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Newspaper Page TextFOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) DFOUkTRIBUIfS "Xver-jrone In Southern Oregon Hesds Thm Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO 17 -29 North fir St. Phone 2-6141 ROBERT W BUHU Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JH Managing Editor EARL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT Sports Editor OLIVE ST ARCHER Society Editor DALE ERICKSON Circulation Mgr. An Independent Newspaper Entered as second class matter at Medford Oregon under Act of March 3, 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advance: per Copy 10c. Daily and Sunday One year $15.00 Daily and Sunday Six months 8 00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4.23 Sunday Only One year $420 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 $18 00 Dally and Sunday One month liO Lamer ana Dealers 10c per copy ah lerms casn 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 fNC Offices In New York Chicago, de trolt San Francisco. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C w 1 1 u n a . NATIONAL I 0 I T O 1 1 A i I AsTocHVieN llJIHIIH'U'lTn NEWSPAPER PUBII5HEIS 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 29, 1947 (Thursday) Miss Betty Rolland, who has served as manager of Com . munity hospital for the past four yrars, resigns. Frcn Arthur Perry's Ye Smuge Pot column-: A plot to cut down a residential area tree 37 years old, to make a six-foot sidewalk level, has been nipped. 20 YEARS AGO May 29, 1937 (Saturday) Unusually large pear and apple crop is forecast this year by Gordon R. Green, division manager of American Fruit Growers, Inc. Sixteen 4-H club boys in Jack son county start work on a corn improvement project sponsored by the Medford branch of the U.S. National bank. 30 YEARS AGO May 29, 1927 (Sunday) Construction of $58,000 build ing for Rogue River Studios, Inc., is announced by W. H. Cope, Hollywood, Calif. Ten man crew starts work of clearing roads in Crater Lake National park. 40 YEARS AGO May 29. 1917 (Tuesday) WCTU holds roundtable dis cussion led by Mrs. M. Edmunds at Baptist church. From Local and Personal col umn: H. D. Kubli of Applegate is in Medford today en route to Grants .f ass. What's Your I.Q.? Nine or ten correct Is superior; seven or eight Is excellent: five or six Is good 1. Were the American Indians, the Asiatics, or Spaniards the first people known to ride horse back? 2. Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk was the founder of which republic in Europe after World War I? 3. Bible: Did Moses ever "write" a song? . 4. Which famous American Revolutionary War general was known as Mad Anthony?" 5. Are there more males than ft i ales in the population of the U.S.? 6. B-24 Liberator bombers did or did not bomb Japan during the closing pnases of the war? 7. The Reichstag fire in 1933 was linked to what high Nazi? 8. How often is a population census of the U. S. taken? 9. Correct this sentence: "An unnumerable number of persons called; numerous numbers pray ed." 10. "The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants." Barere. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." T; Jeffer son. Whose is the earlier quota tion? Answers: I. Asiatics (Mongols, etc.). 2. Czechoslovakia. 3. Yes. 4. Anthony Wayne. 5. No. 6. Did, Five raids were made on Japan early in August, 1945. 7. Her mann Goering. 8. Every ten years. 9. "A countless number of persons called; numerous groups prayed." 10. Jefferson (1787). Governor Signs Bill Givinq Motto To State Salem (IB Governor Rob ert D. Holmes signed Senate bill 27 Tuesday and "The Union" officially became the motto of the state of Oregon. Although never before offic ially adopted by the Oregon leg islature, the motto has been used since the state was founded in 1859. MAIL TRIBUNE Humanitarian Decision Commonly, we have little admiration for the state of Florida, or for Florida politicians But we have to make an exception for Gov. Leroy Collins of that state, who last week made a wise and humanitarian decision in the case of little Hildy. Hildy was born out of wedlock to a mother of the Catholic faith. She was placed for adoption, and adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ellis when she was only a few weeks old. Later, when her mother discovered that the Ellises were Jewish, she attempted to have the child taken from them to be raised in a Catholic orphanage. TTHE Ellises, who had made the adoption in good faith, and who had come to love the baby girl as their own, resisted this. Later, as court proceedings were instituted, they gave up their home and business in Massachusetts and went to Florida, where the legal proceedings followed them. They were accused of all things of kid naping. The crux of the matter was the religious faiths in