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Newspaper Page TextFUH MEDFORD (OREGON) UNI . -leryone IB Southern Oregon Bead The Mail Tribune" Published Daily Except Saturday by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. X-2 North Fir St Phone 2-141 ROBERT W RUEL Editor HERB GREY Advertising Manager GERALD LATHAM Business Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Managing Editor KARL H ADAMS City Editor BARRY CHIP MAN Telegraph Editor RICHARD JEWETT1 S porta Editor OLIVE STARCHES Society Editor PALE ER1CKSO.N Circulation Mgr. A Independent Newgpaper Entered a second class matter at Hedior4 Oregon under Act of March 3. 1897 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mail Is Advance: Per Copy 10c. Dally and Sunday One year SIS. 00 Daily ana Sunday Six months 8.00 Dally and Sunday Three mos 4-25 Sunday Only One year 84.20 By Carrier In Advance Medford. Ashland Central Point. Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold H1H. Phoenix. Shady Cove Rocue River. Talent and on motor routea: Daily and Sunday On year 818 00 Daily and Sunday One month 1.50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy ui terms iaan in Advance btnelal Paper ef the City ef Medford Official Paper ot Jackson County ' United Press full Leased Wire MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU O CIRCULATION Advertising Representative: WEST-HOLIDAY COMPANY INC Offices In New York Chicago, de troit San rranclseo. Los Angeles Seattle Portland St Louis Atlanta Vancouver B C JjMIONAl tDITOtlAt ASSOClA'ieN 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 31, 1947 (Saturday) Some of the planes participat ing in an air tour of three states will visit Medford next month. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The valley corn is coming along fine. All signs now indicate it will run about 20 pans of Johnny-cake to the acre. 20 YEARS AGO May 31, 1937 (Monday) The bristling guns of German warships battered the Spanish government port of Almeria to day in the first open attack by a foreign power in the civil war. Medford post of the American Legion Is sponsoring a "true atory" contest for veterans. SO YEARS AGO May 21. 1927 (Tuesday) The new Copco instrumental quartet will make its first ap pearance on the air tonight dur tog the regular Copco hour. - A group of songs by the Piney woods school singers is featured at Rotary club meeting. 40 YEARS AGO May 31. 1917 (Thursday) A railroad rate case involving Medford's future as a city will be heard before the Interstate Commerce commission in the federal building Friday. Leaders of the Home Guard company are considering steps to increase its membership to every able-bodied man in the county beyond military age. What's Your I.Q.? Ktne or ten correct ts superior; seven or eight Is excellent; five or six Is good. 1. The ancient Scythians brew ed a beverage from mare's milk: was it an intoxicant, a medicine, or food? 2. What kind of food contains the most iodine? 3. What are the Hebrew words for "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it?" 4. What is an "Igloo" in Army slang? 5. Insects are classed as ani mals; true or false? 6. Kavel oranges. have, or have not seeds? 7. Religious services of all major faiths in America are con ducted in the U.S. Navel Acade my Chapel; true or false? 8. Name the author of "Tom Sawyer." 9. "Alleviate" and "relieve" are synonyms, but which has the broader meaning insofar as easing pain, trial, or imposition? 10. "Belshazzar had a letter, He never had but one; Belsh- azzar's corr spondent Con cluded and begun In that im mortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall." Emilv Dickenson. What was "that immortal copy?" Answers: 1. Intoxicant. 2. Shellfish, part icularly oysters, clams and lobsters. 3. "Men, mene, tekel, upharsin." ("Hand writing on the wall"). 4. Stor age warehouse for explosives. 5. True, ihey are invertebrate animals. 6. Have not. 7. True. 8. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain). 9. Relieve. 10. "Mene, mene, iekel, upharsin." sTmmiirrtrmi PggPU lUS H IIS ft 15JA$$OCIATIOM MAIL TRIBUNE School District Budget Next Tuesday, June 4, from 2 to 8 p.m. voters of the newly-expanded Medford school district will have an opportunity to vote on the budget for the 1957-58 school year. The poll will be in the girls' gymnasium of the Medford High school. Why, it could be asked, do we have to vote every year on the school budget? Why can't we just approve a new tax base sufficient to permit the school district to operate for years to come? Why drag ourselves to vote year after year? There are, essentially, three reasons. Two of them are related, and stem from provisions of the Oregon constitution. The third is a matter of policy. THEY are: 1. The Oregon constitution specifies that district taxes can be increased no more than 6 per cent in one year, unles prior approval is given by the voters. Because of the tremendous increase in the number of children, and the higher cost of materials, personnel and equipment, most school districts in western Ore gon long ago had to start exceeding this 6 per cent provision every year. To do so they have to have the approval of the voters. 