Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 05, 1957, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextFOUH MEDFORD (OBEGOJJ) "Iverron !a Soutfiern Oregon Reads The Mali TriDuna" S-ABUsneo" Dally Exceot Saturday b MZDFOKD PRINTING CO 11. & Norte Fit St Phone i-:41 aOEEHT W Rl'Hi. Editor EXP.B GREY Adveruain Mamtei CERAD LATH Aid Buaineu Manager ERIC ALLEN JR Muurr.t Editor EAAL H ADAMS City Editor HARRY CHIPMA.N Telegraph Edrr RICHARD JEWETT Soorta Editor OLIVE fcTARCHER Society Editor DALE ER1CKSON Cucuiauon Mgr. An Indgymdent Newspaper d aa second class1 matter at Mtxiiord Oregon under Act of March 3 1237 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mali In Advmct Per Copy 10c Dai. 7 an! Sunday One year $15 00 Dally and Sunday Six month 8 00 Dally and Sunday Thre mm 2b S -indav only One year M 20 By Carrier In Advance Medford Ahiand Central Point Eagle Point. Jacksonville Gold Hill Phoenix. Shad" Cove Rorue River. Talent nd on motor route' Daily and Sunday One year $18 P0 Dally and Sunday One month 1-50 Carrier and Dealers 10c per copy Ail Term Cash m Advance fflelai Paper of the Ctty of Medford OfflrUlPapr of Jack io p County JLniled Preta Full Leased Wire MEMBER OF A LTDIT BL"RXAU OF CIRCULATION Advertising Representative WEST-HOLIDAY COMA.VY INC Office in New York Chicago, de trolt San Francl-o Lnm Angelea Seattle Portland fat Loula Atlanta Vanotivr R C DO NATION Al E 0 I TO I A t 5 .1 l ASSOC A A'l 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 June S. 1947 (Thursday) Decision of West Coast Trail ways to construct a modern bus depot here is announced by W. C. Simpson, president of the company. From Arthur Perry's Ye Smudge Pot column: The wheel barrow (empty) stolen last week from a residential area has been returned (empty), iff YAllS AGO Juno 9. HI' (Saturday) Postal receipts at Medford post offine last month totaled J8.2fi5.13 as compared with $7, 363.78 for May of 1956, accord ing" to Postmaster Frank De Sous Ar.a:e Perre. named Queen of Rogue River valley roses to day in Medford Garden Club show. $0 YEARS AGO June I. 192' (Sunday) Piant of the Rogue River Stu dios, Inc., will be located a mile and a half northeast of Medford on th 160-acre Gore tract on the Crater Lake highway. C. L. Reynolds, of Caldwell, Ida., is new manager of Hol land hotel. 40 YEARS AGO , June S, 191? (Tuesday) Water in Fish lake lowered from 22 to 12-foot level and leak at lake dam is reported stopped an danger of flood from the dam's giving way is averted Engineer William G. Carroll, who has been assistant engineer, is appointed supervisor of Cra ter Lake National park, succeed ing George Goodwin. Wat's Yiw I.Q.? Nln. or fen correct la sea.Hnr; seven or eteht la excelleat; tlva ar six li rood. 1. Did Pausanias (historian) knowingly refer to the Ameri can Indian when, about A D. 150. he wrote "for west of the Ocean (Atlantic) . . . inhabitants are red-skinned?" 2. A woman may not serve as President of the U. S.; true or false' 3 Bible: How many years of history are said to be covered in the Old Testament and the New Testament? 4 The U.S. Secret Service is a division of the Department of War. Justice, or Treasury' 5. During the first World War. who commanded the A.E.F.? 6. The velocity of the wind is measured by a barometer, speedometer, or anemometer? 7. Name a word that contains all of the five vowels. 8. How many ounces are in a gallon" 9. Is prosecute a synonym of persecute? O 10. "Sure men were born to lie. and women to" do what? Answers: 1. No. 2. False. The U.S. Constitution makes no dis tinction as to sex. 3. 1.500. 4. Treasury. 5. Gen. John J. Pershing. 6. Anemometer. 7 Ab stemious, authoritative, disad vantageous, efficacious, encour aging, face iious. importunate, instantaneous. 8. 12 8. 9. No. 10. "believe them." J. Gay Concordia College President Resigns Portland IP Dr. Thomas Coates today announced his re signation as president of Coi. cordia college here. He had headed the Lutheran institution since 1P46. Dr. Coates said he would ac cept a chair on the religious fac ulty of Concordia Senior College at Fort Wayne, Ind. I V ASSOCIATION j MAIL TRIBUNE Editorial Correspondence Paul Smiths. N Y . June 1st: As far as this section of the world is concerned the Weather Man got mixed. He thought May was April and put on an intensive schedule of April showers. There was some sunshine nearly every day but there was seldom a day without showers some of them heavy ones. As a result every thing is green and blooming including the dog-wood, lilacs and cherries. But old timers won't piant their corn if any here until the 15th of June. The fishing now is rated good but again the old-timers say it won't last long. The reason h?re is the same as on the Rogue there are too many fishermen not enough fish to go around. The lakes and streams, numerous