volved. Hildy's mother, as a Catholic, was determined the girl should be raised in that church. The Ellises, devout in their own religion, were less concerned with the little girl's nominal faith than that she be given the love, affection, care and guidance which only a good, devoted and unified family can provide. THE Massachusetts law, which requires that babies be adopted only by families whose religious faith is the same as that of the physical parents where pos sible, probably is a good one. But in using that good law for the purpose of dis rupting an established family, persecuting devoted parents who sacrificed much for the child they had come to love as their own, and wrenching from them a little girl who looked upon them as father and mother, the authorities were perverting the sense and intent of the law. ' The area of doctrinal and dogmatic beliefs is a highly personal and extremely touchy one, where dif ferences of conviction are entitled to meticulous re spect. For this reason Governor Collins' decision to re fuse extradition was a difficult one. But, based on the chances for a happy and normal life for little Hildy, it was the correct one. E.A. Its a Far down in the small published in this newspaper Monday, can be found under Miscellaneous General County an item of $3,000 for "county parks." Good. This will enable the county to get a small and be lated start on what the law sponsibilities the establishment and maintenance of a system of parks. o UR ONLY regret is that the sum specified is so small. We can't heln comnarinp; it to the $25,000 A- A CJ T 7 which neighboring Josephine county smaller and with lewer resources plans to spend next year tor county parks ; or the $111,790 which Douglas county has included in its budget for county parks. iTr n .,;j i.L .c i; i,t ., yv e cctu l ctvuiu me leeuxig uictt a muie geiieiuua appropriation for land acquisition now would save ? Il 1 1 1 A I money in me long run, as iana vames continue to in crease and appropriate park sites become scarcer. But something is better than nothing, and a start is, after all, a start. TALKING about county parks and camping spots, the Grants Pass Courier said recently: "Tourists, when they find such facilities available, very often spend their entire vacations in one place. Further more, they spread the word and others follow in succeeding years. They don't just fill the tanks of their automobiles with gasoline, buy a meal, and go on their way. "To the great credit of the Josephine county court and members of the park commission, the local deficiency for some time has been recognized. Now steps will be taken to - rectify it . . . "The big item is that there now is general realization of a major deficiency in our recreational area, and determi nation to do something about it." We say the same about the county court and budget committee, with the added hope the relatively tiny sum of $3,000 can be used to plan a more com prehensive program which will meet realistically the need in this county in years to come. And the sooner the better. E.A. Our War Dead Almost four times as many Americans wore the uniform in World War II as in World War I (16.1 million as against 4.3 million), and more than three times as many American servicemen died during World War II as during World War I (408,000 as against 126,000). Nevertheless there are I veterans to be decorated on Memonal Day 1957 than graves of World War II veterans. That, of course, is because it is now 382 years since 1 the end of hostilities in World War I in 1918, less than a dozen years since V-E Day in 1945. Since World War T ended, over 1,100,000 World War I veterans have died; only about 310,000 World War H veterans. In World War I more Americans died of causes not connected with battle, especially from an influ enza epidemic in the camps, than in battle. In the Civil War also, many more Union soliders had died from disease than from battle. However, in World War II and in the Korean conflict, the advance of medical science kept the number of non-battle deaths well below the number of deaths in battle. E.R.R. Wednesday. May 29, I9S7 Start print of the county budget, spells out as one of its re more graves of World War 1 fcSM ' 'M?. MncuBii. can I see the scar whbrb tub caxxte . . eUll&T HIT YA WHEN YOU eTOmD HIM FROM ROSSM' THE Nixon Ties Himself Irrevocably To Ike; 1960 Bid Foreseen By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IP) The col umnists and pundits seem to have missed the most important angle of Vice- President Rich ard M. Nixon's speeclh last week in New York before the American Iron and Steel Institute. The import ant angle was Lyle C Wilson political. It was this: Nixon deliberately tied himself in that speech to the Eisenhower administration. Tied himself and soaked the knot in water so that it will not become