2. The constitution also provides that the voters can establish a new "tax base" which more nearly represents the needs of the taxing unit than the old and long-ago-exceeded one, and that then the new base can be increased only 6 per cent each year. But in rapidly-growing southwesternOregon, costs have been rising (because of the factors mentioned above) at a rate nearer 12 per cent per year than 6 per cent. Even if a new tax base were established, it would soon be necessary to go back to the people for approval of increased budgets, for this reason alone. So what would be gained by establishing a new tax base? 3. Many school officials and many voters, too feel that it is a healthy thing to have to present the budget to school patrons each year. It tends to keep them informed as to what the schools are doing, what their plans are, how much they cost. It also tends to keep the budget-makers on their toes, and to prevent them from putting any unnecessary or overly-expensive "frills" into the school budget. THE budget this year totals $2,329,765.98. Estimated income from a variety of sources (basic school support, county participation, tuitions, and so on) will amount to $849,894.90, and uncollected taxes will be an estimated $48,297.09, leaving a net tax levy necessary to meet the budget of $1,528,168.08. The school district's original tax base, plus other spending not affected by the 6 per cent limitation, to tals $489,076.28. So the amount which 'must be ap proved by the voters is $1,039,091.80: This, as the saying goes, ain't hay. "VVER the past several years, the Medford school district has each year had about 300 more children to educate than the year before or the equivalent of about 10 classrooms. This has meant more buildings, more teachers, books, materials and equipment. The district has granted much-needed pay increas es to teachers, so that now they are up to a scale com parable with Grants Pass and Klamath Falls. With recent consolidations, the district now oper ates ten schools Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, West Side and Oak Grove grade schools, McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior High schools, and Medford High school. All this adds up to expense, which must be borne by the taxpayers of the district. IN ADDITION, because the people of the school dis- trict have shown they want it, Medford has operat ed an above-average system of schools above-average in overall scholastic training, and above-average in emphasis on the non-academic but important things like athletics, music, and arts and crafts. For many years, Medford people have taken pride in their school system, and supported it ungrudgingly. The support has extended to the school administra tion's consistent efforts to improve the schools, and the many services they render the community. A detailed examination of the budget reveals no surplus "fat." It does, however, reveal a thoughtful attempt to provide a continuation and reasonable ex pansion of the district's programs and facilities for the benefit of our children. We expect Medford school district voters again to give their approval to the job the schools are doing. E.A. Pride The Father in a family we know is just a bit of a bug about fire safety. He frets at complicated rig-ups of electrical extension cords ; has been known to chide Mother about a frayed cord on the coffee pot; insists that papers be kept away from the fireplace, etc. He mows the long grass in the back-back yarcTbe fore it gets diy and inflammable. He uses a burner to dispose of trash and papers, and when burning gar den cuttings, clears things away for a safe distance all around, and obtains a burning permit beforehand. CO, when the firemen came around the other day to check on residential fire hazards (as is their cus tom each year and a good one it is, too) , the inspec tion proceeded normally and with no hitches through out the house. So the inspecting officer went to the garage, and the household was cited for two hazards an un swept accumulation of sawdust and shavings, and a frayed and dangling electric light, cord both in Fa ther's corner where he brooks no trespassing. Pride, he discovered, goeth before . . . E.A. Friday- Mar 31, 1957 Goeth . . . ALL RIGHT, HONBy! TH RE6T0F HIM IS BURIED i IN TW& GROUND. CM HEAP MB, AUCB ? Disarmament, Unification of Germany Talks Top Week's News By CHARLES McCANN United Press Correspondent The week's good and bad news on the international balance sheet: Talks between President Ei senhower and Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer appeared to make it quite plain that West Germany has become the key country in the attempt t o negotiate a disarmament treaty with Russia. The tough old Chancel lor Charles McCano succeeded in getting Eisenhower to establish a clear link between a broad disarmament agree ment and the unification of West and East Germany. A joint communique issued in Washington after three days of talks said that efforts must be pressed to reach a disarma ment treaty. The first step, the communi que said, would be to make a start toward disarmament. Then, the communique continued, ne gotiations should be started "within a reasonable time" for a broad agreement. But a prior condition to a comprehensive agreement must In the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Food for thought: The department of commerce reports this week that public and private debt in the United States hit an all-time high at the end of 1956 the rather astonishing total of 648 BILLION dollars. IS THAT bad? I wouldn't know. This is a big country. It is growing rap idly. Expansion costs money much of which has to be borrow ed. But It seens to