as they are, soon get "fished out", with the population increased from 100 to 600 thousand. All true fishermen and fisherwomen are alike in one re spect they NEVER get discouraged. Like the pioneer prospector they always see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There is one here at the lodge now. He leaves at sunrise and seldom returns until after suntet, his catch to date being three bull heads. We haven't heard about "bull-heads'' since the Gay Nineties at Lauderdale Lake. Wisconsin, but this is not the only evidence they are more plentiful than trout. On a Main Street market in Malone, the window is marked "bull-heads, 39 cents a pound." However is he discouraged? Not for a minjte, he left early this morning fully equipped for trout and is moriily terttin he will get a creel full of them. As to the "bull head" it is closely related to the cat-fish but smaller, and for ii weiPht more rugged. It is good eating, our objection to it i si the old days was its insistence upon swallowing I the hook far down its alimentary canal. To get the hook out required more time effort and pain to fish and fishermen, than j the "catch" was worth. Moreover in those days we were usually after pike, pickerel or bass, and the bull head was a rude "butter- insky." We usually threw them back after the major operation and no matter what internal lacerations involved they always swam off in a perfectly normal and apparently relaxed fashion. That is where their rugged quality comes in. We have seen a bull-head discarded on a pier for dead, left there for half an hour then thrown back and after five minutes of static submersion, swim away slowly but surely as if nothing unexpected, much less dis tressing, had happened. We have often thought there would be great advantages in having the constitution arid temperament of a bull-head (No cracks from the gallery please'i. We were misinformed rbout the location of that big aluminum plant on the St. Lawrence. It is an American firm on the American side, not a Canadian corpr ration, on the northern bank as stated. But it is as stated one of the largest in the country. And why did it choose a location so far away fiom any city or any large market? Eecause it can secure cheap electric power and cheap water transportation. It gets its bauxite ore for example by boat at a fraction of what the cost would be by rail. (No wonder the big railroads fought the project!) But that isn't all the story. In the same area and for the same sound reasons the Reynolds Steel company will soon build a large steel plant, as will General Motors. The latter will manufacture its aluminum parts at a re duced cost, and ship them by boat to Detroit at another fraction of the rate by rail. In other words the area along the St. Lawrence power development, on both sides of the line, is enjoying a boom that reminds one of the Gay Ninety Klondike gold rush. If and when Vice President Nixon is sent on a good will mission to Canada, including a visit to the St. Lawrence develop ment, we know one thing for SURE he won't have anything to say about public power being "creeping socialism." R. W. R. Healing One s Self "Physician, heal thyself," is the ancient proverb quoted by Jesus. Leaping from the sublime to the ridiculous, let us consider modern-day buness corporations and their "public relations." In the days of th; "robber barons" of Wall Street, the watchword (or if not the watchword, at least the underlying philosophy) was "The public be damned." This, over the years, created antagonism and re sentment. The actions taken under this banner result ed in government intervention and control, anti-trust laws, the securities and exchange commission, and so on. AS THE reaction built up, and as stock owner ship became more diffuse and widespread, the robber barons became converted into corporate ex ecutives, and as time passed and advertising and busi ness became more competitive, they acquired an acute sensitivity to their relationships with the public. This is not to say that the wolf -instinct in business became extinct. But it is to say that attempts were increasingly made to hide it. Sheep's clothing became the thing. And who could better arrange the sheep's clothing to hide the wolfish ears than the professional the Public Relations man? "THE PR man is skilled in the techniques of making things appear in their best light. He went to work on the big corporations. He worked to create the im pression that these corporate souls were pure as the driven snow; that they held the welfare of the entire community in the utmost regard ; that they, in reason and in truth, were' public servants in the best sense of the term. And now comes Robert Heilbroner in an article in the current Harper's magazine ("Public Rela tions the Invisible Sell"), who goes into some