untied. Repeatedly, half a hundred times, in that speech Nixon used the word "we" in stating his views on the Eisenhower budg et. It was the most important public appearance of the vice president since the 1956 presi dential campaign. First Vital Move The speech was the vital first Earth Satellite Program Runs Into Financial Trouble Washington (W The United States' earth satellite program is in money trouble and the De fense Department is considering laying the problem before Con gress for solution. The department is responsible for launching the first man-made moon into an earth-circling orbit sometime during the Internation al Geophysical Year (IGY), which runs from July 1, 1957, to De cember 31, 1958. . Cost Estimated The problem is this: When the White' House an nounced the ' project in July, 1955, and before any actual work had been done on it, IGY scientists roughly estimated the satellite would cost $10 million. Almost casually, - they said the rocket launching apparatus would be extra. The U. S. Na tional Committee for IGY gave the Defense Department the task of rocketing thesphere into space, tracking it by radio and providing some of the minute instruments it must carry. Now, 22 months later, the Pentagon says it has laid out. $5J,800,000 on the project and the National Science Founda tion an additional $15,800,000. That totals $71,600,000 with the end not yet in sight. WUson Said Irked Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson is said to be irked by the increasing outlay of military de partment money for a project considered to be scientific and non-military in nature. He won ders, it is said, whether the Pentagon will be reimbursed for any funds diverted to the satel lite and where the rest of the needed money is coming from. That is the problem the Pent agon is considering handing Congress. The Last Supper Memorial Building at MEMORY GARDENS MEMORIAL PARK will be open to the public from 8:00 A.M. until 9:00 P.M.. Memorial Day. Special showings of the massive stained glass window will be held continuously. Each presentation includes the unveiling of Da Vinci's great work of art as a commentary unfolds the story. Children accompanied byAdults, are welcome. There is no charge Memory Gardens MEMORIAL PARK 1395 ARNOLD LANE MEDFORD, OREGON "move" which Nixon's friends have been expecting and urging him to make toward gaining the 196p Republican presidential nomination. In other language, the speech reads like a frank and bold bid for President Eisen hower's active support in 1960. Nixon hurried off to Africa after last year's campaign. He made a few after -campaign speeches, but had seemed to be avoiding major political commit ments as the new Congress as sembled and the second Eisen hower administration began. After long thoughts, Nixon has made his stand as an all-out Ike man. Nixon is moving with the ut most caution toward 1960. His Iron and Steel Institute speech represented a calculated risk. It probably has cost him some warmth and friendship among the large body of Republican conservatives who urgently de sire to reduce Eisenhower s spending program. What He Wants The speech may win Nixon some warmth and friendship elsewhere, at the White House, for example. It was by chance but still interesting that on the Sunday following Nixon's speech the New York Times, W. H. Lawrence reported on page one that Eisenhower was determined to fight in 1960 for the nomina tion of a modern . Republican. The term is not yet sufficient ly defined, but, roughly, a mod ern Republican is an Eisenhower Republican. Nixon, then, is Ei senhower's boy provided the President wants him three years hence. Holmes Signs Bill For Highway 101 Job Salem (IP) Gov. Robert Holmes Tuesday signed a bill which authorizes a $12,600,000 bond issue for rebuilding of Highway 101 between Gold Beach and Brookings on the Ore gon coast. The new water-level route would shorten the 37.5 mile dis tance by eight miles. Representatives of coastal counties were on hand for the signing ceremony. Holmes Tuesday vetoed a Sen ate bill which would have made changes in the code for drain age and sewage installation. The governor said the measure would have given persons other than licensed plumbers the re sponsibility of such installations. Southern Baptists Ask For $16,500,000 Budget Chicago (W The Southern Baptist Executive Committee to day proposed a $16,500,000 budget, the highest in the history of the denomination, to the 15, 000 delegates attending the Gold en Anniversary convention. The money would be raised through a financial plan known as the cooperative program. About 13 million dollars would go to support operations and capital expenses of all conven tion agencies. The rest would be divided be tween the convention's foreign and home mission boards. Russian Relations With Poland, Yugoslavia, Show Improvement By CHARLES M. McCANN United Press Correspondent Soviet Russia's relations with Yugoslavia and Poland, the two rebel Communist countries, are showings signs of improve ment. P r e s i d ent Tito of Yugo s 1 a v i a, who won complete i n d ependence of Russia nine years ago, has just restated Charles McCano . nis desire ior friendship with Soviet leaders. He has announced that Ivan Gosnjak, his defense minister, will visit Moscow next month at the invitation of Soviet Defense Minister Georgi K. Zhukov. Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Pol ish Communist leader who won a great measure of independence by his successful leadership of the revolt of last October, has just returned home from a visit to Moscow. A -lot of people undoubtedly will read a lot of significance into these developments. Bui actually there is no rea son to believe that either Tito In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Lewis Strauss, chairman of the atomic energy commission, has come up with a plan to ask the philosophers of the world to find a way to peace. He outlined it in a broadcast last night. His idea is a world conference of learned men in the humanities field philosophy, history, eco nomics and son on. He says the thought would be to see whether there is some way to save the world from self-destruction and adds that he hopes to work out a detailed plan this summer. IS THERE a way to peace? There is. It was worked out in adequate detail for mankind nearly 2,000 years ago by Jesus, who em bodied it in the Sermon on the Mount. Matthew describes it for us in these words: "Therefore aU things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." The same idea was in men's minds even before the Sermon on the Mount. An old saying of the ancient world was: "Do not do to others what you do not want done to you." Jesus turned this saying around to make it a positive rule for Christian liv ing. THAT rule, if followed, would end war. It is doubtful if anything else would. TAX CHATTER: According to Business Week Magazine, seven men in the United States earned sal aries exceeding $500,000 in 1956. Only one received a salary of more than $800,000 Eugene C. Grace, chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Mr. Grace was paid $809,000. TOO MUCH, do you say, for any one man to earn in the way of salary? Wait a minute. On all of his salary over $150, 000, Mr. Grace will pay a federal income tax of 88 per cent. On that part of his salary in excess of $200,000, he will pay a tax of 91 per cent. On all of his salary in excess of $300,000 he will pay a tax of 92 per cent. That is to say: ; For each day that he wdrks for himself, Mr. Grace will work about NINE DAYS for the gov ernment. AHA! , you say, if that is true this man Grace pays a lot of the tax that otherwise I WOULD HAVE TO PAY. Again wait a minute. Mr. Grace's salary (of which he has only about 10 per cent left after the tax collector has reached into his pocket) has to be added to the cost of steel, and since it must be added to the COST of steel it must be added to the PRICE of steel. Everybody uses steel in one form or another. So everybody helps to pay the taxes that are involved in this rather fantastic situation. WHAT to do about it? The only thing I can think of is to get taxes down so that so much tax doesn't have to be added to the cost of the things we buy. , or Gomulka has any illusions as to his status in Moscow. Both Defied Russia Both of them openly and suc cessfully defied the right of the Soviet government to dominate their countries' policies. Their rebellion has weakened the grip of Russia on all of the Communist-ruled countries of Eastern Europe. Tito's decision to send his de fense minister to Moscow, and Gomulka's visit, there, are both connected with the policies of the United States toward them. President EisenhoweV suspend ed military aid to Yugoslavia last October. It was announced on May 14 that he had decided t- resume it. As the result, four F-86 Sabre Jet .fighter planes were delivered. But the State Department at the same time announced that the military aid would be given on a "more modest" basis than had been planned originaUy. The Yugoslav defense minister's pro posed visit to Moscow stems partly from that. The United States decided last January to extend economic aid to Poland to help it keep its in dependence from Russia. A Polish delegation of eco nomic and finance' experts ar rived in Washington in Febru ary, seeking credits of 300 mil lion dollars. Talks Dragged On Negotiationes dragged on for weeks. It was decided finally that Poland should get about 95 million dollars. Signature of an aid agreement is still hanging, awaiting congressional action on a bill to increase the authority of the government to dispose of farm surpluses to foreign coun tries. That