me it wouldn't be a bad idea to START to pay off SOME of our debt especially our staggering federal ' debt, which costs the taxpayers a little more than seven billion dollars a year in interest. REMEMBER, please Each billion dollars spent by government costs you as an individual a little better than $6. So the federal government's in terest bill costs you in the neigh borhood of $45 a year. If you are the bread winner for a fam ily of four, it costs you about $180. And it is going to be higher, because interest rates are getting higher. T""' ARRIS Ellsworth, chairman of the U.S. civil service commission (the chairman of the civil service commission sits in at cabinet meetings), spent a couple of days in Southern Ore gon last week. While here, he told a wholesome little story about Ike and his grandson. Young David knows Ike only as Grandfather. As the President told the story in the relaxed moments following a recent cab inet meeting, the Nixons were coming to the White House for dinner. It was to be a family din ner, with the children present. rpHE situation was explained to - David, and he asked: "Who is Mr. Nixon?" ' Mr. Nixon," Ike told him, "is vice-president." "You mean vice-president of the United States?" David asked. 'Yes," Ike replied. "Oh, Boy"' David exclaimed gleefully. 'Just wait till I tell the kids I've shaken hands with the vice-president of the United States:" PORKY BOUNTY VOTED Klamath Falls (IP The Klamath county budget com mittee has voted $6000 for the coming fiscal year for porcupine control. A bounty of 50 cents per 'animal will be paid. be the unification of the two parts of Germany, the communi que said. It was added that the United States would consult Britain and France on a suggestion by Adenauer that the first step to ward a disarmament agreement might usefully be followed by a meeting of the foreign minis ters of the United States, Britain, France and Russia on German unification. The Eisenhower - Adenauer talks overshadowed the London disarmament conference, which was resumed after an 11-day re cess. The atmosphere in London seemed to be more hopeful than it had been at any time during years of fruitless attempt to make a start toward disarma ment. Harold Stassen, the chief American delegate, returned to the conference with new Ameri can proposals which were under stood to provide for aerial in spection of armaments facilities over a limited area of Western and Russian territory. If this in- 85fh Congress Goes Slow on Approving Requests by Ike Washington (CQ) The Dem ocratic 85th Congress has ap proved only 6.6 per cent of Presi d e n t Eisenhower's legislative program so far this year. A Congressional Quarterly analysis shows only 13 of the President's 198 legislative re quests made in 1957 have been approved by both the House and Senate. Seventy-seven of Mr. Eis enhower's requests are new ones, the rest are repeats. The 6.6 per cent score com pares with the 13.7 per cent ap proval score the President's pro gram received at approximately the same mark of the first ses sion tl955) of the 84th Congress when Mr. Eisenhower also faced a Democratic - controlled Con gress. At that time May 8, 1955 Congress had approved 25 of 183 Presidential requests. The low approval score at this stage of the 85th Congress does not doom the President's pro gram. Congress traditionally moves slowly in the first session, and with nine weeks to go in this session, not one of Mr. Eis hower's 1957 requests has been irretrievably rejected. Here is the status of the Presi dent's 185 legislative requests that have yet to receive final House and Senate action: 18, or 9.1 per cent of the total 198, have passed either the House or Senate but not both. 73, or 36.9 per cent, have un dergone committee hearings but have not been sent to the floor. 6, or 3 per cent, have been re ported from committee to the floor but have not come up for a vote in either the House or Senate. 8, or 4 per cent, have either been rejected in committee or on the floor but can be brought up again. 80, or 40.4 per cent, have re ceived no action at all in either the House or Senate. Major measures among the 13 already approved by Congress include the President's Mideast Doctrine, extension of corporate and excise taxes, postponement of the interest Britain owes on her 1945. loan and a bigger role for the Federal National Mort gage association, the govern ment's buyer and seller of mortgages. The to-do list contains such controversial items as Federal aid for school construction, greater - protection of such civil rights as voting, immigration law revision, exempting natural gas producers from Federal pub lic utility regulation, foreign aid and Alaska-Hawaii statehood. How soon those bills, and oth ers the President wants passed, come before Congress for a vote depends largely on the Demo cratic leadership. Eisenhower Finding 'La me Duck7 Status Means Loss of Power By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (IPI Events are spelling out for President Eisen hower what it means to be a . a m e duck : h i e f execu tive. He and his successors are barred by the Constitu tion from a third term. What it means is this: That the most wide ly supported Lyl C. Wilson President ever put in office by the voters is losing control of his party seven months after his triumphant reelection. Eisenhower moved urgently within recent weeks to regain party command. He made two television appeals to the voters snertion