detail as to the methods and devices used by the PR man to drape the sheep's clothing neatly. Heilbroner has some doubts as to the entire success of these ef foils to sell the general public on the high mindedness of these corporate giants. But, he says with what might be a smirk, the PR men have had great success in selling the corporation executives, and as a result, have convinced them their companies ARE high-minded and pure-hearted. With this conviction, many of them have, in fact, become so. PR man, heal thv clients. E.A. Archi'ect Examiner Appointed by Holmes saiem ip waiter Uordon, Portland architect and vice-president of the Oregon chapter of American Institute of Architects, was appointed to the State Board of Architect Examiners today by Gev. Robert D. Holmes. Gordon succeeds Walter E. Church, Portland, on the five- Wedneiday, June 5, 1957 member board. Church's five year term expired May 31. The board of examiners, with offices in Portland, sets the qual ifications of persons engaged in practice of architecture and con ducts examination of qualified applicants for license. se tiiLi:ei-,g.e. . 'Boss WAMTS Neuberger Cites N.Y. Power Plan as Idea Oregon Could Follow By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Oregon should follow the example of New York state in its successful method of ax attracting 2 ;n.i.t firms with of fers of cheap hydro- elec tric power, in of Sen. Rich ard L. Neu berger. T h r o u g h the New York A- Robt. Smith S t a te Power Authority, which is a state agen cy, blocks of cheap power from the generators of the St. Lawr ence Seaway project are being allocated directly to industrial customers. New payrolls are be ing developed as a consequence. To follow this example. Ore gon would have to approve at the polls the proposal of the re cent state legislature to create an Oregon state power agency. This agency would be a prefer ence customer under the Bon neville act which stipulates that power from federal dams must go to public bodies that have this preference. "As a preference customer, a state agency would put Oregon on equal terms with public agen cies in other states (notably the many PUDs in Washington state) so far as access to federally-generated low-cost power from BPA is concerned." Neu berger told the Senate this week. More Needed But more than this would bo needed, claimed Neuberger, be cause of the present power pol icy of the Eisenhower admini stration, which he said would hamstring a state power agency in Oregon from doing what New York is doing to get new in dustry. As that policy is being administered, an Oregon power agency could not use its prefer ence statur to claim a large block of kilowatts from Bonne ville Power Administration in order to pass it on to a new light metals plant or other heavy pow er consuming industry, argued Neuberger. The reason is that the Eisen hower administration reversed in 1953 the previous practice of BPA of offering blocks of power to new industry directly. And it restricted preference agencies from obtaining new large industrial loads by stipu lating that BPA would not hon or such power requests until the demands of all other customers, including private power compa nies, had been met. Neuberger this week introduc ed an amendment to the prefer ence clause of the Bonneville act to make it mandatory for BPA to honor requests of public agencies for power for industri al uses. This was his answer to the problem the state faces in the competition for low-cost Col umbia river power with Wash ington state. To Attract Industry Neuberger's thesis is that Ore gon, suffering an economic slump today which points up its heavy dependence upon lumber and agriculture, should use what low-cost power it can get from the region's river system to at tract industry. If it comes to a choice between using the low est cost energy for housenoia use or for industrial use, then divert it to plants that produce payrolls and let the householder pav for higher cost power. "Unquestionably we shall have to decide whether we want more kilowatts to roast our turkeys and light our TV sets: or wheth er we want to use the low-cost power which is the unique re source of our region to create new, year-round industrial pay rolls and their subsidiary bene fits, with which to buy the tur keys and the TV sets," said the senator. The substance of Neuberger's idea is that Oregon should cre ate a state power agency, use its YOU!' preference status to establish eauality with Washington state in making power demands upon BPA, then have the state agency give highest priority to new in dustrial loads light metals, chemicals, plastics in dispos ing of this cheap power. Domes tic and rural consumers, wheth er served by public or private power agencies, would get low cost power as long as there was enough to go