appears to be the rea son for Gomulka's visit to Mos cow. He took two of his. chief economic experts with him. A Road Section Work Near Completion Work to cut down a hill and ease the grade on a Brown- Bigham road section south of Eagle Point should be completed within several days, according to County Engineer Paul B. Ryn- mng. The section adjoins a newly- constructed concrete bridge over Dry creek,-, which is completed except for grinding and smooth ing the surface, Rynning said The bridge, built by R and M Construction of Central Point replaces a low wooden structure which had been condemned. ' Rynning also reported that road crews will finish the prime coat of oiling over county roads next week and will begin paving soon after. Road construction in the Applegate and Dead Indian areas also is almost completed. a Suspensions Ordered For Salem Firemen Salem (IB Three Salem firemen ordered suspended for holding outside jobs will have their cases reviewed by the city council. First aid Capt. Gerald Hall was suspended for one year and Capt. Peter McCaffery and firemen Dene Ray were suspended for 10 days each by the Civil Service Commission. The suspensions were to start June 1 but they will be delayed until after the city council re views the matter June 10. Fire Chief Robert Mills, in a letter to the city manager, ques tioned the role of the commission to order the. suspensions and then serve as an appeal board. He recommended probation in stead of suspension. Historical Society Dinner Meet Monday The annual dinner meeting of the Southern Oregon Historical society, Inc., will be held at the Jacksonville Masonic temple Monday, June 3, at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will be $1.50 per plate and all interested persons are invited, according to Mrs. Edith M. Gifford, secretary. The Jack sonville museum will be open following the program. Reserva tions should be made soon by calling SP 2-6487 or TW 8-1322. You May Be Assured . . . that each individual 7 f A"4lS I I feQuirerrienT ancJ neea IS l -AX JL- satisfied when your , loved ones are entrusted to our care. ' We have faithfully served for over 22 years. To merit your continued confidence is our aim. Our charges are excep tionally moderate, too, and Remember We are 100 Locally Owned. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at No-mal Office 88 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close t m - " United Press dispatch from War- w said that he went there to plead with the Russians for im mediate aid to prevent an eco nomic crisis. The question-of American aid to any Communist country is controversial. There are many, Including leaders in Congress, who oppose aid on the ground that help to any Communist country helps Russia. The fact seems to be, how ever, that refusal of help to countries like Yugoslavia and Poland both of which are now liabilities to Russian domination of Eastern Europe compels them tc seek help from the Soviet government. Graham Sermon Hits at Divorce New York (IP) Billy Gra ham Tuesday night preached a hard-hitting sermon on the Third Commandment, in which he said divorce and marital in fidelity are "grievous foTns of taking the name of the Lord thy God in vain." The Third Commandment is not only a proscription against swearing, the 38-year-old Baptist mimster said, but also against divorce, "cheating on your wife" gluttony," "defiling the body," hypocrisy," and "foolish pray ers. He told a Madison Square gar den crowd of 17,500 in the sec ond of a series of sermons on The Commandments that "God is an unchanging God. We may have changed over the years so cially, philosophically and mor ally, but God's standards have not changed." In the eyes of God, he said, "ducking out on marriage today is just as bad as it was 5,000 years ago, for you are breaking a sacred vow taken in God's name. When you get a divorce you are taking God's name in vain." Salem Bypass To Be Four-Lane Highway Salem (IB State Highwcy Engineer W. C. Williams said today a $2,800,000 project to make the Salem bypass into a four-lane divided route would be started late this year. He said the schedule for the additional two lanes was moved up two years because of a high volume of traffic and an above average accident rate. "With four-lane highways at each end of the bypass, motor ists often enter the two-lane sec tion without realizing they' no longer have the extra margain of safety provided by the four lane freeway," Williams said. 1 TONIGHT -7:30 P.M. MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH AUDITORIUM Admission Free FIRST TftuCU-k-v FILM in WIDE SCREEN IK Milium CtlW Scotland's heroic struggle for freedom of WORSHIP... Ftoturtng tk BILLY GRAHAM TEAM IM stJ ' hoding on ALL SCOTTISH CAST Mrs. Llfwiller "It is better to know us end not need us, - than to need us and not know us."