FUH 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.
Phone SPring 2-8886
123 W. Msia Maelfa)