svstem worked, it would be broadened in later negotiations. The anti-American riots in Formosa, which resulted from the acquittal by an Army court martial of an American soldier who killed a Chinese peeping torn, threatened to have a last ing effect on relations between the United States and National ist China. The two governments sought to repair the breach in their close relations. But Chinese were still angry over the ac quittal. And the State Depart ment made it known that it was "actively considering" a reduc tion in the strength of the 10,-000-man American garrison in Formosa. Rebellion against President Fulgencio Batista of Cuba flar ed anew. Fighting between government trooos and small bands of rebels was reported in two areas of the country. In Havana, the capital, rebel saboteurs cut off electric power by dynamiting an electricity dis tributing plant which served the center of the city. Business was disrupted because of lack of light. Telephones were put out of commission. Theaters, cafes and night clubs were closed. Babson Discusses Retail Merchandising By ROGER BABSON Babson Park, Mass. One of the most helpful new move ments today is a Club of One Thousand Members who have banded them selves togeth er to help sell m e r chandise. They believe that the con sumer is the u 1 1 i mate de termining fact or in making business good or bad, and in Kocer W. Babsun regulating em ployment. Prosperity or depres sion depends not wholly on Washington or the nation's bank ers, advertising agencies, or even manufacturers. The hum ble consumer of every city, town, and country crossroad also has the future of Ameri can business in his or her hands. American manufacturers are today spending billions to ad vertise their products in maga zines, newspapers, and through the radio and TV., These most attractive advertisers are read or heard by millions, usually in the evening or during week ends. The readers, and especial ly the followers of radio and TV, are not told the nearest store where they can quickly see, feel, and buy the product advertised. These One Thousand Club Members, most of them living in humble homes, and many dis abled, have joined forces to tell consumers by telephone the name of the retailer they should immediately contact. They then report to the manufacturer or his representative the name of the prospect making the in quiry. These One Thousand Club Members in one thousand cities, covering 80 per cent, of the con sumers in 10,000 communities, will operate under the name of United Information Service. This name will be listed in 1,000 telephone directories. This humble group, however, is not satisfied with the work above described. They insist that consumers who read the adver tisements and listen to the radio and especially TV, are entitled to better service at the stores The Club Members have found that, after they get people into the stores, they do not get prop er attention. Although their study has not been completed, yet they have some definite sug gestions with which to start. First, they are convinced that for support in his budget battle with Congress. After the second speech, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty shortly was telling questioners that Eisenhower's fan mail had been ' heavily weighted in favor of the Presi dent's appeal for defense and foreign aid funds. It was as sumed that members of Con gress also would hear from the home folk with blunt instruc tions to give Eisenhower the funds he sought. It seems not to have worked out that way. House Stands Pat The House of Representatives stood pat on its defense econ omies when the showdown votes came this week. The House had clipped $2,565,275,000 from de fense spending before sending the bill to the Senate by a vote of 394-1. Mr. Eisenhower's loss of party control is not adequately re flected in the fact that only 39 House Republicans deserted him on an earlier key economy vote and that 140 Republicans stood firm for this reason: He had asked the Republican congressional leaders to move to restore to the defense bill $1, 274,000,000 of the sums lopped off by the committee which sent the bill to the floor. House Republican leaders sought to re store only about one-fourth of that sum. Tried To Hold Line By lowering their sights from the sum sought by Eisenhower to a much lesser sum, Republi can House leaders believed they might hold the party line when the vote came. Had they gone after the $1,274,000,000 as was urged by Eisenhower, a great many more House Republicans would have been recoraea as voting for economy and against the Republican president. It all seems to add up to this; Congressional Republicans be lieve the President is out of step with the voters on spend ing. These members of Congress evidently believe their own rec ords in favor of economy will have more voter appeal in the elections to come than anything Eisenhower can say or do for them. No legislators will be running next year or in 1960 on an "elect -me -and -help -Ike" plat form. Eisenhower's time of vast power to reward and to punish is running out. " the owner of the store and each clerk should have some distinct ive coat of the same color. The owner could have a star on his sleeve, and the clerks could have bars to indicate their years of service. The One Thousand Club Members would like to get all store personnel to adopt a certain shade of orange or crimson to distinguish them quickly from customers. This