place fresh bright blos soms, as an outward expression of the love and loyalty we hold for them for their service to our Country. In Memoriam They served us not in- selfish ness, But died for both black and white; To build a better, kinder world For freedom, truth and right. And we who set Ihis day apart, To honor those who sleep; Should renew our pledge to hold the faith They gave their lives to keep. Eva Frances Ware, Patriotic Instructor of Elta Deuel Hubbs Tent 11, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-65. 181 Winema Way, Medford, Ore. Sale Successful To the Editor: The members of Colonel Sargent Auxiliary, United Spanish War Veterans, wish to extend their thanks to Mayor John Snider, Chief of Po lice Charles Champlin and other city officials and to the public for their courtesies and gener osity in making the McKinley Editorial Comment LEGISLATURE ASSESSED The 49th Legislature . . . turn ed out to be, not the radical body which was expected . . . Instead it proved to be rather conservative. Credit for this should be shared by the Repub lican phalanx in the Senate which presented a formidable barricade to certain measures and by conservative heads among the Democrats. Those who may have come to tax and tax and spend and spend, re mained to pray and to labor for a relatively modest upping of taxes within the very restric tive area now allowed for state taxation. . . . While the public may fret over the length of the session 128 days they cannot with jus tice . criticize the members for lack of diligence and earnest ness, and of cooperation on the major issues which they con fronted. Oregon Statesman, Salem. . . . Just as the session opened with a high degree of partisan ship, reflected in the battle for control of the Senate, so did it close with Democrats making speeches about the- wonders it accomplished, and with Repub licans calling it the worst ses sion in Oregon history. Neither view, in our opinion, is correct. Probably many ses sions have been better. And cer tainly some have been worse. The session was expensive, both in the legislative cost and in the budget approved by the leg islators. But before we're too critical of that budget and the tax increase that must go with it, we must ask if the people of Oregon wUl get full value for their tax doUars. We think they will, and believe no sub stantial appropriation can be termed frivolous or unnecessary. . . . Briefly put, the session was not all good and it was not aU bad . . . But considering the sort of instructions the leg islators felt they had from the people, and considering the in experience of most of the mem bers, we feel the 1957 Legisla ture did show imagination, cour age and a willingness to listen to new ideas. While the session may not go down in history as the best Oregon ever weathered, it certainly does not deserve to be called the worst. Eugene Register-Guard. . . . It was really a grueling session 128 days of delibera tion, debate and not infrequent bickering. Furthermore, each senator and representative had to dig deeply ,. into his own pocket to finance the stay at Carnation sale a success. We wish also to thank the staff of the Medford Mail Trib une for their cooperation in pre senting news of the sale. Mrs. Winifred Vail Sale Chairman 56 North Orange st. Medford, Ore. Power for Oregon To The Editor: Reference is made" to Harper's (May) article 'The American West' by Walter Prescott Webb who gives a clear picture of the great North American Desert, now desperate for water, and in particular Los Angeles whose constantly growing population has driven them desperately for water. To quote the article: " A plan is afoot to tap the waters of the Columbia in the northwest, to enlarge or save the oasis of southern California." John Day dam as proposed would be constructed within the state of Oregon but operated by a Washington utility company. Hells Canyon on the Snake river and bordering Oregon on the east is all but lost to an Idaho power company. Only immediate protests by every Oregonian could save this dam site. Federal power was fought here (and at Bonneville) with the hue and cry that it is "creep ing socialism," but the very ones who cried out and refused to pass $350 million for Federal power at Hells Canyon are the very same folks who passed $1V4 billions (and more) to bring Federal - power in the upper Colorado river project! So we gave our eastern boundary and Hells Canyon dam site to Idaho; we are by pure lassitude giving John Day dam site to Washington; we are giv ing the Columbia to Los Angeles, so why don't we give our sea coast to Russia and then ex plode an A-bomb out about Red mond and let Oregon just disap pear forever? You may as well because if our people sit on their stools of 'do-nothin' much longer, you'll all starve to death anyway. Or you can write and wire and call Secretary Fred Seaton, Department of Interior, Wash ington, D.C., and stop the 'Big Steal'; tell him we want 2 mill power for Oregons industry by saving Hells Canyon, John Day, the Columbia for Federal power sites to benefit Oregon for a change. Then watch us boom with industry and jobs aU year 'round! A displaced Oregonian.. Mrs. Virginia Card 1154 Viola ave. Glendale, Calif. Saiem, in view of Oregon's nig gardly pay for legislators ... Some of Oregon's leading Democrats . . . have lauded the session as having the "best rec ord of accomplishment of any administration in our genera tion." Possibly so, but we would not be surprised if a special ses sion isn't necessary before the next two years have elapsed. . . . Anyhow, it's all over but the shouting. There will be plenty of that when employees discover the amount of -money that will be taken from their pay envelopes under the new "realistic" withholding tax schedule. Grants Pass Courier. The