around. When higher cost power is needed to satisfy all demands, then they and not the industrial plants would pay the bill. Less Offensive Neuberger said he is confi dent his proposal will be less offensive to members of Con gress from Washington state than would be any allocation of power from new dams specific ally from Oregon. He feels that Washington's senators would not agree to any power reserva tion earmarked for Oregon, as has been proposed by officials of Portland General Electric Co. as a method of assuring Oregon a fair share of the region's kilo watts. He said by outlawing the pres ent BPA policy against industri al loads, the entire region would stand to benefit. BPA, under his plan, could approve power con tracts for new industry' in either state but would be charged with responsibility for establishing "priorities for industrial uses which will best promote the di versified economic development of the several states of the ba sin." Neuberger's meaning for this wording in his bill is that BPA would give a higher priority to a new plant in an underdevelop ed area than it would for a new plant, other things being equal, in a highly developed industrial area. If Congress will only put up the funds to continue the feder al dam building program by which low-cost energy can be generated, this is Neuberger's long range cure for Oregon's economic woes. Communications Letteri to the Editor must bear the name and address of the writer although under certain circum stances the use ot a pen name or initial for publication is permis sible The Mail Tribune reserves the right to edit all letters with an eye to clarification and conden sation. Letters submitted for pub lication must not exceed 400 words 'Nihilist's' Thanks To the Eduor: Our association, which often is called the Thanos Club, wishes to publicly thank the following people for aiding the achievement of our goals, intentionally or otherwise: Mr. Libby, of the AEC, for putting so many hearts at ease; AEC scientists and technicians who faithfully do their jobs; President Eisenhower, for his supporting national defense rath er than stopping H-bomb tests; the manufacturers and distribu tors of tranquilizer drugs; the doctors and technicians who ad vocate frequent diagnostic X rays; and, though they aren't very well known, those who de votedly work to increase our supply of nerve gas. Optimistically, as usual, we are confident that the above mentioned people will succeed in their chosen efforts, and that no attention will be paid to the protests of Japan, the scientists of Germany, and Dr. Albert Schweitzer, until it is too late for the silly humanitarians to win. Root Underman, Presi dent and Secretary, Ni hilist Society of Eugene, Straub Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon For Park, Not Store To the Editor: I would like to go on record as objecting to the acquisition of the site on East Jackson st. opposite Haw thorne Park, by Sears Roebuck. Britain's Trade Decision May Lead to Red China Recognition Bv-CHARLES M. McCANM United Press Correspondent Great Britain's decision to re lax trade restrictions against Communist China is clearly a development of world import ance. Reaction to the decision in r'Uv-V Jfc the United VZ-v :'M States and &JI other Western cates that the Ife jife Hf ffi Red govern rnaries McCann ment is being given a chance to work for gen eral diplomatic recognition. The relaxation, and the re action to it, seem likely to bring closer the day when the Peiping government is admitted to the United Nations. Whether, as some experts be lieve, the ties between Commu nist China and Soviet Russia will be loosened remains to be seen. At present Red China must de pend on Russia for most of the goods it needs. Nobody disputes the fact that the British decision is a big vic tory for the Peiping government. Britain's lead already is being followed by other European countries which joined the United Nations embargo against trade with the Chinese Reds after they entered the Korean War. Relaxation Was Certain The relaxation was sure to come sooner or later. To Britain and other countries including Japan which desperately need foreign trade. Red China with its 600 million people is a potential ly unlimited market. Not right now, of course. China's buying capacity is limited. Britain itself calculates that its present trade with Red China, amounting to about 28 million dollars a year, will increase only to 56 million dollars. The big development is the reassessment of diplomatic rela tions or lack of them between the Peiping government and other countries that the trade decision is certain to bring. Just how far, and how soon, the trade relaxation develops into a relaxation of the diplo matic boycott of the Peiping government depends on the Red Chinese leaders themselves. Editorial