would apply to stores with one clerk or many clerks. A second "must" in the case of large stores especially the leading "Dime Stores," and all others using self-service there should be a number hanging over each counter, with a bell. This bell would be for custom ers to ring, so they could ask for help and direction to count ers carrying the articles they desire to buy. The Club Mem bers are certain that these bells would materially increase sales in all stores and that they will become a necessity in the new large stores being built in shop ping centers. I will not blame this final thought on the Members of the One Thousand Club, but will take the responsibility for it my self. It is this that clerks in large stores should wear roller skates. Soon after birth the baby has a ride in an automobile and uses it more every year until death. The entire nation is go ing to wheels. Most retail clerks come to the store where they work either in an automobile or on a bicycle. They know it saves time and is more efficient. Why then do they return to the "horse fcr.ti buggy" era and de pend uprA walking as soon as they enter the retail store at which, they work? I am con vinced that riller skating is coming back inio general use. I forecast that not only will we see clerks in stores on roller skates, but also a majority of pedestrians on roller skates on sidewalks. Expenses of retailers are constantly advancing. The continual marking up of retail prices ultimately retards busi ness. Clerks must do more to help retailers make a fair profit, or the stores will close and they will be out of a job. This means that clerks must do more to pro mote sales, and especially speed up their travels about the store. The entire nation is going on wheels from babyhood through life. This movement must be capitalized by retailers. How ever, please do not blame tnis last suggestion on the Club of One Thousand. Communications Letten to the Editor muit bear the name and address ol the writer although under certain circum stances the use of a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible. The Mail Tribune reserves the rlRht to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words Care of a Pet To the Editor: May I take this method of answering an anony mous phone call? My 11-year-old daughter an swered the phone a few day ago to hear a man's voice an nounce abruptly, "If you don't give that dog some water, I will report you to the Humane so ciety!" Nothing more. If the man who called, or any officer of the Humane society or the SPCA, or any other inter ested party, wishes to investi gate the dog's plight, please feel free to do so. Because Central Point has a dog ordinance and because we try to be law-abiding citizens, the dog is kept chained. The chain is fastened to a long clothesline so that the dog has a long run, free access to shelter, sunshine andor shade, with plenty of fresh water available at all times except for the times he tangles his chain around the post. This cannot be prevented" but is corrected as soon as no ticed. This is not the first time my child has been caused needless worry and loss of sleep over her little pet. In the spring, before the dog ordinance was in force, the dog while unchained, dis appeared for two days. In the search for him, we were in formed that a prominent citizen of Central Point had caused him to be taken to the pound. As the dog had a valid license, we had no difficulty in securing his re lease. If, in the future, anyone has a complaint regarding the dog, I would appreciate it very much if that person would come to the house and state his name and business as a man should. We would certainly do our utmost to straighten out any difficulties and avoid any in the future. It is certainly unfair to frighten and worry a child and I am sure that no one wishes to have an upset child on his conscience. And I have no desire to deprive my daughter of a pst given her by her father a year tafbra his death. Mrs. Robert Simgtoa P.O. Box 989 Central Point, 69. Brand Inspectors To Take Training . Salem The first group So state brand inspectors who will receive training in lay meat in spection have begun atwo week course given by the state department of tgriculture at Salem. Purpose of the school is to train those already engagedo in brand inspection work, Jor duty as lay meat inspectors, accord ing to the state department of agriculture. This additional training will enable th depart ment to keep inspectors word ing at either brand inspection or meat inspection duties, fn the past, brand inspectors have been idled occasionally due to a lack of need. In the future during slack periods they will be engaged in meat inspection.. and thus be allowed to work fulltime, the department report ed. Sterley Fryear, brand inspec tor from Medford, will attend the new school with the second group in approximately two. weeks. Dr. R. C. Sexauer, meat inspection supervisor frith the state department of agriculture. will conduct the schoel. Chicago (IB Bartenders of the Midwest will meet here next week for a drink-mixing con test to give "recognTtion and statpre" to bartending by "fo cusing public attention .on their role in the social life ot the na tion." WHIN YOU NEED EXTRA CASH Borrow The . . . American Way ' LOANS S25 to $1,500 AUTO m SALARY FURNITURE For Any Worthwhile Purpose PAYMENTS TO FIT YOUR BUDGETI American Finance Corp. 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