legislature which has just adjourned after a record 128 day session was surprisingly less ra dical than had been expected . . . Part of the credit or blame, depending on the viewpoint for the unexpectedly . conservative result goes to the Republican half of the Senate, which block ed considerable legislation. But the Democrats in the Senate and House both turned out to be far less prone to revolutionize things than had been anticipated. Politcially, what will be the effect of this session? Certainly those who feared drastic changes from a Democratic legislature and administration have not had their fears realized. Those who wanted more drastic changes than were made will be disap pointed; but they still must cling to the Democratic party as the instrument of future change. It would seem that on the whole the Democratic party may have augmented its chances to elect a Democratic legislature again and retain a Democratic administra tion two years hence when the people vote again. Asiorian Budget. WHY NOT CALL A HALT? The terrible accident lastweek in which six Grants Pass high school students were badly in juried, again brings to mind the wisdom of these junior and sen ior "skip" days, as they are termed. In other areas we have heard them called "flunk" days. School authorities, we real ize, do their utmost to regulate and control them. All too often, however, situations get out of hand. In more than'one instance tragedy and heartbreak have ac companied these events. We'd rather not dwell further on the subject, but some of the things that have occurred in other cities would not make pleasant read ing. We realize these remarks will not be well-received in many POTLUCK (By M-T Staff and Contributors) A man who does a lot of traveling in his work started out for California the other day. Soon after he left, his wife noticed he'd left his suitcase behind. She called the state police, who suggested that the Cali fornia checking station be con tacted. This she did, and before long he telephoned her from there. They discussed the matter and decided that she would start south in her car while he started north in his, and when they saw each other, they'd stop and transfer the suitcase. Both started out, but some how missed each other on the highway. She wound up at the checking station (no husband), and he wound up at the "Y" junction south of Ashland (no wife). Both waited briefly, then turned around, she traveling north, he south. She arrived at the Big Y, he at the checking station. Missed again. They finally found each other, but we understand on good au thority there was a distinct cool ness between them as the suit case was transferred from one car to the other. Our United Press wire the other day carried a story about the death of an "11-year-old widow" who left 179 living descendants. "She sure must have started young." one of the newsroom inhabit ants commented. About half-way through the school music festival at the high school stadium the other night, a father and his young daughter got up from their seats and began inching their way toward the aisle in front of the other people sitting in the same row. As they passed one youngish matron, the father commented "I think I'U have to carry this young one h-ie." "Is she sleepy?" asked the matron sympathetically. "So am I." "Sorry," replied the father with a grin as he picked up his daughter and started down the steps. "One is all I can carry." We all know about the "minutes" of the meeting those records which are kept by the secretary of the pro ceedings. We heard a new one the other day, in a 4-H club report, where it said . 'The seconds of the last meet ing were not read because the secretary wasn't there.". Must have been a short meeting. Law enforcement in the Berrydale district has been handled by the sheriff's office and state police. But when it officially becomes a part of Med ford, in a week or so, that re sponsibility will go to the city police department. One state police officer who lives in the area swears that the minute Berrydale becomes a part of the city, he's going to call up Chief of Police Charles Champlin and complain about a barking dog. a ' - Phooey on tranquilizers, ' calming drugs, or "happy ? pills, says County Agent Earle Jossy. He declares the best "happy pills" he knows . are little round sinkers for his fishing line. A press release from the N.A. P.C.T.C.A.F.B.S.M. informs us somewhat breathlessly that this nation observes National-Ladder month, National Smile week (in addition to National Laugh week and Pass the Laugh week), the Spring Festival of Gas Ranges, National Bow Tie week, Old Maids' day, Steel Kitchen Cabinet month, Save the Horse week, and 341 other special days, weeks and months. And what, you may ask, is the N.A.P.C.T.C.A.F.B.S.M.? It is the National Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cloth and Furniture by Savage Moths, and it's all steamed up because it has dreamed up National Mothproofing Month, which it says is May. All of which motivated the following "pome": Special months and weeks and days Fill me full of sad malaise. Maybe such things really click Frankly, though, they make me sick. All the calendar they filL I can't escape. They make me ill. quarters. We have editorialized on this subject before and have observed the reaction. The fact remains that the skip days, or flunk days if one prefers, are relatively recent in origin. They represent no deep-rooted tradi tion. In other words it should be possible for school authorities to stop them by putting an ab solute ban on such practices, and "getting tough'' if necessary. After school is over and young people -are "on their own" for the summer, school authorities have no control. Until that time, however, school discipline still should prevail. Grants Pass Courier.