Comment A KILLER ON THE LOOSE A "crash program," with a half-billion dollars in federal funds pledged for medical re search against cancer, has been urged by Senator Richard L. Neuberger of Oregon so that the skills and facilities of the na tion's laboratories can be amass ed in assault on the medical mys tery which imperils 40 million Americans now alive. "Cancer threatens to strike two out of every three American families," Neuberger said. "Yet our entire research expenditure against cancer, including all Fed eral, state and voluntary con tributions, was only S45 million last year the approximate cost of one atomic submarine." Neuberger made his appeal be fore a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on 1 a b o r-health, education and welfare in support of his proposal to appropriate $500 million to the National Can cer institute, with the provision that the sum remain available until totally expended. Neuberger argued that if the government can spend $44 bil lion on armaments, why not dedicate half a billion dollars to try to solve the "most terrible threat to every person on the face of this globe!" Neuberger further declared: "Approximately 40 million people now alive in the U.S. will have some form of cancer during their lifetime, and 26 million of those now alive will die from cancer unless new preventive measures are found. "I was shocked when I found the record-breaking budget of the national administration, de spite its $72 billion size, actually would reduce by three per cent the federal funds appropriated for cancer research during the coming fiscal year." Neuberger pointed out that only a generation ago the three leading causes of death in this country were pneumonia and in fluenza, tuberculosis; and di arrhea and enteritis all disease of a communicable nature. "These three disease groups then accounted for one-third of all deaths in this country- Yet in 1956, these three groups to gether accounted for only one twentieth of all deaths in the U.S- "Medical research had pro vided much of the answer anti biotics, specific drugs effective The rrection of a large retail shopping center there will create a very bad traffic situation. The children who use the Municipal swimming pool can now ride their bicycles down Jackson st. in comparative safety. This will not be the case if a large shop ping center is built o p p osite Hawthorne Park. I would like to see the city of Medford acquire this site, for the future e x p a nsion of Hawthorne Park. Elizabeth J. Collins 2224 East Main St. Medford, Ore. If Mao Tse-Tung and Chou En Lai, the two big leaders of Com munist China, play their cards smartly it seems certain that they can capitalize on their present victory. First, and most important, they will have to convince the United States especially that they have no aggressive aims. Must Show Evidence This means that they will have to give evidence that they will not foment a new war in Korea and that they will not encourage any aggression by Communist North Viet Nam against American-supported South Viet Nam. They will have to renounce any ambition to attack the Chinese Nationalist stronghold of Formosa. G.M.-DuPont Success May Ease GOP's Big Business Reputation By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington IIP The charge that the Eisenhower administra tion is by and for big business may sag some what under weight of Jus tice depart ment activity in the anti trust field. This week's Supreme court b 1 o c k b uster held that Du Pont owner- Lyl C. Wilson ship of 23 per cent of General Motors stock was in violation of the anti-trust laws. Newspaper readers who skim the big headlines en route to the sports and comic pages eas ily could be convinced thereby that the Eisenhower department of justice had moved in hard on the two great corporations com monly most closely identified with the administration. Far down in the Du Pont General Motors story, if at all, was the information that the fuss on this blockbuster was against tuberculosis and higher levels of public health care. If we developed a cure for cancer, who could measure its value in terms of all mankind? As the span of human life is extended to the underprivileged parts of the world, cancer rises in its incidence. It shows an upward swing in all parts of the world. What price, then a cure against a universal killer?" Neuberger thinks development of a half-billion dollar research program against cancer will re quire launching of a large train ing program for research work ers. In answer tp the question, "Where will we get the men?," Neuberger said "we get the men by telling the medical schools and other medical institutions in this country that we are in busi ness for keeps in this field, and we will help them train these men." Neuberger explained that Con gress provided funds two years ago for a pilot program in the detection of cancer of the cer vix. "Uterine cancer cell examina tion was applied for the first time to more than 100.000 wo men in Memphis, Tenn. Of these, 800 were found to have cancer. Half of these cancers were in extremely early stages with near ly all of them completely un suspected. In this one small proj ect, does anyone know how many lives we have saved and how much tragedy we have averted?" Neuberger added that the U.S. has the scientific potential to wipe cancer from the face of the earth and needs only the de termination to do it. Just how well his program is faring is not known- But it is probable, with an economy-minded Congress, that his plan will get little more than casual glance- A killer that rivals the atomic bomb in bringing death and agony to millions deserves more than just "a casual glance." Pendleton East Oregonian. The Better Service For over 22 years, we have served this commu nity 24 hours out of every day. Our door has never been locked during this time (WE NEVER CLOSE!). C. M. Litwiller This service has meant much to our maey patrons. Our charges are consistently much lower than those charged elsewhere . . . and we are 100 locally owned. LITWILLER Funeral Home Mountain View Chapel Hwy. 66 at Normal Office 83 N. Main ASHLAND We Never Close The Chinese Reds also can help themselves by showing theiY political independence of Soviet Russia. Actually, they have shown this fairly plainly. They supported Poland in its success ful revolt against Russian domin ation. Fragments ofo a speech which Mao Tse-Tung made in Peiping in February, in which he criticized Russian policies un sparingly, are still leaking into Western newspapers. As for the immediate situation, Japan is certain to follow Brit ain in relaxing trade with its Red Chinese neighbor. It is like ly that Japanese Premier No busuke Kishi will start thinking about recognizing the Red Chi nese government diplomatically. Sooner or later the United States will start thinking, too. lighted way back in 1949 by the Truman administration depart ment of justice. The attorney general at that time was Tom C. Clark, now an associate jus tice of the Supreme court. Clark's earlier connection with the case explains why he did not participate in the high court's judgment of it. Conclusion by Brownell Eisenhower's justice depart ment did, of course, share in the prosecution of the Du Pont General Motors case. Whether Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. would have begun the suit can be no more now than a matter of speculation. The hard fact is that he brought it to successful conclusion. The charge that the Eisenhow er administration is by and for big business is a Democratic in dictment and decidedly in the field of political controversy be tween the left and right wings of American political thinking. A somewhat different com plaint heard sometimes among Republicans is that the Eisen hower justice department under Brownell has been over busy in hailing big business before the bar of justice. Partly in anger but with overtones of wry hu mor. Republicans have been heard to say that Brownell con fines his anti-trust actions to the administration's best friends. That feeling among some Re publicans is part of the expla nation of the current disenchant ment of many big businessmen with the Eisenhower administra tion. Actions Include Big Ones Brownell has filed sorna big suits. He hauled the American Newspaper Publishers associa tion into court on charges of price fixing in the field at ad vertising. Brownell got a con sent decree which the depart ment considers to have been a victory. That action sometimes is cited by persons who would defend the Eisenluiwer adminis tration against the assertion that it fosters the devotion in the United States of a one-party press. The Truman administration was counted no friend cf big business. During President Tru man's last four White House years, his justice department filed 109 civil and 73 cWmlnal anti-trust suits for a total of 182. During the first four Eisen hower years, the justice depart ment filed 94 civil and 69 crimi nal anti-trust cases for a total of 163. Brownell, the Eisenhow er attorney general, has gone after big game about as big as any stalked in the courts by the Truman administration prosecu tors. Mrs. Denessen Pleads Guilty To Assault Portland HP Mrs. Dorothy Denessen, 31, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Circuit Court to a misdemeanor charge of simple assault against her daughter Janet, 13. and received a one year probationary sentence. Glen Dennessen, 35, her hus band, last week was convicted on an assault charge. Pre-sentence investigation was ordered. JSF" rT Mrs. Litwiller "It is better to know us and not need us, than to need us and not know us."